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

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lt-lIUST0l?3Y 0? THE CLASS QD? 119665 The experience of medical school is a total one which each student undergoes in an unique manner. The recognized achievements and accomplishments of the Class of '66 along with its not as well publicized failures and disappointments, there- fore, reflect only in part that experience. Ourfirst year in medical school was marked by the faculty's effort to impart a tremendous body of knowledge in an insufficient amount of time in anticipation of changes that were outdating what was being presented. It was a task at which both faculty and students occasionally balked. ln the process of adjusting, we elected Tom Long as our president and endured seemingly interminable class meetings which, at times, served more as a means of ventilating our individual frustrations than for achieving constructive purposes. Bubba McAlhany deservedly received the Carey Award for his outstanding achievement in anatomy. Our second year was the year of myriad mimeographed instructions and Xeroxed reading material dispensed gratis by the Physiology and Pathology Departments. lf intellectual satisfaction was denied us or unattainable, it was always satisfying de- termining where we were supposed to be in Physiology. We had the dubious distinc- tion of being the first class to take the National Boards after completing the basic sciences. From the letters received by some of us later that summer, it was obvious that the Administration also felt our distinction was dubious. As second year stu- dents, we were so pleased with Darrell Thorpe's leadership as President that we un- begrudgingly gave him a bottle of bourbon when his term was completed. ln the same vein, Drs. Davidson, Schmid, and Bond, as well as the entire Pathology De- partment, were recognized for their efforts in the classroom on our behalf. The fac- ulty awarded Lin Puckett the Roche Award for his outstanding scholastic achieve- ment during the first two years. During our third year, we self-consciously moved up to the wards wearing our starched whites and fumbling with our new diagnostic instruments over patients who often were more amused than reassured by our presence. Ridding the world of dis- ease and pestilence became the drudgery of doing endless CBC's, L. E. preps, and examining stool specimens for occult blood. Often, when making a diagnosis, we mistook the pounding hoofbeats of horses for those of zebras. We elected Karl Stevenson as our president and agreed with the selection of Darrell Thorpe and Lin Puckett to A. O. A. 6

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DR. TOOLE DISCUSSES A PATIENT'S SIGNS AND SYMPTONS IN HIS MONDAY AFTER- NOON SESSION WITH THIRD YEAR STUDENTS. :5i:v?s'jQam5 i ,,,-gffffsztm' g.,wjfgQ':'f t 1., b --Huw .3 1',,.,?f'- is I 1 ' ff if ff A 2, T H E J OI N T NEUROLOGY-NEUROSURGERY , CONFERENCE, HELD ON TUESDAY AFTER- A NOON, IS OF GREAT VALUE AND INTEREST TO BOTH STUDENTS AND FACULTY. A SMALL SAMPLE OF THE MANY PAPERS DR TOOLE HAS TO HIS CREDIT 5 :R

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' 1 :L 'hi rg if ' ' x N K., FW! .4 i ,W....i,... 3 'rt'-f The glibness that we had casually adopted during our third year was replaced during our fourth by the uncertainty of impending responsibility. Karl Stevenson's sometimes strident cry for us to remain a few moments in the amphitheater tor an announcement as juniors was replaced in our last year by the cryptic note as he con- tinued ably as our president. As our now more reasoned conclusions were ques- tions by our contemporaries, ourselves, and our instructors, we realized as June ap- proached that this had only been a beginning. FRANK C. WAGN ER Class Historian 7