New York Medical College - Fleuroscope Yearbook (Valhalla, NY)

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CLASS or 19510 HOW haDDY, eager, and confident we were when we learned that the road to the study of medicine lay before us. We presented ourselves at school, with our heads held high, our eyes crystal clear, and shoulders squarely set upon a sturdy frame. Then came the deluge. Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology quizzes were thrust upon us in tetanic suc- cession. 'Not many days passed before we realized that our liberal arts' college days were really behind us. But things weren't really ominous until Chemistry, Physiology and Neuro- anatomy were added to our curriculum. Twenty-four hours indeed proved to be a short day. As days grew shorter and nights became longer, rote memory served us little. We were compelled to reinforce our armamentarium with our gray matter. It seemed as though our cerebrum was crammed to the meninges, and that an added thought would cause a bursting skull fracture. But by the grace of God and a stamina which we never dreamed we possessed, we completed the third trimester. The satisfaction which we experienced on the successful completion of a difficult task was compensation enough. There were several lulls in the storm. Our dinner-dance brought together faculty and student body for a most enjoyable evening of revelry at the Colonades of the Essex House. Our imagination was taxed when we attempted to compare those smiling, finely groomed young men with their appearance in the Anatomy lab-inundated as they are with the grease and odor of the cadaver. How relaxed and gay they appeared as they swayed in rhythm to the refrains of the orchestra. The end of the evening found them and their lovely guests exhausted but happy. Our last trimester was relatively easy sledding. At last we could do justice to Phys- iology, Chemistry and Neuroanatomy, and to the instructors who labored so assiduously to impress us with the importance of the subjects they taught. We were surprised to find that we actually enjoyed spending an evening with a text book that permitted us to utilize our newly developed ability to analyze the subject matter. There still remained, however, a few questions to bedevil our thoughts. What were our grades for the first two trimesters? And will our parents still be proud of their prodigal sons after they examine our grades? In the end a final bell sounded, and the curtain slowly descended, blotting out our first year of Medicine. We packed our belongings with regret-perhaps at the thought of leaving our newly acquired friends, or at the idea that we might not have learned as much as we should have. We arrived at home, a little tired, shoulders slightly sloping, 'heads drooping, and eyes not seeing--but minds and thought aglow at what we had learned, and at what we were to learn. One hundred fifty-seven

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' 'FRESHMEN ' df CLASS QFFICERS President Richard Gaillard Senators Francis I. Wixted Iohn P. Schlecter, Ir. Treasurer Warren Pi. Brady Secretary Miss R. T. Pellegrino

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FRESHMEN AMEDURI, ARDoW AXELROD, EDWARD BARDEN, STUART P. BARECCA, VINCENT I. BARNETT, ROBERT W. BERLIN, WALTER ' BIVONA, CHARLES I. BLY, PAUL BONITO, EEDELE L. BORNEMANN, CARL BRADY, WARREN R. CANNISTRACI, IOHN CAPO BIANCC, ARTHUR CCMMINS, SOL DE MURIO, MICHAEL P. DE SIMCNE, NICHOLAS DEYoE, GEORGE W. DE GIACOMO, MICHAEL ENNIS, HENRY EANCER, HERBERT EANTAUZZI, ANTHONY FINKELSTEIN, HOWARD rox, LESTER CAILLARD, RICHARD CCLDBERC., SAUL GOLDSTEIN, JEROME GRANT, FRANCIS I. HALL, STANLEY D., Ir. HAMILTON, IOHN A. HARRIS, HUNTER P., IR. HEMINGTON, RALPH W. HOFFMAN, HOWARD A. KEDERSHA, ANDREW E. KENNEDY, EUGENE I. KHOURY, ERNEST N. KIMBALL, CYRIL V. One hundred fifty-eight A. B. Syracuse A. B. New York University A. B. Dartmouth University B. S. Fordham University A. B. University of Pennsylvania B. S. University of Pennsylvania B. S. Fordham University A. B. Duke University B. S. Fordham University A. B. Wesleyan University B. S. Manhattan A. B. Columbia University B. S. Fordham University A. B. University of Rochester Ph. C. Union University B. S. Lafayette University B. S. Columbia University B. S. New York University B. S. St. Peter's College A. B. Harvard University A. B. Union College B. S. New York University A. B. Alabama University B. S. Manhattan A. B. Iohns Hopkins University A. B. New York University B. S. Catholic University B. S. St. Lawrence University B. S. St. Iohns University A. B. Texas University A. B. West Virginia University A. B. Harvard University B. S. St. Lawrence University B. S. Manhattan B. S. New York University B. S. Rutgers University