Medical School
THE SCHOOL OPENED in short form at 0800 July 1 with registration as part of the first meeting of each class. All expected were present or came in late except two. Pfc. John F. Gile Jr., AUS resigned in favor of an interlude with the ground forces and is a member of Company B, 36 Bn., R.T.C., Camp Grant, Illinois. Pfc. George E. Landis Jr., AUS, who was in ASTP at Yale, was ordered to other duty at the end of his preprofessional curriculum there. The Army has not sent a replacement for either.
The graduating class all started clinical clerkships here on June 21 only to have the Army group ordered out forty-eight hours later on the basis that they were "to be utilized in a Medical Department installation to supplement and to reinforce the enlisted personnel regularly assigned to such installations" said Lt. Gen. Somervell. John G. Baker and William R. Brewster Jr. are at Tilton General Hospital, Fort Dix. William C. Mussey went to Fitzsimmons General Hospital at Denver. Earl T. Owen is at the Station Hospital, Camp Pickett, Va. Edward B. and Walter S. Price are in the Medical Section at Fort Meade, Md. Charles W. Pierce and P. Richard Sholl are at Station Hospital, Fort Devens. Robert E. Nystrom is at Camp Grant where, on night K.P., he claims he peeled thirteen gallons of spuds and a sack of turnips. We told him that in World War I nothing under twenty-five gallons was considered a decent night's work for a soldier, especially one with two years of medical training.
The annual meeting of the New Hampshire Medical Society at Manchester was attended by Doctors H. T. French, L. K. Sycamore, K. L. Roper, S. M. Gundersen and J. H. Folley. Doctor Gundersen was on the program with "Primary Atypical Pneumonia of Unknown Etiology."
Dr. John B. McKenna attended the annual convention of the American Psychiatric Convention in Philadelphia.
"Androgen Control in Carcinoma of the Prostate" by Doctors John P. Bowler and Scott F. Pedley appeared in 17 Vol. 230 of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Doctor John A. Murtagh* attended the June meeting of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society in New York.
At the annual meeting of the AMA in Chicago the School, Eye Institute and Hospital were represented by Doctors H. T. French, L. K. Sycamore, H. M. Burian, and Assistant Professor of Research in Physiological Optics K. N. Ogle with the latter two on the program of the Ophthalmology Section. Doctors French and Burian also attended meetings respectively of the American Diabetes Association and the Research Association in Ophthalmology before the latter of which Doctor Burian presented a paper.
Doctor Carl F. Breisacher became a certificant in June of the American Board of Ophthalmology.
Doctors John B. Holyoke and Gordon D. Stokes have gone from the Department of Pathology to begin Fellowships in Pathology and Medicine respectively at the Mayo Foundation. Doctor Maurice E. Costin Jr., has concluded his assistantship at the Hitchcock Clinic to begin a Surgical Fellowship there also.
Doctor William A. Ellis came on July 1 from a Surgical Residency at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine to appointments as Assistant in Surgery on the staff of the Hitchcock Clinic and Hospital and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Anatomy of the School.
The final blow to the hopes of our civilians in the First Year Class came with the publication of one paragraph of the 1945 Military Establishment Appropriation Act: "Provided, That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for any expense incident to educating persons in medicine (including veterinary) or dentistry if any expense on account of their education in such subjects was not being defrayed out of appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year 1944 prior to June 7, 1944."
A continuous series of Selective Service and Army rulings and advice directed toward avoidance of interruption in the completion of their premedical requirements has left them stranded apparently for the duration of their course, in civilian status.
1895 H. Sheridan Baketel has given us his summer address as Greenland, N. H. 1899 Charles W. Pease is now Director of the Hillsborough County Health Department at Tampa, Fla.
1912. Lt. Col. Clarence E. Dunbar who is on active duty somewhere in the Mediterranean area reports his son Richard somewhere overseas Atlantic and his son Robert somewhere overseas Pacific.
1916 Howard P. Sawyer, new address R.F.D. I, Sambornville, N. H., whose son is in our Army Unit, sent for him to come home on his furlough to learn the joys of rural independence. We haven't found out whether he turned out to be a dry hand milker.
1917 Comdr. Bartlett C. Shackford MC USNR has moved on from San Bruno to an advanced base in the Pacific area.
1923 Col. John W. McKoan Jr., MC is the commanding officer of a 750 bed evacuation hospital which moves its tents as fast as the lines move north up the Italian boot. He went ashore at Oran and has been in all the hot spots since.
1924 Capt. Sam Sparhawk MC AUS is Divisional Malariologist in a tropical spot in the Pacific area.
Lt. Comdr. James J. Hennessey and wife dropped in to say that he is now a veteran and has returned to civilian practice in Hartford, Conn. We talked the old gang over and there should have been some burning ears.
Curtis Crump has a new address which sounds farther out and more spacious at Red Oak Road, Lakeview Park, Asheville, N. C.
1927 Maj. Winslow S. Edgerly MC AUS is overseas with a Medical Dispensary perhaps in the Mediterranean area.
"There seems to be no danger of an actual consumer shortage at this time," said Health Commissioner Ernest L. Stebbins as he kept close watch over the New York milk supply. 1930 Maj. Howard P. Serrell MC AUS has not written us about his promotion or where he is but we got it from our private F.8.1, service.
1932 Capt. Arthur D. Ecker with the 158th General Hospital has a new APO No. which a postcard will bring to you.
Maj. Hollis E. Vernon has been assigned to the 115th Evacuation Hospital which was being activated at Camp Shelby.
Lt. E. Seymour Burge MC USNR on June 26 was celebrating his 19th month of active duty with papaya appetizer, sea turtle southern fried, baked fresh native bananas, heart of palm salad, etc. He is doing surgery for a Marine Aviation group after a few weeks of pioneering on a Pacific island.
1933 Capt. Robert F. Dickey MC is Flight Surgeon in the Troop Carrier Command based somewhere in England.
Capt. Irving W. Kramer MC AUS was on Tarawa during the Spring but we have heard a rumor of a new hop.
1934 Capt. Kenneth B. Jacques is Chief of the Orthopedic Service and Area Air Force Orthopedic Consultant stationed at Key Field, California.
1933 Maj. Charles H. Flint is Executive Officer of the 113th Evacuation Hospital which was activated at Camp Gordon, Ga. 1936 Capt. Francis Brown is with a Station Hospital in the Northern Pacific area.
Doctors John F. Jewett, John R. Ross Jr., and Ralph H. Seeley Jr., all captains now in MC AUS, have new addresses.
Lt. John L. Morrison MC AUS has gone overseas with a general hospital unit. 1937 Capt. Nelson M. Black Jr., MC AUS has had just time enough to become accustomed to his new rank.
Capt. Jesse M. and Anne Gait are rejoicing over the birth of a son, John Edward, on June 18 at Hanover.
Capt. John F. Hardham is an Instructor at the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. Capt. Daniel P. McEndy MC AUS is with a general hospital on a recently acquired Pacific island.
Lt. Douglas H. Robertson MC USNR is at the Naval Hospital. Brooklyn, N. Y. 1938 Lt. Alan B. Coggeshall MC AUS has finished his surgical residency at Grasslands and is being put through at Carlysle Barracks before being sent to O'Reilly General Hospital at Springfield, Mo.
Lt. Eben Stoddard MC USNR has been on and off New Guinea and the Admiralty Islands. He has also been on a P. T. Squadron tender.
Lt. and Mrs. Charles S. Oliver announced the birth of Thierry Jeffcoat on June ioth one month before his father went on active duty at the Newport Naval Hospital.
1940 Lt. William H. Fayerweather MC USNR was on New Caledonia and Goodenough Island and is now somewhere else with the Marines. He has seen Lts. Harold H. MacGilpin and Harold S. Robinson who are both in the Southwest Pacific on destroyer duty. Capt. Frederic G. and Katherine Worden stopped in for a spot of chatter on a swing up here from Wendover Field where he is stationed with the AAF in psychiatry.
1941 Lt. I. Lewis Chipman MC USNR who has been on destroyer duty in Pacific waters has seen Richard P. Storrs and Harold S. Robinson. He has for some time been threatening to come to San Francisco and Janet who is back in our office carries an airway reservation in her handbag.
Gordon D. Stokes was married to Gertrude Elizabeth Witt on July 1 at Ramsey, N. J. 1943 Richard B. Magee is engaged to Anne Louise Schimer, Wilson College 1942, of Bedford, Pa. She is attached to the American Red Cross unit in Philadelphia.
John P. Chandler at Pennsylvania and Eugene W. Martz Jr., at New York University has been elected to Alpha Omega Alpha.
David S. Smith is engaged to Ruth O'Leary, Chestnut Hill College 1944, of Maiden, Mass. She is attached to the American Red Cross unit in Boston.
1943 William E. Schumacher was married to Anne Holbrook Williams on March 18 at Dalton, Mass. They are living at 71 Greene Street, Bur lington, Vt.
William W. Wilson was married to Beverly Louise Chamberlin on June 14 at Hanover. They have returned to Chicago for his senior year at Northwestern.
Bradley E. and Buffie Copeland sustained the old traditions with a hostel trip through the Berkshires in June.
Franklin H. West was married to Lela Maxine Calvin of Narberth, Pa. on July 1. She is a graduate of West Chester State Teachers College, 1943.
Jerrold von Wedel will intern at St. Luke's on the Surgical Service. He moved into 124 Haven Avenue in Frank Dane's place when Frank joined the benedicts.
1944 Merlin Kearfott DuVal Jr., was married on June 21 to Carol Edith Nickerson of Upper Montclair, N. J. They spent their honeymoon on Bustin's Island in Casco Bay, and are now living at 20 West Wheelock Street, Hanover.
