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

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OF 1937 ALFRED C. BECK R. BECK was born in Toledo, Ohio, on july 16, 1885, the son of john and Mary Beck. He spent his childhood in Toledo and after being graduated from High School he entered the University of Michigan, where he received his M.D. Degree in 1910. At this time he entered on a stern resolve never to practice obstetrics and to leave this branch of medicine to others, who might like to get up in the middle of the night. Two years later, after completing his internship, he was licensed in Michigan and had already decided that, much as he would have preferred a quiet practice with regular hours, obstetrics was the field in which he would pass his life and practice his art . In 1916 he married Rhea B. Bennett of Conneaut, Ohio, and a short time later came East and settled in Brooklyn, aligning himself with the then rising star of Dr. John O. Polak. His rise here was rapid and after a few years he became head of the Long Island College Outdoor Clinic, a position second in rank only to that of the Professor . I-Ie remained in this post until Dr. Polak's death, in 1930, and succeeded him to the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Beck is very well known and widely appreciated for his ability to teach obstetrics. To those of us who have sat under him, and collected our just share of zeros, he rates as the epitome of tutorial ability, the man who could make any subject clear and any situation vivid. His graduates have gone out into practice with a full appreciation of the values and problems of delivery and years afterward, his illustrations remain as practical and vivid as if they had been made but yesterday. Of late Dr. Beck has been growing alarmed by the unhealthy effect the economic situa- tion has had on medical practice and, never a one to sit back and let things take their course, except in the normal labor, he has tried to get to the root of the problem by offering his counsel to those of us who are just starting out. He has aided and advised us in the securing of intern- ships, for in the interne years are our real careers molded. With this in view, he has been working on a plan whereby the school will place men in interne positions and supervise their training and will thus be able to vouch for and sponsor its own men when they enter into practice. Our appreciation for Dr. Beck, as a teacher, as a doctor and as a man, knows no bounds. We wish him good health and many more years of active and full practice. Twenty-tlaree

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LICHONIAN THE SENIOR CLASS PAYS TRIBUTE T0 ALFRED C. BECK An Inspiring Teacher A Splendid Physician And A Staunch Friend

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LICHONIAN LUTHER I FISKE WARREN ISS5-1937 sat in the amphitheatre listening to the first case presentation of my medical career. With a jolt, I started and removed myself from the enthusiasm that was already growing on me, but before I could spurt out an answer, which probably would have been wrong anyway, the answer was coming my way: You and I both know, doctor, that the lesion is located . . . , said the same piercing, sharp voice which spoke not only from knowledge, but from experience. I felt relieved because I did not have to be made the fool before the entire group, but, also I felt quite professional when Dr. Warren took me in as a confrere and gave me credit for something I didn't know. 7 HAT DO YOU THINK, DOCTOR?,' The finger pointed in my direction, as I Those nervous strides, the sharp intonations in his voice, and the non-purposeful move- ments that his stethescope was put through during a demonstration will always make for remernberance of the personality of our professor. Alert, neat, exact and aristocratic in bear- ing, energetic in all his undertakings and sincere in all his work, he concentrated all his efforts so that he might be a better teacher and we better informed and thus better doctors. A dy- namic individual many called him. Yes! A dynamic individual with no end to his energy, Luther Fiske Warren, professor of medicine and director of the Medical Department of the Long Island College of Medicine, died at his home, 81 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, on january 18, 1957, aged 51 years. Dr. Warren came to Brooklyn in 1912. A native of Waterford, Michigan, he graduated from the University of Michigan not only with a degree, but, also as a married man, having fallen in love with a fellow student, Agnes E. Chubb. After his graduation, in 1909, he Twenty-Four