Medical School

Most of us associated with the operation of the Medical School are glad that "vacation" is over and that classes with the regularity of a timetable will soon be resumed. It has been an extremely busy summer with many projects underway, and a multitude of visitors have provided welcome interludes. The faculty wanderings have extended from the International Biochemical Congress in Moscow to high altitude research in the Peruvian Andes, with shorter expeditions to Western Europe and way stations in the United States.

The summer social schedule proved quite successful. The luncheon held at the School in June during reunions attracted some sixty alumni and was followed by a short meeting of the Association. For those of you who could not attend, your officers for the coming year are: President, Arthur W.Burnham M'14; Vice President, MyronWright M'38; Secretary-Treasurer, Harry W.Savage M'27; Executive Committee Members, Spencer T. Snedecor M'21 and E. Seymour Burge M'32. A second luncheon held in New York during the AMA Convention in June was attended by some seventy Dartmouth physicians, and it certainly provided a real opportunity to catch up on the School's progress as presented by Dean Marsh Tenney, and to visit with many old friends. This affair arranged by Spencer Snedecor was so successful that another is being planned even now for the Chicago AMA meeting next summer under the chairmanship of Seymour Burge. He has already promised that Chicago will outdo New York, so start planning to be there.

The building program is progressing and, although it seems pretty slow to those of us on the site, we think we will have something to show you when you visit us. The new Auditorium, connecting the hospital and the school, and Strassenburgh Hall to house medical students should be easily visible by the time snow flies.

The Rolf C." Syvertsen Memorial Fund has reached approximately $11,000 and is climbing gradually, but we are still a long way from the $30,000 the room will cost. If we inadvertently missed you with the publicity, or if you intended to participate but it skipped your mind, there is still time to join the parade! A check to the Syvertsen Memorial Fund will do it!

Hilly Poindexter M' 37, Hon. D.Sc. '56, collected another well-deserved honorary D.Sc. plus an "Award of Merit" plaque at Howard University in June. Another June wedding: Bob Danielson M'60 to Brenda Hunderfurd in Pearl River, N. Y., on the 17th. Space does not allow complete reporting of all the welcome summer visitors but here are a few: Jack Smith M' 27, now watching over midshipmen at Annapolis; Warren Taylor M' 43, doing Surgery in Boston; Charlie Does M'48, the Providence ophthalmologist; BenBranch M'54, assigned to the Cadets at West Point to offset any indication of favoritism towards service academies by DMS (see Jack Smith above); Jack Bryan M'56, still in the Air Force but returning to a Hitchcock residency soon; Jerry Finkel M'57 in Pathology at Bellevue; Neil Raskin M'57, practicing Neurology in New York; PeteSpiegel M'59, now engaged to Perry Barclay of Baltimore. Bill Goulburn of Collingswood, N. J., Eddie Landau of Boston, and Ace Mueller of Minneapolis were among the M'52 representatives at their reunion. Paul and Susan Raslavicius M'58 report returning to Boston for Pathology and research in tropical medicine at Harvard; and DaveKamper M'58 is now dressed in Navy blue, as is his classmate Jim Tankersley M'58.Bob Jeffrey M'58 reportedly was married in July, but we have no verification. The FrankMoodys M'54, the Bob Vogels M'58, the Nick Tschetters M'58, and the Dodd Wilsons M'59 all report new sons.

Now back to preparations for the beginning of another school year - registration on September 17!