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

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NUMBER ONE SHATTUCK STREET EIETY-EIVE SHATTUCK STREET The Harvard School of Public Health

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But a staggering number of student-years have already garnered the following: M.D.61 Ph.D. 4 D.D.S. 2 D.V.M. 3 M.S.W. 3 Others .33 (Engineers, Statisticians, Nurses, Chemists, Biochemists, Health Educator, Health Ad¬ ministrator, Sanitary Engineer, Radiological Hygienists, Industrial Hygienists, Nutri¬ tionists.) We felt that such persistence deserved investigation. In February, at the beginning of the second semester, the Class of 1964 had a chance to record its reflections on coming to Shattuck Street and on what may follow after. Some numbers: 82% answered part, 32% answered most of questionnaire 85% describe some particular area of public health as an interest 20% have no particular future position in mind 40% expect to return to the same job 35% mention that either their coming or their next position is in the hands of some organization or agency 20% mention shifting from an area of practice to an area of research—and 20% mention moving from research to practice Some quotes: -—from the Class —from Geoffrey Vickers Saw public health as a more compre- a greater power to understand” hensive enterprise” needed formal training to perform bet- techniques limit us” ter” felt epidemiology was the tool of the future” developed a greater respect for the competence necessary to do planning and lead action” the content of the field is growing and new tools are needed” the distribution of disease is full of oddities” it is within the field of public health to explore the processes of decision” the landmarks of history are the mo¬ ments when some condition passes from the category of the given to the category of the intolerable” 9

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NUMBER? SHATTUCK STREET Better known among the student side-walk engineers as The Hole, soon to be transformed into the new Harvard Medical School Library I I