Medical School’s 152nd Class Welcomed at Annual White
Coat Ceremony
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Photo: Gregory Fox
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A late-summer downpour did nothing to dampen the spirits of
incoming first-year medical students, their families and friends
at the University of Michigan’s sixth White Coat Ceremony
held last August at the Power Center in Ann Arbor. The 170 members
of the Class of 2005 donned their first white lab coats to mark
the beginning of their medical training. In welcoming the students
to Michigan’s medical community, Dean Allen S. Lichter
(M.D. 1972) told them they are “part of a long legacy and
rich tradition,” and that part of becoming a physician
at the U-M Medical School is taking responsibility for being
an alumnus/a of the institution. Dean Lichter acknowledged Detroit-area
attorney Karl Schettenhelm, trustee for the Norman Mette Foundation,
for the Foundation’s ongoing scholarship support, as well
as Robert Goldsmith, M.D., representing the Class of 1951 which
established a scholarship awarded this year for the first time.
The dean also acknowledged the faculty of the Department of
Pathology for endowing the Paul W. Gikas Scholarship in honor
of the pathology professor and former assistant dean of admissions.
The White Coat Ceremony is sponsored by the Medical School and
by the Medical Center Alumni Society, the School’s alumni/ae
organization.
 
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