Medical School
WHEN THE STATISTICS of enrollment in the Medical School became final, there were twenty men in the first year class and twenty-two in the second. The last news from Jack R. Durrance M'4l had him sailing from Calcutta for Singapore in an attempt to get home across the Pacific. In the first year class ten states and the District of Columbia are represented. The New Hampshire group accounts for twenty-five percent, while only three students come from the other New England states.
Among them are five sons of physicians, five sons of alumni and two sons of members of the faculty.
Arthur B. French M'4l is the son of Dr. Harry T. French M'l4, Professor of Neuroanatomy, and Arthur G. Guyer M'4l is the son of Foster E. Guyer 'O6, Professor of French.
Gordon D. Stokes M'4l is the son of Dr. Leroy T. Stokes M'l3, and Richard P. Storrs M'4o and Robert C. Storrs M'4l are sons of Dr. Harry C. Storrs M'lo. Hiram H. Belding 111 M'4l is the son of Hiram H. Belding II 'lB.
At the October meeting of the Board of Trustees a number of alumni and faculty became news. Dr. Percy Bartlett M'oo was appointed Professor of Surgery Emeritus. Dean John Pollard Bowler M'l7 was appointed Professor of Surgery. Trustee John F. Gile M'lB was appointed Professor of Clinical Surgery. Dr. Colin C. Stewart 111 M' 24 was appointed Assistant Professor of Physical Diagnosis and Pediatrics. Dr. John A. Coyle M'2s was appointed Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Ophthalmology. Dr. Leslie K. Sycamore M'2s was appointed Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Roentgenology. Dr. John J. Boardman, Vermont M' 27, was appointed Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Obstetrics. Radford Chappie Tanzer '25, M.D. Harvard '29, was appointed an Instructor in Anatomy. Dr. Tanzer has been on the staff of the Strong Memorial Hospital and of the Cancer Research Division of the Rockefeller Institute, an Instructor in Surgery at Rochester and Associate Surgeon at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown. More recently he was Senior Fellow in Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery at the Presbyterian Hospital and Assistant in Surgery at the Vanderbilt Clinic. At the conclusion of his appointment as Resident-in-Chief at the Doctors Hospital in New York he was appointed to the Hospital staff here.
Robert Hamilton Peckham, A.B. Rochester 1930, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins 1933, Fellow of the National Research Council at the Presbyterian Hospital 1933-34 and recently Instructor in Research Ophthalmology at the School of Medicine of Temple University, was appointed a Research Fellow in Physiological Optics in the Dartmouth Eye Institute.
Richard Golden Chase '3B of the Department of Chemistry was appointed an Instructor in Physiological Chemistry.
In the Class of 1943 in the College are eighty-seven premedical students, onethird of whom are sons of physicians. Dr. Hugh F. Lena M'l3 is our only alumnus to claim one of them, however.
Dr. E. Parker Hayden M'l7, a member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School and of the staff of the Massachusetts General Flospital, is the author of "The Rectrm and Colon" just published by Lea and Febiger.
Dr. Ralph E. Alexander M' 34 and his wife came to New Hampshire for their vacation. He is Resident in Radiology at the Morrisania City Hospital, while she pursues her hobby of child portraiture.
Dr. John H. Grindlay, M.H.M.H. '36, now a Fellow of the Mayo Foundation, was married on October 7 to Elizabeth Catherine Ellis at Hartland, Wisconsin.
Dr. Walter Chase M' 37 has been added to the house staff at the Hospital.
Dr. Nathan T. Milliken, Yale M' 32, Instructor in Physical Diagnosis and Medicine here, was one of four speakers in the Symposium on Student Health at the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges held at the University of Cincinnati on October 23 to 35.
William L. McLaughlin M'3B was married on August 31 to Catharine Virginia Saxe at New York City.
Dr. Joseph G. Rushton M' 32 is a member of the resident staff of the Rochester State Hospital. Dr. Rushton is a Mayo Foundation Fellow.
Dr. William J. Watson M' 29 made a tour of the surgical centers of the country recently and while in British Columbia visited Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Desbrisay. Dr. Desbrisay was Assistant Professor of Medicine here from 1925 to 1930.
Dr. Louis John Ferenczi M'l3, of the staff of the Bayonne Hospital, died there on July 18.
John Milne M'3B has been appointed to a junior internship on the first surgical division at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York.
Dexter R. Branch M'3B while on an internship scouting tour last month called on Drs. Harry M. Lowd Sr., M'ol and Jr., M' 37 at the Salem Hospital.
Dr. Fred P. Claggett M' 97 was reported seen recently north of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, stalking a ten point buck.
Dr. Benjamin W. Baker M'9B, who is Superintendent of the Laconia State School, is also President of the Belknap County Dartmouth Club.
Franklin Martin Jr., M' 39 spent his vacation at the Isles of Shoals observing the "Squalus" operations.
