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

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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

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THE MAN It is the privilege of very few organizations to have as their guiding genius a man with the phenomenal capabilities of Dr. William N. Parkinson. Graduated from the Medical School in 1911, Dr. Parkinson served as associate dean from 1922 to 1924. Following five years of further study and practice, he returned at the request of the American Medical Association to become Dean in 1929. He has become truly inseparable from the medical school, both in accomplishment and thought. The growth of his school to greatness, climaxed by the new medical center, forms a parallel with his personal stature; for he too receives freely the respect and admiration of all with whom he is in contact. Much more difficult to express hut equally in the forefront of his life is his warm humanitarian regard for his students; his proximity to their lives has always kept him keenly aware of their individual joys and sorrows, and thus he has achieved the greatness of leadership, by never losing sight of the individual within the complexity of administration. To this man and his school of which we will ever be a part, it is with admiration, pride and above all, sincerity, that we dedicate this, the memory of our finest years. 8