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

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atE3 'f' N KQV! -its-f-' T' TE ' fl -ii '1iff'1'Q'f 2? 9,-f2f?if'S -if ffm ' ,KTETTBVLYY 1 .Qllit , W . t . X 'K-... s T. s -. -it as ,e if x:!,:..Ly..' no ,jf-4' ig-lf fQ3.ffQfQg1f-'l 55: Dr. Frank L. Babbott, Jr. RANK L. BABBOTT, IR., was born in Brooklyn in 1891. He attended the Friends School until he was old enough to enter Polytechnic Preparatory School, where he prepared for Amherst College. While at Amherst, his interest in medicine was aroused, and after spending one summer vacation as a. medical vol- unteer in the Grenfell Mission on the Labrador Coast he decided to follow the pro- fession. Upon receiving his degree at Amherst, he entered the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and graduated in the Wartime class of 1918. He interned at the Brooklyn Hospital, and having been there attracted to the field of pediatrics he went to Bellevue for a six months' service in that specialty. After this he spent a year at Johns Hopkins, where Dr. John Howland assigned him to workin the pediatric dispensary and associated well baby clinics. Doctors E. A. Park and Grover F. Powers, who were then in Baltimore, left to organize the Children's Clinic in the School of Medicine at Yale and opportunity was offered to Doctor Babbott to go with them. The two years which he spent in New Haven were devoted to work in the dispensary and well baby health stations and to some labo- ratory investigation. After leaving Yale and spending some time in travel, he returned to Brooklyn in 1924 and was appointed as Associate in Pediatrics and Assistant Attending Pedia- trist in the Long Island College Hospital. Ward work and teaching, and soon innumerable white rats, kept him fairly busy. In 1926 he was advanced to the Assistant Professorship of Pediatrics and in 1927 he was appointed Assistant Dean. His interest in the administrative phases of medicine led to a major part in the reorganization of the medical school which in 1930 was granted an inde- pendent charter as the Long Island College of Medicine. The Board of Trustees of the new school elected Doctor Babbott as President to take office July 1, 1931, following the resignation of President James C. Egbert. 15 is e g w --yea El ' f -ff-1 - -- --or ffgsfese 1 C C 1 1111, , , Mesh. 1, 1 ,1 -sc c V?

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,Gill fi' lm' ,.. ..,, ,,-5 ,.. lf?'T3'-'H' 'F if p . fi' f if 'ff Tiff sf. Qi gl. 21 F221 li' -7-':9'f i 4-E'? 5- 'iiZ tf1Ei:i. 'f H X.r- if .1 , , Y V' YY g K X N-Iflxgk ,J ,, H ,-..v.lg- .V .rf JI '-5, 'N .,,1 A .5 H Y' apizp 1. soul. The medical student needs to have clearly shown him the types of personali- ties which can be helped by the general practitioner and those which need to be placed under the direction of trained and patient exponents of this advancing branch of medical practice. The duty of a medical school does not cease with the presentation of a diploma. If practicing physicians are to be kept abreast of the times, opportunities must be offered for the so-called refreshment courses. This post-graduate work consists mostly of instruction in the newer methods of diagnosis and management of types of disease. It is not intended that a few weeks of such study should prepare a man for a specialty. It is questionable whether he should even be awarded a certificate. The purpose of these courses is to lead him out of the deadly rut of routine, to rekindle his imagination, and so to enable him to practice sounder medicine. fln- formal work of this nature is not to be confused with the intensive graduate work for specialization, now conducted in many of our university schools of medicinej I am convinced that we in Brooklyn have an opportunity to train men and women for scientific care of their patients as individuals. We have not the facilities for university graduate work on a strictly academic basis. We leave to schools of that type their high task of widening the horizon of medical sciences and of stimulating youth to specialized endeavor through prolonged graduate study. There is need in society for both investigation and application, and we are well qualified by organization and heritage to do the latter. Seventy-four years ago, the Medical College of the Long Island College Hospi- tal Was dedicated to this purpose. Great have been its leaders of thought and many have been the students who there found stimulation. Time will permit mentioning only a few: Austin Flint, and Dalton, and Doremus, Skene and ,lewettg and, of fresh and helpful memory, Polakg Browning, Bartley and Vllestg McCorkle, Rush- more, Van Cott. Those and many others have given lavishly of their strength and their enthusiasm. Some have laid down their burdens yet live on in the lives of those they taught. Others have withdrawn apace from the worries and responsibili- ties of active instruction but are here today giving their benediction to this newer college. They and their un-named brothers carried the school and the hospital until such time as it became evident that other hospitals in Brooklyn and other teachers were necessary for the carrying out of the purposes of the College. Then, under the able guidance of our respected and beloved President Egbert and Dean Miller, the institution took on new raiment. It separated itself from its single hospital and has allied itself by strong bonds to several hospitals in the vicinity and to the local Medical Society. The University of the State of New York eighteen months ago approved of this change and granted a Charter to the Long Island College of Medicine, so, in the cold formality of legal procedure, this is a new institution but, in truth and in personality, it goes back for nearly three- quarters of a century. Mr. Chairman, l believe in the totality of the individual. l believe his needs must be served by the profession of Medicine. I believe in the education of men and women to that end. l believe that we have loyal trustees and friends who will support and an able Faculty which will conduct this education. l revere the memory of the great men of this College. l gratefully but humbly accept the honored position you have offered me and l pledge to it all that l have to give. 141 W- ,.-e.-3,:,4..a1..Qss.51m.,,c.n.-.p,M-:-n-4-..u-mm.n.e+u:.q 'Q 2 I V lj - -,.,,..... .. ..- Y ..:..,. --' Q-. 'V' . lA? -3- .--.Y --.---...h....w, M-.Fi-.-.-.-i.-.1 -' , lg .1 i . ., Y, , - - - x -A 1 Y 1 ......,, ...am W - - 1 , E: .ff yi - V- 1-if 1 R, f f 1 am- ,' 'TTY Qty

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. ,- , .. . . , , it A A Y 4, nigga-M-,,,, Af,-, ,,, M ,-A,-V N ,gy ., ., 2. ill: ,. Y L ,Q-5, , , . -i . 1 ,,, r ,-,AY ,Y ,, V ,Y ZW, ,Wir YYY,V YVVVV g T, Qill. mm- ,W , ,,a-YY.. :,f,-,,,-a- ,, v . y i, X ,v,,, , Y YYY Ya Hoagland Library HERE is the dust that covered the Hoagland volumes? Where, too, that mahogany periodical cabinet whose bottomless coops so often put our lum- bar muscles to their severest strain at medical school? Where, we ask, are the old chairs which creaked in protest, with the weight of a very occasional sitter? C-onel And gone are those nights when the library was inhabited by a lone student assistant who whistled, cut pages and drew diagrams on a cracked slate for amuse- ment or who, with a friend would help lift the sober pall of nocturnal solitude with song and story. In their place is the New Hoagland, with a clock that ticks an audible correct time. There are less articulate 'though more sturdy chairs, added periodical racks and a relitted Polhemus 'cReader's Table in the new wing. Almost one thousand volumes have been added in the past year, one hundred and fifty of which are text books of thc latest release and revision. The periodical section is growing steadily, while the Quarterly Cumulative Index has long outworn its decorative features, having become a much used system. Student attendance as compared with that of a leap year ago has increased tenfold and the faculty rubs shoulders with the neophyte most often in this place of catalogued learning. The restrictions of space have been moderately overcome by the addition of the new wing which was once bacteriology laboratory. These changes have not been the result of chance. They have been due to the thor- ough and foresighted efforts of Miss Edith Daly, who has been the moving force in many if not all of the improvements. She has brought a warmth and mellowness that glows from every nook of the room preserving all the while an academic dignity in the atmosphere. The feminine touch is not lacking, for here and there, potted plants of varied greens spread their leaves for nurture in welcomed sunlight. The change has been great, we who have been watching for four years have seen in the Library a growth of the new spirit which is the Long Island College of Medicine. R. M. S. 16 ..-..t,,,Qg.,fLQ.-Q.QQT,.s.fffj',! ill, yhj 4.1 , ,, ff ' 'ul-T' is if I l ,. r 2 ,f ' '-21' .1 .' U