Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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W.. f U., . l I!! UNITS IN JEFFERSON'S EXPANSION PROGRAM This site plan indicates the proposed projects to be undertaken in the vicinity of Jefferson's main building core at 11th and Walnut Streets. Jefferson is pleased to have provided impetus to the rehabilitation of the Washington Square West area, a downtown location occupied by the College since 1838. Appropriately, it is in this historic setting that Jefferson will inaugurate its own landscaped campus. Existing Buildings lLettered Unitsl A. Foerderer Pavilion B. Thompson Building C. Main Building D. Medical College E. Curtis Clinic F. James R. Martin Student Nurses' Residence G. Library-Administration Building Future Buildings lNumbered Units? 1. Radiation Biology 2. Jefferson Hall I Basic Science Depts. and Student Commons! 3. Residence for Graduate Nurses and House Staf 4. Medical Services 5. Institute of Behavior 6. Medical Students Residence 7. Residential Unit 8. Residential-Fraternities Unit 9. Medical Education 10. Medical Education 11. Medical Education 12. Residential Unit-Married Students 13. Medical Services Construction on Unit 421, Radiation Biology, was begun in mid-1964 and on Unit -712, Jefferson Hall, early in 1965. Planning is progressing on the Residential structures, Units 4353 and qi6, and construction will get underway early in 1966.

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ANDREW J. RAMSAY, A.B., Ph.D. Professor of Anatomy, Head of the Department Director of the Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy Rarely does one have the privilege of dedicating his work in honor of another. This year the editor and staff of the 1965 Clinic dedicate their effort to a rare individual, a teacher in every sense of the word, Dr. Andrew J. Ramsay. Medical students admire and respect a teacher for many different qualities: his ability to teach effectively, his superior knowledge or technical skill in a particular field, his affability, his understanding. But it is rarely that an individual combines these qualities as has Dr. Ramsay. Andrew Ramsay was born in Angola, Indiana, on December 10, 1907, and attended high school there. Before deciding upon medicine and teaching as his life's work, to the subsequent benefit of the more than 5,000 students who have thrived under his influence and guidance, he dismissed two other possible careers after brief flirtations. Having won a national magazine health poster contest, he was strongly encouraged by his teachers to pursue art study, but the bohemian art student of that day proved unattractive. The late 20's was a time of rapid aviation development and this new field also seemed attractive. But after witnessing with three friends the smash-up of a plane just taking off, it came to him that Someone somewhere was saying that this was not for me. The three friends went on to become Air Force generals! Fortunately, medical science proved a stronger attraction and Dr. Ramsay received his A.B. degree from DePauw University in 1930 as a zoology major in the premedical course. He pursued graduate studies at Cornell University and received the Ph.D. degree in Anatomy in 1934. After two more years of post-graduate study and research, he was brought to the Daniel Baugh Institute in 1936 by its then director Dr. J. Parsons Schaeffer. Thus he is now engaged in his thirtieth year of service to Jefferson. In 1958 Dr. Ramsay was chosen to succeed Dr. Schaeffer as Professor of Anatomy, Head of the Department, and Director of the Daniel Baugh In' stitute of Anatomy. His contributions to medical science have been manifold and range from work on lymphatic tissues, sex determination, transplantaf tion, endocrine glands, and functional myology, to motion picture Elms dealing with lymphatic drain- age patterns and human embryonic and fetal musf cular movements. He has devised simpliied color photomicrographic procedures and it was under his aegis that the use of television demonstrations in anatomy and histology came to be an integral part of our first year studies. Among his honorary and social fraternal affiliations are Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Lambda Chi Alpha and Phi Beta Pi. Dr. Ram' say belongs to the American Association of Ana' tomists, the American Association of Advanced Science, the Electron Microscope Society of Amerf ica, and numerous other societies. Dr. Ramsay and his wife Sara reside at Medford Lakes, New Jersey, and have two children, Andrew, Jr., and Mary Louise. His spare time is devoted to his hobbies of trout and salmon fishing, mountain climbing, and photography. The distinguished appearance and erudite man' ner of this gentleman are never more evident than during our initial acquaintance with him during the first Week of the freshman year, both at the irst meeting of the class and during the fraternity rushfweek luncheons. His is our Hrst introduction to the history and traditions of Jefferson's worthy past and to the prospects of her promising future. Dr. Ramsay has been one of the leading Hgures in guiding the College toward that future and his presence and energy are constantly being utilized on many planning and building committees. On graduation day we are delighted to see that our by now good friend is still with us as the marshall of commencement. Perhaps only on this day do we come to realize that his at first puzzling advice to travel irst class has meant an easier path through the rigors of medical school and even greater opportunities for learning. The man to whom we dedicate the 1965 Clinic has come to represent for us an ideal combination of lucid teacher, proven scholar, and distinguished gentleman. Even as we are graduated we must envy the classes who will come to prosper by the presence of Dr. Andrew J. Ramsay.