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

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Dr. Walter E. Leavell Associate Dean, College of Medicine Dr. George F. Reed Dean Graduate Medical and Continuing Education Dr. Maxwell M. Mozell Associate Dean for Academic Program Development 51 I I

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Dr. Richard P. Schmidt Newly Appointed President of the Medical Center Formerly, Dean of the College of Medicine STATE UNIVERSrTY OF NEV TSS IRVINO AVENUE Dr. Lewis W. Bluemle, Jr. Immediate Past President 1968-1974 To my Fellow Students: This is a time for reflection, for memories and for taking of further steps to fulfill hopes and aspirations. To our colleagues who a re graduating. Congratulations and best wishes ! ' Those of us who remain will try to maintain an academic home of which you can be proud. V This is also a time of change, not only in the stages of our careers but in our priorities and life-style. We have entered a period which will further test our strength, our resiliency and our ability to adapt. Successful adaptation to a changing way of life, to increasing social complexities and profound economic disruptions will be accomplished only by the most fit. We can do our part to be instruments of constructive change but we will be most sorely tested to live constructively with adversities we did not directly cause nor expect. In short, we must be part of the solution not part of the problem. Our Medical Center has grown and improved over recent years notwithstanding changing perceptions of our societal role, new mandates from society and increased difficulties in gathering resources which are necessary. As I write this, we are further in the midst of selection of new leadership occasioned by the resignation of President Lewis W. Bluemle, Jr. We must continue to grow, to improve and accommodate to change in circumstances which promise to be even more difficult. To do otherwise will be to quit and this would be irresponsible. Our students will continue to get a good education and we aim to make it even better. Our patients will continue to get superior care and we will make it even better. Our research will explore new areas of science and of society. Instead of helpless wailing over our problems, we will work to solve them. 1 am proud of this Center, its students, faculty and staff. I know we can do what we must. Sincerely, Richard p. Schmidt, M. D. 50

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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK UPSTATE MEDICAt. CENTER 750 E ADAMS ST SvAACUSi Niw Yoaic ISZtO OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS STUDENT AFFAIRS AREA CODE 315 TELEPHONE 473-4570 TO THE CLASS OF 1975: We have arrived at the eve of America ' s bicentennial, as has your graduating class. American medical education is an integral part of that history. During the colonial period of American history, nine colleges were founded, but in all of these except the one in Philadelphia, the religious purpose was dominant ... .The first professional institution, other than theology which they provided, was in medicine, that subject being offered at the College, Academy and Charitable School of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania) as early as 1765; at King ' s College (now Columbia University)ln 1767; at Harvard University in 1782; and at Dartmouth College in 1798. It is reported that of the 3,000 physicians in practice in the United States at the close of the American Revolution only 51 had taken degrees in America, and fewer than 350 anywhere else. ( Education for the Professions , U.S. Dept. of Health, Education Wel- fare, Office of Education, 1955, pp 11). The number of medical schools reached their peak in 1904-05, total- ing 160. By 1929, these were reduced to 76 schools, mostly as a direct or indirect influence of the Flexner Report. Your medical school, the SUNY , Upstate Medical Center, has enjoyed a respectable position for a large part of this history and, in many respects, has contributed to the history of medicine by efforts of its faculty and graduates over the years. In addition to the reasonably favorable report of the October, 1909, site visit by Abraham Flexner (see pages 272-73, 276 of his report), you should become aware of this fine institution ' s history. As its graduates, you can be proud; as we are proud of everyone of you. You will soon have passed from medical student to alumnus status - an historical fact. The richness of this event, however, will be measured and enhanced by your contributions as physicians: practitioners, researchers and academicians - students of life, as we approach America ' s 200th year and the lOOth reunion of this Medical Center ' s Alumni, It was a pleasure having you during the past four years and we wish you much success and satisfaction in the years ahead of you. Sincerely, c A. Geno Andreatta Dean of Admissions and Student Affairs A. Geno Andreatta Dean of Admissions and Student Affairs