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

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The SKULL Dedication Cair§®]m Sdhmedk, MoBo, PIlP Carson Schneck was bom on October 10, 1933. He was an only child to a blue-collar family in Allentown, PA. His father drove a beer delivery truck; his mother sewed buttons at a shirt factory. While his parents only had a high school education, they placed great value on education. As a child growing up, his mother always wanted him to be a doctor. However, Dr. Schneck almost didn't make it into medicine. After graduating from high school, he took a job as a construction worker and liked it very much. He recalled that, 1 could've been a dry-waller for the rest of my life. Fortunately for us. Dr. Schneck continued his education and pursued premed at Muhlenberg College in Allentown. While there, he recalled especially enjoying classes taught by Professor Stein in philosophy, ethics, and religion. It was at this time that he discovered learning though the Socratic method. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree 1955, Dr. Schneck began his medical education at Temple University School of Medicine. While he was accepted to other local medical schools such as Jefferson and Hahneman, Temple was his first choice. Dr. Schneck chose Temple because of its faculty, who were not only internationally recognized in their respective field of medicine, but also were good teachers. Furthermore, he thought Temple was a good place to learn medicine. He was not disappointed.

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Dr. Schneck had always been interested in teaching. As a teen, he was involved in teaching, in the Boy Scouts and the Red Cross. However, it was not until medical school that he realized he wanted to be a science teacher. Dr. Schneck admitted that he was torn between Anatomy and Physiology. Ultimately, he went with Anatomy because of the influences of his mentor. Dr. John Huber (who happened to be the chairman of the department at the time). Dr. Schneck graduated from the school of medicine in 1959 and shortly afterward started his rotating internship at Frankford Hospital in Philadelphia. On New Year's eve of that year, Dr. Schneck recalled how he saw 52 patients while on call by himself (and a nurse) in the ER. This was especially difficult for him because he had gotten no sleep the night before due to the birth of his first daughter. Upon completion of his internship in 1960, Dr. Schneck returned to Temple in a faculty position. In his first year, he taught Gross Anatomy, Histology, Embryology, and Neuroanatomv. In addition, he pursued his Ph.D on a part time basis, with Dr. Huber as his advisor. In 1965, Dr. Schneck became the first person to receive a doctorate degree from the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Temple.