Medical School

The annual task of selecting the next first-year class is well under way, and all extra moments seem to be filled with interviews or committee meetings. It is expected that our facilities will be totally completed by next summer, and that the size of the class will be increased, probably to about 36, in the coming year. Already we have received approximately 300 applications, seventy of which have come from Dartmouth undergraduates, We emphasize, as we have done before, that we welcome nominations from alumni, and only hope that they will be received before the class has been filled.

Deans Tenney and Nice recently travelled to Miami to represent the School at the meetings of the Association of American Medical Colleges, while Dr. Frank Carpenter went to Dayton, Ohio, for a Medical Education for National Defense conference.

Jack Bowler M'17, our former Dean and present Professor of Surgery, left early in November for a trip which will take him all around the world. The purpose is a survey of medical care in the Foreign Service being carried out for the State Department.

Doctor M. Dawson Tyson, Professor of Clinical Surgery, is now working full time in Gross Anatomy for the duration of the course, concentrating on the clinical utilization of the subject matter in that discipline.

Jim Wiggin M'56, writes from Thessalmika, Greece, where he is stationed with a Marine battalion. He should be back stateside in a very short time, and expects to resume his surgical residency in Cleveland next summer. Jack Bryan M'56, now serving in Saudi Arabia with the Air Force as a flight surgeon, expects to return to Long Island in January, and should complete his active duty in September. The Denver group consisting of Nick Tschetter M'58 Tom Hall M'58, and Mel Britton M'58 pparently are the midway point for Dartmouth Medical School alumni heading West. Recent guests have included: Bob Shirley M'58 and family; Eric JensenM'58 and family; and Jim Tankersley M'58.

Seen in town recently, Bill Yahr M'59,Barry Smith M'60, and Don Abel M'60. They came to watch the Big Green take Columbia. J. C. Parkes M'59 and Bob Keller M'59 also spent some time here renewing their youth.