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

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CENTER FORTY years ago Temple Medical School was unknown—twenty-five years ago it was ridiculed by the “aristocrats” of the profession, who scoffed at its humble beginnings. Today, without the background of tradition, without ancient heritage, Temple lias grown to a position where it commands respect in the field of medicine and surgery. No institution, no individual, can survive by resting upon “laurels” of past achievement—progression is a vital quality of success. Today the plans of the “Temple of Tomorrow” are being carefully undertaken and we are certain our school shall ever remain vividly alive and progression will be a part of each succeeding year. When Russell Conwell named his little College “Temple,” he never visioned a Temple of Healing”—this we have today, a Mecca to where physicians and their problems “heat a path,” and Emerson’s dictum is fulfilled. Eighteen

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THE SKULL DR. WILLIAM N. PARKINSON, M.D., F.A.C.S. Professor of Clinical Surgery Temple’s Dean ... a mail who never tires . . . who has carried Temple to its present heights . . . whose every effort is to advance the standards of the education of the student and to give to the world progressive, capable and efficient finished physicians. The status of the Temple of Today casts a foreshadow on his Temple of Tomorrow. Seventeen temple university

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Emeritus Professors James C. Attix, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Toxicology Wilmer Kruscn. M.D., F.A.C.S. Emeritus Professor of Gynecology H. Brooker Mills, M.D., F.A.C.P. Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics Arthur C. Morgan. M.D., F.A.C.P. Emeritus Professor of Clinical Medicine William Egbert Robertson, M.D., F.A.C.P. Emeritus Professor of Medicine Henry F. Slifer, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Physiology Samuel Wolfe, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Medicine