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

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CLASS OF 1966 The Harvard School of Public Health Boston, Massachusetts Roy Thompson Roy Thompson H i l l Wide World Photos Boston, 1966 3

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Tamag, Philippines Bombay, India Mangala Pura, India . . . The day is short, the work is great, the laborers are tarry¬ ing, and the Master of the House is impatient. It is not for you to finish the tvork, but you are not free to neglect it. . Chapters of the Fathers In dreams begins responsi¬ bility.” Old Play Courtesy WHO 2

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A word from the editors... TTT’e suggest you look at the 1966 yearbook as soon as you can, and again ten years from now. At that time, you may ask yourself whether people at the School of Public Health in 1966 were anticipating the problems to be faced by public health and its component specialties in the ’70’s. We hope your question will be answered if you re-read what faculty members and students have written in response to the following ques¬ tion: what would you like to see accomplished by people in your field in particular and in public health in general in the next decade or two? We also hope that the placing of students’ and teach¬ ers’ remarks alongside each other will convey a sense of the give and take of this one year at the School of Public Health. If you are looking at this book for the first time in 1976, what you read may impress you as dated. Remember, however, that 1976’s conven¬ tions were 1966’s imaginings. Remember that public health and schools of public health were in 1966 just beginning to acquire enough courage and a sense of obligation to face up to the prob¬ lems created by explosive rates of population growth, urbanization, and the aggrandizements of technology. Remember that the leaders of public health in 1966 were just beginning to think of working with medical schools and with planners concerned with cities, agriculture, and industry. Remember that the comprehensive community- medicine program for Roxbury set up by the School of Public Health together with Boston’s three medical schools in the early ’70’s was mere parlor talk in 1966. And, remember that the programs for the septic fringes” of Latin Amer¬ ica, Asia, and Africa, worked out by the Harvard- MIT Joint Urban Studies Unit in conjunction with the Departments of Epidemiology, Demog¬ raphy and Human Ecology, Tropical Public Health, and Nutrition, had not even been thought of in 1966, except by types calling themselves ecologists. (These programs dated from the time when epidemiologists joined up with systems analysts from the Joint Urban Studies Unit for the purpose of determining an optimum control pro¬ gram for cholera in Calcutta, whose population had reached twelve million in 1970.) People in 1976 may also wish to recall that Hans Zinsser’s musings about public health and the world during World War I could well have ap¬ plied to the ’60’s: At the moment, while the world is an armed camp of suspicion and hatred and countries are doing their best, by hook and crook, to push each other out of the world’s markets, to foment revolutions, and steal each other’s political and mili¬ tary secrets—organized government agencies are exchanging information concerning epidemic diseases; sanitar¬ ians, bacteriologists, epidemiologists and health administrators are cooperating, consulting each other, and freely ex¬ changing views, materials, and methods, from Russia to South America, from Scandinavia to the tropics ... It is all a part of the strange contradictions be¬ tween idealism and savagery that charac¬ terize the most curious of all animals . . . Elihu Richter Alfred Cheng Guthrie Turner The editors Smith, Kline, and French— Philadelphia Museum of Art 4