Assistant Dean gets acquainted with medical students

Caption: "Assistant Dean James O. Pinkston of the State University College of Medicine in Brooklyn, [now named State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn], gets better acquainted with first-year medical students at the 'Dean's Coffee Hour' held yesterday in the historic office of Dean Jean A. Curran at 350 Henry Street which has been used for meetings of the college administration and faculty since 1897. Pictured in the foreground is the architect's model of the college's new Basic Sciences Building now under construction on Clarkson Avenue opposite the Kings County Hospital. This building will be opened in 1956."