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

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Contents . . . Introduction: Dedication 4 New Frontiers 8 Administration 17 Seniors 24 Faculty 166 Underclasses 206 Organizations and Activities 222 Medical Technologists 244 Nurses 270 Patrons and Advertising 366 3

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DEDICA TION OF 1963 SKULL TO By establishing its new medical research building this year, Temple University Medical Center has taken a giant stride towards promoting the new frontier of medicine. The Class of 1963 is pleased to dedicate its yearbook to a man who has helped Temple reach great heights in the past and who shall be an integral part of its new frontier. Thus we salute Dr. Robert H. Hamilton ... a great medical educator. When a student has successfully completed the course in Biochemistry at Temple Medical School, he can safely say he has mastered many of the basic concepts. That this is so is due to a great extent to Dr. Hamilton, who established the standards of accomplishment which we students must attain. To surmount the multiple difficulties, innate in supervising the instruction of a basic medical science demands a teacher of great merit, a man of sincere interest in the student, a man of extensive professional qualification. Such a man is Dr. Hamilton. He is a medical educator who believes that not only must academic learning provide factual information and stimulate one to probe and reason, but it must also create a genuine desire in the student to seek further knowledge. Robert Houston Hamilton was born in Corsicana, Texas on September 12, 1906. His father, a former professor of Humanities at Baylor University and later president of Howard Payne College, was then a Judge in the Texas judiciary. His mother, a teacher by profession, personally undertook her son’s schooling until he entered high school. At the age of sixteen he entered the University of Texas. In his early years, his chief interest lay in mathematics. During high school he became a part-time tutor of this subject, and then majored in mathematics at college. While in college, he began to focus his energies on chemistry. The year 1926 brought his Bachelor’s degree, and the following year a Master’s degree in organic chemistry. In 1927, he left Texas for the University of Minnesota where he became an instructor in biochemistry. He spent seven productive years there, teaching and studying. He attained a Doctorate in biochemistry in 1933. A steadily growing interest in medicine finally culminated in Hamilton’s receiving an M.D. degree two years later. 4