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

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1.4.- or-' qu.. ,YY-OF -.- 'H' ',-, - ...nt l.-,sn :- A I Y fd- ,BN dean 11 4' ff OF PHMADB-PHIA OUIIGK AND HOSPTTAL NQMNN MBNCAL COLLEGE ,ami-FV 1. n. THEHAH 235NOl0lpfl8m'SllET Ol Tlll DIA! To the Graduates of '51: lt is my misfortune that our assoclatlon - a mere seven months -- has been too brlef to permlt me to know each of you better than 1 do. Nevertheless, because you are the first class to be graduated during my tenure as dean, l will always hold you in the special regard reserved for the flrst born. And our relstlonship is unique for another reason: we are each beg-mnl-D8 a new venture -- undoubtedly the most important in our lives -- at the same time. Whht each of us accompllshes ln the years ahead will reflect on the other. The four years you have spent here must now seem shorter than they appeared on September 14, l953, when you, as impressionable and uncertaln, but eager freshmen, attended your first classes. They will grow shorter with each passlng year. ln so small a span of a man's life, the whole grand compass of medlclne cannot be conveyed, much less learned. The core of the objective of these years has not been to provide you with the lnlormatlon you wlll need ill your 40 years oi practice -- although that might have been a reasonable goal of the medical school of a generation ago. in thls day of sclentlflc medlclne, with its avalanchlnl knowl- edge, and its compartltlonlng of that knowledge into tighter and smaller areas of interest, the best a medical college can hope to impart to lts students is a concept of what ls known about human disease, an understanding of how to make the most effective use of lt, and, finally, a reasgnlnl dlssatlsfactlon with lt. 1 refer to the klnd oi dlssatlsiactlon which leads men to lnqulre, to observe, to reason, to reject complacency, to acknowledge uxnltstion, to seek for truth, to have faith that the best ls yet to be. the standards of the day, and by those same standards nor of being called doctor. But the ords of one of the great of the ll prepared hy n and the ho ad in the w the befmnllll N You are we you rlchly deserve the dlstlnctlo greater part of your medical education ues ahe . men oi our time, for you, '1'hl8 is not the end. lt is not even end. lt is the end of the charles S. cameron, il.D. Del!!

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We toured the departmentg we learned much, but. . . some got lost! WOMEN use Tl-ng 3 0 x xeg. P' . 4 'lr-' 'if 0 -Q1 A A

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Y Hahnemann has had many good deans. Charles L. Brown was a great one, for he led us safely through the probationary period and was personally responsible for bringing many of us here. When he departed a year ago, he left a strong Hahnemann, an enduring monument to his own greatness. Harold A. Taggart. our interim dean, has the fortunate facility of doing many dis- similar jobs well. Hahnemann has employed this quality expediently on numerous occa- sions in the past. We are confident he will continue to give valuable service in the future.