Medical School
WE HAVE BEEN asked more frequently of late about why we have not already restored" the third and fourth-year classes of the School and especially now because of the increasing demand for physicians. We are also being chided about the clinical material going to waste because we are teaching only the first two years. Actually if the complete curriculum were reestablished, with all that that involves, we might have in two years a maximum enrollment of 14.4 students. We have 94 at the moment, but to carry four classes without reducing our graduate training program might not be possible. Our combined hospital capacity is now 475 beds in the two institutions and the clinical material is being utilized, but to carry 48 in the clinical years with the residents and fellows, before our expansion program is completed, would certainly complicate the picture. The national output of physicians would not be increased, moreover, because the academic attrition in the four-year schools, which we now cancel out with our replacements, would still be there. Nevertheless, there are those who would encourage us to go forward with the plans as soon as possible. In the meantime, we will report the statistics on our newest class.
All the Med I's are Dartmouth men; four already have degrees from the College; six are sons of physicians; five are married; twenty are veterans; and one served with the Merchant Marine. Twelve states are represented with New York sending six: John H. Ayvazian and Robert B. Berg from New York, Edward T. Kelley, Jr. from Athens, Keith McLoud from Scarsdale, Arthur R. Morley from Bronxville, and John M. Price, Jr. from New City. Three states send three: Massachusetts counts Louis C. Clarke, Jr. from Springfield, William J. Cummings, Jr. from Millbury, and Richard B. Kearsley from White Horse Beach. Ohio sends John J. Turner from Youngstown, Thomas A. Huffman from Ravenna, and William G. Pace, 111 from Reynoldsburg. Pennsylvania sends John H. Woolridge, Jr. from Clearfield, Edwin C. Snoke from Lancaster, and Jack F. Ostergaard from Pittsburgh. New Hampshire is in fifth place with William A. Coleman and Samuel L. Katz of Manchester. No other state has sent more than one with Louis A. Buie, Jr. from Rochester, Minnesota; Samuel C. Doyle from Bethesda, Maryland; James J. Feeney from Blue Island, Illinois; John A. Hartwig from Milwaukee; William H. Hendren, Ill, from Kansas City, Missouri; John R. Moss from Providence, Rhode Island: and Otto P. Schumacher from Stockton, New Jersey. The selection of this class from the large group of applications from the College was a very exacting problem, and priority was given to those who had fulfilled their military obligations. There was no opportunity- to consider candidates from other schools.
There are 47 fellows and residents studying in the departments of the School, Hitchcock and Veterans Hospitals. New appointments, since the last reporting, have been made as follows: Clinical Fellows in AnesthesiologyAgnes Bartlett and Warren J. Taylor; in Internal Medicine Joshua B. Burnett and Robert C. Rainie; in Pediatrics LeBoy L. Eldredge and Norman A. Harvey; in Dermatology Donald P. Cole, Jr.; in Plastic Surgery —Peter Van Cleef Dingman; in Orthosurgery —John M. Van Buren; in Obstetrics Robert D. Wiley; Residencies in Surgery John R. Bowen, Roland B. French, Byron E. Howe, Jr., Thomas S. Rock, and William W. Wilson; in Anesthesiology—Paul G. Lemaitre and Howard P. Sawyer, Jr.; in Radiology—George H. Burke; in Internal Medicine— Irwin D. Chow, David L. Hoffman, John C. Moench, Ralph W. Muckley, Jr. and Henry B. Stryker; in the Physiological Sciences—M. Dorothea Millar and Douglass B. Orton.
The latest addition to our faculty is Duncan Joseph McDonald as Instructor in Biostatistics. He is a graduate of Macdonald College, McGill University; holds a Master's degree from Harvard; and comes now from three years at Oxford. His education was interrupted by the war when he left a teaching fellowship at Harvard and Radcliffe to join the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942.
Richard Alfred McLean, Instructor in Pharmacology, who became a member of our Department of Physiological Sciences on 1 April 1947, has resigned to return to Philadelphia for the opening of the new research laboratories of Smith, Kline and French, whence he was on leave, originally scheduled for two years.
1899 held an informal reunion in September at Salem, N. H., where for the first time in more than forty years Roy Vincent Baketel,George Barnard Hoitt of Manchester, and Walter C. Rowe of Concord, with their wives, gathered in honor of Charles Wood Pease of Clearwater, Florida. Doctor Pease, long health officer at Tampa, spends his summers in Needham. Doctor Baketel has recently moved from 43 years of continuous practice in Methuen into a new home with office at Salem. Following graduation he was on the staff of the Taunton State Hospital until 1905 when he began what proved to be a very distinguished medical career which carried him to the post of Chief of Staff of the Lawrence General Hospital which he held for 12 years. He is a past president of the Essex North Medical Society; Massachusetts Medical Society Councillor and supervising censor. For 42 years he has been Medical Director of the 100-bed Henry C. Nevins Memorial and since 1918 has been school physician. But if you wish to consult him now you had better make an appointment for he plans to take things easier and do some fishing.
1917 Arthur A. Tower, who has a son in our second-year class, Medical Director at the New Departure Division of General Motors at Meriden, Conn., has just celebrated his a6th anniversary. He practices what he preaches. Several times tennis doubles champion, he keeps his waist line down and his health line up. He plays the clarinet in the Meriden Symphony Orchestra to balance his duties at the plant and as member of the Meriden Hospital Staff and a director of the American Red Cross and Visiting Nurses Association.
1925—Anthony Cipollaro, noted authority and writer in his professional field, has during the past year been elected Chairman of the Section on Dermatology of the American Medical Association and appointed to the professorship of Dermatology at the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital.
Robert Shaw Wilkinson Jr. was recently inducted into the American College of Surgeons.
1934 Nathan N. Root is practicing psychoanalytical psychiatry at 880 Fifth Avenue, New York, and is keeping busy with a staff position at Bellevue, Mt. Sinai, and a faculty appointment at New York University. He and Gertrude with their very attractive 8 and 6year-old daughters are living out at Forest Hills.
1935—Walter B. Crandell, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at the School and Chief of the Surgical Service at the White River Veterans Hospital, presented "Surgical Therapy in Jaundice" at the annual convention of the National Gastroenterological Association in June.
1936 Jules H. and Evelyn Bromberg are rejoicing over the birth of Dina on September 17 at Newark, New Jersey. Harry and Norma Marchmont-Robinson are mighty pleased about Guy born on October 6 at Chicago.
1941 Franklyn Lynch was married to Elsie Matheke on September II at Newark, N. J. They stopped in Hanover on their honeymoon.
1942 Frank P. Brooks is a Fellow in Gastroenterology at the Lahey Clinic.
Sanford R. Courter is an Associate in Internal Medicine of the Fischbach Memorial Group in Cincinnati.
Rowland B. French married Winifred F. Brown on July 10 at Ithaca, N. Y.
Winston K. Shorey married Jeannette A. McConnell on October 2 at Wynnewood, Pa.
