Medical School

A brief review of the happenings of the academic year just past would, because of their import, seem appropriate at this time. S. Marsh Tenney '44, a graduate of Dartmouth and Cornell Medical Schools, who had held an appointment here since 1951 as Assistant Professor of Physiology, returned at the beginning of the school year from leave at the School of Medicine of the University of Rochester, where he had attained the rank of Associate Professor of both Physiology and Medicine, to become Professor of Physiology, Chairman of the Department of the Physiological Sciences, and Associate Dean for Research and Planning. Robert E. Gosselin, a graduate of Brown with a Ph.D. and M.D. from the University of Rochester, where he was an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, came in November to become Professor of Pharmacology. Frank G. Carpenter, with a B.Sc. from Ohio State and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, an Assistant Professor of Physiology at Cornell, was given the same appointment here in June 1957. Robert E. Nye Jr., a graduate of Ohio University with an M.D. from the University of Rochester,, where he was a Postdoctorate Fellow, Instructor in Medicine, and Assistant Physician at Strong Memorial and Municipal Hospitals, came here in the fall of 1956 as. an Instructor and is now an Assistant Professor of Physiology. William J. Cummings Jr. '48, a graduate of Dartmouth and Boston University Medical Schools, after a residency here in Anesthesiology became Instructor in the Physiological Sciences and Assistant Chief of Anesthesiology at the White River Veterans Hospital. He is now Instructor in Pharmacology.

Clarence J. Campbell '17, a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard Medical Schools,, who came here in 1929 and has been Professor of Physiology since 1943, was appointed Professor of Applied Physiology in October 1956. Frederic Rueckert Jr., a graduate of Hamilton College, with an M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, a Teaching Fellow in Plastic Surgery at Pittsburgh and a resident in that field there and here, was appointed Instructor in Plastic Surgery.

The title of Assistant Professor in the Physiological Sciences was changed to the same rank in Biochemistry for EugeneBecker and John Philip Davison and to the same rank in Physiology for Ferdinand Kreuzer. Joseph Michael Guattery, Instructor in Medicine and Assistant Chief, Medicine, at the White River Veterans Hospital, resigned October 8, 1956, to accept an appointment with the Medical Group at Canandaigua, N. Y. Norman Wiley Loud, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Chief, Radiology at the White River Veterans Hospital, retired October 31, 1956. He will make his home in Norwich, Vt., and Edgewater Fla,

Twenty-four men of the Second-Year Class received the Diploma in Medicine in June and transferred as follows: Cornell - John Lawrence Seymour Jr., New Rochelle, N. Y.; Pennsylvania - John Lloyd Wanamaker, Elizabethtown, Pa.; Stanford - Kenneth Eastman Thomas, Northfield, Ill.; Harvard—Raymond Francis Austin Jr., Maiden, Mass.; Henry Samuel Bloom, Brooklyn-Frederic Chungwa Chang, Memphis, Tenn.; Donald Edward Dillon, Manchester, N. H. Gerald Charles Finkel, Newark, N. J.; Richard Sexton Flagg, West Chester, Pa.; Alan Jay Friedman,, Brooklyn; Joseph Salvator Gonnella, Mountainside, N. J.; Howard Houg Green, Birmingham, Mich.; Wilhelm Gustav Hansen, Babylon, N. Y.; Kenneth Louis Herrmann, Cincinnati; Arthur Bill Kieger, Chagrin Falls, O.; David Emmett Klein, Helena, Mont.; Thomas Robert Kuhns, Rochester, N. Y.; Neil Hugh Raskin, Brooklyn; Richard Edward Ruel, Lebanon, N. H.; Kevin Gude Ryan, Saddle River, N. J.; Zigurds Leo Suritis, Wassaic, N. Y.; Peter Valentine Teal, Omaha, Neb.; and Stanley Stephen Weglarz, West Franklin, N. H. Charles Robert Carrington of Champ aign, Ill., withdrew from Harvard in favor of an interlude as a Teaching Fellow here in Physiology.

A New Medical Program

In June the President and the Board of Trustees reaffirmed their belief that medical education is an important part of Dartmouth's opportunity and responsibility. Recognizing the School's need of faculty and facilities the Board of Trustees endorsed a reorganization program to be financed by increased College participation and by the acquisition of approximately ten million dollars for School endowment and construction which would permit an ultimate increase in enrollment up to 48 students per class. To further this program the President and Board of Trustees filled new administrative posts and appointed a Policy Committee as follows: Director of Medical Sciences — S. Marsh Tenney '44, M.D., Markle scholar and Professor of Physiology, in direct charge of the total development; Dean -Rolf C. Syvertsen '18, M.D.; Assistant Director of Medical Sciences-Henry L. Heyl, M.D., Executive Director of the Hitchcock foundation; Policy Committee; John P. Bowler '15, M.D., Chairman, Staff Board of Governors, Hitchcock Hospital; George P. Berry, M.D., Dean, Harvard Medical School; Robert F. Loeb, M.D., Samuel Bard Professor of Medicine, Columbia University; W. Barry Wood, M.D., Vice-President, The Johns Hopkins University and Hospital; Waltman Walters 17 M.D., Professor of Surgery, Mayo Foundation.

the objective of this group, with the inividual and collective help of the faculties the Medical School and of the Science apartments of the College, is the development of a strong two-year medical school in contiguity with an equally strong liberal arts college to create what could become the prototype for other two-year schools in similar academic settings as a significant new approach to the economic problem of producing more doctors without adding the impossible burden, financially, of more four-year schools. Preliminary plans for a new basic science building have been completed and the location in the block across from Hitchcock Hospital has been secured. The design and size of the building, with of it reserved for research including unique provision for students up to an ultimate of 96 in the two classes, will provide space for teaching and research for a faculty of thirty and for a similar number of research fellows.

In the meantime every bit of potentially available space is being captured and converted for interim use. Nathan Smith through alteration of the lecture amphitheatre to one level has provided a whole class laboratory for pharmacology and physiology, relieving Medical North of part of the student laboratories to make room for research and office space for physiology staff additions. Stoughton Museum in the Old Medical Building has been rearranged for seminar use and the top floor of the north end is being modified into biochemistry office-research space. A Bailey Building opening from the north side of Nathan Smith as an emergency laboratory is also planned.

As the semester opened, additions to the faculty began to arrive. Donald Andresen, a graduate of Antioch College with an M.D. from Rochester, has come as an Instructor in Physiology from an USPHS Fellowship in Cardiology at the School of Medicine of Washington University in St. Louis. HeinzValtin, a graduate of Swarthmore with an M.D. from Cornell, and most recently an NIH Trainee at St. Andrews University, Scotland, and the University of Rochester, has joined the Faculty as an Instructor in Physiology. Lafayette H. Noda, a graduate of California with a Ph.D. from Stanford, recently Assistant Professor at Wisconsin and most recently Biochemist at the Naval Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, has been appointed Associate Professor of Biochemistry and is here at work.

Sidney A. Bernhard, a graduate of Brooklyn College, with an M.S. from Pennsylvania State and a Ph.D. from Columbia, who is on the staffs of Howard and Georgetown Universities in Washington and of the Division of Physical Biochemistry at the Naval Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, is expected to join the Faculty shortly as an Ass ociate Professor of Biochemistry. DorothyJean Botts, a graduate of Stetson University, a former Fellow in Mathematics at Virginia, a Certificant in Meteorology from the Department of Physics at the University of California at Los Angeles; with a Ph.D. in Physiology from Chicago and most recently on the staff of the Physical Biochemistry Division of the Naval Medical Research Institute and Navy Representative on the Phys- iology Study Section of the USPHS, has been appointed Associate Professor of Biochemistry and will arrive during the semester. Manuel Morales, a graduate in Physiology at California, with an M.A. in Mathematical Physics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Physiology at California, is expected shortly to take over his responsibilities as Professor of Biochemistry and Chairman of the Department. He was on the Faculty in Physics at Western Reserve, was Assistant Professor of Physiology at Chicago and at the Institute of Biophysics, and since 1948 was on the Staff of the Naval Medical Research Institute where since 1950 he has been Chief, Division of Physical Biochemistry. He is now the guest of the Japanese Government at the International Congress on Proteins.

In the past the School has been financed, like a Department of the College, out of general funds. Under the new organization it has been agreed that this financing will be continued at the significantly increased level of the 1956-1957 budget but that all new financing required will be obtained by the School and used solely for its development. Funds are being vigorously sought from all available sources in an effort that is independent of, but coordinated with, the Capital Gifts Campaign. A request is now pending before the Health Resources Facilities Council of the NIH. Preliminary discussions have taken place with the executives of the Commonwealth Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation. The Ford Foundation has recently contributed $800,000 of endowment in support of faculty salaries. Research and training grants to the Hitchcock Foundation totaling approximately $100,000 annually have recently been integrated with similar grants to the School in an equivalent amount for a total of more than $200,000. Grants pending might more than double that figure. In summary, the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College have recognized not only the needs but the opportunities inherent in the fullest development of the Medical School. Those directly concerned with the reorganization of the School have established a philosophy and plan for its immediate as well as long development and consider that significant portions of this plan have been accomplished or activated.