Medical School
THE WAR DEPARTMENT, after all the rumors, still had some men up its ASTP sleeve, which it is prepared to produce to the number of seven for our March 1945 class. We know their names; that they were trained at Amherst College or Syracuse University; and that they will be assigned to a hospital in the First Service Command for interim duty. The prospects for one-third of our next class are thus determined.
John P. Bowler, Dean, and Rolf C. Syvertsen, Assistant Dean, attended the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges held at Wayne University in Detroit during the last week in October. The program was interesting and significant, but it'raised more questions than it answered. The Dean went 011 to Rochester to visit clinics at Mayo's and returned to Boston to attend the annual meeting of the New England Urological
Society. The MacNeills have arrived, and he has reported for duty as Instructor and Secretary. They are living in the Bankart house in Norwich for the winter.
John B. McKenna, Instructor in Physical Diagnosis & Clinical Neurology, attended the October meeting of the Boston Society of Neurologists and Psychiatrists at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Richard H. Barrett, Instructor in Pharma cology (Anaesthesiology) attended the November meeting of the New England Society of Anaesthesiology in Boston where he presented a paper on "Diagnostic and Therapeutic Blocks in Painful Syndromes."
A special meeting of the Grafton County Medical Society was held at the School in September with Helen E. Hinman, Nutritionist of the State Board of Health, and Dr. Percy S. Pelouze, Professor of Urology at the University of Pennsylvania, as speakers.
Dr. Ralph I. Lloyd of Brooklyn, Past President of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, at a public meeting under the auspices of the Dartmouth Eye Institute, gave an illustrated address on the History of Eyeglasses.
Dr. K. W. Ascher, Ophthalmologist from Cincinnati, presented a paper and demonstration on "Aqueous Veins" at a recent Institute Staff Meeting.
Kenneth L. «Roper, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, attended the October meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology in Chicago and the Ophthalmological Section Meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine.
Carl F. Breisacher, Instructor in Ophthalmology, during September attended Dr. James F. White's course on Anomalies of the Ocular Muscles given in New York.
Lt. Comdr. Ralph W. Hunter, MC, Instructor in Anatomy, now at Bethesda, Maryland, addressed the student body of the School on his service at the North Atlantic Naval Base, and spoke of clinical advances in the treatment of exposure to low temperatures, prolonged immersion in sea water, and the effects of underwater explosions.
"Lancaster's Technique for- Cataract Extraction," American Journal of Ophthalmology' by Kenneth L. Roper, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, was selected for an abstract in Modern Medicine and for translation into Spanish for publication in El Progreso Medico, one of the leading scientific journals with wide circulation in Central and South America.
Aniseikonia—A Clinical Report Covering a Ten Year Period" by Robert E. Bannon and Wendell Triller, Clinical Fellow in Physiological Optics, was published recently in both the American Journal of Optometry and the Archives of the American Academy of Optometry.
Lt. Josiah Fuller has joined Lt. Elmer L. Crehan and Lt. William J. Dignam at the Crew Room of the Navy Yard Dispensary at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This concentration of Dartmouth strength was a shift which could not be mentioned until safely accomplished.
Lt. Timothy Takaro will report to the Army Air Base at Santa Ana at the conclusion of his indoctrination at Carlyle Barracks.
John T. Worcester, who began his internship as a patient at Dick's House, is convalescing slowly from a pericarditis, presumably on a rheumatic fever basis. Dr. Dorothea Ellen deMallerais Worcester is a Voluntary Assistant in Pathology. They have taken an apartment with the Hodders.
Our most recent graduating class is now started on its collective third year as follows: Cincinnati, Albert M. Storrs Jr.; Columbia, Walter L. Blackadar Jr., William R. Brewster Jr.; Cornell, Donald L. Burnham, Merlin K. Du Val Jr., Stephen M. Tenney; Harvard, Charles W. Pierce, Charles D. J. Regan, Louis D. Savage, Philip R. Sholl, William M. Stahl Jr.; Minnesota, William C. Mussey; New York University, John G. Baker, John B. Long; Northwestern, Edward A. Mortimer Jr., Robert E. Nystrom, John W. Tope; Pennsylvania, John R. Lindsay, Edward B. Price Jr., Walter S. Price; Southern California, Herbert B. Campbell; University of Virginia, Earl T. Owen.
1899 Elbert Alonzo Landman, a practicing physician at Plaistow, New Hampshire, for forty years, died on October 18, aged 76. 1917 D. Dexter Davis, M.D. has given us 77 Monument Avenue, Old Bennington, Vt. as a new address. We hope he will have more to say later.
Commander Bartlett C. Shackford MC is stationed at San Francisco, and living at 203 Serrana Drive.
1933 Capt. John B. Feltner AUS came home to Stark General Hospital on overseas rotation in July after two years with the same unit and is now Orthopedic Surgeon with an evacuation hospital at Camp Rucker, Ala.
1938 Lt. Douglas E. Butnam MC USNR has moved his fractured tibias up to Chelsea and is progressing well.
1939 Lt. Franklin Martin Jr. MC USNR is learning to be a field medical officer at Camp Joseph H. Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif. His Navy nurse wife5 Ensign Julia Ann Peters of Ashland, Ky., is with him.
Capt. Philip P. Thompson MC AUS is overseas with an infantry battalion medical detachment probably in the French zone. 1940 Capt. Edward P. and Barbara M. Wells announce the birth of 9 pound 14 ounce James Chandler at Hitchcock Hospital on November fifth.
Bullets to Babies is routine of Doctor Frank Cline, Navy Doctor on Tinian Island in the Marianas" complete with picture from a Marine Corps correspondent, tells of a squalling boy delivered of a Japanese woman who came out of a cave to surrender, as published in the Nemaha County Herald. "We just used what we had. at our aid station arid the water we had been heating for our coffee and then waited for the next ambulance jeep to take them to the stockade hospital."
1941 Lt. Everett W. Czerny MC USNR, who returned in July, spent two months on physical examinations at the Baltimore Armory, and is now at the" Naval Dispensary at the Tactical Air Training Center, Jacksonville, Fla.
Lt. Arthur B. French MC AUS is somewhere in England with a hospital unit and expects to be busy with fractures.
Arthur G. Guyer filled in as blue-light man, air line hooker-upper, oiler and car knocker for N.Y., N.H., & H. RR in New York before sailing for Italy as ambulance driver for the American Field Service.
Lt. Franklin Lynch II MC USNR has been transferred to Chelsea and should be trying out his femur by now.
Lt. and Edythe Mary Mclntire announce the birth on November 9 of Richard Coutts.
Lt. William Sinclair Jr. MC USNR has exchanged the European scene for the Navy Recruiting Office in Manchester, N. H. 1945 Pfc. John F. Gile Jr., in France with a general hospital, has the same APO number as his uncle, Major Archie M. Gile '17, but they have not seen each other.
