Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine - Synapsis Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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103(3 : l ' lliipSlS (Greetings to tljc Class of 1036 A WIDE interest and a marked enthusiasm have followed upon the an- nouncement of your College that it would require a higher standard of preliminary education commencing September 1937, and that it further would proceed to matriculate students in the future on the basis of a selection emphasizing character, personality, moral and physical fitness for professional study and certain other attributes in addition to the customary demand for credentials attesting adequacy of scholastic preparation. As a consequence of this edict pertaining to standards, there has also been issued a proclamation which calls for a Fund-Raising Program involving a goal of One Million Dollars to be obtained over a Thirteen Year Period, looking to its consummation at the time of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the College. It should be clear to all of us that these decrees, coming at this time in the life of our institutions, indicate a temperament on the part of those in charge to meet the issue of requirements and needs squarely. While the measures hold in store for all of us some degree of privation and constraint, we should suffer these with a full sense of realization that in our acts of indulgence and due humility we will the sooner better our ends and more completely fulfill the higher purposes to which our Alma Mater is committed. The magnificent College and Hospital buildings, whose facilities and oppor- tunities we enjoy at this time, were dedicated as recently as the year 1930. In the brief span of six years these notable acquisitions have been occupied to the limit of capacity and privilege. Of this, as a class which entered in the fall of 1932, you are especially aware. You have both consciously and subconsciously observed the elements of achievement, of development, of material progress being filtered into the picture of operation of these units. Thus at this signal turning-point in the history of the College, you stand to become the class of useful conversion to an improved order of things. From the experiences gained in the administration of affairs during your residency here it is to be expected that the dawn of a new era in osteopathic education may be revealed. The knowledge of the quiet, dutiful role played by you in such an unfolding may properly be taken as an index of the fine organization service that it is possible to render without any pretension whatever. It should prove a source of great satisfaction to the Class of 1936, and remain as a monument for future reflection and copy. EDGAR O. HOLDEN, A.B., D.O., Dean. May 1936. Page Sixteen

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1936 pnapsis DEAN EDGAR O. HOLDEN, A.B., D.O. Sigma Phi Epsilon Iota Tau Sigma Central High School, Philadelphia A. B. University of Pennsylvania, 1916 D. O. Phila. College of Osteopathy, 1922 Page Seventeen