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

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SKULL STAFF EDITOR: James L. Littlefield COVER DESIGN: Mary Cay Bibro ASSISTANT EDITOR: Mike DcllaVecchia COVER ART: Bob Vanderslice FINANCES: Lou Capecci CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER: Josepha Seletz SENIOR SECTION: WRITING: Randy Bertolette Mary Cay Bibro Sonny Fineman Mike Buenaflor Bill Gloyd John Crisanti Sue Gloyd Tom Harrington Bill Hunt Rich Levine Dave Roby Dan Lyons Al Wiser James McClurken Gary McFaddcn PHOTOGRAPHY: Buddy McManus Chek Beuf Marion Moses Steve Colameco Jim O'Malley Jeff Crass Gene Porreca George Hunter Robin Richman Steve Lipton Kym Salness Happy Manstein Gary Petrauski Diane Shafer Joel Steinberg SPECIAL THANKS TO: Kit Thompson Margaret Bibro Cleo Clark MEDICAL COMMUNICATIONS: Nancy Doria Henry Bacich Harriette Ingersoll Larry Glazcr Aleda Littlefield Lynn Kirk Alice Litzel Nancy Klimley Mary Stanbery Otto Lehmann Ginny Stein Stan Saltzman Ron Taylor Phil Vaughan Bill Verzyl Cheryl Ann Zisk Mary Ziegler

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 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

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The graduating class of 1976 shall long be remembered in the annals of Temple University School of Medicine. You are graduating in the Bicentennial year of our Nation, and in the City of Philadelphia where it all began two hundred years ago. Your graduation year also coincides with the Diamond Anniversary of your Medical School. At a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of Temple College on March 23, 1901 it was ordered that an evening medical school be opened in connection with the other departments of the Temple College. Although the opening of this School, at a time when the whole nation was witnessing a rash of new and unapproved medical schools, attracted much criticism and ominous predictions for the future, there was no doubt in the minds of the Board of Trustees about the wisdom of their decision. Time has proved them correct, and much of the credit for this wise decision must go to Temple's founder, Dr. Russell H. Conwell. The School started with quality in the form of the men and women who made up its first faculty and student body, and the clinical facilities of the Samaritan Hospital. There were thirty-one students, twenty faculty, and a twenty—bed hospital. The curriculum, with the same number of hours as were devoted to it in a day school, was given over five years of evening instruction. The first graduating class to complete the whole curriculum numbered fourteen; two of these were women. Day classes were offered for the first time in 1907 08. The names of those early teachers include Roxby, Babcock, Krusen and others, and the accomplishments for which they are remembered attests to the wisdom of Dr. Conwell and the Board of Trustees in founding the School. Nevertheless the Flexner report of 1910 was anything but laudatory and included negative comments regarding lack of full-time faculty, insufficient beds, inadequate facilities and the cq—mingling of medical, dental and pharmacy students in the same classrooms. The going was rough and uphill all the way for many years. The School has come a long, long way since 1901. But here we are in 1976, in the year of our Diamond Anniversary, graduating a class of 179 students from all kinds of backgrounds, each of whom has endured long years of hard study to emerge triumphant from a tough, demanding and thorough curriculum. The diversity of backgrounds reflected by the class of 1976 and the individual accomplishments of its members in the face of very stiff requirements are continuing signs of the strength, spirit and purpose of this fine institution. But your task has only just begun. In the next few years you will complete the clinical training needed to qualify you as independent practitioners. Then begins not only a long and satisfying life of service, but also a long life of continued learning. As with your School in the past as well as in the future, much of this journey will be uphill. If it isn't, we won’t be trying hard enough. Congratulations and sincere best wishes to the Class of 1976. I am confident that you'll continue to be a credit to yourselves, to the profession, to the School and to society. Roger W. Sevy, Ph.D., M.D. Dean Temple University School of Medicine 3