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

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Murray Martin Kappleniaii An avid devotee of the art of medicine, proficient, able, and ever inquisitive is our Senior Class President. Murray is the true shining light of ' 55, but never let it be said that this gentleman has no interest other than medicine. A bridge pro and patron of the legitimate theater, he finds ample time for both. In 1953 he took that big step and married Joan, his most ardent fan. A member of Phi D E, Murray has served AOA as vice-president and has served his class well. His future is clearly mapped out, and we shall see him soon as an active and busy pediatrician. William Peter Keefe Loyal, capable, and friendly, this son of Old Erin comes to Baltimore after sojourns in his birthplace, Hartford, Connecticut, and four years with the Crusaders of Holy Cross. Bill j oined the swelling ranks of the marital state after two years here when he wed Judy, a daughter of the Emerald Isle, who. in November 1954, presented him with a winsome offspring, Ruth. Elected to AOA in his senior year. Will plans to return to the Nutmeg State, after taking Hippocrates ' oath, to take up his internship and start his training in a surgical specialty to be announced. James Thomas Keegaii Big Jim started his long trek toward medicine in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1929. Heeding the call of the wild, he carried his books to Dartmouth and fled with his A. B. in 1951. Having spent many summers in hospitals in various jobs, he has seen medicine from the bedpan to the Bard-Parker. Busy medical school years have been involved with Phi Beta Pi, presidency of AOA. editing the yearbook, and externing at Union Memorial. Long a die-hard bachelor but sinking fast, he and Joan, the girl back home, are making plans. Word has got out that Jim hopes to intern in New England and train in the surgical fields. 25

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James Lewis Hughes This jocular gent from Cumberland got his first taste of the cruel world in 1930 and has since been on a single-handed cam- paign to leave a smile wherever he goes. A Georgetown grad, Jim came to Baltimore, living at Nu Sig before going ofl to St. Agnes to extern in his last two years, establishing himself as both an adept student and active class member, with positions on the Student Council and Newman Club. Single but quite eligible, Jim contemplates internship at St. Agnes and carrying his win- ning ways into Pediatrics in Cumberland. Alfred Ediniiiid iMiintsch . ' Twas in the uld country, Vienna, Austria, to be specific in 1929, that Fritz waltzed into this crazy world. Coming to Balti- more in 1932, he grew to assume his quiet, serious ways and to culminate three years in Biology at Hopkins. Having externed at City and St. Joseph ' s, Al spends non-medical time enjoying classical and semi-classical music and reading. In the wee hours he may be heard playing the violin. The future? The immediate future is uncertain; the later, an inclination toward thoracic surgery. Walter Edward James A shrewd analyst of Culbertson and Blackwdoil. never loath to display his talents with those fifty-two pasteboards. Walt, an- other home-town boy, carries willi liim a (]iiiet dignity possessed by few. Uncle Sam knew him for two ears. ( ollego Park knew him for three, and we at the one-hundred l)k)ck Soutli Greene lia ( ' known liim since. A forincr Sludcnl (ioiirnil Representative, loyal Nu Sig. and ewinan (!lul) secrclar . Walts outside in- terests center around his wife, Jane, and the athletic world. In- ternship at Bon Secours or Mercy and residency in OB-GYN loom i r ' j.o in his nc;ir future. 24

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Louis Edmund Kininiel, Jr. Born with a scalpel clenched between his teeth. Lou had his sights set on the violent service. Baltimore first heard him in 1925; the Air Force employed him as a turret gunner. In 1946 he took to the altar with Thel, and this charming couple display seven-year old Jacque. Lou carried his scalpel through College Park and slept through his first Histology class in the fall of 1951. He has carried the medical ball through four years, liberally sprinkled with bridge and spontaneous sleep, and plans to train locally in Surgery. i Daniel Denoon King, Jr. A native of the Keystone State, but Virginia and Maryland bred, Dan trotted into Baltimore fresh off the William and Mary campus to display his quiet and thorough efficiency to his fellow classmates. Summer externships in North Carolina and a senior year at Church Home have kept him busy, but Dan has always been known to take time out to add fuel to any type of discussion, medical, etc. Internship ideas center about a general rotation, possibly out West, but eventually a return to rural life to carry on a good brand of general practice. William Henry Kirby, Jr. A congenial lad is this ex-engineer who coated himself with engineering degrees interrupted by a Navy hitch. Bill found that he would like to find a correlation between that field and medicine and has kept up his contacts by being past president of the Society for the Advancement of Management. In 1945 this Baltimore native, vintage of 1920, married Virginia. Expressing a love for the mid-west country. Bill has let rumors leak out that he has a rotating internshi)) in mitul to be followed by general practice or experience in the field of industrial medicine. 26