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

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DR. FREDERIC H. BARTH, Chairman, Board of Directors ■ . Q I I) BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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Mr. T. M. Rowland, Dr. F. H. Barth, Dr. H. W. Evans, Dean S. R. Mercer, Mr. J. De Angelis.

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DR WILLIAM E. BRANDT President, ' Philadelphia College College of Osteopathy In years to come, this volume will stand on the shelves of every loyal son of PCO, Class of 1956, and hundreds of friends will see it and leaf through its pages. I know the editors have labored diligently to present in these pages a faithful record of the College as it stands, Anno Domini 1956, just past mid-century, approaching the cen- tennial of osteopathic foundation in the field of health, and with a wide vista opening up ahead. The pictures that are fresh and colorful to us today will then have taken on the glamour of the past and the aura of antiquity. I can speak from the other end of the scale, look- ing back nearly 50 years to my own year book in High School and College, and later PCO. When the work of the editors is well done, as herein, the backward glance into the past is as inspiring as the vistas which now open up ahead for the graduates of this year. Confucius said that, Man who looks back sees his mis- takes piled up like mountains. It is, therefore, not too healthy to be looking backward as an habitual procedure. It is healthy, however, to look back and assay the degree of progress made in the intervening years. It is healthy to look back and to see in the records of the past the fundamental strength that served as the springboard for the advances in the intervening years. It is healthy to draw from the records of the past the inspira- tion which caused this book to be assembled and which imbued the hearts and minds of the editorial staff and the whole class in collaboration. Mens et Manus, as our College seal puts it, the hand with the mind to guide it, does the work of osteopathic assist- ance to the body seeking health and recovery. Mind and heart and hand went to the making of this book. In recommending it to you, be you senior just graduating, or be you friend of the College interested in its output annually of trained physi- cians, I ask you to keep it and treasure it, and in the years to come check back at what is here unfolded to you and what the record of the intervening years has set down as the work and the progress contributed by these the members of the Class of 1956. PCO has had many great graduates. Its classes at the commencement season rally in greater or less numbers to the reunion bugle call of the Alumni Association. I know that when the Class of 1956 answers that call in the years to come, each member will bring back with him the treasures that he finds in his own book of memories, refreshed by the depiction of college scenes and college personalities in this the 1956 Synapsis. To the class, we of the administration, the Dean, Regis- trar Rowland, the Faculty as a whole, extends its heartiest good wishes and its complete confidence that the record of the class in its work in the world will bring to fruition and enrich the progress of the osteopathic profession wherever its mem- bers work. Four years ago they were gathered together, strangers to each other, from many States and many college campuses. As they step out the doors of the College today, they are unified by that bond that can come only to a band of men when they have worked together shoulder to shoulder through the most vital four years of their educational life. William E. Brandt H. WALTER EVANS Board Secretary DR. THEODORE W. STEIGLER Director of Clinics DR. NICHOLAS D. TRETTA Student Health Physician • . s