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University Pre-Medical Society
Hears Netsley At Ceremony

Virginia Gamma of Alpha
Epsilon Delta, the International
Pre-Medical Honor Society, held
its annual initiation ceremony on
Sunday, October 22, in Jefferson
Hall.

Dr. Martin G. Netsley of the
Department of Neuropathology
of the University's medical
school delivered the keynote
address.

He gave a provocative account
of the changes medical school
curricula are currently undergoing
in response to the vast increases
in medical knowledge
which must be absorbed by
medical students.

Dr. Netsley concluded with
some comments on the far-reaching
changes which may be
expected in medicine in the coming
years.

The following students were
initiated into the society. Lawrence
Franklin Altaffer III,
Joseph John Braintwain Jr.,
Matthew Drayton Carson, Daniel
E. Casey, Louis Ward Close,
Richard Alan Creasy, Hugh
Donnelly, John Mark Evans, and
Richard E. Harris.

Also Robert Tyler Jackson,
Tom Alan Jefferson, Allan Lee
Kayne, Richard Powell Kealing,
Darryl Wayne Lawhorne, Martin
John Menges Jr., Jacob Price
Neathawk Jr., Stephen Thomas
Olin, Thomas Joseph Parsons,
John Douglas Paulson, Charles
F. Reynolds III, Norris Aaron
Lorenze Royston Jr.

Also John Newton Rust,
Michael Joel Schmerin, James
E. Sellman. John William Snoddy,
Raymond Charles Sweet,
Thomas Terry, Jesse Eldon
Thompson Jr., Thomas Frederick
Trostle, Charles Sanford Via,
John B. Willey, David Miller
Wise, Terry William Wood.
Arnold Jay Zedd.