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

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DEDICATION J. Robert Troyer, Ph.D. Dr. J. Robert Troyer has been a great inspiration as a teacher and a friend to the Class of 1990. We met him on the first day of school when he helped to lay the foundation of our road to becoming great physicians. He is not only admired by his medical, graduate and dental students but by his colleagues, other academicians, and physicians in the Temple University Hospital community. Dr. Troyer was born in Princeton, Illinois and was raised mostly in Syracuse, New York. He studied as an undergraduate at Syracuse University where he, like many of us, was initially pre-med, but his interests shifted to Zoology. At Cornell University, he then pursued Histology and Embryology as his majors, with minors in Mammalogy and Comparative Anatomy and he received his Ph.D. in 1955. His doctoral thesis was entitled A Biochemical and Histological Study of Liver Glycogen in a Hibernating Bat.” He was influenced by his professors and admired their dedication to teaching which he has incorporated into his own methods of education. . Robert Troyer as Captain of the Patrol Boys in 6th grade at Sumner Elementary School in Syracuse, New York. 4 • Dedication

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication......................4 Administration.................12 Pre-Clinical Years.............20 Clinical Years.................54 Activities....................120 Graduates.....................150 Residency Appointments........325 Advertisements................332 Contents • 3

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Dr. Troycr with wife Ruth Dr. Troycr considers his most significant contribution to Temple University Medical School to be the revision and development of an interdisciplinary core curriculum for the complete four-year medical school training program, which has remained virtually unchanged until recent years. He became chairman to the Anatomy Department in 1979 and has held the position since that time. Numerous awards have attested to his achievements as a great teacher. He has been a recipient of the Lindback Award for distinguished teaching in 1972 and the Sowell Teaching Award for basic science teaching in 1981. He has received the Student American Medical Association teaching Award eight times. More recently in April of 1989, he was inducted into the Temple Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honorary fraternity, as the faculty awardee and only the second Ph.D. to become a member of this organization. He also received Temple's Great Teacher Award which was accompanied by a medallion and a $10,000 cash award. At last year's graduation, he presented the first Faculty Salute at the University's Commencement Exercise in Convention Hall. Dr. Troyer modestly states that being a great teacher is having students who are able to listen well and organize the facts. Dr. Troyer's teaching extends beyond the lecture hall to the histology and neuroanatomy laboratory as well as to the necessary (and lifesaving) review sessions. His unique style of lecturing can best be appreciated as a member of his audience. We cannot forget his creative three-dimensional models which helped make difficult concepts manageable as well as entertaining. We all remember the colored balloons, the ladder and whatever else Dr. Troyer found in his basement carpentry shop. Temple University had the pleasure of first receiving Dr. Troyer's expertise in 1954 when he taught in the multidisciplinary course of Gross Anatomy, Histology, Embryology and Neuroanatomy. He met his wife Ruth, who is a nurse, while they were jointly teaching a nursing course in anatomy and physiology. They were married on August 18,1956. Dedication • 5