Medical School
Another school year is under way and the entering class of 24 boasts representatives from thirteen states: Delaware, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
During the summer eighteen of our students remained in Hanover to work on various investigative projects or in laboratories. This group, augmented by several undergraduate research assistants, created an atmosphere of activity on the hill almost equivalent to that during the school year. Paul Raslavicius, M'sB, accompanied Professor Nice to Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Haiti for additional study of parasites; while Bob Charman spent his vacation working with the American Friends Service Committee in Sardinia. Six others spent their summers as Clinical Clerks in Navy posts, all the way from Chelsea, Mass., to Oakland, Calif.
Jane Sands Robb, M.D., has been appointed Visiting Professor of Pharmacology. Doctor Robb's degrees include an A.B. from Syracuse; an M.D. from Woman's Medical; and Sc.D.'s from both Pennsylvania and Woman's Medical. She has been a National Research Fellow at Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Western Reserve, and has held teaching appointments at Pennsylvania, Woman's Medical, and Syracuse. Her latest appointment was that of Associate Professor of Pharmacology at State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center.
At the ninth annual combined meeting of the Vermont State and New Hampshire Medical Societies at Bretton Woods, the following members of the Faculty presented papers: Professor John P. Bowler, M. Dawson Tyson, Sven Gundersen, William Mosenthal, and Doctor Thomas P. Andersen. Bob Rix, M' 33, also participated in the program. With this session, Art Burnham, M'14, concludes a successful year as President of the New Hampshire Society.
John Mahoney, M' 49, has opened an office for the practice of Bone and Joint Surgery in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; while Loring Wood, also M' 49, is now doing internal medicine in Buffalo, N. Y. A Boston newspaper recently carried a picture of Sam Katz, M'50, the caption announcing his appointment as chief pediatrician at the Beth Israel Hospital. BillFletcher, M'52, is doing cancer research in London under the auspices of the American Cancer Society. Giles Hamlin, M'52, is scheduled to annex one of our better nurses, Marie Wasik, R.N., a graduate of MHMH School of Nursing, in October. Hap Haggett, M'54, is doing OB-Gyn in the Army at Fort Knox, and his next-seat classmate, Pud Harrison, M'54, is waiting at Oceanside, Calif., for July 1959 when he starts a Mayo Fellowship in Internal Medicine. The M'ss's are travelling, Ben Gilson now being in Japan while Jay Chandler expects to reach Turkey this fall. Walt Vom Lehn, however, is limiting his excursions to trips up and down the block, bragging about his new son, David. Ray Austin, M'7, who has spent his vacation working in the MHMH laboratory and just happened to sit next the same student nurse each meal, reports that Fred Chang, M'57, has acquired a male heir, while Don Dillon, M'57, and Dick Ruel, M'57, match him, each with a new baby daughter. Chuck Carrington, M's7, finished a year of advanced work in Physiology on August 20, married Pat Whealon of Champaign on August 30, and is now at Cornell starting his third year. Bob Vogel, M'58, Morrie Tannenbaum, M'58, and Bob ten Bensel, M'59, used sOme time this summer to acquire wives. We would guess there were more social events to report, but someone has to tell us!
A final report on transfers of the M'58's: twenty went to Harvard; two to McGill; one to Cornell; and one to Colorado.
