Medical School
This is the season of the year when housing is the watchword on the Medical Campus. Twenty-four first year students, of whom some may be married; fourteen internes, many of whom will be married; and an unknown number of residents and fellows, all of whom will probably be married by the time they arrive, must be sheltered beginning on one July, and some of Wigwam Circle has already been razed. If this medical center is to remain competitive for a house staff some solution of the housing problem must be found and soon.
Our quota of interns was filled by Mary Virginia Ball of Boston from Harvard; Benjamin N. Branch of Jenkintown, Pa., from Dartmouth and Harvard; John Alexis Burland of Washington, D.C., from Columbia; Robert W. Chamberlin Jr. of Cleveland from Harvard; Rodney M.W. Cook of Ann Arbor from Michigan; Leßaron W. Dennis of Boston from Dartmouth and Harvard; William G.B. Graham of Pittsburgh from Pennsylvania; Everett W. Haggett of Newton Highlands, Mass., from Dartmouth and Harvard; Robert E. Heckman of Boston from Tufts; Armin T. Keil of Stamford, Conn., from Northwestern; James D. Kenney of Waterbury, Conn., from Boston University; William G. Loomis of Bennington, Vt., from Dartmouth and Cornell; Malcolm H. Moss of Newark, N. J., from Dartmouth and Harvard; and William Kent Weissman from Dartmouth and Jefferson. With nine geographical regions and ten medical schools represented the Hitchcock is not likely, this year at least, to be considered ingrown or inbred.
The peripatetic professors are still on the move. Donald S. King, Professor of Thoracic Medicine, attended the conference of chief consultants of the Veterans Administration in Washington. Harry T. French, Professor of Neuroanatomy, visited at Gainesville, Fla., where his brother Rowland is Professor of Biochemistry at the University. John P. Bowler, Professor of Surgery, and William L.McLaughlin, Assistant Professor of Urology, represented us at the Boston meeting of the New England section of the American Urological Association. Colin Campbell Stewart III, Professor of Pediatrics, attended the Boston meeting of the New England Pediatric Society.
The Dean represented the School at the Annual Meeting of the States' Medical Postgraduate Association and the Annual Congress on Medical Education and Licensure at Chicago.
Prof, and Mrs. Ralph E. Miller, whose famous skiing son was a member of the U.S. Olympic Team, attended the Winter Games at Cortina, Italy.
Leslie K. Sycamore, Professor of Radiology, represented the School at the Annual Conference of Teachers of Radiology and attended the American College of Radiology Meeting in Chicago.
James H. Townsend, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of Clinical Services at the White River Veterans Administration Hospital, has resigned from the Faculty because of transfer to a similar post at the Boston V. A. Hospital. Walter B. Crandell, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, who was Acting Chief Medical Officer during the past summer while Dr. Townsend was in Europe, has been appointed Director of Professional services. Niels L. Anthonisen and Edward A. Tyler, Assistant Professors of Psychiatry, represented the Veterans and Hitchcock Hospitals respectively at the New York meeting of the American Orthopsychiatry Association. John B. McKenna, Assistant Professor of Neuroanatomy and Psychiatry, and William N. Chambers, Assistant Professor of Medicine, represented the School and Hitchcock at the Boston meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society.
O. Sherwin Staples and Stuart W. Russell, Assistant Professors of Orthosurgery, and Ernest Sachs Jr., Instructor in Neurosurgery, represented the School and the Hitchcock at the Concord meeting of the American College of Surgeons. William T. Mosenthal, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, represented the Hitchcock and School at the New England Hospital Assembly in Boston.
Richard H. Barrett, Assistant Professor in the Physiological Sciences, and Lewis H. Lambert, Instructor in the same, represented the School and the Hitchcock at the Hartford meeting of the New England Society of Anesthesia. Jackson W. Wright, Assistant Professor of Medicine, was our representative at the New England Diabetic Association meeting in Boston. John Milne, Assistant Professor of Medicine, represented us at the Boston meeting of the American Federation of Clinical Research.
Walter C. Lobitz Jr., Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology, has recently become a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Investigative Dermatology and a member and director of the American Board of Dermatology and Syphilology as the 26th U. S. dermatologist so to serve.
Ernest Sachs Jr., Instructor in Neurosurgery, attended the New York Academy of Sciences Conference on the Pharmacology of Psychotomimetic and Psychotherapeutic Drugs where he discussed the paper on "The Nature of the Synaptic Action of LSD" by Dominick P. Purpura after which he attended the Honolulu meeting of the Harvey Cushing Society where he presented "Spinal Fluid Acetylcholine and Serotonin in Patients with Head Injuries and Brain Tumors."
Twenty-two members .of the current student body of the School are applicants for commissions as Ensign, MC, USNR. A Navy team came to Hanover, as a pilot project, to process the candidates, who were given physical examinations and interviews. Security and loyalty checks must be completed after the Department of the Navy has approved the applications. It is expected that commissioning can be accomplished before graduation possibly with a ceremony on campus. 1954 Internships elsewhere than at the Hitchcock: Arthur F. Amick and James A. Rose in Medicine at Massachusetts General; Warren W. Babcock, Rotating at the University of Michigan; Thomas A. Clark at the Henry Ford in Detroit; George V. Cochran and Francis A. L'Esperance in Surgery at the Presbyterian in New York; Bruce L. Gilmore, Frank G. Moody in Medicine and Walton K. T. Shim in Surgery at New York Hospital; Carlos E. Harrison, Rotating at Virginia Mason in Seattle; Alfred B. Hathcock, Rotating at Cincinnati General; Merrill C. Johnson in Medicine at Buffalo General; Philip F. Parshley in Surgery at Boston City; David P. Stiff, Rotating at Pennsylvania; John M. Wortley, Rotating at Good Samaritan in Portland, Oregon.
It would be inappropriate to close without recounting some of our other blessings. The National Fund for Medical Education sent for current expenses a total of $12,501.52 from the 1955 campaign. Of this Class A and B Grants accounted for $8,940 and the remainder came from alumni and friends who designated their gifts. Twenty-three per cent of the money in the grants came from the American Medical Education Foundation. The National Heart Institute has made a grant to the School of $38,556 to be used during the next three years by the Department of Physiological Sciences for augmentation of the teaching in Cardiology.
