Four Join Faculty
FOUR faculty appointments and promotions for two other members of the staff were announced last month by President Dickey. The new men, three of whom joined the Dartmouth Eye Institute, are Dr. Milo Herbert Fritz, Instructor in Ophthalmology; Dr. James Miles O'Brien, Instructor in Ophthalmology; Rudolph T. Textor, Clinical Fellow in Physiological Optics; and Lt. (jg) Wilbur S. Legg, USNR, Instructor in Naval Science and Tactics.
Two promotions for members of the Eye Institute staff were those of Dr. S. Howard Bartley, named Professor in Research in the Visual Sciences and Dr. Kenneth N. Ogle, new Professor of Research in Physiological Optics. Dr. Bartley, who joined the Eye Institute staff in 1942 as assistant professor, was research associate in psychology and biophysics at the Washington University Medical School for nine years and a fellow in biological science for the National Research Council, 1931-33. Professor Ogle came to Dartmouth as assistant in physics in 1925, the year he graduated from Colorado College. He took his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Dartmouth, and in 1930 became Research Fellow in Physiological Optics at the Eye Institute. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1934.
Mr. Tex tor formerly held the post of Clinical Fellow in Physiological Optics but resigned in 1942 to enter the Army Air Forces, in which he rose to the rank of Captain. He graduated from Columbia in 1939 with a B.S. Dr. Fritz, a Major in the Army Air Forces, has been a flight surgeon since 1041, for the past year at the Valley Forge Eye Hospital. He was consultant in ophthalmology to the Surgeon of the Alaska Defense Command and also chief of eye service at the Station Hospital, McDill Field, Florida. He received his A.B. from Columbia in 1931, his M.D. in 1934. He is the author of a 1942 Saturday Evening Post story which described the rescue in Alaska of a bomber crew which crashed.
Dr. O'Brien, now on terminal leave as a Navy Commander, served as ophthalmologist at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital and as flight surgeon aboard an escort carrier. He took his M.D. degree at the University of Pennsylvania and for 27 months was resident ophthalmologist at the Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia.
Lieutenant Legg, who joins the Department of Naval Science and Tactics, is a graduate of Indiana University. He has been in the Navy since March 1944, serving at several naval bases, and from January 1945 to March 1946 aboard the USSMacLeish.
