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

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 ADMINISTRATION CLASSES NURSES FEATURES SOCIETIES AND FRATERNITIES HUMOR

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to the Philadelphia General Hospital in 1923, following which he rose to Chief of the Neurosurgical Division of the hospital in 1927 and after fourteen years of service to this hospital he received this year (1937) the distinction of being elected to the position of Active Consulting Neurosurgeon to the Philadelphia General Hospital, one of the youngest men ever to receive such an honor. Thirty-two years had elapsed between the time of his dreams in the shaded woodlands of Bainbridge Island in the West, where the Philadelphia General Hospital as an ideal was first etched on the background of his mind, and the achievement of the highest active position on the staff of this great institution in the East. Unaccountable also is the fact that he should be selected by the American College of Surgeons to write the History of Old Blockley the Institution of his dreams, which was published (1932) in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, in commemoration of the bicentennial celebration of this first of American Hospitals. That his first name should eventually coincide with the University that he has chosen to work for and teach in, is another strange whim of fate. Named after his great, great Uncle and founder of the Reading Railroad, Temple Fay of New York, there was not a moment's hesitation in his decision to come to Temple University when the invitation to accept the Chair of Neurosurgery was extended by Dr. Babcock on behalf of the Dean and Faculty of the School of Medicine. Since that day his every effort has been devoted to the teaching of students and the pursuit of investigation into the most difficult problems of medicine. Truly there is a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will is the straight forward theme that runs through this most unusual biography. Here is a man, now our Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, who has had a heritage rich as gold itself and a goal as clear as a perfect diamond. Today as we see him, with nimble fingers in rubber gloves or blue eyes sparkling as he presents a case, it is hard to realize that he was a boy with a dog, a gun, and a dream. Now he is our teacher, our friend, a man of attainment . . . but still with a dream. 17

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