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

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REFERRING PHYSICIAN There are among the leamed of medicine a relative few who greatly excel in their endeavor. These few, logically, tend to be found with increasing numbers within institutions of medical leaming. Such is not the exception at our own Bowman Cray School of Medicine and Baptist Hospital, for here the vast majority of our faculty are physicians of this quality. And even among the great there those whom they in tum look up to and admire. These great among the great are the stalwarts of this honored profession which we A familiar scene on the wards is Dr. Spur: as he reviews a patient's records. Pity t.he poor junior isiudgnt who doesn't know the calcium in 500cc of oo . have struggled so long to join. On these pages we, the Class of 1960, are honoring such a man. For four years known as a class of indecision and disunity, we faced the dedication of our yearbook with no small amount of hesitation. In short order and unanimity of opinion, one man stood out as the embodiment of all the qualities essential for such recognition. Respectfully, we dedicate this, the 1960 Cray Matter, to Dr. Charles L. Spurr. There are innumerable reasons for our choice, but, truly, the intangibles of greatness do not readily lend themselves to description. No one has ever categorized the finite characteristics that elevate a man to such status, and sheer futility confronts those who try. Dr. Spurr's sincere interest in each and every student, his vast knowledge There are two meng for over the stem professor there stands the physician and friend whose door is always open for you to air your problems. in all fields and almost unbelievable comprehension of medicine, his keen dry wit, his casual dignity, his willingness to listen, advise, criticize, sympathize, and his stern fair equality in dealing with us are all things which we shall long remember about Dr. Spurr. A verbal caricature is an unjust limitation, but in line with the theme of our yearbook we have found you, Dr. Spurr, to be a referrable physician, a v A physician among physicians. z- qli VA if X . 8

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I MARITAL HISTORY ll FT T marriage counselling surveyors par excellence, several in- structed the Swanson in Anatomy, and Pottsville claimed several as usual. Nlille-r's boat was completed and launched. The class was reunited socially, however, class meetings con- tinued to boast a high morbidity rate. Dr. Carpenters words of advice early in the game- ulllegitimatum non carborundum - became our motto, and this motto enabled us to cope with the Manic's office, the nurses, and all the others in the educational hierarchy. XVe realize that Medicine is not only the ART of writing and reading, the discussion of things unseen, and the transfusion of knowledge gained from rats to humans, but we hope that the firm foundation of which we have partaken here will be disseminated throughout our practices for the good of all concemed. But some- times we wonder ' FAMILY HISTORY Father 56 living but not very well finan- cially or emotionally. Mother 54 living and under a psychiat- ristis care. Siblings C33 living and apparently well. History negative for any familial dis- eases including mental illness, except for present illness of patient. VVife 25 living and the sole support of family. Children one climbing the walls and one in the superstructures. SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY i Need we elaborate??? ILLECITIMATUM NON CARBORUNDUMH rv I

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