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

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ing it over. The Navy boys appeared in civvies and Dr. Stark appeared ready to give a final exam in Histology. The schedule changed and we began to concentrate on Physiology. Dr. Cope's Varsities made their letters, and MURRAY LEWIS DORFMAN 5568 Lebanon Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia Phi Delta Epsilon 1, 2, 5, 4. Haverford College ROBERT THOMAS DUNN 1 Laurel Dr., Packanack Lake, N. J. St. Vincents Hospital AKK 2, 5, 4. Duke University 4 JOHN F. EGAN P. O. Box 414, Port Chester, N. Y. Baylor University Hospital, Dallas, Texas Class Treasurer 1, AKK 1, 2, 3, 4g Hobby Show 2, Carnival Committee 1, 2, 3, 4. Baldwin-Wallace College B.S. 1 E

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SHIRLEY ANN COLLINS 6 Lexington Rd., W. Hartford, Conn. Flower Fifth Ave. Hospital Alpha Epsilon Iota 3, 4, Senior Ball Committee 1, Glee Club 2, Carnival Committee 1, 2, Hobby Show Committee 2. Cornell University B.A. BURTON COVERT 11 Lyons Place, Larchmont, N. Y. Central Main General Hospital AKK 2, 3, 4, Hobby Show Assistant Chairman 2, Chairman 3, Class Treasurer 2, Intramural Base- - ball 1, 2, 3, 4, Glee Club 1, 2. Cornell University Columbia University JOHN H. DOHERTY 717 South Fifth Ave., Mount Vernon, N. Y. St. Vincents Hospital a peaceful world and an advanced freshman in medical school. In january the snows and rains came. Several men had resigned during the vacation and more were think- AKK 1, 2, 3, 4, Contin Society 4, Newman Club 2, 3, 4, Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4, Softball 1, 2, 3, 4. College of the Holy Cross

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the famous heart machine that did everything but fall in love was demonstrated. Dr. Hayner retreated into the fastness of the seventh floor sanctus sanctorum to roll his Bull Durham in peace, leaving us to the tender mercies of Dr. Woerner and his scapulae, Dr. Evans' music, anthropology and King Charles, Harry Truman was voted the Man of the Year by Time Magazine and advertisements for the sale of tele- vision sets began to appear in newspapers and maga- zines. We were deep in the grind and worried, despite Dr. Evans' Next year you'll all be Sophomores. Mr. Capps lectured on the G. I. tract and everyone rushed home to look up Dragstedt's Vagotomy which Leo Nolan had read about it in a recent journal. Mr. Gay's secretaries became ever more overpowering and con- servatives estimate that 40 man hours of work were lost each time one walked into the room. Neuroanatomy was Dr. Benjamin's forte. We bent along the neural tube with him and came up with a Jacob's Ladder of scotch taped placards representing the human central nervous system in four colors. Meat was very scarce late that winter and the Hos- pital cafeteria served eggs, hash, fish and eggs. Conse- quently the rush to volunteer for Dr. O'Donohoe's high protein diet with steaks provided, turned into a minor Calgary stampede. In those days, Mulvilhill was chunkier than now so that he received a unanimous mandate from the people for the starvation diet. About all we proved from that deal was that urine came from glomerular filtrate, produced in kidneys owned by people. By the end of March we found ourselves completely reconverted to peacetime usage after the Army boys returned from final shots and mustering out at Fort Dix. Soon afterward more men left school, leaving only about 115 at the end of the month. By this time Dr. Liedke's smoose muzzle was a thing of the past and as winter thawed into spring, we had time to notice the first Kaiser Frazer automobiles on the streets. We tried to get tickets for Laurence Olivier's Old Vic Company which was going to present Shakespeare at the Center Theater. Jane Russell in The Outlaw was finally showing at the Gotham and Aneurin Bevan, British Minister of Health, announced to Parliament and the world his womb to tomb health plan. Because the semester had been lengthened a month by reconversion to a 4-year program the work began to drag. Some of us even began to read the journals and noted the announcement of Blalock and Taussig's first cardiac shunt operation. As we carved into the pickled brains in Anatomy we guffawed, as have all freshman classes since Paracelsus, at the fecal impac- tions of the Circle of Willis gag. Easter passed with a full awakening of spring and a sudden awareness of approaching final exams. It was a hungry spring, living on Veteran Administration promises, but pleasant. A few Monday morning exams were skipped and we began to look forward to the far- off Junior day when there would be no scheduled quizzes. But in the meantime there was a class party to plan for. Can You Beat It, a sequel to As You Like It, was written by Myrt Beeler, directed by Chollie Schwartz, starred Joe Smith and featured the finest players ever to stride the boards and wear the buskin. Dr. Stark attended and loved it, but it was not until we returned as older and wiser Sophomores that we learned this had been the last class party she would attend. , In the midst of the first great nationwide railroad strike, final exams came. In true democratic fashion the class scheduled them over a period of two weeks and beat a hasty retreat to the books. Physiology, Neuro- anatomy, Biochemistry, then last but certainly not least, Anatomy, and the ordeal was over. The sun came out, the tears dried, the trains ran on time and everyone went home to wait, hoping to live happily ever after. HE summer passed like a Fifth Ave. bus at rush hour. The Navy had blown up Bikini Lagoon that july and Secretary of State Jim Byrnes had initiated the get tough with Russia policy. We discovered that Dr. Evans had not been altogether correct in saying we'd all be sophomores. Some 22 of us weren't. Bill Woodward, Murray Dorfman, Doug Ford and Ned Goodrich pioneered the newly opened North