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Medical School

October 1943
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Medical School
October 1943

OUR TIGHT little unit of forty eight military medicos, housed respectively in Fort and U.S.S. North Fayerweather, will graduate this month from the College or Medical School on the night of the twenty- third. The vicissitudes of war have even touched them lightly.

Colonel William T. MacMillan, their first Army Commandant, came with the opening of the semester in June. Flaving already reached the statutory retirement age, he was granted four months' leave and relieved of active duty on September l, leaving Sergeant Mellone in the office and orderly room at the Fort. Our new Commandant, Colonel Wilson T. Bals, functions by remote control from Norwich.

Commander William F. Bullis USNR became Commandant of the Naval Unit on July i, but it did not seem authentic until August 24 when, on the day before midterm leave, the jaunty uniforms of midshipmen transformed what had begun to be referred to as the "rag, tag, and bobtail battalion" into the smartest looking unit on the campus. Now their first Commandant has been transferred to Washington and Major John Howland USMCR is in charge.

Both Army and Navy mess at Thayer Hall and may be seen at noon marching across campus in splendid isolation, the Navy on the North Walk and the Army on the South, which is probably not according to service tradition.

Julian Peter Maes, M.D., has been appointed Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and has joined the Department. He is a graduate of the University of Brussels and one time member of that medical faculty. He had had extensive university connections at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Columbia as a Research Fellow of the Belgian-American Education Foundation, and was an Associate Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. He comes to us directly from the faculty of the School of Medicine at the University of Vermont. It is a pleasure in these days of declining staffs to report this gain.

Capt. Henry L. Heyl MC AUS, our instructor in Surgery who went overseas with the Sixth General Hospital, has been discharged from Walter Reed Hospital following a pulmonary infection and is convalescing in the West.

Major Dawson Tyson MC AUS, our Assistant Professor of Surgery, is Surgical Chief at Ashburn General Hospital in Texas. With the advent of Lt. Pauline Murphy as Operating Room Supervisor, this hospital has become a Hitchcock outpost.

Ralph W. Hunter MC USNR, who has been sojourning in England has returned to a Naval Base in Northern Ireland with a promotion to the rank of-It. commander. John A. Coyle, Lt. Cmdr., MC USNR, has returned to his station at the Naval School at Hunter College following his convalescence from virus pneumonia. 1918 Capt. D. G. Smith MC AUS is engaged in active practice in Nashua, and as an involuntary inactive reservist is carry- ing on in civilian service as N. H. Chair- man and on First Service Command Com- mittee for Procurement and Assignment; is A. M. A. and State Chairman of Medical Preparedness,; is a member of the organiza- tion under the State Council of Defense which is responsible for Medical Services, Health and Sanitation; is an examiner for Selective Service; vice chairman for Ci- vilian Defense Emergency Medical Serv- ices, and is medical chairman of the Red Cross Chapter. Besides that, he is director of the Cancer Clinic, secretary-treasurer of the County Medical Society, delegate to the American Medical Association, and tops it all off by serving as secretary of the State Board of Registration in Medicine and as a member of the staff of three hos- pitals. Just remember that list when you start to balk sometime when asked to serve on some civic committee.

1922 Gaylord W. Anderson MC AUS, now Lt. Col., has been ordered to Washington as Chief of the Bureau of Medical Intelligence.

7930 Stewart H. Jones has been given an appointment as a Fellow in Medicine at the Lahey Clinic.

7937 James S. Cullyford MC AUS, now Major, has been specially designated for training in Military Government and is at Virginia in the AMG School. 7933 Major Benjamin S. Read MC AUS has been in Africa for nine months and says the school geographies are all wrong about its being a dry, sandy desert. He is operating with a good outfit in an old French hospital. :,)■}/ Ralph S. Keyes MC AUS is with the Army Air Forces Basic Training Center and keeping house in Salt Lake City. 7935 Walter B. Crandell MC AUS was with a hospital unit in Tunisia on a very active sector and in one twelve-hour period admitted four hundred German wounded into a Nazi evacuation hospital which had been taken over.

1937 Lt. Harry B. Eisburg MC USN is a flight surgeon in a Scouting Squadron in the Pacific. He is the proud father of Karen Ann whom he has not yet seen.

1937 John Stewart Shaw Jr. is a Flight Surgeon for Pan American Airways in the West Indies and South American Division extending as far as Argentina. 1939 Lt. Eben Stoddard MC USNR, who was on duty at Charlestown Naval Hospital, has been transferred to sea duty.

Capt. Barron F. Mclntire MC AUS is on duty somewhere in the British Isles where he can ride a bicycle and play golf. 1940 John C. Lilly, who is continuing his research at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital with the Johnson Foundation, is applying his ultra-micrometer to an electrical air flow meter for respiratory studies. Pie says Charles Richard Lilly was born January 9.

LT. JAMES P. McFARLAND '33, who was recently assigned as Officers' Mess Officer at the Pampa Army Air Field in Pampa, Texas.