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[Abbie Gottschall]

Very Respectfully,

Abbie Saccary
(912) 398-7674

“If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn’t thinking” - Lt. Gen. George Patton

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From: "Robert J. Visalli" <Visal...@mercer.edu>

Subject: RE: list serve

Date: March 22, 2017 at 2:50:26 PM EDT

To: Abbie Saccary <abbie....@gmail.com>

Perhaps you could send for me? Thanks Abbie.

 

Hello 4^th Year Class and soon to be Doctors,

Let me first apologize for not attending your Match Day.  I was in Louisville visiting my daughter but I was thinking about you the entire time.  Dr. K. Thompson was texting me during the reveal letting me know where many of you were going.  When I received the complete listing, I was impressed, in awe, smiling from cheek to cheek, and simply proud of the amazing success of your class.  Of course, I wasn’t surprised.  The two tutorial groups I had from your class where nothing short of fantastic.  Your class had many students with the rare combinations of drive, maturity, intelligence, caring and kindness.  I don’t know if students understand the connection faculty make with them.  We have you for a little while, and, in particular Phase A tutors, get very invested and close…..and then in no time you are at the hospital and then off to residencies.  I/We remember you though!  We talk about you – mostly good J…..and look forward to your future success.  Yes – we are proud of you and I am also proud of the job the faculty do training you.  You are a reflection of us – a very good reflection. 

The above was the most important part of my email.  Now for the hard part.  I would like to strongly encourage you to attend both the hooding and graduation ceremonies.  It’s a personal invitation from me to you.  I understand you have reservations.  I understand the inconvenience – really I do.  We are going to have a great surgeon speak at the graduation.  He is originally from Savannah and he is someone you should hear and meet.  I know that all of you won’t go to the graduation.  Perhaps a few of you will change your mind and support the Savannah contingent.  At this time, more Savannah faculty plan to attend than Savannah students.  I never thought I’d see that happen!  

When I graduated with my PhD from University of Wisconsin, I had had enough.  I handed in my thesis, jumped in my rusting car, and drove to my post-doc in Pennsylvania.  I didn’t go to graduation.  Now, I use MUSM graduations as a substitute for what I missed.  Don’t make the same mistake.  Rise above whatever is holding you back.  Mercer appreciates every one of you more than you’ll ever know.  You have a chance to be the “bigger person”, the “bigger class”.  Drive to Macon for a few hours, enjoy the comradery and pageantry with fellow students, faculty and your families.  It’s a once in a lifetime event. 

OK – thank you for listening.  If I annoyed you, I apologize and I know you won’t hold it against me.  I look forward to handshakes and hugs at the hooding and perhaps at the graduation ceremony. Congratulations to all of you.  I wish you the very best.

Dr. Visalli

 

 

 

 

 

From: Abbie Saccary [mailto:abbie....@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 10:07 AM
To: Robert J. Visalli <Visal...@mercer.edu>
Subject: list serve

 

Sir:

 

I sense a disturbance in the force… if you want to email the class of 2017 without big brother, here is our google group… medclass20...@googlegroups.com … those Mercer list serves have the likes of Dr House on them, which I found out the hard way.

 

I hope you are well!  Rose and I just commented the other day on how nice your house looks!

 

:)

 

~ Abbie