DR. J. M. GILE MADE LIFE MEMBER TRUSTEE

Dr. John Martin Gile '87, Dean of the Dartmouth Medical School, was elected a life member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College, succeeding General Frank S. Streeter, at a meeting of the trustees in Boston recently. The vacancy which Dr. Gile fills was caused by the death of General Streeter recently after 30 years on the Board.

Two terms of five years as an Alumni Trustee have been previously completed by Dr. Gile, the last one expiring- in June, 1922. Born in Pembroke, N. H., March 8, 1864, Dr. Gile entered Dartmouth in 1883, receiving his A.B. degree in 1887 and an M.D. in 1890. From 1896 until 1910, when he became Dean and Professor of Clinical Surgery, he served as Professor of the Practice of Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School. After his graduation from Dartmouth he was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and is now a member of the following organizations : American Academy of Medicine, New England Surgical Society (President 1920-21), American Medical Association, New Hampshire and Massachusetts Medical Societies, and the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity.

In 1910 he was chairman of the Republican State Convention, being named a member of the Governor's Council 4th District the next year. During 1917-18 he was commissioned in the Ist Medical Reserve Corps and was medical aide to the Governor.