ambulance

Top, r ight: Ambulance for small animals outside the hospital in Philadelphia, 1909.

Bottom: Steven W Atwood Librar y and Infor mation Commons, Hill Pavilion; 2008 The librar y includes an electronic classroom with 16 workstations Bottom, r ight: The Animal Bloodmobile, which is used for canine blood dr ives organized by individuals, breeder s, dog clubs and veter inar ians In 2002 the school acquired an updated model (pictured here) Since the Penn Animal Blood Bank began in 1987, more than 6,000 dogs have par ticipated in the blood-donor prog ram Cur rently, close to 1,000 dogs are active donor s, making it the largest voluntar y canine blood-donor prog ram in the nation

Fir st companion animal teaching hospital in US

Dr. Leonard Pear son uses tuberculin testing to control bovine tuberculosis

Penn Vet holds fir st veter inar y continuing education conference for practitioner s

The fir st br ucellosis-free herd of cattle in the U S is established by Dr. Er nest C. Deubler, V’11 (pictured left)

The presence of avian influenza vir us in the U S is detected by Dr. Evan L. Stubbs, V’11 (pictured r ight)

Dr Stubbs beg ins ser ies of paper s on leukemia in chickens; his research with Dr Jacob Fur th leads to the isolation of a strain of avian leukemia vir us called Strain 13

Dr Alfred Kissileff , V’33, successfully produces a calf through ar tificial insemination, the fir st in Pennsylvania

Dr Otto Stader invents the “Stader Splint,” consisting of adjustable metal rod with steel pins at each end for inser tion in bone above and below fracture The splint eventually was adopted for treating fractures in human patients, including soldier s dur ing World War II

Dr Josephine Deubler, V’38, becomes the school’s fir st female g raduate

Dr David K Detweiler and Dr John T McGrath,V’43, beg in to develop their specialties in veter inar y cardiology and neuropathology, respectively

New Bolton Center becomes the school’s large-animal campus

Dean Mark Allam repor ts that in one decade the school’s research effor ts had g rown by 2,200 percent The increase was due to the ability of the f aculty to attract funds, and to the rear rangement of teaching responsibilities so that most basic science f aculty had one semester free for research With the g rowth of clinical f aculty, even more research time became available

The Georg ia and Philip Hofmann Research Center is established at New Bolton Center to conduct research on the reproductive systems of animals

Penn Vet receives a training g rant for the VMD-PhD Prog ram from the National Institutes of Health. In collaboration with the medical f aculty, the school trained the profession’s fir st full spectr um of clinical specialists as well as large number s of veter inar ian-scientists

Dr s Rober t Brodey and Lonny Rubin star t the veter inar y specialties of oncology and ophthalmology, respectively

Fir st veter inar y Section of Medical Genetics is established at Penn Vet

The school introduces a revolutionar y core-elective cur r iculum

The Comparative Cardiovascular Studies Unit, the Section of Medical Genetics, the Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society, the Center for Food Animal Health and Productivity, Aquavet (a prog ram in aquatic veter inar y medicine) and the Bovine Leukemia Research Center all firsts are created and well funded Many ser ve as multi-disciplinar y models emulated by other veter inar y schools

Dr. Jacques Jenny establishes the specialty of or thopaedic surger y in hor se development and use of a recover y pool for equine or thopaedic surger y, the fir st in the world, at New Bolton Center

The world’s fir st test-tube calf , Virg il, is bor n The research team is headed by Dr. Benjamin G. Brackett; this work has had significant impact on embr yo transfer in livestock production

The first transgenic animals are developed A team led by Dr s. Ralph Br inster, V’60, GR’64, HOM’66, and Richard Palmiter fuse elements of a gene that can be regulated by dietar y zinc to a rat g rowth-hor mone gene, and inject it into fertilized mouse embr yos. The resulting mice, when fed with extra zinc, g row to be huge, and the technique paves the way for a wave of genetic analysis using transgenic mice

The Inher ited Eye Disease Studies Institute is established by Dr. Gustavo Aguir re, C’66, V’68, GR’75

The Pennsylvania Animal Health and Diagnostic Commission establishes the Pennsylvania Animal Diagnostic Laborator y System at NBC to provide rapid and accurate diagnostic assistance to veter inar ians involved with food-fiber animals, equine, aquaculture and wildlife It protects animals and humans from health threats and minimizes economic loss by providing accurate diagnoses to assist Pennsylvania’s ag r icultural community in controlling disease

Dr. Mattie Hendr ick, V’78, provides the fir st link between vaccination and the development of fibrosarcomas in cats

Connelly Intensive Care Unit/Graham French Neonatal Section, the fir st building designed specifically for the care of cr itically ill large animals, opens at New Bolton Center

Fir st animal bloodmobile in the world enter s ser vice at Matthew J Ryan Veter inar y Hospital

Medical genetics researcher s develop fir st allele specific test for an inher ited disease in domestic animals

PennHIP, a new diagnostic procedure for canine hip dysplasia, is established by Dr. Gail Smith, V’74, GR’82, MTE’70 at the Matthew J. Ryan Veter inar y Hospital.

A team at NBC under the guidance of Dr. Jim Ferguson, V’81, HOM’95, develops the concept of systematic breeding of dair y cows in an integ rated prog ram, a novel strategy then that is the basis of many prog rams employed throughout the global dair y industr y today The Mar shak Dair y, the fir st g reenhouse-style dair y complex in Pennsylvania, is dedicated

The Mar i Lowe Center for Comparative Oncology Research is established The center acts as a f acilitator and works closely with other center s within the school and across campus to develop broad-based clinical oncology and interdisciplinar y cancer research and training prog rams

Gilber t S Kahn endows the fir st deanship in veter inar y medicine in the world

New swine f acility foster ing the latest human methods in swine rear ing opens at New Bolton Center

The Veter inar y Business Management Association beg ins as a stand-alone organization founded by three Penn Vet students

In collaboration with Cor nell Univer sity researcher s, Dr Aguir re ’ s team is the fir st to restore vision in a blind dog using gene therapy

Penn Vet pioneer s the introduction of genetically modified and in vitro g rown sper matogonial stem cells into the testis of a ster ile mouse The foreign gene introduced through the male ger m cells glows under ultraviolet light in the photog raph of transgenic mice. This technology will provide a type of biolog ical immor tality to males of many mammalian species

The univer sity launches the Institute for Regenerative Medicine housed at the school, a new cross-disciplinar y endeavor to investigate and har ness the therapeutic potential of stem cells in treatment of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, degenerative diseases, wound healing and ag ing Dr. John Gearhar t, who led a research team that fir st identified and isolated human embr yonic stem cells, is named director of the institute.

The Veter inar y Center for Infectious Diseases is established The center is committed to improving the health of animals through research on infectious diseases and is home to exper tise in virology, bacter iology, parasitology, immunology and epidemiology

Charles M Cullen

Hiram P Eves

Simon J J Harger

Richard W Hickman

Charles Lintz

Edgar Marlin

William B Montgomer y

John F Vanderg r ift

Richard G Webster

Charles Williams

By 1885, only 17 of Penn Vet’s fir st 29 matr iculants now in their second year of the three-year prog ram remained, a reduction mainly due to academic f ailures Dur ing their fir st year, the students lear ned chemistr y, phar macy, histology, applied botany, zoology, anatomy and forg ing. The second year br idged basic studies and the clinical work of the following year, and included new cour ses in medical chemistr y, inter nal pathology and contag ious diseases and practical f ar r ier y Thir teen students began their third year of work in therapeutics, general pathology and morbid anatomy, surg ical pathology and operative surger y, inter nal pathology and contag ious diseases, sanitar y police (hyg iene), obstetr ics and zootechnics Consider ing the lack of for mal education of most of the students, this was a difficult schedule; only 10 students stood in Penn Vet’s fir st g raduating class in 1887

Nicole Lynn Ballon

Laura Anne Bar th

Lisa Danielle Ber man-Booty

Megan Alexis Brace

Karen Suzanne Brockman

Tanya Lizzette Br uce-Seiple

Daniel James Burke

Linda Gwen Capewell

Justin Ar thur Carlson

Dana Rose Car ne

Tiff any Ann Catalino

Cara Leigh Catanese

Mar y Wendolyn Clark

Stephanie Lauren Cohen

Blair Irene Cor nman

Amanda Mar ie Donovan

Carly Diane Dorazio

Denae Robin-Bordeaux Er vin

Kr isten Er ika Fenster macher

Alexandra Elizabeth Fischer

Caleb Solomon Frankel

Shelby Lynn Freda

Jonathan Pr ime Gagnon

Aimee Kr isteen Gallardo

Lisa Mar ie Ger manis-Mar rama

William Francis Gilsenan

Kelly Lyn Giunta

Michelle Deena Har r is

Mar y Frances Heckscher

Jennifer Kr istie Heller

Charlotte Hollinger

Maureen Elizabeth Holowinski

Jay Elias Hreiz

Scott Evan Johnson

Elizabeth Ann Keehner

Sean Patr ick Kelly

Sher yl Ann Kepping

Jennie Ann Kim

Kay Kim

Emily Tidd Kimberly

Diana McGregor Knight

Jennifer Lynne Koehl

The 123rd Commencement Exercises of the School of Veter inar y Medicine were conducted May 19, 2008

The commencement address was g iven by Lisa Freeman, DVM, PhD, and the veter inar ian’s oath was administered by Rober t Feter man, V’90 president of the Pennsylvania Veter inar y Medical Association The Class of 2008 number s 105 and is composed of 85 women and 20 men With the Class of 2008, Penn Vet has g raduated 6,479 veter inar ians

Shalmalee Deepak Kotwal

Darcie Ann Kunder

Casey Lynch Kur tz

Cather ine Mar ie Kusiak

Ashley Lynn Leighton

Jordan Alexander Lewis

Clare Ber nadette Lochstoer

Ricardo José Loinaz

Chr istopher Michael Lopresto

Marcia Sahlmark MacMillan

Sarah Mallor y Malone

Karen Lynn Manhar t

Michelle Lynn Mannino

Amy Rachael Marks

Jennifer Robyn Mayer

Sheila Mar ie McGettigan

Kather ine Presley McKeown

Andrew William McManus

John Francis Meagher

Laura Ann Mitter man

Daniel Richard Mones

Michelle Joanne Mooney

Sher r y Lynne Moyer

Zachar y Abraham Myles

Kelly Anne Ng

Megan Lyndsey Nunemacher

Xuan Pan

Apr il Lin Powers

David Adam Rapopor t

Mar ia Pennypacker Raymond

Amanda Jane Reed

Rebecca Ann Rizol

Kathr yn Ar iel Rook

Jennifer Lynne Scheidt

Lor i Ann Schluth

Olivia Er in Schroeder

Staci Scolavino

Lesley Nell Shatkin

Tar yn Ann Sibley

Micha Candice Simons

Lisa Mar ie Singer

Kr istan Elizabeth Slotterback

Amberly Michelle Sokoloff

Rachel Leigh Somershoe

Sara Mar ie Sprowls

Matthew Lloyd Stock

Todd Ian Strochlic

Mar ia Syska

Er in Elizabeth Tennyson

Lindsay Blake Thalheim

Amanda Margaret Theodore

LeAndra Aisha Marcelle Thompson

Michelle Chr istine Trappler

Kathy Forker Tuhacek

Angharad Helena Knight Waite

Shoko Watanabe

Deirdre Frey Weissman

James Lawrence Widmann

Kevin Rober t Wray

Connie Yun Yeh

Megan Elizabeth Zeigler

Asya Zolotusky

From May 27 through May 30, 2008, an Introduction to

Offer s Made & Class Size

The most impor tant event affecting admissions in the last 20 year s has been the initiation of the Veter inar y Medical College Admissions Ser vice Established in 1996, it near ly doubled Penn Vet's applicant pool the ver y fir st year. We now have the lar gest applicant pool in more than 50 year s, enabling us to put together a ver y diver se student body both in culture and in veter inar y interest The aver age gr ade point aver age has not fallen below a 3 5 in the last decade and the Gr aduate Record Examination scores remain high Penn Vet’s Admissions Committee has focused on recognizing students who are tr uly interested in attending Penn Vet As a result, our acceptance r ate has increased enor mously

Gender Percentages

Women have steadily increased their number s in vet schools throughout the United States and Canada over the last 20 year s According to Jeanne Lofstedt, DVM, in “Gender and Veter inar y Medicine” (Can Vet J 44(7), July 2003), “Explanations that have been put forward for the feminization of the veter inar y profession include the following:

(1) elimination of discr imination at admission based on gender ;

(2) improvement in chemical restr aint for lar ge animals;

(3) an increase in the number of female role models, especially in physically challenging aspects of the profession; and

(4) the car ing image of veter inar ians por tr ayed in books and on television.”