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

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MEMBERS I THE DUNI-IAM CLUB THE Dunham Club is one of the outstanding medical organizations within our College group in the metropolitan area. lt is Well named in honor of Carroll Dunham. Carroll Dunham was a Dean of our College. In his day, when he wrote the science of therapeutics, he was unquestion- ably the most outstanding student of natural therapeutics of his time. Studious, purposeful, highly intelligent, he sensed and appreciated the law of the tissues in response to a deleterious invasion of a pathological process. He studiously analyzed the reparative methods of nature in the cure of disease, and the effects of medicinal substances in aiding nature to keep the processes of the body in that equilibrium known as health. He recorded his experiences, findings and deductions, in language clear, forceful and convincing. The Dunham Group, true to the traditions of our School, have fostered, built up and fearlessly protected the best interests of our Institution. At its monthly meetings, beside a fixed scientific program, it invariably discusses the policies and happenings of the College and our School in general. lts membership as depicted below, speaks eloquently of the quality of its make-up. In the past few years, death has depleted its membership by the untimely death of five of its very outstanding members: Dr. E. Rodney Fiske, Dr. George Parker Holden, Dr. I. Perry Seward, ' Dr. Ralph Alexander Stewart, and during the past few months, Dr. Dieffenbach, the great financial alumnus and outstanding physiotherapeutist of our group, who died suddenly of apoplexy. Earl H. Eaton Nathaniel Ives I. Wilford Allen Edwin S. Munson Walter G. Crump Ieremiah T. Simonson Bert B. Clark I. Ivemy Dowling Louis B. Kaufman William MacLean Milton Wilson Lindsley F. Cocheu Two hundred twenty six E. Wallace MacAdam Walter G. Crump, Ir. Eugene P. Roberts Iames Canders Clifford Hayner Samuel B. Moore Linn I. Boyd Wallace B. House Philip Schmahl H. Keith T. McCavack R. Turner

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EXACTLY ten years ago, fifteen students, drawn from the upper three classes of the college imbued by a spirit of friendship, mutual ideals and common interests decided to organize into a body which would perpetuate and further these tenets. As faculty advisors this group sought the assistance of Doctors Edward Barsky and Irving Busch, both of whom were mem- bers of the Department of Pathology, and who now are affiliated with Beth Israel Hospital, Aided and encouraged by the friendly advice of these men, the original fifteen founded the Sigma Lambda Psi Fraternity which was the realization of their need for an organized body wherein they could express similar interests. The basis for admission to the fraternity was founded on personality and scholarship. Each year it attracted the most -desirable of the in- coming medical students and now prides itself on their scholastic attainments. ln a few years the leaders of the group saw the advantages of affiliating with Q nqtienql fraternity which would uphold their ideals. Therefore in 1931, Sigma Ldmbdq Psi became the Alpha Mu Chapter of the Phi Lambda Kappa Fraternity, which is instituted to foster and main- tain among medical students and phYsicians a spirit of Fraternalism and of mutual aid and moral support: to promote and advance the concepts of the medical sciences: to instill and maintain in the hearts of its Fraters a love for, and a loyalty to, their Almq Meter and its idealsg and to inculcate such ideals as will result in actions Worthy of the highest precepts of human endeavor. To these ends Phi Lambda Kappa Fraternity is dedicated an-d each year imbues new pledges with this same burning spirit. l Two hundred twenty-five

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HOMEOPATI-IIC SOCIETY THE modern aim of education is toward the creation of a school life that will closely approximate the living conditions under which the graduates will be required to live. But while the necessity of attaining this objective is taught at the higher centers of learning, there is very little of it reflected in actual classroom teaching. An outstanding in- dictment of medical education is the lack of correlation between class room didactics and every day practice. Tragic, but true, is the fact that graduating physicians do not know the modern developments of medicine, and are at an absolute loss to cope with the economics of office practice. To a limited extent hospital work is able to tie together the practical and the theory, but it is not enough. Reading of Journals may help to void the gap, but here the student has neither the time, nor the ability to select articles of value. Medical lectures, with prom- inent speakers and the resultant discussions, offer the student an admirable method of learning. The County Homoepathic Society offers us a splendid opportunity to advance our medical knowledge and to establish social contacts. It hol-ds monthly meetings, in our College Library, at which topics of general medical interest are very ably discussed. Speakers include most of the faculty members of our school, and prominent men from the outside. After the lectures and their discussions, collations are served, and informal groups of our professors discuss the ways of life. While primarily it is an organization of practicing physicians, students are always welcome to attend, and-incidentally-we are always given a hearty reception by our faculty members. Medical students are proverbially addicted to the extravagant use of midnight oil. But, even as students, we all realize that we can spare time for anything that will further our career. The monthly meetings of the County Homoeopathic Society offers this advancement. To the knowledge of modern medicine that we gain, there is offered the additional opportunity of learning the realities and difficulties of every- day practice, and also the chance to meet our Professors on a plane of equality. l l 1 Two hundred twenty seven