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

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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

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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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JOHN PAUL BARTHEL John, who spent most of his vacations furthering his medical experience, was born December 20, 1923 in Baltimore. He attended undergraduate classes at Western Maryland College and Johns Hopkins University. After serving three years in the Southwest Pacific with the Army Medical Corps, he was married to a college sweetheart in a candlelight ceremony at the Calvary Meth- odist Church in Washington, D.C. on September 21, 1946. His hobby is gardening— particularly rose and orchid culture. He externed ih Anes- thesia at the University Hospital in 1950 and hopes to do General Practice in a small mid- western town. EARL MILLER BEARDSLEY Earl was born on September 21, 1924 at Berwyn, Maryland. Undergraduate work was completed at the University of Maryland at College Park. He served with the USNR from 1943 to 1946 and was married on June 8, 1948 at Hyattsville, Maryland. He is the father of a year-old daugh- ter, Jane. One of the most avid bridge players in the class, he did, however, take time out during the summer of 1950 to externe at Penin- sula General Hospital in Salisbury, Maryland. A member of Alpha Omega Alpha, he plans some day to settle down to General Practice. 17