Drexel University College of Medicine - Medic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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.xdfumni dfiociafion OFFICERS 1944 President ..,.......... ..................... N EWLIN F. PAxsoN, '19 First Vice President ..... .... N . VOLNEY LUDWIG, '26 Second Vice President .... ..... T HOMAS L. DOYLE, 'l6 Third Vice President ........ .... W ILLIAM L. MARTIN, '15 Treasurer ..................... .... R ICHARD W. LARER, '98 Executive Secretary and Editor ........ .,.. C ARL C. FISCHER, '28 TRUSTEES WILLIAM D. CULIN, '94 . .. ............. .... H onorary Chairman CHARLES B. HOLLIS, '12 .....,....... ................... C hairman EDWARD W. CAMPBELL, '24 IOHN E. IAMES, IR., '02 EUGENE F. CARPENTER, '25 WAYNE T. KILLIAN. '06 IAMES M. GODFREY, '04 IosEPH W. Posr, '09 E. ROLAND SNADER, '21 To Our Newest Members: Hahnemann Alumni are pleased and proud to welcome to their ranks another war baby -the Class of l944. Claims to distinction by your class include the fact that in spite of the accelerated program and the nine-months' scholastic year-you retain undisputed claim to the title of the Class of l944. Another bid to fame lies also in your distinction as the first class to succumb to the influence of co-education. As with all the recent classes-a very large percentage of you will experience cr period of military service before entering civilian practice. Your Alumni Association is fully aware of its obligation to do all in its power to help you through this transition period-and to be of every other possible service to you. Wishing you the best of everything-now and in the future. Most sincerely yours, CARL C. FISCHER, Executive Secretary I I

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WIllIAM li. SCHIVIIIH - ur eau It is a privilege to address a valedictory sen- tence or two to the members of the September, l944, graduating class of The Hahnemann Med- ical College. First, you are to be congratulated on the com- pletion ot the initial phase of your medical studies. Medicine has extended to you an invita- tion to study continuously and deeply through- out life-and, soon, more serious problems will challenge your concentrated and sustained ana- lytical efforts. Therefore, it is gratifying that everyone of you has acquired so early and so well the basic elements for discharging these more intensive professional obligations. Secondly, I salute your courage and ability, manifested so frequently and convincingly dur- ing a period of distracting uncertainty and ener- vating illusion. Nothing is so demoralizing to an arduous regimen as the temporary and sporadic suppression of its incentive. The disciplines and the demands of your professional studies are such that your drive must waver and weaken when its objective disappears. But, despite the many setbacks, you have demonstrated your high purpose and resilient stamina by persistent- ly holding to your goal and escaping the morass of -frustration en route. Medicine is and should be a noble profession. The multitudinous problems of health and life present so many variables as to defy a pattern for mass adjustment. It will, therefore, be your rare opportunity to draw upon your unique re- sources and responsibilities as independent agents for the purpose of alleviating the suffer- ing and of healing the sick in an enterprising spirit of free thought and action. The medical man is and must be an individualist-not rug- ged, self-centered nor isolationist, but yielding his specific energy and skill to a resolution of the critical troubles of his fellow men. I welcome you all to a profession of service, with the fervent hope that your aspirations and dreams will lift you to heights of security and happiness.

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1' w ,wc ,: mt A Q 'ti ,wi - ti L. M. STEVENS, Captain, U. S. Navy fRet.l, Commanding Navy V-l2 Unit, Hahnemann Medical College .jvleaclquar em To the Navy Members of the Graduating Class of Hahnemann Medical College. By dint of hard work, combined with native ability, you have become members of two of the most highly esteemed professions. You are Naval Medical Officers, both doctors and officers of the Navy. In addition to healing the sick, you will be responsible for many other things such as the discipline of your Navy Medical Unit, the cleanliness, upkeep, and supply of your sick bay, for Navy paper work, and last but not least for medical advice and care to units so small that they possess no Medical Officers of their own. I have seen a Navy Medical Officer called at 0200 on a stormy night at sea, with all lights out, to go in a small, wet, pitching whaleboat to minister to a sick man on a destroyer. You will love it. I congratulate you most heartily. 1401 W. I2