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%SPECULUM The Ohio State University • College of Veterinary Medicine • No. 2 1986 A Visit to China page 2 CONTINUING EDUCATION IN VETERINARY MEDICINE 198: THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE WINTER SPRING SUMMER FALL JAN. APRIL JULY OCT. Jan. 3 Equine Practitioners' July 20-23 AVMA Oct. 20-21 Food Animal Workshop Chicago Medicine Jan 18-22 Eastern States Conference Orlando FEB. MAY AUGUST NOV. Feb. 15-19 Western States Aug. 12 Swine Medicine Nov. 10-13 AABP Las Vegas Update Phoenix Feb. 27- OVMA Annual Nov.28- AAEP Mar. 1 Convention Dec. 2 New Orleans Horseman's Short Course MARCH JUNE SEPT. DEC. Mar. 18-21 Basic Course in Sept. 11-12 Annual Alumni Internal Fixation of Conference and Fractures Football Outing Mar. 18-21 Advanced Course in Sept. 26-27 Kal Kan Internal Fixation Symposium on Mar. 21-27 AAHA Dermatology Phoenix OSU Courses For further information, Meetings Other Places call or write: Veterinary Continuing Education College of Veterinary Medicine The Ohio State University 1900 Coffey Road Columbus, Ohio 43210-1092 614-292-1171 Editor Bonnie Christopher Bates Student Editor Sallie Cosgrove VM IV Editorial Assistant ^SPECULUM Marlyn Wyman Volume XXXIX Number 2 1986 Layout Bonnie Christopher Bates Cover Design/Consultant Robert Hummel Contributing Reporter Angela Palazzolo In This Issue Senior Reporters Liz Blakelock College Events and News Dave Corfman Sallie Cosgrove The Dean's Comments 2 David Getzy Jane Goecke Cover Story: A Visit to China 2 Jenifer Hren Carl Zaboly Case Study: Successful Removal of Brain Tumor from Cat 7 Joseph Zulty Junior Reporters Class of 1986 12 Brenda Evans Chris Parfitt Oath and Hooding Ceremony 13 Ann Ryer Michael Stone Student Awards 15 Sophomore Reporters Awards Banquet 18 Susan Gillespie Tim Woodruff OTS News 20 Photography John Jewett Alpha Psi News 20 John Swartz Ralph Ulbnch College Department Update 21 Advisory Board College Appointments 28 Dr. Philip Murdick Dr. John C. Gordon Dr. Diane F. Gerken Dan R. Patton. R.B.P. Newsmakers 31 Dr. Catherine W. Kohn Alumni News President's Letter 33 Cover photos by Ronald A. Wright Alumni Association Awards Nomination Form 35 Annual Alumni Conference and Class Reunions 36 The Speculum is published twice a year by The Ohio State University College of Obituaries 38 Veterinary Medicine. It is published for the dissemination of news to the alumni, faculty, Class Personals 38 students and other interested persons. Contributions are welcome but we reserve the right to edit the material. Please address all correspondence to: The Speculum J *o\ By executive action, this logo became the College of Veterinary Medicine t o\ official Ohio State University College of 1900 Coffey Road ™, Veterinary Medicine logo on January 13, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1092 U« 'yf ((^^^ iiy 1972. It should retain the original design when being reproduced Phone (614) 292-1171 When you move please send both old and new address. College Events and News The Dean's Comments Cover Story: A Visit To China Details of my trip to China this past September are included in an by Angela Palazzolo article in this issue of The photos by Ronald Wright Speculum. However, I thought I might briefly give you my A year ago September, Dean impressions of this communist block Ronald Wright might have been country which encompasses an area surprised if someone had told him equivalent to the United States but that before a year had passed he has a population of over one billion. would be dining on jellyfish in a country of more than a billion It is difficult to describe observing people whose means of the many millions of people in the transportation is mainly by bicycle. cities which we visited except to But that is exactly what Dean say that we were left with a feeling Wright was doing one warm evening of being more appreciative of what this past September in Beijing, we have even though at times we China. perhaps feel a need for more. Although we did not encounter road Wright was one of a 20-member blocks on our trip nor were we Ronald A Wright, DVM, Dean delegation to China, led by confined to specific areas, we found Columbus Mayor Dana Rinehart, for the people to be confined because the purpose of bringing about a of their limited modes of relationship for scientific and transportation and the fact they are many things for granted including cultural exchange. This exchange all part of a deprived economy. our personal freedoms and our would be not only between From our point of view, the bare ability to worship, travel, speak Columbus and The Ohio State essentials are non-existent in China freely, and to do many things that University and cities in China, but for the majority of citizens who one cannot do in China. I would also between the Columbus Zoo and barely survive, with many still living suggest that each of us reconsider zoos in China. In fact, one of the in caves. Although the Chinese what we feel is important in life goals of the trip, says Wright, was government is attempting to change and not be concerned about things "to lay groundwork for hopefully and permitting its citizens more for which we have no control. I obtaining a pair of giant pandas for freedom, the ability to change the think that if each of us could the 1992 year-long Columbus direction of over a billion people is observe a country such as this, we celebration," observing the voyage very slow to accomplish. Unlike would all have a better feeling of Christopher Columbus to their neighbors in Taiwan, Japan, about our lives and where we live America five hundred years ago. In and Korea who are capitalists in and would appreciate everything exchange for the pandas "and the first sense, the Chinese are still much more. maybe some golden monkeys and communist controlled and their other rare Chinese animals," China desire to increase their exports is is receiving a male and female being accomplished in a cheetah from the Columbus Zoo. cumbersome fashion. Although we Zoo director Jack Hanna was part were told that there is no of the Columbus delegation to unemployment in China, the China. And Wright who is on the infrastructure is almost nonexistent Columbus Zoo Board of Directors, which prevents supervision and wore two "delegate hats" — one creates an indifferent attitude in the as a member of the zoo contingent average worker. and the other as an OSU representative. My point is that even though we have many problems by U.S. The jellyfish which Wright sampled standards, by Chinese standards we that evening and found too chewy have no problems at all. We take for his tastes was only one of the many delicacies he was served at numerous banquets during his Far Issue 2, 1986 Cleanliness in China is not a top priority, notes the dean. "The people are poor and their main priority is thinking about the basics — food, clothing and shelter." In spite of the poor sanitation, he says he could not help but be impressed with the overall strides that "one of the oldest cultures known" has made during the last ten years. "If you can imagine," he says, "trying to change the momentum of a billion people who have been doing the same thing for these many years." Following three days in Beijing which included discussions between Mayor Rinehart, Jack Hanna and Chinese officials concerning the exchange of animals between China's zoos and the Columbus Zoo; Residents of Xi'an delivering ice and rice on bicycles visits to the Great Wall of China, East adventure which began China impression was "no running the Forbidden City and the Ming September 5. The tour of Mainland water." Water, says Wright, is Tombs; and dining at a ten-course China, which was preceded by a obtained from public spigots placed banquet, the Columbus delegation 16-hour flight to Hong Kong via throughout the cities and needs to flew to Wuhan. In this heavily- San Francisco, took the Columbus be boiled. Wright says the industrialized city on the Yangtze delegation to Beijing, Wuhan and Columbus delegation drank bottled River with a population of about Xi'an for three days each and water, and hotel room service three million, Wright visited the Kunming for one day. Their included a thermos of hot water for veterinary medicine department at itinerary included visits to city tea. "There was also a processed the Huazhong Agricultural College. government offices, three zoos, one orange drink. There's no flavor I There he learned "their primary interests are in acupuncture, university, and meetings with city can compare it to." and province government officials. Not an item for the itinerary, but a dramatic sight for the dean, was the large population in the cities toured, with eleven million people in Beijing, and, says Wright, "at least two to three million in each of the other cities." A consistent sight was the Chinese on bicycles gliding along roads in a country where Wright says, motorized vehicles are owned primarily "by city and province officials and some foreigners." In Beijing, the first leg of the tour, the dean was struck by his "biggest impression" of China — the lack of unemployment. "Everyone has a job whether its sweeping the streets or delivering coal." Another dramatic Industrial city of Wuhan ouerlooking Yangtze River The Speculum genetics and parasitology." Although the group was the visit to a Wright is reserving judgment on the cloisonne factory. "There, enameled acupuncture process, he found it decorations are applied to vases," "very interesting" and says OSU u says Wright, who was surprised to may send someone to the 1 find that in Communist China cash international conference on or credit card were accepted as acupuncture to be held in Beijing payment for the vases.