T-Wave [Yearbook] 1985

.êcllcQl School V. -f^ f^^- hJi-^ id Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Lyrasis IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/twaveyearbook1985edit T-WAVE 1985 TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA VOLUME 4 1 i s4 A\ \ \ -^. \ \ i^w. "To study the phenomenom of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all." •Sir William Osier T-WAVE 1985 STAFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF H. Terry Levine PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Robert LoGreco COPY EDITOR Peter Simoneaux LAYOUT STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS Jacqueline DeCayette Personal Album Section Editor "So You want to be a Doctor, eh?" Section Dawn Gunter "So . You want to be a Doctor, eh?" Section Gary Donath Ann F^rash H. Terry Levine Mark Froimson Editorln-Chiei History Section Editor Dawn Gunter City Section Editor Faculty and Administration Section Editor Terry Levine "So You want to be a Doctor, eh?" Section H. Robert LoGreco Robert LoGreco David O'Donnell Photography Editor "So - - You want to be a Doctor, eh?" Section Peter Simoneaux Activities Section Personal Album Section Gary Wasserman Kirsti Weng Peter Simoneaux Copy Editor Senior Section Editor City Section "So . you want to be a Doctor, eh?" Section Mike Whistler Activity Section Editor "So you want to be a Doctor, eh?" Section TABLE OF CONTENTS History Of Tulane Medical School 5 The Crescent City 10 Faculty and Administration 18 "So You Want To Be A Doctor, Eh?" 29 Personal Album 50 Seniors 54 Activities 78 Sponsors 83 Where Do We Go From Here? 94 Special Thanks To Bill Hopkins of Josten 's Publishing Company for bis expertise, counsel and motivation. To Kathy Brooks for being our consultant. To our generous sponsors who advertised in this publication and support Tulane Medical School. To Cindy and the entire Library staff who helped enormously with the History Section. To Alan Dufour for the long hours and quick service he provided with photography. To Floyd Domer who serves as our Faculty Advisor. To Harley Ginsberg, the founder of the T- WA VE. who got us started in the very beginning. 3 ste INMEMORIAM CHARLES A. WILDER, JR. 1959-1984 "Chuck was one of the special people. One in that group that you collect over a lifetime. One of the few that mean everything to you. Chuck loved life, and loved sharing it with friends. I'm really going to miss him." - A Friend THE HISTORY OF TULANE MEDICAL SCHOOL Tulane University School Of Medicine - 1834 HISTORY OF TULANE MEDICAL SCHOOL Tulane Medical School had its auspicious beginning as the Medical College of Louisiana in September 1834. Three brash young medical men, all less than 26 years of age, initiated the beginning of medical education in Louisiana. They were Thomas Hunt, who was to become the first dean of the medical school, Warren Stone and John Harrison. In addition to these three founders, the faculty of the school consisted of four other local physicians: Augustus Cenas, Charles Luzenberg, T. R. Ingalls and E. B. Smith. Dr. Thomas Hunt, Dean Dr. John H. Harrison Dr. Warren Stone 1834 - 1835 and 1852 - 1862 Establishment of the school was met Eind passed by the Senate, but was defeat- facilities in the country. with considerable opposition from the ed in the House. It was not until 1843 Charity Hospital is credited with being Creoles, whose ideas concerning medical that any definitive action was taken. On the first institution of its kind in the coun- education were based on the European March 22 of that year, a law was passed try, having been established in January system which stressed academics well permitting the medical faculty to erect a 1736, almost 100 years prior to the grounded in the Latin and Greek classics. building on a lot belonging to the state, on founding of the Medical College of Louisi- The idea of providing medical education Common Street between Baronne and ana. The hospital initially opened with a without this foundation was utterly in- Dryades Streets. There were two condi- total of five beds and served not only as a comprehensible. Furthermore, the Cre- tions attached to the law: first, the faculty hospital, but also as an asylum for the oles regarded all American universities should donate their services to Charity indigent of the city. The original hospital with disdain and considered them hardly Hospital without pay for ten years and was located on a site in what is now on a par with the European universities. second, that one student from each par- known as the French Quarter and has When the medical school first opened ish would be admitted einnually to the since occupied four other buildings, in- its doors in January 1835, it became the medical school for the next ten years. cluding the present facility which was first medical school in the Deep South The senator and representatives from opened in 1939. Throughout the early and the fifteenth oldest in the country. each parish were to name each candi- 1800's, Charity was one of the largest The Inaugural address was given by Dean date. The state also reserved the right to hospitals in the world. It had the capabi- Hunt in the First Presbyterian Church. In reclaim all properties at the end of the lity of housing 1,000 patients, although addition to this church, various other bor- ten year period. some patients were sleeping on pallets on rowed quarters were used for lectures. A The fact that this bill gave the faculty the floor or sleeping two to a bed. Inter- lecture room in the State House and of the new school professional privileges estingly enough, it was said that "there wards in Charity Hospital also served as at Charity Hospitcil created an uproar might be two patients to a bed, but they classrooms. These temporary facilities among the town's medical practitioners. each had the opportunity to take a hot were the only ones available for use dur- The opposition was based on the belief bath". At the present time, the number of ing the next several years, while the facul- that the medical school would be given a beds is given as 1,640. However, the lack i ty attempted to secure the necessary monopoly over medicine and surgery at of nursing personnel has forced the clo- funds for construction of a permanent Charity. When it was made clear that this sure of several wards, resulting in an actu- structure to house the fledgling school. was not to be the case, the medical com- al number somewhat below this figure. In 1836, the governor of the state at- munity joined together, resulting not only Meanwhile, having obtained legislative tempted to help the medical faculty ob- in the best medical care the city had ever approval for professional privileges at tain funding for the erection of a school seen, but also providing the school with a Charity Hospital, the faculty immediately building. A measure appropriating clinical teaching hospital that was gradu- set about drawing up plans for a building $60,000 for this purpose was proposed ally evolving into one of the top such to house the medical school. This building 'I'HI3 IIEK. .1 F.ROM fi: RAVON. ÎlK UNION—IT MUSTBr PRr!tRr>r«D ^'ONOAV MORMNCUEPT. «0, I834. "^Trr- \Vr «>e Wif^'v cTst'iK^ tO'Hrfilee theesmblishmrnt in Ihi college ''^"JSpHjcal Tho ;ontleinen wl)o fill ihachair o/>' .i.>*«or»hi;> are mon of «kill and experience, nnJ we-h.ip. ihat «» mSy noil)e iliouxht invulwuJ, wlien wo pamt i piini^f!>ir to Wpssrs. Hw?iT, Inoalle nnd Lur.F.MBCao, will '*^<»ni icqininlnnM H'.i i:i rmre extendj-J. The Iwo forme U''V"fojre oÎicLifed in a like c.ipacity in smular ina'iiu pJSs, ; i»nl the latter h.is estibiiiliod a reputation in our cil- J !j'.e''ii<{lie3t grade ns n siinjoon. 'Tht:f\ltfiXT\pr Friftul, wnoriin into by the Tom Jrffrmnn <;i'i>jite Lafayetti; on Saiurdjy, and Bunk; water up to tin The New Orleans Charity Hospital was estimated to cost $6000 and was not total of 11. From 1834 to 1859, the num- tion wrought by the Civil War and the completed until tiie end of 1843. In ber of students grew from 11 to 276. Just subsequent reconstruction, the medical 1845, a Constitutional Convention speci- prior to the Civil War in 1861, the num- school faced its most trying times. The fied that the Medical College of Louisiana ber of students increased dramatically to school struggled financially for its very was to become the Medical Department 404 because of political and sectional existence until 1884, when the wealthy of The University of Louisiana. Two hostility which induced Southern students New Orleans merchant Paul Tulane be- years later, additional funds were appro- to abandon Northern Colleges. When the queathed $1,250,000 for the establish- priated to erect buildings for the new uni- war broke out, most students joined the ment of a university. The state legislature versity. The original building was re- war effort in such numbers that, in 1862, then placed all departments of the Uni- turned to the state to be used by the only 94 students were enrolled. Federal versity of Louisiana under the newly ren- newly established law department. A occupation of New Orleans forced the amed Tulane University of Louisiana. much larger building was erected adja- closure of the medical school later that This donation enabled Tulane to once cent to the original medical building for year.

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