Receives Mayo Award

Dr. Gaylord W. Anderson '22, son of Prof. Frank Maloy Anderson, Professor Emeritus of History, has been recently named to the Mayo Professorship of Public Health by the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota. He is the first holder of this chair which was established last January by the Mayo Properties Association, and in addition is head of the School of Public Health at Minnesota.

Dr. Anderson returned to Minnesota this year from a three year leave of absence during which he served as the head of the Medical Intelligence Division, Office of the Surgeon-General, United States Army, in the nation's capital. Early this year the then Lt. Col. Anderson was awarded the Legion of Merit by Major-Gen. Norman D. Kirk for his "distinguished service" in supervising the gathering and correlating of medical data from all parts of the world and reporting on specific areas to G-2 in advance of American landings.

Following his graduation, summacum laude, from Dartmouth, Dr. Anderson studied for a year as a graduate student at Neuchatel, Switzerland, the Sorbonne, and the University of Zurich. The next year he spent as a teaching fellow in chemistry at Harvard, followed by four years at the Harvard Medical School graduating cum laude.