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

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PHIN COHEN Phin, one of the “kids” of the class, was born in Baltimore on June 1, 1928. Although he has lived in this city all of his life and intends to practice in this locale, this phlegma- tic scholar wandered south to Duke University, from which he received his B.A. degree in 1948. Phin entered medical school rather in- conspicuously, but soon established an enviable academic record, culminating last year by acceptance into Alpha Omega Alpha. His summers have been utilized in widening his medical knowledge as a fellow in Pathology and Infectious Diseases. Possessor of a satiri- cal sense of humor and a convincing poker-face expression, Phin can make the most prepost- erous confabulation seem apparently true. We are certain that his ambition to be an Internist in Baltimore will be fulfilled. STUART PITNER CULPEPPER Earmarked with the ante-bellum name of Culpepper and born in Buchanan, Georgia in 1927, this vintage Southerner now calls Or- lando, Florida home. Following two years of bedpan experience in the Navy, Stu plunged into premed work at the University of Georgia and came through with a B.S. degree in 1948. He also took a two year course in pleasantries at Rollins College, Florida, before the war. Stu was late in being shackled, but finally went the way of all bachelors in December 1951 to a girl from Orlando. Prior to that he was sauntering around Lutheran Hospital as an extern and spent a summer in pathology at Orange General in Florida. Stu’s motto may well be “Don’t Step on Me,” — for if perchance someday you are strolling through Daytona Beach you may anticipate him enjoying his favorite pastime — snoozing on the sand. 23

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JACK OLIVER CARSON Gentleman Jack, better known as “The Great Vaselino,” was born in Bethel, North Carolina, on July 26, 1926. He was trapped at an early age, equipped with shoes and a jug, and sent to Duke University. After two years of Navy life, he went to the University of North Carolina where he received a B.S. degree and started his medical training, joining Phi Chi fraternity. Stories of Maryland’s horses and women lured Jack northward, but he soon lost interest in the horses. Well-known for his repertoire of jokes and anecdotes, this con- genial Carolinian is always a “regional host” at class parties and social gatherings. Although outwardly an easy-going, slightly shy type of lad, the nurses’ homes classify him as definitely malignant. If he survives the burdens of internship, Jack plans to do general practice in North Carolina. Illlil :? iiilill DANIEL CLYMAN Although a born and bred Baltimorean, Danny is a cosmopolitan New Yorker at heart. After two years of Pharmacy School and a two year trek through the South Pacific at the expense of the U.S. Navy, he returned to his first love — Medicine. At Maryland he obtained a B.S. in Zoology and Old English. His sum- mers were spent in picturesque New Hampshire as a dramatic director and camp doctor; and he took a commission with the U.S.P.H.S. to do research work on encephalitis. A member of Phi Alpha and Phi Delta Epsilon, he was accepted into Phi Kappa Phi and Alpha Omega Alpha also, and knows the Greek alphabet backwards and forwards. For the past two years his nights have been spent at Lutheran Hospital — medically and socially. Internal Med- icine is his goal. 22

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ANDREW MONROE DIGGS Veering sharply from the usual habits of other flag-waving Confederates, soft-spoken Monroe invariably remai ns noncommital or even silent on pertinent issues. Even though his outbursts of spontaneous verbalizations are rare, he will confirm that he was born in Charlotte, N.C. on May 18, 1926, that he spent two years in the U.S. Navy and that he attended U. of N.C. Monroe’s defenses seem to recede in the environment of wine, women and song; in these moments he attests to special in- terests in photography, travel, and a 1951 vacation in Europe. Medically speaking, he is quite certain of eventually specializing in Sur- gery and has supplemented his medical school work with an externship at Lutheran Hospital; still evasive, Monroe commits himself no fur- ther than to state that he will practice in the Southland. ANDREW JOSEPH DEVLIN They call him “The Champ” and rightly so. For Andy has the biggest family in the class — four little girls who are the pride and joy of the Devlin household. But bouncing babies on his knees didn’t prevent him from graduat- ing from Gonzaga University in 1948 or going through four years of medical school. He’s come a long way from Spokane, Washington where he was born and has lived most of his life. Most, that is, except for the three years in the Army Medical Corps where he saw service with the 75th and 2nd Infantry Divis- ions in the European Theater of Operations. A Nu Sigma Nu, Andy is indefinite concerning future ambitions, but sometimes one can hear him mumbling something about “beating Ed- die Cantor .” 24