Medical School
THE NEW YEAR STARTS with forty-one students in the School and twenty-three in, the first year class, representing nine states and one foreign country. New Hampshire is tied with New York with four; Vermont, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Ohio have two; and Virginia and Illinois one each. Canada sends one from New Brunswick. Four are sons of physicians; 1901 is represented by Edward O. Tabor Jr., and 1914 by Rowland B. French and Richard J. Spillane. Cornell, 1917, sends Albert B. Ferguson Jr., who is also the grandson of a physician, Dr. Joseph S. Ferguson, for many years secretary of the Faculty of Cornell.
Walter Brackett Lancaster, M.D., will come to Hanover this month to assume his duties as Chief of Staff of the Eye Institute and Professor of Ophthalmology at the School. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Medical School and has held a teaching post there for many years, the most recent as Associate in Ophthalmology on the Graduate Faculty. A more extensive biography will be found elsewhere in this MAGAZINE.
Dawson Tyson, M.D., Instructor in the Department of Anatomy and Pathology and Thoracic Surgeon on the Hospital Staff was married to Marie Martha DeWitt on October 8 at South Orange, New Jersey. They are at Bermuda but will be at home in Hanover after December first.
Hermann Burian, M.D., who has been a member of the staff of the Eye Institute since 1936 has been appointed Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology. Dr. Burian was married to Gladys Simmons Hart on September 14 at Hanover.
Clarence J. Campbell, M'2o, and Edith Abbot have announced the birth of Mary Mclsaac on September 14. He is Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicologist on the Hospital Staff.
The Department of Mental Health of Massachusetts has announced the Sixth Postgraduate Seminar in Neurology and Psychiatry under the direction of Roy D. Halloran, M'lB. Dr. Halloran is the Superintendent of the Metropolitan State Hospital at Waltham. The seminar is divided into two semesters and seventy physicians are already enrolled.
Nathan T. and Margaret Elder Milliken became parents of a daughter on September 30. In an attempt at sorcery, a certain McGill graduate sent beforehand to Margaret a tiny D crew-neck sweater to combat the Yale prenatal influence, but attempts to evaluate the results have been uncertain. Dr. Milliken a graduate of University is an Instructor in Physical Di' agnosis and Medicine and a member i the Hitchcock Hospital Staff.
President Snedecor, M'ai, with Man and the two children came up for Franklin and Marshall game. We spent a very pleasant evening with them in wich and heard about the 1921 medin reunion in New York after comment, ment. It seems that Hastings Walker can., from Honolulu for a society meetim checked in at Snedecor headquarters; anj the class rallied. Hal Clark and Ernie wilcox reported promptly and Tom A, worth got there before all of the red had been put on. The curiosity of one's constiuency is always so avid in these matt that it seems best to say merely that the occasion was observed in appropriate manner. Doug Storer was unavoidably absent and, of course, Art Duryea had to keep everything straight on the Islands while Walker was away.
Captain Snedecor piloted his cruise: from Queensboro to Quebec via the Hudson and the Lakes and recommends the trip very highly, echoed by the family.
Phillip Hadley Bassett, M'gi, and Edit announce from St. Louis the birth of Bon nie Hadley on September 16—weight, lbs., 5 oz.
Jesse M. Gait, M'g7, dropped in adul or so ago and told us that he was thinkin: of New Hampshire as a location. Somt thing mysterious about a Georgian coming up into the North Country to settle.
Bernard P. Cunningham, M' 34, cameii on his swing around the Eastern Circuit to tell us about things at Mayo's where he is. a fellow.
Douglas Butman, M'3B, and Ruth has come to town. He is starting in the Hoijl pital Laboratory, and she is a secretarvM Dick's House. They are living in Wheelock Apartments.
Corbin Moister, M'3B, is here in Pathology after a summer on the Great Ameri can Desert. He looks very brown and WI thy but refuses to discuss the subject prospecting.
Dexter Branch, M'3B, who is at Malde Hospital, is engaged to Janet Woodma of Somerville. They hope to be marroe next June.
George W. Zeluff, M' 39, will intern Queens General Hospital for two years a rotating service beginning in July.
Amos R. Little Jr., M'4o, who is at kins, has discovered that it snows is ern Maryland and has sent £or his skfi seems a bit early to us.
We have heard several rumors Santino Fogliano Lando, M'3B, though he admits prospects he stead' refuses to make any statement forpu | tion, retreating behind the traditi serve of the pathology service.
