Dr. John P. Bowler '15

Dr. John P. Bowler '15 ended a long association with Hanover's Mary Hitch-cock Memorial Hospital and Hitchcock Clinic when he retired in February. Besides being senior surgeon, he has been chairman of the hospital's staff board of governors and has also served as chairman of the Hitchcock Clinic.

Dr. Bowler, native of Hanover, began his hospital association in 1919 as an intern just after receiving his M.D. at Harvard. Following a threeyear fellowship in surgery at the Mayo Clinic, he began practice in Hanover in 1924. Three years later he was one of the original five founding partners of the Hitchcock Clinic. During the past 35 years he has played a larger role than any other one individual in the development of Hanover's famed Hitchcock medical center, recognized as one of the outstanding rural medical centers in the nation.

Dr. Bowler has been on Dartmouth's medical faculty since 1924, and was Dean of the Medical School from 1927 to 1945. He will teach surgery two more years before faculty retirement.