ABSTRACT
Davidge Hall is an historic building at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. It contains two amphitheaters, an anatomical hall, and a chemical hall. Two hundred years ago, an underground passageway was constructed to smuggle bodies into the medical school at night for dissection. On a bright September day in 1946, at this building’s entrance, I met Joe Lichtenberg on our first day of medical school, where we also met Ernest Wolf. We were joined at the dissection table by Larry Demarest. Perhaps it was due to long exposure to formaldehyde rather than simple coincidence that three of us became psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, while Larry married a psychiatrist! Joe, Ernie, and I have remained close friends for 65 years.
