SUNY Upstate Medical University - Auricle Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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To me, the Class of 1975 will always have a special meaning because you were the first group I really got to know as individuals--we spent three very pleasurable years together. You taught me that the best students here are as good as the beststudents anywhere, and that the worst students are on a par with the worst students anyone else has to offer. I wish to express my gratitude for your thought ful dedication of the yearbook as well as my com pliments on your perspicacity. Nlay you find ful fillment in life and may they sa of ou Helshe Y Y did hislher damnedest, angels could do no more x+ 'QX 5 - PATRlClll l.. iNlll:Mlll5lN To me, you, the Class of 1975, are very special. Special because you and I shared the growing pains associated with start ing something new. As you began your first year here in the fall of 1971, Iwas finishing my rookie year at Upstate. I was here to teach you, but we both were here to learn As I mentally flip back the pages of years--which somehow only seem like hours--the blur of a hundred faces and a thou sand memories funnels back into the dissecting laboratory. To day, as Isee you in smart clinic whites with new stethoscopes balanced precariously on cervical vertebrae, I remember your daily garb of yesterday--reeking lab coats, pockets stuffed with greased forceps and candy wrappers! Today we place diplomas into your experienced hands which, only yesterday, we covered with countless Band-Aids. For you, the odor of phenol has been replaced by the essence of ether, case studies by case histories, the pa.inted skull and pipe cleaners by patients. Yet, for me, Dr. Berger is still Amy Dworkp Dr. Reisman will remain IVIarcy Katz, and I'll probably never be able to tell the Drs. Kasulke apart! Yes, my new colleagues, I remember you well, and thank you for remembering me for the little I've done for you 46 Q3 111 DR FRANKA OSKI The Class of '75 brings to mind the Knocker's Ball Amy's thyroid, Charles and Roxanne's Monday after noon rounds the discussions about your surgery per formance or non performance, the time you all spent in the OR with me learning the function of the platysma and all the monumental problems in choos mg an internship are there really too many s geons , 'what do you think of the program at Mec a General or East Nowhere' what do you think offam ily practice , I'm going into medicine but would you write me a recommendation anyway should Itake an acting internship so someone knows me my wife wants to go to New York but Iwant to go to Boston my usband ns a Junior Since Iam from the Class of 65, I ll see you at reunions always checking up on you DR GAMILLO A BENZO e,! .,l,'x , . 7 I 11. 'fir-, -i IHA , ,, 7 , l , 5 'Z 4 V :aaa lr , - A iw ,nl j- - , , X. :Av 1 L N, V X I . ul -'- lx 1 '- ' ,fx ' - ' 7 ' ' l . -44' , ,l lk 1 I rrr -- .,, ip - - ,a 4 1 ' -1 -Q Z si gr 5 1 V ' ...sql l U . . I l I I I - I . 1 ' ' ' ' . . . ur- ' ,. - ' ' c , 1 f I ' I Il ' - ' .H - I X '4 I - - n II - -.-- ' ' X 1 Cf. ' - - ' ll ' mf- X I u yd' :I ' Y ' ,, h . . . . ,. . ' W . , V! V . 1 I I . U I , , n V Q 1, -.,,...,. A ' I f Y. ':, ,f ' I 1 . if , in 'X Qjl' f'lf 'M ' I' V W , V

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It's obviously difficult to assign one characteristic to a group as large as the Senior Class. You are how- ever, with few exceptions, the most blazing, obsessive- compulsives I have ever seen. I assume you know what that means. Beyond that, members of this class seem to have been able to strike a fair balance between working and playing. There are the scholars, the students, the gour- mets, the joggers, the sports car drivers, and above all, the travelers. I suspect the num ber of miles traveled by this class exceeds that of any previous class. If in- tellectual rewards are equivalent to continents and oceans crossed, you should be uniquely well informed. You've been the kind of class that makes being a school teacher a pleasure. I appreciate the things you have taught me and to all of you best wishes for the future. i X 2 g 'ROQBERT' if. , f - 4 f-7.1 . .X gy -,,...-P Q ,, In . ao-D' . i-ef -1 1 5 ' '-- 4' Ll' '- .I To me the Class of '75 has significance in three areas. First andforemost is the replenishment of the profession. At the time the Hippocratic Oath is given, over a hundred people by ancient tradition will be recognized before man and God as being physicians. This is a sacred time of re- birth of our profession, or more properly the time that a new link is forged in the unbroken chain of physicians which began in prehistory and will never end so long as one human being cares for another. The second significance is the Class itself--in a sense it is an organism made up of 115 components each with a joy of life and learning. Under the present premedical pressures this may become a Class to remember as the last of its kind for a while. The last and least significant aspect of the Class of '75 are my personal feelings towards it. It was a means for me to make a livelihood, there are people in it who will remain my friends and colleagues, and for the first time for me the Class members were perhaps substitutes for my own sons and daughters. I'm glad that I didn't have to pay for all your! tuitions. 47