Wake Forest School of Medicine - Gray Matter Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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WilbLl14 C. Thomas. BS., MD

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DEDICATIQ These are 1 ten yxords about Doe Thomas The hrst we savt of Dr Thom IS nas one September afternoon the hrst day of Sophomore Pathology A lrttle atter I Stl P M the doors of room 7'-L burst open 1nd 1 short thnn d.1rlxl1a1rcd bundle of energy and book larnlng strulxed down the srde .usle mth 1ll the foree of .1 loeomotne racrnfi, dow nhlll throttle mde open Hrs arms were hlled vxnth an issortment ot Patholowy t xtboolts brought rn just to proxe that Pathology IS too bro1d ,1 subjett to be eoxered rn elexen vteelxs and that none of the textbooks .ue 1ny good anyxx 1y Tommy tluyeht Pathology under oxtheultles 1 x0 to 'l 30 was the atter drnner sxesta hour for most ot the class fand we do mean Lnptonj Tommy trled to keep the cllss .1vs1le mth an rnevhaustnble stotlx ot stones that yaguely touched on pathology lrlte the hatband du-nosrs ot B P H and the steam prpe Dx of Nerssefr not to mentnon lanyers and undertalxers bon lly hes exeryynhere No eelebratrons complete untrl h wanders rn 1nd starts su 1pp1nQ stones ruth the gang rn the corner Ineutably le s the M C tor the nurses ptrtres Autumn afternoons he rs on the srdellnes xx 1tth1ng BG students being parted from therr teeth nn the footb1ll le1eue xxhrle summers he keeps up the chatter at shortstop tryrne to stop the House Staffs losrng streak rn therr serres agunst the Medrtal Students Tommy s tuonte rndoor sport rs the CPC a Roman holrday sort ot thrng rn xxhrch the patholognst trres to houst the omnrserent elrnneran on his oxxn petard BOUHCIDL about rn tne prt Hashmg hrs poxnter on the ltntern slnde of a patholomeal speermen Tommy demon trates ID somexy hat s1reast1e tones the obyrous anatornleal dragnosrs and then polrshcs off the NllU.1tlOFl by haulrng out a tour foot stack ef journal ' w YV ' 1 HA-I 4 - 1 . . , U A L ' , 1 , . t,, , v ' V, . ' , v,4 . Y' . g' ex X' '- ' ' K , .. ., ,.. . w , A , , ,, . - I -I . y n L I . , - -. - ' - 1 . y . , '- . 1 t ' , -- , . A . , .b . , . ., .., , ,J Y . .4 7' I A V . . 1 . C , .. X . ,K , , . , I . L . , . . . by , .1 .. . , . , , ,- , . . .L , . . - - , ,, . , - , '. ' e , ,n - . - D 1 L U L K ' y . , , ' - . 1 . L , k V .L . . F , Y V5 , . ,Q l .3 .I , Y ,. qt , ...

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references to the disease. But it wasnt for these things that the Class of 1948 picked Dr. Thomas out of the many respected .ind well-liked faculty members .md dedicated this book to him. It was because Tommy put in his lectures one part pathology and four parts a philos- ophy of medicine, and that philosophy-a philosophy of healthy scepticism-he has imparted to this class. Tommy is the life- long enemy of the stagnant, the accepted, DEDICATIO the unproven, the complacent. In tl profession such .is medicine .ind especially in medical schools where chiefs tend to become omniscient men .ind tin idols, there is .1 great need of .1 sceptic who refuses to hear the irmudible murmur or to feel the im- perceptible spleen. XY'ith barbed arrows of cynicism Tommy rouses the sleeping giants of medicine. A philosophy of disbelief is the lubricant of progress This D1 Thomas has given us, .ind for this we dedicate this Annual to him. lx hi . IN'