Medical School
THE MEDICAL SCHOOL IS starting the second semester today with the casualties in enrollment, if any, not yet announced. The term will end on February 24 with classes beginning again on March 5 for another year. The enrollment for that term is variously predicted as being 28 percent Army, 32 percent Navy, and 40 percent civilians made up from veterans, 4-F's and men too young for the draft, or almost any other proportions of the three components based on various estimates of armed service, veteran's bureau and civilian needs in 1950, which in turn will be conditioned by the results of present military campaigns. It is extremely difficult to project plans under such circumstances, especially when some in high station intimate that there will be an overproduction of physicians no matter what happens. It is inconceivable to us that on a world basis this would become true as soon as 1950 so that at this point we expect to continue our modest contribution to the total.
Major Arthur Edson MacNeill MC AAF has been appointed Instructor in Anatomy and Secretary of the School to take this post whenever he is released from a tour of active duty in aviation medicine, which began in 194-1. Doctor MacNeill, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, served as staff assistant in the Hitchcock Clinic from 1938 until 1941, following an internship in Hitchcock Hospital. His return brings back to us another former staff member, Lydia Rhoades MacNeill, and their little daughter Marjorie Ann.
John P. Bowler, our Professor of Surgery, and John F. Gile, our Professor of Clinical Surgery, attended the annual meeting in Boston of the New England Surgical Society. Doctor Gile was reelected to the Secretaryship and Doctor Bowler was appointed an alternate member of the American Board of Surgery.
Rolf C. Syvertsen, Professor of Anatomy, and for two decades Secretary of the School, has been appointed Assistant Dean.
Capt. Frank H. Connell, our Professor of Parasitology, on active duty with the epidemiological and preventive medicine sections, has moved into a recently liberated French sector. His is occupying quarters vacated by the Gestapo and discovered a booby trap in his fireplace before lighting the fire.
Lt. Comdr. John A. Coyle MC, our Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Anatomy, was seen recently sitting on his sea chest at San Bruno, Cal., looking westward, with a big jump imminent.
Leslie K. Sycamore, our Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Roentgenology, Secretary of the Grafton County Medical Society, is President of New Hampshire Physicians Service (The Blue Shield) which has been in operation since August and has already enrolled approximately 70 percent of the physicians in the State.
Our Assistant Professor of Surgery, Dawson Tyson, recently advanced to Lieutenant Colonel, came to town for a few hours of restorative treatment at Dick's House before returning to his post at Ashburn General Hospital, McKinney, Texas.
Capt. Radford C. Tanzer, our Instructor in Surgery, has been transferred from Bushnell General Hospital at Brigham City, Utah, to Cushing General Hospital at Framingham, Mass., where he is setting up a plastic surgery unit.
Maj. Nathan T. Milliken, our Instructor in Physical Diagnosis and Medicine, who has been head of a general hospital medical service in New Zealand, has been moved up to a base at least two air hops northwest, possibly Guadalcanal.
John A. Murtagh, our Instructor in Otolaryngology, took time off to attend the recent meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology in Chicago.
Lt. Comdr. Ralph W. Hunter MC, our Instructor in Anatomy, is now at the U. S. Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland, having returned from duty at the North Atlantic Naval Base in Londonderry, Ireland.
William Carpenter McCarty, our Instructor in Radiology, has returned recently from a clinical trip, visiting the Mayo Clinic and attending the joint meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society and the Radiological Society of North America at Chicago.
The new interns have started their nine months' rotating war special appointments. Ward S. Jenkins, Richard W. Lawton, Robert F. Wilson, Harold C. Woodworth, and John T. Worcester, all graduates of Dartmouth College and Medical School, come here from the third and fourth years at Yale, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Harvard and New York University respectively. David K. Mulliken and John H. Selby are graduates of the College and Columbia and Boston University respectively. Lloyd G. Bartholomew is a graduate of Union and Vermont. Dr. Worcester, who reported to Dick's House as a patient upon arrival, has been convalescing rapidly and would be on duty by now. 1931 Lt. Wayne Parker Bryer MC USNR, who was serving aboard an attack transport during the invasion of Saipan, has been specially cited by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz USN as having "worked skilfully and tirelessly, administering to wounded men evacuated from the combat zone." Doctor Bryer was engaged in general practice at Hampton, N. H., before being called to active duty. 1938 Lt. Douglas E. Butman MC USNR, with fractures of both tibias, was evacuated from England to the Naval Hospital at St. Albans, Long Is- land. 1939 Lt. Franklin Martin MC USNR was mar- ried to Julia Anne Peters on September 11 at Camp Lejeune, N. C. 1940 Lt. William H. Fairweather MC USNR is in a medical unit, with a marine division, which was reported in the N. Y. Times as having been speedy and efficient in the care of wounded during the very severe fighting on Peleliu. 1941 Lt. Stuart M. Anderson MC USNR was married to Elaine Crommett on last December 27 at Falmouth Foreside, Me., which, only a rumor before, is now officially reported because the in- vitation has just reached me.
Lt. I. Lewis Chipman MC USN has been in San Francisco and Monterey with Janet for the past six weeks while his ship was overhauled.
Arthur Guyer CBM USCG, after service on both the Atlantic and Pacific, has been honorably discharged and signed on by the American Field Service and is awaiting a passport.
Lt. Franklin Lynch II MC USNR, hit by a radio controlled glider bomb while landing his LST in the invasion of Southern France, suffered scalp wounds, multiple contusions, concussion, and a comminuted fracture midshaft right femur. The ammunition exploded and the ship burned, and an Army orthpod in Naples put on a plate and a spica. He is now at St. Albans, Long Island, after an evacuation by plane from Italy.
