Medical School
Monthly Building Progress Report: The third floor of the new Medical Science Building has been poured and the frame almost completed, leaving a mere four stories to go. To date the steel strike has not delayed the advance, ostensibly at least, and hopes are high that it will not.
New Faculty Appointments: John Dempsher, M.D., as Associate Professor of Pharmacology. Dr. Dempsher holds an A.B. degree from Washington and Lee and an M.D. from Johns Hopkins. After working on three consecutive research fellowships at Johns Hopkins between 1949-1954, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1954, and comes to Dartmouth Medical School on June 1, 1960. Arnold Wishnia, Ph.D., as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry. After receiving an A.B. from Cornell and a Ph.D. from New York University, Dr. Wishnia has worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Chemistry Department at Yale. Faculty Promotion: Franklin G. EbaughJr., M.D., has been promoted to Clinical Professor of Hematology. Dr. Ebaugh previously held the title of Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology.
Dean Rolf Syvertsen was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Chapter of the American Cancer Society.
Dr. Earl Jacobs of the Biochemistry Department has recently been awarded a National Institutes of Health Grant to study the Physical Chemistry of Enzyme Specificity. Visiting Lecturers: John T. Ellis, M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology of Cornell University College of Medicine, presented "Glomerular Lesions in Animals with Experimentally Induced Proteinuria." Dr. Paul Cranefield, Assistant Professor of Physiology of the State University of New York College of Medicine at New York, delivered "New Ideas about Repolarization in Cardiac Muscle." Dr. Hans G. Schlumberger. Professor of Pathology at the University of Arkansas Medical Center, chose as his subject "Hormonesecreting Transplantable Pituitary Tumor in the Parakeet." Dr. Kurt Benirschke, Associate in Pathology at Harvard Medical School, reported on "Some Basic Problems in Twinning."
October brought its usual large number of gatherings of clinical societies, and the School had its representatives at them. Dr. JohnLyle attended the American Obstetrical and Gynecological Society meeting in Baltimore. Dr. Lawrence Morin went to Poland Springs for the New England Urological Society. In Chicago Dr. John Murtagh represented the School at the Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Frederic Rueckert journeyed South to Miami for the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. John Bowler and Dr. George Lord were present at the New England Surgical Society meeting at Portsmouth, and Dr. Otis Jillson went to Boston for the New England Dermatological Association gathering. Dr. Samuel Doyle attended the Academy of General Practice meeting at Exeter, and Dr. Robert Fisher crossed the continent to San Francisco for the Academy of Neurosurgery. Dr. DonaldAndresen went to Philadelphia for the American Heart Association meeting, while Dr.Sven Gundersen and Dr. William Chambers were in Providence for the gathering of the American College of Physicians, and Dr. Gundersen went on to Philadelphia for another meeting of the same college. The Teaching Symposium on Microbiology attracted Dr. Philip Nice to Rochester, N. Y. Dr. William Mosenthal represented the School at a Symposium on Clinical Teaching, presented by the Association of American Medical Colleges, at Chicago.
Meanwhile, the basic science faculty was making its own journeys. Dr. Marsh Tenney went to Phoenix, Arizona, to attend a Markle Foundation meeting for Markle Scholars. Dean Rolf Syvertsen attended three meetings in Chicago: (1) the Medical School Teaching Hospital Section of the Association of American Medical Colleges; (2) the Third Annual Meeting of the A.A.M.C. Continuing Group on Student Affairs; and (3) the 70th Annual Meeting of the A.A.M.C., the theme of which was "Medical Education in a Changing World." Dr. Henry Heyl also attended the Student Affairs meeting and the Annual Meeting of the A.A.M.C. Dr. Robert Gosselin was in Chicago earlier in October to present to the American Association of Poison Control Centers "Poison in the House," a film produced by the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital's Poison Information Center.
Dan and Peggy Winters M'48 have announced the arrival of a fourth daughter, Ellen. Burt Onofrio M'55 is now back stateside at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Bob Spears M'55, now in Pediatrics, left his wife and three-month-old boy in Los Angeles while he came East to deliver a paper at the Annual Antibiotics Conference in Washington, and found that Hanover was on the direct route! Reports from Boston reveal the engagement of Steve Zaslow M'58 to Fran Schulman. And the Mel Brittons M'58 have acquired a second daughter. Tom Hall M'58, now in Montreal, was in town for the Brown game. For that same game the M'59 class was represented by Dick Hastings, Frank Hoefle, Bob Keller, Ralph Miller, J. C. Parkes, Floyd Robinson, Bill Springer, and Bill Yahr. We will look for more at the Cornell game.
A Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year to you all.
