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

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PRESENT- In 1910, Frank C. Hammond, M.D., Sc.D., LL.D., F.A.C.S., became the dean, an office he held until 1929. A skilled surgeon. Dr. Hammond served in a transition period of growth and change as the tiny acorn, filling a need, slowly became a sizeable oak in professional circles. Unfavorable legislation made abandonment of the original evening classes mandatory. Day classes were accordingly organized in 1907, and two years later the midnight school was no more. Also in 1907, the Philadelphia Dental College,opened in 1865 and second oldest in the nation, joined with Temple in the year it changed its name to Temple University. The medical and pharmacy schools, which had opened simultaneously in 1901, then moved into the dental building on Spring Garden Street where larger classes could be accommodated and each laboratory department could occupy an entire floor. In 1929, William N. Parkinson, M.S., M.D., Sc.D., LL.D., L.H.D., F.A.C.S., a medical graduate of 1911, became Dean —a position he filled with distinction for thirty years. During his tenure the school and hospital expanded in facilities and excellence. Also in 1929, the enlarged hospital's name was changed to Temple University Hospital to denote its close connection with the University. In the same year ground was broken for a new medical school building situated directly opposite the hospital at Broad and Ontario Streets. Dr. Charles W. Mayo, Sr., was the main speaker at dedication ceremonies in September, 1930. Augmenting the hospital's School of Nursing, dating from 1892, a School of Medical Technology was opened in 1939. St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, a medical center for infants and children, became the pediatric unit of Temple University School of Medicine in 1947. Remarkable further expansion occurred in 1956 with the opening of three additional buildings at Temple University Medical Center: Parkinson Pavilion (a ten-story, 600 bed in-patient building), Out-Patient Building (an eight-story structure), and Ancillary Service Building (a two-story unit incorpating x-ray, operating rooms and clinical laboratories). Also in 1956, the Skin and Cancer Hospital of Philadelphia became a part of the Department of Dermatology at Temple University School of Medicine. Nine years later it moved into a modern building adjacent to the Medical School on North Broad Street. In 1959, Robert M. Bucher, M.S., M.D., F.A.C.S., a medical graduate of 1944, assumed the Deanship of the Medical School. Two years later the Edith Bolling Jones Residence was opened for student nurses and other woman students in the health sciences. A nine-story Medical Research Building, of unusual architectural design and functional capacity, was completed in 1963. The Pels Research Institute, affiliated with the medical school since 1946, is now housed on the seventh and eighth floors of this building. The Agnes Barr Chase Foundation for Surgical Research, named for an outstanding medical alumna of 1909, occupies its ninth floor. Continued expansion of the Health Sciences at Temple University led to the appointment in 1962 of Leroy E. Burney, M.P.H., M.D., Sc.D., LL.D., F.A.C.P., immedi- ate past Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, as Vice President of this division. Including the medical,dental, pharmacy, nursing, medical technology, oral hygiene and related auxiliary health professions, the Temple University Health Sciences Center now extends over a large geographical area in North Philadelphia and includes teaching affiliations with Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia General Hospital, Abington, Episcopal and Germantown Hospitals, Shriner's Hospital, Wills Eye Hospital and Philadelphia District Public Health Center No. 8. Currently under construction is a new teaching building for the Medical School, to be named the Kresge Building because of munificent support from the Kresge Foundation. This edifice will incorporate new classrooms, laboratories, medical library, auditorium and offices. Additional plans include expansion of the health sciences campus to increase student enrollment and permit closer coordination between the various schools. To conclude this brief review of sixty-five years' progress at Temple University School of Medicine, another quotation from Conwell's The New Day is appropriate: Mighty advances are being made now in medical knowledge and surgical skill, and it creates a feeling of awe as we reasonably forsee the miraculous things which will soon be done with our bodily organs. The multiplication oi great hospitals in the cities and the building of numberless sanitariums in the country gives science a fair chance to experiment without danger to patients and secure knowledge which doctors need to keep up their practices. The profession is a sacred one and it is important as it is holy. It deals with Cod's masterpiece and he who can take a chronometer apart and repair it completely is next to the maker in knowledge and power. Fred B. Rogers, M.D.

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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, 1901-1966 OF PROFESSIONAL PROGRESS UPPER: SAMARITAN HOSPITAL, 1893 DR. W. WAYNE 8A8COCK OPERATING, 1916 LOWER: ANATOMY LAB IN FIRST MEDICAL SCHOOL 19

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