Medical School
During February faculty members of the Department of Anesthesiology took first prize for distance. Assistant Professor Richard H.Barrett travelled to Texas to present a paper at the University of Texas Postgraduate School of Medicine at Houston, followed that with a lecture at the Lackland Air Force Base Hospital near San Antonio, and then made his next presentation at Duke Medical School in Durham, N. C. Meanwhile, his colleague, Dr. Lewis H. Lambert, journeyed to Vancouver to present a paper to the British Columbia section of the Canadian Society of Anesthesiology.
The Dean represented the School and New Hampshire at the Congress of Medical Education and Licensure in Chicago early in the month.
At a meeting of the New Hampshire-Vermont Trudeau Society held in Hanover, Prof. M. Dawson Tyson presented "Tumors of the Chest Wall"; Prof. Morris L. Heller offered "A Study of Antonomic Reflexes During Thoracic Surgery"; and Dr. John J. McCutcheon Jr. S'52M talked on "The Use of Air as a Diagnostic Aid in Thoracic Disease." For the alumni, Donald W. Clark M'52, now a senior resident in Medicine, gave his views on "Current Concepts of Pulmonary Tuberculosis," and Donald B. Miller S’47M, presently Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Vermont, spoke on "The Surgery of Pulmonary Emphysema."
Visiting lecturers at the School included Ralph Engle, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine at Cornell, whose subject was "Serum Proteins and Myeloma"; and Aser Rothstein, Ph.D., of the University of Rochester Medical Center, who presented "Active Transport of lons by Cells."
Charles C. Cunningham M'49, has asked us to announce that preliminary plans for a big Tenth Reunion for that class are underway. For details contact him at: Box 527, Chester Depot, Vermont. Malcolm Moss M's4, now in Pediatrics at Pennsylvania and slated for the Air Force in September, visited Hanover and reported that: (1) the Til Gyorgys, M's2, are boasting of a baby boy born in January; (2) Bill Loomis M's4 was last seen in a Navy uniform in Brooklyn; and (3) that Bruce Gilmore M's4 is presently with the Armv in France. Another potential pediatrician, Randy Silver M'ss, has acquired Stephanie, now aged four months.
Transfers for the second-year class have been completed with twenty accepted at Harvard, two at McGill, and one each at Colorado and Cornell.
The Atomic Energy Commission has awarded the School a grant of $8514 for the purchase of equipment and material to aid in the instruction of students in the use of radio-isotopes in medical research and clinical medicine.
