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

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Charisma in a teacher is not a mystery or nimbus of personality, but radiant exemplification to which the student contributes a correspondingly radiant hunger for becoming. ,,,.,,. . .,, — William Arrowsmith 45 4

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4 Probing a painted skull • • . Complications of an M.I. . . . Cows ' milk is for calves . . . The student is on surgery to learn . . . Patients with post-pump psy- choses . . . Five things to remember out of our vast experience of medical school. Five out of hundreds of thousands — why remember these? It seems they each came to us via a face and mind eager to teach — from five people who taught well, and beyond academics, taught us how patients think, respond, and cope; how medical students and physicians do the same; how mistakes often precede our achievements; how to laugh and how to show frustration; and how, at the end of it all, to feel somehow accomplished. The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a be- ginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation. — Sir William Osier And so with our feeling of accomplishment comes our heartfelt appreciation. We thank you. Dr. Benzo, for that extra and more insightful peek into our cadavers, and for easing those unknown bur- dens of freshman year; Dr. Cook, for weaving psychiatry with medicine and medicine with psychiatry and people with people and everything with a smile; Dr. Klumann, for stressing learning over labor and mak- ing us feel that someone did understand how a tired- eyed third-year student felt propped over a retractor; Dr. Oski, for Wednesday conferences on nutrition, death and dying, and such untaught subjects, and a Chairman ' s door that was always open; Dr. Rohner, for that amazing body of information you transmitted to us which we shall never forget and for ever know as Rohnerisms. TO YOU FIVE TEACHERS, for becoming to us all you are capable of being, for helping us to better understand the world of medicine and for taking a genuine inter- est in us as individuals, the Class of 1975, with our gratitude and affection, dedicates this yearbook to you. (

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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 lndividuals--we spent three very pleasurable years together. You taught me that the best students here are as good as the best students 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. May you find ful- fillment in life and may they say of you, He she did his her damnedest, angels could do no more . DR. FRANKA.OSKI DR. PATRICIA J. NUMANN f 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- ing an internship . . . are there really too many sur- geons , what do you think of the program at Mecca General or East Nowhere , what do you think of fam- ily practice , I ' m going into medicine but would you write me a recommendation anyway , should I take an acting internship so someone knows me, my wife wants to go to New York but I want to go to Boston , my husband is a junior . . . Since lam from the Class of ' 65, I ' ll see you at reunions . . . always checking up on you . . . 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, I was 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 I see you in smart clinic whites with new stethoscopes balanced precariously on cervical vertebrae, I remember your daily garb of yesterday — recking lab coats, pockets stuffed with greased forceps and candy wrappersi 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 painted skull and pipe cleaners by patients. Yet, for me. Dr. Berger is still Amy Dwork; Dr. Reisman will remain Marcy Katz; and I ' ll probably never be able to tell the Drs. Kasuike apart! Yes, my new colleagues, I remember you well, and thank you for remembering me for the little I ' ve done for you. DR.CAMILLOA. BENZO 46