Harvard School of Public Health - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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DEDICATION Tie president and fellows of Harvard College on October 15, 1954 appointed a new Dean of the School of Public Health. We, the Class of 1955, feel honored to be the first students enrolled during his deanship. Under his leadership we feel sure that the Harvard School of Public Health will continue in the forefront of public health education and research as it has in the past. We therefore dedicate this yearbook to Dean John C. Snyder

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Dean John C. Snyder

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FOREWORD This yearbook is the story of the Class of 1955 of the Harvard School of Public Health. The Class is extremely heterogeneous. Its student body represents multiple backgrounds, interests, and disciplines. There are 91 students from 28 of the United States and 43 students from 25 foreign countries. In the Class are 71 Doctors of Medicine, 5 Doctors of Veteri¬ nary Medicine, 12 Nurses, 9 Engineers, and 37 representing other fields. As students they are majoring in 18 different fields of interest. In spite of these varied backgrounds and interests, the ability of the Class to func¬ tion in a team is demonstrated by this yearbook which represents the fusion of student effort with faculty and outside sponsorship. This Class is more than the sum of its student members. It is a dynamic unit resulting from the interplay of the individual influences exerted by the students themselves, the faculty, and the school. By analogy,the ecological concept of disease, which forms the basis of epidemiological thought has been transposed into the theme of this yearbook. Instead of the interplay of the forces of host, agent, and environment producing disease, we have the students as host, the faculty as agent, and the school as environment producing the Class of 1955.