Medical School
Class Agent, DR. ROL.F C. SYVERTSEN Hanover, N. H.
The newspapers say that the School has been approved for training of medical men for the armed forces but so far as we know it has not been inspected officially and no contracts have been negotiated.
The Committee on Admissions will have chosen the class for November before this appears and may have chosen a class for 1944 as well. This latter move, to be successful, should involve at least omniscience on the Committee's part, but it will reward the student who knows what he wants and has proven his mettle from the start of the freshman year. This early choice will be undertaken at the suggestion of the armed forces; and because of the implication in recent Selective Service directives and from an intent to cooperate rather than from a belief that a class selected at the end of the first or second semester of college work could include all of the desirable material.
Our faculty, in proportion to its numbers, continues to make significant contributions. The latest rumor has Assistant Professor of Surgery Dawson Tyson going to Ashburn General Hospital at McKinney, Texas, as Surgeon-in-Chief.
Capt. N. T. Milliken MC AUS, as of January 30, reports real work somewhere in the Pacific and lots of it, more medical than surgical.
Capt. F. H. Connell SN MRP AUS is at the Army Medical College in Washington, and Lt. Com. John A. Coyle has been transferred from Lake Geneva to New York.
Dean John P. Bowler M '17 represented the School and Hospital at the past midmonth "National Conference on Planning for War and Post War Medical Services" held under the auspices of the Carlos Finlay Institute of the Americas in New York.
The students have been experiencing personal demonstrations of rubella and rubeola during the past semester to an ex tent most unusual. "Hahya, nubble neck!" is the standard greeting.
1895 COL. H. SHERIDAN BAKETEL MC IR, who is working on the Surgeon General for an age limit waiver, has been fighting the war on his own desk so far but has hopes. He sends in a flash on Hal Clark M '21.
1912 LT. COL. CLARENCE E. DUNBAR MC AUS from Somewhere in North Africa, January go: "Greetings from overseas to all the Medics, especially those of 1912. If there are other Dartmouth men over here, I would like to get in touch with them. One of my sons, Robert, is somewhere beyond San Francisco and the other, Richard, 1943, is probably in active service by this time as he finished his senior year at Dartmouth last month. With best wishes to all."
1921 HAROLD E. CLARK, formerly Surgeon-in-Chief at the Newport Naval Hospital, is now Commander and is on sea duty.
1931 ROBERT D. FAIRCHILD was married to Ellen Irene Peterson of Breckenbridge, Minn., at Amherst on February 6. Dr. Fairchild is on the surgical faculty at Syracuse University and Lt. Peterson USNR, formerly Dean of Women at Pennsylvania State Teachers, is on the staff of the Naval Midshipmen's School at Smith College.
1936 LT. HAROLD B. ORENSTEIN MC USNR married Etta Barbara Fader on February 1; where, the censor did not say.
1938 MYRON and KATHLEEN WRIGHT announced the arrival of Peter Farnum on January 10 at New Haven. He weighed over one-half stone and probably did the actual announcing.
1939 LT. GEORGE W. ZELUFF MC USNR: "After one year of internship, I spent seven weeks at the Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, with Alvin F. Coburn, then several weeks at the Brooklyn dispensary, two weeks at pier 90 next to mandie, two weeks in Troy at Rensselaer in recruiting duty, a week at Bayonne, New Jersey, three days in Norfolk, a month at San Francisco and then out to the So. Pacific where I spent two weeks at a base. At the moment of writing, I am preceding to another scene of operations. So you see I have been moving a bit. I am a real fighting "doc" with a pack on my back, tin helmet, and Colt 45. As yet I have practiced little or no medicine, but soon will be where there is a lot of bacillary dysentery, malaria, dengue, yaws and other such pleasant tropical diseases, along with a bit of acute "lead" poisoning, from what I understand. As I am the only doctor in our outfit, and have two pharmacists mates with me, it should prove interesting. By the way, I came across on the same ship with Tino Lando M'3B who is with a mobile hospital unit."
1940 THEODORE R. DAKIN was married to Alice Josephine Richardson at Albany on January 8.
The Rush delegation o£ LUDWIG PYRTEK and WELLINGTON WINCHESTER held its annual reunion at Boston last month. Elsie Helen Chilman, M.D. of Hoquiam, Washington, probably insisted on reuning with them.
1941 I. LEWIS CHIPMAN will marry Janet Ingerson next week-end in Lebanon, USN permitting. They will reside in Philadelphia during his internship at the Naval Hospital there.
1942 SANFORD RUSHBROOK and Maryette Christensen Courter reported here after their marriage on March 6. They expect to reside in Cincinnati until he graduates.
ELMER L. CREHAN was in town recently with his bodyguard, ROBERT R. RAINIE, to attend the wedding of Joseph Paul Crehan '39. He remained after the ceremony to superintend the wedding presents, no doubt.
