Freshmen Win Phonothon Contest
Thanksgiving Dinner for the Needy
"Ars Medicinae" Video Expected Soon
Sophomore Social: Time out for Dinner

Freshmen Win Phonothon Contest

The Class of 2000 provided 44 students to work the telephones during the Medical Alumni Association's annual Phonothon. As winners of the class contest, the volunteers and guests were invited to a reception, sponsored by the MAA. The event was held at Hightopps in Fells Point. The four-week fund-raising event netted more than $490,000 in pledges to the annual fund.

Miriam Mullen, Mariesa Hales, Joe Herman, Allison Bogert and Charles King.	Milad Pooran, Adam Gelrud, Katie Wex, Ceran Exelbert, Valerie Pate and Kelly Miller

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Thanksgiving Dinner for the Needy

Michael C. Lee, Susan Padrino, and Jayme Weiner, all second-year medical students, organized this year's Thanksgiving dinner at the Booker T. Washington Middle School.

For the seventh year, medical students of the University of Maryland organized a Thanksgiving dinner to feed West Baltimore's needy at the Booker T. Washington Middle School. More than 1,300 meals were served. The event was coordinated by second-year students Michael C. Lee, Susan Padrino and Jayme Weiner. In addition, the Asian Professional Students Association provided 250 bags of clothes through a clothing drive, and the American Medical Association's Medical Student Section ran a canned food drive. Medical students and a resident offered blood pressure screens and free advice to participants. Funding was provided by the Medical Alumni Association, area businesses, individuals, and groups at the School of Medicine, such as the Family Medicine Interest Group and the student National Medical Association.

"Ars Medicinae" Video Expected Soon

For a few days in January, Davidge Hall once again became an active venue for dissections and lectures for medical students of the 1800s. But this time, the teachers and students were actors. The Medical Alumni Association has commissioned Video Press to produce a video which traces the founding of the fifth-oldest medical school in the country and the opening of Davidge Hall, the oldest medical teaching facility in the country still in use today.

Dr. Abrams, left, prepares an actor portraying Professor Granville Pattison.

Susan Hannah Hadary, Dr. Abrams, who plays Dr. John Davidge, and Bill Whiteford prepare a set.

"We have an engaging story to tell," says Samuel Abrams, M.D. '54, chair of the MAA's Davidge Hall Committee. The video will carry a latin title, "Ars Medicinae," the Art of Medicine. Directors Susan Hannah Hadary and William Whiteford of Video Press, spent hundreds of hours researching and planning the production. The video will be available in spring.

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Sophomore Social: Time out for Dinner About 100 second-year students and faculty members took time out from their studies to enjoy a warm meal on a cold and wet January 9 evening, sponsored by the Medical Alumni Association. The annual event is designed to bring the class and their faculty guests together in an informal setting. The event was held at UMAB's Student Union.

At the Sophomore Social from left, Tom Horst, Amy Johnson and Catherine Nelson.

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