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

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, ,ff':,jflY'7fT, . -, , ntl tt' ftiwf 'finia- FirstQDay: October 5, l953, Blessings on thee, little goonbox, Anatomy: When the 3 Tur- vi ' ' Bacte.: Spring come 'round ogoin, ond with it come Shigello, Solmonello, ond the Tuttleg, Physiology: What the hell does this do7 , we osked, knowing thot we should see this mochine leering ot us on the next quiz. f X - I4 orri ng fresh from the boondocks. We were cosmopolitonl tles introduced us to our codo- HISTORY The polished bross of roils ond door loomed lorge ond bright in the eorly morning sunlight of October 5, l953, os the 54 of us stoggered under the weight of microscopes, books, ond irrefutoble knowledge up the front steps, We were surprised by the outstretched honds ot the entroncewoy but were ropidly ini- tioted into the customs of Bowmon Grey in discovering thot the honds belonged to Mr. Porker ond Mrs. Porsons, eoch demanding his shore ofthe filthy lucre. The first few doys were formol ond ous- tere until the inimitoble Tookie possed her wotch insteod of the slide in l-listo- logy procticol. From thot point the Closs of '57 begon to moke history. lnitiolly Whites: Even in the certoin knowledge thot we should be ,M T T - 'O T. W

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CONTENTS HISTORY Four DEDICATION Nine FACULTY Ten CLASSES Twenty-six Seniors Twenty-eight Internships Thirty-nine Juniors Forty Sophomores Forty-four Freshmen Forty-seven ACTIVITIES Fifty SAMA Fifty-two Gray Matter Fifty-four Journal Fifty-five Alpha Omega Alpha Fifty-six Taylor Society Fifty-seven FRATERNITIES Fifty-eight Phi Chi Sixty Phi Rho Sigma Sixfy-two MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND ILLUSTRATION Sixty-four T11 rv 0

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zfl vers, we were apprehensive, but they were scared STlFFl we were impeded by hordes of sodium and chloride ions holding hands and singing Saltus sodii non existat while the Swoose sagely nodded her coiffure, which defied all laws of gravity. We were lured from the labyrinth of the Krebs' cycle by the Pied Piper-like fas- cination of the Turtle procession into the murky recesses of the Anatomy Lab, from which we made hourly forays for food, cakes, and smokes. Having de- posited on a cerebral shelf our transi- tory knowledge of the hairt and the pelvic tilt, we were promoted PJ to Phy- siology, where the babble of Clodfelter's menagerie was exceeded in volume only by the guffaws of the staff. From dogs to guinea pigs, from cacophony to sym- Pathology found us peering down the 'scope in futile attempt to see the response of the host to the causative organism. phony, from Physiology to Bacteriology. The brevity of the lab periods still allow- ed time for Bernie to cultivate and de- scribe the lepra bacillus. Down the hall were rows of slides for Pathology, which was a course Hcaricaturized by remiz- zions and exaggerbations of Smith, Klein, and Moose, manufacturers, not of Thorazine, but of Josh Turnage cells. The second year brought more of the same, except twice as much. Dr. Prich- ard mesmerized us with his erudition but still managed to see that well over half of us got mail that summer. Exams were found to be as effective a libido reducer as Spermatocide C, which, to our delight, was not employed in Physi- cal Diagnosis. However, Little Caesar's mistaken for barbers, the mot- Clinic Presentation: Are those lab values normal? How should to was At ease, disease ' WE lcnowg 28 of us received letters in Sophomore Hematology,