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

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4. fp AXEL K. OLSEN, M.D. Professor and Head of the Division of N9Ul'0SUl'0'9lW Advisor 0 the 1958 ED C

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1 JN '.. i g all fi' --.L 'a I ,Nui-'4 '95 kiss:-Lx-.:' if-sis. Registrar MISS ALICE C. BRITT With special tribute the Class of 1958 takes great pleasure in being able to wish and express their thanks and appreciation to Miss Alice C. Britt, Registrar. Her sincere and considerate nature and calm efficiency belie the weight of administrative responsibility which she so capably bears. We feel that Hahnemann is fortunate to have the services of Miss Britt. In addition to performing her duties so adeptly, she continues to convey an attitude of friendliness and sense of team spirit which keynotes the atmosphere of our school. These attributes are all the more noteworthy when you consider a few of the innumerable duties she must perform. Miss Britt enrolls the freshman class, collects tuition, receives records and dispenses grades, deter- mines class standings, makes up class schedules, assigns classrooms, keeps Veterans Administration records, is secretary to the senior faculty, takes care of licensure forms, and prepares transcripts. Miss Britt is now in her eleventh year at Hahnemann. The Class of 1958 is grateful for her sincere, friendly, and able assistance, and wish her many years of health and happiness.

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Editorial In order to obviate the trite and avoid the allectatious, it would be almost necessary to eliminate completely the writing ol' an editorial. For through the years, repetition has relegated to rodomontade and grandilo- quent yapidity the majority of those esoteric expiations which come to the fore at this time. Yet these, nevertheless, still embrace or contain within themselves the illustrious ideals to which we should adhere and aspire. The charges that must necessarily be propounded, whether or not they might possess the ring of superficial sentimentality or thrasonical bombast because of the incondite manner in which they are presented, are, nevertheless an ineluctable integral. The cogent concatenation of ideas that should predominate and the ponderous prolixities that must be eschewed to attain a clear, concise, and germane presentation, increases in magnitude the didicile dehiscence of the inner mind and deters the elutriation of our thoughts. Hence, jejunity may interpose. But each of us, employing the fiail of good judgment and common sense, may easily separate the chaff of vacuity from the wheat of wisdom. Having reached the incunabula of our careers, we are presently imbued with, emotional ebullience that accompanies the attainment of such a long sought and difiiculty obtained goal. This, too, has now not only become a pylon marking the course of our profession which we have reached and passed, but also asign-post pointing out the various pathways in which we may direct ourselves as each of us seeks out that phase of medicine to which he deems himself best suited and adapted. Here at Hahnemann, a foundation was laid upon which can be con- structed whatever edifice in the field of medicine to which we aspire, whether it be the compact high spired tower of specialization or the lower gabled but more broadly spread house of general medicine. Before we plunge haphazardly and headlong into our chosen fields, let us hesitate awhile to equilibrate and orient ourselves so that with nothing but the utmost certainty will we wend our way among and with our medical confreres to the ultimate and successful achievement of our desires. Let us not be so over eager to make our mark that we miss the target completely. Here, more than in any other field, the steady hand of mental and emotional stability is inevitably incommensurate as an ancon of our abstract armamentarium. We cannot let the pettiness of puerile hauteur make us lose perspective of our professional purpose by causing us to abandon that certain degree of humility so vitally necessary to the maintenance of good relationships. Let us not become overbearing in our attitude towards those who seek us out for physical and psychical solace. As we therefore have opportunity, let us do good unto all men, and let us not become weary of well-doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. ROBERT C. ALTLAND Editor-in-Chief