Medical School
WAR SPEEDS UP even such usually imperturbable and dignified epoch punctuators as commencements. Our second graduation in 1943, on October 23, became the one hundred and forty-seventh for the School. Twenty-three seniors of the college class of 1944 received their bachelor degrees. All were members of the Armed Services, thirteen in the USN Reserve and ten in AUS Reserve.
Twenty-five alumni of the college re- ceived the Medical diploma, with the Navy claiming twenty and the Army five. The usual wide distribution of transfer pre- vails. Glenn E. Behringer USNR of Flor- ence, Mass.; Harry C. Bishop AUS of Great Neck, L. I.; Charles W. Clarke Jr. USNR of Caldwell, N. J.; Edward C. Porter USNR of Maiden, Mass.; and Chester Solez AUS of Brooklyn, N. Y., will go to Harvard. Berger H. Carlson USNR of Concord, N. H.; Harold M. Frost Jr. USNR of Wellesley Hills, Mass.; William W. Wilson AUS of Portsmouth, N. H., go to Northwestern. George H. Burke USNR of Springfield, Mass., and Waldo Lewis Fielding USNR of Worcester, Mass., go to Michigan. Bradley E. Copeland USNR of Pleasantville, N. Y.; Paul J. Costello USNR of Manchester, N. H.; Charles F. Kane USNR of Melrose, Mass.; William J. Regan Jr. USNR of Buffalo, N. Y.; Franklin H. West USNR of Narberth, Pa., will maintain the delegation at Pennsylvania. Forbes Delany USNR of Scarsdale, N. Y.; Henry F. Kramer Jr. USNR of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Warren J. Taylor USNR of Dedham, Mass.; and Jerrold von Wedel of Ardsleyon-Hudson, will carry on at Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia. David L. Hoffman USNR of Worcester, Mass.; and Hugh F. Lena Jr. AUS of New London, Conn., will represent us at Cornell. The remainder of the class are sailors who feel the urge to carry the lore of the sea to inlanders: William Hunt USNR of Fairmount, Minn., goes to Minnesota; George L. Rider USNR of Oxford, Ohio, to Washington University; William H. Wierman USNR of Denver, to Colorado. William E. Schumacher USNR of Hempstead, N. Y., will do his cruising on Vermont's great inland sea, Lake Champlain. While on shore leave he will continue to uphold the traditions of Bait and Bullet assisted by remote control from Tanzi Brothers, the Famous Fruit Emporium known all over the world. (Advertisements will be carried in this column at standard rates.)
Both the Army and Navy Medical Units have new commanding officers since a month ago. Capt. Damon E. Cummings USN has arrived here from the Naval Operating Base at Newport, and Maj. J. W. Hosmer, Cav., AUS from Northfield, came over to announce the departure of Col. Bals to active duty elsewhere.
A Navy contract has been concluded in which we agree to reserve twenty-five per cent of our enrollment for V-12 (S) and to reserve the right of the Navy to fill onethird of any vacancies after the Army quota has been filled. Under negotiation with the Army is an agreement to reserve for ASTP fifty-five per cent of our enrollment and to reserve the right of the Army to fill two-thirds of any vacancies which remain after the Navy quota has been filled. This all adds up to eighty per cent of our enrollment reserved for the Armed Services, with the other twenty per cent for 4F civilians or women, which probably means the services will be sharing that percentage also.
Holden K. Farrar Jr. '45, of Winnetka, Ill., and Sterling B. Suddarth '44 of Kansas City, Mo., have been added to the new class to balance attritional losses. Both are members of V-12(S) in the college. Sven M. Gundersen M.D. and Jarrett H. Folley
M.D., our instructors in physical diagnosis and medicine, represented the hospital in New Haven at the Clinical Congress of the Connecticut State Medical Society.
John A. Murtagh M.D., our instructor in otolaryngology, attended the October meeting in Chicago of the American Academy of Otolaryngology.
Lt. John Godfrey '39 MC AUS, somewhere overseas, may have heard by this time that on October 6 his first child, male, was born in Burlington, Vt., where his wife Jean Hester is living with her parents. John did one of those sudden mysterious military fadeouts which was expained when a letter came with Med Det G-18, APO 513, c/o Postmaster, N. Y. C. in the corner.
Pvt. Norman '43 and Maritza Morgan announce from Denver on October 2, Vincent Leskovar. Norman will intern with the U. S. Public Health Service at the (censored) Hospital beginning in August 1944.
Allen H. Keniston '42 AUS was married on September 4 to Julia Denton Cuddeback at Port Jervis, N. Y. He was attended by a dwindling group of reproachful, still bachelor, classmates.
Fremont Pershing Koch '41 was married on September 11 to Eunice Field Manning at San Diego,
Calif., where he is interning at the County Hospital. Cmdr. John T. Smith '27 MC USN who is a Flight Surgeon at the Naval Air Station at Melbourne, Fla., has been here visiting his nephew, J. J. Broad '46, who is entering the School with the July 1944 class.
J. Ellsworth Cavanaugh '36 MC AUS on the surgical service at the Dale Mabry Airbase, Tallahassee, Florida, has been promoted to major.
Capt. George P. Sayre '35 MC AUS, pathologist, who was activated with one of the Mayo units, has been here for a family reunion, on leave from Station Hospital No. 237 at Utica, which is temporarily being staffed by his unit.
1 942 QUARTET (Thayer '43), who roomed together here and stayed together through their Navy training until recently when they were assigned to different stations—I. to r., Jim Skinner, Jim O'Mara, Don Amy, Charlie Weinberg, ensigns, USNR.
