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

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with a water pistol and set him into St. Vitus' Dance. Howie then chased him around the entire 3rd floor Rudman was even in an elevator alone with Carl Marbach God help the building! In dog laboratory with Mad Dog Weiner we learned how to slowly kill and perform tracheostomies. The surgeons came out of u» Louie even did a defibrillation in a cardiac arrest. But. maybe the classic memory of all was ill fated Livingston's famous remark after another acud dog death amidst all the bustle C'cst la vie. Biochemistry was full of EM pathways and hexose monophosphate shunts. Our professor was Dr Marilyn Renton whose dramatic appeal was overstated throughout the year simply overstated throughout the year simply because she always kept her long lab coat buttoned The big questions became what did she wear underneath that coat and, who was she dating (Neal Yudkoff?) Who will ever forget Espcr writing I HATE BIOCHEMISTRY in the matching portion of our midterm Our first year will never be forgotten, neither by us, nor those around us. We fought with the faculty, the administration, the staff, and even the President-in-waiting - Bill Bowman. We weren't allowed to fight with the Board of Trustees. We fought with the vending machines, the bookstore, the librarian, P.P.S.A., our spouses, but mostly with each other Who can forget mummy-like John Yubas, always meditating with his worry beads, suddenly exploding at poor Hal Glatzer with tons of expletives? It wa always the back of the room vs the front of the room And then there were the geographical coteries: Ferry Ave. Grp. A (Arena, Smith. E Cohen. Berkey, Novick, Peffer. Davis. Kramer) . Cooper River Plaza Boys (Hamberg. W’einthal. Yudkoff) Northeast Gang (Goldman. Laver, Subic). R. Cohen, Greenberg. Isseroff. D Ziegler. Widom) Ferry Aven Grp. B (Rudman, Eisenberg, Levy. Battey, Weinreb. Poster. Kelley. Esper. also Lawrence) and the Center City Crew (Collins. Donohue. Gordon. Walter. Murray. Pectinelli, Schuster. Abramson. Spector). Elections were fun We learned much about each other that day Chet The Polish Prince waxed on, and on, about invaluable experience as a Navy man and loan officer. Finally, we voted Donohue, Rudman. and Weinreb in that ordet, and they became our triumvarate - President, V.P.. and P.P.S.A representatives. Through them we battled bitterly, especially against our archfiend Gibley. Our major accomplishment was the adoption of trimesters We were so well liked by everybody that year the other classes decided to show their affection be delegating us as a sacrificial class to remain on grades. This was to the mock chagrin of the front of the room. We looked forward to the day when we would be upperclassmen. In the mean while, it was getting harder and harder to emulate those above us then - 'The Gumps laughing and sitting in the lounge with pot bellies and girlie magazines. First year memories there are plenty of them: the St Vitus Dance with Louis Stearns and the Iliotibial Band Sartor's famous 7.00 a m coffee meetings to air gripes plus one explosion by D. Laurence Jefferson Library which was 'The Study Place , especially before finals where at 3:00 a.m you could find Eisenberg. Donohue, or Starrett having a breakfast recess across the street Ray Esper. who when he got mad got his Ya Ya's” out the Sterling Harford Anatomical Society, A point of paranoia for the 13 of the class who didn’t have to worry about failing, and didn't want to worry about being average .. the Wives' Club who received an introduction to Bill Starrett Doc Watson's Pub. our best watering hole, especially on a Wednesday or Friday Remember when Bruce Cohen showed the films Deep Throat, and W.C Fields' The Dentist Casey's in the afternoon after tests for rounds of beer and sandwiches bothering Helene Fuhrmeister the school parking lot - one of the nicest things in our first year and famous roommates: Yuas and Jani. Battey and Eisenberg. Leona and family. Slcig and Huntress. Rudman and Levy and E Cohen and who put exlax in the peanut butter. Smith and Weinreb. Berkey and Cockroaches. Louis and Mother, Moglia and Pruzansky, and Maffei and Weights In out first PCPM summer there was no clinic, mote mairiages. summer school, Di Pnmio picking up a hithhiker in O R. green’s named Jani, and our first class grades and ranking. We ended up our first year with 103. Microbiology, taught by Dr. Carl Abramson, has to be the course most remembered in our 2nd year We had a running battle for o months starting with term papers and seating, and never really ending. Among fomites, Mycobacterium Battey, and RNA coated viruses, we did it all. We spent more hours in Micro than any other school in Philadelphia where we would have 30 pages of Parasitology notes, the Ohio school had but one. Twice as much time was spent in laboratory looking at fungi than studying mechanics of the foot. Gibley and the Curriculum Committee heard our case and turned us away In response to our feelings and our inalibity to cope Abramson retaliated with the famous A sham deserves a shaft . Who can forget the other classics as Closttidia are found in the vagina and other deep wounds. and to Larry. Atopia may be inherited, but Micro sure isn't!'' Who can forget Bohdan Terleckyj mumbling a lecture or Emil Bishata mumbling everything Dave Axler - a real bright spot the film by Gary Igor' Fischman with broken eggs in his hand our first trimester final which was composed of a case history Jay Satz and the Swine flu and our famous Abramson rabbit tceshits which prompted the All feces look alike” remakr, and were worn to our final In March, 1976 we thought we washed our hands in Micro unaware of what was to come. Pathomechanics was taught most of the lime by Dr. Schoenhaus and part of the time by nobody as he usually came very late When he did come, we were treated to stories of him speeding over the Ben Franklin Bridge at midnight doing a D C on thest day of his residency and performing tibial osteotomies. Remember our choice of study material? It was cither Sgarlato's comedy of errors, or handout notes with idyllic tales of Big Bird and farting Our Monday quizzes were canceled if the Eagles won we had many quizzes that year. We ll never forget the gait cycle but what was a Gait Study Center? Good ol A.K. Whitney taught us Podiatric Orthopedics where even he wasn't sure of the test answers. It was a woefully scanty course, but he tried his hardest. We were lectured to about MOrton and the influence of the forefoot on the rearfoot and we made UMO's and VMO's from his doorway into a box on top of a shelf? Dr Sidney Arden also known as Jack Benny' and Sidney Sominex taught Pathology. His wa' probably the first class to suffer Friday afternoon disease. Wednesday lab sessions were no better, though taught by some of Phil adelphia's top pathologists. It was an easy grade until he was told that we had the old test Sid will always be remembered for his good course, the Frankford Hospital Exterships. and his inspiring of the best of Weinrcb's imitations. Onycitopathy was with Dr. Charles Krause. We were probably the 60th class in a row to be taught how to spell BUROW’S solution Remember receiving our test answers by mail Clinical Podiatry came to is via Kidawa and the P M (Practice injections, and even clinical lab with Wendy Bloom Remember Arme Karpo retting us that the PH of skin is 7.5? However, in the spring we received our reward one hour week to watch the Gumps work away at C C O R Protocol was taught by Florence Connerton - not exactly Wendy Bloom's archetype With the help of some upperclassmen, and Claudia whose assets to the school will never really be known, we learned how to scrub, gown, and glove X 3. Flo taught us FECKIES the three types of local anesthetic toxicity and how to save a choking doctor who can t eat steak properly For Introduction to Surgery, the school hired Dr. Silverman and his residents from Metropolitan Hospital After being told of his son's persecution as a D.O.. we were finally taught afout shock, burns, and G I tubes Remember getting the final exam ahead of time? Dr. Tuddenham from Pennsylvania Hospital taught Radiology. Fondly referred to as Turd in Hand , he never could comprehend how many years of school we had The highlights were receiving Pass-Fail marks due to a syllabus error, and hearing the guest lecturer talk about breasts. Pharmacology was given by Len Jacob, and Ara Der Marderosian. Remember the classic fights with Espei the question on the Caine family Jacob's stubbornness over changing grades the National Board questions? In lab we learned chemical warfare, and even tested Nair on rabbit skin Unfortunately, we never even learned how to give an l.M. injection. In Podiatric Pharmacology we were exposed to prescription writing, and the ubiquitous detail man through Dr. Brittner • a part-time podiatrist Roentgenology was with Leon Kehr who should have switched assignments with Tuddenham Who can forget filum or those tests of development of 12 year old girls we ll always remember Albright's Syndrome. Dr. Green was to be the new Surgery Department Chairman replacing Guido La Porta. He taught us Introduction to Podiatric Surgery. The smoothie from Atlanta, a real mild mannered Clark Kent he was until we got to clinic. He spent three weeks telling us rules for the next two years. Basic Neurology was with Marvin Rigor Mordes. A podiatry school dropout, he was on his way to John Hopkins, he said He was probably traveling 8