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

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i1 ii m ii m 10 I HE CLASS OF 1943 Perhaps Temple University never has performed a more important single service to humanity than she has this year when she gives to America her 1943 class of doctors and nurses. You are bearers of healing to a world whose need for healing is without precedent. Men everywhere, shattered in body and mind, will be awaiting your ministrations. Hasten, then, on your mission. It may take you, eventually, to steaming jungles or arctic wastes, but. suffering there will be lessened by your presence. And when wars are done, God speed your return to America’s homes, hospitals, and laboratories. Public health, industrial medicine. private practice, research, and the other fields of your profession will have need of your skill and training. Those who die to make men free arc heroes. No less so are those who live selflessly to make and to keep men whole. May this always be your high calling. Robi.rt Livingston Johnson. II It. It O II 1: R T

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iii Novcmbe) 1931, he traveled 10 Shikar-pm, India. 10 serve with Dr. II. |. Holland ai his large Ophthalmic Surgical Clinic lor a two-months period. During his slay I here. Dr. Lillie perlormed as main as one hundred cataract operations in a day. He returned In way ol the Orient in March of 1932. and continued his work at the Mayo Clinic. In Scpiembet 1933. he was appointed Pro-lessor and Head ol the Department of Ophthalmology at Temple University School of Medicine, and Consulting Ophthalmologist. Temple University Hospital: Shritiers Hospital. Philadelphia, and Norristown State Hospital. Norristown, and Guest Lecturer in Neuro-ophthalmology. Graduate School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a member and past president ol the Eye Section of the Philadelphia County Medical Society. He is a member of the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. He has frequently been honored by 1 it is society by being selected to give postgraduate instruction courses to the members at their annual meeting. Dr. Lillie is a member and chairman ol the Program Committee of the American Ophthalmological Society. He is also a member of the American College of Surgeons. Philadelphia College l Physicians. Sydenham Medical Coterie, the Harvey Cushing Society and Sigma Xi. He is an author ol numerous articles dealing with Ophthalmology and is a co-author of the textbook. Cardio vascular Renal Disease.” He is also contributing editor of the Pennsylvania Med ical Journal, and the Confines Xeurologica. From his clinics we learn that Dr. Lillie has mastered the art, as well as the science ol in'cdicirte. He is always the same and works with enthusiasm—dispensing medicine, cheer. and optimism wherevtri ihe are needed. Dr. Lillie is a friend ol the student and ihe younger men in the profession and he is always anxious to help them when necessary. He has a series of sage remarks which are sprinkled through his day and are always appropriate, among which are:- “One robin doesn’t make a sprinef; You can still have the ‘old raT and get hit with a height car : The further out you stick your neck the more room there is lot footprints on it ; One grows older but never old ; Ophthalmology is the aristocrat of the specialities”; II you are born to be shot, you’ll never be hanged : You were a perfect patient ; and many others. He excels in his hobby which is small game hunting and trap shooting and he has won mam trophies and honors in this sport. He is a member ol the Philadelphia Countr Club, the Roxborough Cam Club, and the Atlantic Indians. Since Dr. Lillie has been such a guiding influence to our class, as well as to many classes before us. since he has contributed so much to our Medical School and Temple University, since he is such an important influence in Philadelphia’s Ophthalmology, and since he has given so much to National Ophthalmology and the Ophthalmic Literature. we, the (Mass of l.V ate pleased and proud of our selection for this year's SKULL dedication. However. Dr. Lillie alone does not deserve all the credit for his brilliant succe ss. He has had a marked advantage in the1 timeh advice and inspiration ol Mrs. Lillie. To know Dr. Lillie’s sons is to know two gentlemen, to know Mrs. Lillie is to know a charming lady, and to know Dr. Lillie is a real privilege. With ;i fees skilled movements, the opaque lens is removed and tin- eyes are bandaged. ()| cration is over in 10 minutes and Di. Lillie shows mbrose the enucleated specimen.

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