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

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CLASS OF 1978 YEARBOOK MESSAGE Graduation is considered often as the end of the educational process. In health professions education it is only the beginning of a life-long process of continuing education. This is particularly true for podiatric medicine. The last fifteen to twenty years have revolutionized our educational process and the delivery of foot care in this country. This revolution has resulted in a greater recognition of the profession and it has placed a greater responsibility on all of us to be equal to that recognition. As you contemplate graduation and the reception of the degree, Doctor of Podiatric Medicine think of the recognition and the responsibility inherent therein. If you are to fulfill that responsibility, individually and collectively, continuing education must be one of your priorities. The vast experience of scientific knowledge has changed, and will continue to change, the delivery of health care to the general public. Your current reservoir of knowledge has prepared you for private practice in the immediate future. That base will be eroded very quickly. Therefore, self-education is a necessity-almost immediately!! Continuing education is facilitated by an affiliation with a medical institution. Make that affiliation as you begin to practice. A hospital, a medical school and, pathways to keep you abreast of newer technology. Continuing education must become an integral part of your practice. Acceptance of that responsibility for self-education begins now. Your patients will demand it and your profession will expect it. Congrtulations on your achievements and the right to use the term Doctor . You are indeed worthy of that title and the health professional status it affords you. We at P.C.P.M. will always be ready to assist you with the education necessary for a successful practice. Charles W. Gibley Jr. Sincerely, Dean January 25. 1979 Dear Class of 1978: The road has been long and arduous. Graduation came and went. You made it! But, we all expected that. If there is one thing we will remember the Class of 1978 for, it is determination. Although there were moments of constera-tion over the past four years, you should know the faculty and administration view your Class's accomplishments with a great deal of pride. Determination on the part of many in podiatric medicine is what brought the profession to where it is today. You are a new generation with potential to well surpass your predecessors. It is our deep hope that you will continue to use your skills to improve yourselves and your profession wisely and with continued conviction. Best wishes to each of you. Sncerelv yours, Laurence C. Sartor, Ph. D Vice President for Student Affairs Lawrence Sartor

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To the Class of 78 My sincere congratulations and best wishes to each new Doctor. You have successfully completed the major step in your professional career. Sir William Osier once said, Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. In today's world, because of our ever increasing body of knowledge, this statement is fast becoming passe. You have the knowledge, the sills and the ability to offer yor patients quality health care. Build on these truths and you will enjoy a successful career in your chosen profession. Remember the half life of knowledge in Podiatric Medicine may be as short as five years. This means the half of what you know today will be obsolete in five years and half of what you should know in five years has not yet been discovered. Therefore, the challenge is in clear focus; lifetime study is a necessity if you are to maintain competence. The four years you spent with us were good years. You were eager to learn which is a joy to any teacher. As you go your individual ways, always remember that we are proud of you. We want to follow your successes and be ever ready to assist you in preventing failures. Keep in touch and tell us how we can help. I am confident that the class of 1978 will bring honor and glory to the PCPM family. God Speed. 4

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For most of us. our first real exposure to PCPM came during our interview. In comparison with the physical plant of the other podiatry colleges. PCPM left us slightly in awe. Is this what the growing podiatry profession was going to be like' Well, then, I'm coming here' And I suppose that for about all. it was out prime choice among the five schools. Besides, if you were choosing podiatry. San Francisco wa% a 2000 mile longxhot; and Chicago. Ohio, and New York just don't seem to be up to par The interview itself was slightly less auspicious though There were liberally sprinkled questions of childbearing to the female applicants, marihuana smoking, and Dr Davidheiser asking Dave Laurence who wrote his undergraduate amatomy text? However, it was still the place to come to. After all, how often would we run across those burdensome interview people? Sometime in the early fall we finally arrived 116 of us strong. Some had bought Cunningham's already, some had fresh wedding bands, some had golden brown tans, and all had expectations. Abruzzo had a sigh of relief his roommate had just given him his acceptance letter, four months later. We came for orientation day. a later afternoon affair where we met each other over wine and cheese. It was held on the sixth floor in the board room. A few familiar faces from our interviews were spotted, but all were really strangers. We quickly discovered though Louis Stearns was the guy with the briefcase, and Maffei was the commuter from Trenton j la black shirt and white tie. It was a fairly social time, allowing for the usual anxious curiosities. Any women in the class? Who. where that one? Who's the dean? Where did you ay the physiology piofessor was? Nicely buzzed we were when we were suddenly led to the student lounge for dinner. Everyone tiied their PCPM hardest to make us feel at home. All the faiulty leaders spoke to us. espousng expectations, ideals, and work ethics. Dr. Harford. Professor Emeritus of Anatomy, who was a legend in everyone's life, told us not to read a newspaper for four years as there was no lime for it. Dr Rockett told us that in order to reach heaven (clinic), we’d have to suffer thru two years of hell (basic science) And, Di Davidheiser greeted us with a reading assignment for our forthcoming first class in Gross Anatomy. For a treat, he was the first to rekindle our summer drenched competitive spirits by iving us the option of getting the best cadavers for dissection, if only we would help him transport them the next a.m Yes PCPM had begun On opening day we arrived an hour early amidst smirks of those once, twice, and thrice removed. There were no welcoming bands, nor a band leader for that matter as President Bates was away. We were greeted for our first registration by Dr. Larry Sarton, newly appointed Dean of Students He read the President s speech to us. In between his giggling, we heard that we, the best podiatry students in the world were in the best podiatry school in the world with the finest faculty in a podiatry school in the world, and well, you get the picture. However, (giggle) a certain percentage of us. as good as we were, would be eliminated by lune it just happens. And. in case most of us had forgotten, as our president did throughout his welcome, we were continuously addressed by Sartov as Ladies and Gentlemen.-' But who was paying attention, after all. we who had stayed all of our dragons for many year - were now told of an impending plague Gross Anatomy was our first giant course, and it wa% taught by none other that Dr Roger the Dodger’ Davidheiser Once a week he lectured via slides from Grant's Atlas The triangles of the neck, chambers of the heart, and inguinal layers were our three horsemen but our quarterback was relationships. Gentlemen know those relationships! And we tried, in our dissection of the human cadaver, a beginning medical student's most aspicious event Do we cover the face? Who's going to make the first cut? Not me! Who's has one eye? Which one is the Chinese guy with mold all over him? Some were good specimens. Some were not. One was named Lucky 1 Who can forget Berkey the I lack , or Bruce Cohen with the sexual humor, or Dr Heiser as Steig fondly called him deciding on the sex of draped cadaver by shoving his hand up the crotch We saw smoker's lung, smelled formalin, dissected in detail the place where 'Dr. Heiser said you do your duty. tried to get Dr. Conway for our practicals, but sadly never had time for the hand The course ended graciously with skull splitting, upper torso disarticulation, and the dragging of remains to the freezer. Histology was taught by Dr Frank Conway with the disarticulated lips He always had trouble saying SYNCTIOTROPHOBLAST5 and thus was open game for class mockery including the grand debut of Steve Wcinreb. Weinreb was a combination of Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, and the Philadelphia Zoo. Conway responded by simplifying everything thru Joe there was Joe Kupfcr and there was Joe Purkinje Unfortunately, Histology was made more difficult thru out first class note taking experience We suffered thru verbatim mimeos from the little understood, and never appreciated Hal Histo Glatzer and his typist wife Bonnie. We will always regret having chosen to receive 57 pages of one paragraph versus outlined notes . But it sold alot of highliters Remember the tests? In lab practcals. we had to move around the room every minute guessing slides and hoping that someone didn't move the pointer. Battey finished the two hour final in 15 minutes with Birnbaum and Bauman right behind. We were always told not to study from more detailed texts like Bloom and Fawcett. Last and least are the memories of our cumbersome Embryology lectures In a final attempt by the administration to guve us an eight hour class day. we were hit with Biophysics. It was an introductory experimental course taught by an introductory experimental teachcr-studcn named Marvin Jacoby Like Conway, we also mumbled, but to a different projector This mass of relevancy offered us problems such as the velocity of a ball dropped from a three-stody building by a guy with a 3 day post-op bumonectomy However, the grades ranged from 90-100 which bought the course partial grace from the front of the room. Dr. Heiser taught us another course. Neuroanatomy, in the spring of our first year We learned of things as the MLF. and the Circle of Willis. Peffer became out note laker and upon the class' attainment of successful test grades - we elected him 2nd year president it seemed intelligent enough. Remember those falsies falx cerebri, etc Introduction to Podiatry was raught by the Washington commuters Shapiro and Lyons every Wednesday. Shapiro will always be remembered for making our first day an explosive one He spent the whole two hours trying to announce and denounce our professional anxieties Who can forget Larry Levinson hollering at him from the back of the class, telling him in so many words Physician, heal thyself. Lyons was OK: at least he brought his assistant occasionally to keep out eyes up front We had quizze-- on prehistoric feet and they gave us our first introduction to prehistoric clinic The course a la supreme, however, was Lower Extremity Anatomy, taught by Raymond Di Primio whom everyone called The Dipper He was out of South Philly to replace his mentor and even Krause's mentor - the British Bastion Sr G. Elmer Harford In the Harfordian tradition we had Monday forward to weekends. Who can forget Little John Orlando. D.P.M., our Proctor who never seemed to stand up' Like Lord Harford before him. the Dipper was not a vacillating man He was full of pride, cigars, and his own syntax. We were treated to the most happiest man you've ever seen, youse guys better make at least 50,000 a year , a little cortisone will solve everything Yes, he never looked better, especially when ribbing Rudman or Laurance He put us in assigned seats, taught us about the fabclla. and never mentioned the important extensor sling mechanism. Anyone remember his shouting Issacson get outa here while pointing at Isseroff? Who can forget Abramson singing I shot the Dipper ? Laboratory was the crux of the course, however. We did out first foot surgery there. Remember Livingston and G. Elmer? Remember spending 20 hours looking for cutaneous nerves of the foot? If in trouble use Louie's crazy glue - make your own saphenous ners’e. Remember how Yudkoff s cadaver was held together by butter but he always seemed to be working so hard? Yes, in lab we had assigned floor, no fabclla, a prominent extensor wing mechanism. David Bartos. partial practicals with impractical grading, no grade breakdown, and greasy Cunningham manuals. But for all those who didn t take the first Kern interview - name all the muscles which insert into the base of the proximal phalanx of the 5th toe' Biomechanics was (aught by Dr. Alan Whitney, also known as The Whit and A.K.W ' His greatest gifts as a teachei were the art of illustration, the appreciation of basic foot mechanics, and Whitneyisms. No one could forget Yeah I like it but I wouldn't use it on a patient Remember the cardinal axes and planes, and mesomorphs? He once tried to deceive us by giving the same test with the same question order but in alternating colors A hell of a guy and he always kept one step ahead Donohue is still trying for an A with his center of gravity project Physiology might be out most remembered first year class. It was taught by Dr Howard Pitkow, fondly known as nothing else. He was a classmate of Zion in High School except Zion made progress. Howie stayed and taught there until PCPM heard of him He was women's friend. He recommended DES for preventing miscarriages, ignorant that it caused ovarian cancer we learned about Shetland ponies and Shire horses while studying the female reproductive system and were taught that polycystic ovaries were found only in women, cows, and pigs. Over that trying year Pitkow lost 75 pounds and gained 75 turquoise rings. He was always upset over attendance yet he continued to read verbatim from his notes. Remember the choice between notes from Roth or Patterson? Who can forget Steve Rudman and Physiology? All thru the year they exchanged ugly jokes. During the final he squirted Howie 6