Medical School
ALAN MATHER HAS JOINED our faculty as Assistant Professor of Physiological Chemistry in the Department of Physiological Sciences. He took the B.S. degree in 1932 at Shurtleff College and the Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry in 1939 at St. Louis University. He has served as Instructor in Physiological Sciences at the Schools of Nursing and Medicine, St. Louis University, and as Research Biochemist on the Memorial Foundation for Neuro-Endocrine' Research, Harvard Medical School, at Worcester State Hospital. At the time of his appointment here he was Research Associate in the Department of Physiology on the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology at Clark University.
At the June meeting of the Board of Trustees, Carl F. Breisacher, Instructor in Ophthalmology and Robert E. Bannon, Instructor in Physiological Optics, were respectively appointed Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Assistant Professor of Applied Physiological Optics on the Staff of the Dartmouth Eye Institute, and Elmer H. Carleton, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, was voted leave of absence for the year.
Lt. Comdr. Ralph W. Hunter, MC USNR, Instructor in Anatomy on leave of absence during military service, was married to Ann Harlow, daughter of Vice Admiral and Mrs. Theodore Stark Wilkinson at St. John's Church, Washington, on June 23. Commander Hunter is stationed at the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda.
The New Hampshire Medical Society at its annual meeting, upon recommendation of its Board of Trustees, voted an additional grant of one thousand dollars toward completion of the Josiah Bartlett Jr. Memorial at the School.
Academic trauma at the end of the Spring semester removed one man from the Army and one from the Navy in our first year class. Now the Army has refused to continue a first-year student for failure to pass a vision test, which reduces our Summer enrollment to forty-four.
The Faculty of the School and Staff of the Hospital have been represented recently at the meeting of the House of Delegates, New Hampshire Medical Society, by Leslie K. Sycamore, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Roentgenology; at the Boston meeting of the New England Roentgen Ray Society by William C. MacCarty, Instructor in Radiology; at the New York meeting of the Committee for the Conservation of Hearing of the Academy of Otolaryngology by John A. Murtagh Jr., Instructor in Otolaryngology; and at the Boston meeting of the New England Pediatric Society by Colin C. Stewart, Assistant Professor in Physical Diagnosis and Pediatrics.
"On Astigmatism," Part III—Subjective Tests by Robert E. Bannon and Rita Walsh appeared in the May number of the Archives of the American Academy of Optometry; and in the same number comment by Robert E. Bannon and Kenneth M. Ogle, Assistant Professor of Research in Physiological Optics, on "An Unusual Case of Aniseikonia" by Merideth W. Morgan of the University of California.
James Campion Jr., member of the Board of Trustees of the Hospital, who has just completed a year as acting Superintendent, was entertained on July 10 together with Donald S. Smith, just returned to his duties as Superintendent from leave of absence, and Harold A. Callahan, new Assistant Superintendent, at a party given by the Staff of the Hitchcock Clinic at the Boardman Ranch on Happy Hill. Ernest Zappola, genius in artichokes and arias, supervised the viands, which maintained blood sugar levels otherwise reduced by strenuous athletic contests which continued by floodlight far into the night.
The Hospital intern year began with four men returning after two years away: David L. Hoffman from Cornell; Harold M. Frost Jr., and William W. Wilson .from Northwestern; and Warren J. Taylor from Columbia. John T. Worcester who did not begin until February will remain until November. LeRoy L. Eldredge Jr., a graduate of the College and Tufts with Martin E. Gallagher Jr., from Virginia and Irwin D. Chow from Rochester complete the team that will carry on until April I.
The Vital Statistics Department reports rejoicing as follows: on June 7 by William Carpenter and Harriet Carpenter MacCarty over William Carpenter Ill at 7-8½; on June 11 by Robert F. and Mary Helen Beetle Wilson over David Andrew at 7-12; and on June 24 by John and Jean McDuff Milne over Jeffrey at 8-2. 1886 Henry Onslow Smith, alumnus of the College and graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, was so completely associated with medicine in New Hampshire and so much a friend of this School that it seems quite appropriate to record here the loss felt by all at his sudden passing on May 14. His was the nobility of spirit, the sturdiness of character and the consecration to service which sustains one's faith.
1893 Lilley Eaton came North with the orioles and stopped for a few days to survey the campus from the porch of the Hanover Inn. 1895 H. Sheridan Baketel and family happened to be passing through town at the time of the limited local festivities of traditional nature.
1909 William J. Nolan writes from Omaha, Neb., that his class are all too far East or West to be making news which he can report, but that he is "still plugging away with the daily grind of general practice trying to serve those of humanity deprived of any medical care by reason of the absence of their physicians in the military service." Classmates please write. 1931 Capt. Henry L. Birge is at the Station Hospital, Luke Field, Phoenix, Ariz., as Ophthalmologist.
1933 Capt. John B. Feltner, MC AUS, is now stationed on the Rhine in a former Luftwaffe Hospital about the size of M.H.M.H. and all of it reduplicated underground in concrete bomb-proof, airconditioned wards, operating rooms and laboratories.
1936 Capt. John F. Jewett, MC AUS, came home after 38 months of foreign service which ended when his 5th Armored, the spearhead of the 9th Army, reached the Elbe. He was awarded the Bronze Star medal after caring for two-thirds of his division with one other doctor, a chaplain, and eleven corpsmen while surrounded for five days, east of the Oure River at Wallendorf, and under observational artillery fire with no possibility of evacuating the wounded. He met Major Frank W. Van Kirk Jr., MC AUS, in Germany and learned that he had been invalided home after the earlier islands campaign in the Pacific just in time to get to the ETO for the 2nd wave ashore on D-Day. He was with the 9th Army from the "Bulge" on as chief of a service with an evacuation hospital. 1937 Capt. Nelson M. Black Jr., MC AAF, who has had 35 months of active duty was recently awarded the Soldier's Medal "for outstanding heroism displayed at Army Air Base, APO 215, on December 24, 1944. Immediately following the crash of a B-29 type aircraft loaded with bombs, Captain Black rushed to the scene and faced the danger of the exploding ammunition, incendiary bombs and oxygen tanks, to exert his every effort in finding and rescuing the bodies of the dead and injured crew members from the blazing wreckage. This deed was performed at extreme risk of life, since, in addition to the other attendant dangers, many 500-pound demolition bombs on the verge of explosion from the excessive heat were in the area. The actions of Captain Black in the face of great danger were instrumental in saving the lives of several crew members and were a source of courage to other personnel comprising the rescue party. Such disregard for his personal safety in the execution of an act of courage reflects the highest credit on Captain Black and the Army Air Forces."
Lt. Comdr. Harry B. Eisberg, MC USN, has recently returned from carrier duty in the Pacific and has been temporarily assigned to the Air Force, Atlantic Fleet, at Norfolk. 1938 Capt. Dexter R. Branch, MC AUS, has been in EI Paso, Texas, since 1942 and is now Chief of the Operating Rooms and Anesthesiology Section in the 5500-bed William Beaumont General where the specialty is plastic surgery under Col. Schuessler, formerly at Walter Reed. On February 15, Janet May joined the family just a few minutes too late to be a Valentine. '
Capt. Ernest Foss Jr., MC AUS, was killed on April 28 when the brilliantly lighted USS. Comfort, loaded with wounded from Okinawa, was attacked by a Japanese suicide bomber. Although a psychiatrist, with special training in tropical medicine, because of the tremendous burden on the surgical staff, he had been assisting in the operating room. He went to Europe with the 19th General Hospital, the Rochester Unit, and his presence in the Pacific area is a mystery. He is survived by his parents in Newburyport and by his wife, Jane Hosmer Foss, in Los Angeles.
Capt. John Godfrey, MC AUS, has been transferred to a general hospital in England and listed to be returned to this country before Christmas.
Lt. Comdr. John R. Herman, MC USNR, is somewhere we don't know as yet. 1940 Capt. Theodore R. Dakin, with his doctor wife and daughter Erica, is stationed at Camp Atterbury, Ind., on the medical service of Wakeman General Hospital, which gives better opportunities than most residencies.
Capt. Amos R. and Mary Russell Little are rejoicing in the birth of Susan Hilbum on May 31 at Rapid City. Bud has been transferred to Emergency Rescue Section, II AF, Gore Field, Great Falls, Montana. 1942 Capt. Theodore L. and Milly Bartelmez became the parents of John Theodore born at the Genesee Hospital in Rochester in May at 7—8. He flew to Saugatuck, Mich., with his mother as soon as able, where he will live until his father returns from Paris where he is stationed with a general hospital.
Capt. Kenneth E. Gross, MC AUS, on May 15 was a Battalion Surgeon on Okinawa reached via Hawaii, the Marshalls, and the Marianas, and was caring for 800 men who were fighting their way slowly toward Naha. He was operating in a tent and spoke of "Tojo Charlie" overhead, and the need of keeping below ground during the shelling.
Lt. William L. Jamison, MC USNR, finished his surgical residency at George Washington and was ordered to the Medical Field Service School at Camp Lejeune, N. C. He didn't expect to be there long and felt he was due for amphibious duty in the Pacific. He was married last Autumn to Virginia Cunningham from West Virginia, who was on the same hospital staff with him in Washington.
Lt. Robert S. Nichols, MC USNR, who was killed on Okinawa was shot by a Jap sniper on the beach at night while going to the aid of one of his corpsmen, who had been wounded by the sniper. He apparently died instantly and was buried on the island.
Lt. Eddy D. Palmer, MC AUS, has concluded his residency at Rochester and is at Carlisle Barracks for indoctrination.
Lt. Timothy Takaro, MC, has been transferred from Luke Field to the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, Texas. 1943 Eugene L. Hoch will continue at St. Luke's on a residency until March 1946.
Richard W. Lawton went to Baltimore for Part Ill of the National Boards.
Thomas W. McElin married Sylvia Dennison at Newton, Mass., on June 30.
David S. Smith did not marry the girl or any girl as was erroneously reported in our last column. It was just a wartime rumor started to confuse the society editor.
Lt. Robert F. Wilson, MC USNR, has been ordered to the U. S. Naval Hospital at St. Albans for indoctrination.
Glenn E. Behringer is interning at Massachusetts General, but Harry C. Bishop who attended Harvard with him went to New York Hospital as did Forbes Delany, Henry F. Kramer from Columbia. Charles W. Clarke Jr. went from Harvard to the Roosevelt in New York, while Paul J. Costello went from Pennsylvania to the Denver General, but not before Peter McLane, 6 10, was born to P. J. and Duddy at Manchester on June 2.
Bradley E. Copeland at Pennsylvania won the Dean's choice and will stay at University Hospital, while Charles F. Kane moved out to the U. S. Naval Hospital at Oakland.
Hugh Lena who finished at Cornell went to the University Hospital at Ann Arbor.
William E. Schumacher went from Vermont to the U. S. Naval Hospital at New Orleans; Ann and the baby will stay in for the summer.
Jerrold von Wedel was married on June 15 to Barbara Stugard, Northwestern '45, in the Methodist Church at New Rochelle. His brother, Donald, was best man and Columbia classmates Blackburn, Dain, Delany, Kramer, Taylor and Wilder were ushers. He is interning at St. Luke's. Franklin H. West went from Pennsylvania to the
U. S. Naval Hospital at St. Albans, L. I.1944 Walter L. Blackadar Jr. was married to Shirley Elizabeth Clement at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Nashua on June 16. 1945 Peter Beck and John Van Buren have been granted waivers and are continuing in the AST program at Columbia, but Howard P. Sawyer is being ordered to Fort Devens for a discharge to continue at Temple as a civilian.
