Medical School

The work of the Admissions Committee selecting the 1962 Fall Class is practically finished. In addition to the usual number of Dartmouth men, the group will include students from Austin, Bowdoin, Bryn Mawr, Brown, Harvard. Hobart, Holy Cross, Massachusetts, M.I.T., Navy, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Swarthmore, Tufts, University of Washington, and Yale. These prospective physicians were chosen from some 400 applicants after careful screening and interviews by the Committee.

The School's social season was highlighted this past month by the annual party given by the students for the faculty and statf with their spouses (if any) on January 27. KevRyan M'57 and Pete Spiegel M's9 were welcome gate-crashers spotted in the dense throng. It was the usual gala affair which lasted long beyond the appointed hours.

INCIDENTAL INTELLIGENCE - MoeMoss M'54 has completed his Chief Residency in Pediatrics at Mount Sinai in New York, and is staying there as a research fellow in that field, as well as director of a new pilot clinic for handicapped children. We hear that Dave Zimmerman M'56 has left the service flat and is now taking a short G.P. residency prior to entering practice in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Bill Kieger M'57 brought his wife to Hanover to ski one icy weekend and had to spend the time visiting friends instead. Belatedly we learn that Neil RaskinM'57, presently a resident at Presbyterian Neurological Institute, was married to Marjorie Tucker, M.D., last May.

M'58 news all in one letter from Bill Gallagher: after this year in internal medicine, he will do dermatology at the Massachusetts General; Bob Freeh in Radiology at Peter Bent Brigham; Steve Zaslow in Psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center; Amie Mulder operating at the Roosevelt between flights with his wife Gretel of KLM; Bob Vogel entertaining with Penny and little David in New Haven; Jim Tankersley with the Marines in Hawaii; and Dave Kamper in the Navy. Three M'59's, Frankie Hoefle, "J.C." Parkes, and Bill Yahr were seen acquiring backaches at The Peppermint Lounge. John Whiteley M'59 and Kim will try the Navy in July. A note from Mark Saginor M'59 gives the impression that interns in California spend their time swimming with beautiful blondes in the Pacific or playing the one-armed bandits in Las Vegas.

The Boston Herald of January 14 announced the coming June marriage of Helen Grondal of Belmont to Lee Giiliatt M'60. And did you know that the Ted Harris M'60 family now has a son and heir. Bob Danielson M'60 was reported skiing at Holt's Ledge recently with his brother Ken Ml.

Late Flash: Althea and Bob Shirley M'58 have just welcomed Aliscen and will bring her back to Boston in 1963.

We have just received word that Bill McLaughlin M'38 has been appointed Director of the new Office of Graduate Education at Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco.

The cement work is finished and the steel girders are going up on the new Auditorium!