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Osteopathic Digest (July 1949) Philadelphia College of Osteopathy Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine DigitalCommons@PCOM Digest 7-1949 Osteopathic Digest (July 1949) Philadelphia College of Osteopathy Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.pcom.edu/digest Part of the Medical Education Commons, and the Osteopathic Medicine and Osteopathy Commons Recommended Citation Philadelphia College of Osteopathy, "Osteopathic Digest (July 1949)" (1949). Digest. Book 46. http://digitalcommons.pcom.edu/digest/46 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@PCOM. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digest by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@PCOM. For more information, please contact [email protected]. OSTEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA Osteopathy• s 75th Anniversary • Science of Osteopathy 58th College Commencement • Graduates Appointments Prizes • Graduate Courses • Alumni Banquet • Schactcrle Tril,ute • Student Council Constitution • July A. T. Still, Founder 1949 -·- - • Seventy-Five Years of Osteopathic Progress STUDENT l:OUNl:IL l:ONSTITUTI N PHILADELPHIA l:OLLEIJE OF OSTEOPATHY PREAMBLE The purpose is to: Represent the students and to promote cooperation among the students, the F acuity and the Ad­ ministration in furthering the best interests of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy and the Osteo­ pathic Profession. ARTICLE I-Name of the Organization SECTION 1. The name of the organization shall be "The Student Council of the Philadelphia Col­ lege of Osteopathy." ARTICLE II-Members hip SEcTION 1. The Student Council shall consist of sixteen (16) members. There shall be four mem­ bers for each of the four classes. There shall be a President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treas­ urer. SECTION 2. All members of all classes are eligible for membership. SECTION 3. The Junior, Sophomore and Freshman Class shall elect their representatives to Student Cou~cil one ( 1) month before the end of the college year to serve during the following year. Election of officers to be held the following week. The incoming Freshman Class shall elect its representatives on the Friday of the third week of the first semester. SECTION 4. Student Council representatives for each class shall be elected at a meeting of the mem­ bers of that class. These representatives to be elected by a plurality and by secret ballot. Such meeting to be called by the members of the Student Council who are appointed to conduct the election. These elections are to be conducted by two members of the Student Council for each class, the members to be ap­ pointed by the President of the Council, and members of the Faculty to be desig­ nated by the Dean. No Student Council member shall be appointed to conduct any election for the class of which he (or she) is a mem­ ber. SECTION 5. The President of Student Coun­ cil shall be chosen from the four repre­ sentatives of the Junior Class by a ma­ jority vote of the entire student body by secret ballot, the rest of the officers to be elected by the Student Council. SECTION 6. Vacancies that may occur from time to time shall be filled by election from the class in which the vacancy oc­ curs, in accordance with Section 4, at the time of the vacancy. (Continued on Insicle Back Cover) EDITORIAL BOARD GEORGE E. LETCHWORTH, Jr., Esq., Presi­ VOLUME XX 2 dent. College and Hospital Boards. NUMBER DR. OTTERBEIN DRESSLER, Dean, Phila­ delphia College of Osteopathy. JEAN M. HALL. Acting Superintendent. Os­ p teopathic Hospital of Philadelphia. OSTE IGEST PROF. KENNETH L. SENIOR, Department Published at Intervals During the Year by the of Chemistry, Philadelphia College of Osle--: opathy. PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY ESTHER L. SHIPE, R.N., Director of Nursing. OSTEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA HELEN MILLER. R.N., Secretary, Nurses' Alumnae Association. 48th and Spruce Streets J. ST. GEORGE JOYCE, Editor. The President's Page N OUR busy lives we are prone, as a people, reasons for our to give far too little recognition to the great praise and admira­ pioneers in business, industry, science and tion· today. It is education, as well as in other forms of worthwhile not odd that we, effort. We are apt to overlook, as we use and too, should have enjoy the benefits of present-day life, that it was our problems, not­ their imagination, their courage and their efforts, withstanding the largely as individuals and always in the face of firmness of our professional foundation. Time all manner of obstacles and too often of ridicule, alone brings changes that present new situations that form the foundation upon which our gov­ and new requirements. Progress demands that ernment now stands and as well the foundations the problems of advancement be met with the for our highly effective, useful and productive convictions and fortitude of our early leaders. institutions. In the early days of Osteopathy its value, its One often contemplates the pleasure that would success, depended wholly upon the individuals come to us if human nature were such that we who believed in it. It was not until after the could in some way observe these individuals of passage of twenty-five years that this, then new, the past as they contemplate the good that they field of medical endeavor developed to the point have done. of having one college, now after the passage of This year we pause to mark the passing of seventy-five years there are six such colleges, and seventy-five years since the discovery of Oste­ hundreds of hospitals, and with this development opathy and as well the passing of fifty years since there has come merited public approval, which the founding of one of our Osteopathic Colleges. would be unearned but for these institutions. Dr. Still, the discoverer, and Dr. 0. ]. Snyder, The transition is from the individual to the insti­ the founder, were truly great men, and both tution, for today public approval and understand­ were pioneers. Starting with little, other than ing is measured in terms of the strength of our the force of their own abilities and convictions, hospitals and teaching institutions. they founded Colleges and they established a The development of the Osteopathic Progress profession, and in so doing they performed a great Fund and the creating of the Osteopathic Foun­ and signal service to humanity. Their names dation of Philadelphia, reflect the thoughts of will be forever among the great men of the pro­ more recent leaders in the profession, and their fession, and an inspiration to those who, with appreciation of the significant importance of these like motives, seek to carry on in their footsteps. institutions, and their desire to stabilize them The pioneers in their day had their problems. financially in order that the ultimate purposes The fact that they solved them is one of the of these institutions may be more effective. 18 OSTEOPATHIC DIGEST In Philadelphia the recent development in the mission are the President, the Dean, Dr. James strengthening of one of these institutions is the M. Eaton, Dr. James Chastney, Dr. John MeA. plan for the unification of both the Philadelphia Ulrich, Dr. Walter Hamilton, Dr. Victor Fisher, College and Hospital. Between the College, Dr. Alexander Levitt and Mr. Frank P. Will. which operates under a separate organization, and Whether the purposes for which this Commission the Hospital, there is a division of administrative comes into existence can be carried out depends authority and of individuals, which greatly inter­ upon the active support of all Alumni and our feres with the effectiveness of both the College understanding of the importance of our institu­ and the Hospital, and which limits the progress tion to the Profession. of both institutions. /i To accomplish this unification there has been appointed a Commission to survey the situation, to prepare a plan in order that the desired results might be obtained. The members of the Com- President. ERS RY The '75th Anniversary of OSTEOPATHY- marking the completion of three­ quarters of a century of progress in the field of Osteopathic Education - provides a timely and appropriate opportunity for our Alumni to demonstrate their faith in, and loyalty to, their institution by contributing to the OSTEOPATHIC PROGRESS or OSTEOPATHIC FOU OF PHILADELPHI in their joint program for the advancement and perpetuation of the Osteopathic Profession. JULY, 1949 19 s p .. - n er1can chool 0 edici e T E 0 P A T H Y -a science as The name given to the new science where he had spent his young man­ American as the frontier on has been misleading to many persons in hood. The survival of the osteopathic which it was born-celebrates its sev­ the past 75 years, because they have philosophy of healing can be attributed enty-fifth anniversary this year. It concluded erroneously that osteopathy to Dr. Still's faith and determination was on June 22, 1874, that Dr. Andrew was ''bone-setting." Osteopathy's in his discovery. From 1875 to 1887 Taylor Still, a country doctor of the founder explained that he coined the he traveled from one Missouri town to "old school'' of medicine, first an­ word by combining osteon, meaning another, demonstrating to curious nounced the principles of a new philos­ bone, with pathos, pathine, meaning to crowds the application of his principles ophy of healing. suffer. He declared that osteopathy is in the treatment of disease. This revolutionary theory, con­ a science concerning bones and their demned by medical "regulars" since its usage as parts of the body machine, but inception and denounced as a fad and also including the study of the normal a fraud, has grown steadily despite in­ functioning of all other body parts. tense opposition. The profession which such as the nervous, circulatory. and started with one man 75 years ago now muscular svstems.
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