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

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ROBERT M. BUCHER, M.D. Dean of the Medical School In three years time Dean Robert M. Bucher has successfully established his position as an astute and imaginative leader in the management of medical affairs. He not only has maintained the high calibre of training for which Temple University School of Medicine is known, but has generated long range building programs to enlarge the growing spectrum of the medical center’s influence. The development of the present medical community into a complex and unified center of medical education, research, and practice has just begun with the construction of the research building and the women’s residence hall. Under Dr. Bucher’s guidance this growth of Temple will be maintained and insured. Dean Bucher graduated in medicine from Temple in 1944. After his internship training in this hospital was finished, he served a tour of duty in the U.S. Army-Medical Corps. Dr. Bucher returned to Temple to complete his surgical residency-training. His excellence as a surgeon has led to appointment as Associate Professor of Surgery. The leadership abilities which he demonstrated culminated in his appointment as Assistant Dean in 1957. With the retirement of Dr. William N. Parkinson in 1959, Dr. Bucher was appointed Dean oF the medical school. As Dean, Dr. Bucher is critically aware of many problems facing the students of medicine. More important, he realizes that his burden will multiply with the years. As a leader in the medical community, he will proceed to advocate continued reappraisal of both study and the practice of medicine, so that this medical center will remain a dynamic leader in the field of medical education. 15

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LEROY E. BURNEY. M.D. Vice-President of Health Sciences Temple University is pleased to welcome Dr. Leroy E. Burney as Vice-President of Health Sciences. Former Surgeon-General of the United States Public Health Service, Dr. Burney is renowned for his activities in the field of public health. As Surgeon-General from 1956-1961, he brought direction to public health matters throughout the world. He was responsible, for example, for the organization of various medical units into an effective defense against the ‘Asian’ influenza epidemic of 1957. He was Chief Delegate and Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the Tenth World Health Assembly in Geneva, and to the Eighth Session of the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific of the World Health Organization. Dr. Burney is a graduate of Butler College and the Indiana University School of Medicine. He served his internship at the Public Health Service Hospital in Chicago and received his Master’s Degree in Public Health in 1932, following a year’s study as a Rockefeller Fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. As a young physician, Dr. Burney worked in the field of venereal disease control and helped to develop the mobile health clinic which has become a standard health measure in our .Southern States. He was called to Washington. D.C. during World War II to aid in the War Shipping Administration’s fight against venereal disease. After an assignment as District Health Director in New' Orleans. Dr. Bumfey was appointed State Health Officer of Indiana and, in 1953, was named Deputy Chief of the Public Health Service, Bureau of State Services. Three years later, President Eisenhower appointed him Surgeon-General of the Public Health Service with the rank of Rear Admiral. Numerous honors have come to Dr. Burney for his distinguished service, including a personal presidential commendation and, more recently, election to the newly created position of Speaker of the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Burney’s activities as Vice-President of Health Sciences at Temple University emphasize his concern for problems confronting professional education today and tomorrow. 14

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ARTHUR D. NELSON. M.D. Assistant Dean of the Medical School On July 1, 1961, Temple University School of Medicine was privileged to welcome one of its formei students, Dr. Arthur D. Nelson, as assistant Dean. His duties are many: among them are medical school admissions, student affairs, plant construction and maintenance, health maintenance at the medical center, as well as teaching environmental health for the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. It requires a man of unusual talents and exceptional training to be intimately involved in these many-faceted activities so necessary to the proper working of the medical school. Dr. Nelson’s credentials fill the bill. In 1944 he received a B.S. in military engineering from the United States Academy at West Point. Three years of troop duty and three more as an engineering officer in Honduras followed. In 1950 he received an M.S. degree in civil engineering from Harvard University and subsequently taught physics and chemistry at West Point for three years. Having attained the rank of major, our future physician enrolled at Temple Medical School in 1953. From this time on, medicine became a full-time job. Following graduation in 1957, he spent one year as an intern and another as chief resident physician at the Montgomery Hospital in Norristown, Pennsylvania, At present, Dr. Nelson and his wife. Dr. Sarah Burton Nelson, maintain a general practice near their home in Center Square. Whitpan Township, Pennsylvania. 16