Medical School

The Convocation on the Great Issues of Conscience in Modern Medicine has become history and, in the opinion of this correspondent, can be described only as a tremendous success. A fuller story will be published elsewhere in this issue. The attendance was far beyond expectations, something over 2800 tickets having been issued, necessitating the transfer of scheduled events to the west wing of the Gymnasium. It was a real pleasure to see among those attending so many of our alumni. The panels were excellent and provided, as one speaker described, "the cake and whipped cream," and the colorful honorary degree assembly in the Bema certainly supplied "the cherry to top it off." We are sorry you could not all have attended this most unusual and enjoyable affair.

Now that the Convocation is history, the administrative forces of the School are moving into their quarters in the new Medical Science Building. September 13 has been designated as M-Day. Our present quarters at 41 College Street are even now filled with carpenters, plumbers, etc., preparing it to serve as a small dormitory for medical students. The noise is hardly conducive to clear thinking.

The Faculty is welcoming several new members to its roster with the beginning of the school year. Kurt Benirschke, M.D., formerly an Associate in Pathology at Harvard, assumes the post of Professor of Pathology. Coming from Brookhaven and, more recently, Oxford, Rufus Clinton Fuller, Ph.D., holds an appointment as Professor of Microbiology. E. Haskell Schell Jr., M.D., who has been associated with Harvard and M.I.T., has joined the faculty as Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry. Roger Powell Smith, Ph.D., of Purdue, Jacob Zabara, Ph.D., of Pennsylvania and the Public Health Service, and Kenneth Edwin Moore, Ph.D., of the University of Alberta and Michigan, have accepted appointments as Instructors in Pharmacology.

Strengthening the liaison between the Liberal Arts College and the Medical School, three members of the Liberal Arts Faculty will instruct in their specialties in the Medical School: John H. Copenhaver Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Zoology, as Lecturer in Biochemistry; Edward J. Green, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, as Associate Professor of Psychology (Psychiatry); and Joseph David Harris, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics, as Lecturer in Biochemistry.

In the rush of moving our offices we are foregoing the usual personal intelligence this month. We will try to catch up in the future.