Medical School
As this is being written, the entire School is still stunned by the disappearance, on February si, in a severe snow and wind storm, of the plane, piloted by Professor Ralph E. Miller and carrying Doctor Robert E. Quinn, as they were flying home from a professional consultation at the Berlin, New Hampshire, hospital. In spite of an intensive air and ground search, now in its twelfth day, no trace of the men or plane has been discovered.
Director of Medical Sciences S. Marsh Tenney, Dean Syvertsen, and Assistant Professor Rodger E. Weismann represented the School at the Annual Congress on Medical Education and Licensure in Chicago, February 7 to 10. Director Tenney presented two papers: "Challenges and Objectives of Specialism in Graduate Education for the Basic Mtdical Sciences" and "Research as a Teaching Tool." Also noted on the program as a participant was the name of Ernie Stebbins M'27.
Martin Gellert, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, has received the Lederle Medical Faculty Award, which carries a grant of $15,480 for three years.
The clinical faculty has been very busy during February attending various specialty meetings: Professor Coyle, the New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology; Professor Lobitz, The New England Dermatological Society in Boston; Professor Auten, the New England Ophthalmological Society in Boston; Professor Staples, the New England Rheumatism Society in Boston; Professor Tanzer, the Plastic Surgery Research Council in Montreal; Professor Barrett, the New England Society of Anesthesiologists in Boston; Doctor Burnett, the Academy of Medicine Rheumatism Society in New York. Professors McKenna and Fisher, and Doctor M. Anthonisen went to Baltimore for the meeting of the Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Society, while Professor Ebaugh was in Washington at the National Academy of Sciences session of the Acute Leukemia Group.
The Northeast Medical Society scheduled its meeting during the height of the ski season at Stowe, Vt., where Professor Jackson Wright spoke on "The Management of the Athletic Diabetic." Still in the winter sports field, Doctor Robert Shoemaker addressed a Pittsfield, Mass., meeting, sponsored by the Regional Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons, called Doctor and Skis on "Ski Injuries in Children."
James B. Campbell, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, presented "Neural Regeneration" at a seminar on February 13. On that same day, the Department of Neurosurgery was host to the meeting of the New England Neurosurgical Society.
Alumni who will begin residency programs here this summer include: Hap Haggett M'54, in General Practice; Bill DeCesare M'56, in Medicine; Jim Cavanagh M'52, Bob Edwards M'56, and John Monahan M'56, in Surgery.
INCIDENTAL INTELLIGENCE: Fred Plum M'45, Associate Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at the University of Washington Medical School, went to Kansas to present "Recent Advances in Neurology" for the University of Kansas Postgraduate Medical Education course. The Dick Tobins M'51 proudly announce John Clark Walworth Tobin II. John Burgess M'52 has just opened his pediatric practice in Rock Island, Ill. The Warren Thamarus' M'52 family has been enriched by Mary Elizabeth. Martha, the better part of the Pete Fleming M'53 family, recently made the newspapers, being pictured skiing with daughter Sarah strapped papoosewise on her back. John Barlow M'56 is reported entering graduate work in Pathology at the M.G.H. this summer. The Boston papers reported the marriage of Dick Cooper M'56 to Ellen Elizabeth Todd, R.N. And while on marriages, that of Ray Austin M'57 and Lorraine Brodeur, R.N., has been announced. The Larry Seymours M'97 were in town over Washington's Birthday to show us Larry III. On that same weekend Bob Shirley M'58 brought in his brand new wife, and announced that they planned to spend the summer in Newfoundland. Ed Jenkins, GMG, reports from Ann Arbor that Paul Ovando, GMG, joined him there in replacing Rog Milnes, GMG, and Wave Ellsworth M'47 in the thoracic surgery residency there.
