Indiana University School of Medicine - Caduceus Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Opposite Page Top: Herb Williams, Pacer center forward shoots for two. Photo courtesy of Indianapolis Pacers. Opposite Page Left: George Bjorkman at hat for the Indians. Photo courtesy of Indianapolis Indians. Opposite Page Right: Face-off at the State fair colliscum. Top: The 1984 Indianapolis 500 champion. Rick Mears speeds along the straight aways. Above Left: The start of the 1984 Indianapolis 500 Race. Both 500 photos courtesy of The Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Above: Fast unecker action continues as the puck often leaves the ice. Hockey photos courtesy of the Indianapolis Checkers, two time winners of the Adam's cup. 9

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Even though the Colts struggled in their first season here, capacity crowds of over 60,000 turned out for every game. New owners Mel Herb Simon have sparked a dramatic increase in attendance and interest in the Indiana Pacers after the team nearly folded at the end of the 1983 season. The Checkers brought home two consecutive Adam’s Cups, while supplying exciting hockey action in the cozy confines of the State Fair Coliseum. The city is unique with its “circle” design centered around the Circle Monument. This is the scene of frequent social events such as the Strawberry Festival, Circlefest, Summerfest, fireworks, and others. Every Christmas the monument is draped in lights to create the “World’s Largest Christmas Tree”, the fountain becomes a skating rink, and yuletide spirit predominates. The Christmas of 1984 was perhaps the most outstanding as the circle was converted into a giant carousel. Other attractions within the city offer a variety of diversions. The Indianapolis Museum of Art, CTS Repertory Theater, Crackers Comedy Club, the Indianapolis Symphony, and Triple A baseball. The growth of the Circle City along with the increasing prosperity and civic pride of Indianapolis has created an attractive and well-rounded environment at the Indiana University Medical Center. d.

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I.U.M.C. 81-85 The regional students were a welcome addition to our core group at Indianapolis. We had spent two years with the same group of people, and new faces were a shot in the arm for socializing — including at least one mixed marriage of Indy-Center matrimony. Senior year was like heaven. We could actually think for ourselves, plan our schedules, and get out of Indiana if we chose to. India, Pakistan, Kenya, England, Ireland, Alaska, and Haiti were training and mission fields for our class. The decisions of specialty, residency, and the match loomed before us, with the added uncertainties of physician-surplus, HMO’s, and decreasing numbers of residency spots; but, oh the freedom of senior year! The future? Only time will tell, yet, as we finished our four years of Medical School we could only concur with Theodore Roosevelt: Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failures, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat. We dared.