University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - Scope Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Other executives of less gigantic stature, in mind and soul as well as body, take pride in an efficient oihce routine, a clean desk and a bustling air of pseuddactivity. For twentyflive years the door to his office has been open and through it has passed professor, instructor, alumnus, or someone who has turned out to be a bore or nuisance, to be greeted with courtesy, sympathy, patience and wisdom, and a cloud of pipe smoke. I fancy that the pile of papers, letters, reports and advertisements of antique books on his desk has remained at about the same level for twentyffour years. It must have taken at least a year to accumulate the original foundation and it has defied the eH'orts of annihilation of wellfintentioned secretaries, the assistant and the charwomen. This pile has deep significance. No signed document ever emerges from his office in the white heat of passion but only after a proper period of seasoning in that pile on his desk or after a more rapid ripening by the experienced intellectual processes of a naturally pacific mind, That pile may have influenced his conversation for one retreats from his office before a barrage of impetuous half considered phrases. The diamond of Dean Pepper's character has many facets. All of you know of his interest in medical history, the migration of birds and the gentle art of angling. Only a few of you know of his knowledge of anthropology, his resources as a practical naturalist, his love of true art, music, bibliography and his profound yet simple philosof phy of life and human nature. To few men is it given to lead such a useful, well' rounded, happy life and to influence so many with the example of the homely virtues of integrity, simplicity and innate friendliness. ADMI I llr. William Pepper A.B., M.D., Hon.Sc.D. Dean of the School of Medicine A.B., University of Pennsylvania, 18943 M.D., 1897g hon.Sc.D., 1932. Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology, University . of Pennsylvania, 190848, Dean, School of Medicine, 1912 to date. Trustee of The Philadelphia Free Library. Member of The American Medical Association fCouncil on Medical Education and Hospitals, 1917f27l. Member of Association of Medical Colleges fPresident, 19201. Member of Philadelphia College of Physicians. Ten EDWARD S. THORPE on the 25th anniversary of Dr. Pepper's Tenure as Dean fFrom the 1937 Scopej TRATIVE s 5 6

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The first home of the Medical School was on Fifth Street above Walnut Street, only a few squares away from the Pennsylvania Hospital, founded in 1752. The second home of the School was at Ninth and Market Streets and the third at Ninth and Chestnut Streets. While at the latter location, the clinical facilities of the Philadelphia Almshouse, now Philadelphia General Hospital, were made available- for teaching purposes. The fourth location was in Logan Hall, now part of the College, at 36th and Woodland Avenue. Since 1904 the School has occupied the Medical Laboratories on Hamilton Walk. The move from the center of the city came in the early 187O's, when H. C. Wood, William F. Norris, and William Pepper decided the School should have its own hospital. After much effort by Dr. William Pepper, this move was accomplished and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania was established. Many additions to the original buildings have been made since then, most recent of which have been the D. Hayes Agnew Pavilion and the Crothers Dulles Hospital, built during the past few years and dedicated to the service of the University but last year. Today the Hospital and the Medical School are housed in modern buildings with the latest laboratory and clinical facilities available for the education of the students and the care of its patients, who, as in the early Paduan and Flemish schools, are felt to provide the best opportunity for the learning of the science and art of medicine. To list the first's that distinguish our medical school would be an endless and perhaps meaningless occupation, but today as in the past century and a half, the School moves in the first rank of medical education. As our alumni enter the military services of our Nation, Men and Medicine of Pennsylvania are reaching the corners of the world as they have since 1765. ' 'af THE FIRST MEDICAL SCHOOL-1765-1806 Anatomical or Surgeons' Hall Fifth and Library Streets, above Walnut Nine

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Allred . llivharlls A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Sc.D., M.D., LL.D. VicefP1'esident in Charge of Medical Affairs In addition to being one of the foremost research men of the day, particularly in the held of kidney function, Dr. Richards acts as liaison ofhecr between the Medical School and the University. It is his duty to handle all those problems directly related to the Medical, Graduate Medical, Dental, and Vet' erinary Schools, Phipps Institute, Wistar Institute, and thc hospitals associated with the University FACULTY llr. Elizabeth liavdin Assistant to the Dean Since Dr. Edward S. Thorpe left the Dean's office for the hills of New Hampshire last year, the Assistant to the Dean has been Dr. Elizabeth Ravdin. As wife of Lieutenant Colonel I. S. Ravdin, Surgical Chief of the 20th General Hose pital Unit, now abroad, mother of a flrstfyear student, and physician in her own right, Dr. Ravdin has been eminently fitted for her position. As those who have discussed their particular problems with her know, she is a quiet, eiliciently capable Assistant to our Dean. Eleven