Medical School
With the final term half over there are many seasonal activities to report. The crimson tide sweeps onward in transfers. To Harvard for the third year go: From 1952 William H. Thomas; from 1955 Ralph E. Miller Jr.; from 1956 Fenwick C. Riley Jr.; from 1957 Frank B. Hoefle, David M. Levis, James W. McDowell, James C. Parkes II, Wilbur J. Springer Jr.; from 1958 Thomas M. Aaberg, Walter R. Anyan Jr., D. Martin Carter, Alan B. Gazzaniga, Michael J. McKeown, E. Floyd Robinson, Mark L. Saginor, Peter K. Spiegel, Robert ten Bensel, Robert P. Timothy, I. Dodd Wilson, William Z. Yahr. This total of twenty is tied with 1957 for the largest delegation ever, and it is hoped that alumni, and especially medical alumni, in metropolitan Boston will include them on invitation lists. There will be two for the Philadelphia alumni to gather in: Stuart W. Slingerland '58 at Pennsylvania and John Paul Whiteley '58 at Temple. Richard J. Hastings '55 and Robert B. Keller '58 will be at Cornell, where the many alumni at the New York Hospital should be able to keep them in line.
The internship matching results will bring Richard S. Flagg '55, Howard H. Green '56 and Stanley S. Weglarz '56 back from Harvard to the Hitchcock. Michael M. Finigan '54 will be coming back from Rochester as the only other old green among sixteen interns.
In addition to the three Harvards who will return to Hitchcock, Henry S. Bloom '56 will go to Bronx Municipal; Frederic C. ChangJr. '56 to Salt Lake General; Donald E. Dillon '57 to Walter Reed; Alan J. Friedman '56 to Lenox Hill; Joseph S. Gonnella '56 to Illinois Research; Wilhelm G. Hansen III '56 to University at Ann Arbor; Kenneth L. Herrman '56 to Strong Memorial: A. Bill Keiger '56 to University at Columbus; David E. Klein '56 to Denver General; Thomas R. Kuhns '56 to the Cornell Division at Bellevue; NeilH. Raskin '56 to the Columbia Division at Bellevue; Richard E. Ruel '56 to Grace Hospital, Detroit; Kevin G. Ryan '56 to Massachusetts General; J. Lawrence Seymour Jr. '56 to University at Minneapolis; Zigurds L.Suritis '56 to University at Syracuse; Peter V.Teal '55 to Denver General; Kenneth E. Thomas '56 to University at Minneapolis; and John L. Wanamaker Jr. '56 to Philadelphia General. It is interesting that only Bellevue, Denver General, Hitchcock, and Minneapolis are on the list more than once, with Hitchcock leading with three.
The April scientific meetings at Atlantic City invoked intensive participation from here. Included on the program of the American Physiological Society were papers on "Work of Breathing and Ventilatory Response to Muscular Exercise" by Donald C. Andersen and S. Marsh Tenney; "Kinetics of Blockade in Peripheral Nerve Fibers Produced by Anesthetic Gases" by Frank G. Carpenter; "Contractile Proteins of Muscle" by Manuel F. Morales; "Influence of Inspiratory Flow Rate on Intrapulmonary Distribution of Helium and Sulfur Hexafluoride" by Robert E. Nye Jr.; "Respiratory and Circulatory Adaptation to Hyperthyroidism in Rats at Rest and during Exercise" by Heinz Valtin and S. Marsh Tenney; "Effect of Gas Density on Alveolar Ventilation" by S. Marsh Tenney; "Isometric and Isotonic Studies on Contraction and Relaxation of Glycerol-treated Muscle Fiber" by Shizuo Watanabe. The program of the American Society of Biological Chemists included a paper on "Bound Nucleotides of Myofibril and ATP - Creatine Transphosphorylase" by Koichi Yagi and Lafayette H. Noda. The Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics program included a paper on "Effect of Catechol Amines on the Clearance of Tracers Injected into Skeletal Muscle" by Robert E. Gosselin, Walter R. Anyan Jr. '58 and David M. Carter '58.
The members of the clinical faculty were active during Hanover's mud season. At the Hot Springs, Va., meeting of the American Laryngological Association in March, "An Analysis of Vocalization in the Simulated Larynx" by John A. Murtagh and Clarence J. Campbell was presented and demonstrated by cinema. Robert C. Storrs represented us at the Boston meeting of the New England Pediatrics Society Council of which he is a member. The curriculum of the U. S. Naval Medical School at Bethesda included a lecture on "Red Blood Cell Survival Studies by Franklin G. Ebaugh, Jr. The New York meeting of the Medical Advisory Committee of the March of Dimes was attended by Grafton County Chairman Robert C. Storrs and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation representative Robert M. Krout. George A. Lord, Grafton County member, attended the March meeting of the New Hampshire Advisory Committee on Medical Jurisprudence in Concrord. "Physiologic and Vascular Responses in Atopic Dermatitis" was presented by Walter C Lobitz, Jr. at the Boston meeting of the New England Allergy Association. The Massachusetts Trudeau Society in March sponsored a course on Pulmonary Function at which T. Richard Watson gave demonstrations on Polarography and Bronchospirometry. At the annual meeting of the New Hampshire-Vermont Trudeau Society held in Hanover in April, Modestino G. Criscitiello presented "Pulmonary Emphysema and Peptic Ulcer" and M. Dawson Tyson presented "Pulmonary Resection for Metastatic Disease." The latter was elected President and Walter B. Crandell, Secretary. At the Boston meeting of the Massachusetts Society of Anesthesiologists Morris L. Heller gave "Polarographic O2 Tension Studies During N2O-02 Anesthesia." Robert M. Krout was a participant in the April panel discussion on "The Scholarship Program in Medicine and Paramedical Specialties" of the National Foundation held in Manchester.
Distinguished visiting lecturers on the Spring Seminar Program have been Kenneth W. Cooper, Graduate Research Professor of Biology at the University of Florida, who gave "Microscopic Evidence for a New Submicroscopic Organelle of Chromosomes" and Eduardo Eidelberg of the faculty of the School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles who gave "Physiological Effects of Gaba on the Mammalian Central Nervous System."
In the Medical School division of the Capital Gifts Campaign, in addition to grants from federal and foundation sources, pledges and contributions from friends and alumni of the College and Medical School have amounted to $93,310. May we expect to hear from you?
