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

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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.

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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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You may Ford a stream, or Russell some lunch, Or bow and Curd with your honeybunch. Or you may raise your Blue-stein in drink and song And Lich-ten-stein when its all gone. Hower you going to Klemmer for more When Ester(’s)hai and on the floor? Or maybe you’ll vacate in a Milder way Bol,linger and D 'App-o-Ionia all day. With that last line. I’m afraid this verse Is a complex Webb that’s getting worse Well’s about time to finish this vein Before coming to Cuistwite and Frangipane My Pen-nocked many 1 wouldn’t offend But finally I’ve found I’ll have to end Without mentioning the names of forty-four It’s my tribute to them. I’ll say little more. Before you’re Tuckered out and it’s Mones I hear We’ll try to remember a Markow good cheer When a Mong your class in this decorated Hall We make an attempt at total recall Of important events that give us the reason To celebrate this Holiday Season When you and I, and many others Will herald the Messiah or the Maccabean Brothers. “By Dr. J. Robert Troyer, December, 1968” Editors note: Please forgive the lack of editing on the above a very strong sense of authenticity has overcome a sense of aestheticism. Dr. Sodicoff Dr. M. Noble Bates