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The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) is an independent association supporting and inspiring future physicians to reshape medicine. Founded in 1950, AMSA strives to provide medical students an opportunity to participate in organized medicine. AMSA has served more than 50 years in transforming medical education for aspiring physicians. Today, AMSA continues to develop innovative ways to improve health care and medical education. The illustration used here is the logo of AMSA used from 1975 to 2009.

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The American Medical Association was founded in 1847 on the premise of promoting public health by representing both physicians and patients. The Code of Medical Ethics lays out the core values of the medical profession and was adopted at the organization’s founding meeting in the same year. The AMA helped to represent the American public against Nazi doctors during the Nuremberg Trials. They are also responsible for making annual physical checkups mainstream, having introduced the idea in 1922 to promote public health.

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Dr. Jerry Schenken (1933-2001) was the Republican candidate for the 1988 election to the United States House of Representatives for Nebraska’s Second District. Dr. Schenken was narrowly defeated by the Democratic candidate, Peter Hoagland.

Dr. Schenken did not run for political office again, but he did stay active in the political realm serving as Nebraska State Republican Party Chairman from 1991 -1995. His impressive medical career spanned more than 35 years of clinical pathology, instructor of pathology, and Director of Pathology at Nebraska Methodist Hospital, and at Children's Hospital where he served until his death in 2001.

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Richard Joseph Lyons was a republican politician born in 1895 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up going to through the Chicago public school system. After graduation, he went to John Marshall Law School, also in Chicago. During his campaign for governor, he ran against the incumbent, Dwight H. Green, for the Republican nomination. He did not win. In 1938 and 1944, Lyons ran against senator Scott W. Lucas, he lost both times. Lyons was on the Illinois House of Representatives from 1929-1939, then on The Illinois Tax Commission from 1941-1943. During this time, he was also on the Mundelein (Illinois) Village Board. Lyons was also deputy director of the Illinois Department of Revenue from 1943-1949 and the director of the Illinois Department of Revenue from 1953 to 1959. Lyons was married to Mary Blache Mitchell and lived in Libertyville, Illinois.

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The expression on this button is a variation of the "Hang in there, Baby" catchphrase featured on a motivational poster designed by photographer Victor Baldwin in 1971. Many versions of the poster were made, mostly featuring a photograph of a cat hanging from a stick, branch, or other object that it attempted to climb or jump on to. Victor Baldwin owned a portrait studio in California and though he photographed many celebrities, his first love was animal photography. 

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Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr (H.H.H.) served as the 38th Vice President under President Lyndon B. Johnson, from 1965 to 1969. Humphrey began the 1968 presidential campaign as Johnson’s running mate, but when it appeared that primary would not end in Johnson’s favor, Humphrey challenged Johnson for the Democratic ticket. Humphrey won the nomination however, President Nixon eventually won the general election.

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When the University of Southern California opened in 1880 in downtown Los Angeles, it taught 53 students with a faculty size of 10. Today, the school has 49,500 students in undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. In 2022, the school acceptance rate was 12.5% and the Wall Street Journal ranked the it the 19th best university in the country. USC has a long-standing history of athletic prowess. Since sending its first Olympic athlete, Emil Breitkreutz, to the 1904 Summer Olympics, USC has produced more Olympic athletes than any other university in the country.

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Douglas Corrigan was a notorious aviator made famous for his “mistaken” flight from Brooklyn to Dublin Ireland in 1938 for which he was later dubbed “Wrong-Way Corrigan.”  Corrigan had filed a flight plan from New York to California, and claimed when he landed in Ireland sometime later that he had gotten lost in the fog.  It is believed that Corrigan became increasingly frustrated with aviation authorities who continually denied requests for such a flight because they deemed his 1929 Curtiss-Robin monoplane unworthy of the trip. They were not too far off the mark.  During the flight, the fuel began to leak at such an alarming rate, that Corrigan had to use a screwdriver to punch a hole in the cockpit floor so the fuel would drain. 

As a result of the wrong-way flight, Corrigan’s pilot license was suspended, but only briefly.  Tales of his exploits became front page news and upon his return to America, Corrigan was treated to a ticker tape parade in New York more extravagant than the one given for Lindbergh after his 1927 trans-Atlantic flight.  Lindbergh was a source of inspiration for Corrigan, and in fact Corrigan helped build the Spirit of St. Louis and pulled the chucks away from the wheels for Lindbergh’s famous flight.

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