Ohio State University College of Medicine - Caducean Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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TABLE GF CQNTENTS PAGE Senior Poll .................. . 8 Senior Medical Students ..... .... 1 4 Junior Medical Students ........ .... 6 2 Sophomore Medical Students ....... .... 7 8 Freshman Medical Students ...... .... 8 5 Dean Charles A. Doan's Message .... .... 5 0 Clinical Faculty .......................... .... 6 4 Pre-Clinical Faculty ........ .... 8 0 Fraternities .................. .... 8 9 Senior Nursing Students ..... .... 1 O6 ,lunior Nursing Students ..... ..... 1 34 Sophomore Nursing Students 136 Freshman Nursing Students ........... .... 1 38 Dean Mildred E. Newton's Message .... ....... 1 29 Nursing Services .... ,.... 1 50 Ancillary Services ...................... .... 1 43 The Ohio Tuberculosis Hospital ...... ......, 1 52 The Columbus Receiving Hospital ...... ,... 1 54 Caducean Staff ............................. ,,,.,,, 1 56 Advertisements ,,,,,, , 160

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ix PREFACE The Caducearz is in a transition period this year. It is now neither a yearbook strictly for medical students, nor does it sufficiently represent all the departments in and around the hospitals to be called a yearbook of the University Health Center. Its logical progression, of course, is to the latter end. Its budgetary demands have increased substantially as have the sacri- fices imposed on its staff in order to publish it. Its only function is to tell a story, the story of those who entered the schools of this medical center. If it has in any measure done so, our efforts are repaid.

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r,-,.Y,.-,g . nesffqa- V -- ls . . .. QUESTIQIN 0F THE YEAR Eight the class poll In years past a graduating class of 75 could be discussed familiarly and jok- ingly: there were class jokes and class personalities and class asses and everybody knew it-hem. With the advent of a doubled enrollment students didn't stop being students, but we lost track of the other section because we were fighting to stay in our own, at least during the pre-clinical years. The jokes were still there-like the time a hapless student chose ex-actly the wrong moment to rid himself of a little bothersome flatulence during Legal Medicine 733 and it came out clearly audible- and so were the personalities such as the one who spent a timed hour mapping out sensory deficits in the pectoral regions of a particularly well-endowed patient who had entered for an elective hemorrhoidectomy, but the stories never reached the Wide circulation they should have enjoyed. And the personality of the Class of 1955 by this lack of communication was never well defined. We decided early in the planning of this book that a poll of the seniors was a good way to find out about ourselves. A questionnaire was drafted, mimeogriaphed and distributed. 110 of the 135 seniors returned the poll, roughly an 8002 response and sufficient to assure some validity. Any conclusions reached here are obviously applicable only to those returning the poll. The only truly valid conclusion about the Class of 1955 is that it is uniformly composed of individualists however conformist they appear in the classroom or on the ward. On questions that allowed the pollee some variation in response there were invariably dozens of different answers. If it is true that the las-t geographical frontier has been passed, then it is none the less valid that some of the remaining pioneers in spirit have entered the field of medicine by natural selection.