Medical School
THE NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL class matriculated on March 5 with 24 men representing 48 colleges, institutes, and universities, only 13 of which appeared more than once on the list. They are Amherst, Bates, Bluefield, Boston College, Boston University, Bowdoin, Brown, Carnegie Tech., The Citadel, Clark University, Colby, Colorado University, Dartmouth, Detroit, Emory and Henry, George- town, Harvard, Holy Cross, Johns Hopkins; Manhattan College, Michigan, Oshkosh State Teachers College, Penn State, College of Puget Sound, St. Benedict's, St. Charles, Southwestern Tech., Syracuse, Temple, Tufts, Union University, University of Washington, Williams, Wisconsin, and Yale.
There are all stages of preparation from a Ph.D. down through the A.B. to four terms of the bare minimum in premedical requirements. Only two are seniors in absentia from Dartmouth. The total enrollment is 62, with 23 in the second year, and only 15 clinical clerks, the War Department having again refused to approve clerkships as interim training. The military predominates with 69 percent of the total, with one of the civilians a veteran.
Since our last column the School and Hospital have been represented on the Council of the New England Pediatric Society and at the New Hampshire Conference on Social Welfare by Colin C. Stewart, Assistant Professor of Physical Diagnosis and Pediatrics; at the New England Otological Society meeting by John A. Murtagh, Instructor in Otolaryngology; at the meeting of the New Hampshire Radiology Society by Leslie K. Sycamore, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Radiology, and William C. McCarty, Instructor in Radiology.
The Dartmouth Eye Institute has been represented at the meetings of the Section of Ophthalmology of the New York Academy of Medicine and the New England Ophthalmological Society by Kenneth L. Roper, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Carl F. Breisacher, Instructor in Ophthalomology; at the annual meetings of the Maine and New Hampshire Societies of Optometry with papers on "Modern Subjective Tests for Astigmatism," "Importance of Astigmatic Correc- tions in Binocular Vision," and "The Correction of Astigmatism: Objective versus Subjective Tests;" at the meeting of the Central New York Optometric Society with a paper on "Subjective Tests for Astigmatism and the Effect of Astigmatic Corrections on Binocular Vision—Especially Aniseikonia;" at the Cuyahoga Academy of Optometry, Cleveland, with a paper on "Aniseikonia" all by Robert E. Bannon, Instructor in Physiological Optics, and at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Optometry, Chicago, with a four part paper "On Astigmatism" by Robert E. Bannon and Rita Walsh, Clinical Fellow in Physiological Optics.
Maj. Nathan T. Milliken MC AUS, Instructor in Physical Diagnosis and Medicine, is rumored to be on Saipan taking care of cases flown down from Iwo Jima.
Maj. Radford C. Tanzer MC AUS, Instructor in Surgery, stationed at Cushing General, had his new gold leaves with which to surprise his wife when she got leave and came all the way from England to surprise him.
William L. McLaughlin, M'38; P & S, Columbia '40; Intern, MHMH '40-'42: Resident Squier Urological Clinic, '42-'44; on the Urological Service of the Hitchcock Clinic, has been appointed Instructor in Surgery.
1927 Major Hildrus A. Poindexter MC AUS with the - General Medical Laboratory somewhere in the Netherlands East Indies, was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for "meritorious service in support of military operations against the enemy." Major Poindexter received official commendation twice during the Bougainville campaign. 1930 Maj. Howard P. Serrell MC AUS -Auxiliary Surgical Group, was awarded the Silver Star Medal for gallantry in action when he flew into Bastogne where he operated night and day to save the lives of. many of the seriously wounded cut off from any possibility of evacuation and under constant bombing and shell fire. James S. Cullyford MC AUS, AMCT, IsTO, IS supposed to have his picture in here somewhere.
1932 Capt. Arthur D. Ecker MC AUS has been assigned to a Boston City Hospital unit now in England.
Lt. Oliver S. Hay ward MC USNR has moved rrom Italy to the Near East and has been up to Damascus to take a random sample of the rat population.
1934 Capt. Ralph S. Keyes MC AUS is in charge of a small hospital unit in Assam with 23,000 foot peaks of the Himalayas for scenery, and is treating all comers, military and native. Capt. Stanley W. Yudicky MC AUS, a member of a combat surgical team, can unfold a complete operating room out of three trunks and go to work on a moment s notice. He is somewhere along the Rhine. 1935 Lt. Col. and Mrs. Stewart F. Alexander announce Deane (the ribbon was pink), a December 30 arrival at Bay Ridge, N. J. 1936 Dr. and Mrs. Hermann Nelson Sander announce Martha Louise, 8-4, on February 7 at Manchester, N. H.
1937 Lt. Comdr. Harry B. Eisberg MC USN commuting from Stonington, Conn., to the USNAAF at Westerly, R. 1., took time off to c,ome up with Ann to recount the jumps from the USPHS Marine Hospital at Staten Island to the Navy at Norfolk, the Navy Medical School at Washington, the Naval Air Stations at Pensacola and at Seattle, Moffett Field, War Surgery at University of California, Flight Surgeon in a Scouting Squadron in the Pacific, then Espirito Santu, Yugi, Sydney, Sterling Island, and now Rhode Island. The only Dartmouth Medic he saw was Lt. Dana T. Goldthwaite who came off a cruiser at Espirito Santu.
Charles E. Richards, Jr., after three years in the AAF, is settling down to a quiet residency at Duke Hospital, Durham, N. C. 1938 Lt. Douglas E. Butman MC USNR came to town to try out his jeep knees. He demonstrated that he was covered with resistance, full of zip and could navigate fully except for a slight catch going down stairs. He expects reassignment by April 1.
Lt. Roger H. Cheney MC AUS, after Harper at Detroit; 40 months of neurosurgery at Penn; a short nightmare assignment with a World War I Veterans Facility, is now on the Neurosurgical service at Worthington General waiting to be sent overseas.
Lt. Santino F. Lando MC USN, after returning from the Pacific, sailed in and out of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth on house calls for the Dependents Clinic for a month in concluding his duty here and is now at the Center at Bethesda taking neuropsychiatry. Lt. Corbin Moister MC USNR finally broke away from the Recruiting Service and went through amphibious training at Norfolk and is now whipping across the Pacific as chief surgeon to a flock of 36 LST's. Is "whipping" the right word? 1939 Franklin Martin, Jr., MC USNR has gone into the Pacific with a Corps Evacuation Hospital.
Capt. Dwight Parkinson MC AUS has worked his way across France, Belgium, Holland, and is now setting up his aid station in a small German school house.
Lt. Eben Stoddard MC USNR is on his way home just as his brother, Lt. Comdr. Warren J. Stoddard, is ordered from V-12 to sea duty via Norfolk. They hope to meet en route. Lt. Richard Watson MC USNR has completed eighteen months on his destroyer and is supposed to be on his way home for a new berth.
1940 John and Mary Lilly, stopped off for a night on their way home from Mt. Mansfield and tried to stretch our 19th Century physics around his work as a Fellow in Biophysics at the Eldridge, Reeves Johnson Foundation at Pennsylvania.
Capt. Amos R. Little MC has moved from Caspar, Wyoming to Rapid City, S. D., where he is still jumping.
Lt. Richard P. Storrs MC USNR is in Philippine waters, still on his destroyer, and needs to be warned about that phoney Nip money.
Capt. W. W. Winchester MC AUS wrote that he was functioning with an Air-Evac Holding Co. at an airstrip and had seen Browning, Yudicky, Pyrtek and Clymer. 1941 Capt. Edwin G. Bovill, Jr., MC AUS, is assigned to a Field Hospital and is on the western front.
Lt, Everett W. Czerny MC USNR is assigned to an APL for a several months tow across the Pacific to bring a dear little nest to about a thousand CB's somewhere. While still at Tampa he had a CB patient who was with Doug Butman's outfit in Normandy.
Capt. Arthur B. French MC AUS got his bars and his baby almost at the same time. Harry Tapley French 11, 8-11, was born here on January 20, and Arthur got so excited when he heard the news that he dove over the handle bars and broke his left wrist. He is in England with a hospital unit.
Lt. Franklyn Lynch II MC USNR came to town to show off his cast and crutches. He is very nimble but even so he says that the screws in his bone plate somehow got broken. He is still checking in at Chelsea.
Lt. Charles A. Pinderhughes MC AUS is some- where on duty but has reported no details.
Lt. John W. Schleicher MC USNR is still on that destroyer he built, hoping to keep the paint job nice and has decided that warm salt water can get to be enough.
Lt. William Sinclair MC AUS, after recruiting around Manchester for months, has gone to the Pacific.
Robert C. Storrs came to town to renew contacts; to report on high water in Ohio and pediatrics in Cincinnati where he has a residency at Children's.
1942 Lt. Elmer L. Crehan MC USNR and Lt. Albert B. Ferguson Jr., MC USNR are both attached to Med. Companies with a Marine Division on an island in the Pacific. The Hedgehog says that St. Elmo looks more like the Marines than the Marines do.
Lt. Rowland B. French MC USNR assigned to F.M.F., sustained a shrapnel wound of the left thigh at Iwo Jima and was evacuated to another island for treatment.
Lt. William L. Jamison MC USNR was at Newport for a few weeks, then went to Camp Le Jeune and has probably shipped out by now. 1943 Lt. John T. Worcester MC USNR has recovered and is on duty at MHMH. His wife remained in New York where she will begin an appointment July 1.
Lt. Ward S. Jenkins MC AUS is engaged to Elizabeth Howell, Skidmore '41 of Willsboro, N. Y. The date of their marriage has not been announced.
Thomas W. McElin is on an affiliation at Lake County Sanatorium at Waukegan. He has been accepted for a Fellowship at the May Clinic and will "marry the girl'' in Boston in June before going out.
It is not too soon to send in your Alumni Fund check.
