Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE By Dean William N. Parkinson T1HE Medical Department of Temple College was opened in 1901. Classes were held in the evening and the course was distributed over five years to give the student the equivalent of a four-year day course. In addition, 700 hours of actual day work were required each year. Classes were held at the main college building, Broad and Berks streets,and at the Samaritan Hospital, Broad and Ontario streets, which had been rescued from oblivion by Doctor Con well in 1891, when the founders of “The North Philadelphia Hospital, a society of physicians, were unable to continue because of financial difficulties. The faculty of twenty teachers was assembled under the leadership of Dean Fritz. The course consisted of five years of evening instruction so arranged that the same number of hours would be devoted to it as in the day schools. Thirty-one students were matriculated in this new night school for the year 1901 1902. It was found that the students who applied for evening instruction were willing to make any personal sacrifice to acquire a medical education. They, therefore, gave themselves most diligently to the work, and the high standards attained by these early graduates before the various state boards has been pre eminently satisfactory and a source of justifiable pride to the institution. The first graduating class consisted of two men who had been admitted to advanced standing and who were given diplomas in 1904. Two more graduates went forth in the class of 1905 Of these first four heroic pioneers, but one is now living. is y

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY By President Charles E. Beury 1 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY recently celebrated its Fiftieth Anniversary, and behind the education which the University has endeavored to impart is a record of achievement which gives a high value to its diplomas. Graduation from Temple has become a mark of distinction. The present graduating class goes into the world at a time that will go down in history as epoch-making. Old ideas and time-worn fetishes are being supplanted by safer and saner conceptions of living. From out of the turmoil of the present political and economic stress should come a chastened civilization. When the world has safely survived the crisis through which it is passing today, exceptional opportunities will be presented to young people to assume active leadership, particularly so, I believe, to college-trained young men and women. This fact has already been demonstrated bv the active participation in the affairs of our nation today by university professors and other college-bred thinkers. There is no reason why Temple University should not take a conspicuous part in the so-called “New Deal, nor why its graduates should not share in the stupendous tasks directly ahead. These call for courage, individual initiative, and strength of purpose. If these qualities have not been developed in your college apprenticeship, they may be acquired and should be encouraged. Temple University’s own romantic story is dramatic proof of the theorem that a dogged determination to succeed will ultimately bring success. There have been times in her history when it seemed that she could not go on. But as obstacles arose, they were overthrown and barriers were swept aside by a tenacity that would not yield. The Senior Class will graduate with Temple's Golden Jubilee fresh in its memory. The alumni of Temple have been thrilled by reviewing her academic accomplishments. Step by step she has risen to higher levels of efficiency and service. Much of this progress upward and onward has been made even while many of you were students here. Temple's history is a saga of conscientious effort, the moral of which is obvious and applicable to individuals, no less than to institutions. Temple's graduates have spread before them a vista of opportunity unequaled in generations. Temple has girded them for the conflict. Their future is of their own shaping. It is my wish, and sincere hope, that they mold it into lives of usefulness. i n

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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE There were fourteen in the third graduating class, two of whom, Sara Allen and Mary E. Shepherd, were the first women graduates. In 1907 Philadelphia Dental College and the Garretson Hospital at 18th and Buttonwood streets, were annexed to Temple University and medical classes were moved to that location. The Garretson Hospital, a 75-bed hospital in a large manufacturing section, together with the Samaritan Hospital with a capacity of 125 beds, supplied all needs of the institution for clinical and ward teaching. In 1909 Dr. Frank C. Hammond succeeded Dr I. Newton Snively, dean since 1903- It was now apparent that the evening classes would have to be abandoned, since it was impossible for graduates to obtain the necessary licensure to practice in many states. It was with regret, therefore, that students were urged to transfer, whenever possible, to the day classes which were organized. The evening classes were discontinued in 1909. The school now had an enrolment of 232 students and the teaching staff had grown from the original twenty to eighty. Not all the serious problems had yet been solved, although the future was very promising. In 1924 it was felt that the Garretson Hospital as such had outlived its usefulness, due to the fact that many industrial plants were moving to distant suburban locations and the maternity department had been moved in the spring of 1923 to the Greatheart Hospital at 18th and Spring Garden streets. It was, therefore, decided to utilize the three upper floors of the Garretson Building for laboratories. Modern equipment was installed for the Departments of Physiology, Embryology and Histology, Pathology and Bacteriology. In addition, a new medical dissecting room with the most improved facilities was installed in the basement of Medical Hall. The Garretson Hospital was moved to the Spring Garden Street building during the course of the next three years and the entire building on Hamilton Street turned over to the School of Medicine for teaching purposes. This meant that larger classes might be accommodated since each laboratory department now occupied an entire floor. The Samaritan Hospital was greatly enlarged bv a new building dedicated June 28, 1925, and the older sections of the hospital were renovated so that the teaching hospital of Temple University now took its place among the largest and best-equipped hospitals of the city. The bed capacity, with the addition of the Roosevelt Hospital floor, was 330. In the winter of 1929, it was decided tochange the name toTemple University Hospital, which more clearly reveals its close connection with the University. In 1928, after steadfastly working toward that end, an A rating was bestowed by the American Medical Association. A great incentive was thus created to launch a drive for a new medical school building. Dr. William N. Parkinson, who served his Alma Mater as Associate Dean from 1923 to 1925, now returned as Medical Director of the Temple University Hospital and Dean of the School of Medicine. •09