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

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To the Graduating Class of 2010 of the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine On behalf of the faculty I want to congratulate you on the successful completion of your academic and clinical program. During your tenure at the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine you have faced many challenges and have been successful in the accomplishment of your goals. The knowledge and skills you have acquired will allow you to become successful practitioners and a credit to the podiatric profession. Continue to grow as a professional and make this graduation a starting point toward a commitment to continuing education and the quest for the discovery of new' knowledge. Always continue to challenge yourself and work to advance the profession. Through this commitment you will enjoy the many rewards of your endeavors. It has been my distinct pleasure to interact with you both as a faculty member and as an academic dean. I wish the very best for each of you. Good luck and best wishes.

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.May 14.2010 To the Graduating Class of 2010: litis year marks the forty-fourth commencement ceremony of our school. It is with a sense of pleasure that I write this letter to the Class of 2010. Each of you has just completed the most challenging four years of your lives and I take pride in congratulating you, More than that, however, 1 want to tell you that you are 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 time of evolution. You have seen new faculty, upgrading of facilities and the progress that be part 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 leave us here in Philadelphia, you lake the school with you. You will forever be identified as a Temple University graduate. TUSPM and you will always be connected. We have given you the finest education in the nation. We have given you clinical experience that is uncqualcd 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 carry that 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 in the community that you choose. I ask that you never forget the roots that you leave here at TUSPM You have earned the right to wear the degree that we have bestowed upon you with pnde. I challenge you to use that degree to the benefit of both your practice and your alma matter as those who gave gone before you have done. 1 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 y ou have spent here. Go now and apply those skills that you gained here. Be diligent. Be tenacious. Be inquisitive and be successful. You are now a permanent part of the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine. Sincerely t » Tempi. I ’niversity School of Podiatric Medicine

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School of Podiatric Medicine TEMPLE UNIVERSITY bntitutional vl Program BgMi it SOWt PA 19107 Samue 1 J. Spadone.D.P.M. Dear Graduates of the Class of 2010: I bid you congratulations on your accomplishments and sincere wishes for success in all your future endeavors. In this vein. 1 must ask each of you a simple question Have you ever flown a kite? Bear with me a moment before concluding that I've taken a giant step off the deep end. You arc about to leave the artificial womb of academia and enter the real world. I-Ct’s take stock of that world The economy is bad The reimbursement climate for your professional services is already not what you hoped for and Medicare is rattling its sabers about an additional twenty plus percent fee cut. The profession's inclusion in Title XIX is anything but certain Docs any of this cause you anxiety? Yes, there is much uncertainty ahead and much to worry about for some, but not you. You have come a long way during the past four years and. while from day to day it may have seemed that you didn’t leant much. I assure you that you have amassed a formidable array of knowledge and skills, litis is a certainty. I know because I have been tracking your professional development since your first day on campus. You arc well prepared to embark on the next stage of your professional lives and I believe better so than most. 1 will pass along something I learned from Dr. Harvey Lemont years ago: The Chinese character for crisis also represents opportunity. As you go forward, take courage from this fact for it reflects a universal wisdom and you will do well. Oh. that bit about flying a kite. It's a thought often associated with Winston Churchill but one he actually borrowed; the original author is unknown Do not fear the winds of adversity Remember: A kite rises against the wind rather than with it. Again, congratulations and warm wishes for the future. Sincerely. Assistant Dean. Institutional Research and Program Integrity