Temple University School of Chiropody - Tempodian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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POD A N 19 4 1 Page Ten CHARLES E. KRAUSZ. D.S.C. Aitisfanf Doan of fhe School of Chiropody

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T E M P O D I A 2), ean WifLJJ, ouynoy I am justly proud of the Class of 1941. You entered the School of Chiropody at the time of the inauguration of the four-year course and suffered, along with the faculty, a period of readjustment. You have come through, however, with excellent records and are the largest class to be graduated from our school. I wish you the best of luck and continued success as Doctors of Surgical Chiropody. R. RAY WILLOUGHBY, Dean. Paae Nino

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TEMP D 2), JC raudz J 1+ affords me much pleasure to extend my greetings to the Class of 1941. Your group has the honor of being the Silver Anniversary Class of our school. Twenty-five years ago Russell H. Conwell, founder of Temple University, conferred degrees on the first chiropody class. If we turn back the pages of time to 1916, we would find that our student body consisted of four persons. Classes were held in a basement room behind the Lower Amphitheatre. In the evening the wooden classroom chairs were moved back in this room and six metal hospital chairs moved out. The latter were utilized for the treatment of the clinical patients. The balance of the clinical equipment consisted of six glass-top tables, one steam sterilizer, one drill and one electric baker. From this insignificant beginning our school developed slowly until today we have a student body of two hundred and our own up-to-date building with the most modern equipment. The growth of our institution has been typical of the development of our profession. In the past twenty-five years, chiropody has made impressive advances. To outline these progressive steps in chiropodical achievements would entail more space than has been allotted to me. It is sate to say, however, that these accomplishments have only been made possible through organized effort. Organization of state and national associations has been the very keynote of chiropody's success. The most important problem which confronts organized chiropody at present is the part which is to be played by our group in the national emergency. The Chiropody Preparedness Committee has carried this program to the War Department and Congress. The success or failure of chiropody participation along military lines will depend upon the degree of cooperation which the committee receives from all chiropodists. Our task is a difficult one. We can achieve our goal if every chiropodist puts his shoulder to the wheel. I know that the Class of 1941 will do its share in this important work. My four years' association with your class has been most pleasant. I frust your future will be filled to the brim and overflowing with health, success and happiness. CHARLES E. KRAUSZ, D.S.C., Assistant Dean. Page Eleven