White Coat Ceremony

On 26 October 2007, Alice had her White Coat Ceremony at Temple University School of Medicine. You know, Alice has a connection to Temple, besides all of her friends who went to Temple, besides her Temple Rome semester. In fact, her great-grandmother's cousin taught there - Negley Teeters, who was a famous criminologist. He advocated for prison reform in Pennsylvania and probably visited the very prison that is near Alice's apartment (no longer a prison, but a historical site that is also a haunted house at Halloween). Alice, however, is not impressed with her Temple connection. I keep telling her that her family is full of advocates for the underdogs, fighters for social justice and so forth, but she just sighs.

Anyway, armed with this little bit of family history, we went to the White Coat Ceremony, at which time Alice was given her white coat by a physician attached to the medical school, in her case, the Dean himself, signifying her entrance into the world of medicine. She also took the Oath of Geneva as well. It was a moving ceremony, very profound.

Want to see a picture? Here she is, with her white coat. Now she can see patients...well, not treat and prescribe medicine, I imagine, but you know, stand around the patient's bed, with other medical students, and try to determine the ailment and then suggest proper treatments, that sort of thing.

We are just so proud of her, as you can tell.

Afterwards, we had dinner with her and Mike, her beau, at a restaurant down the street from her apartment.

Dinner was really fine, but the best part was watching Alice and Mike. They just seem to enjoy each other's company so much. I like Mike a lot and think Alice has very good taste.

So you see, it's been quite a busy and wonderful past few months.