Books for Korea
Capt. Howard P. Sawyer Jr. '45 of the Army Medical Corps was in the news recently when he was cited in a dispatch from Korea as being one of the leaders in efforts to re-stock the medical library of the Seoul University School of Medicine, located in Pusan, Korea. Captain Sawyer, now chief anesthesiologist at the 21 st Evacuation Hospital in Pusan, has with the help of other doctors started to restore the medical library which was almost completely depleted after the dash from Seoul, following the Chinese Communist invasion in 1950. Korean medical students have shown appreciation and a remarkable aptitude in obtaining information from the books, even though they are in English. Two hundred volumes were in the first shipment, with more to follow. Many of the books obtained were given by the Hitchcock Clinic, the Dartmouth Medical School and individual Hanover doctors.
Dr. Sawyer attended the Dartmouth Medical School and received the M.D. degree from Temple University in 1947 Following intern service at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, he was a resident in anesthesiology in the Veterans Hospital in White River Junction.
His father Dr. Howard P. Sawyer '15, who served throughout the First World War with the Yale Mobile Hospital Unit, also received a distinction during his war experience when the M.D. degree from Yale Medical School was conferred upon him within seven miles of the front lines, after his enlistment as a senior medical student.
