Medical School

The Dartmouth Medical Alumni about New York gathered at the Dartmouth Club at 6:00 P.M. 011 March 31 for cocktails, an excellent dinner by Ned Redman, and a heartwarming reunion with a representation that spanned sixty classes. When Toastmaster Spencer T. Snedecor 1921 rapped on his glass and proceeded to welcome the gathering with traditional cordiality and humor there were 53 at the table which was exactly half the number on the invitation list and percentagewise a terrific tribute to the Committee. Godfrey Pittis 1897 was the guest of honor and entertained the assembly with vignettes of Hanover and the School before the turn of the century.

Then Rolf C. Syvertsen 1923, Professor of Anatomy and Dean, reported on "Dartmouth Medical Students and Where They Go" starting with the first two-year class of 1914 and continuing to the current second-year class of 23 men which includes 8 Phi Beta Kappas; 7 cum laudes; 3 magna cum laudes; 4 summa cum laudes; 1 "degree with distinction"; 4 "degrees with highest distinction"; 1 salutatorian; and 1 valedictorian.

Ralph W. Hunter 1932, Assistant Professor of Neuroanatomy and Neurology, was born in Hanover during the period of the four-year school. Between what he has been told so many times that it has become real and what he actually remembers, his "Old Times in Hanover," with pictures passed around, brought back fond memories of revered and beloved characters on the Faculty and once familiar scenes and events long past.

Jackson W. Wright 1934, Assistant Professor of Medicine, hurried back from Cincinnati ion about the "Modern Hospital and Clinic" with all the growth in personnel and plant, even since his return to Hanover a decade ago, which culminated in 1952 with the new inpatient and outpatient facilities of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital contained in Faulkner House and the Doctors Office Building.

Then Ralph E. Miller 1926, Professor of Pathology, transported all to the Pacific South Sea Isle of Kapingamarangi where with Kenneth P. Emory, 1920, Ethnologist, Bishop Museum, Honolulu he spent from June to December 1950, part of the time marooned by the Korean War. They were an expedition under the SIM program of the Pacific Science Board of the National Research Council and a tripart survey on Health, Parasitology, and Blood Groups of the Kapingas was Doctor Miller's Report to PSB. The pictures and the intimate detail that he gave of the life on the atoll made it difficult for a few seconds to come back to New York.

Toastmaster Snedecor closed the formal meeting with a pledge to the delegation from Hanover of continued medical alumni loyalty and support for the School. Informal groups carried on until long after midnight with TedRobie's kodachromes, School reminiscences, and medical education in general. The Medical Class of 1921 contributed the principals of the Committee, Spencer T. Snedecor of Hackensack and Harold E. Clark of New York, who with their assistants did an excellent job in stimulating a remarkable turnout. Perhaps there are other centers where the Dartmouth Medical Alumni population would permit a similar occasion.

Those who came were 1897 Godfrey Pittis, Allendale, N. J.; 1906 Edward A. Bullard, New York; 1914 Henry Haywood, New Brunswick, N. J.; 1916 Frank G. Pettengill, New York; 1920 Edward F. Shnayerson, New York, John W. Stickney, Elmhurst, L. I.; 1921 Harold E. Clark, Scarsdale, N. Y., Spencer T. Snedecor, Hackensack, N. J., E. Hatch Wilcox, Pleasantville, N. Y.; 1922 E. Markey Pullen, New York; 1923 Theodore R. Robie, Upper Montclair, N. J., Rolf C. Syvertsen, Hanover. N. H.; 1925 Milton P. Hunter, Pleasantvill N Y., Anthony C. Cipollaro, New York; 1926 Abraham Kolodin, Montclair, N. J., Ralph i Miller Hanover, N. H.; 1927 Winslow S. Edger-W Bronxville, N. Y.; 1928 Joseph J. Friedman, Brooklyn, N. Y., John H. Greener, Brooklyn, N. Y.; ' 1929 Irving Fruchs, Brooklyn, N. Y.; 1930 upward P. Serrell, Greenwich, Conn., Leslie M. Townsend, Roselle Park, N. J., Daniel A Wilcox, Mount Kisco, N. Y.; 1931 Adolph P. Raab, Brook-lyn N Y„ Victor A. Tadross, Brooklyn, N. Y.; 1932 Ralph W. Hunter, Hanover, N. H.; 1933 Walter W Modarelli, Union City, N. J.; 1934 Jackson W. Wright, Hanover, N. H.; 1935 Joseph B Furst New York; 1936 Jules H. Bromberg, Maplewood, N. J., James F. Higgins, Garden City, L. I., Harold B. Orenstein, Oakland Gardens, N. J.; 1937 Douglas H. Robertson, Mount Kisco, N. Y.; 1939 Austin R. Grant, Brooklyn, N. Y.; 1940 H. Beecher Chapin, New York, Charles S. Neer, Englewood, N. J.; 1943 Forbes Delany, Greenwich, Conn Alvin L. Robins, New York, Jerrold O. von Wedel Cos Cob, Conn., John T. Worcester, Engle-wood 'N J.; 1944 Merlin K. DuVal Jr., Ridge- wood, N. J., Charles W. Pierce, Briarcliff, N. Y.; 1945 Edward A. McCrum, Staten Island, N. Y.; 1948 Cyril E. Shea Jr., New York, Daniel A. Winters Leonia, N. J.; 1949 Floyd H. Farrant II, Teaneck N. J, Philip M. Johnson, Bergenfield, N. J.; 1952' Jerome M. Block, New York; 1954 George V B. Cochran and Walton K. T. Shim at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, and William G. Loomis at Cornell Medical College.

1934 Robert F. Korns on leave from the New York State Department of Health is chief assistant to Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., Director of the Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center at Ann Arbor, Michigan.

1942 Robert C. Rainie has returned from active duty with the U. S. Air Force and has opened his offices for the practice of Internal Medicine at 14 North State Street, Concord, N. H.

1946 Moye W. Freymann who has been a Point IV Technician with USOM in Iran since 1952 is hoping to return this year to go on with his formal training at the Harvard School of Public Health. Alden B. Starr, who had a bout with Mycobacterium tuberculosis after he transferred to Syracuse, graduated there in 1949; interned at N. Y. Polyclinic; and began training in Psychiatry under Yale auspices at Newington V.A. Hospital with Edward Stainbrook. After six months at a state hospital, a year of private practice, and a year of psychoanalysis he returned to Syracuse in 1954 to finish his residency under Doctor Stainbrook. He is still there teaching psychiatry to residents and medical students and living in the country with his wife and small son and daughter.

1948 Richard Henry and Margaret Hallowell Cardozo have issued the top drawer information that Margaret Hallowell arrived on March 20 weighing 5 lbs. 13 oz. to be a baby sister for Christopher Pratt who was born November 22, 1953.

1951 Paul J. Lena married Joan Radcliffe Hadley on April 23 in Saint Mary's Church, Springfield, Vt. Dr. Lena is a graduate student of the School enrolled as a Resident in Internal Medicine. They will live at 42 Sachem Village.

1953 The internship matching for next year gave the widest distribution ever. The Harvard crowd is spread from coast to coast. Staying in Boston are David Abrahams at Peter Bent Brigham and Richard A. Carleton at the City, both on the Medical Service; William S.Fletcher at the City and A If E. Gundersen at Massachusetts General, both on the Surgical Service. In New York will be Joseph K. Dobos at the Roosevelt on the Medical Service and in Brooklyn Raymond E. Jankowich rotating at King's County. William E. McAndrew will be at the Philadelphia General and Herbert A.Muller Jr. at the Pennsylvania, both rotating. Lester E. Bauer will go to Ann Arbor for Medicine at the University Hospital and HowardJ. Geist will go to St. Louis for Surgery at Barnes. Raymond Alexanian will go to Seattle for the Rotating Service at King's County. Columbia splits, with Lloyd C. Fisher staying at Bellevue and Peter Fleming coming to Mary Hitchcock. Pennsylvania splits, with Richard G. Lathrop staying in Philadelphia at the General and James E. Harshbarger going to Geisinger Memorial at Danville. William D.Horrigan will make the short hop from Cornell to St. Luke's in New York. George B.Johnson Jr. will move from Boston University to Cleveland to join Lawrence A. Wilson from Western Reserve at the University Hospitals there. Robert F. Millhouse at Western Reserve will also stay in Cleveland, but at St. Luke's. The McGill delegation of Sumner E.Moulton and Bennett M. Stein will both go to the U. S. Naval Hospital at St. Albans, L. I. The Johns Hopkins trio will leave Baltimore northbound mostly, Floyd R. Parks Jr. going to New York Hospital for Surgery; John F.Watson also to New York for Medicine at Presbyterian; and Robert C. Thomas, the third member of the class to be in the uniform of the USNR, will go to Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md.

1955 James J. Chandler of Rocky River, Ohio, and Bruce A. Pattee of Denver, will continue next year at the University of Michigan, while Stanley E. Rosenberg of New York will continue at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia.