1952_Digest_March

THEY HAD A GOOD TIME TOO

THE LINE OF FIRE

Everybody on the Committee worked for weeks ahead. Here's the heavy-work artillery on the Big Night, the checkingin station where the numbers on the tickets had to come out even with the seating list. Seated nearest camera and beaming (?) is Dr. F. Munro Purse, '33, Reservations Chairman, is Mrs. Olga Burfeind, Committee secretary, who says "forget my address next year," then Dr. Charles W. Snyder, '33, likewise. Head Coach Harry E. Binder, '36, is in the middle of the standing line, trying to find something on his master list.

LLOYD ENJOYED

Middle split of the Charity Ball program was "The Gold Page," a Radiology Patrons Roll of Honor. Twenty-five radiologists from everywhere who couldn't be there in person sent cash contributions to the general cause for which the Ball rolled-the X-Ray enrichment of our new North Center Hospital. It was a personal tribute to Dr. Paul T. Lloyd, '23, head of the PCO Radiology Department, teacher and trainer of more osteopathic radiologists than any man alive. Here's Dr. Lloyd and the Mrs. at the Bait together with (left) Dr. W. Brent Boyer, '20.

Dr. DeWaine Gedney, '38, Attending Surgeon, OHP, Chairman of POA Legislative Committee, with, (right) Hon. Charles C. Smith Majority Leader, Pennsylvania House of Representatives

BOARD

FREDERIC H. BARTH, D.Sc., President, Col· lege and Hospital Boards.

DR. IRA W. DREW, Chairman, Public Relations Committee.

DR. WM. E. BRANDT, College Administrator

JEAN M. HALL, Acting Superintendent. Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia.

PROF. KENNETH L. SENIOR, Department of Chemistry, Philadelphia College of Osteopathy.

DR. WILLIAM BALDWIN, Chairman Alumni Editorial Board.

]. ST. GEORGE JOYCE, Editor of DIGEST.

OSTEOPATHIC DIGEST

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Founders Day Graduate Education Charity Ball

L UMNI from near and far gathered in Philadeldelphia at the start of February for the Founders Day week-end program of Memorial ceremony. refresher courses of study and the festal climax Charity Ball Saturday night. Each of these events held its own features of noteworthiness and vvill be long remembered by those vvho attended and participated.

Saturday afternoon in the College Library the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association laid plans and took important action pointing to the future, laid out the outlines for Alumni representation at State, regional and national conventions and for Alumni Day, Saturday, June 7. in Philadelphia, a "big" day climaxing with the annual Alumni Association banquet in the grand ballroom of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.

Under the chairmanship of Dr. Ira IN. Drew, '11, the Public Relations Committee of the Board of Trustees arranged a Founders Day program with United States Senator James H. Duff, former Governor of Pennsylvania, as the headliner. Senator Duff's stature as a statesman made the occasion a newspaper "story'' in Philadelphia and throughout the East. In the osteopathic family the 1952 observance of our College's foundation was made indelibly memorable by the eloquent "0. J. Snyder Memorial Address" delivered by Dr. 'vV. Ballentine Henley, president of the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. Henley flew the width of the U.S.A. from Los Angeles to Philadelphia at considerable personal sacrifice of time and effort for the special purpose of addressing the P.C.O. Founders Day audience. The attendance of about 700 represented the College student body, visiting notables from public life and friends of the profession from far and near.

Honorary degrees were granted to Senator Duff (Doctor of Science) and to Dr. C. Robert Starks, A.T.S. '25, of Denver, Colorado (Doctor of Osteopathic Science), who delivered the 1951 ''0. J. Snyder Memorial Address."

Dr. Starks, who served as president of the American Osteopathic Association in 1944 and 1945, is presently Chairman of the A.O.A. Osteopathic Progress Fund Committee.

Dr. Floyd F. Peckham, president of the American Osteopathic Association, brought the greetings from the national body, an inspiring message depicting the progress of the profession on the nation-wide scale. By a happy coincidence of scheduling, the Founders Day week-end climaxed the week designated for a visit to our College by the Committee on College Inspection of the A.O.A. Bureau of Professional Education and Colleges, and we were thereby favored by the presence of the Chairman Dr. Robert B. Thomas, Huntington, W. Va., and Dr. Morris Thompson, President of the Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery.

Dr. R. C. McCaughan, Executive Secretary of the A.O.A., who joined the inspection team for their review of P.C.O., was seated on the Founders Day stage with President Peckham. Dr. Frederic H. Barth, President of the Board of Trustees, presiding at the ceremonies, introduced the distinguished guests.

Our Founders Day stage was thus framed with national figures in the profession, together with Senator Duff from the highest zone of public life, our senior legislative body in Washington, Dr. Henley from the Pacific Coast, and our own Trustee Board officers and members, President Barth, Vice-President Dr. Guy W. Merryman, '30, Secretary Dr. H. 'vValter Evans, '17, Treasurer Dr. James M. Eaton, '28, Dr. C. Paul Snyder. '10, Hon. Frederic D. Garman, Dr. Paul H. Hatch, '26, of \Vashington, D. C Dr. Reed Speer, '37, of Pittsburgh, President of the Alumni Association, Dr. Charles 'vV. Sauter, II, '31, of Gardner, Massachusetts, Speaker of the A.O.A. House of Delegates. Dr. Alexander Levitt, '25, Brooklyn, Chairman of the A.O.A. Bureau of Research, and Dr. William C. Bugbee, '24, Montclair, N. J.

It was in this frame of national dimensions that our Founders Day speakers lauded the memory of our Founding Fathers. As a dramatic introduction to the "0. J.

Snyder Memorial Address," President Barth presented to the audience the son of the immortal "0-J.," in the person of Commander Joseph C. Snyder, '36, now on active duty with the U. S. Navy in Washington, D. C.

Dr. Snyder sat beside Dr. Henley on the stage and together the speaker and the son made the memorial feature of the program live and breathe. Dr. Henley's address is printed in full in following pages of this issue. While Dr. Henley was speaking, President Barth dispatched a cablegram of felicitation to Mrs. Oscar John Snyder, widow of the memorialized Founder, at her present address in London.

For the first time in many years our Faculty formed its academic procession without the guiding hand of the traditional marshal, Dr. H. \Villard Sterrett, '17, vvho passed to the great memorial army beyond since the last ceremonial function of the College. The new senior officer of the Faculty, Dr. Francis J. Smith, '17, took over the reins and guided the Faculty brigade in the processional and recessional.

Invocation by the Reverend Colonel Charles B. Dubell, D.D., College Chaplain, was followed by a memorial prayer for Dr. Sterrett, Dr. Ralph L. Fischer, '21, and for the other members of the P.C.O. family whose deaths occurred since the 1951 Founders Day.

The ceremonies were held in the auditorium of the Drexel Institute of Technology, whose president, Dr. James Creese, graciously extended us the courtesies of his institution for the occasion.

Dr. Eaton, who on a previous occasion had presided when Dr. Starks achieved his Fellowship in Orthopedic Surgery, presented him for his P.C.O. honorary degree, conferred by President Barth. Senator Duff vvas presented for honors by his long-time friend and associate, Mr. Garman, of our own Board of Trustees.

Senator Duff's speech was of important significance and was reported in the press at considerable length.

He told his audience that "this generation faces the kind of threat no generation in Arnerica has faced before." He added that we are in danger of being destroyed by a country for which we did much.

"Since the United States stepped into the position of world leadership conditions have changed so that Western Europe is only a few hours avvay as jet bombers fly.

"Russia has bombers capable of penetrating our country and the threat of invasion is here.

''\Ve could not retreat within America as a fortress."

The hope of defense against Soviet aggression, he said. was unity between the free peoples of Europe and the people of the United States.

The Senator said Stalin and Hitler were similar in that they were both dictators and both wrote what they intended to do in their programs of world conquest. Duff named Alger Hiss as a sample of spies Stalin said he would place in critical spots in foreign governments. He mentioned Harry Gold, of Philadelphia. as an example of the Soviet dictator's boast that he would obtain the military secrets of the Western Powers.

DEGREES OF HONOR

Dr. Barth hands Certificate to Senator Duff; Dr. Starks (left) received D.Ost.Sc. degree.

Founders Day Graduate Courses Span Osteopathic Cycle

GRADUATE seminars Friday and Saturday mornings made the Founders Day week-end at P.C.O. meaty and profitable, for alumni from far and near gathered for the ceremonial memorialization of our institution's founding and the festal finish on the dance-floor at the Saturday night Charity BalL

The scope of subjects in the courses arranged by our Acting Dean, Dr. Frederick A. Long, '24, and our coDirectors of Graduate Education. Dr. William F. Daiber. '28. and Dr. Earl F. Riceman, '27. spanned the nearlycentury of Osteopathic history. The wind-up number on the program of courses took the assembled seminarians all the way back to Kirksville in the 1880's vvhen Osteopathy was just an occult something practiced way out in the sticks by one semi-mystic rural wonder-worker.

Dr. David Sands Brown Pennock. A.S.O. '01, scion of an old Philadelphia family and for more than a quarter of a centurv Chief of Staff of the Osteopathic 'Hospital of Philadelphia. told a moving personal story of how he first travelled to western Missouri. back in the late 1890's, to study the new medical philosophy and its applications.

It was a travelogue that took his listeners back into the past to the grassroots of Osteopathy, long ago and far away, and it was brought right home to the present-clay P.C.O. Auditorium by Dr. Pennock's simple and direct recitaL He depicted Kirksville of olden times, mud-choked streets. half the town down to the depot once a clay to meet the Wabash train. whether anybody was on it or not. Kirksville as an

::\1ecca, with the main industry keeping boarding-houses for students and for patients who pilgrimaged from Maine and California to be treated, just because Kirksville vvas the only place in the land where Osteopathy was in full bloom.

Dr. Pennock, as a young man just out of Westtown Friends School, decided to study the strange cult because his mother had been changed from an almost bedridden invalid into an ambulant "well" person by the "The Old Doctor's" treatment. She spent more than a year at Kirksville as a patient and she lived there again in her son's early months of study under the original "Andrew Taylor."

Young Dave boarded just across the street from the Old Doctor's house. In Dave's student clays Osteopathy was already firmly established in Kirksville, the main industry of the town, in fact, with two colleges flourishing. But he described the clays before that, back in

the 1880's when "The Old Doctor" was not recognized as a doctor at alL just a sort of ''screwball,'' a discredited medical man from Kansas whom people, even in rural Kirksville, crossed the street to avoid meeting.

He told how, almost overnight, the Old Doctor had won recognition and respect by setting the dislocated hip of a daughter of the most prominent clergyman in town, how the minister came home to find his little girl "cured,'' how the minister included Dr. Still in his formal prayer in church the next morning, and how, after that, all America began beating a path to the little cabin in the Missouri mud, to see the eccentric old man who carried a handcarved broomstick for a cane, never wore a necktie, but sported a grateful millionaire's gift-a diamond at his throat that stood out like the Wabash locomotive headlight when he marched along the street.

Dr. Pennock's story made a dramatic climax to the Founders Dav Graduate Education courses, a to the fundamental motive power of the whole curriculum of progressive and sound scientific application of the Old Doctor's fundamental principle. Here's the schedule, as it played across the boards in P.C.O. Auditorium:

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1952

9 :00 A.M.-Early Detection and Treatment of Rheumatic Fever-William S. Spaeth, '25.

9:30 A.M.-Management of Common Shoulder Lesions-Angus G. Cathie. '31.

10 :00 A.M.-Standardization of Manipulative Therapy-Da-vid Heilig. '44.

10:30 A.M.-Abdominal Symptoms of Renal and Ureteric Origin-Paul T. Lloyd. '23.

11 :00 Recognition of Metastatic Lesions of the Spine-] ames M. Eaton, '28.

11 :30 A M.-Recogi1ition of Common Skin Diseases-Visual Demonstration-Edwin H. Cressman, '26.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1952

9 :00 A.M.-Early Recognition of Cancer of the Lungf. Ernest Leuzinger. '24.

9 :20 A.M.-Early Recognition of Cancer of the StomachArthur JVJ. Flaclc, Jr., '33.

9 :40 A.:VL-Early Recognition of Cancer of the Colon-Galen S. Young. '35.

10:00 A.M.-Common Gynecological Problems-H. Walter Evans, '17.

10:30 A.:VL-Management of Congestive Heart FailureVictor R. Fisher, '36.

11 :00 A.M.-The Physician Patient Approach to Psychiatric Consultation-Frederick A. Long, '24.

11 :30 A.M.-Practical Application of the A. T. Still Philosophy of Therapy -D. S. B. Pennock, A.S.O. '01.

Though only 67 physicians registered in advance for the two-day courses, the attendance was near the 100 mark at most of the sessions. The prize for most in line travelling the longest trail went to Dr. Ernest L. Woods, '34. Worcester, Mass.

From Connecticut came Dr. Thomas J. Ryan, '09, Waterbury, and Dr. C. Tyler Holbrook, '32, East Haven. and from Long Island. Dr. Thaddeus B. Ernest, '38, Jackson Heights, and Dr. Ormond deForest Seibert, '38, Baldwin.

Delaware was represented by Dr. J. T. Sikorski. '31, Dr. Paul Sharkey. '36, Dr. A. J. McKelvie, '31, all of \iV ilmi ngton.

Dr. Pennock {right) and Mrs. Pennock at Charity Ball with their guests, Mr. and Mrs. K. J. Huttlinger.

New Jersey sent a sizable delegation, including Dr. A. Karl Friedman, '43, Camden; Dr. Elton C. Albeck, '36, Collingswood; Dr. Marion Ortlieb Gross, '29, Haddon Heights; Dr. W. Irvin Atkinson, '28, Millville; Dr. William C. Bugbee, '24, Montclair; Dr. William A. Pohlig, '34, Paulsboro; Dr. John G. Sauter, '45, Pennsauken; Dr. Linford Hoffman, '32, Pitman; Dr. Robert H. Powell, '35. Pitman; Dr. Ray N. Porzio, '44, Wanarnassa.

Bulk of the classes, of course, were Philadelphians: Dr. Bernard M. Alper, '48; Dr. Eleanor E. Baal, '38; Dr. Mitchell Brodkin, '36; Dr. ]. Calder. '42; Dr. H. E. D'Alonzo, '51; Dr. Andrew D. DeMasi, '47; Dr. Stanley Dorman, '42: Dr. Martin E. Farber, '44; Dr. George A. Gercke, '14; Dr. Helen E. Jenkins, '37; Drs. Anne, '28, and Ernest Johnson, '25 ; Dr. M. C. Kaplan, '36; Dr. Leon Adam Kowalski, '36; Dr. L. Lancey, '24; Dr. Mary H. Leiby. '25; Dr. Philip M. Lessig. '36: Dr. Irma M. Minch, '28; Dr. S. H. Rubinstein, '50 ; Dr. John H. Schall, '44; Dr. Lewis A. Selisker, '34; Dr. James H. Spiro, '51; Dr. Joanna F. Stimson, '24; Dr. C. Landis Treichler; Dr. Hubert A. Wagner, '41; Dr. Leonard Wallner, '49; Dr. Meyer B. Winokur, '39.

From Suburban Philadelphia came Dr. Thomas C. Satterthwaite, Jr., '43, of Ambler; Dr. Herbert Fischer, '23, Ardmore ; Dr. Loretta McGrenra, '25, Ardsley; Dr. Margaret L. Anderson, '27, Bryn Mawr; Dr. Ervin Barr, '50, Glenolden; Dr. Florenz S. Smith, '32, Glenside; Dr. H. W. Fairlie, '39, Hatboro; Dr. William Gillespie, '49, and Dr. Kermit H. Lyman, '40, of Havertown; Dr. Marion E. Futer, '23, Lansdowne; Dr. Donald E. Clark '51. Newtown Square, and Dr. Joseph Edward Giletto, '47, of Yeadon.

From up-state Pennsylvania communities came: Dr. Rodney Chase, '44, Bethlehem; Dr. George L. Lewis, '24. Catasauqua; Dr. Marcella E. Deprez ; Lancaster; Dr. A. D. Eberly, '29, Lancaster; Dr. Robert H. Abbott, '40. Muncy; Dr. Ellis H. Metford, '27. New Holland; Dr. David Rothman, '33. Oxford; Dr. A. E. Amadio, '46, Tidioute; Dr. Laurence W. Brown, '39, Troy; and Dr. Joseph H. Stewart, Jr., '43, Waynesburg.

Osteopathic Progress Note

Old Doctor Still never went to college. Thirty years ago your high school diploma was your ticket to the P.C.O. freshman class. Today 74 of P.C.O.'s 97 freshmen have college degrees and among the applicants for enrollment next September are two Harvard men and one from Yale.

Dalrymple Day

"Dalrymple Day'' at P.C.O. is a fixed feast for the student body every year. Every winter the Sage of Little Rock, Dr. Clyde W. Dalrymple, Des MoinesStill College, Class of 1929, puts into port at 48th and Spruce and the technique-minded undergrads flock round his husky shoulders while he lines up the facets and directs their thinkin" along structural-functional hour after hour, and, this year, clay after day, for four days.

As a living testimony to the virility of the Osteopathic Concept, the Dalrymple Days and evenings are always inspiring to young and old. As a stimulus to student interest in our own special basic science, the therapy of structural manipulation, Dr. Dalrymple's seminars are priceless.

Founders Day celebration this year was moved to February 1, in order to build up an Alumni Homecoming weekend in conjunction with the Graduate Education Department's two days' courses and the Charity Ball, Saturday night, February 2, but the traditional Founders Day elate, January 24. was celebrated in significant fashion by Dalrymple Demonstrations starting in the Auditorium and finishing in 211 well into the night.

Two officers of the New York Academy of Osteopathy jumped a train and joined the Dalrymple Clinic for the evening, President Dr. William 0. Kingsbury, '26, of New York City, and Treasurer Dr. William B. Vvest, Port Chester, New York. They stayed overnight for a session next clay with our Anatomy department head, Dr. Angus G. Cathie, '31, so that although Founders Day was celebrated a vveek later, the spirit of the Founding Fathers was alive and busy in our College right there that night on the traditional elate to carry on the basic urge into the ranks of our physicians of the future.

Personalities

'21-Dr. William E. Brandt, Administrator of P.C.O., was elected VicePresident of the Philadelphhia Chapter of the American Public Relations AssoCJatron. For ten years Dr. Brandt served as Public Relations Manager of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, with offices in Radio City, New York.

'32-Dr. Eugene ]. Casey, Binghamton. K. Y., member of the P.C.O. Board of Trustees, missed the Founders Day week-end ceremonies, studies and festivities by reason of a fire which damaged his homestead severely but fortunately with no loss of life or serious injury to the family.

Fifth

Annual Academy Prize Contest

The Academy of Applied Osteopathy will award three cash prizes, $100. $75, and $50 for the three best papers submitted by any Junior or Senior student of Osteopathy on the subject: ''The Role of the Osteopathic Lesion in Acute Infectious Diseases."

Rules of the Contest

1. Any Senior or Junior student in any recognized Osteopathic College may enter the contest.

2. Papers must not be more than 2500 words, typewritten double-space, and on one side of paper only.

3. Three judges will make the awards. giving major consideration to clarity of statement and logical applicatiot1 of Osteopathic principles. Credit is also given for general presentation and supportive bibliography.

4. Winners in this Contest mav elect to receive a credit instead C:f cash in the amount of the prize, plus 50% of their winnings, to be applied to any Graduate Instruction Course given by the Academy of Applied Osteopathy within five vears from the close of the Contest. '

5. Three copies must be submitted to the Chairman of the Publication Committee, Dr. Thomas L. Northup, Altamont Court Apts., Morristown, N. J., before April 1, 1952.

P.C.O.atN.Y.Academy

When President Dr. ·william 0. Kingsbury, '26, assembled the N. Y. Academy of Osteopathy in the Hansen Blue Room at the Waldorf-Astoria January 19 he presented a solid morning of P.C.O. lecturers and two in the afternoon.

Lead-off man was Dr. Floyd E. Dunn, '36, Kansas City, "Altered Cervical and Thoracic Vertebral Mechanics in Psychiatric Disorders," then Dr. C. Paul Synder, '10, member of P.C.O. Board of Trustees, ''Fascial Planes Associated with Deafness, Tinnitus Aurium, Meniere's Disease, Asthma and Simulated Heart Disease," and the wind-up, Dr. ]. Marshall Haag, '34, of New York City, "A Moving X-ray of Vertebral Mechanics both Normal and Abnormal with Reflex Syndromes Therefrom that May Affect the Heart.''

After lunch, Dr. ]. E. Hughes, '37, Pearl River, N. Y., discussed "Etiological Factors of Migraine,'' "Types of Migraine," and Dr. Ferd C. Gettler. Richmond Hill, N. Y., presented "Etiological Factors of Migraine."

Charity Ball Rolls a Five for Roentgen

THE Tvvelfth Annual Charity Ball at the Broadwood HoteL Saturdav night, February 2nd, a climax for Founders Dav week-end with 674 diners and in party togs paying tabs that poured a net of about $5,000 into the fund for X-ray equipment at the new North Center Hospital.

Head Coach Harry Binder and his platoon-committees. pretty much out of breath after six weeks' intensive scrimmaging, took bows and handshakes from all directions for the wellearned triumph. As if vibrating in unison with what was going on downtown, the census at North Center that same date hit a new high for the period since Osteopathy took over.

Dr. Floyd F. Peckham, President of the American Osteopathic Association, and Dr. C. Robert Starks, of Denver. former A.O.A. President, presently Chairman of the A.O.A. Osteopath;c Progress Fund Committee, graced the occasion with their presence. Most of the out-of-town members of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy Board of Trustees, which held its Founders Dav meeting the night before. likewis-e donned dinner duds and joined the gay throng. notably Dr. Reed Speer, Pittsburgh, President of the P.C.O. Alumni Association, Dr. Eoy Hughes, Indiana, Pa., President-Elect, and Dr. Charles

W. Sauter, II, Gardner. Mass., Speaker of the A.O.A. House of Delegates. Dr. Dewaine Gednev. chairman of the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Association Legislative Committee. invited several prominent solons from the State capitaL and New Jersey's high legislative circles marshalled a similar arrav of public life figures under the aegis o.f :Dr. Guy 'lv. Merryman, Vice-President of the P.C.O. Board.

The most notable absentee was our top-man, Dr. Frederic H. Barth, Board President, who fought a great battle for two solid weeks with a stubborn attack of iritis, successfully licked the handicap by operating from a hospital room at 48th Street for two days during the visit of the A.O.A. Bureau of Colleges Inspection Committee. broke loose from his confinement to preside at Founders Dav and the Trustees' meeting, but finally. and without the use of anesthesia, was restrained from risking his tender optic where the light fantastic was tripping Saturday night. He hac! to miss it and everybody missed him.

The table-listings enrolled a pretty fair Who's Who in Osteopathy in Pennsylvania and New Jersey-everybody and his wife. The two State Presidents -Dr. George S. Gardner, A.S.O. '26, Spring Lake, for New Jersey, and Dr. Frederick E. Arble, '38. of Carrolltown, President of the Pennsylv:a Osteopathic

Association, flanked by his PresidentElect, Dr. John MeA. Ulrich, '27, Steelton. George Thomas, Executive Secretary of the P.O.A., was in the Keystone State legislative array, which included Representative Charles C. Smith, majority leader of the House, the guest of his old friend, Dr. Carlton Street, '23, Representative Joseph A. McGee, and Representative Morris Rosen, both of West Philadelphia.

Arthur E. Armitage, of our Board of Trustees, member of the New Jersey Commission on Education, and Mayor of Collingswood for about twenty years past, had with him Hon. M. F. V ani stendal, Collingswood Borough Commissioner. Dr. Elton C. Albeck. '36, Collingswood Health Officer, had as guest New Jersey State Senator Bruce \Vallace.

All the leading lights of the profession in Philadelphia and environs sparkled on the dance floor. Notables from lay circles included Cecil Fuerst. President of the Stephen Girard Lions Club, Guy E. Parsons, former Assistant Superintendent of Police, Don Fairbairn and John Cleary, Vice-President and Treasurer respectively of the American Public Relations Association, and enough others to fill a few more columns.

Everybody and his wife-in other words-had a wonderful time. (See pix.)

AT THE BALL

(Lelt to right) Dr. Floyd F. Peckham, President of the American Osteopathic Association, Dr. C. Robert Starks, Dr. Guy W. Merryman, Arthur E. Armitage, Dr. William E. Brandt.

A Report From The Secretary

pouNDERS DAY activities this vear were a little more elaborate thanoin previous years. Instead of the usual ceremonies on January 24th, the actual anniversary date, this year's festivities were held on Friday and Saturday, February 1st and 2nd. The program is published elsewhere so there is no need for repetition. However, as Secretary of the Alumni Association. I feel that this is a good time to report on the recent activities of the Alumni Board, at their meeting on February 2nd.

Dr. Reed Speer, '37, of Pittsburgh, became official President of the Association. Last summer Dr. Speer stepped in as "Acting President" from the office of President-Elect. Dr. Roy Hughes, '28, of Indiana, Pa., was elected President-Elect, to assume his presidential obligations next January. Dr. Galen S. Young, '35, of Philadelphia, and Dr. F. S. Lenz, '35, of Cranston, R. I., were elected 1st and 2nd Vice- Presidents. Dr. Arnold Melnick, '46, of Philadelphia was re-elected Treasurer, and the writer was re-elected as Secretary.

Three nominations were submitted for Directors-at-Large to the Alumni Board. two to be elected. These men are Drs. Henry George, '33, vVilmington, Del., Kenneth L. Wheeler, '34, Philadelphia, Pa., and George Northup. '39, of Morristown, N. J.

Regional Vice-Presidents were also nominated for various districts. Dr. Carl Cook, '27, of London, England. was again nominated to represent Foreign Countries. Dr. Charles Karibo '30. of Detroit. Mich.. and Dr. Oddo, '44, of Long Beach. Calif., were nominated for the Middle and Far Western areas. Dr. H. S. Liebert, '27, Richmond, Va., and Dr. Frank Hudgins, Jr., '36, Arlington, Va., were nominated for the Southern Society.

There will be one Regional VicePresident elected for each district. Balloting will be carried on by mail during the month of May by all alumni members in good standing.

Dr. Arnold Melnick. Treasurer, reported that as of January 31st, there is a balance in the bank of $1290.92. which is rather good, considering the loss on the Alumni Banquet in June. We expected a loss of $500.00 and this was included in the budget. The purpose of this was not to force us to raise the price of the banquet. However, in addition to this, we had 86 wives and girl friends of the senior class that were unexpectedly paid for by the alumni treasury, rather than by

ADVANCE NOTICE

Alumni Day

Saturday, June 7, 1952

Set the time aside now for another memorable Homecoming. Another Refresher Course in the morning, Banquet in the evening. New features for Alumni Dav this year-shorter entertainment. longer time for fellovvship; special emphasis on class reunions. The Class of 1917 will hold its 35th. Class of 1927 will have their 25th. All five-year classes will be feted and special prizes posted for most in line and longest collective distance travelled.

How about your class?

How about YOU?

Be seeing you.

the college, as in the past two years. Plans were discussed for a dinner to be held in Atlantic City at the time of the A.O.A. Convention in July. At this time we shall have a large booth and play host to the other five colleges. Details of Alumni Day in June will be coming out shortly, but plans have been formulated for Saturday, June 7th, with the banquet in the evening at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.

The Graduate School, now under the direction of Drs. vVilliam Daiber, '28, and Earl Riceman, '27, both of Philadelphia, is doing very well. Another refresher course will be held for the alumni on Saturday morning, June 7th.

The Assoc;ation has benefitted by the new office and secretary at the North Center Hospital. Here we have two rooms for the express purpose of mailing and publishing our bulletins. However, there are a lot more "Lost Sheep'' we want to return to the fold, through mailing address changes. etc. If you are not properly receiving your mail, the DIGEST or A.lumnews, or even more important. if you know of somebody that isn't receiving anything from us, please let us know immediately.

If you have any news pertaining to the Alumni Association or college, please let us have it. Many of our alumni are ''hiding their lights inside a speculum'' and should receive public recognition of some of their honors. We are also considering starting a column in the DIGEST or A.lumnews "Letters to the Editor." What would you like to get off your mind pertaining to the college or the association? We'll respect all confidences and names, and if it's printable we'll print it l

This report is a longer one than intended, but if we make a regular report each issue, the next ones will be shorter.

Respectfully, H. WILLARD STERRETT, JR., '44, D.O. Secretary

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI FROM OUT-OF-TOWN

In Charity Ball array (left to right) Dr. Reed Speer, '37, Pillsburgh, President of the Alumni Association, as well as AOA and PCO Trustee, Dr. Charles W. Sauter, II, '31, Gardner, Mass., PCO Trustee and Speaker of the AOA House of Delegates, and Dr. Roy Hughes, '28, Indiana, Pa., 'resident-elect of the Alumni Association.

PICNIC BASEBALL IN THE LONG AGO

Dr. J. Willis Galbreath, '03

Dr. J. ·willis Galbreath, '03, retired president of the 'vVest Norriton township Board of Commissioners, died Wednesday night at his home, Burnside Ave., Jeffersonville, near Norris town.

He also was active in Masonic circles in this city. Surviving are his wife, Rene Jarrett; four children, Jesse, of Whittier, Calif.; Ernest J ., of Norristown; Mrs. Herbert Kimber, of Trooper, Pa., and Mrs. Val Ahrens, of Jeffersonville, and a sister, ::'1/[rs. Finis Barnes, of Charleston, Ill.

Mrs. Ruth L. Post

;\;Irs. Ruth L. Post, of Darlington, Nid., widow of the Chairman of the Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia Board of Directors of 20 years ago, passed away February 5th.

Her late husband, A. P. Post, ''built" the hospital, in the sense that it was under his chairmanship that the financial drive was managed and the hospitalcollege building at 48th and Spruce was erected.

Dr. Alice M. Swift, '28

Dr. Alice M. Swift, '28, mother of Dr. Alice Aline Swift, '34, instructor in Radiology at P.C.O. and assistant radiologist on the O.H.P. staff, died February 12th. at her home in Lancaster. She was 74 years old and had been ill for about five years.

Dr. Swift was in active practice in Lancaster from the time of her graduation until her retirement in 1947. She was a member of the first Board of Directors of Lancaster Osteopathic Hospital and was a member of the staff. Besides her daughter on our collegehospital staff, Dr. Swift is survived by her husband, Dr. Ned L. Swift, A.S.O. '07, daughters Mrs. Lenore Batdorf and Mrs. Helen Crudden, Jr., and two sons, Dr. Elwood W., K.C.O.S., '41, and Royden M.

Newlyweds

'50-Dr. William E. A. Somerville, Jr., 165 East 124th St., New York, f\. Y., married Nina Bechtel December 15th in New York City.

Dr. Edward W. Patenaude, '51

Dr. Edward \V. Patenaude, of 1519 i\. Franklin St., Philadelphia, died February 2 at his home. He was 42.

Dr. Patenaude was a member of Ionic Lodge 94, F. & A. M.; Excelsior Consistory, and the Atlas Fraternity.

He is survived by his vvife, Annabelle H.; a sister, Mrs. Irene Mayer, and a brother, Eli, all of Philadelphia.

Services were held at 11 A.M. Wednesday at the Murray Funeral Home, 408 Cooper St., Camden. Burial was in Hillcrest Cemetery, Hurffville, N.J.

New Members

'43-To Dr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Satterthwaite, Jr.. 140 Butler Ave., Ambler, Pa., born a son, Alfred Lee, January 23, at the Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia.

'50-Born to Dr. and Mrs. Murray Schreiber, Admiral Apts., 48th and Locust Sts., Philadelphia, January 4, a son, David Hersh Schreiber, good prospect for Class of 1975.

Thirty years ago !he PCO baseball team had regular uniforms and played a lot of games against other college teams. This is just an informal game at a picnic. Standing. left to right. Dr. Edgar 0. Holden. '22. for many years our Dean. Dr. E. G. Drew. '11. Dr. Paul T. Lloyd. '23. Dr. D. S. B. Pennock. ASO '01. Dr. Francis J_ Smith. '17. Dr. Ralph L. Fischer. '21. Sealed. Dr. R. W. Evans. '23. Dr. Ernest Leuzinger. '24. Dr. Carl Newell. '19.

Send us YOUR contribution to our Old-Timers Gallery. This picnic pic was contributed by Dr. Alice Presbrey. '24. of New York City.

0. J. Snyder Memorial ddress

W. BALLENTINE HENLEY. L.L.D D.Sc., M.S.P.A.

President, College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, Los Angeles, Calif.

founder of the Osteopathic Profession and School of Medicine, had several things in common

First. their professional philosophy grew out of a personal experience. Every freshman in the Osteopathic College knows of Andrew Taylor Still's famous headache, of the Empty Swing rope, but more i1nportant-of how he dared to think about what happened. And. just as Thales. years ago, stood in the Nile Valley and vvatched Egyptians relocate boundary lines, and out of his reflection came the science of geometry, just so, out of Andrew Taylor Still's personal experience and later reflections, grew fundamental principles which he gradually formulated into a philosophy of therapeutics and a system of practice.

Dr. Snyder explains his presence in the Osteopathic profession by saying: "L like many others who have chosen Osteopathy as a life profession, did so as the result of a remarkable cure accomplished by the system of therapy in a near relative of mine, after eleven years of continuous experimentation with other doctors.

"In brief, a sister of mine was given normal sight after virtual blindness from what was diagnosed as 'atrophy of the optic nerve' and a dozen 'eye specialists' had doomed her to utter darkness. The Osteopathic physician determined the cause to be the starvation of the nerve of vision for the want of adequate blood supply.

It is, indeed, a privilege and an honor to be asked to cross the continent to participate in this celebration. Birthdays are always events of high moment in the lives of individuals and institutions. It is also an expression of inborn optimism in the human heart.

The only real pessimist that I remember reading about is Jonathan Swift, who is reported to have viewed his birth as a calamity, gone into seclusion and to have worn black all clay long. Most people, however, congratulate each other and themselves on their birthdays.

And so, the entire Osteopathic profession rejoices on this day-the Founders Day-of one of our great institutions of learning.

It is appropriate that on this occasion we consider the founders, their shadows and their dreams.

I should like to think with you, on this occasion, from three points of view-

First-The Nature of the Founders: Second-Our Heritage from the Founders: ancl Third-Our Obligation to the Founders.

Dr. Oscar John Snyder. founder of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy, and Dr. Andrew Taylor Still,

''I '''as at the time a special examiner of the U. S. Pension Bureau, and promised the Osteopathic physician in whose hands she was phced, that if her vision was restored, which he intimated was a possibility, I vvould resign my government commission and study Osteopathy. In two years her sight was completely restored, and today at 74, she reads without glasses.

"Hence, my entrance upon Osteopathic study I have now practiced Osteopathy for 43 years. If I had my life to liYe over again. knowing what I knovv novv, I should want, again, to be an Osteopathic doctor.''

It is my observation that the individuals who make the best Osteopathic physicians have had some personal experience or have had one within their immediate observation. If, in interviewing an applicant for entrance into the College, I discover that he has never had an Osteopathic treatment himself, never seen one given. has no member of his family uneler Osteopathic care, I have grave misgivings about the motives which bring him to our door.

Intelligent personal experience can be a vitaliz;ng factor in an individual's life. essential to achievement and lasting satisfaction. These two founders had conviction born out of experience.

The second quality which these two men had in common was that "Osteopath:,' was an end in itself." It was not a stepping-stone to some other station in life. In it they found full satisfaction. This spells happiness in any vocation or profession.

W. BALLENTINE HENLEY. L.L.D D.Sc.• M.S.P.A: President. College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons Los Angeles. Calif.

Mr. President, Members of the Board of Trustees, Members of the Faculty, Members of the Student Body and Friends of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy

As one reads the life of Andrew Taylor Still, one sees a man of profound insight-a simple man, as all great men are-but a man who was living his life to the fullest-who asked simple questions of life and then sought diligently to find the answers. He was not motivated by ambition for personal gain.

Members of the family tell the stories of how the ''Old Doctor'' never knew how much money he had, but ahvays wanted part of his money given to him in silver dollars. He vvould start out the day with a pocket full, and at night they would be gone, he having given tliem to people whom he thought might need them. His physical needs were few, because he lived in a world of ideas and a world of eternal values. He did not seek to create a school. He did not seek to promote. It just grew vvith the momentum of achievement and gathered around him in increasing power and glory.

This same quality was present in Oscar John Snyder, because in 1943 he could write the words I have quoted: "If I had my life to live over again, knowing what I now know, I should want to be an Osteopathic doctor."

Dr. Snyder's statement is like unto that of the Harvard professor who said that he was doing what he would gladly have paid Harvard for the privilege of doing, were he financially able to afford it That is the prescription of heaven on earth, and woe unto the man in this changing world who engages in an occupation, and particularly a profession, only as a "means." The individual who is engaged in work that brings its own tangible satisfaction, discovers at the end of a long life, that he has found heaven on earth.

These two great founders have this in common-their profession was no stepping-stone to an early retirement. It was not a means to glory. It was the thing they had to do.

And, the student of the present generation might well ask himself-"W ould I choose to be a doctor if it provided only the bare necessities of life?''

The example set before us of these two great founders is one of idealism in its most practical form. The announcement in the College Bulletin of this institution bears testimony to the influence of its founders, Doctors Oscar John Snyder and Mason W. Presley, and these philosophers have been maintained in the College in the Science and Osteopathic departments.

Dr. Snyder had ample preparation for the work that lay ahead of him. He had a bachelor's degree from an institution that later became George Washington University, and in 1896 received a Master of Science degree from the same institution. Subsequent to that, he obtained his Doctor of Osteopathy degree. It was the turn of the century. He was presiding over the school that was barely out of the inception stage, and remained identified with the institution which he founded first as President, and then served as Trustee until his death. But, like all founders, he was not confined simply to the college. He was concerned with the fate of the Alumni of his institution, and for the first nine years after the founding of the school, he served also as President and Founder of the

Pennsylvania Osteopathic Association. He was first Chairman of the new Pennsylvania State Board of Osteopathic Examiners, where he served from 1909 until 1930. He served many other posts with distinction and credit to himself and his institution.

Speaking of the family life of Dr. Snyder, Dr. Otterbein Dressler writes, "Throughout more than 43 years, to his death, this marriage vvas at once an example and inspiration to all who knew them. One needed to be in their presence only minutes, either publicly or privately, to observe that Oscar John Snyder had only tvvo objects of devotionOsteopathy and his family."

Both founders were creative. Both manifested qualities of courage and insight so greatly needed by the modern world. It is altogether fitting and proper that on Founders Day we review these characteristics, not in blind devotion, but with determined dedication, that we might inculcate them into our soul's sincere desire, and by so doing, be worthy of being called ''disciples'' or "followers-after,'' two great teachers who, for a few brief years, moved graciously and steadily along the ways of earth. Their memories and spirit will continue to inspire men to greater and nobler achievements.

And now, may we turn and consider a few of the characteristics of our inheritance from these jou11ders

The most important part of the heritage which we have received from the founders is that of the Osteopathic concept, centering around the structural integrity of the body and the relation of structure and function and how they both influence the circulation, and these, in turn, the ability of the body to resist disease and to maintain normalcy.

I, as a layman, would be presumptuous to belabor these points. They are known and beloved by every Osteopaththe statement of the founder that, "The rule of the artery is supreme," and the terse axiom of "find it, fix it, leave it alone." All these are a part of our subconscious heritage.

One of the finest and most succinct statements which I should like to incorporate, by reference, in my general remarks, are those made by that great Osteopathic physician-Dr. George W. Riley, in his participation in the 50th anniversary convocation of the Philadelphia college, and I call it to the attention of every freshman and sophomore who might not have had the opportunity to peruse his classic statement of January 24, 1949

Dr. Riley pointed out that "Osteopathy is that system of the healing arts which regards the structural integrity or normal adjustment of the mechanism of the body as the most important single factor in maintaining the organism in health. In other words, Osteopathy is based upon the recognition of the human body as a vital mechanism, a living machine which, given wholesome physical and mental environment, good food, proper exercise, pure air and pure water, will be healthy-that is, will function properly, so long as all the cells and parts of that vital mechanism are in normal adjustment."

He pointed out that: ''Osteopathic diagnosis has but one aim-to find the cause'' that "Osteopathic therapeutics has but one aim-to remove the cause," and that

DR. BARTH

··osteopathic prevention or prophylaxis comprises systemic examination for incipient lesions, and their correction before function becomes disordered."

vVhile Dr. Riley was expressing these sentiments, on the Pacific Coast-3000 miles away-another group of physicians were attempting to formulate what they called their interpretation of the basic concept of the Osteopathic principles. There, a committee of 30, under the leadership of Dr. \Ahlliam vV. W. Pritchard, after months of labor. discussion and debate, evolved the following principles:

I.

The human body may be likened to a machine or chemical combination. Like a machine, the body can function efficiently only when in proper adjustment, and vvhen its chemical needs are satisfied, either by food or medical substances. Important objectives in all treatment. therefore, are the establishment of the proper mechanical adjustment of the body and the satisfaction of its chemical needs.

II.

An adequate circulation is necessary for the health of a cell, an organ or the body. Arterial blood in sufficient quantity and of proper quality must be supplied to the cell, organ or body and appropriate drainage of venous blood and lymph must be maintained.

Without adequate circulation disease wilL sooner or later, ensue. Another important objective of all treatment is, therefore. the establishment of the most adequate circulation.

III.

The statement, "The body contains within itself the povver to cure all of its curable ills," is subject to certain qualifications, vvhich must be applied to the patient under consideration. Some of these are :

1. The body must be in the best mechanical adjustment possible.

2. The body must have the most adequate circulation possible.

3. The body must have available, from food or medication, the required chemicals for proper function.

4. The body must have a physiological reserve to affect the necessary compromise with its environment.

5. The body must be relieved of all impediments to proper function.

6. The body must be relieved of all socio-psychological impediments which must be recognized and dealt with as effectively as possible.

IV.

Mechanical adjustment is presumed to include the mobilization of the various joints of the body, the postural adjustment of weight bearing factors and establishment of adequate circulation. Manipulative technic is the intelligent use of all knowledge of the human body according to well established basic principles.

V.

Osteopathy considers the body as a whole. No single part can function properly without affecting, to some extent. the entire body. It is, therefore, of utmost importance that the entire body be examined and treated accordingly if health in the patient is to he achieved.

VI.

The human body. being thought of as like a machine, makes use of such mechanical devices as the lever, the pivot. the screw, the wedge and the fulcrum: all of these are employed in the application of Osteopathic manipulative procedures.

VII.

There are three general types of body structure: 1. The anatomical or normal 2. The slender or carnivorous 3. The stocky or herbiverous. Each type has its own inherent tendency to disease clue to its particular anatomical structure.

VIII.

Three important physiological pronouncements underlie the philosophy of Osteopathic principles of diagnosis and treatment. They are Head's Law, Hilton's Law and ·wolff's Law.

H cad's Law states that when a painful stimulus is applied to an area of low sensibility. in close central connection with an area of high sensibility, the sensation is felt in the area of high sensibility.

Hilton's La<(' states that the nerve supplying a joint also supplies the muscles which move the joint and the skin covering the articular insertions of those muscles.

T:V olff' s Law states that every change in the form and the function of a bone, or of its function alone, is followed by certain definite changes in its internal architecture and secondary changes in its external conformation. This has since been restated by physiologists to include all body tissues although the fasciae and ligaments are not greatly affected.

IX.

Detailed knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the autonomic nervous system is of prime importance to any physician. This holds true whether the treatment be chemical, physical (including manipulation and surgery), or psychological.

X.

Osteopathy is at present a minority school of medicine. Its chief claim to distinction lies in its emphasis upon the necessity for the best possible adjustment of the body and the recognition of the relationship between structure and function with the elimination of all factors which militate against the attainment of any or all of these objectives. Osteopathy may be thought of as a philosophy. The application of techniques in harmony with this philosophy may be considered the rational practice of medicine or the healing art. * * *

Another classic statement regarding our heritage from the founders was made by Dr. R. C. McCaughan, Executive Secretary of the American Osteopathic Association, in the Andrew Taylor Still Memorial Address of July 21, 1948, where, in discussing the principle of the structural integrity of the body says, "If the structure is abnormaL the whole body is, to some degree, unable to act in a physiologic manner. If every part of the structure is normal, if it is anatomically in proper relationship with every other part. the coordination and functioning arising from the structural integrity will allow the body to resist to its highest ability the assault to which environment may subject the body. The body will be in a state of health."

Again he says, "Still's idea of immunity has been incompletely understood. He never implied that even the structurally perfect body is entirely immune from outside attack by physical force, or by chemical toxins, or those of bacteriologic origin. He did believe, that, in just so far as we can maintain or restore structural integrity, to just that degree can we put the body at its optimum to resist assault upon its integrity. The structurally perfect body will resist bacteriologic invasion to the limit."

The great contribution which Andrew Taylor Still made was not to the collection of data or facts, but to the development of a new concept.

President Conant of Harvard has pointed out that the advances of science have been made not from the collection of new data, but from just such a development of a new concept. It was Eddington, Jean and Einstein's concept of time-space-energy and mass that climaxed, inevitably, into the threshhold of the atomic age.

Andrew Taylor Still presented the world with a concept that \vas to revolutionize man's thinking about himself. his environment, ancl the method of relating himself to that concept.

Part of our heritage of the founder is a collection of unsolved problems. At first reaction this may not seem complimentary, ancl yet, the recognition of the problem should be a cause for rejoicing. Difficulties arise from problems that are unrecognized. J olm Dewey said that all thinking starts with the recognition of a problem, and the "Olcl Doctor'' himself said, humbly. that all that he hacl done was to "take hold of the squirrel's tail," but that we >vould "have to pull the squirrel out."

To carry the Olcl Doctor's analogy still farther, those who have hac! any experience with squirrels know that sometimes when you pull the squirrel out you not only have the squirreL but the squirrel has you, ancl that presents one of the problems of Osteopathic education.

There has been much talk in recent years about integrating the Osteopathic concept in the College curriculum. As our curriculum expanded to encompass the ever-enlarging fields of basic science and clinical experience. inadvertently the Osteopathic concept had to struggle for survival. To be specific, most of the texts in the fields of obstetrics, internal medicine, orthopedics, neurology-in fact, the gamut of the fields, are written by medical men, with little or no sympathy for, and in some cases an antagonistic feeling toward, Osteopathy. This meant that in using these texts, it would be very easy for us to lose sight of Osteopathic principles. It called for a type of teacher who could take the orthodox text and interpret it in the light of Osteopathic principles and in the light of his own Osteopathic experiences. This has not been easy.

It was to have been expected, therefore, that for a time Osteopathic convictions would be weakened. Yet, we have lived through that period, primarily because old-school medicine has also lived through it, because out of the experiences of orthodox medicine has come a stream of literature. substantiating the Old Doctor in his early views -the papers of the Mayo's foundation-books, such as Goldthwaifs ''Body ::VIechanics''; Judavich and Bates "Pain Syndrome"; W. K. Livingston, M.D. "Pain Mechanisms"; Kessler's "Principles and Practices of Rehabilitation"; Morehouse and Miller, "Physiology of Exercise" ; Morehouse and Cooper ''Kinesiology"; ancl Krusen's "Physical Medicine ancl Rehabilitation for the Clinician.'' as well as countless other books. indicate that the orthodox medical school has not been blind to the achievements of the Osteopathic profession. The problem presented is to take the experiences of orthodox medicine, as expressed in the standard texts of the day--equate, evaluate and interpret them in the light of the basic Osteopathic principles.

Second, another problem growing out of the first-is the need for financial assistance. As one visits medical schools from Maine to California, from the Canadian to the Mexican border, one is impressed with their facilities. When Johns Hopkins started, 12 million dollars were made available to bring an institution into being. And, m my own community, the University of California

SENATOR DUFF, D.Sc.

is building the first unit of a 12 million dollar medical school. l\ o one has dared figure out what it will cost to maintain.

The medical institutions today are being supported not by the medical profession-they are being supported by the public, either through taxes or from gifts of grateful patients who wish to perpetuate the memory of a loved one. One smiles at the orthodox school opposition to federal subsidies to medical education on the basis that they want to be ''independent,'' and yet -tS of the medical schools, I am told, are supported by tax funds today.

The need and number one problem of the Osteopathic profession is to awaken in the heart of the Osteopathic profession a sense of pride in its accomplishments, to the end that members of the profession will talk about the Osteopathic schools and about the Osteopathic program to their friends and to their patients, who in turn, out of their gratitude for the care they have received from the profession, will build lasting monuments in the form of educational institutions and hospitals. But. it will not come until the Osteopathic profession sincerely desires it.

And yet another problem is the integration of the Osteopathic concept into hospital care. The colleges can teach the finest course in Osteopathy the world has ever seen, and it can be lost in a single year of hospital experience. When the specialist ignores Osteopathic diagnosis, and does not himself give Osteopathic care. by inference he is telling the student that it is unimportant. He is also weakening his own status \vith the public. because the public comes to an Osteopathic physician because it feels that it is going to get a different type of professional care and treatment. Osteopathic prescriptions must be specific and carry the same degree of accuracy as any other prescriptive procedure.

To meet these demands. we again called upon Dr. Pritchard, and through the last fe''' years he has evolved

what are known as the "standing orders for the Department of Osteopathic manipulation for the Los Angeles County Osteopathic Hospital." These orders provide for specific Osteopathic care in cases of anterior poliomyelitis, diabetes mellitus, pneumonia, influenza, post-operative care of various types, obstetrical care, tuberculosis, and many others. It is a step in the right direction.

The next and the last problem to which I shall allude, is the continual improvement of the type of applicants to our Osteopathic colleges. The profession cannot rise above the quality of the Osteopathic student body, and if the profession would keep pace with the increasing and rising standards of the modern world, then the profession mmt be concerned with the intake of the Osteopathic institutions of higher learning. It means that the profession must accelerate its program of recruitment so that the colleges can refine their procedures of selection. This is every doctor's task and every doctor's privilege. The doctor who has not had some young person approach him timidly. but confidently, and ask, "Sir-how can I become a doctor like you ?"-the doctor who has not had that experience is a failure, regardless of how many Cadillacs he may have, or how much of the Blue Book of the community he has vvaiting in his office.

Briefly, then, what is our inheritance frorn the founders?

In general, it is a philosophy and system of techniques of therapy that in a little over half a century have made a terrific impact upon orthodox procedures, which have demonstrated their effectiveness to millions and millions of people.

Our inheritance is a profession-over 11 thousand physicians and surgeons practicing in all parts of the world. and specifically in the United States, working with full practice rights in a majority of the states. It is a school of medicine that is today recognized not only at the state level, but has been officially recognized by 22 pieces of federal legislation. This recognition by the public and by governmental agencies, true, was arrived at through political pressure-nevertheless, it is based upon the assumption of the validity of Osteopathic education.

Never before could these assumptions be as safely advanced as today. vV e now have six Osteopathic colleges, each one of them strong, with the finest group of Osteopathic students the world has ever seen.

The latest educational supplement of the A1nerican Osteopathic Association indicates, in figures compiled by the Bureau of Professional Education and Colleges, that we have a total of 1928 students, 93 per cent of whom have three or years of pre-professional training before being enrolled in an Osteopathic college and 70 per cent holding college degrees before enrolling in an Osteopathic college.

A conservative figure of the assets of our educational plants is over 11 million dollars. Our faculties are recruited from the leading universities of the nation. The preprofessional work of our stmlents is clone in the leading universities of the nation.

All this progress has been accomplished against mcessant opposition by the majority school of practice.

'vVe have today more than 350 Osteopathic hospitals for Osteopathic physicians. Today, as a minority group, \Ve are stronger than ever-strong in material possessionsstrong in purpose-strong in will-and strong in motivation to continue to serve the best interests not only of the profession, but also of the nation and of mankind.

The profession has a "jevYel of great price''-unrecognized by the public and too little appreciated by the professwn. Dr. Andrew Taylor Still talked much of returning the body to normalcy and of maintaining normal relationships. In other words, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still worked out not only a procedure of diagnosis, but also a therapy designed to keep people healthy. In this age. the whole field of public health is concerned vvith preventive medicine. Osteopathy has a contribution in this regard. It is a procedure whereby the normal may remain healthy. Its value to industry, its value to national defense, its value to happy living is incalculable. By virtue of Osteopathic care, people can be taught to see their doctor. not because they are ill, but because they wish to stay well. Osteopathy offers to the world a ''guard rail''-a "safety device" rather than an ''ambulance or a demolition squad."

Then. bringing it down specifically, to take stock of the Philadelphia college, itself, the monument of Dr. 0. ]. Snyder. No one doubts that the Philadelphia college is one of the strong institutions of the profession. It is viewed as the anchor of the profession on the Atlantic seaboard, just as the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons is the Vvest Coast anchor. The story of 50 years of development and growth of this institution epitomizes the spirit that has made America great.

From Arch Street to North Broad Street-Pine Street to Spring Garden Street-and finally, to the present structures at Spruce Street-and almost within comparatively speaking. a few hours, the College has reached across town and annexed a North Center Hospital, its biggest bed-capacity of all.

It is a long trail from that beginning to the College of today, where on the Board of Trustees can be found laymen of the calibre of President Barth, who devote themselves and their energies to its welfare. The laymen on the Board are but an example of the hosts of other friends of the profession who are willing to serve if we but ask them.

In addition to thes<e, there are a host of men and women who served on the faculty without compensation-who made contributions to the institution-who sacrificed, who toiled. and who believed, not only in their institution, but also in its future.

The Philadelphia College has a heritage of which it may well he proud-not only one which it holds in common with the rest of the Osteopathic profession, but also one that is distinctively its own. It today can boast of the largest number of teaching beds of any of the Osteopathic colleges. It can boast, potentially, of the largest fixed assets among our institutions. and it may well be proud of the number and calibre of its Alumni scattered throughout one of the most densely populated areas in the nation.

And, finally, what of our obligation to the founders?

Our first obligation is to be as courageous, as creative, as adventuresome as those who first dared to be Osteopathic physicians and surgeons. Ours is an obligation similar to that imposed upon the Athenian youth which, to paraphrase, would be ''to transmit this profession not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us."

We cannot ignore our environment, if vve vvish to survive. Adam is supposed to have said to Eve as they left the Garden of Eden, ''This is an age of transition.'' At times, there are those who \ovould have us believe that vve are experiencing nothing nevv-that all life has been a process of change. On second thought. however, I am sure that the fallacy of this statement is obvious. While life never stands still, never has a generation been called upon to make such radical and violent readjustments as the present generation.

In my own lifetime, for example, and I trust that my life is not too far over the halfway point, America has moved from the horse and buggy to jet propulsion and rocket transportation-from outside plumbing to elaborate networks of sanitation-from the slow and tedious method of transmitting information to almost instantaneous communication around the world-from a world where individuals and nations could isolate themselves from their fellows if they chose, to a world where individuals are forced, inevitably, to rub elbows with those in the farthermost corners of the planet. The training of the doctor and the scientist cannot ignore these facts, nor can the ethical assumptions that produced this civilization be permitted to go unnoticed. The scientist and the doctor must turn their attention to the field of humanity into the social sciences and the problems resulting fron1 the impact of modern scientific technology upon contemporary living.

The doctor and the student can no longer be permitted to ignore national and worlcl events. They must be at home in fields other than their own scientific specialties. In order to properly care for the patient, the doctor must understand what is going on in Korea, because the patient's son, or husband, or brother may be in Korea. Professional groups must engage in discussions of current events and world problems, as well as become obliged to carry on institutes and seminars in the relation of one human being with another. The importance of this was graphically demonstrated in Eva Lipp's book "Savage Symphony." There she tells the dramatic story of how the cultured people of the Rhine Valley laughed and even ignored the "little paperhanger of Berlin,., but the story relates of how gradually the scum rose to the top and strangled out the cultured people because they could not soil their hands with politics, nor could they attend meetings and make their ideas felt.

It is not enough that the doctor be a skilled man in his own field. but he must understand the devices and the methods by which he can interpret his problems and his procedures to the public, for as Le Bon predicted in his little book called "The Crowd" over 50 years ago, the age

into which we are about to enter will be known as the era of the crowd.

If we are to continue to develop as a free nation, it is imperative that the educated, the cultured, the scientifically trained men and women must be brought into an active support of the democratic way of life-not only by verbal commitments, but also by personal dedication, growing out of the conviction of the values undergirding that democratic vvay. They must be able not only to recognize the threats to freedom, but also be ready to defend freedoms that have been purchased through the sacrifice of the centuries and which can be lost in a single generation through selfishness or absorption in the unimportant. These threats come not from outside armies alone. They come from the attitudes of men. They gradually infiltrate the thinking of a society. No one sits in a more strategic position in this battle of ideas than the kindly, loving, understanding physician.

Much of this material is required in our preprofessional training, but the professional training, on the other hand, must not be permitted to ignore that this is our background, and that these values are continuing background to the educational program. By reference, by attitude and implication, the faculty must keep these values alive.

It is not enough that we train competent physicians, skilled in the techniques and devices made mandatory by modern science. We must never lose sight of the fact that man is not a machine, although he is "machinelike.'' There is a spiritual force at work in man, and the doctor who would be proficient in his calling must seek to understand it.

What I am trying to say is that in a world of science it is imperative that the doctor knows something about the threshhold upon vvhich man now stands to be able to sweep through the sky with the astronomer and prod the nature of matter with the physicist-to understand the universe itself. Never was there a period of history to equal this.

The doctor, more than anyone else, stands by the doorway of life, both at its beginning and at its end. It is natural that the patient and the public should expect from the doctor counselling of worth, demanding that the doctor be first a great and good man.

The whole development of the field of psychosomatic medicine has emphasized the importance of mind, of spirit. and of religion-the place of belief, of hope, of faith-yes, and of eternal love.

I hold before my own student body two great giants, and I call them to your attention this afternoon. One is the nature and the character of Andrew Taylor Still-an individual, a creative man, a teacher-who will some day be ranked alongside of Pasteur and other galaxy of immortals-whose simple love of life and truth led him to fundamentals and the fundamentals crystallized into a therapy.

The second is a man in the old school of medicine, who yet lives-one of the four great men of our generationnamely, Albert Schweitzer-who at the age of 30 had Europe at his feet-an internationally recognized authority

on Bach, an accomplished organist and an authority on the medieval pipe organ, who had written a book that shook the Church of England to its foundations, but who then said, "I've had all the fun to which a man is entitled, and now I wish to go to work.''

And so, at 30 he entered a medical school, and seven years later he emerged, ready to go into the missionary field. But, when the Paris Missionary Society did not like his brand of theology, he raised the funds to finance his own expedition into the Belgian Congo, and there, at Labarine, built a great hospitaL But, more important than that, out of it has come a stream of literature-as it were, the gleanings of his contemplation of life and what it is all about. In his volume on the ''Philosophy of Civilization," he points out that if society is to be saved. two things are essential :

First, the restoration of respect for the sanctity and the divinity of life itself, in all its forms, and

Second, a quickening in the consciousness of the mass mind of some understanding of the universe and how the individual fits into it.

It is submitted that these two objectives are worthy objectives for any aspiring doctor, for surely, if he has no reverence for life, of what avail are 8.11 his scientific techniques. Just as surely, if he has no appreciation of the universe, he will be bewildered by the magnitude of the facts that are gathering around us and confused by his own apparent insignificance.

If, however, he has "thought his vvay through his religious beliefs'' and has found a God, as surely he can find, that is scientifically sound, he will have the inner balance and the inner poise, enabling him to steer an even course through the tempests of life. For, as Robert Bridges put it in his ''Testament of Beauty''-"our stability is but balanced-the masterful administration of the unforeseen.''

The world needs not only competent Osteopathic physicians and surgeons, but also it needs today a brand of Osteopathic physician and surgeon who is dedicated and deYotecl to the Most High, and out of that devotion and love of God, there inevitably emerges a love of mankind, producing a gentleness, a sweetness, which becomes a therapeutic balm to the suffering and to the ilL We dream of sending young men out into the world conscious of their own divinity and that of their patients--conscious of their eternal purpose-of their part in the scheme of the universe, who will be beloved by their communities, and whose very presence will inspire health and hope and happiness. People will then say, "From whence corne these men?" For, it was said, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and all other things will be added unto you."

And, as a profession, those words mean much to us today. If we go out into the world. seeking to lose ourselves in service, wherever vve are needed, as surely as the night follows clay, we shall be found-we shall be saved.

In talking with those who love this school, I have gathered their dreams together and I see the following picture slowly evolving

First, a further increase in plant facilities, making provision for larger and better libraries, laboratories and lecture halls-but more than that, for a full time bask science and clinical faculty-men whose primary concern will be the preparation of the generations yet to come as well as the care for the patients in their clinics and hospitals individuals who are, truly, the servants of the profession.

There are those who dream of building here a great diagnostic center, rivaling the prestige of our cousins in the medical profession with their great clinics at Rochester and at Baltimore. A great diagnostic center where every practicing Osteopathic physician and surgeon in the eastern United States may well feel tliat he has a silent partner, with standby equipment and know-how skill, ready to assist him in times of emergency-a place to which he can refer patients with baffling problems, knowing that the case will be worked up, the diagnosis returned to him for care or carried through according to the wishes of the patient and the referring doctor.

They dream of a great graduate school where doctors may come for intensive training periods, either to refresh their knowledge or to explore new techniques-where briefly they can glean the advances of recent years advances made by the clinicians and the researchers in the laboratories.

There are those who also dream that similar to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which was primarily designed to train engineers, but in the process research men and great scientists were recruited, which made it possible for them to develop a great research center where men go to receive their Ph.D. degrees in the basic sciences -just so there are those who dream that at Philadelphia the accomplishment of the immediate goal of better trained doctors, scientists of international renown will be attracted to the faculty, who in turn will attract science students.

It is not too much to expect that the day may come when individuals will be coming here to receive their Ph.D. degrees in the biological sciences, that it will rank alongside of the Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the physical sciences.

These are the dreams of many. It is important, how-

ever, that these dreams be discussed-that they smolder and that they kindle enthusiasm and burst into flames in the minds, hearts and souls of the children of the Philadelphia college. When, with one accord, these dreams are accepted and believed-and when they are the sincere desire of at least half of the alumni of the institution-nothing can stop their realization.

We thrill at the initative, the sacrifice, the devotion of Andrew Taylor Still and Oscar John Snyder, whose shadows have stretched clear around the world, but if we are worthy of the heritage they have bequeathed us, we must extend our institutions and our dreams into the future, realizing that no institution can exceed the expectation of its alumni. It is a responsibility that each must shoulder for himself.

It is, therefore, appropriate that on this Founders Day we reiterate an old American toast-"Hats off to the pastcoats off to the future." Though we are but a minority school of practice, we are rich in memories, for great men have walked among us, and pointed out the distant mountain ranges, through which trails must be blazed to the greater plains beyond. We have a heritage, the magnificance and importance of which is difficult for us adequately to appraise. We have a responsibility calling upon our reserve strength, demanding our untiring devotion to the course to which we have set ourselves.

It is a great era of man's history in which to be alive. A whole new civilization is in the process of being born, and we as a minority group, with the proper motivation and dedication, can become a constructive leaven. We can breathe into the bewildered, and at times confused, contemporary mass man, the hope and the aspiration that we feel, and by example and teaching, inspire him to believe and to know that he is more than the clod of earth out of which his soul emerged-that he is something unique in the time-space plane of reference-a point of consciousness with expanding horizons, whose ultimate goal is infinity-a union of God and man.

As one of the poets has put it, "Admire heroes, if thou wilt, but only admire, and thou remainest a fool. Commit thy ways unto God and dare to act. and thou, too, shall be a hero."

Hon. Frederic D. Garman Presents Senator Duff

To Dr. Barth for Degree of Doctor of Science

PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY Graduate Course

48th and SPRUCE STREETS PHILADELPHIA 39

Offers

Basic and Advanced Courses m

Osteopathic Cranial Therapy March 10-15, 1952

LECTURES SLIDES DISCUSSIONS ANATOMICAL LABORATORY DEMONSTRATIONS TECHNICAL and CLINICAL TECHNIQUE

The Basic Course includes osteopathic cranial principles, the study of anatomy and physiology as related to these principles.

The Advanced Course , in addition to continuation of cranial principles, includes brain dissection, laboratory demonstrations and advanced technique with correlation of spinal and cranial technique.

Emphasis will be placed on the use of cranial technique in general practice. Class Limited please make application early.

Tuition $150.00 $50 with application

Make application to office of the Dean : Philadelphia College of Osteopathy 48th and Spruce Streets Philadelphia 39, Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY GRADUATE COURSE IN CRANIAL THERAPY

March 10-15, 1952 APPLICATION

Name Dr.

Education: High School College No. of Years Degrees Osteopathic College Year of Graduation What Cranial work have you pursued to date? $50.00 deposit required with application. Signature