Dr. Gilbert Horton Mudge Named Dean of Medical School

DR. GILBERT HORTON MUDGE, Associate Dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will succeed Dr. S. Marsh Tenney '44 as Dean of the Dartmouth Medical School. The appointment, announced last month by President Dickey, will take effect June 1.

In addition to the deanship, Dr. Mudge will be Professor of Experimental Therapeutics at Dartmouth. He has been Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Johns Hopkins as well as associate dean.

Dean Tenney earlier this year had indicated his intention to relinquish his administrative responsibilities in order to concentrate on his teaching and research as Chairman and Professor of Physiology at the Medical School. He has held the post since 1960 when he was named head of the School following the death of Dean Rolf C. Syvertsen '18.

Dr. Mudge was graduated from Amherst College in 1936 and holds both the Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Medical Science degrees from Columbia University. He received his house officer's training as a physician at Presbyterian Hospital in New York. During World War II he served as a captain in the Army Medical Corps and as a flight surgeon in the Ninth Air Force.

Since the war Dr. Mudge has followed a career of teaching. From 1949 to 1955 he was a member of the medical faculty of Columbia University; in 1955 he became Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and since 1960 has served that school as associate dean in charge of post-doctoral education. In the medical world, he is widely known as the author of numerous research papers in the fields of kidney and electrolyte physiology. He also has served on various national committees sponsoring medical research and on the editorial boards of several professional journals.

Dr. Mudge was married in 1941 to the former Eleanor Mackenzie and they will bring to Hanover four children.

Under Dean Tenney's leadership the faculty, program and plant of the Medical School have been completely rebuilt and the student body is now being doubled to an enrollment of 96. In the fall of 1960 a new seven-floor Medical Science Building was opened, providing the School with modern teaching and laboratory facilities. During Dean Tenney's tenure a drive to raise $10,000,000 in capital funds for the Medical School has advanced and at the present time over $6,300,000 has been raised.

As reported elsewhere in this issue, the Medical School is now joining with the Science Division of the College to offer a new Ph.D. program in molecular biology, a step in the development of graduate education that was inherent in the growth of the School and the type of faculty and research now flourishing there.

Dean Mudge, who is now Professor and AssociateDean at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.