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

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 Gerald Litwack, Ph.D. Ronald A. Pioringer. Ph.D. Leonard Norcia. Ph.D.

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 constructed on the laboratory blackboards data grids of truly astonishing neatness. In that lab, we were the last Temple class to perform the notorious twenty-four hour urine series, including the riot-ous Kjedahl determination (throughout the four years we were frequently the “last class to door not do-this or that . . . All but two of us safely delivered our jugs to the lab: Paul Shanahan managed to spill his fluid through his briefcase on a crowded Broad Street subway car-unintentionally accommodating to an old Philadelphia custom—while Fred Serota deftly kicked over somebody else's sample in the old locker room, which from then indeed smelled like a locker room! We were happily the first class to try some interesting and sophisticated en zyme exercises designed by Drs. Hanson and Ballard of the Fels Research division, who walked across one building and about fifty years' time to visit our labs. Other highlights of biochem lab were few: we mainly plodded through cookbook “experiments and plotted data on graphs, all the while with Dr. Cilley-like a circulating nurse-running about, refilling NaOH bottles and answering questions. Productive of much pain and some nausea, and a few alarming curves was the “fingerstick glucose tolerance test, while the suspenseful rat-feeding experiment yielded the comforting result that starved rats don't get big. Richard W. Hanson, Ph. D. 11 r

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Robert D. Campo, Ph.D. Each biochemistry laboratory was followed by a conference.” usually directed by Dr. Hamilton, at which mainly arithmetic was emphasized. Although there were several useful sessions—including some early attempts to teach us acid-base chemistry—more typical (except more entertaining) was the afternoon Lennie Lipid hooked his Bunsen burner to the air outlet and tried to light it: as with most of our biochemistry lab days nothing much happened. The morning lectures were also mainly uneventful, but there were some exceptions. Dr. Gerald Litwack presented a rigorous and well-organized series on enzyme kinetics, during which we saw real calculus on the 316 blackboard for the first and only time. The problem was that after one week. Dr. Litwack had left at least two-thirds of the class hopelessly behind him. Though it may with much justification be asserted that the story of lipid synthesis is not one of great inherent drama. Dr. Pieringer proved a clear and able lecturer on this topic. Additionally, a variety of other biochemistry department members provided plentiful lectures and laboratory conferences, most neither strikingly good nor awful. Robert C. Baldridge, Ph. D. Raymond E. Knauff, Ph.D.