Medical School
To THOSE academic martyrs, the Medics, the year seems to be stretching out endlessly, but, in spite of no graduations at midyears, accidental or otherwise, to break the tempo, and snow banks around the School still high enough to hide the new fire wagon-red jeeps of Doctors Miller and Campbell, sure signs of spring are here. The transfer acceptClub, ances for our first small decelerated class are coming in. Ralph D. Brackett '46 of Portsmouth, Robert Flanders Jr. of Manchester, Robert B. Giles Jr. '46 of Dallas, Texas, and Maurice N. Levy Jr. '48 of Bridgeport, Conn., will continue at Harvard; Edward C. Matthews '47 of Passaic, N. J., will go to McGill; Donald C. Carlton of Greentown, Pa., who came originally from Pennsylvania State College via Boston College and Amherst College during the AST Program, will return to his home State for the third year at the University of Pennsylvania; Lawrence O. Carpenter of Howard, Ohio, whose son Steven John, born on March 6, is the latest medical brave to be welcomed to the tribe by Grand Sachem Dickey, will continue at Western Reserve.
A class of twenty-four, all selected from among Dartmouth applicants, has been chosen for the autumn semester. To the graduate group, alumni of the College, Medical School or Hospital, have been added in Surgery at the Veterans Administration Hospital, John Perkins Chandler '42 of East Bridgewater, Mass. and David K. Mulliken '41, of Leonia, N. J., in Radiology, Kenneth E. Gross '41 of Newark, N. J., John W. Schleicher '4O of Verona, N. J., is now a Clinical Fellow in Obstetrics, and Eben Stoddard '30 of Marblehead, Mass., is now a Clinical Fellow in Surgery, both at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. DwightParkinson '39 has transferred from his Clinical Fellowship in Surgery here to a Fellowship in Neurological Surgery at Mayo Clinic, where he registered on January Ist. Dwight and Libby anounced the birth of Gerald at 7 lbs. 7 on. on January 11 in Montreal. William Sinclair Jr. '41 transferred to a Fellowship at Western Reserve in the Institute of Pathology. Austin R. Grant '38, Clinical Fellow in Surgery, has transferred to a Residency in Surgery at the Veterans Administration Hospital, where he will become a Senior Resident on the first of July.
The Medical School and Hospital have been represented at recent meetings as follows: The New Hampshire State Hospital Study Commission by John P. Bowler; the Boston meeting of the New England Urological Society by John P. Bowler and William L. McLaughlin; the Council of the New England Pediatric Society, the Committee on the Medical and Psychiatric Program of the New Hampshire Childrens Aid Society, the New Hampshire Citizens Council and its Research Committee, the New England Pediatric Society, and the Pittsburgh meeting of the New England Academy of Pediatrics by Colin C. Stewart III; the New York meeting of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases by Clarence J.Campbell, John B. McKenna, and Henry L.Heyl; the New Orleans meeting of the Surgeon's Travel Club by George A. Lord; the Philadelphia meeting of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society by John A. Murtagh; the New England Anesthesiology Society's Boston meeting by Richard H. Barrett; the Chicago meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons by O. Sherwin Staples; the New England Roentgen Ray Society's meeting in Boston by William C. MacCarty; the Boston Surgical Society by John B. Holyoke and John S. Lyle; the Boston meeting of the New England Diabetic Association by Jackson W. Wright; and the Chicago meetings of the National Conference on Rural Health, the National Conference on Medical Service, the Annual Congress on Medical Education and Licensure by RolfC. Syvertsen.
On programs of recent meetings of the staff o£ the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital have appeared "Correction of Bilateral Abductor Laryngeal Paralysis" by John A. Murtagh, and "Oliguria in Transurethral Resection" by William L. McLaughlin and John B.Holyoke.
1881 James Henry Tebbetts, the last surviving member of his class, died in Hollister, California on October 17. His obituary will appear later.
1895 Fred James Douglas, characterized by his classmate H. Sheridan Baketel, as the "first citizen of Utica," was recently eulogized by the Utica Observer-Dispatch. Dr. Douglas began his surgical career there more than fifty years ago when he came to serve under Surgeon James H. Glass as the first interne at Faxton Hospital. Early in his career Dr. Douglas was appointed Physician-in-Charge of the Utica City Hospital, now the General Hospital, and eventually he became Surgeonin-Chicf at Faxton. When he began his practice there he made his rounds on a bicycle but eventually acquired five driving horses. He covered the countryside from Watertown on the North to Delhi on the South, from Canastota on the West to Amsterdam on the East, and often averaged as many as five extramural operations a week. When automobiles came in, Dr. Douglas's car became familiar to the community, but especially to reporters, railroad men, policemen and firemen as it sped on its way to accidents, actual or potential. To this day he responds to all second fire alarms. In 50 years he hasn't missed a big fire in Utica. His response to all community needs or to personal distress has become proverbial. Dr. Douglas has served Utica as a health officer, as a member of the Board of Education, as Mayor, as Commissioner of Public Safety, and as Congressman from that district from 1937 to 1945. During his years in Washington he continued his surgical practice to a considerable extent, returning by plane each weekend for that purpose. For years he was surgeon for the New York Central, the D. L. & W. and the Ontario & Western Railroads. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine, the Oneida County, New York Medical Societies, State and the American Medical Association, the Fort Schuyler Club, Oriental Lodge 224, F&AM, Utica Lodge 33, BPOE, and the Republican Club of Utica. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Mrs. Douglas is the former Miss Katharine McGrath, of Utica, a graduate of the Faxton Hospital Training School for Nurses. Children are Dr. James Glass Douglas, Mrs. Mason F. Sexton, the former Miss Katharine Douglas, and Frederick J. Douglas, now with the U. S. Secret Service in Cleveland, O. There are four grandchildren. Doctor Douglas at 77 is still in active practice and a member of the stalfs of Faxton and St. Elizabeth Hospitals. 1901 Herbert Augustus While, in practice for many years at Rye Beach, New Hampshire, died on February 5, 1947. His obituary will be found elsewhere in this issue.
1932 Capt. Joseph G. Rushton has a new address. He is at the William Beaumont General Hospital, El Paso, Texas. 1934 Kenneth Borden Jacques has announced .the opening of his office for the practice of orthopedic surgery at 2417 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, California.
William Myron Dozening, whose address in the autumn was New England Deaconess Hospital, is now on the surgical service at the Palmer Memorial.
1935 George P. Sayre, back in the Pathology Department at the Mayo Clinic for some months now, took a big swing around the Pacific during his tour of active duty which beginning on July l, 1942 and ending in May 1946, carried him from San Francisco to New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines, and way stations. He also had duty in this country at Fort Leonard Wood, Camp Phillips, Stark General Hospital, the School of Tropical Medicine at Washington, Rhodes General Hospital, and duty with or attachment to the 75th General Hospital, the 89th, the 237 th Station; with combat teams of the 32d and 41st Divisions in the 6th Army Area, at Hdqtrs. of Base X and Base M, the 26th Medical Laboratory, the 363 rd Medical Laboratory, and finally with the 118 th General Hospital on Leyte as Adjutant, Executive Officer, Medical Supply Officer, Chief of the Laboratory, and general closer-upper. If he is to be considered a graduate of all these organizations, it is probably just as well that they don't all start alumni funds.
1936 Jules Harrison Bromberg has associated himself as Radiologist with The Newark Clinical Group, at 89 Lincoln Park, Newark, N. J. John Figgis Jewett and Jean announced the birth on September 12, 1946 of John Figgis Jewett Jr. weighing 8 pounds and 4 oz. 1937 Camdr. Harry Belleville Eisberg, MCUSN, took an aircraft carrier trip first to the Arctic and then to the Antarctic, and has just recently returned to Brooklyn whence he and Ann have announced the birth on February 15 of Ingrid Ellen.
Robert E. lngersoll is associated with Wil liam H. von Lackura in the practice of orthopedic surgery at 654 Madison Avenue, New York.
Douglas Hosmer Robertson is practicing gynecology and obstetrics at 22 Sagamore Road, Bronxville, New York.
Comdr. Francis Gordon Soule Jr., MC USN, is still on duty at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery at Washington and is living with Betty and Johnny at 11 Horseshoe Drive, RKD No. 1, Falls Church, Virginia. 1938 Maj. Allen B. Coggeshall, after sixteen months of rotation and twenty-two months of general surgery at Grasslands Hospital, Valhalla, New York, went on active duty with the 639 th Clearing Company and from there to the 28th Station Hospital, from which he came back to Halloran General Hospital as a patient. Since May 1946 he has been on duty as a ward officer at Til ton General Hospital.
Myron Wright is practicing Internal Medicine at 33 East 68th Street, New York. 1939 Lt. Charles S. Oliver, MC USNR, is Assistant Chief of Medicine at the Rheumatic Fever Research Center at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Dublin, Georgia. 1940 H. Beeclier Chapin has just come in from the Jumping Horse Stock Ranch in Madison Valley, just west of Yellowstone National Park in Montana, to begin a residency on the 2d Cornell Medical Division at Bellevue. He was initiated into a Montana blizzard on the range where he was on hand to provide emergency care during the round-up. Actually, I suspect he has been back in Batavia for a good many weeks. There is often a big lag between my news and my notes.
George Campbell Darr, after spending two years on a destroyer in the Pacific, came back to Washington as a budding young psychiatrist at St. Elizal)eth's. After his deactivation from the Navy he went to Bellevue as an interne on the obstetrical and gynecological service where he found his classmate William Howard Fairweather.
