SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Iatros Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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John Osborn Polalc, M. D. OR twenty-five years his eyes have been directed toward the future while his hand and mind have dealt with the present and his heart has opened to his boys For twenty-five years he has carried the College on the crest of his fame and he has been the dynamic factor in every advance it has made. For twenty-five years he has sent his students into practice with a confidence born of his teaching. His name and that of the College are synonymous. Where Gynecology and Ob- stetrics arc practiced his name is a byword. His surgical skill is tradition and his teach- ing is the model for thousands who are emulating him. '31 graduates from the Long Island College of Medicine. Whatever the future holds for the new institution, the graduates of the old are aware of the fact that John Osborn Polak has been its supreme chief as he becomes the leader of the new college. The Long Island College of Medicine is the least of the monuments erected to him. There have been thousands of teachers, surgeons, men to whom monuments have been raised but there has been only one Polak. No monument will ever be raised to that indefineable essence which has made him what he is. No marble column can ever house the intrinsic beauty that his boys would demand for him. His greatest reward lies in an intangibility as his greatest virtues are intangible. And that. reward is the love his boys have for him. ' I E111