Seton Hall College of Medicine - Journal Yearbook (Jersey City, NJ)

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PINCKNEY I. HARMAN, Ph.D. Professor and Chairman Department of Anatomy ANATOMY Dr. Harman with Doctors. M. Hollinshead, R. Curtis, and F. D. Anderson. fmQ1f01ni qhe Jul HSM. uf-' 'il 'L 'l' MORPH OLOGY if SICl'l'l'1Ml4I'1N 15182 'rf' mu urs -' Im, v'm:.z: J S9 Doctors G. Heath C. Hovde, A. Boccabella, ancf I. Tassoni. F' 3 , iii? ,Y wagfzfg . .H ---fr -' ' ....--F- .,-..- It . 1 N .. ' 3 1 52 5 'y 'K . -. . 3- il- by ,Y f x, M K9 5 n -Yi

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'Sf Q 5 .-Q'-'1 T WAS almost ninety degrees, one of the 'hottest days of the LQ year, on September Ninth, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-nine fat. fl when we saw each other for the first time. Iust a few weeks , before, we were college graduates, proud of our successful ' 1 application for a position in medical school. Suddenly we faced the unfamiliar faces of those who were to suffer with us as we traveled the road to an M.Df' degree. In the next few days, we were registered, photographed, welcomed, counseled, toured, and outfitted in long white lab coats until we actually began to feel like frosh fagainl. The confusion was compounded by a heroic list of gigantic required,' textbooks and orders to buy a special dissecting kit fall for only four and a half months of work?l. Friendships were made quickly as we discovered The Jug and real- ized its inhabitants were receptive to the complaints of a struggling medi- cal student, made easier over a coffee and an English. Dick Collins and Bo Smit became well known when they acquired sandwiches fby order of the Apical Dendritej from our Meet The Faculty Tea for the private party across the street. We began to feel a common bond as we learned others were tormented by Dr. Paladin Kahn during their inter- view, and Dr. Spiders Tassoni was usually off somewhere on a cloud of cigar smoke. And, of course, who can forget Nick Laurora's stated reason for choosing Seton Hall-the beautiful fountain in front of the Medical Centerl Then, just to prove the old adage that the last shall be first, we ac- quired classmate number eighty a week after formal instruction began, an event that never stopped Bob Seidel from quickly becoming our leader in battle. The first exam came as a surprise, but from then on we were never surprised-there was never enough timel It didn't take long for us to realize that we were here to do a job, and long test, short quiz, oral or written, we became professionals with a maximum of effort and a mini- mum of whimper.

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'V ,xxx U xi up f.1 I N l rg 5 fill it i . if .. +3 f - is ff A ,rsaii . it i 1 ,A Ab, A- ,I if-m: ,.,5N , . K. 'f. 'g it . .J .-' ' ..,-- w ,- . iwtwffi' - ..Q'fw. -. . T WAS not long before we were assembled on the tenth floor in groups of five-partners until one of us went to pieces. The gross lab was a study in Earnest fthe cadaver's namej, especially at noon, when George Kline fthe one-man-mis-information bureaul, George Krebs, and Les Matthews would Waste no time, eating with one hand, dissecting with the other. Speaking of lunch, Drs. Harman, Tassoni, et al dined on clear amber fluids, while we found ourselves well known at the local pubs by smell. Although officially our week ended on Friday, many of us traveled to Orange on Saturday mornings where Dr. O'Sullivan gave us our first taste of the clinical setting. Another clinician who overwhelmed us with knowledge and speed was Dr. Miranti and his scalenus anticus . The famous trade of John Greenberg for Bo Smit and three scalpels plus the sudden realization that we would all have to specialize above the knee, saw a greasy copy of Grayis Anatomy slowly closing on the small remains of what was once a human body. Histology was a course composed of long lectures, longer coffee breaks, and a little time behind the microscope. Dr. Boccabella gave us a foundation in endocrinology which was to stay with us for four years, and Drs. Hollinshead and Curtis were only upstaged in reports of the current literature by our many guest lecturers who came complete with electron micrographs. We discovered too late that our relationship with these interesting new things was somewhat more than academic come exam time. We again met clinical medicine in neuroanatomy, when, sprinkled between the separation of gray and white and the attempts of Drs. LSMFT,' Anderson and f'verSau1e', Hovde to tell us just where the Nu- cleus Ambiguus really was, Dr. Joseph Foley plied us with his Irish charm and our first look at a real patient. After a game of musical chairs complete with Mad Magazine at sta- tion 18, Joe Ritter's eloquent discussion of the eighth floor lounge was enough to speed us away from structure and on to function. .Z h .4 BR! SHG i 97 . 65' .-13' HL ,T-E ,E Lg SYNQQ SK S africana