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

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univr N broad sunlit meadows at last, after two years of bewildered groping through dark, treacherous jungles! The never-ending pressure and worry of the first and second years gave way to a placid and care- free existence richly spiced with the variety of more than lebenty-leben clinics and some twenty-odd courses taught by an even greater number of instructors and professors who had apparently forgotten that most effec- tive stimulus to learning-the examination. Although quizzes were a rarity, conferences certainly were not, but, the self-indicting I don't know of previous years was replaced by deft evasion of the subject and substi- tution of almost revelant knowledge recalled from pre- vious years or casually gleaned from pharmaceutical blot- ters. We had become fairly conversant with medical terminology and could understand all the instructors most of the time, but some of the sophomoric confu- sion that still lingered was well demonstrated by the serious answer Dr, Freud received to his questions as to the etiology of meconium ileus in infants- XVhy, er, the baby gets it from eating meconium! Unscheduled study hours that cropped up before and after clinics, and during those not infrequent hours when instructors were too busy saving lives and mak- ing millions to come to lectures, were filled with the happy sounds of riflling bridge decks and slurping of tea room coffee. Interest in extra-curricular activities surged to a new high, whether from an actual desire to participate or whether from the less laudable desire to fill in the gap next to the yearbook pictures in the graduation issue. The midnight oil Hickered low dur- ing the social year and for many it brought a reawak- ening to the joys of feminine companionship and its questg while to others of us, already shackled, it re- vealed the gratifying fact that our wives had waited for us. DAVID PLOTKIN Prefidelzl

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The Voting Class of '50, in a turbulent class elec- tion early in the year, awarded the presidency to Dave Plotkin, the vice-presidency to Justin Scheer and named Marty Berrigan and John Lukacs its class senators. Kathy Serra became secretary and forthwith contacted most of the pharmaceutical companies with the result that we have the rather dubious pleasure of receiving their torrent of literature years before they would nor- mally have picked up our scent. Slim Somers was treasurer for the third successive year despite rumors that he was keeping double records. Little did we know what was in store when we voted to assess each member of the class five dollars for combine notes. For months we were deluged with folders of mimeographed lecture and conference notes until we searched wild-eyed for a place to keep the mounting heaps. The money was well spent, however, for it reduced the consumption of ink, the incidence of writer's cramp, and the seriousness of occasional cutting, and, certainly the original investment could easily be recovered from the sale of the notes to any junk dealer for scrap paper. Boredom was impossible with clinics every day. There we put to use the things we had learned and were learning and discovered that there was even more to learn. With mixed feelings of compassion for the pa- tient and exasperation at our inability to speak Spanish, we gleefully tapped, listened, prodded, and occasion- ally shrieked delightedly when we discovered a mur- mur or made a correct diagnosis on our own. Aside from an appreciation of the enormity of the city and a working knowledge of New York's transportation sys- tem in getting to and from the Met, Queens General, Manhattan State, and the 80th Street Clinic, the ex- perience we garnered from these visits was invaluable. Each day imprinted indelibly on our minds at least one and usually many more practical bits of informa- tion and clinical pictures that words are so inadequate to describe, Lest our successors be prematurely lulled into a dan- gerous complacency, we must add that the third year demands its share of study. The storm clouds on the horizon hold promise of ia day of reckoning more ter- rible than the finals of previous years. The opportuni- ties for observation and study were provided in abun- dance by conscientious instructors, who guided rather than pushed, and those students who availed themselves fully of all that was presented will undoubtedly reap rich rewards. It was a good year and we look forward impatiently to the senior year which, as our predecessors report, hold even more of the fascination of this won- derful thing of which we are becoming a part. Bramwell Ronald Anthony ............ Forman Theof Bailey, Jr .........,.... Paul Charles Balze ........,............... John Francis Barr ............. Doris Bate ................................................... William Frederick Bauer, Jr ........,.. Martin Robert Benjamin ...............,. Saverio Salvatore Bentivegna ..........,. Elmar Bernard Berngartt ........,. Martin Vincent Berrigan ......... Mildred Virginia G, Black .... Donald Jay Blodgett ...,............... Albert Ferdinand Bonan ............ Edward Charles Bressler ........... Lucille Leonarda Burns .............. ..... Rosemarie Adeline Cantor ..... Beverly Francis Carlyle ................................... Alfred John Casagrande, Jr ........,.... .... David Holmes Chafey ............,.. John Francis Cohane ............... N. .........INew Dorp, N. Y. ...........Asbury Park, N. J. ...................Allentown, Pa. ..........Norwich, N, Y. .............Br0oklyn, N. Y. Orange, N. J. ..............Brooklyn, N. Y. ...-..........Brooklyn, N. Y. .......................Baltimore, Md. ...........New Rochelle, N. Y. ................Neponsit, N. Y. ..............Watertown, N. Y. ..............Brooklyn, N. Y. ..................Teaneck, N. J. York, N. Y. Y. .Kew Gardens Hills, N. Y. River, N. J. ............Bay Head, N. J. ...........New Haven, Conn. Jolm Coniaris ............................ ............................ N ewark, N, J. Noel Lawrence Conrade ............. .......... R ockville Centre, N. Y. Bernard Lewis Conte ............... ........... N ew Haven, Conn. Frank K. Corbett, Jr .......... ................... S l'lClf0l'l, Conn. LeRoy Curtis ......................... ,............ P aterson, N. J. Stanley John Czepiel ...................... ,............. P aterson, N. J. Seney John B. deYoanna ............... ............................. B rooklyn, N. Y. James Matthew Dobbins, Jr. Gertrude Victoria Erikson ....... Simeon Lubell Feigin ...............,... Joseph Michael Fidanza ............. Andrew Thomas Furey ............... William Edward Gatlin ............. Jolm William Geoghegan ...... David Diego Giardina ........... Arthur Emanuel Gillman .......... John Dietrich Gossel, Jr ........... Carl Gottschalk ............................. Michael Green ........................... Hugo Joseph Gruendel ........... Thomas Paul Halky .............. Harriet Faith Hanley ............... Hillard Wheeler Himes ............ Eugene Chamberlin Hohenstein .............. Vivian Clara Hughes .............................. Ann Gibson Keill ................. Paul Joseph Kingston ............ Paul Carl Koether ............ Josef Ivan Kolenski ....... . ............... . Norman George Konicoff .............. Francis Edwin Korn, Jr ............. Long Island City, N. Y. Oakland, Calif. York, N. Y. ...............New York, N. Y. ..............Brooklyn, N. Y. ..........Bronxville, N. Y. ............Providence, R. I. ............New Haven, Conn. ...............Woodmere, N. Y. ...............New York, N. Y. York, N. Y. ..............Newark, N. J. York, N, Y. ............New Rochelle, N. Y. Indiana York, N. Y. ..............Westfield, N. J. ..............New York, N. Y. .............East Orange, N. J. ..............East Hartford, Conn. ..........New York, N. Y, ..............Brooklyn, N. Y. ..............Brooklyn, N. Y. ............Durham, Conn.