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Medical School

November 1941 Rolf C. Syvertsen M'22
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Medical School
November 1941 Rolf C. Syvertsen M'22

THE MEDICAL SCHOOL OPENED this year with forty-six men enrolled. The return of Robert B. Sullivan to the second year after an absence of two years because of illness made twenty-four men in that class.

Massachusetts has joined New York to tie with New Hampshire for top place with four men each in the first-year class. Minnesota sends three against New Jersey's and Pennsylvania's two. Connecticut and Illinois are still in there with one each with Nebraska back again with one.

The nine-state figure still stands, but no foreign country is officially represented. There are nine sons of physicians, but only two sons of alumni. Harold W. Robinson 1910 enters his second son, James Wesley; and George F. Worcester 1912 sends son John Thompson. We could make Robinson a representative of a foreign country, he having been born in China and having come to Dartmouth from Yenching University, but he is at the moment officially from Auburndale, Massachusetts.

Jarrett Harter Folley, A.B. "Hamilton 1934, M.D. Harvard 1938, has been appointed an Instructor in Physical Diagnosis and Medicine and a member of the staff of the Hospital. Doctor Folley interned here and at New Haven where he was an Assistant in Medicine at Yale. He comes here now from Philadelphia where he was an Assistant Instructor in Medicine and Fellow in Gastroenterology at the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. He will reside in Norwich with his wife and little daughter Hilda Tamela.

President Harry C. Storrs M'lo has announced the appointment to the Executive Committee of Ernest L. Stebbins M' 27 who is listed as Professor of Epidemiology at the Delamar Institute of Public Health at Columbia.

In the May "Beta Theta Pi" H. Sheridan Baketel M'9s is written about and writes as fifty years a Beta and appears in an excellent portrait as the frontispiece.

John Godfrey M' 39 was married to Jean Hester Fuller at Burlington, Vermont, on September 12 and came here after his honeymoon to begin his internship.

Lieut. Barron F. Mclntire M' 39, who is at Maine General, is hoping that his commission in the Medical Corps Reserve will not curtail his eighteen months' internship, but his three predecessors were gone at the end of the first year.

Paul Magnuson M'3s has opened his office for E.N.T. in New Bedford.

Lieut. Frank Walter Van Kirk Jr. M' 36 has been ordered to Fort Custer, Michigan.

Harry B. Eisberg M' 37, writing from Norfolk, says that he has become a diplomat of the National Board; married Ann Ahlquist on September 29; is in the navy; and waiting for orders to sea.

John Figgis Jewett M' 36, who is on Doctor Walter Lee's service at Pennsylvania Hospital, spent his vacation on Clapboard Island in Casco Bay as Doctor Brown's guest. He has been thoroughly infected by the Maine salt water virus apparently.

Joseph N. D'Esopo M'28 is Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale and Attending at New Haven Hospital.

Scott F. Pedley M' 37 concluded his internship here on October 1 and became an assistant on the staff of the Hitchcock Clinic.

Hermann Martin and Gladys Hart Burian have announced the birth on September 14 of Richard Martin Burian. Doctor Burian is Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology in the Eye Institute. Victor Kiarsis M' 37 is resident pathologist at Pennsylvania Hospital under Doctor John T. Bauer.

Lieut. James S. Cullyford M'3l is at Fort Houston and Alice has moved down from Denver to live at 931 Hammond Avenue, San Antonio.

Frederick Sanborn M'35 married Mary Louise Ainsworth H'37 on July 5 at South Royal ton.

On the program of the Seventh Annual Clinical Congress of the Connecticut Medical Society in September were the names of Creighton Barker M'l3, John D. Booth M' 24, Donald A. Bristoll M'2s, and Frank S. Jones M' 26. The Medical Faculty and Hospital Staff were represented by Dawson Tyson and John A. Murtagh, both former New Havenites.

Renwick K. Caldwell, Vermont M'4l, began a two-year appointment on the house staff of the Hospital on October 1.

Colin C. Stewart 111 M' 24 Assistant Professor of Physical Diagnosis and Pediatrics, attended the October meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics in Boston.

John F. Gile M'lB, Professor of Clinical Surgery, was the speaker at the October meeting of the Osier Clinical Society at the University of Vermont.

Harry T. French M'l4, Professor of Neuroanatomy, is the author of an article on "Dissecting Aneurysm of the Aorta" in the New England Journal of Medicine for September 25.

Dean John P. Bowler M'l7 attended the October meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond.

Are you watching for the announcement of the Mid-Winter Alumni Assembly at New York and other centers?