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

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H. WALTER EVANS, D.O., M.Sc, F.A.C.O.O.G. Corporation Secretary VICTOR R. FISHER, D.O., M.Sc, F.A.C.O.I. Director, Postgraduate Studies Officers of the Administration THOMAS M. ROWLAND, JR., B.S Director of Admissions, Registrar JOHN DE ANGELIS, B.C.S., M.C.S. C.P.A. Comptroller MARGUERITE ARCHER Assistant Registrar

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Dean SHERWOOD R. MERCER A.B., M.A., LL.D. Dean, Philadelphia College of Osteopathy TO THE CLASS OF 1958: In many ways the physician as an individual finds himself in a position not unlike that of a university in American society. Dr. Howard Mumford Jones writes of the latter, thusly: Our noisy and pleasant activities on the campus fill the ear with sound, but at the heart of the univer- sity there should always be a zone of silence . . . , where our best men can discover truth, preserve it, and diffuse it, not as a service but as an idea. That is the core of the university concept, and if we lose it, we lose everything. Can we some- how at once combine and separate the two aspects of American university life — the day-to-day ser- viceability to the state . . . , and the protection of man thinking in the light of time and eternity? Can we somehow combine and separate in one physician the service to the patient and the doctor thinking in the light of time and etern- ity? This is the task of each physician. His life of service and his life of contemplation must somehow harmoniously and vigorously exist simul- taneously in him. The members of the Class of 1958 are now beginning their careers as osteopathic physicians. The quality of the life of each, when the time for the final summing up comes, will be judged largely on how well each has mastered his performance in his life of service and his life of thought. You have been well prepared. You have the. cordial best wishes and quiet prayers of the men and women who have taught you, for a happy life of service and thought as osteopathic physicians. Sherwood R. Mercer Dean

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