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

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seven weeks left until exams, the first early birds were out looking for worms. Now dawned the day of reckoning. With combine notes sorted out, at last we settled down to study our 32 courses for the 52 or so exams scheduled. QNO one has ever determined accurately exarlly how many exams there are in junior yearj. We were almost too busy to notice the passage of the first peacetime draft act in U. S. history, although we'd Probably all be affected eventually. After much acrimonious debate, Congress also passed the European Recovery Act, popularly known as the Marshall Plan, It was around then that people began to see the flying saucers. We felt like little men trapped on the island of Park Avenue as exams flew by us on all sides, leaving us alive and well, but unable to figure out how or why. Finally on june 4th, having been soundly buffed from E. N. T. to Proctology, exams ended. We dragged our- selves to the Senior Ball simply because we'd' already paid for tickets and then slunk off home to try to pre- pare for our two remaining National Boards which came in two weeks. The Boards were an anti-climax, being only two in number and a whole day apart. We did our best and then, much relieved, went home for the last three-month vacation most of us would ever have. ARTY SHEARN, Bernie Batt, B. B. Blackman, Abe Yahia and Bernie Levowitz went to Otis- ville to study chest diseases. Bob Massonneau, Joe Voy- tek, Harold Nelson and other Army boys did some drilling in the hot Texas sun. Ralph Pike took a trip 1 l I to Mexico and California and P, C. Zanger bandaged cuts and bruises at the Boy Scout Ten Mile River Camp.. World events moved forward in great strides that summer. Thomas E. Dewey and Harry S. Truman were nominated to run for the presidency and the Berlin blockade with its now famous air l.ift began late in june. In September, the class met briefly at registra- tion to exchange stories and pick up schedules then silently melted away to hospitals in the five boroughs of New York and overseas to New Jersey. To exotic inaccessible places like City Hospital where Dr. Hirshchorn is said to have done rectal autopsies in his interne years, to the Met with its famous Acid Fast Cafe, to Morrisania in the beautiful Bronx, to improbable places on Public Health like Consolidated Edison and R. H. Macy's, to Willard Parker for con- tagious diseases and to scenic Hudson County for Ob- stetrics at Margaret Hague we journeyed. What with the new ten-cent subway and seven-cent bus fares, senior year became quite an expensive proposition. That year we worked up our own cases, legitimately. Bob Richmond successfully diagnosed a case of aplastic anemia in spite of the opposition of almost the entire F. F. A. house staff. Doug Ford and Mort Goldfarb ran a whole surgical ward at City, all of us lanced boils and prescribed diets in preparation for things to come. October 15th, the internship applications went out. Hospital exams turned up lulu questions like the level of Strontium in spinal fluid and the amount of potas- sium in a quart of boiled milk. Then came November 15th, the day of revelation and we realized with mixed emotions that the end of our formal medical education was in sight. With Joe Root going back to Orange, Calif., Bill Bradley to Tacoma, Wash., john Egan, Houston, Texas, Stu Weiss, New Orleans, La., Vince Navarre to Milwaukee, Wis., and Burt Covert to Port- land, Maine, it seemed that the class would scatter to the four winds whence it came. - In November, jim Bowes' Carnival Committee whipped up a great Gold Rush Days display. Most everyone turned up as a cowpuncher or can can artiste to help put the Student Loan Fund over the top. Rafliing off a Ford '49er proved by far the most successful money raising stunt tried yet. Al Beyer spent the best two bits of his life when he bought the winning ticket and rode home in the new car with a 33300 scholarship in his pocket. Also in November came the most surprising election in the memory of living man when Truman defeated Dewey and the Democrats regained control of both House and Senate. Babe Ruth died and Al Capp's

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HENRY G. REINHARDT St. Vincents Hospital Phi Chi, Contin 4. Dartmouth College A.B. ROBERT RICHMOND 47 Maplewood Ave., Milford, Conn. Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana Basketball 2, 35 AKK 3, 4. University of Connecticut VIRGINIA MARIE ROONEY 3440 92nd St., jackson Heights, N. Y. St. Vincents Hospital shmoos were the rage of smart societ Dizz Gil Y- Y ' lespie and Be Bop reached New York and the A. M. A. levied a 31325 tax on all its members to fight the pro- posed national health insurance plan. Children's Christmas Toys 2, 3, Alpha Epsilon Iota 3, 4. D'Youville College i l