Medical School
THE WINTER TERM opened on November 5 with a third year class of twenty clinical clerks all in civilian attire, eighteen in the second year class, five of whom are still in the Army, and twelve new students: Ralph D. Brackett of Portsmouth, N. H.; Lawrence O. Carpenter of Howard, Ohio; John H. Copen- haver Jr. of Houston, Texas; Robert Flanders Jr. of Manchester, N. H.; Maurice N. Levy Jr. of Bridgeport, Conn.; Edward Carshore Matthews of Passaic, N. J.; and Thorndike C. Toops of Columbus, Ohio, from the Dartmouth V-12 program; David G. Stahl '47 returning from Great Lakes; Waverly J. Ells-worth Jr. of Akron, New York, prepared at the University of Buffalo and Emory University; and Robert E. L. Rochelle of Lima, Ohio, prepared at Harvard, both in the V-12 program; George Edward Crosen '47 of Wrentham, Mass., from the campus, and Robert B. Giles Jr. '42, of Dallas, Texas, who is returning to medicine from OSRD research and courses at M.I.T. Our total enrollment for the term is fifty.
The resultant of the various proposals for curriculum and timetable modification was the inevitable compromise, which put Neuroanatomy and Bacteriology into the first term with both classes combined. The hours for Neuroanatomy remain the same and were subtracted from the Anatomy time. Bacteriology took over Chemistry's time in the afternoon and added three morning lecture hours. Chemistry and Physiology will all come in the second term for three whole days per week, with dissection moving into the old Chemistry laboratory periods on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Hematology, Parasitology, and second term Bacteriology will come in the second term of the second year together with the remainder of laboratory diagnosis and for the first year class will not appear until 1946-47. During the transition, second year Physiology will retain its afternoon laboratory periods for the first term and will take over the old first year morning lecture hour. Otherwise the second year schedule cannot of course be altered for the class already embarked upon it.
It may not be easy to visualize what these changes have done to the timetable beyond observing that they have been made somewhat at the expense of time previously otherwise allocated, to Anatomy for instance, and have concentrated some lecture hours to perhaps a questionable extent. They will, however, meet the demand from the Physiological Sciences staff that Morphology, including Neuroanatomy, be completed before Physiology begins; that Chemistry and Physiology be combined to increase the efficiency of presentation and reduce the duplication; and that laboratory- periods begin earlier in the day so that experiments need not be continued into the evening hours. Eventually, Pathology and Pharmacology will advance into the third term and precede the clinical courses, especially Physical Diagnosis which will be integrated with the coordinating courses in Medicine and Surgery.
These changes will not have gone through one cycle until June of 1947 an<i will undoubtedly take some smoothing up as experience dictates. They are movements away from our theoretical ideal of complete correlation, toward concentration but are perhaps not as serious as we feel they would be had our ideal been more nearly approached, but the combining of Physiology, Physiological Chemistry and Pharmacology into the Department of Physiological Sciences may be no wide divergence.
It is fair to say that the faculty were not unanimous on this modification, for some were skeptical as to the seriousness of objections to the previous program or dubious about the efficacy of the solutions proposed, but all "granted that the recommendations were motivated by a desire to perfect the offerings from the point of view of the student and in the direction of more emphasis on recent developments, which would appear to be a wholesome approach, at least.
It is hoped that by December 1, Major Nathan T. Milliken will have returned to Physical Diagnosis and Medicine, and Lt. Commander Hunter to Neuroanatomy. Both are supposedly on terminal leave at this point.
Captain F. H. Connell, Professor of Parasitology, has returned from the European and Mediterranean theatres where he was actively engaged in malarial survey and control, and is glad to be again presenting the subject in the theoretical.
Lt. Col. James M. Weygand, AAF, after four years of active medical duty in executive capacity, is spending his terminal leave in clinical work at the Hospital.
Capt. Austin R. Grant '39 and Capt. Dwight Parkinson both came back to Hanover when their outfits were deactivated. They are on the house staff of the Hospital covering the surgery and pathology services during the day and are boll weeviling for a home all night.
1917 Clarence W. Spears will be found at Stephenville, Texas, on the staff of the Hospital and Clinic.
1918 Peter J. Serafin has a son, Peter Mitchell, in the freshman class of the College and registered in the premedical course.
1922 Lt. Comdr. James L. Smead is Executive Officer of the U. S. Naval Special Hospital in the buildings of Springfield College, and is able to join his family when everything is secured for the night. Rolf C. Syvertsen, on the way to the meeting of. the Association of American Medical Colleges held in Pittsburgh, visited him last month and pronounced it very good duty after looking at an album of pictures taken in Cherbourg.
1926 Major Herbert S. Talbot with his wife and son stopped here on his way home from England where he has been on duty for the duration with a Canadian hospital outfit.
1927 Hildrus A. Poindexter has been promoted to Lt. Colonel with the 19th Medical General Laboratory where he worked out the prepatent diagnostic technique for schistosomiasis japonica on Leyte and made the clinico-laboratory evaluation of the Army's polyvalent bacillary dysentery vaccine with some 30,000 tests on 11,000 men on full military duty status which seems to indicate the possibility of prophylactic immunization. He has just returned from a 5000-mile collecting expedition on Borneo and Java.
1936 William C. Mumler, not yet entirely recovered from the New Georgia campaign, but in civies, thinks that he must forswear Vermont forever and return to the Pacific Coast to practice, probably in Los Angeles ("as the most salubrious spot on the continent," he says that the Chamber of Commerce has requested him to say).
1937 Capt. Robert Birchall has returned after three years with the 2d Evacuation Hospital (St. Luke's Unit) in France, Belgium, and Germany where he had charge of the shock ward and picked up five combat stars and the Bronze Star Medal. He is now on a terminal leave trip getting acquainted with his family including Betty aged a whom he had never seen.
Scott F. Pedley has just been joined by Edgar R. Hyde as his associate in the formation of the Green Mountain Clinic at North- field where they will do Surgery-Urology and Internal Medicine respectively. Dr. Hyde returned in September from three years with an evacuation hospital which took him through the African, Sicilian, Normandy and German campaigns.
1940 Capt. Amos R. Little Jr. says the Denver Post of October 16, made his 47th mercy parachute leap Tuesday and saved the life of a badly wounded hunter who was bleeding to death in the Bitter Root Mountains. The paradoctor made the 2000-foot rescue leap with nine forest service smoke jumpers, gave emergency surgical treatment, and in the course of the trek out administered three quarts of plasma to sustain his patient until he could be flown to a Missoula hospital.
Maurice E. Costin Jr. was married to Jeanne Gauthier at St. John's Church, Rochester, Minn., on November 5.
1941 Capt. Arthur B. French spent his forty- five day leave at home here with his wife and son Harry Tapley II, and has gone to Alabama for the deactivation and reassignment to a New England hospital.
1943 Judith Anne Hoch, weighing 7 and 3, arrived on October 15, to Miggs and Eugene L. in New York.
Mrs. Rosa Nye announces the marriage of her daughter Shirley Rose Cochrane to George Long Rider on October 19 at St. Louis, Missouri.
1944 William R. Brewster Jr. was married to Harriet Overton Bullitt on September 2 at Seattle, Washington.
