Medical School

The fourth building in the Medical School complex, the new library, will start taking shape during the summer on the site formerly occupied by the Dewey farmhouse. With the Kellogg Auditorium nearing September completion, the foundations of Strasenburgh Hall well underway, and now with the ground breaking of the new library in immediate prospect, the Medical School area should assume the appearance of a contractor's paradise this summer.

Internship appointments have been announced and the following M'60s have reported: Don Abel to the New York Hospital; Bill Colaiace and Bob DiMauro to the Roosevelt, New York; Bob Danielson to the University Hospitals, Cleveland; Charlie Eytel to U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego; Lee Gilliatt and Don Miller to Duke Hosp ital, Durham, N. C.; Ted Harris to Massachusetts General, Boston; Haig Kazazian to University of Minnesota Hospital, Minneapolis; Donn Leaf to Santa Clara County Hospital in San Jose, Calif.; Pete Dobrowolski and Gary Korenman to St. Luke's, New York; Tom Magill and Frank Smith to Presbyterian, New York; Barry Smith to the Hitchcock here; and Bob Young to the Lackland Air Force Hospital, San Antonio. We can only assume that mail from HowieMunro, Tippy Putnam and Jim Wall went astray!

Transfer arrangements for the present second-year class have been completed. Again, the majority of the group will be at Harvard, with smaller delegations to Cornell, Duke, Johns Hopkins, and Minnesota.

Although we have no intentions of usurping the functions of the obituary column, two of our alumni died recently whose lives of service are wonderful examples for younger physicians. William J. Nolan M'09 recently finished his 53 years of service in Omaha, Nebraska. Even more noteworthy, Harry M. Lowd M'01 died suddenly while treating a patient on April 11 - after 61 years of active practice. Even in their sorrow, the families of these men must take great pride in these records, just as we fellow alumni do.

Walt Crandell M'35 sent us a clipping announcing that Tim Takaro M' 42 has been selected for a three-month fellowship for study at the Scientific Research Institute in the Soviet Union under the 1959 Exchange Agreement between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. Tim has been doing research in surgical stapling devices for blood vessels and lungs. Walt is our Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery who is serving as Chief of the Surgical Service at the White River Veterans Hospital. Don Brown M' 46, presently involved in work in group psychotherapy in San Francisco, is flirting with the idea of spending some time in the East this fall. Frank Weiser M'55 keeps fairly busy with his Fellowship in Cardiology; instructing in medicine at New York Medical; appointments at Mount Sinai, Beth Israel, Elmhurst City, and Metropolitan Hospitals; plus private practice in medicine and cardiology. John Monahan M'56 is now in his fourth year of Orthopaedics around Children's and the Massachusetts General in Boston, and reports that Kay is now out of the hospital after a severe illness.

Erv philipps M'58 was married on April 21 to* Elizabeth Needham, formerly a nurse at the Hitchcock. Present to see that they got away to a good start were: Doctor Nice, Presenting the Faculty; Kev Ryan M'57, stan Weglarz M'57, Bob Freeh M'58 and Bill Gallagher M'58. Bill Yahr M'59 has contracted with Sunny Brown to end his bachelorhood on August 22. A Presbyterian (N Y.) publication announced the engagement of Frank Smith M'60 to Gwyn Williamson, a nursing student.

Tom Kuhns M'57, presently completing his last month in the Marine Corps, tells of seeing Bernie Carpenter M'56, now at the Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan, and Dave Klein M'57, a medical officer on the cruiser Helena. Tom plans to join Al Friedman M'57 at the Bellevue after discharge.

The American Academy of Pediatrics meeting in New York attracted Bill IvinsM'51 from Huntington, Long Island, BobMillhouse M'53 from California, Tom ClarkM'54 from Utica, and the local Moe MossM'54.

Hope to see you all at the Hanover luncheon on June 15, or the Chicago one on June 27, or both.