Medical School
SEVENTY-TWO MEMBERS and guests attended the Metropolitan Dinner of the Medical Alumni Association held at the Dartmouth Club in New York on February 6. President Snedecor presided and introduced each of the graduates of the classes up to 1914. The professorial delegation from Hanover was called upon and responded with reports of a semi-official nature by Doctors Bowler, Gile, Kingsford and Syvertsen. Basil O'Connor '12, President of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, an especially qualified layman, gave the address, discussing in terms of organizations of the present and future the place that health and medical care must occupy among the proper concerns of a responsive government. H. Sheridan Baketel, guest of honor, spoke very entertainingly of the School during the years leading to his graduation in 1895. President Snedecor then presented him with a commemorative scroll, designating him a distinguished physician, teacher, author and alumnus. In conclusion, the assembly voted to make the occasion an annual affair; to thank the Regional Committee; continued in office for another year.
Several names were added to our mailing list as a result of the meeting. Anyone in the metropolitan area who did not get an invitation should at once send in a protest giving his address. We will be glad to furnish sets of addresses for the use of committees in other centers where regional dinners and assemblies are proposed.
Three hundred and fifty-four Medical School Alumni in 1940 gave $3,884.75 to the Tucker Fund. It has been increasingly difficult in recent years to maintain a separate total in the Fund Report because of the duplication of names among class and School statistics. In the future the figure will be published in this column.
William Lyons McLaughlin M'38 and his wife, Burr, have moved to town for the duration of his, internship at the Hospital. He is starting with pathology.
George Bailey Coon M'95 died at Greystone Park, New Jersey, on January 18.
Dean John P. Bowler M'17 attended the January meeting of the Executive Council of the New England Postgraduate Assembly in Boston.
Colin C. Stewart II, M'24 attended the Council meeting of the New England Pediatric Society held in Boston January 29-30.
More than a month ago we received a Boston Herald clipping of the Will Danch "Your Neighbor" cartoon with an extremely attractive lady saying, "Do I look all right? The folks are taking me back to the City Hospital to see that nice young intern, Doctor James F. Higgins, who took care of me!" This was followed by a plug for the popular surgeon. Now we have a letter all in Spanish from Guayaquil, Ecuador, signed J. Higgins, M.D.; this may be a clue to his present whereabouts and as soon as we get it translated, we will make further report to 1936.
The January Lahey Clinic Bulletin carried "The Mode of Action of Sulfanilamide" by Frank Pray Foster M'30.
Lieut. Henry A. Buchtel, M.C., U.SA. M'29 has been ordered from Denver to the Station Hospital at Ft. Sam Houston, Tex.
Ralph Sayward Keyes M'34 was married to Mary Anne Turner at Dayton, Ohio, on December 28.
Clarence H. Albaugh M'34 is a member of the staff and a research associate at the Ophthalmological Institute of Columbia University.
Edward Phillips Wells M'40 was married to Barbara Mix of Suffield, Conn., in New York on January 25.
Harry T. French M'14 is registered at the Mayo Clinic for postgraduate study in diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract.
The first meeting of the Aesculapian Periodical Society, a first-year class organization, was held on February 11 at the Alpha Kappa Kappa House. Following the buffet supper, Timothy Takaro M'42 and Winston Shorey M'42 presented reviews of special topics in the current journals, and Doctor Tyson presided over the discussion which followed. It is expected that biweekly meetings will be held during the remainder of the semester.
