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

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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

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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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“1 wonder if he mentioned someone’s name who won’t be here next Christmas. I mean, it’s a great party and everyone is laughing now—just look around the class. Who will fail? Which faces shall disappear?” “Yes, I know- what you mean. Back in college we toasted those who failed so that others might pass.” “I’ll drink to that!”