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

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l l Registrar JOSEPH CHAN DLER, Ph.D. To the Class of 1954: I welcome this opportunity to wish all of you success and happiness as you finish your course here and go on to internship, residency and the practice of Medicine. My associations with you have been most pleasant. Your sympathy in April, 1951 mean: more to me than I can express in words. It has been a pleasure to help some of you in your difhculties with draft boards and the armed services. As a member of the Admissions Committee which chose you, I have watched your progress with great interest and pleasure. In june, you will graduate as the largest class since the number of the entering class was reduced to 105 and you will have justified the higher standards of scholarship applied by the Committee in choosing your class. XVe all hope that you will meet with a like success in your medical careers. In part, my own career is similar to yours. Although I came here some 24 years licfore you, my service as Registrar began in September, 1950, when you entered. And, like you, I shall leave Hahneniann in 1954. Goodfbye to you, to the other three classes and to my associates and friends at Hahnemann. JosEPH CHANDLER Sincerely, january 29, 1954 20

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4 Assistant ean HAROLD A. TAGGART, M.D. The Class of 1954 entered Hahnemann at about the same time that the Assistant Dean was initiated into his duties in the administrative office of the Medical School. Thus, to a large extent, both entered upon their training and indoctrination during the same fourfyear period. One of the first student problems to confront the cleaning tyro was an amusing incident which turned out, as do so many of these affairs, to be no problem at all. An almost emergency request was made one afternoon to visit the biofchem. lab, to End out the critical nature of one of your classmates, who was reported as certainly a sick man because of his color which was described as cyanotic. Quickly climbing the two flights of stairs, with the usual 'resulting breathlessness, the assistant dean made a quick inspection of the young man at a safe distance in order not to alarm him. Then a short conversation followed and all parties were greatly relieved to discover that the cyanosis was due to some overfzealous instillation of silver solution nose drops when the student was but a child. It is questionable, however, whether our relief was shared by the young student in thus being singled out for atten- tion bythe dean's office and faculty so early in his academic career. Now, four years later, your class will probably agree that the student attitude of remaining anonymous in his relations with members of the faculty and administration has, to a large extent, disappeared. While the assistant dean cannot lay claim to the ability of greeting you all by your first names, that is largely due to his own deiciencies of memory and not the faults of the students' attempt to avoid meetings when necessary. To those whom he is able so to greet, the relationship has been a mature and stimu' lating experience for him. The Class of 1954 has not been a class with many problems, Certainly problems of academic deficiencies have been relatively few as attested by the number who are about to graduate, which number will be the largest of any class who have graduated from Hahnemann during the past four years. Problems of discipline have been vir- tually nonfexistentg and those involving financial needs, we hope have been satisfactorily ameliorated for the time being, if not entirely eliminated. Indeed, the Class of 1954 will leave the Medical School with feelings on the part of the faculty and admin- istration of a happy and fruitful relationship and a satis' factory accomplishment. Our hope will be that each of you, as a future Alumnus of Hahnemann, will look back upon your experiences within these walls with a similar attitude and feeling. HAROLD A. TAGGART, M.D. Assistant Dean

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,,,,..-l History Taken By: N D Z W Y K Date Ilahnennn ledlcal College and Hospital of Philadelphia Pfovistonai Diagnosis CLASS 0F1954 From Alpha to Omega, Amadeo to Zecca, we have run our appointed time in school. Whereas we feared at its start we would not stay, many of us are now disturbed that we must leave so soon knowing so little. Hippocrates said, Art is long, time is short, and judgement difficult. Thanks to the awesome fecundity of the modern printing press and the inspiring fertility of man's medical curiosity the art has become longer and the time shorter even as we sat in our little ivory towers just off 15th and Race. Here we have tried the tolerance of teachers, our gastric mucosa and cortical convolutions. The former, true to their oath have done their all to pull us from the abyss of ignorance. Sometimes they quaked and were sore afraid, other times they were indignant, for the future of the Profession which was about to be engulfed in the second Dark Age whose advancing shadows we were thought to be. May the diplomas of june give them respite and time for repair, may the days thereafter offer us new perseverance and new comprehension so that their fears be unjustified and their consciences unblemished. Sprely even on the somnolent days of Spring when the calm of Lecture Room C was broken only by the drone of a few flies and some scattered snoring Seniors, it was obvious that there was a greater gulf than distance between the podium and pews separating professor and pupil. The former, with full benefit of tradition and the tincture of Time had cured a quavering voice and a tendency to plunge into obscure wavering premises. Theirs was the strength of things seen and tried, not read. Most of our mentors have bridged the chiasm with tolerance and understanding. II: is hoped that those of you remember them and the ancient axiom that most teachers were first students and that the press of the podium is usually no more trying than the pressure of the student benches. To remove the memory of rancor is not to remove the fact that it did existg bitterness is not completely neutralized by blandishment and the sudden ascent to familiarity and fraternization. Our faculty has remained fast to their purpose and have for the most part become our friends. It is hoped that those of you who feel the didactic urge duplicate their good deedsg rememf bering the rivulets of adrenalin and perspiration which ran ankle deep in Klahr at regularly scheduled Inquisitions. Remember, too, the redfrimmed eyes whose former luster rubbed off on the pages of many books and the hours of many nights, middle ears mashed flat by a stacatto of statistics, procedures or panaceas. These compared favorably with the number of sulcii numbed by imponderable ques' tions. When you reach your platforms and gaze at the sea of pallid despondancy, feel free to remem- ber that the walk was a long one, done in darkness and over mountains of books, through miasma and mists from beakers and bodies that would nauseate a neanderthal. Reflect in pride but add the com' passionate note that you grew on the same medium -the hardwood bench-and that a teachers task will always be to teach. To those who have given lavishly of time and self, ours is the greatest debt. We cannot mention them by name as they are secure in memory, but we exemplify them in the persons of Dr. Thompson and Dr. Brown. They have guided us through an era that has seen a resurgence of the art of Medicine against a background of scientific aids. The same suppression of sympathy which makes one infernally clever with a kettle of chemicals or a frog's gastroc' nemius might deter him in his dealings with thc heart of a man. Implicit in our final year was the HISTORY AND Write on both sides PHYSICAL EXAMINATION