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

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F' ,I ..-21--- -r-.. H ' ' '- .:. v - V 4 In- q . ,uv-w-:3 um- v, .-5-v-yilvqn, aww 'mf' W A s- h o 51,2 it ak .. lla THE FRESHMAN YEAR s- A class history is a personal ledger. Though it strives to reflect a synthesis of peaks and valleys our journey from acceptance to graduation such a sacred nature Each of us cfwd unsuccessfully? recollectlops lt a framework ou IS bf try to is hoped gp hich o he days nly by mself a com mon to 0 but n What was so special abo that a small envelope st I e o S actually says :ck r d a ain Suddenly the world doesn se all So yogtell friends and bqs thaf accepted and their reply owman yes that little private school in Carolina :sn t lt? Well it drdn t way did it? . fi In any you were on your in han after to be put layed from the time perlenced a catharsss between penod when un courses might have WGS an appreciative For one short able And thus a close lt was IH the entrdnf lobby that we assemble for r that Miss Hutc inson knew e by recognition school Amazing rfffwatnt nt? We rece: e tag fthis o gratis but the next ee Mr Parsons In the book store l which served a dual purpose of identifying oneself to othersgand reminding oneself of his own ndentity which ocoasnonally vhs lost in fleeting mo ments of a hasua There was the standard all Amerfbn ra e of surnames most without duffnculty but somehow llwar kept coming out Du war rather than Doer as preferred by the owner wir the Dean who in turn introduced us he master build ing plan said his door was a ys open fbut that he might not be ml and grocrously disappeared in a puf ' thereupon materialized his first sergeant fore- r what have you Dr Tuttle After onlyya few could tell that e was the personuficatuon owers that be likewise we could feel hat this guys on our sw And from hrm we first the oft repeated admonition now held as truth look at the upperclassmen lf those goorg so can you' treks over the schcpl and hospital uppgrclassmen showing us places cafetenrf'?Haek shop book shop student health boy s lohn girls lohn til we arsrved back at the starting pomt dis ented than llefore We recerved book :sts were inmzucted to obtain the same at the bookstore and we did but with some hesitation The instructions went something like texts A B and C re required you may choose any one in the following groups MNO XYZ etc The department has no recommendation as to e superiority of one text over another So we refore compared the Jus choices by all the standard student s criteria :ness weight pictures CQ etc And then a yor of wisdom sophomorq A graciously offered his Now Dr Anatomy prefers M over N u the traditional choice X actually the a newer than lots more to select M and X Where on the scene and states an much haggling and heckling s And upon opposite major were mqde and we l ll take this oyie this onepand thu One and how many dollorslll she wasn t And point a scholarly fmancuol avis alias powe ehind the and twinkle in lo and behold to place your friven home that noi' only was dTfficult yourney t financrally eed led us to th desk of Miss e Secretary to e Dean ne With ye she nd leave it to soon Mr P er was gn Henryon the Dunn the first two dlwed b faculty hosts strain d c a pic for our we had heard an then rmng we we!! wmed d atmosphere was one of a survived We attended nanled Bo, of whomg our sophomore sages to await Monday

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