Life Revisited

In 1950, LIFE magazine came to Ann Arbor to chronicle the study of medicine in America by profiling the academic and personal lives of the four classes of the University of Michigan Medical School. Famed photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt contributed the black and white images, including the one at the top of this page of Tom Peterson and fellow medical students during a break in their studies. Back in Ann Arbor for Reunion 2003, Peterson and other members of that class, the last of the LIFE classes to graduate, recreated the card-playing scene at a Saturday evening emeritus dinner at the home of Dick Kraft and his wife, Jean.

Tom Peterson (holding cards) and fellow medical students in 1950. Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE magazine © Time Inc. Members of the Class of 1953: Ralph Straffon, David J. Horning, Carl T. Rauch, Barry Breakey, Tom Peterson and Edmund Andrews, in 2003. Photo: D.C. Goings

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