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

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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

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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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THE E Q9 UTUO The evolutionary story of a doctor finds its beginnings in the antiquity of the mind where a lasting impression, made by something or someone in the past, start- ed a ifetime of preparation and planning for the goal we are about to realize. This initial impression was most likely made by a kindly old country doctor whom we felt to possess magical powers as he attended to us, our sibs or parents. Whether it was suturing a laceration, setting a broken bone or many of his other mysterious deeds we admired him and envied his skill and knowledge. It was our determination to be like him that carried us through high school and college. lt was in the latter that we first became aware of the evolutionary factors at play in the making ofa doctor. Here we encountered an example of one of the famous observations made by Darwin over lOO years ago . . . There is on overproduction of offspring. We knew that few of our many friends in the premedical courses would be allowed to complete their goal and indeed there were nine people turned away for every one given the opportunity of studying at this institution. In the fall of l962, the beginning of the Enthusiosticene period in our de lop- ment we converged here from a dozen different states and adopted Winston A - OS e. ., Vl.V' .V In VV . . l V V , Q V , V V. . e , , , , , , V V I A V V ' ' ' . l Q , V ' .. . . .2 4' . . i V f , l V , A , V 5 . . . 1 ' r . ,,, , . . . ,. . D A ' 1 , , V M . 5 ' : . . ..xv 't 5 5 I -- ' . . urn 9 5 ' , lf' .l ..-ww' . A , V ' ' ' ,,vv. ,,-,v ' -, , ' lin, ,.,..v V '- f h,.,. ..- -. - 1 -.5 - , ,. V . , ' ., ,, . -1 . 1 . , . . ' .' . I x V W , . I , A n ' ' A ' V ' H Q , . .. . .. -4 . ' ' ' ' f S , , ' , , , A' ' , X i. 4. ' . -, ' ' ' ' 1, . V 'I , N 1 Q , ' . ' ' . ',L,, . 1 f. ',.f 0 i . A -1. nv ' he, i 0 1.52- ' f . i ' 1' V- f . -wt-f' . an ' , -. , f . . . .. ' ' V ' . - u , R1-s:f:wa.g,,:-,....,A ' W -VVVMVV . -'V fmmqmme VV T i - . . -' V 1 'ff , ., -mmmwwvezwgrw 1 ' :,. I W 'f-1, I ' , . . . 1 Q V V . - 1. . Vw' A -, ,V . ' , V J' , V . V , V V 13-- ,,,,,i,.--5' 'f,,.V --2 if Xi -' ' ,A , It . . , 1.55 8