Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine - Osteoblast Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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ft- l'l Qi?-as l ,Sf , Q-I ' H. P. SWISHER ROY DESHAW E. C. WIEGAND VicefPresident President Secretary Class of January '35 AST year at this time we said we were the only bachelor class in K. C. 0, S. and we were rather proud of the fact. However there comes a time in every man's life when some woman steps in. So it was with us. The woman in question was Betty Slaughter and we must admit that she certainly changed things in our classes. No more of those good old man to man jokes with the instructor that we had been accustomed to in the past. However the jokes were not all .good and Betty is a cute little girl, so everything is rosy. There are a few vacant places in the ranks of our class. Each semester it seems that for one reason or another some member has dropped out. Several of the original members have passed on to the upper junior class due to summer school and to ad' vanced credits. Following in the footsteps of others who have gone before we have made an effort to do away with some of the old traditions that outline the treatment of freshmen. We did not as freshmen wear the green caps nor have any freshman rules imposed upon us. In turn when we became sophomores we let the freshmen go unmolested. Three semesters now stretch between us and graduation. We have many things yet to learn in that time and the days will be crowded, but if they are as pleasant as the days that have passed we will be satisfied. 14131 rr . l l35l

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' g RAY OTEY KENNETH CULL FRED TAYLOR VicefPresident President Treasurer Class of June '3LL N a cold rainy night in September of 193O4most of the members of our class arrived in the fair city of Kirksville. What a sight met our eyes. Surrounded by eager fraternity men, who seemed determined to take our bags away from us, was the little funny looking station with the brick platform. Rain was also doing its best to make the scene in general look as dreary as possible. So it is easy to unf derstand that we set out upon our careers with more or less heavy hearts. However days passed, as days have a way of doing, and we began to realize that life and Kirksville were not so bad after all. We managed to pass the lirst year without any definite symptoms arising and that was decidedly encouraging. Our return for sophomore year was marked by clear weather so the general spirits of the class were much better than in the fall a year before. The year ran quietly enough with the exception of some Resolutions which were, to use a lay expression, nipped in the bud. During this year symptoms have begun to develop in almost every member of the class. White treating coats and instrument bags have begun to appear. Of course there were some that developed these symptoms during the sophomore year but they were only sporatic cases. It is with no little excitement that we look forward to next year. Final state boards, graduation, and then the field. That is the goal that we have been seeking for three years already. May the time pass quickly. k- 21 --1-1,-iilR17:.-,., ll34ll

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XXAQTIXX , X X F 54-0 331 ik: , ' fc? P i il r-,Fsgjm Esrinzix SNETHEN C. G. COHAGAN J. D. BEALMER Secretary President VicefPresident Class of June '35 WO years gone, just half way towards our goal. Those two years seem very short however when viewed from this side. They certainly seemed long enough though when seen from the other side. Our class has been one to change tradition. We tried as best we could to im' press our views concerning freshman rules on the sophomores during our freshman year. We were not quite successful in doing away with all of the rules but did get rid of a few of the more troublesome of them. This year, in the role of sophomores ourselves, we were more or less easy on the new freshmen. After all a new freshman entering school has too many other things to worry about to be bothered with a group of rules hanging over his head. Gray's, chemistry, histology and a dozen other subjects are crowding his brain, how well we know. When Dr. Stukey and his dissection came our way we almost wished that we were freshmen again. That two hours every afternoon gets pretty tough along in the spring when the grass begins to turn green and a young man's fancy turns not to dissection. However, with the end of this year we lay away the knife and probe and try to get set for Practice, Diagnosis and Pediatrics. When we look back, however, they have been two fine years and if the next two only pass as quickly everything will be O. K. 193.5 il36ll