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

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UNIVERSITY MEDICINE PENNS YL VANIA 3

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DEDICA The Class of 1947 was first introduced to Dr. Ernest E. Aegerter in our Sophomore year when he was an associate professor under Dr. Lawrence W. Smith. He so impressed us at that time, with his ability to organize and present the vast and difficult medical science of Pathology, that it was no great surprise to us when he was appointed to fill the chair vacated by Dr. Smith. His lectures were so well outlined that it was a pleasure to study this course which has been the downfall of so many students of medicine. To know him. is to realize that his background must have been one of many and keen interests. He was born in Randolph. Nebraska, on January 4. 1906. the seventh of nine children in a sturdy Midwestern family. Much of his early boyhood was spent on his father's ranch, and the love of the great outdoors fostered by this association is still his favorite hobby. When he was 12. the family moved to Yankton. S.D. where he reluctantly continued his academic pursuits. While he was in high school, he found time to win letters in track, basketball, and captained the football team. During his high school years in Yankton the time came to him, as to all men. when he must cnoose a career. The glamour of Journalism almost captured him. After his Freshman year at Yankton College, he escaped the clutches of the newsprint. fortunately for us. and embarked on that long and rocky road to a medical career. This road carried him to a B.A. at Yankton, and courses at the Universities of Iowa. Nebraska, and South Dakota, receiving a B.S. at the latter institution. His early medical career began at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. Here he paused long enough to become an instructor in Histology before forsaking his beloved open spaces for Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine from which he graduated in 1932. During his internship and residency at the United Hospital in Port Chester. N. Y. he came under the guiding hand of Dr. L. W. Smith and followed him. first to Willard Parker Hospital, and then to Temple in 1936. His interest at that time was Internal Medicine and his study of pathology was merely as a background. The Class of 1947 feels a special kinship to Dr. Aegerter because he attained one of the heights of his young but imposing career while we were his students. It is fitting that we should honor that relationship by dedicating, this, the 1947 SKULL to him. and to wish him many years of continued success in the teaching and practice of Pathology.