Medical School
In line with the development of additional research facilities at the Medical School, construction of a 60 x 40 Butler Building is well under way. Upon completion it will house laboratories for studies in Microbiology, Biochemistry, and radio-isotopes. Remodeling operations in the basement of Nathan Smith have been initiated to provide an area for an ultracentrifuge, a dark room, and research laboratories.
The expanded biochemical research program for 1958 is being supported by National Institutes of Health grants made to members of the faculty of that department. ProfessorMorales, Associate Professor Watanabe, and Assistant Professor Gellert have been allotted $58,000 to study the molecular aspects of muscle contraction; Associate Professor Bernhard $30,000 for work on the physical chemistry of enzymes; Associate ProfessorBotts $20,000 to investigate enzyme kinetics and muscle action, as well as a Senior Research Fellowship for $10,000; and AssociateProfessor Noda $24,000 for work on high energy phosphate transferring enzymes. Approximately $340,000 in additional funds have been allotted for the four years following J958 for continuation of these studies.
From the National Institutes of Health, also, Professors Campbell and Murtagh have a grant of $16,750 to investigate the vocalizing function of the larynx. The Spaulding Trusts have contributed $7,500 to the School for unrestricted pilot research studies, while the New Hampshire Heart Association has made available $5000 for unrestricted cardiovascular research.
The Spaulding Trust has made available for the Current Development Fund the sum of $35,000, and this Fund has also been augmented by the donation of $8000 by the Smith Kline and French Company. These non-specified funds are to be utilized in the development of the School's expansion program.
The Department of Pathology has been stregthened by the return from her studies in London of Doctor Elizabeth E. French, now an instructor in that department. From Department of Physiology, ProfessorTenney recently delivered a guest lecture at the State University of New York Medical School in New York on "Circulatory Control during Respiratory Acidosis"; while AssistantProfessor Carpenter lectured at Yale Medical School on "Conduction in Immature Nerve Fibers in Relation to their Metabolic Requiremerits."
Recent guest lecturers at the School have included: Victor Wilson, Ph.D., of the Rockefeller Institute, on "The Physiology of Insect Muscle"; E. Kafer, Ph.D., of McGill, on "Mitotic Recombination, Its Importance in Biology and Genetics"; Richard Kessler, M. D., of Cornell Medical School, on "Some Effects of Mercurial Compounds on the Kidney", George Kidder, Ph.D., of Amherst, on "Metabolism of Nucleic Acid Derivatives"; D. V. Bates, M.D., of McGill, on "Some Problems in Pulmonary Gas Exchange"; and C. R. Honig, M.D. of University of Rochester, on "Circulatory Response to Acute Peripheral Vasodilation."
While those papers were being presented in Hanover, our clinical Faculty has been travelling to present papers of its own. Doctor F. G. Ebaugh spoke at the Bethesda National Navy Center on "The Technique of Measurement of Red Blood Cell Survival in Vivo and Its Clinical Application," and then went to Chicago to address the American Association of Blood Banks on The Kffect of 5% Glucose and ¼ strength Saline on the in Vivo Survival of Transfused Red Cells." Doctor T. P. Anderson used as a topic "Medical Direction of Physical Therapy" at a Boston meeting, while Doctor R. G. Fisher presented "Abnormal Steroid Patterns in Brain Studies" before the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Washington. At the New-England Postgraduate Assembly in Boston, Doctor W. C. Lobitz read a paper on "Steroid Therapy in Skin Diseases and Allergic Manifestations." Doctor O. S. Staples presented "Carpal Injuries" to the New Hampshire Chapter of the American College of Surgeons at Laconia.
Dean Syvertsen has recently been appointed by Governor Dwinell to serve on a committee studying the mental health problem in this state. He has also been made Chairman of the Flexner Award Committee by the President of the A.A.M.C.
INCIDENTAL INTELLIGENCE gleaned from many highly appreciated Christmas greetings: Eddie Price M'44 in pathological research at the National Cancer Institute; Lee Dennis M'54 at the Sumter Air Force Hospital; Hap Haggett M'54 in an Army Hospital in the snowless wilds of Kentucky; Bruce LaFollette M'55 at the Madigan Army Hospital in Tacoma; Frank Moody M'54 in the Surgical Section of New York Hospital; Jack Hartwig M'50 in Orthopedic Surgery in Minneapolis. Box score in the Future Physicians and Nurses Race, as reported by picture or lists: the John Garrys M'4B leading with four entries; tied for second with three are the Bob Hockelmans M'48, the WarrenThamarus family M'52, and the Ace Muellers M'53; next with two, the Bill Ivins M'51 and the Dick Ruels M'57; while the Lou Pernokas family M'48 proudly announced its first entry, Nicholas Louis, to tie the Bruce LaFollettes M'55. Next time YOU jot down some details so that we may pass them on to your classmates.
