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

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Temple Then Ambulance Corps of Samaritan Hospital We stand for a moment, like those who pause upon a mountain path, and gaze downward to the valley they have left below and upward to the heights above that allure to further effort. We have been brought to our present point by powers we know not of, but whether ogr feet shall ever stand upon those high and lonely levels depends upon ourselves. We are like voyageers when the harbor dangers have been safely passed, the pilot dropped, and the ship heads out to sea. From now on, the voyage is our own: ours the task of making it a joy; our to prepare to weather the unfeeling, destructive storm,-ours to find in the pageantry of Nature and in comradeship with our fellows a sufficient inspiration. from Words of Aspiration Arthur Wakefield Staten 10

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Excavation site for the new hospital Parkinson Pavilion Main Hospital Building 9

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Main Hospital Building These words of Arthur Wakefield Staten create a strong sense of time and movement. Staten has captured both the feeling of the onward movement of time and the essence of one special moment within that time bv creating the image of a voyager who, while in the midst of an arduous journey, pauses for a moment to reflect back upon that which has already been completed and to ponder what lies in the future. Such a moment is indeed special as it evokes both a feeling of pride in what has been accomplished and overcome and also a sense of excitement and perhaps a little trepidation in contemplating what lies ahead. Temple University Hospital and the School of Medicine have been on a journey for over seventy-five years now. From their small beginnings, they have overcome many obstacles and have grown into a large and respected institution. You will find their histories recorded in the following pages, and you will see who and what are a part of Temple's past and its present. The Class of 1978 has also been on a journey. For the class, the journey began in September, 1974. It spanned four busy years and, in a sense, it ends in May, 1978. For each individual, however, the journey began in the more distant past, and the end is nowhere in sight. These four years have been only a beginning, and each of us will now continue on his own journey. As we stand on the brink of our careers, we are precisely at the point of which Staten speaks. Come with us now and share our four years. For this is our moment. 11 Babcock Surgical Ampitheater