University of Louisville School of Medicine - Ad Astra Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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Frederick Henry Albrink Karen Aviva Berg Louisville Affiliated Hospitals Medical College of Pennsylvania Louisville, KY Philadelphia, PA David Franklin Berry Thomas Marion Bibb IV Louisville Affiliated Hospitals Louisville Affiliated Hospitals Louisville, KY Louisville, KY

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June 5, 1987 Dear 1987 Graduates, I am honored to participate in this permanent souvenir of your medical education. I congratulate you and wish you well as you go forward to meet the challenge of becoming competent and humane physicians. The messages about caring for yourselves, your significant others, your colleagues, your health team members and soon your own patients that you were introduced to during Health Awareness Workshop now can be talismans to carry with you in your careers. I want to encourage you to be role models to your patients, avoid burn out, exercise your minds continuously, increase your general stamina and discover your creative abilities. Medicine is a prime example of a profession in which courageous and creative change constantly occurs. Dr. Rollo May reminds us: We all need courage, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. We need courage to make being and becoming possible; to make a commitment so that we become fully human. Man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices to make a commitment. All of you have made the strongest kind of commitment, not only to helping those in need, adding to your current medical knowledge and being a leader in organized medicine to share in shaping policy, especially for those unable to care for themselves, but also to ethical and moral responsibilities. Your commitment implies courage. Dr. May tells us, The most important kind of courage of all is creative courage, the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built. In our day, technology has forced all professionals in all fields to change. Radically courageous persons therefore are required to appreciate and direct the changes ahead. The need for creative courage is in direct proportion to the degree of change a profession is undergoing. As you begin yet another transition toward your wonderful goal of becoming courageous and humane physicians, we faculty members welcome you to join us in experiencing and influencing the ongoing changes in the marvelous practice of medicine. Please keep in touch with us and seek inspiration and satisfaction in active participation in the Fine Arts. Have many good days! Leah Ducissitied nism aDie Associate Dean for Student Affairs

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Kimberly Anne Boland Daniel A. Borders Washington U. Affiliated Hospitals Louisville Affiliated Hospitals St. Louis, MO Louisville, KY Mary Lee Bouldin Jane Ellen Brooks McGaw Medical Center Cincinnati Affiliated Hospitals Chicago, IL Cincinnati, OH