Duke University School of Medicine - Aesculapian Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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1962 Duke Aesculapia Dedicated To BERNARD F. FETTER, M.D. Bernard F. Fetter, M.D. James A. Garfield said that a log with a student on one end and Mar Hop ins, his old teacher, on the other end was his ideal college. The point in it all is that personal contact and direct interest in the individual student by an instructor of lofty character is the main thing in any institution of learning. p 5 Groner Dr. Bernard F. Fetter, the man to whom this yearbook respectfully is dedicated, is a teacher and friend to all those who have passed through the portals of the Duke School of Medicine since 1951 when he returned to Duke. Throughout his resi- dency and as Instructor and later Associate Profes- sor of Pathology, Dr. Fetter has been dedicated to those ideals upon which this medical school was founded. His first thought has been for the educa- tion of the medical student and the advancement of medical knowledge. four

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The Duke AESCULAPIAN Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina Volume XXXII George F. Armstrong, Jr. Crawford F. Barnett, Jr. editors 1962

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Bernard Fetter was born on January 21, 1921. After graduation from high school, he attended Johns Hopkins University, where he received an A.B. degree in 1941. He came to Duke University School of Medicine that year and received his M.D. degree in 1944. After graduation he was an intern in Surgery at Duke until June 1945, when he left to serve in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. From March 1947 through May 1948 he was a resident in Pathology at the V.A. Hospital in Fort Howard, Maryland. In May of 1948 Dr. Feter was hospitalized for tuberculosis, spending the next nineteen months convalescing from this illness. Certainly his illness had much to do with his later interest in the pa- thology of tuberculosis, ami his students can all testify to his generous, first-hand knowledge of the disease. After his recovery, Dr. Fetter returned to the V.A. Hospital at Fort Howard, Maryland, to complete another year of his residency in Pathology. In January of 1952, Dr. Fetter returned to his alma mater, Duke University, to become Assistant Resident and then Resident in Pathology under Dr. Wiley Forbus. In 1953 he was appointed Associate in Pathology at Duke, and in 1955 was made As- dstant Professor of Pathology. In 1959 Dr. Fetter was appointed Associate Professor of Pathology, the position which he holds at present. In his present capacity he handles a large portion of the surgical pathology cases for the hospital, but above all he teaches medical students and house staff. Dr. Fetter has done research on a number of disease processes ami has published articles on such varied conditions as tuberculous myocarditis, viral hepatitis, and cardiovascular syphilis. He is board certified by the American Board of Pathology and is a member of the American Association of Pathol- ogy and Bacteriology, the American Medical Associ- ation, and the College of American Pathologists. He is married and has four children. Perhaps most Duke medical students first en- countered Dr. Fetter on the Admissions Committee, of which he is a member. Many will remember his immediate moves to make the nervous applicant more at ease by discussing subjects of mutual in- terest. As a second year student, one found him to be ever ready and willing to stop and explain any- thing which might be confusing to the budding pathologist. He has a phenomenal ability to re- member names, and what student was not pleased to feel that someone really knew who he was. In school and outside, Dr. Fetter has become a friend as well as a teacher. And so, to Dr. Bernard F. Fetter pathologist, teacher, and friend, we dedicate the 1962 Duke Aesculapian. L With the student five