Thomas Jefferson University Jefferson Digital Commons Sidney Kimmel Medical College Commencements Jefferson Commencements 6-12-1959 1959 Commencement for Jefferson Medical College Follow this and additional works at: https://jdc.jefferson.edu/skmccommencement Part of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, and the Medicine and Health Sciences Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy Recommended Citation "1959 Commencement for Jefferson Medical College" (1959). Sidney Kimmel Medical College Commencements. Video 10. https://jdc.jefferson.edu/skmccommencement/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Jefferson Digital Commons. The Jefferson Digital Commons is a service of Thomas Jefferson University's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). The Commons is a showcase for Jefferson books and journals, peer-reviewed scholarly publications, unique historical collections from the University archives, and teaching tools. The Jefferson Digital Commons allows researchers and interested readers anywhere in the world to learn about and keep up to date with Jefferson scholarship. This article has been accepted for inclusion in Sidney Kimmel Medical College Commencements by an authorized administrator of the Jefferson Digital Commons. For more information, please contact: [email protected]. Efec:ren <!J'alock THE JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE PROCESSIONAL MARCH PRIZES THE NATIONAL ANTHEM The Henry M. Phillips Prize. Awarded upon the recommendation of the Professor of Medicine to INVOCATION The Reverend Thorne Sparkman, D.D., Rector, The the graduate, in his opinion, most worthy, to Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania JOSEPH WETHERILL ESCHBACH ! . ),, The Henry M. Phillips Prize. Awarded upon the recommen.dation of the Professors of Surgery to the CONVOCATION James Laurence Kauffman, B.S., D.Eng., D.N.S., graduate, in their opinion, most worthy, to L.H.D., Vice Admiral, United States Navy (Retired) THOMAS JOHN LIDDY President with Honorable Mention of David Thomas Beauchamp and Marvin Clifford Daley THE OATH OF HIPPOCRATES By the President Practice Prize. A Gold Medal, awarded by bequest of Dr. Francis W. Shain, for the best essay on a subject pertaining to the Practice of Medicine, to PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES NATHANIEL PAV HEN CHING FOR DEGREES IN COURSE . William A. Sodeman, B.S., M.D., Sc.D., Dean In the Course in Medicine-In the Course in the Medical Sciences Surgery Prize. A Gold Medal, awarded by bequest of Dr. Francis W. Shain, for the best essay on a subject pertaining to Surgery, to SIAMAK ADIBI CONFERRING OF DEGREES IN COURSE . By the President with Honorable Mention of Gaetano Francis Gumina, Jr. and Nahum Malcolm Balotin CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES . By the President Clinical Surgery Prize. A Gold Medal for general excellence in Clinical Surgery, in memory of Francis Torrens Stewart, Professor of Clinical Surgery, The Jefferson Me.dical College, 1910-1920, to Doctor of Humane Letters Doctor of Laws THOMAS JOHN LIDDY THE HONORABLE DAVID LEO LAWREN CE DETLEV W. BRONK, A.B., M.S., Ph.D., with Honorable Mention of Gary Philip Romisher Governor, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania President, The Rockefeller Institute. Citation to be read by Mr. Percival E. Foerderer, Chairman, New York, New York. Solomon Solis-Cohen Memorial Prize. Given by members of the family in memory of Professor of Board of Trustees, The Jefferson Medical College of Phila­ Citation to be read by Bernard J. Alpers, M.D., Professor Clinical Medicine, Emeritus, S. Solis-Cohen, for the best essay in the field of Clinical Medicine by a delphia. of Neurology and Head of the Department. member of the Senior ·Class, to SANDY ANSELM FUREY Doctor of Humane Letters Doctor of Laws with Honorable Mention of Siamak Adibi LEWIS CASS SCHEFFEY, P.D., M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Emeritus JAMES LAURENCE KAUFFMAN, President, The Jefferson Medical College and Medical Obstetrics and Gynecology Prize. By Professors T. L. Montgomery and J. B. Montgomery for the Citation to be read by Thaddeus L. Montgomery, B.A., M.D., best examination in Obstetrics and Gynecology, to Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chairman of the Center. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Citation to be read by William A. Sodeman, M.D., Dean. CASIMAR JOSEPH WANCZYK The Pascal Brooke Bland Memorial Prize. By Mrs. J. Hamilton Coulter, in memory of her father, AWARD OF PRIZES to the Senior Student who has shown the greatest aptitude and excellence in practical obstetrics; the student to be chosen by the Professor of Obstetrics and the Prize to be used exclusively for the purchase ADDRESS . The Honorable David Leo Lawrence of medical books, to RAYMOND JACK SCHIFFMAN BENEDICTION The Reverend Francis X. N. McGuire, O.S.A. Gynecology Prize. In Honor of Professor of Obstetrics an.d Gynecology Emeritus, Lewis C. Scheffey, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania to be given annually by Mrs. Albert Strickler, to a Senior Student, for the best examination, thesis, and general excellence in Gynecology, to Andrew J. Ramsay, A.B., Ph.D., General Marshal THOMAS JOHN LIDDY with Honorable Mention of Gary Philip Romisher Robert B. Nye, B.S., M.D., Marshal of the Faculty Charles P. Kraatz, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Marshal of Distinguished Guests Orthopedic Surgery Prize. By Professor De Palma, for general excellence in Orthopedic Surgery, to CHARLES LINDSAY McDOWELL James E. Clark, A.B., M.D., Marshal of the Graduating Class with Honorable Mention of James Vincent Gainer, Jr. Bruce Leonard Johnson, A.B. '60 Earl David Nordberg, '60 Neurology Prize. By Professor Alpers, for general excellence in Neurology, to WILLIAM FRED LARSON Urology Prize. By Professor Fetter, for general excellence in Urology, during the Junior and Senior CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES IN COURSE Years, including preparation of reports of in- and out-patients, examinations and final summary of work in Urology, to The Course in Medicine SANDY ANSELM FUREY with Honorable Mention of Paul Leo Flicker DOCTOR OF MEDICINE The Albert Strickler Memorial Prize. To he given annually by Mrs. Albert Strickler to the Senior Siamak Adibi . ......•...... ................ Teheran, Iran Paul Leo Flicker ......... .. .. ...... Philadelphia, Pa. Student, for the best essay on Cancer, to Leard Reed Altemus, Jr... .. ........ Johnstown, Pa. James H. Frank .. .... .. .. ............ Pittsburgh, Pa. SANDY ANSELM FUREY Peter James Andrews .... ..... .... ..... Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Howard H. Freedman . ...... .. ... .... Pittsburgh, Pa. with Honorable Mention of Alan Isa Snyder Robert Bickel Armstrong .. .. .. ... Parkersburg, W. Va. Sandy Anselm Furey . ... ...... ........... Old Forge, Pa. William Heber Ashbaugh .... .. .... ..... .. Butler, Pa. James Vincent Gainer, Jr. .. ... ... ... Tunnelton, W. Va. Jean Paul Aucoin .• . .•..... .... ......... :Chicopee, Mass. Donald Irwin Gallagher . .. .........•. Ridley Park, Pa. The Edward]. Moore Memorial Prize in Pediatrics. Given in memory of Edward J. Moore, M.D., to Joseph Baka . ............................ Cleveland, Ohio David Meranski Geetter . ...... .. .. .. Philadelp'hia, Pa. the Senior Student demonstrating the greatest aptitude in Pediatrics, to James August Baldauf . ........... ... ... .. Erie, Pa. Lawrence George Gigliotti .. .. ...... Philadelp'hia, Pa. RONALD ELLIOT COHN Leonard Clair Baldauf, Jr...• . .... ...... ....... Erie, Pa. William Greene Gillespy . ...... .... .. Huntington, W. Va. with Honorable Mention of Thomas John Liddy Nahum Malcolm Balotin .... .......... Ellenville, N. Y. Sidney Girsh ......... ........... .. .... Philadelp'hia, Pa. Edward Joseph Baranski , . .. .... ... Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Saul Glasner ........ ............ ...... .. ... Merion, Pa. Pediatrics Prize. By Professor Keitel to the student who shows the most promise in Academic Samuel Jacob Barr .....•. .......... ... Philadelphia, Pa. Trevor David Glenn ............... ...... Bridgeville, Pa. Harold Eugene Bauer .. .................. Riverton, N. J. Richard W ambold Godshall .... .. .. .. .. Souderton, Pa. Pediatrics, as manifested by general proficiency in Pe.diatrics and originality of thought, to Norman Craig Baumm . .............. .. Philadelphia, Pa. Louis Marshall Goldstein .................. Camden, N. J. SANDY ANSELM FUREY David Thomas Beauchamp ....... ..... Chicopee, Mass. Charles Kenderdine Gorby ...... .. ..... Philadelphia, Pa. with Honorable Mention of Thomas John Liddy Joseph Albert Besecker ... ............. Pleasant Gap, Pa. Henry Adam Greenawald .... .. ............. Temple, Pa. Lester George Bixler, Jr. .. ..... ..... Middletown, Pa. Leonard Fred Greenberg . ... .. .. .. ... Philadelphia, Pa. Kenneth Maxwell Blanc . ....... ........ Narberth, Pa. Lawrence Greenwood . ............ ...... Philadelphia, P a. The Henry Keller Mohler Memorial Prize. Given by Mr. Jesse Hubschman in memory of his wife, Eugene Barie Blizard . .......... ......... Jenkintown, Pa. Gaetano Francis Gumina, Jr.... ......... Philadelphia, Pa. Natalie, to honor Henry Keller Mohler, M.D., to the senior student manifesting the greatest aptitude and Walter Shaffer Bloes .. .. .. ... .. ... .. Peckville, Pa. Burritt Lienbach Haag ....... .. ....... Lock Haven, Pa. interest in the general field of therapeutics, to Vincent Patrick Blue .................... Philadelphia, Pa. T,om Dunbar Halliday .......... ........ Gallipolis, Ohio JAMES VINCENT GAINER, JR. Harold Leslie Blumenthal .. ........ Charleston, W. Va. Arnold Jay Halpern . .. .... .........