Medical School
AT THIS MOMENT the preliminary Selective announcements make prophecies regarding the future enrollment of the School problematical. The armed services having previously bespoken all places (women are not admitted) in future classes at least through 1945, the War Department decision to discontinue ASTP and to reduce its Army quota approximately fifty percent and the Selective Service decision to curtail drastically the deferment of premedical students makes us feel like the fabled three-headed cat which tried to walk in all directions.
The accelerated program having been in effect here so early may, however, again provide saving grace and permit the 1944 quota of medical students to be employed in what to us would appear to be an essential industry. The source of prospective physicians for enrollment in the 1945 class has not been brought into focus up to this point.
The pace of medical education for classes already in school has not slackened. Students who left here in October have been notified of their July 1945 internship appointments. A listing will appear in the June number.
The Spring scene provides a Navy parade each Wednesday with the Army and Navy of the medical unit as the lead-off battalion. There has been some intensive drilling off stage to take out the winter kinks but we hope to be able to point with pride during the coming weeks.
Harry T. French, our Professor ofNeuroanatom and senior member of the Medical Service, attended the Chicago meeting of the Board of Regents and Governors of the American College of Physicians. He stopped at Battle Creek to visit his son Lt. Arthur B. French MC AUS M'41 who is stationed at the Kel logg Sanitarium.
Leslie K. Sycamore, our Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Roentgenology, attended the Boston meeting of the N. E. Roentgen Ray Society in mid-March and then went on to Philadelphia and New York for a series of clinical visits and conferences which continued for the remainder of the month.
John J. Boardman, our Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, attended the March meeting of the Maternity and Infancy Committee of the State Department of Health.
George A. Lord and Richard H. Barrett represented the School and Hospital at the recent surgical conference on war time injuries at Lovell Hospital, Fort Devens.
1895 Clarence Wilton Milliken of Jonesport, Me., died on November 15. Although his health had been failing for some time, he continued in active practice almost until the very end from evidence provided by his classmate, H. Sheridan Baketel. "Milly was a great chap. One day last summer I was sitting in a famous fish and lobster restaurant in Kittery, which is built out on a pier. A schooner pulled in and I went out to look at it and found it came from Eastport, Me. I asked the skipper if he knew Dr. Milliken. He assured me that he did and he was the best blankety blank doctor on the Maine coast. He said that although partially paralyzed he was a better physician than most of the men who had command of all their faculties."
1910 Harry C. Storrs, our Association President and the medical superintendent of Letchworth Village, a 3700 bed institution at Thiells, N. Y., came to town to visit his son Robert C. M'41 now an assistant in Hitchcock Clinic.
1917 Capt. Waltman Walters who has been Chief of Surgery at U. S. Naval Hospital at Corona, California, has been ordered to overseas duty.
1919 Lt. Col. John M. Murray MC says: "I am Consultant in Psychiatry, and Chief of the Neuropsychiatric Branch in the Office of the Air Surgeon, Headquarters, Army Air Forces, Washington. I just got back from a five weeks stay in St. Petersburg, Florida, where I have been helping to organize a new hospital as a Convalescent Center for overseas returnees with severe operational fatigue. I am also engaged at present with Drs. Strecker, Harry Solomon, and Stanley Cobb on a psychiatric research project on returned flying personnel with persistent neurotic symptoms. It will be done through the National Research Council and about ten universities. At present my greatest hope is to get over to England where I can see operational fatigue in the making, as the boys of the Eighth Air Force step off the planes from continental raids. As you may gather from above, my present chief concerns are the care of the overseas returnees. That is what I put nine-tenths of my thought and time on now."
1921 Major Spencer T. Snedecor MC, stationed at Valley Forge, came up North on an official trip, stopped at Mt. Holyoke to pick up Jean, and surprised us all with a week-end visit.
1925 Anthony C. Cipollaro and wife came up to put an end to the winter and I must admit that the spell worked.
1928 Thomas J. Anglem, a member of the Surgical Faculty at Boston University, demonstrated to us recently that there is more collateral venous circulation than one suspects.
1929 Lt. Cdr. William J. Watson MC USNR has reported for duty at Portsmouth, Va.
1934 Maj. Joseph W. Clough MC is overseas with a station hospital in the European theatre.
1935 Col. Stewart F. Alexander MC is very busy at Headquarters in the North African area.
1938 Lt. Russell C. Norton MC USNR is now somewhere southwest of San Francisco with the Fleet.
1939 Lt. Kendall Stearns MC USNR has moved from Portsmouth to sea duty in the Pacific.
Capt. Austin R. Grant MC AUS is in England with a general hospital unit and wants to hear from his classmates, address upon request.
Capt. Richard W. Rooker MC AUS is overseas on the San Francisco side with some special detachment.
1940 Lt. Allyn B. Ley MC USNR has been assigned to ship duty.
1941 Lt. John W. Schleicher MC USNR has gone away from that cushy berth at Lido Beach and is busy at Brooklyn trying to decide how he would like his quarters done in tin.
1943 John T. Worcester USNR was married to Dorothea Ellen de Mallerais on February 19 in New York. They spent the second three- day half of their honeymoon last week end in Hanover.
We herewith apologize for the various incomplete addresses published in recent months. It was the censor. It took a long time to convince us that addresses which were common knowledge and assignments which had been published in the newspapers became hazardous to national security when published in this column but even we learn in time.
