1922

Greetings Twoters! A recent note from; George Sackett tells of his duties as chief of X-ray service at the Moore General Hospital, Swannanoa, N. C. George is a lieutenant colonel in the Medical Corps and has a son also in the Army undergoing, medical corpsman training in Texas. His other three boys and Mrs. Sackett are with him.

Not so long ago a phone call from Pop Clewelt was the first indication I had of his arrival in Bethlehem as an inspector for the steel company. He and Edna are living at 1436 Madison Ave. For a good many years Pop lived in Kingston, Pa., and devoted all of his time to radio work, writing and composing his own shows over the Mutual network. Pop was drafted in early '42 and after basic training quickly became a sergeant. Some months thereafter he was discharged as being over thirtyeight and after a short period with the OWI came to Bethlehem.

Frank Horan has been elected a trustee of Vermont Academy.

Better-late-than-never item! The Annual-Night-Out for Boston's Twoters occurred Friday, November 12, with a period of meditation before dinner at the University Club. Those who gathered to celebrate the next day's victory over Cornell were Booth, Bowler, Bullen, Caldwell, Carter, Dwight, Green, 1 light, Kattwinkel, Litchfield, Mann, Morrissey, Porter, Rambach, Tredennick and Winkler.

Latest news of the Bunnells: ""Wilbur James Bunnell and his wife, Gladys Alexander Bunnell, are both well. Mr. Bunnell is now in Los Banos but will probably join his wife in Santo Tomas soon. They are in regular communication. Mr. Bunnell is in fine spirits and health, and is well provided with funds. He works in the camp garden and has put on weight. He is in charge of the camp bazaar where all sorts of articles are bought and sold."

I am delighted to present again Steve Kenyon in the third of the series of profiles of outstanding Twoters. Steve, the column is all yours.

JAMES ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Organizer—Administrator

One of the ways to keep informed is, of course, to be a regular reader of the trade magazines in a wide variety of fields. This is almost a prerequisite of the advertising agency business. And so it was that I ran across an item of unusual interest to the readers of this column. It was an editorial in the magazine Hospitals, and it was all about one Jimmie Hamilton and his out- standing achievements as president of the American Hospital Association.

Here is an excerpt,... "When James A. Hamilton became president in October of 1942, he brought with him a program more ambitious than most people would have considered practical. He has literally picked up the Association, shaken it, revitalized it, and left it facing many of the same tremendous problems, but with an inherent sense of power to accomplish those things so necessary if the challenge is to be met."

That item started a search for more information. It didn't take long to discover that Jim is not only a national figure—he's international.

As is to be expected with most really big men, they themselves are the poorest source of information about their own accomplishments. Nevertheless, I wrote Jim and asked him for some background material for this column. I received a very cordial reply but only the vaguest generalities, in befitting reticence, about the great work he has been doing. So I had to dig out what I was after by more devious methods. For example, if you were to take the trouble to pay a visit to the American College of Hospital Administrators, of which Jim is a former instructor and president; thence to the City Hospital of Cleveland, where he was superintendent a number of years ago; and to Yale University, where he is now Professor of Hospital Administration—you would find the imprint of Jim's driving personality upon them all and a record of accomplishment that would leave you a little dazed that one man could have crammed so much into such a relatively short span of years.

The end result of your investigations, in chronological array, would be something as follows:

First he served as instructor at Hanover, then as assistant professor at Tuck, and later, from 1926 to '36 as Superintendent of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. During this period he was also assistant graduate manager of athletics.

Jim was invited to Cleveland to reorganize the City Hospital there in 1936. I have before me an editorial clipped from the Cleveland. Press. It is dated March 2, 1938 and reads, in part, as follows:

"In the two years of James A. Hamilton's superintendence, City Hospital enjoyed the greatest period of administrative progress in its history. So it is unfortunate that Cleveland has to lose his services now through resignation to accept another post

"City Hospital, in that brief period, rose from its former low status to one of the most efficiently operated hospitals in the country. Through that record, Mr. Hamilton will long be remembered in Cleveland as an able administrator, diligent worker and fine public servant "

The job Jim left Cleveland to fill was that of Director of the New Haven Hospital, his present post.

Simultaneously through these years, Jim has contributed much to the hospital profession and public health as president, in turn, of the New Hampshire Hospital Executives, the New England Hospital Association, the College of Hospital Administrators and the American Hospital Association. In between holding those offices he has served on half a dozen major working committees of those associations.

But Jim never quite got over the yen tor teaching. He has taught formally and informally wherever his path has led him. While in Cleveland he was a lecturer at Western Reserve University; he has conducted special classes for the School of Business of the University of Chicago, and is at present Professor of Hospital Administration at Yale University, where he holds an honorary M.A. degree. He has lectured at several large universities in the South and has been on the faculties of universities in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Peru and Brazil.

At the outbreak of war he was faced with the choice of placing his talents with the Armed Services or of remaining in a civilian hospital. Seeing a real duty to each, he tirelessly decided to serve both. One of his first jobs for Washington was to work with Secretary of War Stimson on the Commission to Study the Army Medical Department. This entailed surveys of army camps in many sections of the country, a task for which he was admirably suited through experience with similar studies of hospitals and health facilities for Baltimore, Atlanta, Harrisburg and other cities.

In addition to all this, Jim continues to be a regular commuter to the Nation's capital as consultant for the Executive Office of the President, the War Production Board, the U. S. Public Health Service, Office of Foreign Relief, Pan American Sanitary Bureau and the Federal Board of Hospitalization. He was also an adviser in the organization of the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps, described by Surgeon General Parran as one of the most important pieces of health legislation to be passed by Congress.

At home, Jim manages to fit in time to serve on such boards as the Council of Social Agencies, to attend an occasional Rotary luncheon and, as a rare event, to squeeze in a session with the University Glee Club, and to get in a round or two of golf during the season. As you would expect, he serves on the Dartmouth Club of New Haven—as vice president—just as he was an officer of the Club in Cleveland.

Mrs. Hamilton was Sabra Martin of Lawrence, Mass. The Hamiltons have three daughters—Shirley Ann, 16; Joan, 13 and Cynthia, 9. In the summer, when it can be managed, they all prefer a vacation in Hanover.

JAMES A. HAMILTON '22, Director, New Haven Hospital, and Professor of Hospital Administration at Yale University.

Secretary, 1837 Arlington St., Bethlehem, Pa. Treasurer, 16 Sunset Hill Ave., Norwalk, Conn.