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No.49 • Spring 2001 BellwetherTHE NEWSMAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE A Very Special Patient Inside Bellwether 49 7 Cover Story 2 From the Dean 3 $2 Million Gift 4 Groundbreaking 10 New Swine Unit Opens 13 V.M.D.Notes 16 The Story of Maurice Zurkow,V’10 18 Rosettes and Ribbons 20 Animal Crackers 23 Canine Hero ® 25 Canine Symposium ® SchoolSchool of Veterinary of Veterinary Medicine Medicine 28 Special Gifts UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA OF PENNSYLVANIA Message from the Dean was honored a few days ago to faculty. We can not allow this to Development Office in the School, receive a letter from President happen for, in an era of new and re- I fully anticipate the goal will be IJudith Rodin and Provost Robert emerging infectious diseases, food safe- accomplished. Barchi announcing their intention to ty, genomics, stem cell biology, cancer The new Teaching and Research recommend my re-appointment as therapy, and gene therapy, there is an Building is just one of a series of goals Dean of the School to the Trustees. I enormous amount that the School and that must be addressed in the next five am flat- veterinary medicine has to offer for years. Funds for student scholarships tered by improving animal health and the well must be raised, construction of the new their confi- being of society. Scott Building for Equine Sports Medi- dence and The new building will cost $48 mil- cine accomplished, a linear accelerator recognize lion in 2003 dollars. I am happy to installed in VHUP, research labs and that this share that we already have $26 million clinical space renovated, programs in would not in cash and pledges towards this goal. Aquatic Animal Medicine, and Swine have hap- Twenty-two million remains to be Medicine advanced and the heating pened raised and this must be accomplished and air conditioning system in the without as rapidly as possible since inflation Widener Hospital for Large Animals the help of increases the cost of the building by completely replaced. many truly wonderful people. It has $2.5 million per year. Raising this I thank all of you for your precious been a privilege being Dean these past amount will require a great deal of support during my first term in office. 1 7 /2 years and I thank every one of you ingenuity and hard work but with out- The second term will be even busier for your generous support, encourage- standing leadership on the Board of and although I relish the challenges, I ment and wise counsel. Overseers and the Veterinary Medical will need your support more than ever. In their letter, the President and Alumni Society, and an excellent Alan M. Kelly Provost note that “the School is consid- The Gilbert S. Kahn Dean of Veterinary Medicine ered one of the top schools in the world in basic scientific research in vet- erinary medicine, and it leads all U.S. New Bower Professor schools and colleges in the impact of its Joan Hendricks, V.M.D., Ph.D. is the first woman to be named to an endowed profes- basic science publications. It is also sorship at the School of Veterinary Medicine. world-renowned in a number of clini- In January she was appointed the Henry and cal areas: postgraduate and clinical spe- Corinne R. Bower Professor of Medicine at cialty education, equine sports medi- the School. The Bower Professorship, estab- cine, and companion animal clinical lished in 1981 by Henry Bower in memory of programs, such as critical care and his wife Corinne, was held by Dr. Kenneth Bovee until his retirement in 1998. emergency medicine.” This is a won- Dr. Hendricks’ research centers on sleep derful compliment to the School and is and sleep disorders. She has studied bulldogs the standard that must be maintained extensively and recently has published pio- in the future. neering studies on sleep patterns of fruit flies. What must be accomplished to Dr. Hendricks, together with colleagues at uphold this standard? First and fore- VHUP, developed and implemented the con- most, we must raise the funds for a cept of the Center for Veterinary Critical Care which united the Emergency Service, Inten- new Teaching and Research Building sive Care Unit and VHUP’s Anesthesia Service in Philadelphia. Without this, the into a single unit to enhance teaching and School will be unable to excel, provide patient care. Dr. Hendricks serves as the sec- Dr. Joan Hendricks, the new Henry and Corinne R. tion chief of critical care medicine at VHUP Bower Professor of Medicine and Dr. Kenneth Bovee, a proper learning environment for our who held the professorship until retirement in 1998. students and attract the very best and as head of the CVCC. 2 BELLWETHER 48 $2 Million Gift for Teaching and Research Building ecently the School received an anony- Did you spend much time in the School’s library? I never counted. But as for the other two, the mous gift of $2 million for the planned Not as much as I should have or my record late 70s were difficult times for a New RTeaching and Research Building in would have been a little more enviable. Englander to get into any veterinary school. Philadelphia. The gift was facilitated by Dr. Three times was not unusual for our class. Steven Atwood, V’80, who is a mixed-animal Do you have any advice for Penn Veterinary alumni practitioner on Martha’s Vineyard. The state- about how they could be helpful in securing funds for Do you have a favorite Penn faculty member? of-the-art library in the new building will be this new Teaching and Research Building? There were so many who I really respected named The Steven W. Atwood, V.M.D. Veteri- The time is right and the time is critical. and enjoy seeing to this day at conferences and nary Medical Library in honor of Dr. Atwood. The School is on a tight timetable in that a meetings. I really enjoyed Dr. Fackelman, a for- Mark Stuart, assistant dean for development, large amount of money needs to be raised for mer faculty member who retired to Maine and recently visited and talked with Dr. Atwood. this building in a relatively short time. I would is running a hunting lodge. Dean Richardson say that we all have clients that are special. In was a great faculty member. Dr. Reef was won- You played a key role in securing a $2 million gift for the some cases we’re aware of their circumstances derful. Dr. Joan O’Brien was special. Dr. Kelly, School’s new Teaching and Research Building from a for- and their potential to help Penn. I think that now our esteemed dean, was a fantastic profes- mer client.How did you come to know the donor? it’s really not very hard sor of pathology. In This individual was someone whose animals at all when you believe fact, he brought me my I had taken care of from the days when I prac- in something to convey first clinical case as a ticed on Nantucket Island. And interestingly that enthusiasm to a veterinary student. We enough, when I moved to Martha’s Vineyard to potential client/donor were seniors on our practice here, it wasn’t long after that this par- in a positive way, not TES Rotation (Trauma ticular client brought her dogs to the Vineyard only for Penn, but for and Emergency Ser- just so they could be treated by our practice. veterinary medicine, vice), the precursor to for animals, for bio- the Emergency Service. You must have had a very special veterinarian/client medical research, for He brought in his own relationship. comparative medicine. cat, it had an abcess. I Yes, I’d known her for many years. She was It’s an easy sell. Alumni Dr. Atwood and one of his clients, Senator Dole. remember him being a very knowledgeable client who knew a lot should not be bashful very calm. We were about animals and knew a lot about their care. in broaching the subject of a large gift to a kind of nervous, this was our first live patient. She asked good questions and really took special client. It’s a cause that’s eminently worth It wasn’t a complex case, but we were nervous incredible care of her animals. There was no supporting. because it was his cat. He said, “Oh, don’t question that they were absolutely spoiled and worry, you’ll be fine, just take your time, you doted over. This person lived alone, so her ani- Why did you choose Veterinary Medicine as a career? know what to do.” Dr. Kelly couldn’t have been mals really were her life, they were extremely When I was growing up I had an uncle who a better first client. important to her and therefore their care was was a veterinarian (Dan Rice, V’63) and an very important to her, too. aunt, his sister, who was a physician. During Do you have any favorite Penn memories? family holidays there would be discussions as I would say that New Bolton Center brings How did your conversations with this donor come about to which was the better field and the veterinari- back great memories of huge snow storms, regarding support of the School and its new Teaching an made a more persuasive argument than the field service calls, and the camaraderie of living and Research Building? physician.