Medical School

As the 167th session of Dartmouth Medical School gets underway, perhaps you might be interested in some statistics. In the entering class, some twenty states are represented, extending from New Hampshire to Washington and Oregon in the West and Texas and Louisiana to the South. While Dartmouth has supplied approximately half of the embryo physicians, 21 other colleges have representation on the first-year roster. Eleven of the group are following the footsteps of their M.D. fathers, while six young ladies will exert some polishing effect in the predominantly male atmosphere. An average MCAT score of 605 presages extra effort on the part of the faculty to keep ahead of the inevitable and interminable questions to be anticipated!

We can report that the dedication of the Rolf C. Syvertsen Memorial Room was carried out successfully on May 30. Those attending the ceremony completely filled all available seats in the room and overflowed into the hallways and onto the lawn. In the audience, in addition to returning alumni and friends, was a group representing Sy's class, and the presence of Margaret Syvertsen (Mrs. Sy), who came down from Nova Scotia, really made the affair. John Milne M'38 was a very able master-of-ceremonies and the talks by Professor Emeritus FredericPomeroy Lord and Father Leslie Hodder (since deceased) painted superb pictures of Sy. On your next trip to Hanover, be sure to visit Sy's room.

We are pleased to note that replies to our short questionnaire are coming in rapidly, and we hope to receive YOURS soon. Many are utilizing the form, as suggested, to bring us up to date on incidental intelligence. This provides material for this column or the Dartmouth Medical School Quarterly. The first issue of the latter apparently has been received enthusiastically according to comments reaching us. What do you think?

THE DID-YOU-KNOW COLUMN - Among the seekers after knowledge at the First Alumni College was George Woodruff M'18 who visited us at the end of classes with his wife. Their classmates included the Erwin Millers M'20 and the Jim Keeleys M'3s. - The 1964 Distinguished Service Award of the National Medical Association went to our Hillie Poindexter M'27 Is - there a hint of collaboration in the fact that the certification of Al Morris M'27 in Aviation Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine was signed by ErnieStebbins M'27? - Bill Browning M'29, chief of Obs at the Putnam Memorial in Bennington, Vermont, happily reports that young Bill D'55 received his M.D. from Stanford this June. — John Lilly M'40 of Coconut Grove, Fla., is Founder and Director of the Communication Research Institute which does all sorts of interesting studies on dolphins. Ted Mortimer M'44, touring east- ern colleges with his daughter, took the opportunity to visit Hanover. - Moye Freymann M'46 is working in India as a Consultant in Health with the Ford Foundation. — "Dr. Winters stopped by" was the note handed me late in June; could it have been Dan of M'48? - Ken Cosgrove M'505 reports a whole DMS nest around Hendersonville, N. C., including Bill Bosein M'49S,Marion Bosein M'505, and Ken LaTouretteM'49S.

John Woolridge M'50 reports that four daughters and surgery keep him happily busy in Clearfield, Pa. - Larry Perry M'51 has taken his five children from Walter Reed in Washington to Fitzsimmons in Denver to complete his Anesthesiology. - Sam Jefferson M'51, doing hematology, was with him at Walter Reed and he saw Ray PeppardM'51 at the New York Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology. - Phil Parshley M'54 has joined the Boline-Cantril Clinic in Portland, Oregon, to do general surgery, while another M'54er, Moe Moss, has started his practice on the east coast in Englewood, N. J. - Still another M'54, Bruce Gilmore, is doing internal medicine in Alexandria, Va. - JayChandler M'55 will leave his chief residency in surgery with Bill Fletcher M'53 at Oregon in January to go to Princeton, N. J. in general surgery. - John Barlow M'56 is doing the Army's pathology at Fort Bragg. - Don Dillon M'57 and Dick Ruel M'57 visiited during the summer. - Katie and TomHall M'58 announce the arrival of Colin Holmes, "a son to go with our 22-monthold Sarah and 3-year-old Labrador retriever." - Mark Saginor M'59 is doing viral research with the Marines at Camp Lejeune. - Stu-Slingerland M'59 is working in Uruguay for the rest of this year.— Myrna and Bob tenBensel M'59 announce that the arrival of Charles Robert brings their "final" score to two boys and two girls. - Martha and Bob Timothy M'59, presently on Midway with their two girls, expect to return to the Peter Bent Brigham in July 1965 to do urology.

The Lee Gilliatts M'60 will soon leave Pediatrics at Duke for two years in the Army. - Mary Ann and Charlie Eytel M'60 announce from a San Francisco Navy address the arrival of "an angel" sans halo to be known as Denise Marie. - "Men in White" is the title of a snap we received, showing Jim Penza M'61 and Dick Preininger M'6l in full Marine battle dress in front of a pup tent in which they claim to have slept. - Bill Mattson M'61 has started a surgical residency at the University of Michigan Hospital. - Jim Longcope M'61, after an interim year in research, completed his M.D. at Hopkins in June and is now interning at the Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington, Vt. - The picture of Eric SailerM'6l is included in the Rogues' Gallery of New Residents at Grace-New Haven in the Obs.-Gyn. section.