Medical School
Class Agent, Medical School, Hanover, N. H.
THE CLASS OF 1943 has been chosen: Robert O. Blood Jr., of Concord, New Hampshire; John P. Chandler, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts; Paul Joseph Costello. Manchester, New Hampshire; John L. Crenshaw Jr., Rochester, Minnesota; Walter Eisenman, Chisholm, Minnesota.
Richard H. Hempstead, Rochester, Minnesota; Eugene L. Hoch, Brooklyn, New York; Ward S. Jenkins, Danbury, Connecticut; Henry F. Kramer Jr., Brooklyn, New York; Richard W. Lawton, Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Thomas W. McElin, Aurora, Illinois: Richard B. Magee, Altoona, Pennsylvania; Eugene W. Martz Jr., Thiells, New York: Norman C. Morgan, Hanover, New Hampshire; Alvin L. Robins, Brooklyn, New York.
James W. Robinson, Auburndale, Massachusetts; William C. Scott, Sterling, Colorado; David S. Smith, Ipswich, Massachusetts; Charles R. Thomson, Exeter, New Hampshire; Ralph R. Tyson, Philadel phia, Pennsylvania; Robert F. Wilson, An Dover, Massachusetts; John T. Worcester, Englewood, New Jersey. Nine states are represented with New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New York tied for first place. Ten are sons of physicians, eight of businessmen, two of teachers, with one the son of a college president and one the son of a dentist.
Phi Beta Kappa membership has been attained by one third of the present enrollment of the School.
Professors John P. Bowler M'17 and John F. Gile M'18 accompained by their wives attended the Spring meeting of the Eastern Surgical Society at Washington, D. C.
Professor and Mrs. Ralph E. Miller M' 26 spent the Easter holiday in Florida traveling as far south as Key West.
Professor Colin C. Stewart 111 M' 24 attended the recent meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics at New Haven.
Professor Leslie K. Sycamore M'25 and family have been making their headquarters at St. Petersburg, Florida, for the past month.
Professor and Mrs. John J. Boardman have just returned from a Florida holiday at West Palm Beach where they spent a month in company with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rand.
Dr. John A. Murtagh attended the Spring meeting of the New England Otolaryngological Society at Boston.
Dr. Emil H. Schnap, Michigan M'38, Teaching Fellow in Pathology, was married to Betty Studebaker on April 2 in Albany. As Lieutenant Schnap he has been called to duty and will be stationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama.
David G. Cogan M'30 has been acting director of the Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary since the retirement of Dr. Verhoeff.
Eric W. Davidson M' 39 will begin a two-year rotating appointment at Montclair on July 1.
The National Board of Medical Examiners has established a committee for each state. Ralph E. Miller M' 26, Assistant Dean, is chairman for New Hampshire.
The Medical Library has received an extensive list of books from the library of Dr. John M. Gile given by his children.
A photostatic replica of the "Fee Bill established by the gentlemen practising Physic, Surgery, etc., in the town of Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, June 1, 1806," reproduced through the kindness of the sister and daughters of the late Dr. Thomas W. Luce of that town, has been given to us by Dr. Henry Onslow Smith '86, father of Deering G. Smith M'18 and author of the recently published "Story of the New Hampshire Medical Society."
Amos R. Little Jr., M'40 and Edward P. Wells M'40 spent the Spring holiday in Tuckerman's. Ed insists that, Frank Elkins to contrary notwithstanding, it was Bud and not he who became downhill champion of Maryland at the state meet.
Everett W. Czerny M'41 will be an assistant in the Department of Pathology during the summer.
The Medical School Dinner and Graduation will return to Stell Hall at Commencement because the Two Reunion plan is expected to eliminate the crowding which was obviated last year by moving into the Commons. It is impossible to predict how the attendance o£ the medical alumni will be distributed between the two periods, but for the present a gathering is projected for the evening of graduation.
