West Virginia University School of Medicine - Pylon Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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Making of a Pylon Pylon? What ' s that? Such was the response most often elicited when the medical school yearbook was mentioned - so often that I began to wonder: Was I the transfer student or were they. Pylon, I was told by an old timer, was the medical school yearbook. It was last seen in 1970, that being the 1969 edition arriving a year late. I called on Dean Price who informed me that student apathy was the culprit. Undaunted by lack of funds, interest, etc., a few senior students decided to produce a Pylon . Much to our surprise, we at first were unable to get a room in which to work. SAMA, having sponsored previous yearbooks was interested - enough to supply 200 sheets of stationery. Dr. Hales came to our rescue with a room we could use, and thus a yearbook was bom. Mrs. Yerko in steno pool typed all of our letters to potential advertisers and soon some money began to flow. The seniors and juniors were asked to have their photos taken on three different occasions here at the Medical Center. All but four of the seniors did so while less than one half of the juniors were photographed. Student apathy you say. True, but if the student body suffers from apathy, the faculty must have succumbed to the disease long ago. Forty-seven members of the clinical faculty purchased yearbooks. Five members of the basic sciences faculty purchased yearbooks. Most didn ' t bother to respond to letters of inquiry as to their desire for a new picture for the yearbook, and so we used those from 1969. When ap- proached to purchase a yearbook, several stated, I don ' t have anything to do with the medical students. Having attended many of their lectures, 1 had to agree. And so it went. Many potential advertisers with large accounts with the Medical Center were unable to participate. We wrote to all county medical societies in West Virginia, identifying graduating seniors from each county. Four counties responded. They say they want to get young physicians to stay in the state! As the New Year approached, a staff of a few set to the final task. To quote the editorial in Pylon 1965, The book is the result of imagination, unfortunately the imagination of a few people . . . Those who imagine with strong difference should state so by producing the next Pylon. M. J, RAVITZ

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PYLON 1972 West Virginia University School of Medicine Editor MELVYN J. RAVITZ Staff TERRY R. GROFF ROBERT A. KLEIN FREDERICK J. SAUERBURGER

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Dedication 5 Administration 6 Seniors 7 Underclassmen 31 Faculty 51 Candids 73 Advertisements 101 Contents