Medical School

The addition of a two-story electron-microscope laboratory to the Medical Science Building has just been announced. This $250,000 building, made possible by grants from the National Science Foundation, the James Foundation, and the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, will house three electron microscopes in air-conditioned, vibrationfree, and dust-free facilities and will connect with the Kellogg Medical Auditorium and the still-to-be-built Charles Gilman Life Sciences Laboratory.

The Carnival spirit is rising as this goes to press, and the students are welcoming the return of free time from Friday noon on through the weekend. In fact, the outdoor spirit has overcome them to such an extent that some hardy souls are constructing a skating rink behind newly-opened Strasenburgh Hall.

Between trips to Puerto Rico and Atlanta, Ga., for the Medical Education for National Defense program, work on the next entering class has progressed almost to completion. The roster of 48 tentative acceptees chosen from approximately 1,000 inquiries, and between 500 to 600 completed applications, includes representatives from twenty different colleges or universities. It looks like a superior class.

Plans are under way for what appears to have become an annual luncheon for the physicians of the reuning classes in June. This affair occurs at 12:30 p.m. on the Friday of the reunion week at the School. In case the addressograph misses your name when details are mailed out, plan to come anyway, since all Dartmouth physicians are welcome.

Wally Lobitz, formerly chief of our Dermatology Department and now at Oregon, recently spent a week in town. George Gates M'34 dropped in to say hello, and incidentally, to visit his son, Greg, who is a first-year student. Via the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, we have heard that Bill Wilson M'43 planned to join the staff of the Henry Hayward Hospital in Gardner, Mass. Bill Brewster M'44 is now with NASA in Washington, D. C., in the Office of Advanced Research and Technology. Alfie Holt M'52, now in the Princeton, N. J., Hospital, broke into print in The Lancet recently.

Incidentally, an M'52 newsletter sounds as though the class was undergoing another graduation with reports that Al Carpenter,Don Clark, Rog DesPrez, Dave McDowell, and Giles Hamlin have "passed their boards." Probably there are more, but these were the ones mentioned. In addition, the letter details several teaching appointments: Stanvan den Noort at Western Reserve; SonnyThainarus at Michigan; Jack Hyland at Texas; and Howie Pearson at Florida. Now I can remember . . . !

Enjoyed a pleasant dinner and evening with Ken and Sally Herrmann M'57 in Atlanta a few days ago. Ralphie Miller M'59, now in neuroendocrinology at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, is working on a human cold climate adaptation study.

Late flash from the Valley News: Bob Edwards M'56 and family have gone to South Viet Nam for two years of voluntary service.