Medical School
OUR OCCASIONAL THIRD-YEAR CLASS of Clinical Clerks will complete its fifth semester here this month and disperse among the four year schools. The Pathology clerks, Holden K. Farrar Jr., Harrison J. O'Connor, Fred Plum, and Adair W. White Jr.. will go to Northwestern, Harvard, Cornell and Johns Hopkins respectively. Of the Hospital clerks, Robert L. Clark has already transferred to Michigan. Donald P. Cole Jr., and William S. Hatt will go to Harvard; D. Kirkpatrick and Sterling B. Suddarth will go to Pennsylvania; and Jerome Peacock will go to Cornell. John P. Ruppe Jr., who had a clerkship divided between the Department of Physiological Sciences and the Hospital, expects to go to New York University. Roland F. Beers, the Bacteriology clerk, will fro to Rochester; James F. Dickson 111, the Radiology clerk, will go to Harvard; and Robert D. Wiley, the clerk in Anaesthesiology, will go to New York University, with Edgard E. Thomas, whose clerkship was divided between Pediatrics and ENT. The University of California began its third year on March 1, so that Edward A. McCrum and Thayer A. Smith Jr., have already completed a semester of work there.
During the past month the School and Hosment have been represented at the New Hampshire Surgical Club by Dean John P. Bowler, Professor of Surgery, and George A. Lord, Instructor in Surgery; and at the meeting of the Council of the New England Pediatrics Society by Colin C. Stewart 111, Assistant Professor of Physical Diagnosis & Pediatrics.
On the program of the annual meeting of the New Hampshire Medical Society, held in Manchester on May 15, was John Milne, Instructor in Physical Diagnosis and Medicine, with a paper on "Infectious Mononucleouis."
The Dartmouth Eye Institute was represented at meetings of the Ophthalmological Section of the New York Academy of Medicine by Hermann M. Burian, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, who discussed by invitation a paper by Dr. Ralph I. Lloyd on "The Clinical Course of Subluxation of the Crystalline Lens in Cases of Arachnodactylia," and by Carl F. Breisacher, Instructor in Ophthalmology, who also attended the meeting of the New England Ophthalmological Society in Boston.
Howard N. Kingsford, Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology, Emeritus, a member of the New Hampshire Senate and President of the New Hampshire Board of Registration in Medicine, attended the Spring meeting of that body held in Concord on March 8. At the meeting Deering G. Smith M'iß representing the Board read the following citation: "Howard N. Kingsford—college physician, teacher and pathologist; bridge player, fisherman and legislator—you have been a friend of everyone. Generations of medical students and the majority of the physicians in our state have passed in review before you. For 33 years you have served on the state licensing board for physicians and you have been its chairman or president since its reorganization in 1915. In recognition of your outstanding and invaluable work in guiding the practice of medicine to its present high level, the members of the Board of Registration in Medicine take pleasure in presenting to the State this portrait of you." In acknowledgment Dr. Kingsford spoke in appreciation of the pleasure it had been to. work with a Board so harmonious, assiduous, and cooperative, in the interests of maintaining a high level of qualification ariiong the physicians practicing in the State.
The Spring meeting of the Grafton County Medical Society was held at the School on April 27, when Dr. Wilhelm Raab, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Grafton County Medical Society, spoke on "Neurohormonal Factors in the Origin and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease."
The Dartmouth Medical Library has been enriched by the gift of "Lewis' Practice of Surgery" and "International Surgical Digest" from John F. Gile, Trustee of the College and Professor of Clinical Surgery.
1927 Comdr. John T. Smith, MC USN, Flight Surgeon on a famous carrier and Admiral's flagship which Tokyo Rose has twice announced as having been sunk, has ranged the Pacific from Saigon to Shimushiru. He expects to have things sufficiently well in hand by summer so that he may spend his leave in New Hampshire. 1928 John L. Norris, instructor in Medicine at the University of Rochester and Assistant Physician on the staff of the Medical Department of Eastman Kodak Company, is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Third-Presbyterian Church of Rochester. 1934 Captain Ralph S. Keyes, MC AUS, who was with the University of Pennsylvania General Hospital Unit in India, is now in Burma with an Air Service squadron. He has seen Major Philip A. Marden, MC AUS, who is on duty with a general hospital doing EENT work, and Captain William W. Teahan who is doing surgery with an evacuation hospital attached to a Chinese unit. 1939 Captain Austin R. Grant, MC AUS, on the staff of an evacuation hospital has moved up into central Germany.
Lt. Bruce Lemmon, MC USNR, who was on duty at the U. S. Naval Hospital at New Orleans has been transferred to the downtown Recruiting Station to work at the induction center in conjunction with Army and civilian physicians.
Lt. George W. Zeluff, MC USNR, one time amphibious forces physician on an LCT and later on an LST while it was serving as a floating ambulance in the New Georgia area, is now Flight Surgeon still on Pacific duty. 1942 Lt. Theodore L. Bartelmez, MC AUS, would be the one in the class whose general hospital would be stationed in Paris. He claims he is doing Surgery, I wonder if he knows about the fire at Boothbay Harbor. 4
Lt. Rowland B. French, MC USNR, has recovered from his wound received at Iwo, and rejoined his outfit on a rest island in the South Pacific.
Lt. Robert S. Nichols, MC USNR, was killed in action in the So. Pacific. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, he interned at the University Hospital there and went on active duty on November 14, 1944. On November 26, four days after Carol Sue was born, he was ordered to San Francisco to join his. APA and shortly thereafter shipped out. He was ashore with an amphibious unit at the time of his death, and was killed by a Jap sniper._ He is survived by his wife, Roxie Tanzi, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Nichols of Watkins Glen, New York. He was a young man of exemplary character and unusual professional promise, and his loss is heartfelt by all of us.
Lt Willard W. Wilson, MC about to go overseas with the Canadian Army, has been transferred to duty as a medical officer at a German prisoner of war camp near Medicine Hat, Alberta. 1943 Lt. James W. Robinson, MC USNR, who is interning at the Pennsylvania Hospital, says that he attended Tyson's wedding at Elkins Park and saw Magee, Chandler and Costello. He says also that he believes Smitty was married that same week, but I shall assume that is only a rumor, as long as there seems to be some doubt about it in his mind.
Midshipman William E. and Ann Schumacher have announced the birth on March 30 of John Deming, 7 lbs. 14 oz. He wears his hunting and fishing license pinned onto his diaper to protect him from too much feminine influence while his father is at school all day. 1944 Pfc. William R. Brewster Jr., is engaged to Harriet O. Bullitt of Seattle. She graduated from Chatham Hall in Virginia, began her college course at the University of Washington and is now at Bennington College.
Pfc. Carl F. Koenig, AUS, has been sailing to and from Scotland on Cunard-White Star Liners, which have been serving as troop transports and hospital ships.
Corporal John F. Gile Jr., is on duty with a very busy general hospital somewhere in the ETO. 1943 Pfc. Peter Beck and Pfc. John M. Van Buren on interim duty at Halloran General Hospital before beginning the third year at Columbia, have been given some sort of physical exam which they did not pass, and have been told that all those who failed to pass will be sent to a technicians' replacement center somewhere in Missouri. It seems that medical students now must have combat officers' visual acuity.
Fletcher McDowell is studying neuropathology at the University of Colorado and investment analysis at the School of Commerce at Denver University. Every time the correlation between the two gets too close, he goes fishing with Peter Habein.
LAST CALL FOR THE ALUMNI FUND
