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

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was thrown back in confusion with, You have my HENRY KEDERSHA 1011 Clinton Ave., Irvington, N. J. Newark City Hospital Rutgers University EDWARD KUSHNER 280 Riverside Dr., New York, N. Y. Bronx Hospital Phi Delta Epsilon 3, 4. University of Nebraska MARGARET LATOURRETTE 114 Morsemere Ave., Yonkers, N. Y. Yonkers General Hospital Alpha Epsilon Iota 3, 4, I. F. C. 1, 4, Dance Committee 4, Hobby Show Committee 3. Barnard College personal permission to use any book in the library to answer your question, Doctor. During the second half of Sophomore year came our

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' 1 MERLE RAYMOND INGRAHAM 36 Leyden Rd., Greenfield, Mass. Worcester City Hospital, Worcester, Mass Phi Chi 3, 4, Carnival 4. Princeton University HAROLD KAPLAN 375 Riverside Dr., New York, N. Y. jewish Hospital of Brooklyn Phi Delta Epsilon 3, 4. New York University Columbia University GERALD KAPLAN 375 Riverside Dr., New York, N. Y. Loeffler, whose custom had always been to use the front row, beat a hasty retreat to the relative safety of the fourth after suffering severe losses in the earlier en- counters. Myrt Beeler, attempting to counterattack, 40 Beth Israel Hospital, Newark, N. J. A Phi Delta Epsilon 4. Louisiana State University

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first contact with the clinical subjects such as Minor Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Psychiatry and Clinical Pathology. It was then that Francis David Superman Speer came into our lives. If all the pencils worn out in Dr. Speer's exams were linked end to end, they'd form a chain six times around Murray fsee me laterj Dorfman. Standard textbooks for the course were Kol- mer's Clinical Diagnosis and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Why, we have a marvelous laboratory here, Doctor, was a dictum pronounced to sophomores and proved all too graphically to rueful seniors two years later. For physical diagnosis we made our first trip to the Met. Dr. Leinoff, fresh from the Army, Dr. Elias and his magic fingers and Dr. Violin had lectured on the subject but confrontation of the patient was something else again. Al Fineman spent his first morning getting name, address and phone number, while rumor has it that George Meyer spent the first morning trying to say Hello. Nevertheless, by working in pairs to bolster our morale, we did manage to complete one good his- tory and physical that semester, probably the best one that patient ever had. As the snow began to melt, General George Mar- shall came home from China to become Secretary of State. Television was becoming the big attraction at the House of Murphy and Dire! in lbe S1111 was the picture to be seen down on 86th St. The U. S. P. H. S. started its BCG inoculation program, the first in America. Parasitology started in March. We began to wear shoes all the time and to eat our pork chops well done down at Joe's on Third Ave. And where we had only been annoyed by the cockroaches in our East Harlem apartments, we now began to worry about them. When the swallows came back to Capistrano, Dr. Lehr returned to lecture on antibiotics and chemother- apy. We felt let in on the ground floor, for in those days, the sulfa combinations were just beginning to attract widespread attention. When the various drug firms suddenly blossomed into a rash of combasul preparations the following year, we realized just how far advanced our lectures had been. Of Bacitracin, Dick Tracin and Suicidin, little more need be said. . 4 j ' . Later in the spring, the Truman Doctrine on Greece and Turkey was proclaimed. Little noticed in the fever heat of final exams was the description read at Harvard by Secretary Marshall of his plan to reconstruct and rehabilitate the nations of Europe. Our own final exams were the logical conclusion to a hectic sophomore year. It had been a year jam packed full of necessary pre-clinical information and now in a short two-week period, we were called upon to re- produce most of it for a final grade. It was an over- whelming task, probably the most strenuous in our medical career and left us all so exhausted that we were perfectly happy to let Part I of the National Boards lapse until our return to school in the fall. HAT summer we fiddled while Rome burned, re- fusing steadfastly to recognize impending Septem- ber with its National Boards. But I've still got six weeks to study reduced itself to the absurdity of, If I get a seat on the subway I can run over Physiology on the way to school, otherwise I'll throw the bull. Unfor- tunately, the subway was crowded and the bull threw too many, for over 602, of the class failed at least one exam. To every action there is an equal and opposite re- action. With Boards over, our fancy lightly turned to thoughts of loaf. Bill Woodward started the renais- sance of battleships, a game of skill and chance. Abe Yahia continued his correspondence course in art and art appreciationg Marty Shearn and Bernie Batt invented written charadesf' Rita Foley and Rose Ellis started the '.'Back Row Women's Bridge and Mah Jong Club and all settled down to a pleasant non-strenuous ride through the junior year. In October, class politics reared its ugly head. After considerable acrimonious electioneering and debate, the class, voting along strict party lines, reelected P. C. Zanger for a third term. George Pelebecky, the H. S. Truman of his time, became Vice President, Hal Nel- son and joe Root, Ruth Strang and Rita Foley were elected senators, secretary, and treasurer in that order, respectively.