Medical Dean Named
DR. S. MARSH TENNEY '44 has been named Dean of Medical Sciences and of the Dartmouth Medical School, President Dickey announced last month.
As Dean, Dr. Tenney will continue to have full administrative responsibility for the Medical School and its related activities, and will continue as chairman of the Department of Physiology, responsibilities he has held as Director of Medical Sciences since 1957.
President Dickey also announced that Dr. Henry L. Heyl and Dr. Philip O. Nice have been named Associate Deans of the Medical School.
Dr. Heyl will be primarily responsible for the administration of outside giant support and governmental relationships pertaining to the research and development program and for financial matters within the Medical School. He will continue as assistant professor and chairman of the course in neuroanatomy.
Dr. Nice will be primarily responsible for student affairs and will work closely with Dr. Tenney in the educational program of the school. He will continue as assistant professor of microbiology.
Dr. Tenney received the M.D. degree at the Cornell University College of Medicine. Before returning to Dartmouth Medical School in 1956 as chairman of the physiology department, he was associate professor Of physiology and medicine at the University of Rochester. He was a Markle Scholar in Medical Science from 1954 to 1959. His investigations in the physiology of the heart and lungs have been supported by many agencies,, and he is the author of numerous articles in medical and scientific journals.
Dr. Heyl was graduated from Hamilton College in 1928 and from Harvard Medical School in 1933. He practiced neurosurgery in England and at the Hitchcock Clinic from 1939 to 1952, when he became executive director of the Hitchcock Foundation. Since 1957, as assistant director of medical sciences, he has been closely associated with Dr. Tenney in the development of the Medical School.
Dr. Nice was graduated from the University of Colorado in 1939 and took his M.D. degree there in 1943. After military service, residency training at the University of Chicago, and a period of teaching at the University of Colorado, he came to Hanover in 1954 as associate director of laboratories and microbiologist at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and as assistant professor of microbiology in the Medical School.
