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

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IQ PROFESSOR AND FRIEND 5 5 HAVE LIVED wth three generations in my associations with the Long Island College Hos- pital and the Long Island College of Medicine, with the pioneers of the Nineteenth Century- the history makers, with the succeeding generation who accepted these theories, correlated and put them into practice in teaching and clinical application and with the oncoming group who will still further classify, clarify and extend these teachings by research and clinical investigation and open new fields of medicine. The rather slipshod general attitude of forty years ago has given way to teaching methods for the under- graduate body which insure, at the completion of the four year course, a far better fundamental understand- ing than could possibly be acquired from years of general practice. Medicine during this period has without doubt Houn- dered considerably and is still under scrutiny but, in my opinion, it is gradually finding itself.

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'xl- DIC CHARLES WALDO STICKLE Professor of CTNLLARYNGOLOGY and Chairman of Tl-IE BOARD OF ADMISSIONS THE CLASS OF A1937 Respectfully Dedicates This Volume of LICHONIAN.

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LICHONIAN Eight The outstanding change which has taken place during this period is the definite separation of the college and the hospital which has allowed an unat- tached college administration to devote itself entirely to the interests of the educational problem. Next in line is the construction of the Polak labratory, a complete unit which was sorely needed. The completion of the L. I. C. H. building added considerably to the clinical material available. One of the most important changes is the affiliation with the County Hospital which places 500 additional beds at our disposal for clinical teaching. The Long Island College of Medicine has, in twenty years, emerged from a place in which to listen to didactic lectures on medicine, with hardly any oppor- tunity for contact with practical applications, to an institution in which every student has an opportunity to not only visualize but to take a personal part in the examination, diagnosis and treatment of all phases of medicine and surgery. While not a graduate of the Long Island College of Medicine, I am proud to have been associated with it for so many years. I have seen about 3500 stu- dents come and go. Among these have been many who have reached distinc- tion and, I am sure, but few who have not added to its prestige and to the public welfare. To those who have reached the zenith of their power and must lay down the active participation of administration I am sure the student body may look for encouragement, guidance and cooperation. The future belongs to the younger handsg I am sure you can safely trust them. What is most needed is the loyal and active cooperation of the alumni body. Through this medium it is possible to secure funds for still greater expansion of our educational facilities for the use of those to come. No graduate need be ashamed of his Alma Mater. There is no institution in the world that during the same period can boast of producing better doctors and better men. CHARLES WALDO STICKLE, M.D.