Medical School
September 8, 9, and 10 are the dates for the mammoth Dartmouth Convocation on "The Great Issues of Conscience in Modern Medicine." A galaxy of internationally known speakers, headed by Doctor Rene Dubos, member and professor of the Rockefeller Institute, as chairman, will present a program of seminars and lectures which you cannot afford to miss. In addition, exhibits and tours will be arranged so that you may learn for yourself of the exciting things which are happening at the School. Details will come to you in the next few weeks, but set aside the dates right now.
Building progress report - the roof is now being completed over the seventh (and final) floor of the new Medical Science Building!! It is expected that enough inside work will be finished so that sections of the building will be utilized in the coming year.
Among the prominent guest lecturers for the month of April were the following: Doctor Walter Stoeckenius of the Rockefeller Institute; Professor Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat of the Department of Virology of the University of California; Doctors Robert G. Fraser, Jules A. Pare, and David V. Bates of the Chest Clinic, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal; Doctor Marie Jakus of the Retina Foundation in Boston; and Doctor William Bloom, Professor of Anatomy of the University of Chicago.
The Rolf C. Syvertsen Memorial Fund has reached a total of almost $5000 as we go to press. The question has been raised as to whether we would accept donations from other than alumni — we certainly would, so spread the word.
Internship appointments will spread the M'5B class from coast to coast. In the East, Mark Cloutier, Bob Forcier, Erv Philipps, and Tom Watt are scheduled for the Hitchcock in Hanover; Chuck Carrington, the New York Hospital; Bob Freeh, Baltimore City; Bob Charman, the Genesee in Rochester; BillGallagher and Dave Kamper, Bellevue in New York; Arnie Mulder, the Roosevelt; DickLindseth, Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse; Paul Raslavicius, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Morrie Tannenbaum, Bronx Municipal; Bob Vogel, New Haven Community; and Steve Zaslow, Boston City. In the Far West, Bob Jeffery will be at San Francisco General, and Bob Shirley at the University of California (S.F.) Hospital. Somewhere between, Denver will have MelBritton at the Colorado General, while TomHall and Nick Tschetter will toil at the Denver General; Jim Tankersley will be at the University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals in Salt Lake City, with Eric Jensen nearby at Salt Lake City General, and Hal Trusler has signed up at the Indiana University Medical Center. Members of this class particularly will be pleased to know that someone anonymously reported that their pseudo-classmate, Lawrence Silverstein, is going to do "Preventive Medicine at the University of Miami."
Transfer arrangements for the present second year class have been completed with our June diplomats scheduled to enter the third-year classes in ten different schools as follows: Baylor, 1; Colorado, 1; Columbia, 1; Cornell, 3; Harvard, 9; Johns Hopkins, 1; McGill, 1; Minnesota, 1; Northwestern, 1; and Temple, 1. In addition, two students plan to do advanced work here, one in Physiology and one in Pharmacology. Neurophysiology at the University of California has attracted one, while another plans to work in Biochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The class admitted for the fall of 1960 is composed of seventeen Dartmouth premedical students; three from Harvard; one each from Holy Cross, Denison, Cornell, and New Hampshire.
Phil Brown M'51 writes that both Bud Buie M'50 and he soon will finish their appointments as Assistants to the Staff at the Mayo Clinic, but failed to report their plans for the future. Don Clark M'52 expects to open an office for the practice of Internal Medicine in New London, N. H., in the coming summer. Dave Lee M'55 has been awarded a research fellowship by the National Heart Institute and will work in Cardiology at Johns Hopkins. Bob Oneal M'55, now at Ann Arbor with his wife and daughter, is finishing the second year of his surgical residency, and will do a year in research next. He reports seeing Bruce Pattee M'55 with his wife and two children frequently. Frank and Myra Weiser M'55 recently announced the birth of their second daughter. Frank is now a resident in cardiology at The New York Hospital, and will spend next year as a research fellow in that field. After finishing a year of medical residency at Memorial Center and Bellevue, Bernie Carpenter M'56 expects to go on active duty with the Navy in July, with prospects of two years in Japan. The engagement of Tom Hall M'5B to Kathryn Stott of Colby Junior and Glenview, Ill., has been announced, and the wedding is scheduled for June 4. He reports that brother Jim M'56 has just added a daughter to his family to go with his son and twin daughters. Paul Raslavicius M'58 and Susan Brooks Cheney are also planning to march down the aisle in June. Nick Tschetter M'58 reports only one job for next year!! Steve Zaslow M'58, who has been at the Hitchcock for a course in Radiology, has returned to Harvard to complete his fourth year and to prepare for his June wedding. Tom Aaberg M'59 dropped in for a visit on a brief vacation, and his three classmates, Al Gazzaniga, "J.C." Parkes, and Mark Saginor spent a few days here writing up the public health situation in Hanover.
On a recent trip to San Francisco, your correspondent attended a very pleasant gathering of Dartmouth physicians arranged by Dick Schneider M'52. Among those present were: Don Shaskan '30, Frank Van Kirk M'36, Ted Bovill M'41, Ted Wilson '45, Ted McCrum M'45, Dick Turk M'46, Jack Scholer M'48, Gene Bossi M'49, Ed Kelley M'50, Keith McLoud M'50, Ed Washburn M'51, Pete Irving M'51, Dick Schneider M'52, and Merrill Johnson M54. After dinner and some talk about DMS, past, present, and future, most of the party adjourned to Ed Washburn's apartment for the exhibition of a set of recent slides of the School.
See you September 8, 9, and 10.
