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

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ers for light and warmth. We were a very close class that winter, we huddled togethr just to stay warm Turner with the help of Talrnagc Jacobs used to turn ahead the clock on the wall to avoid frostbite We did have a reserve section for the pipe smokers. Turner. Sokoloff, Snyder and Maguire I think they smoked u pipe just to keep their hands warm. Standard equipment for class was a pair of binoculars, because we were so far back, it was impossible to see the Professor or even hear them. Sometimes that was good, sometimes that was bad Sometimes that was to our advantage. Slide woman could't believe that a Ph D. knew how to turn on a slide projector, but you could always count on her for 3 piece of chalk Then there was Dr. S L Pilkow The S.L. stood for Stcin-I.eventhal. Dr Pilkow was really trying to follow in the foot steps of Johnson and Masters It took Dr Pitkow so long to hand out exams, he would get the different colored tests mixed up. that the students in the front row finished before the ones in the back ever received their exams. The Old Man introduced us to a new game called Russian Roulette We were each given a number, no longer a name, just a number. So much for personalized education We had gotten the 8th street dash down to 3 minutes flat, from the church to the old school, up 2 flights of stairs to see our number and grade posted How they ever got the grades posted in 5 minutes remains a secret. Do you remember in Anatomy dissection when Mike Ccntrclla asked Dr. Harford how long should we spend on the thigh muscles and he answered How long is a piece of string . Darryl asked him where the cadavers would be buried and he answered, In the ground, where else? How many times we studied the os innominatum and never once got a test on it. In Greek, os innominatum means ‘no name’, but I think it means no test. How we used to hold our breath and pray when Dr. Harford would open his briefcase and stand in front of the room and decide which half of the class would leave for those ‘surprise' quizes. Lots of us would never have passed anatomy if it weren't for those extra 20 minutes. We used to try and outguess him. but they don't call him the old man for nothing. It was like a football pool: would it be arteries vs. bones or bones vs. muscles. One thing you will never forget is that the femur is the longest and strongest bone in the body Learning which way the borders went was like learning football plays: the linca aspeara. goes medially. shoots off laterally, takes a sharp turn at the tubercle and heads toward the goal line. Histology was taught by Dr. David Eisenhower. His multiple, multiple choice exams left us with nothing to hang our hat on The Amtrack pods from our nation's capitol. Lyons and Shapiro (sounds like a law firm), taught us what j wart and a corn looked like and how much we got paid to remove them We also learned that Podiatry is a very lucrative profession that could provide you with vacations and Jaguars. Don't forget Ccntrclla's impersonations of Shapiros trips.

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It beg3n in the fall of 72. We were 86 anxious new students in a lecture room at the old school, that seated only 50. fast developing claustrophobia. It was hard to believe how a school would accept more students than scats. Dean Giblcy had answers for all our questions. He informed us that our class, due to its size was being shipped over to the old Greek Orthodox Church Over there! Over there! Most of us had already heard rumors about 1st year Anatomy and how tough the ‘old man’ made the course, so I guess they expected us to pray and study at the same time — Greek Style. Dean Giblcy welcomed us to PCPM He broke the good news to us that if your car was parked by a; meter out front, you could get a ticket and if you parked it on the school lot, it would be towed. We had some questions for him; Is this really Society Hill? Is South Street around the corner0 Where do you buy soft pretzels? Arc there any cheap places to live? Dean Giblcy did reassure us that shortly, there would be ample parking at the new school. In fact, whatever the problem was, the new school seemed to be the solution for everything Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. Our first class in the Greek Church came as a surprise to us. First, finding it, then realizing that they did not believe in white light bulbs, heat or air conditioning We had to bring our own flashlights and pocket light-

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It was fast becoming obvious that we needed a spokesperson, no male chauvinism for us. We needed to elect a class prez. It was a difficult task. Who wanted the job? It was a choice between anatomy and political warfare at school. A dark horse candidate won and Burnsy was left with the honor. He spent more time arguing with Dr. Davidheiser over histology than he did fighting off girls at Watsons, that adored those baby blue eyes. Surprise, he wears colored contacts. Remember when we block voted Gary Greenberg into PPSA. or the raffle for PEPACK. All the ticket stubs had S. Samet's name. 4