Medical School
THE MEDICAL SCHOOL opened on September 18 with a new class of 24 men, all undergraduates or graduates of the College. I say "men" because only one other American school does not now admit women, and one admits no men.
The faculty has been increased by three; four members have been promoted; one member is back from a year's leave; and one is away.
Walter Broiun Shelley, who holds a doctorate in both philosophy and medicine from the University of Minnesota, has come as an Instructor in Dermatology and Syphilology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he has held similar appointments in Dermatology and Physiology. Previously he taught Physiology at the College of St. Thomas and the University of Minnesota. During the war Captain Shelley was stationed at the Armored Medical Research Laboratory, Fort Knox, Kentucky. He will teach Mycology and Pathology of the Skin in courses of the second year.
Lawrence Stearns Crispell has been appointed to an Instructorship in Orolaryngology and comes here from the Medical School of Yale University where he held a similar post. He is a graduate of the College and School of Medicine at Yale and held residency appointments at Bellevue and New Haven Hospitals. Captain Crispell was stationed during the war at Camp Polk, Fort Custer, the Percy Jones General Hospital, and on the general staff at the Pentagon in Washington, while on leave-of-absence from Yale.
John William, Schleicher, a graduate of the College (1940) and of the Medical Schools of Dartmouth and Cornell, has joined the faculty as a Teaching Fellow in Obstetrics and Gynecology. He comes here from a two-year Fellowship at the New York Lying-in Hospital. Lieutenant Schleicher saw active service in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Naval Reserve at the General Dispensary, Lido Beach; with the USS AULT in the Pacific Theatre; and on terminal duty at the U.S. Naval Personnel Separation Center in New York.
For those who did not attend the 50th Anniversary Scientific Exposition of the American Medical Association in Atlantic City, June 7-10, I am pleased to report that a Certificate of Merit for originality and excellence of presentation of an exhibit of individual investigation was awarded to Doctors Arthur E. MacNeill, Alan Mather and William L. McLaughlin for "A Dialyzer of Great Adaptability." This might be considered a preliminary report from a research project formalized on January 1, 1948 under a grant-in-aid from the Hitchcock Foundation. This apparatus is being developed here at the School in an attempt to provide emergency treatment for temporary kidney failure by extra-renal dialysis and is expected to have significant clinical adaptation.
The class of 22 which graduated in June is distributed among twelve schools. At Pennsylvania are William T. Anderson '45, John L. Cain '47, John B. Harmon '38, Thomas R. Leech '46; at Harvard are Eugene E. Bossi '46, Theodore E. Clark '47, Robert E. DeForest II '49, Joseph M. Guattery '45, David W. Heusinkveld '49, and Richard A. Mayo '47. McGill took away not only Robert C. Joy '45 and Loren W. Wood '45 but also Alice Marsha Spencer, secretary to Doctor Savage, who went along to Montreal as the bride of Woody. Phillip M. Johnson '4B and Jay L. Werther '49 at Columbia, Floyd H. Farrant II '45 at Cornell, and Harry A. Durkin Jr. '45 at New York University are maintaining the Dartmouth-New York delegation. The Boston delegation also includes John R. Mahoney '48 at Tufts and Harris Hinckley '45 at Boston University. John S. O'Connor '44 is also remaining on the Atlantic seaboard at Johns Hopkins. Charles C. Cunningham started West and stopped at the University of Rochester. John C. Tower '47 continued to Cleveland where he married his prospective Western Reserve classmate, Elizabeth Ann Bingham, on September 2. But Roger C. Wilde Jr., a Dartmouth '49'er, celebrated the Centenary of the discovery of gold by registering at the University of California.
To those contributors to the Medical SchoolMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Expansion Fund I can report that extensive building operations are under way with a new nurses' home and additions to the boiler plant, kitchens and dining rooms well above the foundation stage. It must be understood that increases in the capacity o£ the basic services had to be provided before additional beds could be carried. It is expected that these expanded facilities will be ready in the spring at which time Faulkner House will be under construction.
For those who heard about the Dean's accident he is glad to be able to report complete recovery after a month at Dick's House and promises a full column of alumni news in November.
