Medical School
The 160th session of the School will conclude in a week with 23 men to receive the Diploma in Medicine at Commencement. Thirteen states, with only New York and Ohio with more than two graduates, will be represented.
Ralph E. Miller '26, Professor of Pathology, was awarded the American Cancer Society's Medal For Distinguished Service in recognition of his "outstanding contributions" in cancer control, at the annual Cancer Conference Day of the New Hampshire Medical Society in Manchester on April 6.
Eight medical institutions in seven places were visited in April by a committee consisting of the Dean and Dr. Ralph E. Miller, through the interest and generosity of the latter, who as pilot provided the plane. The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology on Monday and the Clinical Center of the National Institute of Health Tuesday morning, after bed and board at Polly and Tax Connell's D'28, in Washington was the first stop. The Medical School and Hospital of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were next and then the same at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. That evening on the way north, Louisville was reached, ahead of a thunderstorm, with the Medical School and new Children's Hospital visited in the morning. A brisk tail wind made possible a visit to the new Medical School at Wayne University in Detroit. A sunset hop across Lake Erie brought the chance to see the new laboratories at Western Reserve in Cleveland after dinner that evening. After some further time at the school in the morning, off to Buffalo for luncheon and a trip through the new School of Medicine on the hill, which left just enough time to return home for dinner on Friday evening. ,
Frank H. Connell D'28, Professor of Parasitology, has decided to make his leave of absence permanent to remain in Washington as executive director of the Committee on Atomic Casualties of the National Academy of Sciences. The Connells are living at 2716 38th St., N.W.
John A. Murtagh, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, was elected vice president of the American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society at the annual meeting in Hollywood, Fla., on March 17.
Ralph W. Hunter, Assistant Professor of Neuroanatomy and Neurology, was, at the April meeting of the Board elected a Life Trustee of the College. Dr. Hunter was born in Hanover and graduated from the College and Medical School before taking his M.D. degree at Johns Hopkins University in 1934. He is Medical Director of the College Health Service.
Visiting lecturer in April was Dr. William Dameshek, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Medical School of Tufts University. He spoke on "Leukemia and Related States" and and conducted a seminar on "Lymphoma and Leukemia" at the Veterans Hospital.
Dr. Masanobu Tomonaga, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine of the Nagasaki University Medical School of Japan as a participant in the "Foreign Leader Program" of the International Educational Exchange Service of the Department of State, was a three-day visitor last month.
1931 Phillip H. Bassett who came out of the Navy with a "Brass Hat" and went into practice at Newport Beach, Calif., has now decided to go back to school to take a three-year program in Neuropsychiatry at the Brentwood Veterans Hospital under the auspices of the University of California at Los Angeles. He says that he will be the oldest living resident. Phil, Edyth and the four little Bassetts will live at 301 South Arden Boulevard.
1941 Charles A. Pinderhughes, Instructor in Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of Boston University has been appointed Chief of Professional Education at Bedford, Mass., in the Veterans Hospital.
John W. and Inez C. Schleicher (D'40) introduced Paul Martin to society on May 3 at 8 lbs. 2 oz. Jack is Instructor in Obstetrics and Gynecology here.
1943 Warren J. Taylor has concluded his appointment at the Veterans Hospital at Rutland Heights and has become low man on Dr. Dwight E. Harken's totem pole at 67 Bay State Road, Boston. The home base will be at 12 Cox Road, Winchester.
1945 Buell C. Kingsley is in training at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic under Dr. Frederick H. Allen, Professor of Psychiatry at Pennsylvania. Buell and Maggi are living at 205 Bank Ave., Riverton, N. J., and teaching their first-born girl child to walk while awaiting the advent of the next "little creature."
1948 Harry A. Durkin Jr. will conclude his Residency in Psychiatry in June and will continue in a Fellowship in Child Psychiatry in Boston at the Judge Baker Guidance Center under George E. Gardner '25, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard. In March Pixie presented Harry with Christopher Paul as a playmate for Chip.
Richard A. Cardozo finished up on the house staff at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital on the first of April and is now Harvey Cushing Fellow working in hypothermia. Before July 1 he will take Marnie and the kids to England where he has a fellowship at St. Mary's Hospital in London.
1949 William T. Anderson will finish his residency in Obstetrics, and Gynecology at the Sisters of Charity Hospital in Buffalo this month and will move to California.
1953 W. Donald Horrigan has made Alpha Omega Alpha at Cornell and is living at 478 Broad Ave., in Leonia, N. J. That faraway look that was so noticeable on dark March mornings has gone forever. He married Julia G. Pratt on June 14, 1954, and they will write the second chapter of their honeymoon at her summer home on Lake Champlain in June after he graduates.
Robert F. Millhouse expects to marry that Hahnemann nurse on June 18 and hopes toremain at St. Luke's in Pediatrics at Cleveland, Ohio, under Nobel laureate Frederick-Chapman Robbins.
1955 Donald K. Brief of South Orange, N. J., Edward S. Horton of Hanover, N. H., and Randall H. Silver of Newport, N. H., have been awarded National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Medical Student Fellowships for the summer. Don will work with Dr. T. Richard Watson '37 in the Cardiopulmonary Laboratory of the Hitchcock Foundation while Ed' and Randy will learn about Physical Medicine from Dr. Thomas P. Anderson at the Hitchcock.
