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

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AGENT HOST i ENVIRONMENT

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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.

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Administration Seated, left to right: BARNABY, SNYDER, LEAVELL Standing, left to right: MURPHY, RICHMOND, QUINLISK, BROWN, PARSONS, SAWYER, O’NEILL, SPAULDING, LASKEY The students soon recovered from their first impression—that the School was administered by Miss Laskey, Miss Sawyer and Mr. Jean Parsons—and realized that august persons, who could only be seen by appointment, were in real control of the administrative machinery. These were the Acting and Assistant Deans and Mrs. Barnaby, Secretary of the School. The careful thought and planning of the Administration —and indeed of the whole Faculty—helped to establish rapport between themselves and the students and to get the latter settled. The individual advisers who arranged details of programs and the Faculty Wives who assisted with accommodation, soon brought order out of chaos. Dr. Snyder was appointed Dean and is now firmly settled in the chair of office, a token of which was presented to him by the Class. The Assistants to the Dean, Messrs. Spaulding and Richmond, have their offices in the overflow annex. They and their staff are concerned with School promotion, development and public relations. The Administration is said to be considering the possibility of a new building to include all departments under one roof. It is to be hoped that it will be pro¬ vided and ready when some of the present students return for their doctorates, or at least when their sons come to Harvard for their M.RH. degrees.