Medical School

WEARE STARTING OFF the new year very much encouraged by early replies to our letter asking you to speed up our Hospital Expansion Campaign. We know that we must be dreaming with the gift average, so far, at $500 but it is certainly wonderful while it lasts. We have tried to reach everyone with our mailing but if you did not receive the brochure, please write in.

William Avery Ellis, Instructor in Surgery since 1946, has resigned to accept an appointment to the staff of St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut.

The School and Hospital continues to be frequently represented at and in various medical and civic affairs.

Kenneth N. Atkins, Professor of Bacteriology, presided at the New Haven meeting of the Connecticut Valley Section of the Society of American Bacteriologists.

Harry T. French, Professor of Neuroanatomy and senior member of the Medical Service, attended the Providence and Boston meetings of the New England Diabetes Association.

John P. Bowler, Professor of Surgery, attended \the New England Post-graduate Assembly and the annual meeting of the New England Urological Society in Boston and the Philadelphia meeting of the Eastern Surgical Society.

Rolf C. Syvertsen, Dean, attended the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges at Sun Valley.

Colin C. Stewart, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, attended the State Conference on Social Work in Manchester; the Concord meeting of the New Hampshire Pediatric Society; the Child Welfare Committee of the New Hampshire Council at Manchester; and the meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics at Dallas.

Nathan T. Milliken, Assistant Professor of Medicine, attended the New England Postgraduate Assembly in Boston.

Radford C. Tanzer, Assistant Professor of Surgery, lectured on "Reconstruction of the Hand" at the Veterans Hospital Plastic Center in New York.

Walter B. Crandell, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, presented "Current Trends in Surgical Treatment of Pulmonary Suppurative Disease" before the Eastern Section of the American Trudeau Society in Philadelphia.

Henry L. Heyl, Instructor in Neurosurgery, attended the meeting of the Cushing Society at Warm Springs and the New York meeting of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases.

Richard H. Barrett, Instructor in Pharmacology (Anesthesiology) gave a lecture series at the Graduate School of McGill University.

Jackson W. Wright, Instructor in Medicine, attended the Providence meeting of the New England Diabetes Association.

William L. McLaughlin, Instructor in Surgery, presented "Penicillin in the Treatment of Perinephric Abscess" at the Boston meeting of the New England Urological Society.

HanforcL L. Auten, Instructor in Ophthalmology, attended the Boston meeting of the New England Ophthalmological Society.

Walter C. Lobitz, Instructor in Dermatology and Syphilology, attended the Chicago meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology.

New Fellowships and Residency appointments, since previously reported, have been made as follows: Clinical Fellow in Medicine: Lloyd G. Batholomew; Clinical Fellows in Surgery: Robert N. Jackson, Marmaduke D. McComas Jr., Charles D. McEvoy Jr., and Donald B. Miller; Clinical Fellow in Orthosurgery: Peter Van Cleef Dingman; Fellows in Radiology: John R. Dyke, and Edward C. Porter: Fellows in Pathology: Howard M. Oliver and John B. Petter; Residents in Medicine: Brewster C. Breeden, I. Lewis Chipman Jr., John Godfrey, George E. Quinn, and Harold S. Robinson; Residents in Surgery: Robert W. Unangst and Donald H. Holden, and Resident in Neurosurgery: Eldon L. Foltz.

1895. H. Sheridan Baketel celebrated his 75th birthday on November 15 at the christening of his .great grandson, Thomas Cathcart Leonards, 111, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cathcart Leonards Jr., of Oakmont, Philadelphia. Mrs. Thomas is the daughter of H. Sheridan Baketel Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Baketel are at Pass-a-Grille, Florida, for the winter.

1897. Arthur Phillips George, in active practice in Haverhill, Mass., is blessed with two sons both of whom are practicing surgery in Haverhill. The elder, Arnold Phillips, is a graduate of Dartmouth and Jefferson. Alden Batchelder is a graduate of Harvard.

1923. Paul E. Carlisle, since 1938 Associate Medical Director with the Prudential Insurance Company of America, at Newark, N. J., is moving to Los Angeles as Medical Director of the newly established Western Division.

1926. Herbert A. Talbot, Box 578, RFD 10, Richmond 24, Va., is the new address. Herb is on the stafE of the Veterans Hospital there, formerly McGuire General, which is in affiliation with the Medical College of Virginia. 1928. Edmund Vincent Lynch will be prevented by the present deteriorating civil conditions in China from returning there to his post in the Department of Surgery at Yale-in-China. He is interested in institutional or group work and for the present is teaching Anatomy at Cornell, doing some work in Pathology at the Memorial Cancer Institute, and re-establishing his private practice in surgery.