Medical School
THE COLLEGE GRADUATION EXERCISES held on April 2 in Parkhurst Hall were mostly a Medical School affair. President Hopkins awarded diplomas to 15 clinical clerks in their fifth semester, still here on hospital or departmental services, and conferred bachelors degrees on 20 members of the second year class. The ceremony was followed by an informal reception and refreshments in the Hovey Room at Tljayer Hall.
The Pfc's of the Army Unit finally came to rest in the service command of their respective third year schools. Harold C. Habein Jr. is at Fitzsimmons General Hospital at Denver going to Minnesota. Walter S. Rothwell is at Waltham Regional Hospital awaiting the third year at Harvard. Howard P. Sawyer Jr. is at Valley Forge General Hospital going to Temple. Peter Beck and John M. Van Buren are at Halloran General Hospital, Staten Island, due to begin at Columbia in July.
During the past few weeks the School and Hospital have been represented at the New England Urological Meeting by Dean John P. Bowler, Professor of Surgery, and Doctor William L. McLaughlin, Instructor in Surgery; at the New England Roentgen Ray Meeting by Leslie K. Sycamore, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Roentgenology; at the New Hampshire Roentgen Ray Meeting by Doctor Sycamore and William C. MacCarty Jr., Instructor in Radiology, and at the Regional Conference on Premedical Education at Union College, Schenectady by Assistant Dean, Rolf C. Syvertsen, Premedical Adviser.
Colin C. Stewart III, Assistant Professor of Physical Diagnosis and Pediatrics, was married on April 6 to Elaine Mock at a quiet ceremony at the home of her parents, Mr. and-Mrs. Carl Mock of White River Junction. Mrs. Stewart is a graduate of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital School of Nursing and until recently has been a member of the Nursing Staff of the Hitchcock Clinic. They will be at home at 5 Tyler Road.
The Dartmouth Eye Institute has been represented recently at meetings of the Ophthalmological Section of the New York Academy of Medicine and New England Ophthalmological Society by Hermann M. Burian, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, and of the New York Academy of Optometry by Robert E. Bannon, Instructor in Physiological Optics. Kenneth L. Roper, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, spent two clinical weeks in New York in March taking the course in Ocular Motility given by Dr. James W. White of the New York Post Graduate Medical School.
1882 Charles A. Morse is living at 16571/2 West 12th Place, Los Angeles, 33. 1884 Edwin Hamilton Bidwell, for many years at Niles, Mich., died on November 13. 1891 Albert Simeon Doloff has moved from New Hampton, N. H., to Litchfield, Conn. 1894 John William Dewis, having practiced Internal Medicine for many years with his office at 270 Commonwealth Avenue and home in Brookline, is now residing at 7 Gregory Street, Marblehead. 1895 Dr. H. Sheridan Baketel is author of an article in a recent issue of The Centaur, describing the early days of Alpha Chapter of Alpha Kappa Kappa, the medical fraternity, which was established in Dartmouth in 1888 by Dixi Crosby M'9l, and Dr. Crosby's career is briefly reviewed. 1899 Dr. Roy V. Baketel, who recently resigned from the presidency of the medical board of the Lawrence General Hospital, is continuing, on the consultation staff. He was actively associated with this institution for 33 years, and is still doing more or less work there. He has been attending physician at the Nevin's Home for the Aged for nearly 40 years, and has been president of that institution for the better part of the time.
Burt Franklin Jenness, Lt. Comdr. MC USN Ret., is Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences and Health Officer of the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy. His hobbies are verse, hunting, and fishing at Ruidoso, N. M. He is the author of three collections of sea poems, "Man O'War Rhymes," "Sea Lanes," and "Ocean Haunts." His address is 318 Fort Blvd., El Paso. Classmates please write.
Dr. Charles W. Pease, recently resigned as Health Director of the City of Tampa, Fla., but he is continuing in an advisory capacity. The Tampa papers were very laudatory of his services. 1901 Charles Everett Hills is engaged in active practice at South Natick, Mass., for the fortyfourth year. He and his wife have celebrated their fifty-second wedding anniversary and hold open house every Sunday from four to six for their four children with their husbands and wives and the nine grandchildren. 1904 William Thomas Hanson who has for many years held the post of director in psychiatric institutions in Massachusetts, most recently at Bridgewater, is now residing at 30 Bellevue Road, Wakefield. 1906 Carl Copeland MacCorison, for 35 years Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Sanatorium for the care of tuberculous children at North Reading, has retired to Bonnie Neuk on Lake Bauneg Beg in North Berwick, Maine. For reasons of health he is "now living among the ancient pines and Indian hearths which date back to 1690." We hope the essence of pine and good Maine ozone will work their restoration promptly. 1910 Harry Carl Storrs, President of our Association and proud parent of two medical sons, came to town recently to escort the elder who was ashore while his ship had a few euphemistical smudges on the paint touched up. 1914 Capt. Rollo W. liutchinson MC USN is stationed at the Naval Training and Distribution Center, at Shoemaker, Calif. 1932 William S. Conklin, Asst. Professor of Surgery at Oregon, Secretary-Treasurer of the Pacific Northwest States Chapter of the American College of Chest Physicians, and a few other things, was fourth from the left in the top row of the picture last month of the Dartmouth group at the SS Dartmouth Victory launching at Portland. He had been set back a bit in his health and it is good to know that he is in circulation again. 1933 Capt. Orrin Fluhr Crankshaw MC AUS is reported as having died but the circumstances are not known to us here. 1934 Capt. DeHart Kraus MC AUS is # with a medical detachment somewhere in the Pacific.
Maj. Nathan N. Root MC AUS is in the Office of the Division Surgeon of an armored outfit overseas. 1935 Maj. Charles H. Flint MC AUS, with an Evacuation Hospital, now has a New York APO No.
Lt. Frederick Sanborn MC USNR came up from Chelsea to report his moves from Quonset Point to 'Frisco, Wellington, Aukland, Noumea, Espirito Santos, Pago Pago, Pearl Harbor and return. He says he is having a chance to get acquainted with his son and daughter but expects he may move on any day now. 1936 Harry Marchmont-Robinson reports the arrival in Chicago on March 18 of Scott at 10 lbs. 5.
Lt. Comdr. Harold B. Orenstein MC USNR is in charge of malaria control on a Pacific Island and has seen several of the younger alumni. 1940 Gordon Stokes M'4l reports that he is in Neurology and Betty is in Radiology at the Mayo Clinic. He sees Edwin D. Bayrd and Maurice E. Costin frequently as well as Elsie Winchester who is in Anaesthesiology while W. W. is touring with the Third Army. He says that Albert Wellington Kansas Hatcher M'40 has been in combat since Anzio and can model a contour map of every foot of Italy from personal experience.
Capt. L. Joseph Pyrtek has been moving so fast with General Patton that he may not have heard yet that Mary has presented him with Susan Jane. Capt. J. Warren Davis is in India with the —st Bomb. Sq. —th Bomb Gp. as a Flight Surgeon. He has spent sometime in Burma with Col. Seagrave.
Lt. Richard P. Storrs MC USNR _ saw Lt. Harold S. Robinson and Lt. I. Lewis Chipman M'4l in a whale boat going out to their anchorage, found Lt. Harold H. MacGilpin Jr. at Eniwetok, and Lt. Bruce Lemmon M' 39 in the Admiralties. He was in on Saipan, Leyte, and Palau. 1941 Lt. Stewart M. Anderson MC USNR reported in to Portsmouth from Atlantic duty to replace Lt. Elmer L. Crehan in the Dartmouth triumvirate with Lieutenants Dignam and Fuller but they both left him shortly to go to the Pacific with the Seaßees and to destroyer escort duty on the Atlantic respectively.
Lt. William Sinclair MC USNR, who is rumored to have been with his Seaßees on a hectic Pacific Island, is now on his way to California to recuperate from a touch of rheumatic fever. Joan hopes to be on the dock to meet him. 1942 Lt. Elmer L. Crehan MC USNR went to Camp Lejeune for assignment to the Fleet Marines and joined Lt. Albert B. Ferguson MC USNR where they found Lt. Charles R. Thompson M' 43 serving his internship at the Naval Hospital. He and the Hedgehog then hopped to Camp Pendleton and got acquainted with Los Angeles and Hollywood. Then a long cruise, across the Equator and International Date Line on the same day, with appropriate ceremony, and finally an island. There, after three weeks, Ferguson while out in the boon docks severed an Achilles tendon and was hospitalized. Crehan joined him five weeks later with ureteral stone. In their ward was Sinclair given again the lucky number which ought to bring them all out well. This is all on the island where Lt. Comdr. Orenstein controls the malaria.
vyiv-uoii-Jii i-uuijujj mv uiiuaiiit, Lt. Timothy Takaro MC is a resident in orthopedics at the Santa Ana AAB Hospital, California, and is applying for a fellowship in surgery at the Mayo Clinic.
Lt. Eddy D. Palmer MC AUS has kept up his interest in parasitology and while at Rochester General reported in Vol. 24, No. 4, of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine an unusual case of Strongyloides stercoralis infection complicating dis- seminated tuberculosis.
Lt. Kenneth E. Gross MC AUS is at Pearl Har- bor en route to a certain island chain.
Lt. Alvin Lee Robinson MC USNR was on the National Board Honor List in Medicine for the November examination. 1943 Lt. Ralph R. Tyson MC USNR was married to Eleanor Miller Hare on April 21 at Ashbourne Presbyterian Church, Elkins Park, Philadelphia. 1944 Midshipman Edward A. Mortimer Jr. USNR was married to Joan, Falcon Rothwell, Smith '44, of Great Neck and Westhampton Beach, L. 1., on December 23. Among the ushers were his class- mates John Wesley Tope 3d, Forbes Delany, and Henry F. Kramer.
A BRONZE STAR MEDAL is awarded to Major Hildrus A. Poindexter m' 27, AMC (left) for meritorious service against the enemy at Treasury, Solomon Islands, from June 16 to October 30, 1944, The ceremony was held at a base in the Pacific.
