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

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 :c. after twenty-foin hours of fluid restriction deserves to be added to the lassies of medical humor. l)r. Saylor will ever be remembered by each of us. His graphic portrayal of an experiment, complete with squints, pauses for decision, shaking of imaginary test tubes, were all so serious that to laugh would have been to insult, yet not silently to convulse impossible. I 'his ability to describe a situation was cat tied ovet into Toxicology when Dr. Saylor played for us the role of the poisoned dog, a story no one will ever forget, and one impossible to relate on paper. Dr. Hamilton held sway over us in the chemistry of the vitamins, amino acids and hormones, and awed us with a blackboard display of reactions and structural formulae which our photographic minds were supposed to retain after momentary exposure. I he scholarly command of matters biochemical which we stumbling acolytes admired and envied so much was officially recognized when Dr. Hamilton was elevated to the chair left vacant by Dr. Saylor's retirement. Before the year was over, Dr. Mona Spiegel-Adolf lectured to us on colloid chemistry. If an accurate poll were to be taken, and if the results of the final examination are i be believed, her shapely assistant probably received more attention than Dr. Spiegel-Adolf's learned words, much to the sorrow of many latei on. Dr. Saylor concluded his teaching career with our class. The feeling that we expressed as lie dosed the door for the last time was sincere: that we had been fortunate to have been included in his forty years of teaching.

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ROBKRT H HAMILTON. JR.. M.D. Dr. Saylor always met the chemistry class with a giand entrance through the side door of room 416. Seated in this room, we learned from the little giant the value of brevity and explicitness in answering exam questions, as demonstrated by Fred Becker one day. The chemistry lab was a beehive of industriousness, some of it spurious, with Dr. Saylor inconspicuously off to one side surveying, evaluating and mentally rec- Thought I'tj Jufci Mcv FtROur«n,Doc So Mom Ghirt Discovcries Mrde B Somc LucKy Rcoot ht CHEflllSTR V ording our efforts. His little tours were punctuated by questions like Son, where'll you go to college? or VVhat’d you do that for? , which didn't make sense for a while. But along toward the end of the year, many of us were invited into his office for private chats, or in class he would say, Desk fifty-four doesn’t believe in recording his data in the notebook , and another freshman would bite the dust. That was the year we walked around with cjuart milk bottles full of urine, or solicited it from more productive colleagues in the fourth floor men's room. Beer was the only constant item in our weekend diet: the remainder varied viciously from week to week. The Fox's caustic comment to the student who brought in 1500

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PHVSIOLOGV Having studied the structure of the human body in the anatomy laboratory, we went to Physiology to discover how it functions. Dr. Hickey was still the professor and head of the department during our first semester. How he managed to deliver an organized lecture from the scraps of paper he pulled out of his pockets, no one could fathom. He was a kindly, helpful, and unobtrusive gentleman, whose one peeve was the lack of orderliness in the laboratory. Dr. Oppenheimer. a graduate of Temple and a student of Dr. Hickey’s, succeeded him as professor when he retired. The new Chief's innate ability to explain complex phenomena simply and un-pedantically endeared him to all of us. His lec-tres on respiration, circulation and gastrointestinal physiology were easy to understand, informative and interesting. Soft-spoken Dr. Collins. who left in our sophomore year only to return two years later, was affable and benign in his presentation of difficult concepts, accomplished by constant repetition and punctuated by long and significant pauses. Dr. Greisheimer. a newcomer to the department in those days, gave us lectures on kidney function, with the latest word on the mathematics of renal clearance tests. Her headlong haste made note-taking difficult, but it was well worth the trouble. MORTON J. OIMT NHKIMI R. M l).