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

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in his home. In addition to these pursuits, he somehow still finds the time and energy to return to Texas every summer, where he helps supervise the family farm on the Gulf Coast. Dr. Hamilton is particularly interested in the development of clinical applications of analytical methods. He has authored many papers dealing with this topic, mainly pertaining to quantitative analyses in biological materials. Having performed so productively in the past, Dr. Hamilton now looks towards the future with anticipation. The advent of our Research Building has signaled expansion of the biochemistry department both in staff and in research programs. All projects of a biochemical nature undertaken at Temple University, at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels, will be centrally coordinated from the departmental office. New areas of investigation will be explored in both the basic and clinical sciences. Much is being done in cooperation with the Departments of Surgery. Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dermatology, and Cardiology. It is with a great deal of pleasure that we, the Class of 1963, dedicate our SKULL to you, Dr. Robert H. Hamilton, in recognition of the services you have rendered to Temple University, to its students, and to medicine. 7

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How to Best Finance Hospital John F. Kennedy President of the United States Care f°r Our Senior Citizens? President Kennedy has given his permission for the editors talk given from Madison Square Garden on May 20, 196' ° the Skull to excerpt 4 What is the issue which divides and arouses so rmic-h 5 , ... . , , . , ■ay be typical, a family which may be found in any paS of Utc Unhed S.a.m “ A man owns his house. He has twenty-five hundred or rhr-. . . . . And then his wife gets sick . . . not jus, for a week but for a ‘V ? five hundred dollar - that , gone. Next he mortgages his hoX ThJhr children who themselves are heavily burdened. Then their savings begin to go 8 saying tten°JdW„ f,= “ d°? ' ' “d h' ” - • » Now what do we say? We say that during his working years he will contribute to social security, as he has in the case of his retirement, twelve or thirteen dollars a year. When he becomes ill, or she becomes ,11 over a long penod of time, he first pays ninety dollars, so that people will not abuse it. But then lets say he has a bill of fifteen hundred dollars. This bill does not solve everything but lets say its fifteen hundred dollars, of which a thousand dollars are hospital bills. This bill will pay that thousand dollars in hospital bills. And then 1 believe that he, and the effort that he makes and his family, can meet his other responsibilities. (Now various alternative plans.) — In the first place, there isn't one person here who is not indebted to the doctors of America. Children arc not bom on an eight-hour day. All of us have been the beneficiaries of their help. This not a campaign against doctors, because doctors have joined with us. This is a campaign to help people meet their responsibilities. — We do not cover doctors' bills here. We do not affect the freedom of choice. You can go to any doctor you want. The doctor and you work out your arrangements with him. — And then I read that this bill will sap the individual self-relaiance of Americans. I can’t imagine anything worse, or anything better, to sap self-reliance, than to be sick, alone, broke — or to have saved for a lifetime and put it out in a week, a month, two months. — This argument that the government should stay out, that it saps our pioneer stock, I used to hear that argument when we were talking about raising the minimum wage to a dollar and a quarter. — Nobody in this hall is asking for it for nothing. They are willing to contribute during their working years. That is the important principle which has been lost sight of. — What we arc concerned about is not the person who has not got a cent but those who saved and worked and then get hit. — In closing, let me say that on this issue and many others we depend upon your help. This is the only way we can secure action to keep this country moving ahead, to have places to educate our children, to have decent housing, to do something about the millions of young children who leave our schools before they graduate. We ask you, the citizens of this country, the responsible and thoughtful doctors, the hospital administrators, all those who face this challenge of educating our children, finding work for our older people, finding security for those who have retired, all who are committed to this effort of moving this country forward: Come give us your neip. 9