Medical School

The March travels of the Medical Faculty took S. Marsh Tenney, Director of Medical Sciences and Professor of Physiology, to Arizona on a fund raising trip.

John P. Bowler, Professor of Surgery, M. Dawson Tyson, Professor of Clinical Surgery, and O. Sherwin Staples, Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, to New York for the American College of Surgeons; John A. Murtagh, Professor of Otolaryngology, to the Hawaiian Islands for a vacation and returning to attend the American Triological Society meetings in San Francisco; Walter C. Lobitz Jr., Professor of Dermatology, to Chicago to give the Pusey Memorial Lecture to the Chicago Dermatological Society; Rodger E. Weismann, Assistant Professor in Clinical Surgery, to Bangor to address the Penobscot County Medical Society; John Milne, Assistant Professor of Medicine, to Ann Arbor for study at the University of Michigan Medical School; William T. Mosenthal, Assistant Professor in Clinical Surgery, to Boston for the N.E. Hospital Assembly where he demonstrated with a model the Special Care Unit of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital; Otis F. Jillson, Assistant Professor of Dermatology to Montreal to address the Dermatology Society; Franklin G. Ebaugh Jr., Assistant Professor of Hematology, to Bethesda, Md., for the Medical Officers' Radioisotope Course; and Paul B. Sullivan, Instructor in Ophthalmology, to New Orleans for the Academy of Ophthalmology.

William N. Chambers, Assistant Professor of Medicine, and family, returned recently from three months in Portugal and Spain, where he visited medical centers. The New England Diabetes Society met in Carpenter Hall on 21 March under the program chairmanship of Jackson W. Wright, Assistant Professor of Medicine, for a well attended session on "Hemochromatosis" ably presented by Stuart C. Finch '42, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale, and C. Cabell Bailey, Clin- ical Associate in Medicine at Harvard. The panel was followed by dinner at the Han- over Inn.

On Saturday, March 29, the Fourth Lecture, under the W.J. and C.H. Mayo Me- morial Lectureship, "The Accuracy of X-ray Diagnosis," was given by Merrill Clary Sosman, M.D., Roentgenologist-in-Chief, Emeritus, of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Professor of Roentgenology, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School. This lectureship was founded at Dartmouth College in 1942 by Doctor and Mrs. Waltman Walters of Rochester, Minn. The occasion marked the opening of the new diagnostic and treatment wing of the Department of Radiology, of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, completely modernized including a Cobalt-60 Teletherapy Unit, the latest weapon in the fight against cancer. The lecture was preceded by an open house and dinner for visiting physicians who came from as far away as Montreal and Boston. Felicitations were received from most of the Deans and Professors of Radiology in the United States and Canada and from such distant places as the American University of Beirut.

Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital was successfully matched for its full quota of sixteen interns from eight schools distributed as follows: Cornell 1, Harvard 2, McGill 1, Michigan 2, Northwestern 3, Rochester 2, Texas 1, and Tufts 4. The Medical School is represented by William R. DeCesare M'56 and John J. Monahan M's6 from Harvard and the College by Richard M. Deaner '54 from Tufts and Larry H. Kretchmar '55 from Northwestern.

Ernest Lyman Stebbins M' 27, Director of the School of Hygiene and Public Health and Professor of Public Health of The Johns Hopkins University and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Board of Preventive Medicine, has recently returned from a tour of the U.S. Air Force medical facilities in Europe to observe aviation medicine residency program conducted by the Randolph Air Force Base which each year rotates flight surgeons-in-training to the Air Force in the NATO Theatre.

Norman J. Sissman M'48 is Assistant Physician to the Cardiac Clinic of the Harriet Lane Home at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Lloyd B. Tepper M'ss, interning at the University of California Hospitals, will be in Boston next year working with Harriet L. Hardy, Assistant Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine at Harvard.

Peter R. Dallman M'52 is a Resident in Pediatrics at New York Hospital where he has encountered Burton M. Onofrio M'ss and John M. Moran M'ss on the intern staff and Frank G. Moody M's4 and Donald G.Arnault S'52M on the Resident Staff.