National College of Chiropractic - Mirror Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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S Dean 1 BRIEF BICGIQAPI-W Dr. O. S. Sprecher was born May 21, 1905 in Tripp, South Dakota. When he was nine his family moved to Chicago, where he completed his grammar and high school. He enrolled in business college and even- tually decided upon a career in electricity whereupon he accumulated much invaluable experience and knowledge with the RCA. and West- inghouse Corporations. Young Sprecher married in l927 and is the happy father of three girls and a boy. Two of his daughters are follow- ing the Sprecher heritage and are present students here. His father, Dr. S. Sprecher, a practicing physician, and former professor at the National College, was his constant and most personal guide and inspiration. lt was only natural then that he should enroll in 1931 at National College, graduating in l935. Since that time he has been practicing in Edison Park, lllinois, and has remained at his Alma Mater to instruct in Chiropractic Philosophy and Technic, and Physio- Therapy. I-le is logical and practical in his presentations and his tenacity for investigation has added to his prestige. These characteristics, and his broad experience, has proven oi invaluable benefit to his students, patients, and profession. The Sprecher family has made many out- standing contributions to the field oi Chiropractic, and they stand as a tribute to our college. Ever personable and popular, Dr. Sprecher's appointment as Dean of our College met with unanimous approval, both With faculty and student body. We will always remember with great pride our Dean. , Eight . DR. O. S. SPRECHER

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TI-IE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. - Charles Sumner. Ours is the heritage of greatness and just fame. Chiropractic as a science and profession of therapy has come to have a tremen- dously important role in the health problems of man. As the second largest healing group, our profession maintains the unique position of being the leader of the constantly growing trend toward the use and study of the natural healing methods, a trend that is destined more and more to express its clinical authority in the issues of public health and the proper care of the ailing person, The history of the National College has always been closely allied to the progress of our profession. Many of the standards relating to the educational progress of Chiropractic found their conception at the National College. lt can honestly be said that our Alma Mater has served its graduates sincerely and well, it has been constant in its efforts to advance Chiropractic as a profession, and consequently it has done much to promote the health and happiness of mankind. ' We stand confident that the future of Chiropractic is great and brilliantg and that the National College will continue to maintain its leadership in support of the progress that is in the offing. We are determined that as an institution we shall expand and growg that there will be no halt to our endeavors to bring new knowledge, 'greater dignity, and fuller capacity to our profession. We shall enlarge upon that which we have, and shall give liberally of our means toward our common cause - the promotion of Chiropractic as a science and profession. The high importance of our future in Chiropractic supplies us all the incentive we need - the courage to strive for the realization of that ideal. Ioseph I. fans-e Dr. Ianse has won acclaim for his exacting and specific writings on various chiropractic and associated themes. His articles periodically appear in the National College Iournal and the N.C.A. Iournal. Dr. Ianse is a member of the Public Health Committee of the N.C.A., is a contributor to the new manual on Chiropractic Principles and Technic , and The Way To a Long and Healthy Life , as edited by the National College, and co-author of the recent manual on Chiropractic Practice Vol. l - lnfectious Diseases. He has rendered invaluable assistance to Dr. F. W. llli of Geneva, Switzerland, in the researches and eventual literary discussion of the Sacro-lliac Mechanism Keystone of Spinal Balance and Body Locomotion. We of the Chiropractic profession , asserts Dr. lanse, dare and may pride ourselves in the realization that we as pioneers have probably contributed the greatest single advance in mod- ern therapeutic thought, and ours- is the responsibility of safeguarding it. S even

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ACKNCDWLEDGMEIXITS lt is very difficult to determine the exact value of the individual contribution to any project, for when it is finished, the Whole reflects the cross section of everyone's personality. We Want to consider the Yearbook as that type ot a project. No one person can claim any individual distinction tor the character, nor amount, of the Work done. lt has been a strictly cooperative eliort. Nevertheless, We do Wish to thank each person tor his part in making this l947 Edition of the National College Yearbook such an unexpected success. Also, We cannot close this acknowledgment With- out expressing our pleasure for the endorsement oi our endeavors as evidenced by the Student Body sub- scription, as Well as the very many sent in by the Alumni to Whom the book is dedicated. ln closing, We make this presentation: lf the net results Will mean to you all the pleasures the prepara- tion has meant to us, then the Work and Worry was Well Worth every minute. The Staff oz' the 1947 Yearbook Nine