Medical School
SCHOOL opened on September 26, a week ahead of the College, with 22 men in the second year, 24 in the first year, and 47 fellows and residents.
John Godfrey has been appointed an Instructor in Clinical Medicine. Doctor Godfrey is a graduate of the -College in the Class of 1938; of Dartmouth and Harvard Medical Schools in 1941, and a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners in 1942. After eighteen months at Mary Hitchcock he was called to active duty with the Army Medical Corps and served three years mostly in the European Theatre. After the war he returned to an Assistant Residency at Faulkner, a Fellowship at the Lahey Clinic, and a Residency at White River where he will now be Acting Assistant Chief of the Medical Service. John and Jean and their sons John and Peter are living at Stonecrest Farm in Wilder.
Our part in the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Expansion Fund has now reached $14,812 from 111 contributors. This is one seventh of our alumni membership but more than one tifth of our objective. It will be some time before we need to pay the whole bill but the Building Committee is making May 1 the goal for ground breaking and we ought at least to have our pledges complete by then. We know the busy doctor story and we don't want him to suspect a financial needle when he sees Dartmouth on the corner of the envelope so let this be a reminder. Even if the card is mislaid, send in the check. We will do the paper work. There is no chore more cheering to a fund agent than that of making out forms for contributors.
We were hoping that Dr. Tilghman M. Balliet, Professor of Therapeutics, Emeritus, could attend the Sesquicentennial. He is living at 3920 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, and wrote: Much as I would like to be with you for your celebration to see all my old friends and the new and once more enjoy the cheer, I must forego the pleasure. I am now 92 years old and all travel is forbidden. The best I can do is to send you and the rest my cheer." He was an enthusiastic member of an informal society, made up of medical faculty and students, w:hose motto was: "Be kind to overburdened apple trees". He would welcome a visit from any members of the society.
With all important political matters at least irrevocably committed at this point, Professor of Pathology, Emeritus, Dr. Howard N. and Mrs. Kingsford are planning to leave for Clearwater Beach, Florida, on the 20th.
Professor of Physiological Chemistry, Emeritus, Charles E. and Mrs. Bolser, having voted for Dewey, are motoring to Naples, Florida. The Professor is taking his old D.O.C. axe because he expects to find plenty of hurricane clean-up work to do around Royal Palm Lodge where they have been living for several years.
Having put their famous domesticated wild flower garden to bed for the winter, Professor of Anatomy, Emeritus, Frederic P. and Mrs. Lord are leaving next week for Dunedin, Florida, where they can study the effect of a sub-tropical climate on northern species.
The Faculty of the School continues to be actively represented on programs and at regional and national society meetings.
Harry T. French, Professor of Neuroanatomy, Senior Member of the Medical Service at Hitchcock, Senior Consultant in Medicine at White River, member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Physicians, attended the San Francisco meeting, accompanied by Mrs. French, Subsequently, they visited at Corvallis, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, and went by ship to Seward, Alaska. They returned through Canada and stopped off for a day at McGill where their daughter Betty is a student of Medicine.
John P. Bowler, Professor of Surgery, Senior Member of the Surgical Service and Chairman of the Staff Board of Governors at Hitchcock, and Senior Consultant in Surgery at White River, attended the meetings at Toronto of the American Association for the Study of Goiter; at Boston of the American Urological Association; at Concord of the New Hampshire Hospital Advisory Council: at New Castle of the New Hampshire Medical Society where he was on the Program with Jackson Wright and Dwight Parkinson on "The Thiouracils in Hyperthyroidism"; and at Boston of the Executive Committee of the New England Surgical Society.
Dawson Tyson, Professor of Clinical Surgery and Senior Consultant in Surgery and Thoracic Surgery at White River, was chairman of the session on Bronchial Carcinoma at the Boston Meeting of the Trudeau Society, and attended the Quebec meeting of the American Society for Thoracic Surgery.
Frank H. Connell, Professor of Parasitology, attended the Fourth International Congress on Malaria and Tropical Diseases at Washington.
William W. Ballard, Professor of Embryology, is Associate Director of "Great Issues" for 1948-49 and is on leave from his other academic duties.
Colin C. Stewart III, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, represented New Hampshire at the Washington Conference on State and Community Planning for Children and Youth. He attended the Buffalo meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics and as a member of the Board of Directors the meetings of the New Hampshire Citizen's Council. He was on the program of the New Hampshire Medical Society annual meeting at New Castle at the Pediatrics Round Table on "Observations on Abdominal Surgery in the Young".
Leslie K. Sycamore, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Roentgenology, Senior Member of the Radiology section at Hitchcock and Senior Consultant in Radiology at White River, attended the meeting of the New England Cancer Society at the Massachusetts Cancer Hospital in Wrentham, and, as President of Blue Shield for New Hampshire and Vermont, presided at the annual meeting of the Board of Directors at Concord. He, as Chairman of the Committee on Medical Economics and member of the House of Delegates, attended the annual meetings of the New Hampshire Medical Society.
John B. McKenna, Assistant Professor of Neuroanatomy and Psychiatry, attended the meetings of the Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology and with Niels L. Anthonisen, Instructor in Psychiatry, the Washington meetings of the American Psychiatric Association.
This has been a School story almost entirely but next month we will bring you up to date on the news of the classes, concentrating on those ten to twenty years out.
