Medical School

THE red, blue and green stars that burst out when the skyrocket reaches its zenith are about to appear at the top of our accelerated program and your correspondent expects to feel like the charred stick beginning any time after June 29 when the School will close for the first time since June 12, 1941. The necessity of providing forty-eight weeks of school in every fifty-two has kept us in conoperation. tinuous operation. It is too soon to attempt to assess the gains and losses but to mention the tension is probably enough.

The Trustees at their meeting of April 23 made three appointments to our Faculty:

as Instructor in Orthopedic Surgery, O. Sherwin Staples, A.B. Harvard 1930; M.D. ibid. 1935; Surgical Internship, Boston City Hospital 1934-36; Combined Residency in Orthopedic Surgery, Massachusetts General and Children's Hospital, Boston, 1936-38: Associate in Orthopedic Surgery with Dr. Edwin F. Cave, Boston, 1938-42; Medical Corps AUS 1942-45, Lieutenant-Colonel; Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodpedic Surgery:

as Research Associate in the Physiological Sciences, Arthur Edson MacNeill, A.B. Harvard College 1933; M.D. Harvard Medical School 1937; Internship, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital 1939; Staff Assistant, Hitchcock Clinic 1938-41; Medical Corps, Army Air Forces, AUS 1941-44, Major; Secretary and Instructor in Anatomy in this School from November 1944 to December 1945;

and as Instructor in Anatomy and Assistant to the Dean, Harry William Savage, A.B. Dartmouth 1926; M.D. Dartmouth and Pennsylvania 1929; Internship Mary Hitchcock Hospital 1930; private practice 1930-42; postgraduate studies, Harvard Medical School 1936; postgraduate studies, Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1942; Medical Corps of the United States Naval Reserve 1942—, now serving with the rank of Lieutenant Commander unassigned, pending decision of Medical Board.

At the April meeting of the New Hamptinuous shire Cancer Society held in Manchester John A. Murtagh Jr., Instructor in Otolaryngology, spoke on cancer of the larynx, and William A. Ellis, Teaching Fellow in Anatomy, spoke on cancer of the lung.

Leslie K. Sycamore, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Roentgenology, attended the Boston meeting of the Council oLNew England Medical Societies.

John A. Coyle, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Ophthalmology, represented the School and Hospital at the meeting of the Medical Advisory Board of the Department of Public Welfare of New Hampshire held at Concord on April 24.

The Spring meeting of the Grafton County Medical Society was held at the School on May 2. Harry T. French, Professor of Neuroanatomy, presided and Sherwin Staples, Instructor in Orthodpedic Surgery, presented a paper on The Painful Shoulder.

Harry T. French, Professor of Neuroanatomy, and Sven M. Gundersen, Instructor in Physical Diagnosis and Medicine, represented the School and Hospital at the meetings of the American College of Physicians in Phila delphia.

Robert E. Bannon, Assistant Professor of Applied Physiological Optics, collaborated with Hermann M. Burian and Rita Walsh in

"Note on the Incidence of Aniseikonia" published in the February issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology, and gave four

"Lectures on Refraction" before the annual convention of the lowa Optometric Association held in Des Moines on April 14 and 15.

Robert C. Storrs will serve as Assistant in Pediatrics in the Hitchcock Clinic until July 1 when he will begin his residency at the Children's Hospital in Boston.

1916 Dwight O'Hara, for many years Professor of Preventive Medicine and Vice-Dean at Tufts Medical College, Acting Dean during the war years, has been appointed Dean, and has been elected to the Presidency of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 1926 Herbert S. Talbot, recently returned from a long term of overseas duty with the British, has been appointed to the post of Urologist on the staff of the Veterans Administration Hospital, Bronx, New York. 1930 William B. Condon has announced the opening of his office at Denver, Colorado for the practice of general and thoracic surgery. 1939 Thomas Richard Watson, 3d, arrived on February 8, 1946. His father will have a lot of stories to tell him about what happened between January 1, 1943, and the day that he was born. The trial run of the USS Walker would do for a starter; the capture of the German submarine crew in the Caribbean; taking Secretary Hull to Casablanca; Tarawa; Kwajalein; and Leyte Gulf; with references to Guam, Saipan, Manus, and Wake Island; could pass away an evening at almost any meeting of the Portsmouth Sea Scouts when the young man reaches that advanced age. 1940 Captain Amos R. Little Jr., MC, has been transferred to the 62d Base Unit, Control Sector B of Search and Rescue at the Headquarters of the Continental Air Force in Colorado Springs. He reports that Lieut. John Randall Durrance is at Brock General Hospital in San Antonio, Texas.

Lieut. H. H. McGilpin Jr., USNR, when last heard from had returned from destroyer duty in the Pacific to the Personnel Separation Center at 150 Causeway Street, Boston. 1942 William Bradley Brooks arrived on January 31, 1946 to Emily Elizabeth and Frank Pickering Brooks, which makes Brad Copeland's cigar story official.

Lieut. Sanford R. Courter, (MC) USNR has been on duty with the 2d Battalion Medical Company of the First Special Marine Brigade at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He has been training corpsmen for field maneuvers and was expecting to leave for the West Indies or South America for further intensive training during the month of May.

Lieut. Richard J. Spillane, (MC) USNR is.on duty at the U. S. Naval Hospital at Newport, Rhode Island.

A card postmarked White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, has just come from Lieut, and Mrs. Eddy Davis Palmer announcing the birth of Hannah Palmer on April 17, 1946.

Lieut. Robert C. Rainie, (MC) AUS is still in residency at the Central Maine General Hospital at Lewiston, having failed to convince the Army that he ought to have a little active duty for a change.

1943 Lieut. John P. Chandler, (MC) AUS is alternating between temporary duty at the Station Hospital in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York, and duty as transport surgeon on a Victory ship running between New York and France or Belgium.

William J. Regan Jr., whose final stage of thorocoplasty was completed on August 1, 1945, expects to be discharged from Gabriels Sanitarium as cured on June 15. He will live in the cottage of his folks near the Sanitarium until September. He expects to return to school in the Autumn of 1947.

Lieut. David S. Smith, (MC) USNR, after overseas experience on four different LST's, has had good duty at the Naval Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, but now has been transferred to the Naval Personnel Separation Center at Bainbridge.

Lieut. Robert M. Wilson, (MC) USNR is enduring an assignment to Sick Bay of the NROTC Unit which is located in USS South Massachusetts Hall. He considers it a very appropriately snug berth for a broken down old sea dog.

Lieut. Harold C. Woodworth, (MC) USNR is on duty on the USS Block Island which is tied up in the York River at the U. S. Naval Mine Depot off Yorktown, Virginia. 1944 One third of the class is interning at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover: Walter L. Blackadar, Donald L. Burnham, John R. Lindsey, Bradley Long, Louis D. Savage, Philip R. Sholl, and William H. Stahl Jr. William R. Brewster Jr. is on the Columbia Division at the Bellevue, and Merlm K. Du Val Jr. is at New York Hospital. Cook County in Chicago took Robert E. Nystrom and John W. Tope, with Edward A. Mortimer Jr. going to St. Luke's. William C. Mussey stayed in Minnesota at the Miller Hospital in St. Paul. Earl T. Owen came up from Virginia to Worcester City. Charles W. Pierce stayed in Boston on the First Surgical Service at the City Hospital. The two Price's separated: Edward B. went to Kansas City General, and Walter S. went to Gallinger Municipal in Washington, D. C. Stephen M. Tenney chose Strong Memorial at Rochester. In spite of the large number of Naval Reservists in the class, only two chose a Naval internship and have not yet been assigned: H. Bradley Campbell and Albert M. Storrs Jr. 1945., Frederick Tasker Hatch was married to Virginia Ethel Weeks at Meredith, New Hampshire on March 3.

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NEWCOMERS TO THE DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL STAFF. Left to right. Dr. Harry W. Savage '26, instructor in Anatomy and Assistant to the Dean; Dr. O. Sherwin Staples, Instructor in Orthopedic Surgery; and Dr. Arthur E. MacNeill, former faculty member, who has returned as Research Associate in the Physiological Sciences.