Medical School
DURING THE ACADEMIC year 1797-1798 "the first full course of Medical Lectures was delivered by Dr. Nathan Smith at Dartmouth." This Sesquicentennial Year of the founding of the School has, so far, been marked by the launching of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Expansion Fund Campaign for the Medical Center here, which Dr. Nathan Smith established as the first physician and surgeon on the Dartmouth faculty. A complete presentation of the overall plan for the expansion of our facilities for medical care and teaching will be sent to each alumnus.
Medical North Laboratory, the renovation of which was begun during the summer, will probably have its classrooms, laboratories, and offices ready to function during the month of November. Our Grass four channel electroencephalograph, gift of Hugh F. Lena, Sr., has arrived and will be housed temporarily in this building pending completion of its permanent room at the Hospital.
Edmund V. Lynch '2B spent twenty-four hours in Hanover on his return from Yale in China where for fifteen months he was Chief of Surgery. He is now at work on a manuscript entitled "China Uncensored," which, when finished, I hope he will be willing to submit for publication.
William S. Conklin '32, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Oregon Medical School, has been getting a lot of publicity lately in the West Coast press for his "blue baby" operations, using the Blalock-Taussig technic.
DeHart Kranz '33 is on the staff of the Department of Psychiatry at the Veterans Hospital in Perry Point, Maryland.
George E. Gates '34, quondam Major, after a 3-year tour of duty as Battalion Surgeon of an infantry regiment and company commander of a medical battalion all with the 3rd Armored Division, where he got three bronze stars, is back at the South Bend Clinic in the Department, of Internal Medicine.
James K. Keeley '35 can be found in the Division of Biometry and Medical Statistics at the Mayo Clinic.
Frederick Sanborn '35, late of the Navy, is in private practice in Osterville on Cape Cod.
James Ellsworth Cavanaugh '36 in association with James Lincoln Huntington has opened an office for the practice of obstetrics and gynecology at 25 Main Street, Northampton, Massachusetts. His son, James Ellsworth Jr., is registered as a premedical student in the Class of 1951.
Frank W. Van Kirk '36 is an Instructor in Medicine at the Medical School in Madison, Wisconsin. About December 1, he expects to return to Jamesville to enter practice with his father.
Cmdr. Harry B. Eisberg '36, MC USN, is still on active duty with the Navy but has been ordered to Orthopedic Surgery at Bethesda, Maryland. Another girl in the family, Ingrid Ellen, was born on the 15th of February.
Robert E. Ingersoll '36 has opened his office for the practice of Orthopedic and Traumatic Surgery at 520 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
Lt. Cmdr. Santino F. Lando '38 MC USN has recently completed his terminal leave and entered upon a residency in Neuropsychiatry at the Pilgrim State Hospital on Long Island. After five years of active duty, he and Martha with the three children are enjoying the luxury of a seven-room furnished house, which includes even daily diaper service.
Donald DeForest Bauer '39 has returned after three years in the Army, most of it in the ETO where he was for a long period Radiologist to the Heidleburg Station Hospital. He is now associated in Radiology at Topeka, Kansas, where he can be found at 501 Central Building.
G. Bruce Lemmon Jr. is practicing Internal Medicine in Springfield, Missouri, in association with his father, but looking forward to the establishment of a full-fledged clinic of his own toward which he has already joined with two partners. Bruce and Dottie now have two daughters and, although she doesn't think Missouri is any substitute for Pennsylvania, Dottie may put up with it for a while longer now that Bruce has taken off that uniform.
Franklin and Jan Martin announce the birth, on March 18, of Richard Dingwell Freeman at South Orange, New Jersey. Fritz is Assistant Physician at the Norwich State Hospital in Connecticut.
TWO NEW MEMBERS OF THAYER FACULTY: Byron S. Dague (seated), retired Navy Captain, who this fall became Assistant Professor of Engineering and Management, and Edmund J. Byrkit '47, recent graduate of the School, who has stayed on as Instructor in Civil Engineering.
