Medical School
JOSEPH Y. ROBERTS M' 33 and his wife stopped for a chat and gave us several points pro and con additional graduate study for the young man trying to decide when to hang out his own shingle.
Harry M. Loud M'o1 of Swampscott, Massachusetts, came to town to convalesce from lobar pneumonia. He said that he attributed his rapid recovery to the excellent professional care which he had received from Harry M. Loud M' 37 and associates.
Frank P. Foster M'50. Walter B. Crandell M'35, William M. Downing M'35, J. Kenneth Keeley M'35, John S-LYle M'35 and Richard W. Smith M'35 became diplomates of the National Board of Medical Examiners in Boston before the end of the year 1939.
"Lease to the Claremont General Hos- pital without charge of 110 milligrams of radium element, owned by Dr. and Mrs. Emery Moore Fitch, has brought the local institution full recognition by the State Cancer Commission" said the Daily Eagle of Claremont, New Hampshire, recently. Dr. and Mrs. Fitch, who had been providing the hospital with 60 milligrams since 1936, added the 50 additional milligrams, with the necessary equipment, when the State Commission ruled that the hospital could not be granted full recognition without it, at the same time saying that the funds which had furnished radium to other centers had been exhausted. Dr. Fitch M'05 has been director of the Cancer Clinic since 1935.
Alan A. Jaques M' 36 is the proud father of Jonathan Alan born November 3.
Robert M. Bogue M'35 has opened his office at 140 Union Avenue, Lynbrook, New York.
Irving J. Hansmann M'30 was appointed as of September 1 an assistant in the department of medicine at New York University.
Edward Gardner DeWolf M' 93 died in Worcester, Massachusetts, September 29.
Benton Elkins Longwell Jr. M' 26 was married to Elsie Caryl McCreery on December 2 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are residing at 340 Locust Street, Johnstown.
Dexter R. Branch M'38 will intern at Lynn Hospital beginning in January, 1941. The grapevine had already brought two other reports—one that he was going to China with the U. S. Navy.
Allan B. Coggeshall M'38 will be at Grasslands Hospital at Valhalla, New York, next year.
Walter A. Allen M'gg of Hampstead, New Hampshire, died in the Benson Hospital, Haverhill, on August 23, 1939. During
a long and successful career he had served his community not only as physician but also as a school commissioner, member of the board of health and state senator. He was a veteran of the World War.
William J. Gibson M'35 concluded a residency at Lawrence Hospital, Bronxville, and on January 1 began his studies at Physicians and Surgeons as part of a three year program at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Walter B. Crandall M'35 began a four year program at Massachusetts General Hospital on January 1, starting as third assistant resident with the first two months in urology.
Edward Bangs Hallett M'87 of Gloucester, Massachusetts, died on November 8, 1939. He was the father of Ronald P. Hallet M' 24 who was associated with him. Dr. Hallett had served his country and community well and was recognized for his civic influence by membership on the boards of education and health and on various committees of the city and county. He was at one time a physician of the U. S. Public Health Service and was for manv years active on the staff of the Addison Gilbert Hospital where he died. He was one of the original members of the Medical Alumni Association as it is now constituted.
Harry B. Eisberg M' 37 will serve next year in the U. S. Public Health Service and Dana D. Goldthwaite M' 37 will serve in the U. S. Navy. Daniel P. McEndy M' 37 will spend the year in pathology at Cornell. All three are now in the fifth year at McGill.
Stewart F. Alexander M'35 is practicing internal medicine at 12 South Main Street, Park Ridge, New Jersey.
Richard W. Smith M'35 registered for a year of surgery at the Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Frederick Sanborn M'35 is at the Cape Cod Hospital at Hyannis.
Hanford L. Auten M' 33 is associated with Sidney Walker Jr. Rush M'10 in ophthalmology at 6 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
Hiram B. West M'OO, a psychiatrist on the staff of the Veterans Administration Facility at Los Angeles, died on August 11, 1959 Dr. West was a native of London, New Hampshire.
E. Seymour Burge M' 32 is a candidate for a Master's degree under Dr. Ivy in the Graduate School of Northwestern University.
George W. Zeluff M' 39, a student at Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, plays a part in a recent engagement rumor. Official confirmation with names mentioned is promised for April.
Seymour F. Ochsner M'38 reports fro Stony Wold at Lake Kushaqua, New Yen that his three months chest film shows sati' factory improvement and that he expects to be allowed to get up for meals any day now. He already has permission to read mail.
Whereupon your correspondent turns in his copy and starts for the Thirty-Sixth Annual Congress on Medical Educatioi and Licensure at Chicago, where he hopes to meet a goodly number of alumni.
