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

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. ■ ( iii hl: RoIrii ll( | kins, vitcprcsidciil; William IlsiiiuikI, president; Robert Artluir, treasurer; Theodore Lanning, student council representative. CLASS of 1951 The senior class averaged 28.18 years of age and 56.25% were married. Of the married students 61.11% had children, mak- ing 33 students in the class with children and 45 children in all, with more on the way. This averaged out to .83 child per married student, 1.36 per married student with children, and .47 child per student. The class was 82.29% veterans of World War II subdivided as follows: Army 46.84%, Navy 34.18%, Army Air Corps 11.39%, Navy Air Corps 3.80%, Marines 2.56%, Merchant Marine 1.27%. Class aspirations were as follows: In- ternal Medicine 14.58%, Surgery 9.38%, Ob-Gyn 6.25%, Pedia- trics 7.29%, Psychiatry 5.24%, Undecided 19.79%, General Prac- tice 45.83%, Academic Career 2.08%, Research 1.04%. 15

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THE OATH I SWEAR BY APOLLO THE PHYSICIAN, BY AESCULAPIUS, HYGEIA, AND PANACEA, AND I TAKE TO WITNESS ALL THE GODS AND ALL THE GODDESSES, TO KEEP ACCORD- ING TO MY ABILITY AND MY JUDGMENT THE FOLLOWING OATH: TO CONSIDER DEAR TO ME AS MY PARENTS HIM WHO TAUGHT ME THIS ART; TO LIVE IN COMMON WITH HIM AND IF NECESSARY TO SHARE MY GOODS WITH him; to LOOK UPON HIS CHILDREN AS MY OWN BROTHERS, TO TEACH THEM THIS ART IF THEY SO DESIRE WITHOUT FEE OR WRITTEN PROMISE; TO IMPART TO MY SONS AND THE SONS OF THE MASTER WHO TAUGHT ME AND THE DISCIPLES WHO HAVE EN- ROLLED THEMSELVES AND HAVE AGREED TO THE RULES OF THE PROFESSION, BUT TO THESE ALONE, THE PRECEPTS AND THE INSTRUCTION. I WILL PRESCRIBE REGIMEN FOR THE GOOD OF MY PATIENTS ACCORDING TO MY ABILITY AND MY JUDGMENT AND NEVER DO HARM TO ANYONE. TO PLEASE NO ONE WILL I PRESCRIBE A DEADLY DRUG NOR GIVE ADVICE WHICH MAY CAUSE HIS DEATH. NOR WILL I GIVE A WOMAN A PESSARY TO PROCURE ABORTION. BUT I WILL PRESERVE THE PURITY OF MY LIFE AND MY ART. I WILL NOT CUT FOR STONE, EVEN FOR THE PATIENTS IN WHOM THE DISEASE IS manifest; I WILL LEAVE THIS OPERATION TO BE PERFORMED BY PRACTI- TIONERS (SPECIALIST IN THIS ART). IN EVERY HOUSE WHERE I WILL ENTER ONLY FOR THE GOOD OF MY PATIENTS, KEEPING MYSELF FAR FROM ALL INTENTIONAL ILL- DOING AND ALL SEDUCTION, AN D ESPECIALLY FROM THE PLEASURES OF LOVE WITH WOMEN OR WITH MEN, BE THEY FREE OR SLAVES. ALL THAT MAY COME TO MY KNOWLEDGE IN THE EXERCISE OF MY PROFESSION OR OUTSIDE OF MY PROFESSION OR IN DAILY COMMERCE WITH MEN, WHICH OUGHT NOT TO BE SPREAD ABROAD, I WILL KEEP SECRET AND WILL NEVER REVEAL. IF I KEEP THIS OATH FAITHFULLY, MAY I ENJOY MY LIFE AND PRACTICE MY ART, RESPECTED BY ALL MEN AND IN ALL TIMES; BUT IF I SWERVE FROM IT OR VIOLATE IT, MAY THE REVERSE BE MY LOT. 14

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LAW LAMAR ACER This drawling rebel was born June 26, 1920 in Selma, Alabama. After several pre-war classes at Dartmouth, he served in the Naval Air Corps from 1941 to 1945. He received his B.S. in Medicine from the University of North Carolina. Lamar was married February 2, 1943 in Atlanta and is the father of two children. Layer Lawton, age 3, and Law Lamar, Jr., age eight months, Sports, sliding the trombone and strumming a guitar are his hobbies. He spent his summers farming in the hills of North Carolina. A spec- ialty in Medicine or Psychiatry and five chil- dren are his aspirations. ROBERT KEY ARTHUR, JR. Currently from Macon, Bob was born February 5, 1926 in Cordel, Georgia. He received his B.S. in 1948 from Mercer University in Macon where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Previously he served twenty-one months in the Air Force Cadet program. He married Dorothy Bechtold on July 9, 1949 in Baltimore. Playing the trumpet and listening to classical music occupy his spare time; he ex- terned in Anesthesia at the University Hospital in 1949. He was class treasurer during his Jun- ior and Senior years and he can ' t wait to get back to the red clay hills of Georgia. 16