Osteopathic Digest (December 1955)

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DECEMBER, 1955
PADDOCK AT ROSE TREE HORSE SHOW FOR PCO HOSPITALS
Corporation Elects Dr. Leuzinger Board Officers
Directors Joins Board Reelected
POA Convention Freshman Class of 87
Scores New All-Time Enrolls 73 with College
Highs Degrees
AOHA Sends Nursing Dr. Sivitz Teaching Fellowships
Student Here Mourned Established
CLASS OF 1959
ABRAMS, DAVID JOEL --------------------------------Orlando, Fla. CURLEY, JOHN BASIL ---·--------------------------------Berwyn, Pa.
B.S., University of Richmond; Richmond Professional A.B., Villanova University
Institute
DANLEY, WILFRED MILES, III --------------------Muncy, Pa.
ADDIS, HUNTER MARSDEN ----------------Collegeville, Pa.
Trinity University; Lycoming College; Bucknell University
Ursinus College
D'ANTONIO, LAWRENCE EDWARD, Collingdale, Pa.
ANDERSON, WILLIAM ALBERT ............ Camden, N. ].
A.B., Temple University
B.S. in Phar., Temple University School of Pharmacy
DUBINETT, SHELDON ----------------------------Brooklyn, N. Y.
ANGSTADT, HOMER B., JR. ------------------------Reading, Pa.
A.B., Heidelberg College
Albright College
EAZER, SIDNEY --------------------------------New Kensington, Pa.
ASNIS, MARVIN JOSEPH ----------------------------Philadelphia
B.S., University of Pittsburgh: B.S. in Phar., University of
B.S. in Phar., Temple University School of Pharmacy Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
AVALLONE, MICHAEL FRANCIS .............. Philadelphia FALCO, DOMENIC MICHAEL -·--------------------Philadelphia
A.B., La Salle College B.S., Mount Saint Mary's College
BARBELL, BERNARD SAMUEL .............. Camden, N. ]. FINKELSTEIN, LEONARD HARRIS .... Brigantine, N.].
University of Pennsylvania B.S. in Phar., Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science
BARKUS, DANIEL ROSS --------------------------------Philadelphia FRANCIOSI, RALPH VINCENT ............ Montclair, N. J
B.S., Temple University B.S., Pennsylvania Military College
BARNES, JAMES MELVIN ----------------Silver Creek, N. Y. FRANK, ARNOLD JAY --------------------------------Wyncote, Pa.
Grove City College A.B., University of Pennsylvania
BECK, HENRY HERMAN ----------------------------Dayton, Ohio GLICKEL, JOSEPH ------------------------------Staten Island, N. Y.
A.B., Bowling Green State University; B.S., College of the City of New York
Ohio State University
GOLDBERG, RONALD ------------------------------------Philadelphi<l
BLITZ, PHILIP MYRON ----------------------------------Philadelphia B.S., Dickinson College
B.S. in Phar., Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science
GOLDMAN, DONALD JERRY ----------------------Philadelphia
BLOCK, WILLIAM ALLEN ----------------------------Philadelphia A.B., Temple University
B.S., Junior College of Connecticut; D.C., N.D., National
College of Drugless Physicians; University of Bridgeport GOLOFF, EDWARD BLACK .............. Atlantic City, N. J_
University of Chattanooga
BOGUTZ, RICHARD MARVIN .......... Bala-Cynwyd, Pa.
B.S. in Phar., Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science GREEN, JAMES EDWARD ----------------------Cleveland, Ohio
B.S., Fenn College: Ohio State University: Drake University
BOTTOMLEY, DONALD LYNN ................ Lancaster, Pa.
B.S. in Phar., Temple University School of Pharmacy; GREENHOLZ, DANIEL ]. ------------------------Brooklyn, N. Y.
Eastern Washington College of Education; A.B., Lafayette College
Franklin and Marshall College
GREEN SPUN, BERTRAM ------------------------------Philadelphia
BRASLOW, PHILIP ------------------------------------------Philadelphia
A.B., Temple University
B.S. in Phar., Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science
HALIN, LEWIS MAURIE ------------------·-------------Philadelphia
BRASON, STANLEY M. ----------------------------------Philadelphia
B.S. in Phar., Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science
B.S., Temple University: P.T., M.A., New York University
HERRICK, KIRK HILLIARD .............. New Britain, Conn.
CALDWELL, HARRY MEREDITH, JR., Paulsboro, N.].
Northeastern University: West Virginia Wesleyan College
La Salle College
HIRSH, LEWIS WILLIAM ------------------------------Philadelphia
CARR, HERBERT WILLIAM --------------------Marlton, N.].
A.B., Temple University
A.B., Rutgers University College of South Jersey
HUNSBERGER, JESSE FRANKLIN .............. Reading, Pa.
CONLON, JOHN FRANCIS ------------------New York, N. Y.
B.S., Albright College
B.S., St. John's University; Long Island University
JENKINS, CHARLES THORNILEY ............ Dayton, Ohio
CRIBBS, WILLIAM DAVID ----------------------Black Lick, Pa. A.B., Washington University: University of Virginia
B.S. in Phar., University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy:
JOHNSTON, PETER EDWIN .................. Syracuse, N. Y.
B.S., University of Pittsburgh; Washington and Jefferson
College St. Lawrence University
VOLUME XXI NUMBER 7
OS EOPATHIC DIGEST
PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY
48th and Spruce Streets • 20th Street and Susquehanna A venue
Member of Association of Osteopathic Publications
CO Falllily Party at Union League
0 CTOBER 11. 1955, became a Dr. Leuzinger was one of three program assignments with Dr. Evans
date to be long remembered in nominees made to the Corporation by and Dr. William F. Daiber. '28. He
PCO annals as the result of a the PCO Alumni Association. was on his way back home and chose
combination family party and two high Six incumbent Directors whose terms a happy day to drop in for a visit to
level meetings held at the Union expired at the meeting were re-elected PCO.
League. for another three-year term. They Dr. Barth in his Board report to the
From 4 P.M. to 6, members of the were: Dr. Frederic H. Barth; Guy W. Corporation, stressed the advances
Staff and Faculty and their wives Rogers, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the which have been made in the course of
gathered for a reception in which the Curtis Publishing Company; Dr. C. the past year and outlined briefly the
members of the Board and the admin Paul Snyder, '10; Walter H. Gebhart, plans for 1956. There was discussion,
istration acted as hosts to nearly two Vice-President of Henry A. Disston & chiefly centering on the improvements
hundred of the PCO family. At 6 P.M. Sons, and Attorney Samuel A. Blank, being made at the 20th Street Hospital.
the PCO Corporation convened its all of Philadelphia, and Dr. Paul H. It is expected that within a few months,
meeting, adjourned from September Hatch, '26, of Washington, D. C. the Sargent Building will be operating
13th, and at 9 P.M. the Board of Direc At the Board meeting, Dr. Barth on all three floors as a full service
tors met in the Meade Room, adjacent was re-elected Chairman and Mr.
hospital.
to Lincoln Hall where the party and Rogers was re-elected Vice-Chairman.
Dr. Eaton gave a Treasurer's report
the Corporation meeting had been held. The Secretary and Treasurer were also
Dr. J. Ernest Leuzinger, '24, Chair re-elected, Dr. H. Walter Evans, '17, and outlined the direction in which the
financial operation of the institution is
man of the Department of Ophthalmol and Dr. James JVI. Eaton, '28.
ogy, Otorhinolaryngology, and Bron Joining with the family party was progressmg. There was informal dis
choesophagology in the college and its Dr. ·wilbur Bohm, ASO '21, Edwards cussion from the floor and the entire
hospitals, was elected to the Board of ville, Illinois. Dr. Bohm visited the meeting was voted a success by all in
Directors at the Corporation meeting. Vermont convention and shared the attendance.
RECEIVING LINE IN UNION LEAGUE'S LINCOLN HALL
Dr. Barth heads the line as guests arrive, with President Brandt, Professional Director Evans and Comptroller DeAngelis manning the wall.
The ladies in line to greet the arrivals are, left to right, Dr. Ruth A. Brandt, '2L Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Mercer and Mrs. DeAngelis.
2 OSTEOPATHIC DIGEST
DIRECTORS AND GUESTS DINE BEFORE BOARD MEETING
Chairman Dr. Barth presides, with Vice-Chairman Rogers at his right and Mrs. Mercer on his left. Tallest man in the room (topping Registrar
Rowland by a thin lock of hair) is Dr. Bohm, Edwardsville, Ill.
From the Dean's Desk
T HE opening of a college term is word ''profession." Its power is made
always exciting and full of ex up of the sum of the powers of each
pectations and bright futures. No member. A vveak member always sub
matter how many times one participates tracts power, hence, a professional man
in this event the impact never lessens. finds himself in an uncomfortable
There is a quality of heightened hope philosophical and ethical position when
that pervades the business of registra ever he does not conduct his life and
tion, beginning classes and, in the case work so that the sum of his effort adds
of the first year class, getting to know to his profession's stature.
those with whom one will live and work One aspect of adding to one's profes
for the rest of one's college days and, sion's stature is one's contribution to
indeed, one's career. the flow of new blood into the profes
It is when one talks with the new sion's life. Here again an osteopathic
students that one is impressed with the ELDER STATESMEN physician finds himself pressed by con
fact of the tremendous importance of Dr. Paul H. Hatch, '26, Washington, D.C., as flicting forces. Recommendations are
the individual doctor in the field. In one Director to another, eY.plains high level constantly being sought for specious
the first place, most new students come matters in Capital politics to Dr. C. Paul reasons. When a profession has a
Snyder, '10, Chairman of the Board's Commillee
to PCO because each knew an oste "good thing" all kinds of people seek
for the College.
opathic physician. The rush of daily to benefit from the profession but often
practice tends to make one forget that There is no hiding from shoddy work, for wrong reasons. Each osteopathic
the very way one acts, does business, sloppy professional and business rela physician has a responsibility of help
indeed, "practices" has a cumulative tions or from the insidious inroads of ing his profession's colleges select candi
impact that helps shape the development a personal life shy of the high qualities dates who wish to join us for the right
of the profession as a whole. which go to make up character. A pro reasons. Part of the job of finding
The most obvious way is, of course, fession cannot shore up a weak member such candidates lies in letting people
the impact one's practice has on the because a profession has no power in know what the right reasons are.
general reputation of the profession. herent in itself, no magic in the mere Every successful venture must tell
COLLEGE DEPARTMENT HEADS RELAX FROM CARES OF STATE
Proiessors Cathie, Daiber, Eaton, Baldwin, Gruber, Cressman, Lloyd, Senior and Owen, left to right. At extreme right, Professor Emeritus Evans,
whose leaching responsibility as Professional Director of the hospitals is the Resident-Intern training management, !ben Dean Mercer, and
Dr. Paul Snyder.
DECEMBER 1955 3
It is essential that each osteopathic
physician not only tell the story of his
profession and that he conduct his prac
tice at a high level, but also that he set
himself a program of a positive nature
and seek out the finest candidates in
character, mind and training to follow
h:m. In order that a good job may he
clone each osteopathic physician should
be in touch with his college from time
to time to insure that he understands
exactly what the college is seeking in
its candidates.
There is no more important aspect
of a physician's work than this. He will
THE CORPORATION IN SESSION prosper as his profession prospers and
Treasurer Eaton sums up the fiscal year from the rostrum as the family party resolves into the profession will prosper as the qual
business formation. ity of mind and heart and character of
those who are admitted is maintained
at a high, demanding and solidly com
its story. This is as true of religion mannerisms and styles. People are not
as it is of manufacturing and selling easily fooled, Mr. Barnum to the con petent leveL
automobiles ; as true of a university trary notwithstanding. -SHERWOOD R MERCER
as it is of a political party; as true of a
profession as it is of a labor union.
And the fact remains that in spite of
television, radio, magazine and news
paper advertising, there must be some
where along the line an effective, per
sonal association. Every osteopathic
physician has this as a prime responsi
bility.
No good long term program of devel
opment can be expected to flourish on
a "wait and they'll come to you" policy.
Part of the impact a profession makes
::m society rests on the impression people
get about the profession's conviction
that it knows what it wants and it knows
how to get it. For example, little good
can be expected for a profession when
it talks a great game about its beliefs,
SCHOOL OF NURSING FACULTY ENJOYS
its work, its vital necessity to society but
Left to right, Assistant Director and Educational Director Irma Jeannette Reese, Director Dorothy
then plays the game hand in trying to
Belle Ranck, Nursing Arts Instructor Ethel R. Smith and Assistant Director for North Center
be like another profession, to copy the Sara Searight.
IN CONFERENCE
Director of Postgraduate Studies Victor R.
Fisher and Director of Clinics Theodore W.
Stiegler, Jr., discussing the finer shadings of
THE VIEW FROM LINCOLN'S HEAD practical didactics.
4 OSTEOPATHIC DIGEST
POA Convention "Biggest and Bestn
T
HE Pennsylvania Osteopathic A panel discussion on "Problems in
Association held the largest and Family Living" for doctors and their
best convention in its history Sep wives was greeted with much interest.
tember 30th, October 1st and 2nd, at With Dr. Irwin Rothman, '51, as
the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Phila moderator, the participants were Mau
delphia. rice Linden, M.D., Chief of Mental
Dr. Arnold Melnick, '45, PCO Asso Health for the City of Philadelphia;
ciate in Pediatrics, general chairman of Rev. Richard Hey, Supervisor of
the convention, pointed out that the Family Life Education for the Mar
overall registration of 700 far exceeded riage Council of Philadelphia; Eliza
any previous meeting as did the D.O. beth Hurlock, Ph.D., Associate in
registration of 350. The total of 65 Psychology, University of Pennsyl
commercial exhibits arranged by Dr. vania, and nationally syndicated col
Harold H. Finkel, '46, Ephrata, was umnist, and Benjamin R. Sprafkin,
far in excess of the previous high of Executive Director, Jewish Family
37, and the social program featured Service.
special activities for women. Dr. SHOWPIECE
Banquet Sets New High
Hobert C. Moore, KCOS '32, Bay City, General Chairman Melnick congratulates
Mich., president of the American Oste Assistant Professor Harry I. Stein on his The social highlight of the conven
Rhinoplasty exhibit at the convention.
opathic Association, and Dr. D. David tion was the Saturday evening ban
Darland. AOA Director of Public and .:Yiumo Purse. '33. PCO Associate quet, another new high in POA annals,
Professional Welfare, were honored Professor of Pediatrics; William F. complete with fine entertainment. and
guests. Daiber, '28, Professor of Osteopathic featuring a free orchid for every
Tn a highly interesting and educa Medicine and Department Chairman; lady present and a boutonniere for
tional program arranged by Dr. George Charles M. Worrell, '26, Harrisburg; each man. Dr. H. Dale Pearson, ASO
S. Esayian, '39, Quakertown, speakers Lester Eisenberg, '38. PCO Associate '24, Erie. was toastmaster of this largest
from throughout the nation addressed Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecol POA banquet to date. Among the dis
the group. They included Dr. James ogy; Arthur lVI. Flack, Jr., '33, Profes tinguished guests at this affair were
G. Matthews, Jr., KCOS '42, and Dr. sor of Surgery and Department Vice many Senators and Representatives
A. C. Johnson, ASO '15, both of De Chairman, and Dr. Melnick. from the Pennsylvania Legislature.
troit, and Dr. Irvin M. Korr, Kirks Nationwide authorities from outside Acting as chairmen of the very fine
ville. These men were supplemented the profession included Alfred C. Kin teaching sessions were Drs. Raymond
on the general program by Drs. William sey, Ph.D., author of the ''Sexual Be L. Ruberg, PCO Associate in Surgery,
H. Behringer, Jr., '38, Allentown; havior" series; Harold T. Hvn1an, Chairman for N euro - Psychiatry;
Francis E. Gruber, '26, PCO Professor M.D., author of "An Integrated -Prac George B. Rylander, '36, for Radiol
of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Act tice of Medicine," and P. Philip Gross, ogy; David Heilig, '44, PCO Clinical
ing Chairman of the Department; Her D.D.S., Chief of Oral Surgery at Phil Professor of Osteopathic Principles and
bert Steinberg, '41, Philadelphia; F. adelphia General Hospital. Techniques, for Osteopathic Manipula
tion; Earl F. Riceman, '27, Coordinator
of PCO Cancer Training, for Tumor
Conference; Harry I. Stein, '37, PCO
Assistant Professor of Otorhino
laryngology and N euro-Otology, for
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Conference;
Angus G. Cathie, '32, PCO Professor of
Anatomy, for the Osteopathic Manipu
lative Conference; Victor R. Fisher,
'36. PCO Director of Postgraduate
Studies, for the Heart Surgery Con
ference; Edwin H. Cressman. '26,
PCO Professor of Dermatology and
Department Chairman, Dermatology
Conference, and Glenn F. Ulansey, '41,
Physical Medicine.
Serving under Dr. Melnick on the
Committee were Drs. H. Willard Ster
rett, Jr., '44; Harry E. Binder, '36;
James H. Spiro, '51; Emanuel Fliegel
man. '42; William M. Barnhurst, '32;
Thomas F. Santucci, '37; Nicholas D.
Tretta. '42; Nicholas C. Eni, '46; Wil
liam L. Silverman, '38; Samuel L.
Caruso, '47; Irwin Rothman, '51, and
Robert Anderson, '30, all of Phila
WHAT'S WITH THE LOW BACK?
delphia; Alvin Rosen, '53, Darby, and
Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery Arnold Gerber spells it out with tapes and slides
for the serious conventioneers. George H. Court, '42, Upper Darby.
DECEMBER, 1955 5
Just prior to the convention. meet
NYSOS Reelects Strong,
ings of the Executive Council and the
House of Delegates were held. The
following officers for the year 1955-56 Kaufmann, Cole and Ross
were presented: Drs. Galen S. Young,
'35. Chester, president; Arnold Mel
White, '29, Utica, took office as Ser
nick '45. Philadelphia, vice-president;
geant-at-Arms.
Thomas F. Santucci, '37, Philadelphia.
Dr. Hobert C. Moore, KCOS '32,
secretary-treasurer; William H. Beh
Bay City, Michigan, President of the
ringer, Jr., '38. Allentown. president
American Osteopathic Association.
elect: Sidney W. Cook, '28. Towanda,
headed a program which brought dis
past-president. Also chosen at the
tinguished visiting lecturers to the New
meeting were Dr. Elliott R. Disbrow,
York Society members, including Dr.
Jr., '36. York, Speaker of the House
]. Donald Sheets, KCOS '27, High
of Delegates, and Dr. Grover F. Art
land Park Michigan, President-elect of
man, '44, Reel Lion. vice-speaker.
the American College of Osteopathic
Surgeons; Dr. Nelson D. King, '35,
Boston, Chief of the Pediatrics Depart
AOA Prez at Met ment of Massachusetts Osteopathic
Hospital; Dr. Myron C. Beal, CCO '45,
ONE IN 2323
Dr. Hobert C. Moore. KCOS. '32. Rochester, Program Chairman 1956
Thanks to DIGEST Photographic Director
President of the American Osteopathic AOA Convention. and from the PCO
Alexander Xenakis, '56, being on Obs service
Association, officiated at Dedication at the time, we have the exact data of this faculty, Dr. Victo~ R. Fisher, '36, PCO
Ceremonies of the new nurserv at proud mother and the boys, a pair of fraternal Director of Postgraduate Studies; Dr.
Metropolitan HospitaL 300 S1;ruce transverse-breech twins, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Hemv B. Herbst. '27. PCO Associate
William Grant, Upper Darby, born October 11
Street, at noon, Friday, September in o;teopathic Medicine, and Dr. Ray
(the day of the Union League meetings), at the
30th. 48th street hospital. William, Jr. . 6 pounds, 10 monel L. Ruberg, '39, PCO Associate
Dr. l\foore was in town for the Penn ounces, breech presentation, delivery frank in Surgery.
breech, and Francis, 7 pounds, 13'12 ounces,
sylvania Osteopathic Association con The New York Times reported Dr.
transverse presentation, double footling deliv
vention and many of the leaders in the ery. These various factors figure out to one Fisher's address under a two-column
State's osteopathic circles were present case in every 2323 deliveries. The doctors head. Dr. Fisher's findings represented
for the dedication. were Andrew D. DeMasi. '47, and Leon a study of 500 cases of coronary throm
Weingrad, '46.
bosis over the past two years.
Dr. \i\Tilliam B. Strong, '26, of The Times also said that Dr. Fisher
Brooklyn, was re-elected President of emphasized the feeling among heart
Hilliard Heads NJAOPS
the New York State Osteopathic Soci specialists that President Eisenhower's
ety at its convention in the Statler illness will stimulate public support of
Dr. Kirk L. Hilliard. '34, Pleasant
Hotel, October 14th-15th. The Vice study and research in diseases of the
ville. N. J., was installed as President
President, Secretary and Treasurer heart in much the same way as the late
of the New Jersey Association of Oste
were also re-elected. Dr. vVilliam E. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's crip
opathic Physicians and Surgeons at the Kaufmann. '33. Svracuse: Dr. Robert pling by polio led to the March of
spring meeting in the Hotel Ritz-Carl E. Cole. '24. Gen~va, and Dr. Robert Dimes and the improved prospects for
ton. Atlantic City. At the same meet R. Ross, '27, Syracuse. Dr. John F. prevention and cure of that disease.
ing. Dr. Bernard ]. Plone, '41, River
side. Visiting Lecturer in the PCO
Department of Medical J urispruclence,
was chosen President-elect.
Dr. S. Samuel Tropea, '42, Penn
sauken, was elected Vice-President, and
Dr. H. Cory \i\Talling, '36, Morristmvn.
Secretary. Officers re-elected were Dr.
Crawford A. Butterworth, '35. Mill
burn, Treasurer; Dr. Henry Palmaffy,
KCOS '39. South Orange. Recording
Secretary, and Dr. Melvin Elting. '-1-4.
Teaneck Sergeant-at-Arms.
Dr. Harry A. Sweeney, '31, was
chosen to serve again as Speaker of the
House and Dr. Eicharcl Feige, KCOS
'31, Finance Committee.
Directors are Dr. ·walter H. Miller,
KCOS '34. Bloomfield: Dr. Alex E.
Maron, '46, Asbury Park; Dr. Martin
C. Cassett, '43, Gloucester City, and
ANASTOMOTIC ANALY TICS
Dr. Vincent M. Frost, Jr., KCOS '39,
Associate in Surgery Raymond L. Ruberg, who has been around this ring a while, points out
Basking Ridge. the critical arcs and bends at POA convention.
6 OSTEOPATHIC DIGEST
The Registrar's Desk
Fellowships at PCO
EVEN vl'omen and 373 men an spread in terms of academic identity. The Facultv and Board of Di
swered the roll call of the student This year the Registrar's office rectors of Philadelphia College of
body when college opened this processed 321 applications (completed Osteopathy have established an
falL The Class of '59 began its climb to applications with fees) out of which the academic office entitled "Fellow
the D.O. degree with a population of Freshman Class of 87 was selected. ship."
87. The Sophomores opened with 98. One hundred and seventy-two appli This rank is held by graduate
The Junior and Senior classes each cants were rejected outright and student doctors who are further
have 97. The 380th member of the twenty-two of the top applicants vvho ing- their education. The rank
student body is R. Bayard Miller, As were not granted admission this year ca~ries a stipend with it. This va
sistant Professor of Anatomy, who will be considered for Septernber 1956. ries with the appointment depend
is registered as a special student. If A review of the PCO application ing on the training, experience and
all ends well as it's going well, '56 vvill figures in comparison with the na program of studies of the ap
be the largest graduating class in five tional medical and osteopathic picture pointee.
years. is most encouraging. At present the Fellows are attached to the
The average age of the Freshman "depression babies'' are reaching the college teaching corps and serve
Class is 24 years. The overall college professional school level and it will not as teachers under supervision.
age average is 25. This would indicate be until approximately 1960 that the DEAN MERCER
that the student body at Philadelphia vastly increased "war baby" group will
College of Osteopathy falls squarely be ready to enter fields of higher edu
within the age range commonly ac cation.
(happily only a few) where the com
cepted as being most desirable for Interestingly enough, however, Phil
mittee has discovered that a recom
graduate professional schools. adelphia College of Osteopathy has al
mending physician knew little or noth
Forty-nine per cent of our students ready begun to feel the pressure of
ing concerning an applicant, and did
are married and 35% are veterans of interest from a steadily increasing
not carry out a personal evaluation, yet
either W oriel War II or the Korean group of candidates. It should there
wrote a glowing letter. This, as can
War. Of this total number of 134 fore be clear to the several constitu
readily be seen, not only labels the
veterans 45 are studying under one encies of the college that the coopera
referring physician as something other
of several G.I. Bills. ·while this is a tion of everyone will be essential if
than a trustworthy source of help, but
sharp decrease over the post W oriel we are to select the candidates best
also necessitates a great deal of addi
War II era nevertheless it is encourag qualified to carry on the profession's
tional investigation on the part of the
ing to note that our Korean G.I. Bill work and if we are to furnish these
Committee.
enrollment in the Freshman Class is students with adequate facilities to
It is of utmost importance that a
almost double that of last year's enter carry on their studies at PCO.
letter of recommendation state clearly
ing class. The chief source of our applicant
and specifically what the recommending
Although our admission requirements pool are those prospects recommended
physician really thinks of a candidate.
stipulate three years of college as a by Alumni and friends. Our Faculty Ask yourself particularly, "Will I want
minimum, a great many of our students Committee on Admissions counts heav this rnan practicing across the street
have their undergraduate degrees, ily on the letters which members of from me?"
earned by four years' study. Seventy the profession write on behalf of candi Philadelphia College of Osteopathy
three freshmen have baccalaureate de dates whorn they know to be well quali -and particularly its Committee on
grees. It is interesting to note that fied and genuinely interested in our Admissions-is always grateful to those
81% of our students have undergradu profession. During the interviewing osteopathic physicians who take the
ate degrees and eight students hold and deliberation on candidates, the com time and trouble to help in seeking
higher degrees. rnittee members frequently rernark on out and selecting candidates. This
There are 153 colleges represented the value of a good letter from a mem process is of central importance to the
in our student body. Since our students ber of the profession in making a sound profession's future-in fact, it could be
corne from only 15 states and the Dis and fair decision on a candidate. said to be "the heart of the matter.''
trict of Columbia, this is a very healthy There have been several instances -THOMAS JVI. ROWLAND, JR.
PCO STUDENT BODY ASSEMBLED IN AUDITORIUM
DECEMBER 1955 7
Steskel, '56-'58 PCO's Student Council Prez Pitt to USA to PCO
Authority on Europe Heads '56 CT Trainees
Tomulyss Moody, '59, Conemaugh,
Harry Franklin Steskel entered Fortuna, Slifer, and Hershev are the Pa., President of the PCO Freshman
PCO in the fall of 1952. and bv the class champions in the cance;- knowl Class. is probably the only man in the
calendar he should be right noow in edge achievement department for 1955. world with that first name. It is a
his Senior year getting ready for his The Cancer Training Course conducted merger of the first names of his two
June diploma. Uncle Sam took a hand at the College under a grant from the grandfathers, Thomas and Ulysses.
in his education, offering a course of l\ational Health Institute authorizes an In between his graduation from the
extended studv. as a result of vvhich annual check-up on the degree of effi University of Pittsburgh in 1950 and
Harry is now 0 a PCO Sophomore and ciency attained by the undergraduates matriculation at PCO in 1955, Tomu
vYill take his D.O. in '58. , taking the courses. lvss earned an M.S. at Universitv of
His credits in chemistry and physics
Each champion, the leader in scoring Denver in 1952, then spent three years
caught the eye of the Army assignment
for his class, receives a copy of the new in the Army, mainly at Camp Chaffee,
authorities. He did not know a grease
edition of a medical classic, "French's where he was laboratory officer in
from an oil but he learned quickly and
Differential Diagnosis." charge of bacteriology and serology at
vvas soon in charge of a mobile field
George Baringer Slifer, Jr., of the the Army hospital for 17 months prior
laboratory unit.
present Senior Class, is the son of Dr. to the end of his service term.
Harry's home is Glendale, New York.
Slifer, '25. Like his father, he at Lieut. Moody got his first osteopathic
He has his B.S. from Mount St. Mary's
tended Temple University before study inspiration from a fellow officer who
College, Emmittsburg, Mel. In the
ing osteopathy and in addition to his was applying for KCOS. His resolu
course of his overseas education, with
cancer training performance, he is a tion to train for the D.O. degree was
all expenses paid, he took about eight
leader in student life, President of the strengthened by contacts with Dr. Clyde
vveeks leave and travelled over pretty
Student Council for the current year. W. Dalrymple, DM '29, Little Rock,
much the whole map of Europe, Aus
tria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hol The Slifers are an osteopathic family. and Dr. John K. Rye, KCOS '39.
land, Italy. Luxembourg, Monaco, Eng Dr. Sylvia Slifer, '24. Jeffersonville, Between Chaffee and PCO he worked
land and Switzerland. Pa., is his aunt and he has a brother, in the bacteriology and serology labora
The PCO student body enrolls a Harry Lee Slifer, following hard upon tory at Conemaugh Valley Memorial
gallant company of veterans, but if it's his footsteps in the PCO class of 1957. Hospital, Johnstown, Pa., his native
Europe, ask Harry. Here's the log Dr. Paul Thomas Fortuna, who car heath.
book of his extension course: ried off the honors for last year's Senior
9/10/52-Commenced studies at Phil Class, is a Philadelphian who has his
adelphia College of Osteo bachelor's degree from La Salle Col Pre-Med Leader Goes D.O.
pathy. lege and is presently interning at Detroit
1/14/53-Inducted into U.S. Army at Osteopathic Hospital. Half-a-dozen years ago, Michael
Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. Herbert Stanley Hershey, who Sutula was the organizer and first presi
2/ 2/53-Commenced a 16-week In topped the Sophomores in the examina dent of the Pre-Medical Society at
fantry and Advanced Infan tion, is an A.B. from New York Uni Upsala College, Jersey City, N.]. To
try Basic Training at Camp versity. a product of the Bronx, New clay he's a freshman at PCO, Sutula
Polk, Louisiana. York City. '59.
6/13/53-Sailed from New York on The credit for the conversion belongs
M.A.T.S. General Langfitt, to a couple of stalwart Upsalans, Dr.
for an 18-month tour of over Theodore A. Liljestrand, PCO '54, and
seas duty in Europe. School Board Candidate Dr. Edmund L. Zapp, Jr., PCO '55.
6/23/53-Arrived in Bremerhaven, Goes to School Instead Sutula, native of Benbo, Pa., and resi
Germany, then processed dent of Union, N. ]., went on into
PCO Freshman William B. Cribbs,
through Zwiebrucken, Ger graduate school after taking his degree
Black Lick Pa., withdrew from candi
many, and was assigned to at Upsala, receiving his master's de
dacy for electio~ to the Blairsville Joint
the 938th O.l\1. Petroleum gree at Montclair Teachers' College in
School Board when accepted for enroll
Products Laboratory (M) in 1954. He put in a year as chemist and
ment at PCO.
Metz. France. sales representative with the Armour
7 /20/53-Vvas ~ent to the Base Labo Cribbs is an officer in the Burrell Co. before matriculating at PCO.
ratory in Munich, Germany, Township development group and co
for an intensive 16-weeks editor of the monthly Bulletin of the
schooling and training pe Indiana County Pharmaceutical Society.
riocl. He was graduated from the University Addis, '59, Penn Descendant
11;'10; 53 Returned to Metz as Senior of Pittsburgh in 1950, and took his
Laboratory technician in Pharmacy degree in 1954, at the Pitt Hunter l\II. Addis, PCO Freshman,
to charge of the 938th Mobile School of Pharmacy. is a ninth generation. great grandson of
11/23/54-Laboratory. William Penn, whose grant from King
11/25/54-Sailed from Bremerhaven, Charles II in the 17th centurv was the
Germany, for New York on Meet Lieut. Wallace, '59 foundation of the Common.;_,ealth of
U.S.N.S. General Blatch Pennsylvania, "Penn's Woods.''
ford. PCO Freshman James H. Wallace In this generation, the Addises are
12/11/54-.Honorably discharged from had a busy four years after graduating a healing arts family. His father is a
U. S. Armv vvith the rank of from Georgetovvn UniYersity in 1951. veterinary surgeon, he has an older sis
Corporal. 0 He spent most of the time minesweep ter who is a chiropodist, and his older
12/15/54-Resumed studies at Philadel ing in the Navy and came out as Lieu brother has a degree in Surgical
phia College of Osteopathy. tenant Junior Grade. Chiropody.