UCSF Medical Center - Medi Cal Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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DEAN JOHNSTONE My heartiest best wishes and congratulations to each member of the graduating class of the four Schools on the San Francisco campus. This last year in a sense has been one of transition from the old order to the new. You have been able at least in part to reap the harvest of so many years of planning to provide for you a worthwhile environment and the physical facilities for your basic training in the professions you are to follow the rest of your lives. We can point with pride to the imposing structures which have arisen and are still arising in our midst ever keeping in mind all those who with foresight and aspiration have toiled to make our campus one of the great centers of medical education and research in the liar West. Although we may point with pride to the tower- ing buildings and the ample facilities they provide our contribu- tions to the general welfare of the state will be judged primarily on the quality of our main product - the graduate of the University of California Medical Center. The professional proficiency of the graduate is determined to a great extent by such elements as the qualifications of the faculty, methods of teaching and scope of curricula. Wlxile these elements do play a most important role in the molding of a professional career there are certain less tangible influences provided by campus life which will be of invaluable help in preparing you to meet the professional, social and economic problems which confront all of us. Your associations with the members of the teaching staff, your contacts, associations and re- lations with your fellow students and the ethics and philosophies you have developed with respect to your profession are all vastly important in determining what your future achievements shall be in society. You may not realize at this time, on the threshold of your career, the importance of all of these influences in preparing you to meet the complexities of our modern existence and to make your future a contented, happy and profitable one. The University has provided you with its facilities and environ- ment to prepare you for your place in today's world so should it continue to provide its help and influence during the rest of your professional life. The numerous highly diversified refresher courses, clinics and lectures offered by the various departments at the Medical Center, the consultation services of its research and teach- ing staffs and its publications are available to you. These multiple activities and services exist for your benefit and it behooves you to make use of them. No matter in what branch of the health sciences you may work it is mandatory that you keep abreast of the scientific times. Become an interested and active member of the alumni association of your own school. Return to the campus whenever it is possible for you to do so. With the completion of the Guy S. Millberry Union in a year or so we shall be able to entertain you quite royally. The best of luck in your future endeavors. HERBERT G. JOHNSTONE Dr-an of Student.:

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4, 1 ' S17 'Q m mr-W I V. if' MN-ai-,Q s , JL .HH fg-,,M,F-- ,Y 'mf .- 3 .W'te' --V wg,- w -gww-wan . frm? -an-sf- :.f5 if .Lf 'NN tri . PRESIDENT SPROUL This is the season when yearbooks blossom, and the President of the University is by custom of long stand- ing expected to offer congratulations to the graduat- ing seniors. This I do gladly and wholeheartedly, for a University of California degree is highly to be prized, representing as it does, and especially on the San Francisco campus, long hours of exceedingly hard work through many years. However, I sometimes think it would be more ap- propriate even than to offer congratulations, if I were to remind all concerned that in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and nursing, a degree is more akin to a parole or reprieve. For in these fields stimulating study and hard work do not cease with graduation, and a diploma represents a life sentence to more of the same-and the finest to which human beings can aspire. In every scientific and technical Held today, new knowledge is being created at such a pace that the end product of formal education is well on its way to obsolescence before the ink can dry on a diploma. Un- less a diploma is regarded, therefore, as a sort of life- time license to hunt in the preserves where knowledge is propagated, it shortly becomes a memento which might better be buried in an attic trunk than displayed upon an oflice wall. This fact I mention, not to take from any of you the pride which you have earned the right to feel, or to imply that the University of California has com- pleted its labors while yours will never end, but rather to assure you that, with each passing year, the faculty of the University has realized more clearly that its responsibility for graduates who serve the public in solving fundamental problems of health and well- being does not cease with the end of formal training in residence. Through University Extension and other agencies it seeks to make its resources continuously available especially to those who carry the seal of ap- proval that will be yours at the 1956 Commencement. Graduation from the Medical Center involves no tearful farewell, then, but rather a welcome to a new status. From now on the University can hold you to no requirement, and what you do, and how far you go, will depend on your own initiative and your own conscience, but you should remember always that the University, with all the help that it can offer, is avail- able whenevcr you need it. ROBERT G. Svaoux..

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l DEAN SAUNDERS i 4 l First of all may I, in the name of the faculty, extend to the 1956 graduating class my heartfelt congratulations on the completion of their professional training and best wishes for a successful and rewarding career. We are confident that all of you will be a source of pride to us. We have every expectation that you will make significant contributions to the health and welfare of your community. It is my hope that you will continue to maintain through your Alumni Association a close tie with your Alma Mater, for the strength of this institu- tion depends, in large measure, upon the influences which you can bring to bear upon it in your professional career. It is my hope that we shall remain sensitive to your opinions. Godspeed in your enterprises! JOHN B. DEC. M. SAUNDERS, M.D. Dean, School of Medicine