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

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s 4-OQQA A Raymond Truex, Ph.D., Head, Division of Anatomy. GENTLEMEN . This is a serious Business To Dr. Raymond Truex and his department is dele- gated the job of teaching anatomy, histology and neuro- anatomy. He must make nomenclature and structure part of our thinkingg to fashion a foundation on which a magnitude of seemingly diversified facts will he amassed in order that thc human body be appreciated as a single functioning unit rather than isolated inter- ossei and livcr cords . . . an infinite task. Cadaver, slides, Grant's Atlas, Jamieson, Strong and Elywyn and Bai1ey's his- tology, we remember them well. The path of the lingual nerve with its dirty swerve, that made us erudite. Most of all the dash to the bul- letin board following the paralyzing hushed whisper -MThe marks are up. The 28 day menstrual cycle somehow became 34 days and 'snow we shall con- sider and appreciate epi- theliumf' The lights come on and Blatt lies sleeping. Then there was Neuro which never did come to- gether as predicted, by the end of the course. Finally, our parting words in ana- tomy . . . uremember the Broad Sweeps. ' - so- . ... , - ..-.,..-.. .4-...Q 1 2 .- . .rv -9 -Q- - Q-H --1 ----..L I - - av ff- Ji. 'I-A

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Cn knowledge gained in titeory and practice The iiuman anatom y One hundred and five scholars with idealist dreams of the medical world gath- ered on a September day, 1952, to dedicate themselves for the next four years to a scheduled 5446 hours, 607 credit units. These were to be our statistics from which we were to be fashioned into medical doctors. This then is the story of work, play, humor and interludes which is particular to our class and yet common to all . . . the student. And tire initial introduction to and A lt

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Ax If Y l '7I L:,, 177' . IW Af' .127 4 . i, You've got a mind like a steal trap! Dr. Myron H. Halpern Assistant Professor of Anatomy Ask any senior his most vivid memory of the Freshman year, he will reply, almost reluctantly Paff -Doctor George Paff, teacher tnever professorj of anatomy. A personality, eccentric. idol, character, call him what you wishg he was a teacher, an educator, a friend. To him and all our instructors in the anatomies we, as all those who have past before us, owe much more than mere gatitude. To their lot feel the task of coaxing, cajoling, threatening and oft times pleading to a group of bewildered, innocent aspiring young men to forego thoughts of brain surgery while learning the meaning of humanity via the dissecting room and microscope. xl A K, . lf. f t Dr. Warren gives out with the nuggets. DIVISION or ANATOMY R. C. Truex, Professor and Head of the Division Professors: A. W. Angulo, S. H. VanDyke, C. Paif Assistant Professors: E. C. Bernstorf, M. H. Halpern, H. l. Sugiura Instructors: F. E. Eksterowicz, E. H. Polley J,' - 1 ,V D7 If 5,1 sg . . m I Hmnn, I've got you by the Sclallc nerve. t W A Professor A. W. Angulo.