Medical School
Midyear administrative activity, at its high in February, has decelerated with completion of the tentative selection of the Autumn 1955 Class and with the arrangements for transfer of the Second Year Class nearly concluded. A preliminary report discloses that the Harvard delegation will include DonaldK. Brief of South Orange and John M. Crowe of Montclair, N. J.; Allen B. Edmundson Jr. of Springfield, Ill.; Benjamin J. Gilson of Rumford, R. I.; John B. Herrmann of Cincinnati, Ohio; Edward S. Horton of Hanover, N. H.; Edward F. Kieger II of Chagrin Falls, Ohio; T. David Lee Jr. of Portland, Ore.; O.Ross Mclntyre and Robert M. Oneal of Omaha, Neb.; Randall H. Silver of Newport, N. H.; Charles S. Tannenbaum and Frank M.Weiser of New York; and Lloyd B. Tepper of Los Angeles, Calif. This fourteen-man group is larger by one than the 1917 group to Columbia and the 1952 group to Harvard.
Theodore H. Gasteyer of Oak Lawn, Ill., will transfer at Washington University, while Bruce F. LaFollette of Denver will return to Colorado. Cornell will take John M. Moran of Jamestown, N. D.; Burton M. Onofrio of East Norwalk, Conn.; and Walter O. VomLehn of Yonkers. Robert L. Spears of Fullerton, Calif., will continue at Southern California.
In 1914 the last four-year and first two-year class graduated. Counting that year 43 classes since have been distributed among forty schools.
Captain Edward Alton Tyler, who has been Chief of Psychiatry with the 3510th Hospital at the Randolph Base since early 1953, was released from active duty just before the beginning of the semester to join the staffs of the Clinic, Hospital, and Medical School as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. A Virginian, he studied at William and Mary College before taking his Doctorate in Medicine at the University of Virginia. Dr. Tyler was a Resident or Fellow in Psychiatry at Duke and Maryland and at various times held faculty appointments at Virginia, Duke, Maryland, and Pittsburgh. A certificant of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology he was Psychiatrist and Acting Director at the Child Guidance Center and at the University of Pittsburgh, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, before joining the Air Force.
Ferdinand Kreuzer Has concluded an apnointment in the Department of Physiology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, to join the Medical Faculty here as Assistant Professor in the Physiological Sciences. Dr. Kreuzer, a native of Lucerne, took his premedical work at the University of Fribourg and his medicine at the University of Zurich. He has held a faculty appointment at Fribourg since 1946. During 1952-1954 he was a Research Fellow of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and worked at the Universities of Keil, Cambridge, and Pennsylvania. He was married to Christa Paustian at Keil on January 22. The world is much smaller than it once was, but a visa is no easier. When this was written the Kreuzers were still in Fribourg.
Jan Nyboer, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, who while on leave has been conducting research under the auspices of the Hitchcock Foundation on a grant from the New Hampshire Heart Association, has accepted an appointment as Director of Cardiopulmonary Research at the Harper Hospital in Detroit.
Donald S. King, Professor of Thoracic Medicine, attended the Annual Conference on Chemotherapy of the Veterans Administration Area Consultants in Tuberculosis at Atlanta, Ga.
John P. Bowler, Professor of Surgery, is in Mexico on vacation and will return via Atlanta to attend the meeting of the Eastern Surgical Society.
Rolf C. Syvertsen, Professor of Anatomy and Dean, attended the Annual Congress on Medical Education and Licensure at Chicago.
Leslie K. Sycamore, Professor of Radiology, prepared a scientific exhibition on "Hiatus Hernia" which he presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Los Angeles and then attended the annual meeting of the American College of Radiology in Chicago.
Radford C. Tanzer, Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery, is visiting the principal centers for surgery of the hand in England, after which he will sojourn on the Continent until May when he will present a paper at the International Surgical Congress in Geneva, Switzerland.
John A. Murtagh, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, was on the program of the annual meeting of the N. E. Otolaryngological Society in Boston where he discussed "The Release of Vocal Cord Tension in Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Paralysis."
Hanford L. Auten, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, presented "Ocular Emergencies" at the March luncheon meeting in Randolph, Vermont, under the joint auspices of the Gifford Memorial Hospital and the White River Valley Clinic.
Reginald. K. House, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and member of the Board of Registration in Medicine, represented New Hampshire at the Annual Congress on Medical Education and Licensure in Chicago.
Walter C. Lobitz Jr., Assistant Professor of Dermatology, presented "Histology and Histochemistry of the Human Eccrine Sweat Gland" at the Brown University Conference on Growth. Dr. Lobitz has been named to the Commission on Cutaneous Diseases of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board in the Department of Defense.
1937 Jesse McCanless Gait has a busy practice in Dover, N. H., but found time to be president of Kiwanis which took him to Miami for the International. He is moving successfully toward a corneal transplant which may restore vision to his left eye. Here's hoping.
1943 Harry Craden Bishop is doing surgery at the Children's in Philadelphia, teaching at Pennsylvania, and living in Penn Valley, Narberth.
Henry F. Kramer Jr., Harry to you, is on active duty, MC USNR, at the Naval Hospital at Beaufort, S. C.
Harold C. Woodworth is back from the sea, now at Yale where he is a Public Health Service Postdoctorate Research Fellow of the National Microbiological Institute. He expects a Ph.D. in 1956.
1944 Robert E. Nystrom, with the apple cheek of youth, interned at Cook County and after the usual stint at Fort Sam Houston went out to Korea in 1947. Two years later he was back in Chicago but in 1952 those winters began to get Bob down so come spring he headed south. You'll find him at 1141 San Jose Drive, Abilene, Texas.
1945 Bert Eric Schwarz is at Rochester where he is becoming familiar with EEG's and doing investigative work in the general realm of psychiatry. He is engaged to Ardis Peterson, a school teacher in Minneapolis, but the day has not been set apparently.
Captain Fletcher McDowell is in Germany with the 2nd General Hospital and gives no details.
1946 Leonard J. Hannapel, who came back here for residency training after his internship at St. Vincent's Indianapolis and took some physiology, pathology, and medicine before he went to the famous Field Service School at Fort Sam Houston in June of 1951, is now in practice in Decatur, Ill.
1948 John Garry has finished his Obstetrics at Massachusetts Memorial and has started the eighteen-months stretch in Gynecology. Jack is one of our leading intern scouts.
Cyrus C. Brown Jr. has recovered from the hepatitis and is back in Minneapolis on the 250-bed Pulmonary Disease Service at the VA Hospital. Cy is on the faculty of the Medical School where he expects to continue research in pulmonary physiology.
Charles Heston Patton Jr. has settled down currently at lowa where he is an Instructor in Pediatrics and on the staff of the University Hospital.
1949 John Richard Mahoney was still in France with the 465th Tactical Hospital in December, but was planning on New York in May for three years of Orthopedics.
Loring Wayland Wood is in Japan with the Navy via Florida, California, Hawaii. Woodie has had all the breaks since he took Susie out of the office here.
1950 Robert Berg is in Berlin with the 279th Station Hospital. Bob says intrigue abounds, also good music and a touch of adventure.
Louis A. Buie Jr. interrupted his Surgical Fellowship at Mayo's for a tour with the Air Force. His father says Bud went overseas during the first week in February destined for Chaumont.
James J. Feeney is chief resident in Medicine at the Beth Israel in Boston and living in Brookline. He is hoping for an appointment at Postgraduate in London.
1952 Edgar R. Miller is in a straight surgical internship at Strong Memorial in Rochester. Tyke hopes to stay on next year.
Gilbert F. Mueller Jr. is having a good year at Minneapolis General and the Medical Class of 1952 Fund is growing. Ace isn't sure that outsiders ought to be allowed to contribute to it, however.
