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

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Standing (left to right) QUINLISK, PURDY, PARSONS. Seated (left to right) BARNABY, WHITTENBERGER, O ' NEILL, SNYDER, MURPHY, LASKEY, SPAULDING. ADMINISTRATION Administration is an art becoming more and more of a science. Expert Opinion E ACH September the reception hall at 55 Shattuck Street becomes an interna¬ tional lobby,” as students from here and abroad register for postgraduate studies designed to make them more effective as public health workers in all parts of the globe. Dean Snyder, Asst. Dean Leavell, and the Admissions, Curriculum and Degrees Committees had already prepared the academic path of approach. During registra¬ tion week, the Deans and faculty advisors gave valuable advice as they signed the masses of necessary documents. At this time the efficient administrative staff began teaching their year long field course: the Care and Nourishment of Public Health Students (C.N.a,b,c,d) Under the direction of the chief instructor, Mrs. Barnaby, and research assistants, Beverly Laskey, Mrs. Purdy and Jean Parsons, the course dealt with the orientation of students to life in urban New England. With the Faculty Wives as Associates in Housing and Transportation, the staff provided a pleasant introduction to the year at Harvard, smoothing the rough days of househunting, program planning and physical examinations. At midyear the ecological situation changed as the Administration became mysteriously concerned with the students’ scholastic progress. With the coming of Spring and the last quarter, the course included psychological consultation and guidance to all overworked worriers. Conclusive evidence of the success of this comprehensive course in care and nourishment was the fairly compleat H.S.P.H. graduate of 1956. 12

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JIMMY FUND BUILDING AUDITORIUM ENTRANCE HUNTINGTON BUILDING HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 1 SHATTUCK STREET HARVARD FIELD TRAINING UNIT WHITTIER STREET HEALTH CENTER SIDE VIEW CHILDREN ' S MEDICAL CENTER 11

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BIOSTATISTICS Prove all things, hold fast to that which is good. St. Paul I N the Biostatistics Department, formal train¬ ing, designed to provide all students with a healthy skepticism regardirg the use of sta¬ tistics, is undertaken with vigor tempered with compassion. The staff also provides a statistical consultation service, as well as an advanced training program for young statisticians. To students who undertake the annual cruise through the School, Biostatistics looms as a distinct hazard to navigation. That safe pas¬ sage was accomplished in 1956 is a tribute to the patience and tutorial ability of Twelve- year-old Boy” Muench, Penny-tossing” Wor¬ cester, Tennessee” Drolette, and the lab assistants, who met resourcefully the simple- minded” problems presented by students of varied background and experience. As the ship reached calmer waters, the crew was in¬ troduced to cosmic thinking where each small world became a universe” in itself. DR. MUENCH Standing (left to right) MUENCH DROLETTE REED ELASHOFF Seated WORCESTER 13