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

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LONG ISLAND COLLEGE OF MEDICINE BROOKLYN, NEW Yomt Office of the President January 9, 1931 To tbr- Sludenfs of the Long Island College of Medicine The circumstances under which I write my message to the students for this year are entirely different from those under which I addressed my letter one year ago. During this brief space of time momentous and epoch making changes have taken place. On the twentieth of June last the Board of Trustees of the newly incorporated Long Island College of Medicine held its first official meeting. At that time the Long Island College Hospital Medical School was transferred to a new institution designated the Long Island College of Medicine. Hence we are taking part in the first year of the new institution, although virtually it is seventy-two years old. The students of the college have not at the present moment recognized any extraordinary change in the institution of which they are members. It is true that you are witnessing the erection of a new laboratory building, the money for which was provided by one of your re- spected professors, as a much needed addition to the equipment of the hospital as well as the Long Island College of Medicine. Because of these changes there is in prospect close association with the most important hospitals in Brooklyn which will be added to the clinical facilities of the institution for the students as well as for the aid and help of the other hospitals concerned. I can therefore state that because of these circumstances which are unique and are most important as bearing upon the welfare of the institution, you are to be congra- tulated, especially as the college with which you are connected has such high standing in the field of medical education. All of this means that the students should show their appreciation of these momentous changes by giving themselves most fully to the study in preparation for their career in the field of medicine, but also with a spirit of consecration which is always called for on the part of those who are looking forward to being physicians in care of the sick. May I express my best wishes for a successful year for those who are now members and students in the Long Island College of Medicine? Very sincerely yours fSignedj JAMES C. EGBERT President F211