Medical School
THE ARMY AND NAVY has informed the Medical School that uniforms will be worn only on ceremonial occasions after March 11. Both units will be deactivated during the midyear recess and there will apparently be no peacetime military activities here.
Frank H. Connell, professor of parasitology, addressed the first January Staff Meeting under the title of "Mediterranean Malaria" and presented his work on malaria control in that war theatre.
Colin C. Stewart, assistant professor in physical diagnosis and pediatrics, represented the School and Hospital at the January meetings of the Council of the New England Pediatrics Society and the American Academy of Pediatrics at Boston and Detroit respectively.
Lt. Comdr. John A. Coyle MC USNR, assistant professor anatomy and ophthalmology, has returned from 35 months of duty in opthalmology, divided between USNTS Hunter College, at New York; Mobile Hospital 14 at Brooklyn; Ga Component of Lion 8 at San Bruno, Hueneme, and San Diego, Calif., and USNTS Newport, R. I., where he was Senior Medical Officer. His terminal leave was spent attending clinics at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Leslie K. Sycamore, assistant professor of anatomy and roentgenology, attended the Boston meeting of the New England Roentgen Ray Society as representative of the School and Hospital.
John J. Boardman, assistant professor of anatomy and obstetrics, was the School and Hospital staff representative at the Boston meeting of the New England Obstetrical Society.
During their terminal leaves Nathan T. Milliken, instructor in physical diagnosis and medicine, and Ralph W. Hunter, instructor in anatomy, were promoted respectively to lieutenant colonel and commander.
John Bartlett Holyoke, now a Fellow in Pathology at the Mayo Clinic, will return in October as assistant professor of pathology.
Robert E. Bannon, assistant professor in applied physiological optics, presented "Astigmatism at the Near Point with Special Reference to Astigmatic Accommodation" at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Optometry at Columbus, Ohio.
Capt. Hanford L. Auten, Flight Surgeon with the Army Air Force in the Pacific, has joined the staff of the Eye Institute as instructor and assistant opthalmologist. Doctor Auten, a graduate of Dartmouth and Northwestern and of the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, is a Certificant of the American Board of Ophthalmology, and before the war was an associate in private practice with Dr. Sidney Walker in Chicago.
Paul Wendell Miles has been appointed a Research Fellow in Physiological Optics on the staff of the Eye Institute. Dr. Miles took both his degrees at Kansas and after his internship and residency was in private practice at the Axtell Clinic when he entered the Army in October 1942. He was stationed at Fitzsimmons General Hospital, Camp Hood Station Hospital, and was Chief of the EENT Service of the 137th Station Hospital on Guadalcanal until 1945 when he was assigned as Chief of EENT at Breckenridge Station Hospital whence he came on the first of the year.
Arthur Edson MacNeill, instructor in anatomy and secretary of the school since November 1944, has resigned and after January 15 will be found at 109 Pomegranate Ave., Sebring, Florida. His future plans will depend upon his health but he hopes in the late spring to be able to continue his research in therapeutic apparatus, a project which he began before going on active duty with the Army Air Force.
1927—Lt. Col. Hildrus A. Poindexter '27 after final duty assignments to Japan and Korea is on his way home and will return to the Department of Bacteriology, Howard University, Washington, D. C.
1936—Capt. W. Cameron Mumler MC, who completed three years in medicine at Presbyterian after Rush, began his Army career at Fort Sheridan in May 1941, went to Hawaii with the 25th Infantry Division in February 1942, hit Guadalcanal in November and New Georgia in July. In August 1943 he was evacuated to Guadalcanal with malaria and hepatitis. He came home via Espiritu Santu and New Caledonia and arrived at O'Reilly General in October. He returned to duty there and went to Camp Young with an evacuation hospital and finally to Birmingham General at Van Nuys, Calif., in January 1944. He encountered Van Kirk at Guadalcanal; found him on board the Mt. Vernon on the wayhome; and again at O'Reilly.
Lt. Comdr. Robert L. Quimby MC USNR will get mail if addressed to 42 Highland Avenue, Randolph, Vt.
1937—Robert Birchall has gone out to Cleveland for an appointment at the Crile Clinic.
Harry B. Eisberg MC USN has been promoted to Commander, U.S.S. Kumjalein, and was at Saipan in January. He expects instruction in orthopedics at a Naval Hospital after this sea tour.
1938—Myron Wright is at St. Luke's, New York, in a residency in pathology, with the family unit re-established at 41a West 115th. 1939-Lt. Donald Bauer, with the 49th Field Hospital, has been skiing on the Zugspitze at 3rd Army School. He expects occupation duty.
Capt. Irving E. Brown Jr. is home at Woodsville on terminal leave after forty-two months of active duty, eighteen of which were in Italy and six in Germany as Battalion Surgeon with the 6th Armored Infantry of the 1st Armored Division.
Capt. John Godfrey MC AUS has been deactivated at Fort Devens and is Assistant Resident in Medicine at the Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, and will begin a Fellowship in Medicine at the Lahey Clinic on July 1. 1940—Lt. Harold S. Robinson MC USNR was married to Julie Ann Burnet on January 12 at Minneapolis.
Capt. Edward P. Wells is now doing the X-Ray with the 117th Evacuation Hospital at St. Jean de Bassel.
1941—Lt. I. Lewis Chipman MC USN has a ward of fifty Internal Medicine patients at Philadelphia Naval and is living with the "Kopper Knob" at 6538 Dorel Street, Philadelphia 42 Robert C. Storrs is Assistant Resident at Babies Hospital, New York.
Capt. Theodore L. Bartelmez has been, transferred from the 191st to the 198th which is stationed at Suippes, France as the only General Hospital between Rheims and Switzerland. He is low point man and expects a move to Germany.
Lt. Roland B. French is with the Marines on Kyushu with a small hospital unit. He has been doing a bit of exploring via outboard sampan.
1942—Robert Tyson is a Surgical Resident at the Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Hugh F. Lena Jr. will move to a Residency in Surgery under Dr. Frederick A. Coller when he finishes his internship at University Hospital, Ann Arbor.
1944—Pfc. John G. Baker on active duty after his third year at N. Y. U. went to Camps Crowder, Beale, Stoneman, and then overseas. He is now working in a dispensary in Manila with the 103rd Medical Service Co., APO 75, c/p PM San Francisco.
Philip Richard Shoil married Cynthia Sargent at St. Johnsbury, Vt., on December 22, which demonstrates the significance of serving as best man and maid of honor, which they did at the wedding of Chester Solez.
1945—CpI. Jack Gile has moved to St. Antonius, Belgium with the 194th General Hospital after fourteen months in France with the 168th which has been broken up and sent home. He has had leaves in Brussels and Paris with seven days in Switzerland and hopes to go to school in Biarritz.
