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

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John A. Matiiacci, D.P.M. podi DEAN afvw School of Podiatric Medicine TEMPLE UNIVERSITY May 23 2008 O« ♦ ®f »h D«n Sth lace 60. floe WuUiMf ,I '9!07-I4S6 c o 2l$4tt-S400 fa }1S-fc29-19. rm rwKMKoCfeoea wu Mfb http Apodacy tWMte oil To the Graduating Gass of 2008 Thu year marks the forty-second commencement ceremony of our school. It is altogether appropriate to pause and reflect upon a great loss to TUSPM this past year, the passing of the founding president of our school. James Earl Bates. DPM Dr. Bates was not only president of our school for thirty-five years and chancellor thereafter, but a dynamic and motivating force in the field of podiatnc medicine. Today’s ceremonies arc dedicated in his honor. It it with a sense of pleasure that 1 write this letter to the Class of 2008. Each of you has just completed the most challenging four years of your lists and 1 take pnie in congratulating you More than that, however. I want to tell you that you arc the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine. While it is true that we have clinics, laboratories, classrooms and dormitories, a school without the vibrant energy of the student is a building whose purpose has disappeared You arrived at TUSPM at a dmc of evolution. You have seen new faculty, upgrading of facilities and the progress that being pan of Temple’s Health Sciences affords. During the past four years, this was your school, but in a larger sense, you became the school. As you begin post graduate training and tease us here in Philadelphia, you take the school with you. You wall forever be identified as a Temple University graduate. TTJSPM and you will always be connected. We have given you the finest education m the nation. Wc have given you clinical experience that is unequakd in our profession and we have given you the degree of Doctor of Podiatnc Medicine. Now it is your turn Because you will always be a TUSPM graduate, we look to you to cany thit degree with competence, compassion, and success. You now enter a career in which your patient and his or her condition will demand your expertise. As you enter practice and develop roots m the community that you choose, I osk that you never forget the roots that you leave here at TUSPM You have earned the nght to wear the degree that wc have bestowed upon you with pride. I challenge sou to use that degree to the benefit of both your practice and your alma matter as those who have gone before you have done. I want you to become active with your alumni association and maintain connection with your classmates. Your alumni peers have generously endowed scholarships for the benefit of TUSPM students and have given of their financial resources for the continual upgrading of TUSPM I want you to come back to Philadelphia to visit us periodically and I want you to visit us on the web consistently. Wherever you go in you life, you take our name and you remain our graduate Never forget that because we will never forget you and the time that you have spent here Go now and apply those stalls that you gamed here Be diligent. Be tenacious. Be inquisitive and be successful- You are now a permanent part of the Temple University School of Podiatnc Medicine. John A. Mattiacci. D P.M. Thuplf H iiVC $itlf Scl'Oof tf Pfctat «C Vit iCiViC

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fevttpfe MYnVCYS'tfW $cUof of pcJiafviC )ntdiCivic CLINICIANS OF THE YEAR Dr. Vlahovic and Dr. Poniious EJ School of Pediatric Medicine f±S rtum uwviuin Dear Class of XO» CoagntutationiM I waned to take this oppoenaatv to wuh you such lock tsd best wuhn at yvo ctnbart ok the new phase of your cum I iffl to proud of til of you I lave eay.vyed worlmj with each or of you tod will look fondly on the too that you nude roe tagh. how yro encwrragtd rae to think cwadr of the box. and bow you implied roe to te t better teacher 1 tin also to booored that ycu chose me as 'Ctaucun of the Year' dunig your third year I wuh afi of you the very best and hope that I have rotpetd you to love vemjear and buane dim rubes u much u I do (even just • little bit1) Bn most or all I vnoc you to know that all of the faaaky art alwsyt here for you. teal we will be proudly applauding your achievement oo your Commencement Day Best withes. Tracey C Vlahovic, DIM Asuatar Professor. Temple Ltaveevty School of Podtatrx Medicine 2008 AclullcS 7 7

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ftVMpfe pod fvw ASSOCIATE DEAN James Burke. Ph.D. |{| School of Podiatric Medicine TEMPLE UNIVERSITY J m » ft lurk . PhO. At od t« 0 n Ac S«r-CA n Eighth it x.t Street Phttdeifrt . PA 19107 phone 215-625-5257 tor 215-629-1929 m»J puniCtiApm tempi Mu •v 6 vsnvw tempi Mj To The Class of 2008 Congratulations! On behalf of the faculty. it is my pleasure to congratulate you on your successful completion of an intense and demanding educational program. During your four years you have faced challenges and found ways to accomplish your goals. As you leave the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine to begin your careers as Doctors of Podiatric Medicine, you are well prepared to deliver to your patients the highest quality care available. It is my hope that your profession provides you with the challenges and rewards that come from sen ice to others. Continue to be life long learners so that you can provide state of the art care for your patients. Cood luck and best wishes for a happy and successful life. 2008 AtUllts 7 9