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

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HISTORY Tho Pennsylvania College of Podiafry was founded in 1963 and admitted its first class on September 23rd of that year. The institution thus took its place as the fifth College of Podiatry in the United States. From an initial enrollment of eighteen students, the population of the College at the printing of this yearbook has expanded to over one hundred men and women presently pursuing the degree of Doctor of Podiatry. The present College of Podiatry is chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is responsible to the Department of Public Instruction. Tho Collego meets all the regulations of the Pennsylvania State Board of Podiatry and the Council on Education of the American Podiatry Association. On Juno I, 1965, tho Collego moved into its present quarters in the Society Hill Section of Old Philadelphia. The present facility houses a busy clinic, classrooms, an out-patient surgical division, as well as teaching and research laboratories. Excellent relationships have been established with various allied health institutions for the purpose of providing expanded practical and didactic instruction in tho numerous aspects of the practice of Podiatry. The long list of such facilities includes Pennsylvania Hospital, St. Luke's and Children’s Medical Center, The Pennhurst State School, Community Hospital, Eagleville State Hospital, and The Housing Authority of the City of Philadelphia. 4

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DEAN DR. CHARLES W. SIBLEY. JR. Student enthusiasm and faculty fellow-feeling registered high with announcement that Dr. Charles W. Gibley, Jr., would return to the College to fill the post of Academic Dean in time for the fall semester, September, 1967. For the past two years, Dr. Gibley has sorved as Project Investigator of Public Health Service Grants for tho M. D. Anderson Tumor Institute of the University of Texas, where he also served as Assistant Professor of Biology (Pathology). Prior to that, during 1963 to 1965, Dr. Gibley was Professor of Histology and Embryology at the Pennsylvania College of Podiatry. His homecoming will be a happy return to the College and the city of his birth. Ho rccoived his baccalaureate degree from Villanova in 1956, then pursued his graduate education at Iowa State University, where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. before returning to Villanova, first as Instructor in Biology, then as Assistant Professor of Biology. Dr. Gibley is married to the former Regina M. Troy of Philadelphia. They are proud parents of four children. CONTENTS fourth year 7 Uasic Sciences 17 Clinical Sciences 21 Underclasses 31 A ctivities 49

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FUTURE P.C.P. has dramatic plans for expansion ovor the next few years. The College has recently been recommended by the National Advisory Committee, established under the Health Professions Act of 1965. for a $1,400,000 Federal Expansion Grant. It is planned that work on this project will begin in late spring of 1968. Plans includo an out-patient clinic, fully equipped, with sixty-four stations, administrative offices, a modern library housing 55,000 volumes, a modular laboratory for teaching of the basic sciences, an auditorium, faculty offices and conference rooms, seminar rooms, outpatient surgical suite and student lounge areas. The application includes equipment for the various laboratories. clinics and offices and, when completed, should bring the College up to date in keeping with national educational standards. Plans are currently being developed to provide housing for students and College personnel. The College is projecting a building with one hundred apartment-type units; some would be efficiency-type apartments. others would be one bedroom apartments, and a few would be two bedroom apartments. Negotiations are currently under way to obtain ground near the school for this use. Future plans for the College also include the establishment of an in-patient facility which will be given serious consideration over the next year. Also, as the College adds more full-time, research-oriented faculty members, plans are being made to develop a research center which would provide facilities for basic research as well as clinical research. Most important, it would provide adequate facilities and personnel in the foot care — foot wear field. Tho projected student body, with the new facilities as mentioned earlier, would consist of sixty-four students per year or a total of two hundred and fifty-six. It is the hope of the administration of the College that the student body, the alumni, and the profession will become deeply interested and involved in this expansion program and that our plans will meet with the approval of all these individuals.