New England College of Optometry - Scope Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Dearie, do you remember when Dr. Cline told us all . How he made that pigeon fall, Yet he'll have the thanks of us all For a better planned course you cannot recall. YVell if you do, then you can't have pulled out as many sheets of paper as I. Dearie, do you remember when you studied your Physics and Physical Optics IVith Good joe IVright and his verbal antics. Remember Mr. Brin and his course on semantics, And Mr. F ogg-how dull and unromantics. IVell if you do, then you're much happier than you were. Dearie, do you remember when it was retinoscopy and keratometry . Ophthalmoscopy and strabismometry Accommodation and Convergence, and their relation, And oh, what you would have done for a vacation. IVell if you do, then you've mulled it over as often as I. Dearie, do you remember when school used to be . . . Until only a quarter after three. But came MSO, your good old Alma Mater YVhere from morn 'til night you sat and grew fatter. YVell if you did, then Dearie, you're as calloused as me. Dearie, do you remember when we had those softball games . WVasn't it a shame never to win some games, YVe played like a bunch of half-lames Trying so hard to please all those cute little dames. YVell if you do, then you're as charlie-horsed as I. Dearie, do you remember when good Dr. Bruce . . Would tell a joke and excuse How fair he was to all of us In covering the whole syllabus. YVell if you do, then you know a good man now-a-days is hard to find. Dearie, do you remember the awful heat from july through September . How you wished you could be 'way down by the sea At Revere or Nantasket, with a lunch in the basket Enjoying the cooling shade with a bronzed mermaid. Well if you do, then you sweated it out with me. Dearie, do you remember when you had ten minutes to call your own . Recall if you will, the bar and the grille XVhere you sought respite, from your study's delight From Alfred to YVorth's you gayly would prance, But usually wound up in a wonderful, happy trance, YVell if you do, then you must have been feeling as good as I. Dearie, do you remember when we took Perimetry and Orthoptics . . The phorias and strabismics, The theories so old and strong. That Dr. YVhitney tactlfully proved to be wrong. WVell if you do, then you must be as confused as I. PAGE TWENTY-TWO

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Digger O'Dell leaves with his shovel. Vlahogianis. lVelch. Laton, Tully and Resmini leave to go into prac- tice together. Fogg leaves to get out of it all. In witness thereof, we, the class ol 1950, have legally designated the foregoing as our linal will and testament and do hereby designate it to be obscured among other trivia of its kind. Signed, CLASS OF '50 M. K. and R. K. CLASS HISTDIQY Dearie, do you remember when you came to MSO . . XVasn't it a. long time ago And wasnt you then a Shmo. Vfell if you do, then you're much older than you were. Dearie, do you remember when it was Physics and Chemistry . . Instead of Optometry, And how you tried to be An A student rather than a ltVell if you do, then you're much smarter than you think. Dearie, do you remember when you first studied optometry . . My! NVasn't it a spree Until that first squizzing bee Didn't seem like it ought to be. Well if you do, then you're much more seasoned than you were. Dearie, do you remember when you took Anatomy . . . just how mixed up could it be. But between you and me You must know head from knee YVell if you do, then you sure learned more than me. Dearie, do you remember your Histology with its nuclei . . Dr. Carvin screaming at you and I Not to see but to signify. YVhat did he expect from a guy? W'el1 if you did, then you are as ulcered as I. 1 Dearie, do you remember when you first met The Bear' . Such easy work that you didn't care Except after the first exam was there So that now of Practical you are quite aware. NVell if you are, then you've learned more than you think. Dearie, do you remember when you tried to stay rational . . Wliile they were building the First National. How amidst the din and the roar Your brain wouldn't score Yet the work piled up more. Well if you did, then you were as nerve wracked as I. PAGE TWENTY-ONE

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Dearie, do you remember when it was Ethics .ind Morals . . IVith its fees and its systems Dr. March sure could list them And we should have no trouble with 'e-n. IVell if you do, then you better leave New York with me. Dearie, do you remember when you wanted to be . . . A senior in Optometry-How happy you would be! I-Iow no more exams there would be But instead future state boards full of misery. YVell if you do, here's wishing you the same good luck as me. SEEN AND OVER!-IEARD - NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN Sign me in! See Contillo. Al and his finger. And now for homework. You think you know, but you're wrong. Take out a sheet of paper. Quiet! Let Gallin do it. Ye-e-e-e-e es. Mull it over! By the same token. I don't know, you'll have to see Miss Klein. IVho's happy? I'Vhere's the man from New Y ork? Mister-you should commit suicide. And where's your chauffeur? To continue further . . . XVhat a gang! YVhat a bunch! You gambled and you lost! XVhat's the shape of the nuclei? Make it more homogeneous. Throw him out! Late slip! l.Vho's gonna do your shop work? its all in the notes. Histologically Speakng . I.Vhat did he give you? How? 'Wanta go on a survey? No information can be learned from the above information. The less you know the better off you are. Never trust an optician. Nov f-.' I propose to introduce . . . Pinball Sam, The Klutch. The Greek. The Holly. Honest John, jerry Ifyeball . Magua. A'Surgical Interference Samit. Rufus Dinin. and The Tracer. as as as D0 YOU REMEMB W'e were all just a group of young, apple- cheeked young men eager to learn that have now changed to a group of old. decrepit, dis- illusioned seniles not being able to under- stand anything . . . lXIusserian or Honest john as he is known to his enemies did not extol the virtues of the gambling places in Chelsea . . . Irv Koffman does not give the appearance of being well-dressed, even though E R WI-IEN? wearing a torn sweatsuit ..., Ierry Davis did not hccome crestlallen when a Boston team in :my sport ended up on the losing side, especially if the defeat was to a despicable New York team . . . Abe Gottesman did not try to scare up a fourth, not for bridge, but for pinochle . . . Ralph Mann ever shirked his duty and did HOL do a favor when asked . . . Stu Berger was not trying to sell some PAGE T IVENTY-THREE