USC School of Medicine - Asklepiad Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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GRADUATING SENIORS ■;f i LUTHER B. ABRAM Abe was born in Arkansas 31 years ago and has lived in California for the past 10 years receiving his A.B. degree from Whittier College after Army service. He and his wife Pat have four children. Abe is a member of Nu Sigma Nu fraternity and plans on interning at Huntington Hospital. Specialty and practice plans are as yet undecided. THOMAS G. ALLEN 25 years ago Pasadena California was blessed with one of its most ardent supporters in the personage of Tom Allen. He did his undergraduate work at Loyola College, majoring in one-upsmanship and study habit development. For the past two years he has worked as a lab tech at the Huntington Hospital, and in between BUN determinations managed to marry Marilyn, who is an R.N. Tom ' s hobby is re- building their apartment in Pasadena so it will hold his Hi-Fi equipment. LACGH will claim him as an in- tern. Following a surgical residency he plans to locate in — where else? — Pasadena. -

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I SWEAR BY APOLLO THE PHYSICL N AND AESCULAPIUS ' AND HEALTH -AND ALL-HEAL - AND ALL THE GODS AND GODDESSES • THAT • ACCORDING TO MY ABILITY AND JUDGMENT • I WILL KEEP THIS OATH AND THIS STIPULATION- TO RECKON HIM WHO TAUGHT ME THIS ART EQUALLY DEARTO ME AS MY PARENTS • TO SHARE MY SUBSTANCE WITH HIM - gf REUEVE HIS NECESSITIES IF REQUIRED • TO LOOK UPON HIS OFFSPRING IN THE SAME FOOTING AS MY OWN BROTHERS ■ AND TO TEACH THEM THIS ART • IF THEY SHALL WISH TO LEARN IT • WITHOUT FEE OR STIPULATION • AND THAT BY PRECEPT • LECTURE • EVERY OTHER MODE OF INSTRUCTION • I WILL IMPART A KNOWLEDGE OF THE ART TO MY OWN SONS • AND THOSE OF MY TEACHERS • AND TO DISCIPLES BOUND BY A STIPULATION AND OATH ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MEDICINE - BUT TO NONE OTHERS I WILL FOLLOW THAT SYSTEM OF REGIMEN WHICH • ACCORDING TO MY ABILITY AND JUDGMENT - 1 CONSIDER FORTHE BENEFIT OF MY PATIENTS - AND ABSTAIN FROM WHATEVER IS DELETERIOUS AND MISCHIEVOUS ♦ I WILL GIVE NO DEADLY MEDICINE TO ANYONE IF ASKED-NOR SUGGEST ANY SUCH COUNSEL • AND IN LIKE MANNER I WILL NOT GIVE TO A WOMAN A PESSARY TO PRODUCE ABORTION ♦WITH PURITY WITH HOUNESS I WILL PASS MY LIFE PRACTICE MY ART I WILL NOT CUT PERSONS LABORING UNDER THE STONE • BUT WILL LEAVE THIS TO BE DONE BY MEN WHO ARE PRACTITIONERS OF THIS WORK ♦ INTO WHAT- EVER HOUSES I ENTER • I WILL GO INTO THEM FOR THE BENEFTT OF THE SICK - AND WILL ABSTAIN FROM EVERY VOLUNTARY ACT OF MISCHIEF CORRUFTION-AND FURTHER • FROM THE SEDUCHON OF FEMALES OR MALES - OF FREEMEN AND SLAVES WHATEVER • IN CONNECTION WTTH MY PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE • OR NOT IN CON- NECnON WTTH TT- 1 SEE OR HEAR • IN THE LIFE OF MEN • WHICH OUGHT NOT TO BE SPOKEN OF ABROAD -I WILL NOT DTVULGE- AS RECKONING THAT ALL SUCH SHOULD BE KEPT SECRET ♦WHILE I CONTINUE TO KEEP THIS OATH UNVIOLATED • MAY TT BE GRANTED TO ME TO ENIOY LIFE AND THE PRACTICE OF THE ART - RESPECTED BY ALL MEN • IN ALL TIMES ' BUT SHOULD I TRESPASS AND VIOLATE THIS OATH • MAY THE REVERSE BE MY LOT

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JAMES D. ARTHUR Twenty four years ago China added one more to their millions when Jim was born. Via Yangtze River, he cruised his way to San Francisco and eventually graduated from John Muir High School. His pre- med days were spent at UCLA. During these past 4 years a t USC, this Phi Chi ' s main interest has been in pediatric cardiology, a field in which he hopes to enter after completing his 5 years to the Army Senior-Intern Program. Married to Jean, this father of 2 boys currently enjoys playing My Ole ' Ken- tucky Home on rinky tink piano while waiting for his latest photographic endeavors to develop. BENJAMIN J. BERRY, JR. Born in Chicago 25 years ago, Ben now calls Reno, Nevada home. Sewanee College of Tennessee claimed him as a undergraduate. He has done re- search for Dr. Paul Starr on thyroid metabolism, and spent last summer at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego. His hobbies include tinkering with his MG, the critical evaluation of television commercials, and polishing his emerald. He is an active member of Nu Sigma Nu. After an internship at Santa Clara County and a surgical residency, Ben, and his lovely wife, Karen, plan to locate in the Reno-Lake Tahoe area. RON A. BLANCHETTE This 27 year old, Canadian born, U.C.L.A. kinesthesi- ologist was admitted to our class for the sole purpose of training his fellow classmates in the mechanics of human motion. Ron has published papers in re- habilitation and was a fellow in child psychiatry; but, as of this dote he has not decided upon a specialty. Ron ' s wife Shela and daughter Bobbie claim, however, that his real ambition is to set a couch on the Parisian left bank in the practice of psychiatry. En route an internship is planned at Gorgas Hospital in the Canal Zone.