Medical Assembly

THE newly organized Nathan Smith Medical Society, honoring the founder of the Dartmouth Medical School, will hold its first meeting in Hanover on December 1 in conjunction with the dedication of Dartmouth's new Kellogg Medical Auditorium. Membership in the society consists of Dartmouth Medical School alumni and faculty, medical alumni of Dartmouth College, and the intern and resident alumni of the Hitchcock Clinic, the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, and the associated Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction.

Some 300 to 400 persons are expected to return to Hanover for the weekend. Highlighting two medical symposiums on Saturday will be the presence of Dr. Dickinson W. Richards, Nobel laureate and Lambert Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, who will serve as chairman of the morning session on "Control of Microcirculation." Dr. Myron Wright '37 of New York City, president of the Dartmouth Medical Alumni, will serve as chairman of the afternoon session devoted to varied medical topics. Twelve papers in all will be delivered at the two sessions.

That evening a banquet will be held in Alumni Hall of Hopkins Center, with President Dickey as the principal speaker. Dr. Gilbert H. Mudge, Dean of the Medical School, who will preside at the dedication program Saturday morning, will also be a dinner principal.

The teaching auditorium to be dedicated was built with a gift of $500,000 from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Mich. One of the major units in the Biomedical Center now taking form at the north end of campus, it seats about 350 and is equipped with the newest audio-visual and teaching aids for lectures, demonstrations, and conferences. It is expected to be kept in steady use by Hanover's growing medical and scientific community.