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Dr. Spalding Honored

NOVEMBER 1931
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Dr. Spalding Honored
NOVEMBER 1931

Dr. James A. Spalding '66 was honored by present and former members of the staff of the Maine General Hospital in Portland, Maine, recently at a dinner at which a portrait of Dr. Spalding was presented to the Hospital.

The presentation was made by Dr. Edwin W. Gehring, chief of the medical service of the Hospital, and was accepted by Judge Sidney St. Felix Thaxter of the board of directors.

"We are assembled," Dr. Gehring said, "to honor one of the grand old men of all times, James Alfred Spalding, A.8., M.A., M.D., Litt.D., past president of the Maine Medical Association, ophthalmologist to the Maine General Hospital from 1881 to 1914, distinguished grandson of a distinguished grandfather, Dr. Lyman Spalding, founder of the National Pharmacopeia, nestor of the medical profession of Maine, man of broad culture, profound learning and wide human sympathies, whose perennial youth startles and delights us."