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

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On the eve of his resignation, the Class of 1971 would like to ex¬ press its appreciation to Dean John C. Snyder for his sixteen years of dedi¬ cated service. Under his strong and wise leadership the School has grown in stature by physical dimensions and by the world-wide impact of its re¬ search and teaching. Now, as the School, the University, and the health care of the nation enter a new era, we remain indebted to Dr. Snyder for his significant contributions and wish him continued success in his new life ' s work. AU REVOIR You are the 57th group which has studied public health at Harvard and the 48th which has been awarded degrees from this School. You share with other Alumni a firm commitment to the improvement of health for people everywhere. Most of you will soon have positions of considerable responsibility. Within the next five years you probably will have been offered, and will have accepted, at least two different positions with responsibilities even wider than those of the first position you take, sometimes finding yourselves engaged in activities which you had not anticipated and for which you had not prepared yourselves. At least a fourth of your group will have academic posts, and an even larger proportion will have educational ac¬ tivities as one component of their general operations. You will be setting new standards of performance for the profession of public health. The School ' s mission is to enhance the capabilities of its students and offer them knowl¬ edge and understanding. I hope you will find, after a few years, that your year here did have these effects. Your colleagues at the School wish you well. I hope you will participate ac¬ tively in Alumni affairs and send us your ideas about public health and the functions of our School. John C. Snyder, M. D. Dean 3

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TURNING POINT The year at HSPH represents a turning point for most of us. Like the comets which appear from wherever, step a brief pas de deux with the sun, and then whip back into the void, we swung in from around the world, did our little dance under the School’s benevolent illumination and then poof! van¬ ished. Like all good comets, some of us were captured for another turn or two, and a few settled into permanent orbit. Some of us changed direction at the turning point; others kept to the same course but grew in range and power. In either case the withdrawal from normal activity was more apparent than real, and no less necessary than the pause in moving from second gear into third. Nine months is the standard period for our species to invest in gestation. Yet men are not judged by the auspices of their birth, but by their performance thereafter. So will it be with HSPH 71. - Bart Saxby 2

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THE YOUNG GRADUATES ... Come my friends, tis not too late to seek a newer world. - Alfred Tennyson In the coming weeks some of us will be starting new careers while others will continue in present positions. Hopefully, the experience at the Harvard School of Public Health has given us additional insight into the problems that confront our society. There are no traditional guidelines to solve these problems, but we do stand in a unique position amidst this turmoil because of our education and relative affluence. All around us the Blacks, the Youth, the Poor, and others are raising the questions and asking, Why Not? Do we possess the wisdom to hear them and the courage to respond? We must hear them and we must respond, for we have the skills and means to effect the change that they demand. Each of us within our own lives and careers is capable of seeking the answers if we have the will. This is our mandate and we cannot afford to do less, nor could we ever do more. Anthony Mustalish 4