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

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' - 'ax 25.35, Kool: Two METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL AND WELFARE ISLAND DISPENSARY HE College maintains exclusive teaching facilities and staiiing privileges in this 1,050 bed hospital. The Out- patient department, located at 535 East 80th Street, was placed in use in the summer of 1940, and affords students the oppor- tunity of clinic work in all the medical and surgical specialties. Originally situated on Ward's Island, a location occupied by the British Troops in the Revolutionary War, the hospital was transferred to Blackwell's Island in 1894. In 1921, New York's Mayor Hylan, taking the suggestion of Commissioner Coler, changed the name of the location to Welfare Island. During the past fiscal year there were 5,191 ambulance calls, 94,900 visits made to the Out-patient Department, and 124,764 hospital admissions. F3 If Q ,iv ,,u9 1-vf',', Ma I X E. I 'til ,MSM ll ?1i--fd --'.fT f1,., .-. 1 A 735-:Hwy F ll m5 ' . ' - -' A -- , ir ,Ry .4 .-, ,uw ,dx W V I U W .L 1f,35:,'.f,,.-..1. , ..w,...-gfaw : -.gf I ' A z, -1 I PM IIEIIIMI :f fl-Ii Hyllllli , 'iiyilsiqiv - -4,5 ly ' 5. 21 1' W willlqll,-121135 '.E -'f?2g,':4f,,',q41,-4-Jie, Sf -is --il, A' 1' -A -gpg. JW-'1I:',rTl1.I' 1. P I r,:,,,1--I-gaxltif. JU' .Ili 'll' ll' ll f 'n 'pl I-T f,,'i1 : I-lr ww. till: 15.15111 elwlll ll A -me '. ' YW -l' I :3 .1 Z ' -.I-L57 - 3 ' :l,, E' - Ijllgfj, 13 ,-1' 2.1- 1' .A 1 5' mill! ,fl gp 5,1 'ily , 1 in---R -lip 5 1, -, L' ,'f m.e.w.r: -.W '.- gui' it 'lf A .A ...wr tilt- . ' A i i. f. I Y H. il- -:if 'V 'zW.'.Ql l Q- 'l1 .I5'll r,sf.E .'l ..,'. fpllirll I I WL- 1 imltazll,'.1i1:f:'5il:f1I-:4::.--I .. fll ' l ' l J 'l if lif- ,lxw ww an ring, I.l -I-Qf.1..ls'L74yEilltl , -1 --- ' f , - 7 '-'ff ,tiff fj'1i2fF? 3-51' --125 -. , - if-.-, ,- :'L.. ..:' 1 -.1 1 ..- 32-4

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OFFICERS Preridenl .....,................ ......,.. L eonard Paul Wlershub, '27 14-f Vice-P1'e.ridefzf ........ .............. J ohn Herrlin, jr., '23 2114! Vice-Prerirlem ........ . ,..,..... Lawrence B. Slobody, '36 3rd Vive-Prerideul ....... ,............ J essie Labanowski, '26 Recording Secretary .......... .............. A lan R. Cantwell, '28 C0l'l'x?J'jf70Hdf7Zg Sefy. ....... ,.,......... R aymond L. Liddell, '38 Trea.rm'er ......,..... ..... ........... J . Clifford Hayner, '19 Necrologirl ............ ............. A nson H. Bingham, '00 Execnfirfe Offcer ....,... ....,..... W alter L. Mersheimer, 37 Frank J. Borrelli, '33 Milton J. Wilson, '18 Directors '............ ......... S Prague Carleton, '06 Philipp R. Schmahl, '11 joseph H. Fobes, '01 Van Alstyne H. Cornell, 'OO 14 amni HE Alumni Association of the New York Medi- cal College, Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals was founded on March 15, 1883. At that time our country was in the midst of great industrial and commercial expansion, Chester A. Arthur was the 21st president of the United States. The Brooklyn Bridge was just being completed. john Roebling, the originator of a suspen- sion bridge over the East River, sustained a crushing injury to his foot, tetanus set in, and he succumbed to the infection of which little was known at that time. His son, Wasliington Roebling, took over the work of construction. It is interesting to note that several mem- bers of the Alumni Association were associated with this project, as well as being personal physicians to the Roebling family. In 1880 Thomas Edison developed the incandescent light. This permitted further develop- ment and perfection in medical instruments. Robert Koch astonished the medical world with a paper on Etiology of Tuberculosis. In 1886 Fitz conclusively demonstrated the pathology of performing inflammation of the vermiform appendix, and in 1889 john B. Mur- Nuociation phy of Chicago, and Charles McBurney in New York, made great contributions to a better understanding of a disease to which so many people succumbed. Recent graduates and new members of the Alumni Associa- tion rarely stop to think of those momentous days when each year added many chapters to the history of medi- cine. Now there are over 2400 living graduates of our College. At the present writing there are over 900 ac- tive members-a record envied by most medical alumni associations. The objects of your Alumni Association are: 1:-To promote the interests and extend the influ- ence of the New York Medical College. 2:-To pro- mote the mutual benefit of the members, intellectually, socially and professionally. Including the ten graduates of the class of 1899 who will receive their Gold Diploma this june, there are about 82 living golden graduates of our College. As far as we know, Dr. Grosvenor S. Farmer, Watertowru, N. Y., who graduated in 1874, is our oldest grad- Hate, 98 years of age, and still going strong.

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