1943 City College of New York Microcosm Jonas Salk, journalist David Schoenbrun for Sale

1943 City College of New York Microcosm Jonas Salk, journalist David Schoenbrun For Sale

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1943 City College of New York Microcosm Jonas Salk, journalist David Schoenbrun:
$25.50

This is a 1934 City College of New York Microcosm yearbook, with graduation photos of notables Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the Salk polio vaccine and journalist David Schoenbrun, who was the first television correspondent to report from North Vietnam in 1967. Schoenbrun signed and dated the yearbook next to his graduation photo. The yearbook is in very good condition with no binding issues and no missing or torn pages.The book is dedicated to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and the mayor\'s photo appears in the first few pages.I have included the brochure from the 50th anniversary reunion of the class of 1934 held on May 23, 1984 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City..Notables pictured include Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the Salk polio vaccine and David Franz Schoenbrun,who signed an insert to the book as well as at his graduation photo in the book. I am including both of these with the yearbook.Jonas Salk (born October 28, 1914) was the Founding Director of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Adjunct Professor at the University of California. He taught at the Universities of Pittsburgh, Michigan, and NYU. He received the Presidential Citation, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal in the United States and awards from many foreign countries. He held an M.D. from the NYU College of Medicine, 1939. He stood out from other medical students because he did not want to see patients but wanted to be a medical researcher. He died June 23, 1995, in La Jolla, California.
David Franz Schoenbrun (born March 15, 1915) reported about national and world affairs for more than three decades. He was the first commentator for the Voice of America after the Pearl Harbor attack. He served as Intelligence Officer for General Eisenhower in North Africa and Europe, Chief Correspondent for CBS News in New York, Paris, and Washington for almost twenty years. He died of a heart attack on May 23, 1988 in New York City, New York.
The book: The book is 10 16/18\" tall and 8\" wide. Covers are navy blue cloth covers over boards. The front cover states, \"MICROCOSM 1934\" in silver letters and City College of New York beneath. There are 274 pages. The signatures of yearbook owner William I. Glass (pictured and member of Phi Beta Kappa) and journalist David F. Schoenbrun are in the book.