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

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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

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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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My! How wo have grown! Above Temple University School of Medicine. Class of 1911; 18 students. 2 women. Below: Temple University School of Medicine. Class of2001; 182 students. 68 women. 1979 Leo M. Henikoff. MD, becomes dean. 19X1 D. Kolff transplants the first artificial heart into a ncurologically dead human recipient 1983 Sol Sherry. MD. professor and chair of medicine, is named Temple University's first distinguished professor 1984 Philadelphia area's first heart transplant is performed at Temple. High-dose injections of streptokinase for heart attack pioneered by Sol Sherry. MD. Dr. Sherry named 1985 First adult cystic fibrosis inpatient treatment center in nation opens at Temple. 195fi Martin Goldberg. MD '55. becomes dean Temple gets first FDA-approved mobile MRI unit in US. New SI29 million 10-story TUH opens. Old Samaritan Hospital is demolished. 1990 Allen R. Meyers. MD. becomes dean. First combined heart kidney transplant performed. 19S0 1981 1983 1984 am 1986 1988 World Health AIDS is described The first lung Baboon heatt Philadelphia FDA approves Human Genome Organization by the Centers for transplant is transplanted into police drop AZT for AIDS. Project launched declares smallpox eradicated. RU-4X6 invented. US measles mortality rate zero. Phillies heat Kansas City. 4-2. in World Series Disease Control. performed. The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technique is conceived human baby. bomb on MOVE row home Space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after take-off. killing all aboard by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy,