Announcement was made early in February of the appointment to the staff of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, in Hanover, of Dr. George A. Lord '3O. He will begin his duties on August 1, following the completion of his Fellowship in Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Dr. Lord completed the two-year course at the Dartmouth Medical School in 1932 and transferred to the Harvard Medical School, where he received his M.D. degree in 1934. He returned to Hanover to serve his interneship at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital and in 1935 he was appointed to his present surgical fellowship. Upon completion of his Mayo fellowship in June he will receive the M.Sc. degree from the University of Minnesota.