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

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To each Member of the Class of 1952: Today you have graduated as a Doctor of Medicine. Four years of intense study and application have laid the foundation for you to start toward realizing your goal of becoming a successful physician. My advice to you is “be a good doctor. To he one requires that your life should he clean and that your methods should he simple; that your goodness of life, as such, with your wisdom based on scientific understanding and continuing study, should draw the sick to you to he healed in body and mind: that as you heal them you should sustain them with encouragement and guide them as friend, counsellor and confidant. Follow this guide and you in truth will “be a good doctor. Think often of the School of Medicine in which you obtained your education. May your loyalty to it impel you to help sustain it by “annual giving when for you days of prosperity arrive. Sincerely, William N. Parkinson, Dean. 5

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'Dedication As students, the fulfillment of our greatest dream awaits its imminent realization. As students once more, tee perhaps tend to dignify ourselves by thinking that it is solely the result of our own labors. This semiverity, while benignly presumptuous, may be in some measure forgivable, for youth does not bestow the understanding of what makes possible the fulfillment of its ambitions. Let us try then to better this understanding by more scrupulous appraisal of the advantages that have been imparled to us. THE SCHOOL Temple University School of Medicine celebrates its Fiftieth Anniversary in 1951. There is little about it at the present time to remind one of its inauspicious beginning. When the medical department of Temple College was founded in 1901, it was the intention of President Conwell to establish for Temple a medical department which would enable young men and women to attain the profession of medicine while remaining self-supporting. In accord with this objective the first classes were held in the evening and the course of instruction necessarily spanned five years to give the student the equivalent of a four year day course. Classes were held in the main college building located at Broad and Berks Streets, and clinical instruction was conducted at the then Samaritan Hospital at Broad and Ontario Streets. Dr. Fritz was appointed the first Dean by Dr. Conwell and served until 1903. when he was succeeded by Dr. I. Newton Snivcly who held the position until 1909. During the latter’s tenure the medical school was moved to the Philadelphia Dental College and became affiliated with the Garrctson Hospital. These two moves increased many fold the facilities for medical teaching. By 1910 when Dr. Frank C. Hammond became Dean, the Medical School had abandoned its night classes and assumed its present plan of teaching. In 1923 the maternity department moved to the Greathcart Hospital and increased facilities for preelinical teaching were made available at the Garrctson Hospital. The addition of the Roosevelt Memorial Floor to the Samaritan Hospital was made in 1925. The following four years brought forth the plans for the construction of the present medical school building opposite the Samaritan Hospital, which was subsequently named Temple University Hospital. In 1929 Dr. William N. Parkinson became Dean, and the early years of his leadership saw the completion of the new medical school ami the attainment of an A‘ rating from the American Medical Association. The numerous additions to the physical plant in the following years have given us the medical center that we have today; and the completion of the new hospital now underway will mile-stone a half-century of progress. 7