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

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ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS James P. Burke, Plt.D. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs 2012 Achilles

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DEAN John A. Mattiacci, D.P.M. Dean School of Podiatric Medicine TEMPLE UNIVERSITY »taw2IVttS-S400 6 hop tfpodUtry turpi 0- May 9. 2012 To ihc Graduating Class of 2012: rhis year marks the forty-sixth commencement ceremony of our school. It is with a sense of pleasure that 1 write this letter to the Class of 2012. Each of you has just completed the most challenging four years of your lives and 1 take pride in congratulating you More than that, however. 1 want to tell you that you ac 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 being a 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 take the school with you. You will forever be identified os 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 unequaled in our profession and we have given you the degree of Doctor of Podiatric Medicine Now it is your turn. Because you will always be a TUSPM graduate, we look to you to cany 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 thai we have bestowed upon you with pride. I challenge you to use that degree to the benefit of both your practice and your alma matter as those who have 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 you 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 John A. Mattiacci Dean 8 Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine

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ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION Roderick B. Jones, M.B.A., C.PA. Associate Dean for Finance and Administration School of Podiatric Medicine I I MPU I INN I HSU V 6mnoo» 19! 07-2496 pSon»2!S62$M0l .2IM29-2}? «m »- l’--%rwsS ceOi-'JKST' Ktu http J ooiUrrt f . To the School of Podiatric Medicine Graduating Class of 2012: You have achieved a tremendous milestone in your professional careers and your personal development On behalf of the business and administrative staff members at the School of Podiatric Medicine, 1 congratulate you for all of your efforts thus far, and look forw ard to your contributions as distinguished members of the podiatric medical profession It is our sincere hope that you have found your experiences at TUSPM to be rewarding, and that you arc well prepared for the challenges that lie ahead Be proud of the commitment and perseverance that you have exhibited thus far in your professional journey, these qualities will serve you well as you continue on your path Please know that wc are extremely proud of you! Your commencement signals a new phase in your careers and your lives; one that will dispatch many of you to the far reaches of this country and, indeed, the World. However, you will forever be connected to TUSPM. and we stand ready to assist you in any way that we are able. Wc wish you all the best that life has to offer! Sincerely, CPA c and Administration Dean AMOCim 10 e Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine