Medical School
THE CHIEF OF NAVAL PERSONNEL is contemplating the ordering of men from units at Holy Cross, Bates, Yale, Dartmouth, Colorado, Emory & Henry, and Colby to enroll in our new class beginning in the March term. These eight men, together with the Army group already designated, would take up 60 per cent of the possible enrollment. The one man from the Dartmouth unit com- pleted four terms of a classical course at St. Charles, Baltimore; two and a half years with the Fleet; four terms of V-12 premedi- cine; and is now on duty at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital. The others are still but names on a roster to us. In the Bureau is now being considered the possibility of con- tinuing for an extra semester in the College or of ordering to the School nine others who will complete the Navy premedical course here at the end of this term and would not for two terms be able to begin the study of medicine elsewhere.
The present manpower demand from the war industries in relation to Selective Serv- ice registrants in 4 F adds a new uncertainty to the future of the premedical students of the College still remaining in the course. In the Class, of 1947 due next to begin medicine there now remain but eight premedics, of which three are 4F, two are IA, one is an Air Force cadet, one is IC, and one is still under eighteen. This leads one to conclude that what seemed to be the wiser provisions in the World War II Selective Service Law for the conservation of a basic minimal source of future professional men have not worked out at all well in operation even in the vital field of medicine where, after the Autumn, the input at least for the moment will have been cut to a trickle. Theie were those who had believed that no modern war could last six months, who in June 1944 were still whispering softly: "Well, at least, no modern war could last as long as six months longer". That belief cut the props from under many of those safeguards and sidetracked a number of important correctives that, finally applied, might even then have shortened the war and brightened the future. Certainly the immediate production of professional men cannot be likened to the lumber problem of taking to the sawmill more logs faster. It may turn out to be more like waiting for the results of a reforestation program.
Colin Stewart, Assistant Professor in Physical Diagnosis and Pediatrics, attended the January meeting in Boston of the Council of the New England Pediatric Society.
John A. Murtaugh, Instructor in Otolaryngology, attended the January meeting of the American Triological Society in Philadelphia.
Kenneth L. Roper, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology in the Eye Institute, attended the December meetings of the New York Academy of Medicine and the New England Ophthalmological Society.
Frank A. Connell, Professor of Parasitology, on duty in France with the Malaria Control Detachment, has been promoted to Major and given a staff appointment.
The National Board of Medical Examiners awarded certificates to the following graduates of this School after Part III at the respective centers: Elmer L. Crehan M' 42, William J. Dignam M' 42, Rowland B. French M' 42, Josiah Fuller M' 42, Robert C. Rainie M' 42, at Boston; J. Dana Darnley M'41, Amos R. Little Jr. M'40, Denver; Frank P. Brooks M' 42, Robert S. Nichols M' 42, at Philadelphia. Part I will be held here on February 19-21.
1911 Clayton Elbert Royce has changed his address from Jacksonville to Lutz, Florida. 1923 Norman T. Crane MC AUS has been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and has been home for ten days with his family in Plainfield, N. J. 1925 Lt. Col. Stanley F. Ungar, 9th Air Force Flight Surgeon and Air-Medalist, has been awarded the Purple Heart. 1928 Lt. S. Dow Mills MC USNR may be addressed at 2820 R St. S.E., Washington 20, D. C. 1929 Comdr. William J. Watson MC USNR is the orthopod at a new base hospital in the Panama Canal Zone in which region he has been on duty for almost half the standard tour. In October his family count went up to three with a second boy which he expects to see just in time for his first birthday party. 1931 David A. and Ernest H. Latham came to town last month for a brief visit while Lt. David MC USNR with a Marine Corps Air Wing was on leave. They were in fine form and just as identical as ever. Ernest is carrying the surgical partnership in Lowell for the duration. 1932 William S.. Conklin, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Oregon Medical School and Assistant Medical Director of the Tuberculosis Unit of the University Hospital, spent the Christmas Holidays with his architect brother George W. who is a patient at the Naval Hospital in Seattle after two years duty in North Africa. 1934 Paul Charles McCarthy Zamecnik, Instructor in Medicine and OSRD researcher at Harvard, came to town with Mary for a bit of skiing. He precipitated our famous December- January 1944-1945 thaw. Something always happens when he is around. He determined in Copenhagen that the oxygen consumption of one fibroblast per hour at 22° C was about 5x10"7 ul O2 and the Nazis invaded Denmark. 1935 Capt. Walter B. Crandell's Auxiliary Surgical Group has joined up with an Evacuation Hospital assigned to the 7th Army. 1939 Capt. Austin R. Grant MC AUS, who was in Belgium during the first week in December his Evacuation Hospital, reports having previously had a reunion with Dwight Parkinson just back from a combat assignment as a Battalion Surgeon.
Lt. Bruce Lemmon MC USNR came home from Tulagi for Christmas and is now stationed at the Naval Hospital in New Orleans.
Lt. Eben Stoddard MC USNR was the doctor on the PT boat that ran the two and a half hour Japanese gauntlet of Wasile and Kaoe Bays on Halmahera to rescue_ "the half-conscious Navy fighter pilot floating in a rubber raft who had been shot down oyer the Lolobata airstrip at the time of the invasion of Morotai. Eben has been with the MTB squadron for eighteen months and in the Southwest Pacific for ten. He says that he now believes in miracles. 1940 Capt. Edward P. Wells MC AUS is in France with the same Evacuation Hospital as Walter Crandell.
Capt. J. Wallace Davis MC AUS, a flight surgeon overseas, is engaged to Gail Gardner of Spokane, Washington.
Lt. George C. Darr, MC USNR has been on the Pacific for sixteen months, including Leyte, but has seen only Dick Watson. Although he boarded Storrs's ship, he missed him.
Capt. _ Morris J. Seligman is a Battalion Sur- geon with an infantry outfit somewhere in the Pacific area.
1941 Lt. J. Dana Darnley MC AUS went with an Ordnance Battalion somewhere in the Pacific area in November.
Arthur G. Guyer is tenting in Italy with the British as an ambulance driver in the American Field Service.
1942 Lt. Elmer L. Crehan MC USNR went from Portsmouth to Camp Lejeune and then to the West Coast, probably to Pendleton.
X. fivuaui; w 1 S.IIUICIUU. Lt. Josiah Fuller MC USNR left next to take a berth as Medical and Recreation Officer for four destroyer escorts. He dines with the Admiral, somewhat removed, being always one rung below the flag lieutenant.
Lt. Robert S. Nichols MC USNR became the proud parent of 7 lb. Carol Sue on November 22, her Grandfather Tanzi's birthday, and four days later he hit the Pacific on an APA. Roxie will return to Hanover shortly.
Lt. Richard J. Spillane MC USNR was due at Christmas time for an APA assignment out of 'Frisco. He saw Bob Nichols just before he shipped out.
