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Awarded upon the recommendation of the REVEREND JOSEPH FORT NEWTON Professors of Surgery to the graduate, in their opinion, most worthy, to Rector, Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania EDWARD JONATHAN KLOPP, JR. with Honorable Mention of Herbert Kramer PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES FOR Practice Prize. A Gold Medal, awarded by bequest of Dr. Francis Vv. Shain, DEGREES IN MEDICINE for the best essay on a subject pertaining to the Practice of Medicine, to WILLIAM HARVEY PERKINS, Dean ROY KORSON with Honorable Mention of Herbert Kramer CONFERRING OF DEGREES Surgery Prize. A Gold Medal, awarded by bequest of Dr. Francis W. Shain, ROBERT P. HOOPER for the best essay on a subject pertaining to Surgery, to JOHN MYRON KOVAL President, Board of Trustees with Honorable Mention of Herbert Kramer DEGREES IN COURSE · Clinical Surgery Prize. A Gold Medal for general excellence in Clinical Surgery, in memory of Francis Torrens Stewart, Professor of Clinical Surgery, The Graduating Class Jefferson Medical College, 1910-1920, to JOSEPH PA TRICK McGEE, JR. with Honorable Mention of Walter Williams Moore HONORARY DEGREE, DOCTOR OF LAWS Ralph Cooper Hutchison Obstetrics Prize. By Professor Montgomery, for the best examination in Obstetrics, to SIDNEY MAURICE WOLFE with Honorable Mention of William John Browning, III AWARD OF PRIZES The Pascal Brooke Bland Memorial Prize. Given by Mrs. J. Hamilton Coulter in memory of her father, to the senior student who has shown the ADDRESS greatest aptitude and excellence in Practical Obstetrics, to RALPH COOPER HUTCHISON, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D., D.H.L. HERBERT SPENCER BOWMAN President, Lafayette College "THE PROFESSIONAL MAN" The Carroll Royer Baker Memorial Prize. Given by Mrs. Baker in memory of her husband, to the student attaining the highest average in Fourth Year Medicine, to HERBERT KRAMER BENEDICTION Gynecology Prize. By Professor Scheffey, for the best examination and GEORGE ALLEN BENNETT, A.B., M.D., Marshal clinical report on Gynecology, to ROY W. MOHLER, A.M., Sc.D., M.D., Assistant Marshal GERALD DEWEY DODD, JR. with Honorable Mention of Joseph Paul Greeley, Clyde Francis Brooke Smith JOHN BOND ATKINSON, "48 JAMES WILTON DALY, '48 and Joseph Patrick McGee, Jr. CANDIDATES FOR DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF MEDICINE Orthopedic Surgery Prize. By Professor Martin, for general excellence in Orthopedic Surgery, to MENZIE McKIM, JR. Helff, John Richard .................. N. J. with Honorable Mention of Sidney Maurice Wolfe and John Richard Reiff Abolafia, David Joseph ... ............ Pa. Abrams, William Bernard ........... N. J. Heller, David Bernhardt ................ Pa. Aceto, Joseph Nicholas .... ....... .... Pa. Helsper, James Thomas ............... N. J. Allan, John Purcell .................. N. C. Herrick, William Charles ............... Pa. Neurology Prize. By Professor Alpers, for the best examination in Neurology, Babskie, Robert Franklin ... ........ .. Pa. Hickman, Charles Norris ......... ... Miss. to Baker, Robert Hershey ................. Pa. Jaslow, Robert Irwin .................. Pa. WILLIAM BERNARD ABRAMS Barsky, Joseph Mitchell, Jr............. Del. Jernstrom, Paul Herbert .. .........•. Pa. Bashore, Sidney Milne ................. Pa. Jones, Albert Richard, Jr.. .. ·........... Pa. Blumberg, Alan Irving .......... ...... Pa. Jones, Lewis Edward ....•............. Va. Kelly, Edward Aloysius ................ Pa. Psychiatry Prize. By Professor Keyes, for general excellence in Psychiatry, to Bode, Frederick William, Jr........ , .. Pa. Bostian, David William ........... .. Pa. King, Samuel Victor, Jr..•............. Pa. JOHN ALBERT KOLTES, JR. Bowen, John Raymond, Jr............. N. J. Kirchner, Richard George ............... Pa. Bowman, Herbert Spencer .............. Pa. Klopp, Edward Jonathan, Jr............. Pa. Boyle, Edwin, Jr. ................... S. C. Koltes, John Albert, Jr.................. Pa. Pediatrics Prize. By Professor Bauer, for the best examination in Pediatrics, to Brockunier, Alfred, Jr.................. Pa. Korson, Roy .......................... Pa. JOSEPH ALFRED DIORIO Browning, William John III ..... .... N. J. Koval, John Myron .. ................ Pa. with Honorable Mention of William Larch Fidler, III Bucan, Michael ....................... Pa. Kraft, Albert John, Jr . ................ Pa. Burkley, Louis Franklin III ............. Pa. Kramer, Herbert ..................... N. J. Burns, Benjamin Franklin ............•.. Pa. Krevsky, David Avram ................. Pa. Cahall, Walter Lawrence, Jr............. Pa. Lam, Pritchard Ting Chew .......... Hawaii Ophthalmology Prize. By Professor Shannon, for the best examination in Casale, Lawrence Frederick ............ Pa. Lawrence, Benjamin Jones, Jr.... ..... N. C. Ophthalmology, to Coghlan, William Patrick ........ .. .... Pa. Lee, Jeremiah Francis .................. Pa. DAVID HENRY HAUSMAN Cook, Alfred Searles, Jr............... N. J. Lerner, Sidney Simon ..... ............ Pa. with Honorable Mention of Herbert Kramer, George Robert Reinhardt Corazza, Leo Joseph ... ............... Pa. Levin, David Welsh .. ................ Pa. and Edward Jonathan Klopp, Jr. Corley, Luther Franklin, Jr........ ...... Ala. Li, Gail Gar Lyai ... ............. Hawaii Corson, Joseph Mackie ........ ........ Pa. Lussy, William Joaquim ............... Pa. Cox, William Franklin, III . .......... Pa. McChesney, Charles Thomas, Jr. ........ Pa. Laryngology Prize. By Professor Clerf, for general excellence in Laryngology Cull, William Arthur ........ ......... Pa. McCurdy, Robert Seidel .... .......... N. J. and Broncho-esophagology, to Danyliw, Joseph Michael ............ Conn. McDonnell, William Vincent . .......... Pa. Davis, William Clayton ................ Pa. McGee, Donald Hileman ...... ........ Pa. CLYDE FRANCIS BROOKE SMITH De Wan, Charles Joseph ...... ... .... Pa. McGee, Joseph Patrick, Jr............... Pa. with Honorable Mention of David William Bostian Diorio, Joseph Alfred .................. Pa. McKeown, John Joseph, Jr......... .... Pa. Dodd, Gerald Dewey, Jr. ..... ...... Pa. McKim, Menzie, Jr. .................. Ore. Dowling, John Joseph ................. Pa. MacAndrew, Raymond Noel ........... R. I. Otology Prize. By Professor Williams, for the best examination in Otology, to Eberly, Byron Thomas ................. Pa. Mandel, Martin Milton ................. Pa. ROBERT BATE FUNCH Feldstein, Leonard Charles .............. Pa. Mann, Lester . ....................... Pa. Fidler, William Larch, III ............. N. J. Marino, Dante Edmond ................ Pa. Fister, Harris Gerald ................. N . J. Mayock, Peter Paul, Jr................. Pa. Foster, Charles Goddard .............. Conn. Meehan, Edward Joseph ..... ....... Mass. W. B. Saunders Company Prize. Medical Publications to the student who Foushee, ]. Henry Smith, Jr........... N . C. Meehan, John Joseph .................. Pa. passes the best general examination at the end of the Senior Year, to Punch, Robert Bate .................... Pa. Miller, Charles Earl .................... Pa. HERBERT KRAMER Punch, Ross Simpson ................ Pa. Miller, Warren Alton .................. Pa. Funk, Elmer Hendricks, Jr. ....... .... Pa. Mintz, Alfred Martin .. ............... Pa. Gaffney, John Joseph .................. Pa. Moore, Walter Williams ............... Pa. William Potter Memorial Prize. The income from a bequest of Mrs. Adaline Gensemer, George John ................ Pa. Moran, Thomas Wesley, Jr.......... .. .. Pa. Potter Wear, offered to encourage excellence in the clinical branches of medicine Goeckler, John Edward ......... ...... Pa. Mosier, Laurence Austin ..... .. .... Md. and awarded to that graduate attaining the highest general average in the final Greeley, Joseph Paul ........ .. ... .. Pa. Mszanowski, Edwin Melchior . ......... Pa. two