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

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Because of the outstanding loyalty to Temple University many times manifested by the School of Chiropody's alumni group, I take pleasure in welcoming to that body the splendid accession represented by the Class of 1956. Its lustre, I am sure, will both add to and reflect the brilliance of our roster of classes. Great days are ahead for the School of Chiropody—a future in keeping with the traditions of its distinguished past. For many years, its representatives have risen with such regularity to positions of responsibility in professional circles that we accept these honors as the deserved measure of our merit. It is right that we should, yet we must never be content. With the help of faculty and alumni, we shall continue to seek the means for adding to our services and to the proficiency with which we discharge those services. ROBERT L. JOHNSON President 6

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IN GRATITUDE JAMES C. GUIFFRE, M.D. Professor of Surgery, Temple University School of Chiropody Fellow of the International College of Surgeons Medical Director and Chief of Surgery, St. Luke's and Children's Medical Center. To Dr. Giuffre: The Class of 1956 wishes to express its gratitude for the opportunities you have afforded us and for your work in the interest of Chiropody, done wholeheartedly and unselfishly without thought of personal gain. Thank you. The Class of '56

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DEAN’S MESSAGE I want to take this opportunity to congratulate the Class of 1956 on the successful completion of their professional education at the School of Chiropody. This year's commencement exercise coincides with the 40th Anniversary of the graduation of Temple University's first chiropody class. It is interesting to note that this group consisted of three men and one woman, all from the state of Pennsylvania. In that same forty year period, our school has graduated 1217 men and women who practice their profession in 39 different states, Puerto Rico, and Canada. Approximately 20% of the practicing chiropodists in the United States are Temple graduates. At the time that the 1916 Class graduated, only thirteen states had chiropody practice acts. Today we find that all of the forty-eight states, the District of Columbia and Hawaii, have passed laws regulating the practice of chiropody. The profession has broadened its scope of practice, increased its educational standards, launched a foot health program on a national scale and has gained recognition from many agencies at both the federal and state levels. These are just a few of our professional achievements as we look back over the past four decades. The future of chiropody will soon be in your hands. I trust that you will carry on the work of your state and national associations to a point which shall far exceed the original aims and intentions of those who started our school forty years ago. CHARLES E. KRAUSZ, D-S-C. Dean 7