Medical School
OUR TEACHING Hospital Expansion Fund pledges had reached $1,693,939.44 on March 10 which is a goodly distance toward our goal but leaves the hardest mileage yet to be covered. We hope you will not delay in returning your pledges because the participat ion in this campaign, the only special project since our last addition, will need to be very nearly one hundred percent to give us enough to start construction. We are sure that everyone would like to feel possessive about the new plant and the best way to do that is to help pay for it.
The Sesquicentennial Committee, consisting of Harry W. Savage, Chairman, Harry T. French, John P. Bowler, John Gile, Ralph E. Miller, Nathan T. Milliken, Jackson W. Wright, and John Milne, has chosen the third week-end of July as the date for the celebration which will begin Thursday evening, July 28. Plan your summer now with a trip to Hanover on your schedule. Begin or end your vacation with a stop-over here; take the kids to camp; bring them home; visit them; spend a week or two with Dave Heald at the Hanover Inn; renew your New England, New Hampshire, and Hanover memories in this pleasant spot where you can bring the whole family; take off the tension: and find ample accommodations. Promise yourself the trip; save the dates; and the Committee will do the rest by providing you with an interesting but not high pressure program.
Among recent activities of the Faculty were representation at a number of regional and society meetings.
Harry T. French, Professor of Neuroanatomy and senior member of the Medical Service, and Jackson W. Wright, Instructor in Medicine, attended the Boston meeting of the New England Diabetes Association.
John P. Bowler, Professor of Surgery, attended the Eastern Surgical Society meeting in Philadelphia, and with William L. McLaughlin, Instructor in Surgery, attended the Boston meeting of the New England Urological Society.
Doctor Bowler was the recent guest of honor at a meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Rochester, Minnesota, under the chairmanship of George P. Sayre '35.
Colin C. Stewart III, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, spoke on "Recent Advances in the Treatment of Meningitis" at the Bellows Falls meeting of the Windham County Medical Society; attended the Manchester meeting of the New England Council for the General Welfare; and the Concord meeting of the Committee for the Discussion of Child Welfare Problems of the New Hampshire Citizens Council.
Leslie K. Sycamore, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Roentgenology, attended the Boston meeting of the New England Roentgen Ray Society and the Philadelphia meeting of the New England Cancer Society.
Radford C. Tanzer, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Branch Consultant in Plastic Surgery for the Veterans Administration, recently visited the hospital at Togus, Maine.
John A. Murtagh, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, addressed the New York meeting of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society on his research into "The Sensitivity of the Individual Fibers of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve."
Walter B. Crandell, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, discussed the paper of Francis D. Moore, Associate in Surgery, Harvard Medical School, "Vagus Nerve Resection for Peptic Ulcer: A Three Year Study," at the January Medical Staff Meeting of New York Hospital.
Richard H. Barrett, Instructor in Pharmacology (Anesthesiology), attended the Boston meeting of the New England Society of Anesthesiologists.
Hanford L. Auten, Instructor in Ophthalmology, attended the two most recent meetings of the New England Ophthalmological Society held in Boston.
Walter C. Lobitz Jr., Instructor in Dermatology and Syphilology, discussed "Problems of Dermatology" at the January meeting of the staff of Alice Peck Day Hospital and attended the quarterly meeting of the New England Dermatological Society and the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology.
William N. Chambers, Instructor in Medicine, reported on "Dicumerol in Multiple Sclerosis" at the first February bi-weekly staff meeting of the Hitchcock Hospital.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic Consultant, addressed the medical student body on the subject of "Frostbite" during his January visit in connection with the Arctic Studies Program of the College.
1882—Charles Alfred Morse, born September 8, 1857 in Salisbury, N. H., began the study of medicine at the age of nineteen. After five years of preceptorial and formal training, on November 14, 1881, having completed a satisfactory thesis on "Scarlatina," he assembled in Culver Hall along with forty others to be examined by two delegates from the New Hampshire Medical Society, Moses Wadleigh Russell, M.D., of Concord, and Charles Oscar Towne, M.D., of Manchester, both graduates of the Class of 1864, and by Orlando Wood Sherwin, M.D., of Woodstock, Vt., graduate of 1866, and E. F. Upham, M.D., of West Randolph, both from the Vermont Medical Society. The Faculty of the School was represented by Henry Martyn Field, M.D. 1881, Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; by Lyman Bartlett How, M.D. 1863, Professor of Anatomy and Physiology; and by Carlton Pennington Frost, M.D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine. At the end of the second day thirty-nine men were judged worthy and on the following day were graduated.
Dr. Morse engaged in general practice in Newmarket, N. H. and was more than once one of the Board of four society representatives. He examined the Class of 1898 which contained Howard Nelson Kingsford, who was immediately thereafter appointed to the Faculty as Instructor in Histology, Bacteriology and Pathology. Doctor Morse who delivered the address, with President William Jewett Tucker presiding, brought as his honored guest Samuel C. Bartlett. After 38 years lacking seven days of practice, which included six years in the New Hampshire House of Representatives; two years in the State Senate, and twelve years of representation to the American Medical Association, Doctor Morse retired and moved to Los Angeles. There he is now living in his 91st year at West 12th Place whence he has recently written a congratulatory letter to Alice Pollard apropos her "interesting article on Hanover's Noted Clinic."
1935—James Kenneth Keeley expects to open his office for the practice of surgery in Poughkeepsie this summer. He is completing his surgical fellowship at Rochester where he is serving as Assistant to Dr. C. W. Mayo. He and Mary welcomed first-born James Keeley, named after his grandfather, on January 9.
1938—Thomas Price Jacobs is limiting his practice to Internal Medicine at 650 Main Street, New Rochelle, N. Y.
1940—Amos R. Little Jr. of the HawkinsLindstrom Clinic at Helena, has become acclimated with the feeling that distance means nothing and everything west of the Mississippi is his own backyard. No doubt, paradoctoring has helped that feeling.
1941—Gordon Dudley Stokes has decided to practice in New England when he concludes his fellowship in medicine at Rochester. The biggest news in the Stokes family is still Susan Elizabeth, born on 11 September 1947, who persuaded Betty to take time off from the Radiology Department for the event.
1942—William J. Dignam, graduate student in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the School of Medicine of the University of Kansas under Dr. Calkins, expects to affiliate at Duke for six months of endocrinology beginning April 1.
Julia C. and Allen Keniston have opened their office for the General Practice of Medicine at 21 East Main Street, Port Jarvis, N. Y.
1943—Paul Joseph Costello, Lt. MC, USNR, on duty at the Veterans Hospital in Whipple, Ariz., will begin a residency on 1 July at the Children's Hospital, Denver. Paul and Duddy are still rejoicing over the birth of Judith McLane who arrived on 28 October, making two.
Franklin Howard West, Lt. MC, USNR, who was deactivated on 30 December, began a fellowship in psychiatry at the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital on 1 March. During the interval he was dealing in lumber in carload lots in quest of an apartment. He says that he feels outnumbered and needs more room with the birth of Janet Esther on August 31, his own birthday.
Robert Francis Wilson, Fellow in Pediatrics here, and Mary added their second-born Peter Brian on 1 November.
William Henry Wierman came home from duty on Guam with the Navy in time for Christmas. He is now under the preceptorship of William B. Condon '30 and Herbert CalvinFisher '33 in the Department of Experimental Surgery of the University of Colorado.
