Medical School
COMMENCEMENT sent twenty-three diplomates of our two-year course on their various ways. Lee E. Bartholomew of Summit, N. J.; Robert W. Berry of Bristol, Conn.; Robert A. Hoekelman Jr. of Cliffside Park, N. J.; John R. McGreevy of Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.; Harvey N. Mandell of Norwich, Conn.; and Daniel McC. Winters of Brooklyn, N. Y., will continue in the third year at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Cyrus C. Brown Jr. of San Diego, Calif.; Frank W. Garran Jr. of Hanover; John Garry of Methuen, Mass.; George A. Lyon of Hanover; Louis N. Pernokas of South Boston; Norman W. Saunders of Providence; Cyril E. Shea Jr. of Chicopee Falls, Mass.; and Norman J. Sissman of Pittsburgh, Pa., will enter the third year at Harvard. Richard H. Cardozo of New York will be our representative at Cornell, and Charles W. Does of Hyde Park, Mass., will maintain the tradition at Colorado. Pennsylvania will carry on with Van Vleck Chambers of Newport Beach, Calif.; E. Newbold Cooper Jr. of Moorestown, N. J.; and Charles H. Patton Jr. of Philadelphia, Pa. Charles E. Schofield of Providence is the sole delegate to New York University. John F. Scholer of Manhattan, Kansas, and W. Dean Warren of Lakeland, Florida, will go to Johns Hopkins. All but two of the class are veterans, and six are married.
In the first-year class eighteen men received the Bachelor of Arts degree. Roger C. Wilde Jr. '44, <£BK, was awarded his degree summa cum laude, with distinction in the Medical Sciences. Theodore R. Clark '47, SBK; Philip M. Johnson '4B, <£BK, John C. Tower '47, SBK, and Jay Werther '49, SBK, received their degrees magna cum laude with distinction in the Medical Sciences. Richard A. Mayo '47 was awarded the degree with distinction in the Medical Sciences. There were twenty-three men who finished the year, five of whom had graduated previously and eighteen were veterans.
The Medical School Class of 1948 at its Graduation Banquet, held at the Outing Club House June 5, made its pledge of $7OOO as a Class 25 th Reunion Gift to the Medical School payable in 1973. As the first step the Class appointed Louis N. Pernokas as Trustee and took out a life insurance policy for the youngest member of the class, Robert A. Hoekelman Jr. At the fifth reunion this will be converted into a twenty-year endowment form payable at Commencement in 1973.
The Board of Trustees in making reappointments to the Medical Faculty made four changes of grade as follows: Henry Livingston Heyl to be Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery; O. Sherwin Staples to be Assistant Professor of Orthosurgery; Richard Henry Barrett to be Assistant Professor of Pharmacology (Anesthesiology); and William Carpenter MacCarty Jr. to be Assistant Professor of Radiology.
Our Fellowships in Surgery have now been reorganized as a joint program with training divided between the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, the Hitchcock Clinic, and the White River Veterans Hospital. The Medical Faculty staffs all of these teaching institutions, making it possible to offer an inclusive integrated program with progressive responsibility to five new men per year beginning at ten week intervals. There are a limited number of opportunities for advanced training in General Surgery, Neurosurgery, and Orthosurgery. Anesthesiology, Dermatology, Medicine, Obstetrics, the Physiological Sciences, Radiology, and Research are offered in one or the other or both of the hospitals and the School, in varying amounts but in general in board requirement units.
Our Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Expansion Fund now exceeds two million of the original two-and-one-quarter-million-dollar goal. Of this, 99 Medical Alumni not on the Faculty have pledged #13,547 toward our 170,000, which at that rate would put us over, but returns have slowed up greatly in the last few weeks. We will not be able to make our final report on the 23rd unless you stage a terrific rally, which is now called for, to make the picture complete for the Sesquicentennial. As chairman of a very small committee, I need the cooperation of every individual alumnus.
We have been keeping you in touch by mail with the developments of the Sesquicentennial Program. Over 225 reservations for the banquet are an index of what the attendance will be. The families of all are invited; the wives are expected to attend all social functions. The usual sports and activities of Hanover, which is a popular summer resort, including tennis, golf, riding, the Connecticut, will offer diversion. The countryside is at its loveliest at that time of year and there will be rooms enough for everyone. There is still time for you to get in your reservations so send in your card today.
