Medical College of Pennsylvania - Iatrian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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ADMINISTRATION Glen R. Leymaster, M.D. President and Dean TO THE SENIORS: GRADUATION will soon be here, and you will be marching forward to claim your diploma. You will know then that the title Doctor is rightfully yours, at long last. Hono r that title, and wear it proudly. All of us — your teachers, members of the Board, the Administrative Staff — congratulate you. We are proud of you and confident that you will continue to grow in competence in your chosen profession. To each graduate, our best wishes for a successful career. Glen R. Leymaster, M.D. President and Dean

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r To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. — Sir Wm. Osier. We students at WMC have never had to do without books or journals, and most important, have never had to do without an answer to any request made at any of the staff of our library. The facilities were hot in the summer, cold in the win ter, and noisy and crowded most of the time, but somehow, that is not what the class of ' 69 will remember. We will only remember a staff of dedicated women, working under impossible conditions and doing an impossible job in such a way that we will graduate proud of our library — just because of the staff and the job they have done. Miss Pauline Johnson, Librarian Mrs. Violet Heber Mrs. Beatrice Jenkinson Miss Beatrice Rymshaw 25 year Faculty— 1963 Dr. C. Thomas. Dean M. Fay. Dr. L. Winston. Miss Draeger

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1967 In 1964, upon assuming his post as Dean and President of WMC, Dr. Glen Leymaster felt that he had to make one of two choices; either to turn the College into a coeducational school, or to justify it on its own terms. Dr. Leymaster chose the latter. In describing the premise behind the changes he hoped to institute, he states: While there can be no compromise witth quality, there can be variation among medical schools in relative emphasis among disci- plines. All branches of medicine must be open to individual students, but a medical school with a unique student body ought to have unusual strength in some areas and thus pro- vide unusual opportunities for its students. (J. Amcr. Med. Worn. Ass. 20, no. 4 (1965):347) (Women in Medicine, by C. Lopate) In 1967, at one of our Dean ' s Hours, Dr. Leymaster re- ported meetings and discussions with the State Legislature where our admissions policy had been discussed and he said to us, among many cheers, that he felt that as long as he was Dean, it was to remain the Woman ' s Medical College. In 1968, we the students, the Alumnae and others, received a letter which stated, In keeping with the spirit of the times it seems appropriate for the Woman ' s Medical College periodically to re-examine its admissions policy. With the concurrence of the Board of Corporators and Dr. Leymas- ter, and with the desire in mind of advancing the best inter- est of the College, an Advisory Committee on Admission Policies has therefore recently been appointed. This Com- mittee has been asked to recommend to the Board and to the President whether our goal of providing the highest quality medical education obtainable is best realized by re- maining open only to women — . 1968 1970