white coat



			At the annual White Coat Ceremony, speaker Herb Karp, 51M (at far left, center) told medical students the white coat is "the first concrete sign of the next phase of your lives." Receiving their coats are (clockwise from upper right): Bilge Kalyon, Mark Garrett (the big guy), Hussein Turki and Brian Thoma, Bijal Shah, Bisrat Abraham, Jeff Rokofsky, and Kyle Rusthoven.

WHITE COAT CEREMONY There was standing room only at the annual White Coat Ceremony last October 13 for 114 first-year students. More than 600 parents, friends, and faculty attended the event, co-sponsored by the Medical Alumni Association. With September 11 such a recent memory, the talk by speaker Herb Karp, 51M (top right, center), titled “Things will never be the same,” assumed a special poignancy. He urged his listeners to resist the forces of change that tend to erase their individuality. The white coat, he said, “is the first concrete sign of the next phase of your lives. The task ahead of you is to make this sign a true symbol—of holding onto your past while taking hold of your future. May you as individuals and as a class grow from strength to strength.” (BACK TO TOP) Copyright © Emory University, 2004. All Rights Reserved