The 82nd Annual Galens Smoker

They learned muscles and vessels, and nerves and bones,
And proteins and acids and lipids and carbs,
And slides with stains and cultures of strains, And bugs and drugs and heme and derm, And hearts and lungs and kidneys and livers, And neuro and psych and endo and repro…
From "Joseph's Coat"

The 82nd annual Galens Smoker, Joseph and the Amaz-ing Monocolor White Coat, brought a return to the time-honored Smoker tradition of looking to Broadway for inspiration, with the performance borrowing from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's 1973 musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. In the program notes, the Smoker "czars," Craig Barkan, Pooja Mittal, Erik Bauer and Mandy Bauer, noted the theme: "While what goes around comes around, some ties, like those in your family — or with classmates — are stronger than even the all-too-human desire for revenge. We also learn that the seemingly unattainable can sometimes fall within our grasp: it is indeed possible for a Smoker to have a plot."

The production was presented to enthusiastic audiences on April 21 and 22 at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. The annual Silver Shovel Award, first conceived by J. Robert Willson, president of Galens in 1937, as a tribute to the popularity and teaching ability of radiologist Fred Jenner Hodges, was presented by last year's honoree, endocrinologist Robert Lash, to Andrew Flint. professor of pathology.