Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Biography of John A. Kolmer IUST south of the Mason ond Dixon line, in the gently rolling hills of verdont West-ern Maryland, nestles the beautiful village of Lonoconing. It was early spring in this peaceful hamlet when to Leonard and Selma Kolmer, an industrious, substantial German couple of Lonoconing, was born their third child, John, on April 24, 1886. It wos in this same region that the boy grew up and developed in the sturdy, untiring, conscientious ways that for time immemorial have been the heritage of tillers of the soil. Like his teutonic ancestors, the lad soon evinced a solid, substantial character in which was early oustanding a very real sense of responsibility, made necessory in no small part because of the reduced circumstances of his parents. In spite of the many hardships and obstacles confronting him, John Kolmer struggled through the public schools, aiding his parents in the bitter strife for existence, yet at the same time excelling in his studies to such a degree that at the age of sixteen the State of Maryland awarded him a scholarship to Charlotte Hall Military Academy, ot Charlotte Hall, Maryland. Here, as in public school, this ambitious youth earned more laurels, so much so that by the end of the two-year course he had been awarded no less than seven gold medals for scholastic attainments and general excellence. Thus it was that at the oge of eighteen he registered os a Freshman in the School of Medicine of the University of Maryland in Baltimore. After honorably completing his first year ot that institution, he transferred in 1905 to the University of Pennsylvania, where his arduous application to medical work earned for him, in June of the year 1908, graduation with honors and the award of the Packord Prize in Clinical Medicine. He early decided to acquire thorough practical hospital training, and in the ensuing six months he interned at St. Vincent's Hospitol in Philadelphia where he published his first paper, a monograph on the blood changes in pertussis. The next twelve months he continued his troining at St. Agnes' Hospital, in the same city, where he did such outstanding work that at the completion of his service he was appointed at the early age of twenty-four as pathologist to the Philadelphia Hospital for Contagious Diseases, a post he wos to creditobly fill for the enusing five years. It was in 1912, for him a banner year, that honors crowded upon honors. It wos in this year that Dr. Kolmer wos appointed Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology at Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine It was in this year that he wos named Assistant Bacteriologist to the Bureau of Health of Philadelphia. It was also in this year that, in collaboration with Dr. Jay F Schamberg, he organized the Dermatological Research Laboratories, destined to ploy a vital role in the health of the Nation It was in this year thot Dr. Kolmer went abroad to further increase his knowledge at the leading European medical centers—Vienna, Berlin, Ten