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

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Class of 1950 SOMERVILLE, WILLIAM A., JR. New York City, N. Y. Muhlenberg College, A.B. THALER, ABRAHAM Bayonne, N. J. College of the City of New York, B.S iTtn ' FASTER I „ ,, r-Tm II hMur Up WAKELING, ROBERT W. Reading, Mass. Duke University, A.B. WILSON, C. EUGENE Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. Colgate University

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Junior Class History Three years at P. CO. for the Junior Class has been analogous to being married — our lives have revolved around our wife, we ' ve worked for her during the day, and took ourwork to sleep with us at night. So true is this analogy that many of the real wives of the married men have displayed minor twinges of jealousy at the almost full-time attention paid to this other wife. Our history may be thought of in three phases: PHASE OF ADJUSTMENT: At the opening exercises Dr. William Baldwin welcomed us — You are taking a new master, a very demanding one, one you cannot take or leave as the mood suits you, but rather one that you must serve the rest of your life if you are sincere in your presence here today. There was no doubt of this as the Freshman year ground on, and a voluminous amount of anatomy, chemistry, physiology, parasitology, embryology, histology, bacteriology, et al was received, assimilated and absorbed. Flashes of scenes of then might be recalled — Dr. Lessig with his cement mixer; Dr. Harris ' lecture on abnormal sex; the descent of the testes from N. J. to N. Y. through the Holland Tunnel; snapper soup by McCallister ' s at the Freshman banquet, which Dr. Dressier sponsored, and the polished show the class presented; conceiving the Freshman dance, but never delivering it. It was a good year and will be spoken of with fondness at class reunions. PHASE OF TAKING A DEEP BREATH AND PLUNGING ON: Now the Sophomore year, that the class ahead warned would separate the men from the boys, interrupted the summer with portents of a fall. There was a feeling that at last we were going someplace dissection, pathology, neuroanatomy, osteopathic therapeutics and principles — our first formal introduction — pharmacology, physical diagnosis, et al. Order one soft spot each for — George the cadaver; Harvey the cat; hard-nosed exams; the Calamus scriptorius; the supreme artery; stained underclothes, tracing tracings; soft tissue; diagnosing Loewenberg. They were all there in the Sophomore year. There, too, was our first contact, in blood lab, with the omnipercipient patient, who saw our nervousness our dull lancet, our repeated punctures, our inexperience, but who tolerated it, bless him. The least that can be said for us is, The Class of ' 51 never lost a patient in blood lab!