Medical School

The school year opened September 21 with full enrollment in both classes. Our future alumni are sure that school has started, since they have already experienced interim examinations and are back in the groove of burning the midnight oil.

Faculty Wanderings: Prof. Franklin G. Ebaugh Jr. '44 took the September prize for distance travelled to deliver a paper when he appeared in Rome, Italy, before the International Society of Hematology. Prof. George A. Lord '30, vice-president' of the Mayo Alumni Association, was accompanied to Rochester, Minn., by Prof. John P. Bowler '15 to attend the meetings of that association. Prof. O. Sherwin Staples was in Chicago for the meeting of the Audio-Visual Committee of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, while Prof. Leslie K. Sycamore '24 carried out his duties as member of the executive committee of the New England Roentgen Ray Society in Boston. Prof. "Radford C. Tanzer '25 presented a paper in Poland Springs, Maine, at the New England Surgical Society meeting which was attended also by Professors Bowler and Rodger E. Weismann. Dr. Thomas P. Anderson ad- dressed the Springfield, Vt., Hospital staff upon the occasion of the opening of its new physical therapy department. Dr. Robert M. Krout was a speaker on the program of the recent American Congress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Prof. Hanford L. Auten '32 has been in Concord, serving on the Governor's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped.

Visiting Lecturers: Dr. J. D. Klingman, of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, presented "The Purification of Renal Glutamipase" on September 15. "An Analysis of Cell Mitosis by Polarized Light" was the subject of Shinya Inoue, Ph.D., of the University of Rochester on September 24. On the following day Wayne Thomburg, Ph.D., of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Washington, spoke on "The Structure of Living Membranes." The October series was opened with a lecture by William O. Berndt of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine on "Metabolic Aspects of Potassium Transport in Rabbit Kidney Cortex Slices."

Lou Pernokas M'48, a mere ten years after leaving these halls, has started private practice as general surgeon in Boston. Paul Lena M'51 has returned to complete his residency in Internal Medicine after finishing his military tour of duty. Larry Wilson M'53 also has forsaken the service to go into general surgery here. Tom Clark M'54, presently cruising the far Pacific as Division Medical Officer for a destroyer squadron, is already planning his return to a civilian medical career in mid-Julv. His classmate, Bruce Gilmore M'54, now touring Europe in an Army uniform, has similar hopes.

Your attention is directed to the copies of the new Bulletin which you will receive shortly. A careful perusal will permit you to catch up on all the new members of the faculty, as well as the old; and it will give you some idea of the changes in the curriculum initiated to date.