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

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Professors Emeritus Jesse O. Arnold, M.D., F.A.C.S. Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics G. Mason Astley, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Surgery W. Wayne Babcock, A.M., M.D., LL.D., F.A.C.S. Emeritus Professor of Surgery J. Garrett Hickey, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Physiology William C. Pritchard, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Anatomy William Egbert Robertson, M.D., F.A.C.P. Emeritus Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine John B. Roxby, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Anatomy Melvin A. Saylor, B.S., M.D. Emeritus Professor of Physiological Chemistry William A. Steel, B.S., M.D., F.A.C.S. Emeritus Professor of Principles of Surgery W. Hersey Thomas, B.A., M.D., F.A.C.S. Emeritus Professor of Urology y

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William N. Parkinson, B.S., M.D., M.Sc. (Medicine), Sc.D., F.A.C.S., Ed.D., LL.D. Vice-President, Tomplo University—Dean, Temple University School of Medicine TO THE CLASS OF 1954: The first half of the 20th century has been called Medicine’s Golden Age. This is due to the remarkable and outstanding achievements made in the prevention and control of organic disease and a more complete understanding of mental health. During this period sulfa drugs, vitamins, hormones, antibiotics and radio-isotopes have been added to the physician's armamentarium in his battle against disease. We should look forward enthusiastically to the next fifty years in the expectation that this period may even exceed the previous half century in discoveries that will benefit and bless mankind. Your Faculty hope that each member of your class may have a part in the advancement of medical knowledge which is bound to occur. On Commencement Day, you will experience mixed emotions: gladness, because of the successful completion of your medical studies: sadness because this will be the last time you will all meet together as an entire class. But wherever you go, you represent Temple University: and the reputation of your Medical School depends upon the reputation you make in the communities in which you practice. Your Faculty and your Dean hope that the future may hold for each of you success. happiness and a large measure of usefulness to mankind; and that you will remember Education is a lifelong process in which the student can only make a beginning during his college course. With every good wish for your future.

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Dedication John A. Kolmer, M.S., M.D.. D.P.H., Sc.D., LL.D., L.H.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.D. (Hon.) Professor and Head of the Deportment of Public Health and Preventive Medicine As we, the class of 1954, prepare to take the Hippocratic Oath, it is particularly appropriate that we should dedicate this, our yearbook, to a man whose life so well exemplifies the ideals set forth in this oath. Dr. John Albert Kolmer, as physician, teacher and personality, has influenced us directly and indirectly throughout our medical education. A man of great faith and humility, a proponent of clean living, a man possessing a deep sympathy for human suffering. Dr. Kolmer has a high regard for his profession and has constantly urged his students to maintain its highest standards and dignity. His outstanding contributions and accomplishments make a consistent and endless pattern within his biography. 21