Medical School
THE SECOND SEMESTER started with the usual alarms off-stage. They were not so far off for a few days and served as extra grief for the examination period when all of our Army were notified that they would probably be transferred to combat units of the ground forces before April first. This was momentari ly at least a consoling thought for some as the daily grind wore on but all were glad when it passed into limbo, temporarily at least, along with the story that the new Colonel exp ected setting up exercises in pajamas out of doors at 0600.
Major Dawson Tyson, our Assistant Profess or of Surgery, came up from Texas for a few days' leave and promptly went to work in the operating room just to prove that he is still master of the silk.
John A. Murtagh, our Instructor in Otol aryngology, and Clarence J. Campbell, our Brown Professor of Physiology, presented "The Respiratory Function of the Larynx" at the February meeting of the New England Otolaryngological Society. This was a report on a series of investigations conducted by an operative technique which they have been carrying on for a long period. At this meeting Dr. Murtagh was elected to membership on the Executive Committee.
A special meeting of the Grafton County Medical Society was held at the Hitchcock Hospital on February 17 where a final exp lanation of the Blue Shield program was presented to the members.
Sven M. Gundersen, our Instructor in Physical Diagnosis and Medicine, was co-author of a paper on Purpura Annularis Telangiectodes in the New England Medicine on February 17.
Kenneth L. Roper, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology on the staff of the Eye Ins titute, attended the annual meeting of the Wills Eye Hospital Society in Philadelphia on February 26th.
Leon E. Straw, Eye Institute Optician, has recently returned from New York where he has been studying newer methods for the preparation of molds for contact lenses and the techniques of fitting them.
Colin C. Stewart III, our Assistant Professor in Physical Diagnosis and Pediatrics, repres ented the School and Hospital at the March meeting of the New England Pediatric Soc iety.
James Franklin Crow, our Instructor in Preventive Medicine and Parasitology, has just returned from Central America where he completed the field work in tropical medicine and parasitology in concluding his Markle Foundation Fellowship.
icioi Willard Asa Bates of Littleton, N. H., died in Dalton early in the morning of Februa ry 8 while caring for a patient. A native of Maine, an alumnus of Exeter and Colby, he practiced in Maine, lowa, and Texas, before serving as a Major in the Medical Corps in World War I. He came to Littleton thereafter and had been in practice for 45 years when he died. He was active in many civic organi zations and a well respected citizen of his community.
1927 Major Hildrus A. Poindexter MC AUS is in the south Pacific doing work in his spec ial field of parasitology and tropical medi cine Charles N. Sullivan reports a daughter, Susan Elizabeth, born October 8, 1943, at New Britain, Conn.
1932 Capt. Arthur D. Ecker MC AUS, neur osurgeon, is stationed in England. Capt. Walter B. Crandell, MC AUS, who was a patient himself for six weeks in the early winter, has recovered completely.
1937 Capt. Jesse M. Gait is now chief of a service at Fort Dix. Anne is keeping house at Mt. Holly where she will stay until June when she expects to be in Hanover. 1938 Lt. Douglas E. Butman MC USNR is somewhere in the British Isles with his cons truction battalion which is doing big things.
Lt. Santino F. Lando MC USN is doing neuropsychiatry and routine surgery on his beautiful South Sea Isle which he will swap for 1/3 acre, more or less, of Waltham and will throw in his furnished apartment with hula service.
1940 Lt. Richard P. Storrs, MC USNR will be glad to hear from you, c/o Fleet Postmaster, San Francisco.
Lt. W. W. Winchester MC AUS has left Shreveport, La., for duty overseas
Lt. Edward P. Wells MC AUS, Training Base Comd. A.F.T.C., Miami, is rapidly shapi ng up as a flight surgeon.
1941 Lt. J. Dana Darnley MC AUS stopped in Hanover on his way home from the Montreal Neurological Institute where he concluded his appointment to begin his indoctrination course at Carlisle.
Lt. Everett W. Czerny MC USNR was marr ied to Elizabeth Rush Gregory at Westfield, N. J., on January 29 and has gone overseas on amphibious duty with Lts. Stuart M. Anderson, Franklin Lynch II and William Sinclair Jr. Lt. John W. Schleicher, who was attached to Ship's Company, remained at Lido Beach.
This afternoon, March 10, Jane Murtagh, with more hair than her father, was born to Eleanor and John Murtagh which caused great rejoicing among the parents and pros pective godparents.
SENIOR MEDICAL OFFICER on an aircraft carrier is Comdr. John T. Smith M'27 (MC) USN. (Portrait by Walter Beach Humphrey '14.)
