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

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LONG ISLAND COLLEGE OF MEDICINE BROOIU..YN, NEW YORK OFFICE or THE PRESIDENT 25 April . 1937 Members of the Student Body: Again. I welcome the opportunity offered by the members of the Editorial Board of the 'Lichonian' to bring my greetings a d best wishes. Recently, I came across the following quotation from Seneca. From it, it is evident that he was commenting on the fashionable students of Imperial Rome, whose work was of a less vital nature than that of the students of medicine today. Yet, there is a sufficient universality of intellectual and emotional constitution to make the quotation of current interest: 'What then,' you say. 'do we not know certain men who have sat for many years at the feet of a philosopher and yet have not acquired the slightest tinge of wisdom?' Of course I know such men. There are indeed persevering gentlemen who stick at itg I do not call them pupils of the wise, but merely Usquatters.' Certain of them come to hear and not to learn. just as we are attracted to the theatre to satisfy the pleasures of the ear, whether by a speech, or by a song, or by a play. This class, as you will see, constitutes a large part of the listeners,- who regard the philosopher's lecture-room merely as a sort of loung- ing-place for their leisure. They do not set about to lay aside any faults there, or to receiye a rule of life, by which they may test their charactersg they merely wish to enjoy to the full the delights of the ear. And yet some arrive even with notebooks. not to take down the matter, but only the words, that they may present- ly repeat them to others with as little profit to these as they themselves received when they heard them. A certain number are stirred by high-sounding phrases, and adapt themselves to the emotions of the speaker with lively change of face and mind - just like the emasculated Phrygian priests who are wont to be roused by the sound of the flute and go mad to order. But the true hearer is ravished and stirred by the beauty of the subject matter, not by the Jingle of empty words.' As students of medicine, we trust that you are 'ravished and stirre not only by the beauty of the subject matter, but by the appreciation of the social importance of the effect of your learning. We wish you 1iveS of 1121995- ness and satisfaction, both as undergraduate and as gnaduate students of medicine. Sihcerely yours, 414 64:5-6wffT f' F. L- Babbott, M.D- President

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OF 1937 CHARLES WALDO STICKLE I-IARLES WALDO STICKLE was born 1n Genesee County 1n 1867 and was educated 1n the common schools of Batavra N Y After complet1ng h1s course ln the Batav1a CN Y D Hrgh School he came to New York and entered on the study of medlcrne at New York Un1vers1ty recervrng h1s M D degree 1n 1893 After graduatron he rnterned 1n the Chambers Street and Wards Island Hosp1tals for a year and then entered practrce He practrced general medrcrne rn Caledonla N Y from 1894 and 1897 and then decrded to move to Brooklyn Here he pract1ced for three years and rn 1904 havxng reached the dec1s1on to devote h1mself to the drseases of the ear nose and throat he went abroad to do Post Graduate work In 1904 and 1905 he studred laryngology otology and rhmology rn the great cl1n1cs of Berl1n and the Un1vers1ty of Wrttenberg Returnmg to Brooklyn rn 1906 he embarked on the pracuce of h1s specralty and became assocrated w1th the College and the Hospntal Dr Suckle has been a man of w1de hosprtal aiiilratlons At Long Island College Hosp1tal h1s assocratron began 1n 1906 as an Assrstant Attendmg 1n Otology In 1909 he was advanced to the posxtlon of Assocrate Attendrng and 1n 1916 became an Attendmg Surgeon CAuralD In 1920 when the departments of otology and larvngology were comblned Dr Stlckle was made Attendrng Oro laryngologxst a post he has held ever since At the Jewlsh Hospxtal Dr Strckle was an Attend1ng Otologxst from 1906 to 1925 and s1nce 1925 has been Con sultlng Otologlst At the M6fh0d1SI Eprscopal I-Iospltal he was Attendrng Otologrst from 1910 to 1920 and slnce 1920 has been the Consultmg Otologrst For rnany years he has been Consulting Otologlst to the Coney Island Hosprtal Hrs r1se 1n the affaxrs of the College has paralleled h1s hosprtal career When he jorned the staff rn 1906 he was made an Assrstant 1n Otology In 1910 h1s status was ralsed to the post of Adjunct Professor of Otology In 1916 he became a member of the Faculty as Pro fessor of Otology and rn 1920 he was made head of the combrned otologrcal and laryngologrcal departments as Professor of Otolaryngology In 1950 when the College was rechartered he was selected to assrst 1n the furthermg of 1tS new alms and polrcres and made Chalrman of the Board of Admrssrons From th1s post he has assumed a large part of the responsrbrlrty for the new type of student who has entered Long Island and a goodly share of the credrt for the rap1d advance our school has made rn the past twenty years must be grven to htm Now hav1ng reached the retlrement age he becomes Professor Emerltus and takes h1s place among the zmmortals of Long Island N me , . . , . . . . , . ., ' 1 1 7 1 ' 1 1 r c .r . . . . . . . , 1 , 1 ' ' ' 1 ' 1 . c c . - . , 7 1 1 - F 1 - 1 1 fr

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P1 eszdevzt Elev 12 Dr. Frank L. Babbott