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

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ODE TO THE CLASS OF 72 I‘d like to present, without much ado This ode to the class of 72. It makes fun of me. the staff, and you The survivors of His to and the Hong Kong flu. In orientation week. I’m sure you’ll agree. That in all that talking you didn’t foresee That your first week of study would set the mode Of being hopelessly buried and completely snowed. Bates lectured to you in Room 603 Covered adequately in an hour, or three. Each presentation leaving him hoarse, While he tried to cram in the rest of the course. Sodicoff held you in the palm of his hand As he showed you slides of the mammary gland. But you never quite met Marvin eye-to-eye ‘Cause you kept glancing down at his name on his tie. Davidhciser’s weekly evening reviews Made some S’s out of U’s, And he gave you the liver so you’d all sec That some gall’s confined to canaliculi. Phillips gave you all the dope About gigantic structures in the E M scope That reverted to angstroms instead of miles And all of them called by the name “profiles.” Truex lectures, were in the main. Particularly devoted to the brain. He acted the lesions and shimmied and shook - ; Showing all of those things you can’t find in his nook. Crouse lead you on a merry chase IF As he partitioned the heart and developed the face And right after lunch, when you all did glut, He twisted and turned your developing gut. Rodriguez would never falter and never balk At filling the balckboard with colored chalk And his exam page did elicit some fears Of being awared a “U”, instead of two ears. Schncck handed out millions of mimeo sheets. Then gathered you in groups in 603 seats. He taught you how to apply all this stuff About what muscles you use when you sit on your duff. Pratt gave you all of the pertinent points Of ‘what’s in the orbit and the ‘mechanics of joints.’ And often in the lab. when he was missed. You’d find him teaching the therapist. Daddy Huber’s presentations you could hear and see In his audio-visual L. G. P. His pulmonary segments were a particular rage; Expect to find them on the next picture page. Trover’s lectures were a particular shock He always kept talking, never looked at the clock. His lecture on fertilization made students become quiet ‘Cause by the time he was finished they were too old to try it.

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nHSfms a.wtovi kxam Gross Anatomy 1970 7. 2H. aJ. fi'A Aa f J 11111.1 M I ft, .AAM Pact ”7 In each of I’m 2 following questions blacken tm bra Wet In front oI tho otto right tinam A skin melanoma (mullpnant pigmot»ted tumor) located in the i lfrht Biddle scapular region !«• going to be excised. Which one of tho following lymph node groups should also be removed b« auai i tumor aotuiU.ic ft? ( ) gluteal ( ) inguinal ( ) occipital (pi axilla : f ) yu|h i It ! a 1 jugular A 19 year old college student suffered a dislocation of tho let carpo-m tncarpal joint of her right hand. After the reduction and following physiotherapy, her progress was very unsfttla factory. At • new examination the pretty patient showed: jo -1 i Jong her right wrist, wasting of the thenar BUbi'le , «i i-ktirh . of the pinch and grasp, hypocsthesla on the two luti r •I digit ol bet right hand and negative x-rays. After reading tniw history, which one of tne following would be your dlacnowiav ( ) irjury of the ulnar nerve at the elbow ( ) injur)’ of tuc % Jlan nerve at the cubital fossa t ) injury ol thi iaOi.tl nerve at the wrist flp ii t of t . u ui.tn n : t kriat (carpal tunnel » nJioao . “Now class, we’ve been through much together, through sunny, through stormy weather. Through all you’ve carried quite well the load and so to you belongs this humble ode. Dr. J. Robert Troyer -V

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And now that you’ve had your little laugh As we've poked fun at all the staff. We’ll take the time before it does pass To take a shot at the freshman class. As we live in a time of impersonalization, Where your name undergoes a severe ablation, You’re known as a number, a terrible abuse, Let’s recapture some names and put them to use. Did you ever think it might be fun to wonder if Sherman is really Harri’-son? Or if Young is in the Hum of life And the Allens aren’t twins, but are man and wife. Did you think of the class as a pastoral scene Where Sachs of Mulchin made the Lawn so Greene? While Mink and Fox and Bird all reeled Among Mellons arfd Crabtree in the Water fie Id. Did you think Eager Grad students were Wies-cn-feld That Silverberg, Cashel and Biickwaltcr means guelt? Or that Ross is a blind Rossi, without an eye, and the same goes for Hall and Hals-cx. Did you think that Baker and Cook might rare To give a meal For-man that they’d prepare? But after a cup of Joe, where they did fool you, They Gacv you a Boa I of Mieaungulu. Did you think of your class in eponym prose While Reeding a Page of Jamison’s Gross Such as Co to ms colon, and Maloney’s knee Or the Trostcl cartilage of Marzoc-clii. There’s Elberson's elbow, that’s really bland. Located proximally to Manus's hand. Or how the Lynch rope can raise Hel-i-nek Making the lesion of Gash on Stanch’s neck. There’s Xoznesky’s nose, that’s sort of Crass I’m sure there are others that we could amass But we’d better Ballay this eponym rhyme Before coming to Pappas and Becker, in time. Now here’s a UYmmer, I’m sure you’ll agree Of Parlor's dog under a tree Wag ner tail, as she’d slowly approach A Co-hen under a Van den Bosch. Did you think of your class as mostly make Of names stressing “man in much detail? There are Feldman. Zugcrman, all Goodman clan. While Menkowitz and Kamens are Wildcrman. Men be Get-sons, as we all do know. As John-, Hauei-, Gib-, and Anderson show. But before this ode beauties too sexy We’ll mention the names of O'Flaherty and Uretsky. Did you think of your class in need of placation About to embark on Christmas vacation? Max-tee-ski down the slopes of the Poconos Or travel to Holland, before its Close.