University of Maryland School of Medicine - Terrae Mariae Medicus (Baltimore, MD)

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HARRY CLIFTON BYRD, B.S., L.L.D., D.Sc. Over at his College Park campus Curley may seem a little remote to most of the medical students, but his influence is very real in the Baltimore division of the University. As President of the University since 1936, after a nineteen-year reign as football coach and four years as assistant to the President and Vice President, he has had a guiding hand in the main physical develop- ment of the Baltimore schools as well as the better-known mushrooming of the College Park plant. His guiding theme at College Park, A place in Maryland University for anyone in the state who wants to attend, is consistently assailed by his implacable foe, the Sunpapers; but this smoldering war has so far only caused Curley the inconvenience of writing a statement to the press in reply. Possible contributing to his success in getting the legislature to promote the University ' s expansion are the usual aids which any politician needs: he is a native son (Crisfield 1889), is handsome, can speak well, and is a member of the necessary fraternal orders and societies.

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These freshmen, standing on the preclinical side of Greene St., are probably thinking of almost nothing at the moment but Anatomy. In the background looms what for them is yet to come, when as seniors and interns days, nights, and weekends will be spent in the Hospital.

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MAURICE CHARLES PIXCOFFS, B.S., M.D. A Chicagoan by birth, Dr. Pincoffs stayed there long enough to earn a B.S. from the University of Chicago in 1909; then migrated to Baltimore where the years have been spent constructing an amazingly varied and prominent medical career. Beginning with his graduation from The Johns Hopkins Medical Col- lege in 1912, he spent the years up to World War I as a general practitioner in his chosen city, then volunteered early when the U.S. entered the conflict. Captain Pincoffs won the DSC and Croix De Guerre in 1918, and, returning to his former haunts engaged in medical research in addition to his practice. These activities netted him an offer to become Professor of Medicine at this school in 1921. Since that time he has managed to become a Brigadier General in World War II, Editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine, civilian advisor to the Secre- tary of War, chairman of the Commission for Medical Care in the State of Maryland, and Assistant to the President of the University as regards the medical school.