Medical School
THE 153D SESSION opened on 29 September with forty-seven students, nine interns, twelve fellows and eighteen residents, for a total of eighty-six under instruction in the School and its affiliated institutions, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and the Veterans Hospital at White River. Our M.D. community has now reached a count of over eighty which crowds our largest classroom and forces our open meetings out of the School into the larger halls of the College buildings.
The Faculty has been augmented for the new year by three additions to the pre-clinical departments. Eugene Becker, Chem.D., Associate in the Physiological Sciences, with the rank of Assistant Professor, comes from Hungary via Nazi Germany and the Zone of Occupation. Born in Budapest, he was a Diplomate in Chemical Engineering at the Palatin University of Technical Sciences in Budapest, 1925; a Doctor of Technical Science in Chemistry, ibid, 1928; Research Assistant, ibid, 1925-1928; Research Assistant, Hungarian State Chemical Institute, 1928-1931; Research Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation, 1931-1932; Research Associate, Royal Hungarian State Chemical Institute, 1932-1934; Research Fellowship, Jeremiah Smith Foundation, 1934; Director of Vitamin Research Laboratory, Royal Hungarian State Chemical Institute, 1934-1944; Professor of General Biological Chemistry, Agricultural University, Royal Hungarian Ministry of Education and Religion, 1935-1944. In December 1938 he married Viola Susanne Tackach of Budapest. An intimate friend and collaborator of Doctor A. Szent-Gyorgyi, discoverer of Vitamin C and Nobel laureate, Doctor Becker was separated from his wife and forced into' Germany with the retreating armies in December 1944 where he was expected to continue research in support of the Nazi war effort. Doctor Becker will continue with his research interest in nutrition and the vitamins. He was still in the French Zone of Occupation when invited to join our Faculty but was successful in securing his wife's release from Hungary and they will reside at 40 Occom Ridge.
Jan Nyboer, Sc.D., M.D., Assistant Professoi of Pharmacology, has just arrived from Hartford, Connecticut, where he was Assistant Medical Director and Cardiologist of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company under Henry Brock Rollins, M'20, Medical Director. Born in Holland, Michigan, he received an A.B. degree from Hope College and the University of Michigan in 1928; M.S. in Physiology, ibid, 1929; Sc.D. in Physiology, ibid, 1932; M.D. University of Michigan Medical School, 1935. He interned at the St. Louis Maternity and Barnes Hospital, 1935-1936, and at the Boston City Hospital 1936-1937. He was a Fellow in Cardiology, New York Postgraduate Hospital and Medical School, 1937-1941; Demonstrator and Assistant in Physiology, University of Michigan, 1928-1934; Research Assistant in Cardiology, ibid, 1934-1935; Instructor in Electrocardiography, Columbia University, 1938-1941; Clinical Instructor in Medicine, Yale University School o£ Medicine, 1942-1943; and Instructor in Physiology, ibid, 1943-1947. He also served as Assistant Attending at the New York Postgraduate Hospital and Medical School, 1937-1942; Assistant Medical Director and Cardiologist, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1941-1947; Consultant in Cardiology, Yale Aero-Medical Unit; and was on the Courtesy Staff of the Hartford Hospital, 1944-1947.
He will continue with his research interest in electrical impedence in relation to cardiovascular problems and will take an active part in the investigation of diseases of the circulatory system under the sponsorship of the Blake and Burling Research Fund.
Philip O. Nice, M.D., was appointed to a graduate Fellowship in Cancer Pathology under the sponsorship of the New Hampshire Field Army of the American Cancer Society. Doctor Nice received his A.B. from the University of Colorado, 1939, his M.D. from the University of Colorado Medical School, 1943, and interned at the Deaconess Hospital, Spokane, Washington until January 1944 when he began his military service in the Army Medical Corps. After being placed on inactive duty in 1946 he held a Residency in Pathology at the University of Chicago.
The School has just acquired a building as an addition to the laboratory, research, and office space of the Department of the Physiological Sciences. It will be remembered variously as the home of Prof. Arthur Sherburne Hardy, of Presidents, William Jewett Tucker, Ernest Fox Nichols and Ernest Martin Hopkins, of the Graduate Club, and more recently of Delta Upsilon. This space will house several research programs, especially that on diseases of the circulatory system, sponsored by the Blake and Burling Research Fund, under the leadership of Professors Sven Martin Gundersen and Jan Nyboer.
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, our teaching institution, has initiated a program to meet the tremendous demand upon it which has been increasing steadily since the short respite given by the new east wing built in 1938. A detailed presentation of what we hope can be accomplished for the future development of the School's clinical teaching will be sent to each alumnus.
We were visited recently in Hanover and White River by Dr. William R. Albus representing the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association and the various American Specialties Boards in connection with which fellowships and residency programs are being developed at the two hospitals.
This is a birdseye view of what has been happening at the School recently. Next month will be devoted to faculty and class notes and some details as to the year's program.
