University at Buffalo School of Medicine - Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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David K. Bell Albert W. Biglan John C. Bivona Jr. Barbara A. Blase Bruce N. Bogard o o I Anthony J, Bonner Martin Brenner Donald W. Burkhurdt Marc N. Coel , George A. Cohen 1 I 4-if X Odds you go for coffee evens I go. Dorsal vein!! Where? William E. Clark Thomas J, Cumbo J. E. Daigler Paul A. Dalgin Lawrence J. Dobmeier 175

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Medical Class of 1968 Davrd Kramer Robert Rosen Roger B. Perry Geraldine Fitzgerald Robert A. Milch President Vice President Tffaillfef It is difiicult to remember exactly how we felt in our first week of medical school. This is partly due to the fact that we've come a long way since then, but mostly, because of the first week social swirl. The Faculty Follies at the Saturn Club was the social high point of the week, and high we were! The week started with the Department of Psychiatry showing dirty pictures. Of course they called it a Rorschach Test, but I know what I saw. The biggest surprise of the day was out being presented with our first stetho- scope. In honor of the occasion, Dr. Becker showed us the various trends in the wearing of the stethoscope as a status symbol. What he should have showed us was how to put the damned thing together. On the first day of classes, in room G-22, our egos were higher than the flag outside. By the end of the morning the fiag was still there, but most egos were at half-mast. We had discovered the Department of Bio- physics, and the Cell Course was on its way. Our sci- Secretary Student Council Rep entific vocabulary grew by leaps and bounds: to be tapped-to be called into a professor's office for a post- exam chat. The class motto became Stay Off The List-Any List. With the start of Gross Anatomy, Friday nights took on a new meaning. The most important preparatory course for Gross is statistics: Hey, what are the chances of getting called two weeks in a row? With twelve hours of scheduled dissection every week for twenty weeks, the dissecting room became a home- away-from-home. Here we learned that most girls have more triangles than curves, and they're harder to find. But perhaps the most meaningful experience of our first year was the weekly preceptor group meeting. This was not memorizing formulae, it was medicine, and if it lifted us out of the drudgery of the textbooks, it also showed us that we have a long, long way to go. Stephen A. Barron, '68 Joel M Andres Leonard A. Argentine Lawrence Baker Robert Baltimore Stephen A. Barron

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x George DFUSCF Kenneth Eckhert Jr. Stephen A. Edelstein Frank G. Emerling Leshia M. Fernaindez N0 IUOFC 'iAli'NiShiCfS fOr mc- Want to hear about my operation? Ronald J. Friedman Sara R. Gerstman Bruce H. Gesson Erwin J. Haas Walter W. Jones 176