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

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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

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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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remarned for graduate trarnrng at hrs Alma Mater where he taught for a trme In 1912 he was called to Brooklyn where untrl 1915 he was assrstant professor of clrnrcal medrcrne and drrector of clrnrcal laboratorres at the Long Island College Hosprtal servrng under Dr John A McCorkle Followrng thrs he became assocrate professor of medrcrne and rn 1917 became actrng professor In 1919 he was appornted to the professorshrp When rn 1930 the rnstrturron was rechartered as the Long Island College of Medrcrne he was appornted professor of medrcrne and executrve head of the department As a student we remember hrm as our chref who kept us on edge Tuesday afternoons wrth hrs rnterestrng demonstratrons Hrs draggrng out of long charts hrs tabulatrons on the black board hrs demonstratrons of pathologrcal specrmens and X rays all were part of hrs show If method of makrng us clear thrnkrng general physrcrans Hrs stethoscope kept swrngrng on hrs arm he kept pattrng down hrs dark black parted hart and talkrng and movrng up and down wound up machrne that kept gorng but always knew where and always brought the pornt home Although never too busy to see a student not lecture before a class Dr Warren always managed to squeeze so much between hrs work at the college and hrs prrvate work that one wonders how he remembered all the thrn s he had to do and how he drd them so well Hrs actrvrtres and assocratrons were many Dr Warren became ptesrdent of the Krngs County Medrcal Socretv rn 1930 and added much to rts prestrge In 1932 he became medrcal drrector of the Brooklyn Home for Consumptrves In 1931 he became charrman of the publrc health commrttee of the Chamber of Commcrce and rn 1934 became a member of the chamber s board of drrectors and a drrector of the Brooklyn Councrl for Socral Plannrng Durrng these years he concerved the rdea of the Brooklyn Health Councrl and became rts Presrdent rn 1934 He was a fellow of the Amerrcan College of Physrcrans servrng from 1931 33 on the Board of Governors and later became a Regent of rts board Besrdes berng chref at the Long Island College Hosprtal he was consultrng physrcran to the Harbor Coney Island South Srde and Methodrst Eprscopal Hosprtals and physrcran rn chref at the St Johns Hosprtal Brook lyn N Y F or many years he was examrner rn dragnosrs on the New York State Boa d of Medrcal Examrners and has been presrdent of the Board srnce 1933 He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Polytechnrc Instrtute srnce 1924 anal of the Packer Collegrate Instrtute rnce 1927 Professor Warren was a member of the Amerrcan Medrcal Assocratron the New York Academy of Medrcrne Amerrcan Heart Assocrfrtron Brooklyn Pathologrcal Assocratron Asso ratron for the Study of Internal Secretrons Natronal Tuberculosrs Assocratron Amerrcan Socrety of Tropr al Medrcrne and the Amerrcan Socrety for the Advancement of Scrence Hrs fraternrtres were Alpha Omega Alpha and Srgma X1 He wrote frequently marnly on pleurrsy tuberculosrs and pneumonra rn many of the leadrng medrcal Journals although of late because of so much added work hrs wrrtrngs have become rnfrequent He was assocrate edrtor of the Trce s System of Medrcrne and helpel make the many rmptovements that thrs system offers Especrfrlly rnterested rn tuberculosrs and pneu monra a good part of hrs trme was spent rn therr study and he made many specral studres rn these fields marnly rn recent years at the Brooklyn Home for Consumptrves And what do you thrnk Doctor' we can feel the answer swellrng up rn our throat You and I know doctor that we wrll all feel hrs gorng and Long Island wrll find rt very drfhcult to fill hrs place He was a leader an excellent admrnrstrator and a genrus as teacher Hrs was a great name rn medrcrne Hc lrved a full lrfe S S G Twenty Fzze 3 . 9 7 7 , . . . 1 . , , . a Q 7 7 - . . ,, . ,, . . - . , ' 1 . . r. . . . . U. . .. . - 7 9 4 7 a - 7 - , C ' 3 3 ' C r , . U . 53 7 ' , - . V Q C . 'J . ,, , C ' c . a .. U , . 7 7 7 3 . .' . ' . . . . , . - n - - .. I 7 - . . . . r , . . , t - . . . . ,, , - c 3 . , - c ' S . , r 9 5 1 f Cc ' , c , C , ' . ., , - 1 9 s : ' . . . . , . . . . , . . C ' 1 7 A . . y . 2 C a 1 f ' fr - , -1, - - C 7 1 , 4 a a , . c , , 9. . A , -- . . . 31' . .1