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

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Temple Institution: Above: Dr. Carson Schneck. 1959. upon gradua- Poetic License: Above: Skull 1927 editors. Below: Skull 2001 edition from Temple School of Medicine Below: Dr. Schneck today. tors looking a bit more relaxed but without the mink shawl 1959 Dean Parkinson steps down alter 30 years; the longest tenure for dcanship of a medical school to date. Robert M Bucher. V1D '44. becomes Dean at age 38. one of the youngest in the country. JLMJ Health Sciences Campus is established 3t Temple. 1961 Leroy Burney, MD. former US Surgeon General, becomes Temple’s first vice president for the Health Sciences. 1962 Dean Bucher's report on faculty activities showcases 367 articles. 24 books. 360 research projects underway. 16 scientific exhibits show and 65 teaching films produced both here and abroad. 1963 Nine-story medical research building adjoining med school opens. 1965 Skin and Cancer Hospital opens, the first of its kind in the country. Pennsylvania legislature designates Temple a state-related institution in the Commonwealth System of Higher Education. 1966 Average class size now 125 and house staff exceeds 200. Herbert Stauffer. MD designs the first television stereoscopic fluo-roscope. Practice plan established, allowing growth in faculty 1957 I960 1961 1962 1963 1964 USSR launches US FDA approves Valium prescribed Thalidomide The first liver Surgeon General’s The first Sputnick contraceptive and for the first time. removed from the transplant is report on smoking pancreatic Sabin polio Bay of Pigs. market. Wilt performed by published transplant is vaccine. Berlin Wall. Chamberlain Star .i. performed Peace Corps, and scores 1(H) points President The first heart Audrey Hepburn for the Kennedy transplant is in Breakfast At Philadelphia assassinated. performed by Tiffany's. Warriors. Christian Bamaid. MD (1967). 18

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Afternoon Nap: Above: Histology Lectures then (1940's). Below: Histology Lectures now Fun In The Sun: Above: Blowing off steam in the early 60s and late 40s, respectively. Below: Maintaining the long Temple tradition of working hard followed by playing hard. 1MI 1932 1934 19411 1942 1947 1956 Chevalier Jackson, Walter 1. Lillie, John Koimer. Temple Medical In response to the Ernest Spiegel. Kay Birdshistcll, MD. inventor of MD. of the Mayo MD, professor ot School’s faculty shortage of quail- MD and Henry MD. invents the bronchoscope. Clinic joins medicine, invents numbers 265. fieri physicians Wycis. MD. per- kinegraphs. opens the Jackson Temple faculty as polio vaccine. Gerald Pearson. and nurses for the form first surgical symbols Clinic for the chair of Temple’s MD. opens first World War II stereoencephalo- describing facial treatment of ophthalmology department ol child psychiatry effort. Temple tomy. Temple's movement. diseases of the and introduces ophthalmology is clinic in US. creates an ROTC affiliation with Parkinson airway. Babcock concept of the first in the US program and TUH St. Christopher's Pavilion opens pioneers spinal residencies to to take accelerates its in- Hospital begins. at TUH anesthesia and Temple. photographs ol temships to make Dental and steel wire sutures the ocular fundus. more practitioners Pharmacy Schools in US. available. join campus. 1931 1933 mi 1940 1942 ms 1953 Urey Prohibition ends. DuPont creates Oswald Avery Declaration First successful John Endcrs demonstrates that first synthetic describes DNA as signed creating dialysis machine develops measles some hydrogen liber, nylon. the transforming United Nations. invented. vaccine Watson atoms contain a factor contained Enrico Fermi Franklin D. and Crick's neutron Knoll in genes. achieves nuclear Roosevelt dies description of and Ruska invent Color television chain reaction. First atomic bomb double helical electron and M M’s Juni Hendrix and detonated at structure of DNA microscope. introduced Stephen Hawking Hiroshima. heralds modem Plutonium bom World War II ends. era of genetics. discovered. Allies liberate Fahrenheit 451 more than IOC) Nazi death camps. (Bradbury) and Playboy magazine appear. 17

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Blood. Sweat and Boors: Above: The Rugby Team c. 1966. Below New and Improved Above Medical School library c. 1932 Below Members of Class of 2001 getting their game on . The present-day library probably featuring the same card catalog ms William P. Barba. MD '44. becomes Dean, 1969 The Kresgc Building is dedicated 1221 The Sol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center, is founded. Paul Kotin. MD. becomes dean. David Hartman, the first blind medical student in the US in 100 years, matriculates at TUSM. 1973 Roger W. Scvy. MD. PhD. becomes dean. 1974 The world's first university-based sports medicine center opens at Temple. 1976 180 is now average class size: more than 7.000 living grads arc practicing in nearly every state and various parts of world; 22 ck of all practicing physicians in Philadelphia area are Temple grads. 1978 M. Prince Brigham. MD '50. becomes dean. Dr. Kolff arrives at Temple to continue his work on the artificial heart. 1968 ilM 1972 1973 1221 1976 1978 Tin: first Apollo 11 Magnetic US Supreme Alutir home Khorana and two First test tube successful bone mission Resonance Court, in Roc v. computer and dozen post-docs baby” is bom. transplant is astronauts land Imaging Wade, rules that Saturday Night manufacture the performed on the moon. is developed. restrictions on Live debut. first gene: Bobby Kennedy US Defense Nixon visits first trimester Arthur Ashe wins tyrosine transfer and Martin Luther Department sets China. abortions are un- Wimbledon. RNA Legion- King. Jr. up precursor to constitutional Nicklaus wins naires disease hits assassinated. Internet. Secretariat w ins fifth Masters. convention hotel Stonewall riots Triple Crown First monoclonal in Philadelphia. Sesame Street dc antibodies bills on PBS. produced. 19