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

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IN JOHN KEVIN BERTLES St. Iohn,s University, B.S. May 4, 1942 - November 30, 1964 MEMGRIAM JAMES EDWARD HUXTABLE Utica College of Syracuse University, A.B. july 4, 1935 - Iune 6, 1966 BENJAMIN HARRIS SUM Lafayette College, A.B. December 13, 1941 - August 23, 1964 115 1

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sw-trsg5,N,Q!,5 FRANCIS XAVIER WALSH College of the Holy Cross, B.A. Dean's List 3, Class President l,2,3,4g Student Senate 1,2, V-P. 3, Pres. 4, Senior Ball Commit- tee l,2,3,4, FLEUR-O-SCOPE 1,2,3, Alpha Kappa Kappa, Rush Chm. 2, V-P. 3, Class Show 2, Fr. Dance Chm. Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, Conn. E STUART LOUIS WANUCK Fairleigh Dickinson University, B.S. Mount Sinai Hospital, Miami Beach, Fla. JOSEPH MAURICE ZICARELLI Villanova University, B.A. Staten Island Hospital, Staten Island, N .Y. RAYMOND ZUKERMAN Hobart College, B.A. University of Brussels, Belgium, Faculty of Medicine Deanls List 3 Mount Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, Calif

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SENIOR CLASS Companionship iving for four years -prolonged gestation-only now being born. A growing process -maturing, hopefully - but aging just the same. About to emerge - multifaced - enigmatic expressions mir- ror the uncertainty of the future. The protected, mother-warmed, structured environment sheltering the fertilized and developing embryo has all but fallen away. Here now stands the product - virtually naked - sup- posedly germ-free but certainly germinal, quite suscepti- ble to the whims of the new life - ready to be tested by those who have long since made the journey into being. He contemplates his past, his years of growth and de- velopment - shivers at the thought of prior trials - smiles over the triumphs - failures displease but strengthen him. He holds out his ideals as a spearhead. The noblest profession - he is only now beginning to wonder at its abounding greatness -the power he will wield - the awe he will engender - but always aware of his basic finiteness in the infinite universe - how he must atune himself to nature to work with it, to heal, and, when necssary, to grapple with it when destruction is its aim. Responsibility - a fellow being will entrust him with life -incredible challenge - to meet, to decipher the un- known, to assemble the jigsaw of a thousand varied shapes, no two alike, to arrive at the answer - this is the goal. The success, hopefully, will outweigh the failure. The frustration not impede him. There is no room for the Pyrrhic victory here. But amid this serious contemplation the frivolous past President ...,..,,.... ...... F rancis X. Walsh Vice-President ..,.,.. .,..,.... N icholas R. Breyan Senator ............ .,.......... C . Gene Cayten Senator ......... ...... S tephen H. Marcus Secretary ......... ......,... K aren G. Koster Treasurer ..,,.... .......,,. A lan S. Feit is there - orgiastic possibly -mindless and, by contrast, carefree. Here, poised on the brink of being four years within, the womb beckon to be remembered. The first day we were still floating free, but we were not long in receiving the dictum -never get behind in your yord-the work of burrowing into the enriched medium - to latch onto extract nutrient knowledge and to grow. With an avid appetite of our own we eagerly accepted what was fed us. We saluted a whale of a source of knowledge and called him a good guy. We marvelled at the master of blunt dissection and felt honored if he,d measure the various dimensions of our hands. In spite of the early warnings by the powers that be, we were soon behind in our work. VVho could forget those long awaited, highly feared shot-gunv quizzes in neuroanatomy which never were given. Was he too busy? Did he think we were too smart or lamentably, too dull to merit the quiz? Or, did this quiz exist at all? Was it all a hoax designed to instill fear into the timid soul of the unknowing? A dead body-by some cavalierly treated-named and defamed-bits and pieces preserved for posterity. For some it was the first encounter with the opposite sex in the altogether.', Soon it became an object- de- humanized. This helped the strong empathizers in the group. Operating on a live patient, albeit a dog, gave Mr. Amory fits but delighted us. Those who would excel in vascular surgery were quickly selected, and those who