Medical School
OUR NEW SCHOOL YEAR began on November first with a full new class; the actual attrition exactly cancelled out the reserves, Edward B. Crane of Burlington having resigned to attend Vermont and Raphael E. Eban of London, England, having returned home to attend school. The Navy leads again with sixteen, the Army claims six, and Selective Service retains two. One third of the class are sons of physicians and one sixth are sons of alumni. Fourteen states, the District of Columbia, Hawaii and Switzerland, are represented by birth or residence. One student is a graduate and all others are members of the senior class of the College.
Twenty members of the class which graduated on October 23, all in the USNR, remained here iuntil November 18 to take National Board examinations. All except four were then transferred to the Naval Hospital at Portsmouth to await the opening date of their new schools. Paul J. Costello and Bradley E. Copeland continued here as assistants in the Department of Pathology, Waldo L. Fielding stayed to convalesce from virus pneumonia which postponed his examinations until January, and Franklin H. West was transferred to "Philadelphia.
The Army contingent, not allowed to stay, was split up into three groups. Harry C. Bishop and Chester Solez went to the New Station Hospital at Fort Devens until the opening of Harvard. Hugh F. Lena, Jr., and Warren J. Taylor were sent to the Station Hospital at Fort Jay on Governor's Island to await the opening of Cornell and Columbia. William W. Wilson was submerged among thirty thousand medical replacement trainees at Camp Grant to await the opening of the third year at Northwestern.
Colin C. Stewart 111 M' 24, our Assistant Professor of Physical Diagnosis and Pediatrics, attended the October meeting of -the State Chairmen of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and John B. McKenna, our Instructor in Neuroanatomy and Clinical Neurology, attended the meeting of the Boston Orthopedic Club.
The W. J. and C. H. Mayo Memorial Foundation, established at Dartmouth in 1942 by Doctor and Mrs. Waltman Walters, came into functional being on November 4 when in Dartmouth Hall before an enthusiastic assembly Captain Winchell McKendree Craig MC USNR delivered the first annual lecture, entitled "Warriors Against Disease." Captain Craig, on leave of absence from the Professorship of Neurosurgery at the Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Foundation, University of Minnesota, is Chief of Surgery at the U. S. Naval Hospital at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland. Captain and Mrs. Walters are at Corona, California, where, as Chief of Surgery at the U. S. Naval Hospital, his duties prevented their attendance at the occasion.
The Grafton County Medical Society held its annual meeting here on November 10 with "The Future of Medical Practice" as the topic of discussion. James W. Jameson, President of the State Society, presented "Implications of the Wagner Bill" and Leslie K. Sycamore M'2s, our Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Roentgenology, explained "The New Hampshire Medical Plan."
At the Belknap County Medical Society meeting in November at Laconia John Milne M'3B, our Instructor in Physical Diagnosis and Medicine, presented "Conservative Treatment of Lung Abscesses," and William Carpenter MacCarty '33, our Instructor in Radiology, presented "Duodenal Atresia."
All of our present Hospital house staff will leave December 31. The new policy of the War Manpower Commission and the Army Services reduces all of our appointments to nine months and gives us no assurance of any residencies. This continues to guarantee a front rank rotating internship insofar as one can go in nine months but nonetheless it adds to the burden of the attending staff. The new group due January first will bring both graduates of the College and of the Medical School as well as of other institutions. Returning alumni are Allen H. Keniston M' 42 from Cornell; Josiah Fuller M' 42 from Harvard; Kenneth E. Gross M' 42 from Pennsylvania; Timothy Takaro M' 42 from New York University; Elliott Foster '4O from Columbia;" and Seymour Wheelock '4O from Northwestern. Henry Koch is also coming from Harvard and William Pratt from Vermont.
The November term of the College V-12 Unit brought only six new premedical students, all upper classmen, four of whom- had been registered in the College. It is hoped that beginning in March one hundred first term premedical students will enter with each class.
1599 Roy Vincent Baketel has been reelected President of the medical staff of the Lawrence, Mass., General Hospital for the 11th consecutive term. He has been associated with the hospital since 1906.
1914 Harry T. French, senior member of our medical service and Professor of Neuroanatomy, attended an important meeting at Camp Otter on the First Connecticut Lake with Ross McKenney during the last week in October. They brought home the venison which Ross claims that he shot.
1916 Howard Pierce Sawyer has a son Howard Pierce in the new class, who has just returned from basic training with the Army at Fort Ethan Allen.
1918 John Fowler Gile, Trustee of the College and our Professor of Clinical Surgery, has a son and namesake in the first year class. Jack, who also returned from the Fort, has already been a member of the USNR and is now wondering about the USMCR.
1919 Josiah R. Eisaman, Jr., has a son who has just transferred into the V-12 Unit from the Class of 1947 in the College.
1922 Rolf C. Syvertsen represented the School at Cleveland at the October meeting of the A.A.M.C. and at the centenary of Western Reserve School of Medicine.
1925 Leslie K. Sycamore at the November Faculty Meeting was elected, for a term of three years, to the Committee of Administration of the School.
1928 Lt. Cdr. Herbert B. Messenger MC USNR was last heard from at the Naval Dispensary in Washington, D. C.
1931 Major James S. Cullyford MC AUS has graduated from the School of Military Government at the University of Virginia and is now at Headquarters (CA) APO 887, Care Postmaster, NYC.
1938 Capt. Thomas P. Jacobs is overseas one mail month away with the 45th Med. Bn. at APO 250 c/o Postmaster, New York.
Collin S. MacCarty writes on 12 Nov. "Bill and Burr McLoughlin were here recently. Burr went through the Clinic and Bill toured the various hospitals. Concerning myself, there is nothing very new. I am in my last year of neurosurgical fellowship, and if my physical status is okay I plan to go into the Navy the first of July. I hear occasionally from Obe in the South Pacific. He seems to, be doing all right and has seen Doctor Milliken. My boy was a year old yesterday. I suppose some day he will invade Hanover as his father and uncle did before him. I see Jim Bennett in pathology and he seems to be getting a great deal out of his fellowship here. Doctor Walters' daughter Joan was recently married to a young doctor in Corona, California. Bill Balfour is with the Mayo Unit waiting to go overseas.
1940 Lt. Frederick G. Worden MC AUS is engaged to Katherine Cole, Sarah Lawrence College, 1945. After completing his internship at John Hopkins he was ordered to active duty with the Army Air Forces and is now stationed at Bradley Field.
1941 Arthur B. French, now interning at Philadelphia General, was married on September 11th to Margaret Storrs, a graduate of Mount Holyoke and in Medicine a graduate from Pennsylvania, also interning at Philadelphia General.
1943 William H. Wierman USNR, former acting CPO here in charge of USS CROSBY, due soon for transfer to Colorado, his home, claims that Portsmouth is entirely too near sea level and too far northeast to suit him.
THE DARTMOUTH BAND, IN NEW MILITARY GARB, PARADES BETWEEN THE HALVES.
An Acknowledgement The editors are glad to make acknowledgement of the fact that William J. McNiff '24 of the Department of History at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, is the author of the article about Albert Carrington. in our "Forgotten Dartmouth Men" series, which appeared in October. We regret that Mr. McNiff's by-line did not appear with his article, due to the disappearance of all record of authorship during the rather long interval between the writing and the publication of his profile of the Mormon leader.
