Emory University - Campus Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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In March of this year a reception sponsored by the MSAC will be the beginning of the most important part of the lives of many young men. The illustrious Emory Medical School faculty will be there to greet and, at the same time, look over the incoming crop of potential medicos. The Juniors and Seniors will be there with a blase' air acquired after having successfully completed the hardest years of their medical training. The Sopho- mores will be there, with a singular smuggness at having lived to tell the tale of their Hrst year. They do tell it, too. They scare the hell out of a group of new men at the reception, warilv hope- ful, uncertainly conident that they will come out all right. The first day they go to the Anatomy Building, staring at the grotesque brain diagrams and the charts of the nervous system and intestines. They meet Dr. Blincoe, who smiles at them. They aren't sure whether it is a smile or a smirk. He tells them that their equipment is waiting for them in the laboratory. Up the winding flights of stairs to the third floor lab they go, with mingled feelings of apprehension, dread and fear showing plainly on their faces. Their footsteps are the only audible sounds. They file through the green door on which is the doleful greeting, Sight- seekers or those seeking satisfaction of idle or morbid curiosity are NOT WELCOME.', The bodies are shaved the first day by young men with weak stomachs who as yet have not become accustomed to the stench of human flesh pickled in pungent formaldehyde, the sickly sweet odor of phenol, and later the acrid smell of fat. It lurks on their hands, their clothes, and in their hair. It is the smell of the Freshmen Med. They buy the books, so heavy they must be carried in a satchel. They come to the realization that they must learn a new set of ABC's. Anatomy, Blincoe, Cadavers, Dissecting, Effort, Fatigue- and a myriad other terms, new and fascinating that will demand their entire time. Their days are full. They scarcely find time to eat and sleep. Six days a week they rise, attend class at 8:30 to be lectured about Histology, Bacteriology, Physiology, and the otheriologysj so mys- terious to the layman. After lunch each day, they climb the stairs to the Anatomy lab to dissect various parts of the body, to find and label every bone, muscle, tissue and fiber, to discover the functions of every organism and neuron. When they leave the lab about 5:30 and eat a good supper, they settle down to the laborious hours of study, mulling over their heavy books, their tin boxes of human bones, and their charts and diagrams. At a very l30l late hour, they fall in bed, exhausted, to sleep soundly. The fresh- men say the med school routine is in reality easier on them than the harum-scarum life of the college. Each day the procedure is the same, and the regularity is in itself healthful. The freshmen are given tests. When they finish studying some part of the body in Anatomy, they are given a lab practical in which they hav-e a minute and a half to identify a certain struc- ture which is tied with a red string. They have quiz sections which are usually oral, and are met with dread. They never know whether they are making A or F, purely because this lack of knowledge will keep them doing their best. As they enter a quiz section in the third quarter of their studies, their attitude is one of a more nonchalant confidence than they have ever shown before. Various members of the faculty hold, quiz sections. Q'Big John Venable, affable red-headed giant, called the holy terror of quiz sections, shuffles in, hurling his first ques- tion as he enters the door. Dr, Happy House, subtly sarcastic, incessantly grinning, grunts as a student points out the attach- ments of the gluteus medius muscle on the skeleton at the front of the room-interrupting the explanation with his inevitable Q'Are you kiddin'?', or 'gVery interesting. 'His sections are often a riotous burlesque. Mr. Fitzpatrick,s sections are more formal and orderly. But when the door slowly opens, and Dr. Homer Blincoe walks in, a hushed silence falls like a hammer. He hooks his fingers in his lab coat, crosses his hands across his chest and begins to speak-softly, almost in a murmur. He has short-cropped white hair, and a large bony head. He looks like Toscanini. The striking feature about him is his eyes-large black eyes made larger by thick-lensed glasses. They are compelling, magnetic. They inspired the song, The eyes of Blincoe are upon you, you cannot get away . . .', Students often quake under his most amiable gaze. He is both feared and revered. His students say, There is much about Anatomy that only Dr. Blincoe and God know, and there are some things Dr. Blincoe doesn't even tell God. Fresh- men meds have been taught to be afraid of him from preceding classes who revel in the terrorization of the novices. He is softly sarcastic, and makes them feel that they should know all the things they don't. Late at night a passerby will notice one window lin uo in the darkness. t'Butch,' as he is called by all his stud-ents, will be there, remaining the enigma of the Medical School. He also re- mains an indelible fond memory for those who graduate, take their two-year interneship, and scatter to foreign parts to become good doctors . . . country practitioners, diagnosticians, surgeons. x

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MEDICAL SCI-IDOL SENICDIQS AINSWORTI-I, WILLIAM L. . Bay Springs, Miss. ARMSTRONG, C. PRESTON . Fountain Inn, S. C. BENSON, W. HONVARD, JR. . . BIXLER, THOMAS J. . BRADLEY, PAUL L. . BRANNEN, EDMUND A. . BROWN, CHARLES E. BURGE, CHARLES D. . BURSON, E. NAPIER, JR. . CHILDS, EDXVARD -A. . . COOK, E. RICHARDS, III . CORDES, JOHN H., JR. . DAVIS, JAMES E. . . . FLETCHER, T. BERT, JR. . . 'HOOD, DOUGLAS W. . Marietta Live Oak, Fla. . . . Dalton . Millen Barnesville . Atlanta . . Decatur Montgomery, Ala. Newman . Atlanta Tupelo, Miss. Greensboro, Fla. St. Petersburg, Fla. JACOB, PEYTON, JR. . Americus JONES, GERALD W. . . . Orlando, Fla. JORDAN, WILLIS P., JR. . . Columbus MCLEOD, J. WILLIAM, J . Moultrie MARKS, EDXVARD S. . . Toccoa MASHBURN, MARCUS, JR. . . Cumming NEWMAN, J. HAROLD . . Jacksonville, Fla. PARKS, JOSEPH W ...... Newnan PAULLIN, WILLIAM L. . . . . Pelham PENDERGRAST, WILLIAM J. . Atlanta RODGERS, RICHARD C. . . . Tampa, Fla. ROREBECK, CURTIS G. . . . . Tampa, Fla. SHAFFERMAN, SAMUEL L. . . . Atlanta SIMMONS, M. FREEMAN . Decatur STAMPS, EDXVARD R., III . . Norfolk, Va. STURDEVANT, CLINTON E. . Atlanta SUTRER, HAROLD . . . Savannah, I TI-IOMAS, BENJAMIN F., J Auburn, Ala. I TRULOCK, ALBERT S., JR .... Waycross TURNER, H. HAYXVOOD, II . . Atlanta WAGNON, GEORGE N. . . Atlanta WALDREP, JACK M. . . . Leesburg, Fla. WALL, HILTON F. . . . . Atlanta WEAVER, JAMES M. . . . Leesburg, Fla. WILLIS, W. RUSSELL . . Barnesville