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

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 Sometimes we met by chance at clinic, allied facilities and externships. And then there were the familiar faces seen at the residencies interviews. Ah, how could one mention fourth year without touching upon residencies. After all, I thought that the only purpose of fourth year was to attend interviews. For some it meant cross country tours. It was probably Rumor Central’s busiests year. But to me, the end of the year meant the End of the Trimester Party , to try and recant all that happened would only get people arrested. Most history books never know what place to pick as an end. for as soon as they finish, something comes along which is history. But we shall stop here. In closing, we had much fun in writing this as it brought back many funny moments. Realizing it would take four years to tell the whole history of our class we picked those moments that stuck out in our minds the most. We hope those people who’s names were mentioned take the events as they were intended, humorous memories. Thanks to everyone who helped make the history of the Class of 1979 possible. Gary Prant Ed Carver 11

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It was only a short trip to the Minnie Kaplan Memorial Physical Therapy Room. It was here most of us met the ’Statue of Liberty Patients . (You know, give me your poor, your tired, your derelicts.) I can honestly say that I met my hero of PCPM, Dr. George Helfand. He should be an incentive to all of us to stay as young as he is in spirit. (I just hope that I can still look for the Sciatic nerve when I’m his age!). And when physical therapy didn't work, it was back to PM. Podiatric Medicine, that area we spent nine weeks of intensive training. The motto there was if it can’t be debrided, padded or taped, we can’t do it. The only problem was, nobody ever told Alvie Hurray this. He thought he was in Surgery III. Last seen, Alvie was still trying to convince Leila Reston that he was a surgeon-podiatrist and not a chiropodist. (Dr. Reston is still trying to convince him that you should really drive on the left hand side of the road). For some people, lunch was a quick trip to the hot dog man (who was accepted to the class of ’83) or to the Archway or to Hoagie City. But for most, lunch was eaten in a leisurely manner while watching Happy Days at home. I find great difficulty in writing about the third year academically since most of you would have no idea who I was talking about. In 10 seconds or less, describe Dr. Becker. OK, for you real trivia buffs, what course did Dr. Bar-rick lecture in (And in what semester?). See what I mean? The only thing we had in com- mon was that everyone came to finals. But even Dr. becker didn’t show up for his own final. The exam that got the award for most academically stimulating was Dr. Novicki's picture final. The look-a-like award went to Sports Medicine (sometimes I think they underestimated the class of 78). With the last answer on the Internal Medicine final, we all went our separate ways until graduation. 10 : i M

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