University of Michigan Medical and Nursing School - Aequanimitas Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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LPHA O EGA ALPHA 1 1 , . 5 I W K ZF 'K 1 i A 1' W 3 Q A . i .U . if ' .i i N ' First RowYA. Oostendorp, S. Monroe, Dr. Jaffe, P. Insel, W. Meengs, C. Kauffman, F. Serratoni. Second Row-B Dragoo, H. Alvarez, R. Kreuzer, D, Logan, W. Redlin, j. Rogers, j.Sugar, R. Grekin. Third Row-G. Geelhoed, W Boyko, S. Ringel, R. Matthews, L. Hurshman, J. Maize, F. jones, A. Hilgenberg. Absent: N. Brown, C. Ferguson, S Geelhoed, M. Hinnen, W. Howard,-I. Lipson,j. McNamara, F. Maynard, B. Mohr, R. Salamon, D. Silver, R. Tigl elaar, T. Rowland. Alpha Omega Alpha is a national medical scholastic honorary society which has chapters at vinually every accredited medical school in the United States. At the University ofMichigan members are elected during both the junior and Senior years, and an initiation banquet is held in the Fall of each year with a non-medical guest speaker. This year we were privileged to have Dr. Marvin Felheim, Professor of English at the University ofMichigan as our guest and Dr. Robert Green, Assistant Dean of the Medical School, as master of ceremonies. In past years the major activity has been the sponsorship and administration of the Student Re- search Forum, an annual spring event when selected students from all four classes present re- sults oftheir investigative efforts. This year we have also begun a series of evening meetings at faculty members' homes with guest faculty from outside the medical school who discuss with AOA's and a few invited medical faculty and house staff concepts outside the usual medical school realm. Finally, preliminary discussions have been held in an attempt to involve AOA participation in the medical school curriculum. Paul Insel '68

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S UDE T COUNCIL BACK ROW: j, Luciano, N. Osborne, P. Quinn, R. Mulder, D. Davidson, G. Anderson, R. Procter, D, Stulberg, R. Palmer. MIDDLE ROW: R, Taipala,j. Harger, G. Artinian, D. Havens, W. Fagget, M. Kabalin. The FRONT ROW is Dr,john Gosling. The Student Council is comprised ofthe class officers of the four medical classes. lts major function is to provide a forum for the discussion of matters of interest to the medical school, particularly as they pertain to any segment of the student body. Emphasis this past year has been placed on improving communications between students, faculty, and administration. To this end the Student Council has obtained permission to select students to sit in on cer- tain faculty committee meetings. The Student Council has also worked on broadening the prescription drug program, instituting a medical and hospitalization program for medical students, solving the many problems of student parking, and maintaining the lines of com- munication between the class officers and their classes. Dennis L. Havens '68 i

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Victor aughan Society Victor Clarence Vaughan was the dean of the medical school in the years of its most significant growth. In guiding the medi- cal school toward its role as an internationally prestigious in- stitution, he established himself as one of the truly great deans of American medicine. He was an innovator who helped create several new scientific departments in the medical school, among them the world's Hrst pharmacology department and one of the earliest bacteriology departments. He was so much the origin of the experimental method in basic science education that he earned the local nickname of f'Piggy Vaughan because of the number of guinea pigs he introduced into the newly built lab- oratory system. lt is to his memory that the society gives honor through its name. Briefly, the Victor Vaughan Society is a senior medical group that gathers biweekly for the discussion of the historical, social, aesthetic and ethical parameters of the art of medicine. Each member prepares a paper on a non-scientific topic of interest to him and presents his ideas at a meeting held in the home of a senior faculty member. The student selects a discusser who may comment on or develop further the points ofthe paper. The con- cluding event is an open discussion which usually proves to be both fervent and colorful. With an appreciation of medical history fundamental to the modern medical education, the Victor Vaughan Society attempts to see-along with a famous scientist ofthe past-that we stand on the shoulders of giants. ln keeping alive an appreciation for this tradition, it is the hope and pledge of this society that the future generation might stand a little taller still. Glenn W. Geelhoed '68 lfiiiill Milli? Smted: P. lnsel, j. Thrall, j. Schrager, S. Geelhoed, G. Geelhoed, Dr.j. Gosling, Dr. R. Green. Standing: D. Beau- doin, R. Grekin, j. Berman, D, Drachler, S. Ringel, M. Ziegler, R. Matthews, C. Robinson, R. Hiatt, O. Grin, R. Livesay, W. Howard, R. Sawyer, R. Mulder. Missing: L. Britton, T. Derleth, W. Faggett, T. Gaensbauer, G. Hess, M. Hinnen, C. Moore, P. Quinn,j. Ravin, B. Tigelaar. 145