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

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A Spectrum of Alumni Activity Every medical school graduate goes on to contribute in a unique way to his society and profession. We all know, for example, of the numerous alumni who have contributed with their enthusiasm and talents to the maintenance of Temple’s fine medical reputation. What is not as well known, however, are the contributions that have been and are being made to medicine by those who leave the Philadelphia area. Some of our graduates fill administrative posts. Dr. Manson Meads '43 was this year appointed Dean of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I)r. Meads entered Temple from the University of California, where he had previously received an A.B. degree. Prior to earlier research work in bacteriology at Bowman Gray, he had served as a research fellow at the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory and was an assistant in medicine at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Daniel H. Bee ’37 is the current president of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society. Dr. C. Paul Hodgkinson ’36. chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Henry Ford Hospital since 1933, is now serving as the tenth president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Among the members of Temple’s second graduating class in medicine (1903) was Dr. Frederick H. Dammasch, who has served since 1933 as a member of the Hall of Representatives of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. His dedication over the years to aiding the mentally ill through legislative action was recently climaxed by the construction of a new 1300 bed state hospital named in his honor. Dr. Homer L. Reighard ’48 is Chief. Medical Standards Division, Federal Aviation Agency, Washington, D.C.; his main concern is with flight safety in civilian airlines. The first woman president of the Pennsylvania Academy of General Practice, presently holder of that office is Dr. Harriet Nl. Harry, '36, of University Park. Pa. Two graduates are prominent in the worlds of fine art and journalism. Dr. Emil L. Seletz ’32. California neurosurgeon by vocation and sculptor by avocation, was featured on the cover of The Scientific Monthly, April 1956, for his bronze bust of Albert Einstein. This bust is on display in the rotunda of the Jewish Community Building in Los Angeles, and a copy graces the entrance to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Rex Morgan, M.I) , the cartoon-doctor who enters more households each week than any other doctor in the United States, is a creation of Dr. Nicholas P. I Tallis ’38. He is perhaps better known to most as Dal Curtis, a pen name for this well-qualified script-writer. A practicing psychiatrist, Dr. Dallis received his specialty training at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. He uses his cartoon strip chiefly to wage war on medical quackery and to erase public ignorance of some common diseases. Many alumni have found satisfaction in contributing to the health of those abroad through medical missionary work. Some of those who have, or are, serving in India and Africa include: Dr. Clara C. Leach 15, Dr. Margaret R. Gibbons ’25. Dr. Merle W. Eshleman ’38, Dr. Mary Kirby Bern,' '42, Dr. Earl W. Reber '45. Dr. John H. F.dling ’48, Dr. Charles W. Dietrich ’53, Dr. John W. Saether ’54. and Dr. Joseph H. Bngle ’56. Dr. Kenneth V. Dodgson 53, who this year returned to Temple to finish a surgical residency, recently finished a five year tour of duty at the Jorhat Christian Hospital in Assam, India. While in this tea-garden area of India, Dr. Dodgson. who is an ordained minister, was spiritual and medical director of a 250 bed general hospital, 53 bed tuberculosis sanitorium. 200 patient leprosarium, and a nursing school. After his specialty certification in surgery, he plans to return to Jorhat to continue this important missionary work. These alumni are just a few of the Temple medical alumni who have gone out to serve many parts of the world since the first medical class graduated sixty years ago. 24