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

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FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION So alike, and yet so very different. That was the first issue presented to us as we began our careers in osteopathic medicine. Changes were needed in the way that a problem was approached and conceptualized. A need to focus attention to specifics in a mind so used to appreciating the general, describes the feat that the faculty had to accomplish. Values were not threatened, just altered a bit in order to create a system of thought that is capable of separating the necessary from the superfluous. Liberalization was the goal of the under-graduate college. Familiarity with a scope of ideas and feelings that ranged from Archimedes to Pirandello was acquired. Achieved was the ability to respect the differences, rather than acclaim conformity. Worth was determined by appraisal of an idea within the structure of the time period and location, not by its degree of consonance with our own. The faculty was presented a collection of students confident in their ability to produce, but, uncertain to what it was that they were to deal with. Marriage of a science to an art is almost contradictory. Where was the thrust of concentration to be placed: on the facts that are sure to change in the next few years; or on the ability to rely on results that are seemingly unexplainable? That solution was never attempted. The faculty decided that the best care to the patient is delivered by a practitioner who commands as much factual information as possible, but, is delivered in a fashion that translates one ' s humanity. The latter is left to us to extract from our mentors and ourselves.

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1900 - 1976 FREDERIC H. BARTH Chancellor It couldn ' t be more appropriate to memorialize DR. FRE- DERIC H. BARTH on page 18. The number 18 is re- presented in the Hebrew language as Chai . A term closely associated with Chaim — meaning Life . And so it is to be that Dr. Barth be remembered as bringing LIFE to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Barth had been active on the board of trustees of the college since 1948 and served as chief executive officer from June 1957 to June 1974, when he was appointed chancellor. Through his guidance and leadership, the college purch- ased the 16-acre Moss estate at City Ave. and Monument Road in 1957. The expansion program at this site has made PCOM the ninth largest medical college in the United States, with an enrollment of 818. During Dr. Barth ' s administration, health-care out-reach programs were inaugurated in the Philadelphia area as well as at a rural health-care center in Sullivan County, Pa. Dr. Barth was a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science and served as chairman of the college ' s committee on faculty and curriculum and as chairman of the educational committee. He was also a former president of Textile ' s Aluini Association. (3)n (iMemortcim His honorary degrees include the doctor of science degree from PCOM in 1951 and doctor of laws degree from the Des Moines College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in 1956. Dr. Barth was a member of the board of education in Philadelphia from 1957 to 1965. He served as acting postmaster of Philadelphia under an appointment by President Eisenhower from July 1959 to Jan- uary 1961. Dr. Barth served on the Technical Committee on Govern- ment and Nongovernment Organization of the White House Conference on Aging in 1970. In 1971 he was appointed by President Nixon to membership in the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, and at- tended sessions in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a former president and treasurer to the Mercer Rubber Co. of New York, and president of Fifer Beattv, Inc., a hardware supply firm; and Hainesworth Supply Co., a building maintenance supply house. He also held several patents for textile equipment. Dr. Barth received the O.J. Snyder Memorial Award, PCOM ' s Highest honor, and the St. George Medal of St. George ' s United Methodist Church. Also, the American Osteopathic Association ' s Distin- guished Service Certificate, and the Psi Sigma Alpha Award from the National Osteopathic Scholastic Honor Society. Dr. Barth was a member of Delta Kappa Phi Fraternity, the Union League, Engineer ' s Club, Capitol Hill Club, Pennsvl- vania Society,. Rotary Club, American Osteopathic Associa- tion, Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association, Ameri- can Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, VarieU ' Club, 21 Jewel Square Club, Histadrudt, and St. Katherine of Siena Roman Catholic Church, Torresdale. He was also a board member of the Universit ' City Sci- ence Center and served as president of the American Associ- ation of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine from 1969-70. Most of all, Dr. Barth was the leader of the PCOM familv. n

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ADMINISTRATION A. ARCHIE FEINSTEIN, D.O. Assistant Dean for Clinical Training CAROL A. FOX, B.A. Director of Admissions and Student Affairs SPENCER G. BRADFORD, D.O. Assistant Dean for Basic Sciences Director of Continuing Medical Education ) SOPHIA F. BARTH, B.S., M.S. in Ed. Dean of Women