Medical School

By the time you read this, the administration of the School will have been transferred from the Old Medical Building, where it has been located for almost one and one-half centuries, to the Fairbanks House where President Lord lived when he functioned as the head of the College. This change will provide more spacious quarters to handle the increased administrative load of the rapidly expanding activities of the School.

Further impetus to the fund for the new Medical Science Building has been provided by the very fine gift of $150,000 from the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation. This grant carried the stipulation that the funds be applied towards the cost of laboratory space for research concerning heart disease in the physiology department.

We are happy to report the following recent additions to the Faculty: Shinya Inoue, Ph.D., Professor of the new Department of Cytology; Wayne Thornburg, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cytology; Robert J. Weiss, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry; Henry Alfred Schroeder, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Physiology; Allan U. Munck, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physiology; William 0. Berndt, Ph.D., Instructor in Pharmacology; and Anthony Stuart Milton, D.Phil., Instructor in Pharmacology.

Doctor Inoue was awarded his initial degree (Rigakushi) by Tokyo University, and later received an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Princeton. His previous teaching appointments include: Instructor of Anatomy, University of Washington School of Medicine; Assistant Professor of Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan University; and, successively, Research Associate, Research Scholar, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Rochester.

Doctor Thornburg received his B.A. from Yankton College, followed by an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. After service as a Research Assistant and as an Instructor in Anatomy, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Anatomy at Illinois.

Doctor Weiss attended Johns Hopkins University before military service in World War II, received his A.B. from George Washington and his M.D. from Columbia. After a medical internship and assistant residency at Rellevue, he held psychiatric residencies at New York State Psychiatric Institute and at Presbyterian. In addition to teaching at Columbia, he has held psychiatric appointments at Rockland County Mental Health Clinic, the Vanderbilt Clinic, and Presbyterian Hospital.

Doctor Schroeder holds an A.B. from Yale and an M.D. from Columbia. After internship at Presbyterian, he did research in Pharmacology at Pennsylvania. He then served successively as Assistant Resident, Assistant in Medicine, and Associate in Medicine at the Hospital of Rockefeller Institute. His appointment as Associate Professor of Medicine at Washington University of St. Louis was followed by one as Director of the Hypertension Division at that Medical School, and he served on the Barnes Hospital staff. Recently he has served as Director of Research at the Brattleboro Retreat.

Doctor Munck holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. decrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since leaving M.I.T., he has served on the Research Staff of the Huntington Laboratory of the Massachusetts General Hospital, and of the Worcester Foundation in Shrewsbury.

Doctor Berndt was awarded his B.S. by Creighton and his Ph.D. by Buffalo. He did graduate study and research in the Department of Pharmacology at Buffalo, and taught in the College of Pharmacy of that institution.

Doctor Milton comes from England where he earned his B.A. and his D.Phil, at Oxford. His work in the Honour School of Biochemistry and the Department of Pharmacology at Oxford was followed by his appointment as Leverhulme Associate of the Royal Society of Medicine.

It is with regret that we report the resignation of Walter C. Lobitz Jr., M.D., Professor of Dermatology. Doctor Lobitz is leaving to accept a position as Professor of Dermatology and Director of Dermatological Research at the University of Oregon School of Medicine.

Professor Robert E. Gosselin of the Department of Pharmacology authored "Economic Poisons in Relation to Man's Health' for the February 1959 Journal of Chronic Diseases, and the March 1959 American Journal of Psylhiatry published "Taxarin - Fact or Artifact?" by Ernest Sachs Jr., M.D. At the American Society of Clinical Investigation meeting at Atlantic City, Doctor H. ValtirL Mr. I.ID. Wilson M2, and Professor S.M. Tenney presented "The Role of the Left Atrial Stretch Receptor Mechanism in CO, Diuresis." Professor Lucile Smith presented "Comparative Biochemistry of Electron Transport" at the American Chemical Society meeting.

A series of lectures on Molecular Diseases was initiated by Elliott F. Ossermann, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia, who presented "Abnormal Proteins in Plasma Cell Myeloma."

Bob and Anne Hockelman M'5B have added one more female beauty to Bob's growing harem. Ray Peppard M'51 recently honored Hanover with a visit. In keeping with the TV trend in Westerns, the Columbia Alumni Association Bulletin carried a story with pictures on the adventures of Rog DesPrez M'52 among the Indians. Bob Morse M'56 reports that he is leaving Chicago flat to return to Boston. Mark Clou tier M'58 and Bob Forcier M'58 were in this area surveying the health facilities of Lebanon.

See you all next fall. Meanwhile, don't neglect the Medical School Capital Gifts Fund.