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

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A class election intervened here at some point—Bruce Dobkin was elected president and Larry Wcllikson became vice-president. Curriculum evaluations, meetings with ghetto leaders, faculty committees, and a free university evolved, but the social and educational revolution never picked up steam. Student activism reached one of its pcakN on October 15. when about 50 students joined hundreds in Center City to protest the Vietnam War and to publicize the November 15 March on Washington. A mayor named late and a cop named Rizzo watched from City Hall as white-jacketed students explained to Philadelphians why “War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things.”

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Dr Canon Scbneck I Anatomy, the course that signalled “Hey, we really arc in Medical School,” began and while Dr. Huber tried to help, he never did tell us how to introduce ourselves to a cadaver. Dr. Schncrk led the Gross Anatomy courses, Dr. Troycr commanded Histology, and Drs. Trucx and Way brought tip the flanks with a barrage of Neuroanatomy. The first tested the esprit de corps of the foursomes who hesitantly, then cockily, disrupted unidentifiable structures. Histo and Ncuro tested the most profound sources of humor and patience with repeated slide shows that proferred abstract exprcssionistic paintings for cellular structure and with microscopic studies in barren modules. The March On Washington that protested the American role in Vietnam excited a small group of students in November, but participation in a moral cause was easier before Christmas vacation for those who hammed their parts and those who rolled in the aisles at the First Annual Class of 1973 Rock Musical. Amongst the noble players were Jack Weiss, a balloon-laden Dr. Troycr, Obic Chizca. a saucy microbiologist, and Mike Bartos. a teeth-clenched Dr. Berkowitz. “The cast of dancers and singers were gross, but not too gross and insinuating, but not too insinuating,” wrote Judith Crist of the New York Times. (Maybe it was the Temple Times.) Spirits were high then but were struck ingloriously down by an Anatomy Department examination in January. Academic buffs who had never failed an exam found themselves failing two or three. Students who were used to learning course material “cold” gasped that too much material was covered, while calculating faculty pointed out that '73 played too much bridge and that the curriculum was too permissive. In its great benevolence the Department allowed most of the class the opportunity to pass.