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

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To the graduating class of 1952: You who are about to leave will he returning in a few years as alumni and practitioners. By that time the great Medical Center to he built around the present Hospital and Medical School will he a reality. Perhaps you will remember that it had its beginning in your student days. The undertaking finally took form last year. For so long it had been just a hope in the hearts of a few who had faith in Temple University and concern for the health of the community. Friends innumerable have joined in now to see it through. Always growing, the Medical Center will never he completed. The health needs it must serve will not stand still. That is why the Center will be such an appropriate symbol for your own careers. You are soon to receive your medical degree. That is the goal you have sought for years. But as soon as you have attained it, other goals in human healing will rise before you. The knowledge and skills you have acquired will suffice for today, hut you must constantly add to them for tomorrow’. Successful medical men, like successful medical institutions, look out each day on expanding horizons of service. 4 Robert L. Johnson President.

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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