Medical School

On October 30 the Gilman Biological Science Building, the latest addition to the Gilman Biomedical Center, will be dedicated. Morning and afternoon scientific sessions will be held, with the dedicatory exercises at noon. As additional features, late in the afternoon Paul B. Beeson, M.D., Professor of Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, will deliver a paper on "Pyelonephritis," followed at 8:30 p.m. by a Student Lecture Series presentation by our own Hillie Poindexter M'27 on the African Health Problem. Sounds like quite a day!

We know you all rejoiced with us when you read in your newspaper of the unrestricted grant of $2 million the Medical School was awarded by the James Foundation.

Activity in the administrative offices is maintained at a high level by the arrival of more than 1000 inquiries relative to 1965 fall admission before the 1964 fall term started.

The recent questionnaire which most of you completed is the source of many interesting items which we will utilize as space permits in this and future columns. Did you know that: Ken Christophe M'26, with the rank of Professor, is chairman of Orthopedic Surgery at Boston University and likes to talk about three grandchildren. - HerbTalbot M'25 functions as Chief, Spinal Cord Injury and Urology, at the West Roxbury (Mass.) V.A. Hospital with the Harvard title of Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery. - Collin MacCarty M'38, in his capacity as Chairman, has furthered the training of several young DMS graduates in Neurologic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic and Foundation. - The oldest son of Al Ley M'40, now a Professor of Medicine at Cornell, matriculated in the undergraduate college here in September.

If you are looking for the latest in Space Medicine and Radiobiology, contact Sol Lifton M'42, the Deputy Director of Bioastronautics. - Hal Woodworth M'43 has added a Yale Ph.D. in Microbiology to his M.D. to augment his potential as a Research Microbiologist in the USPHS, and has recently done work in India and Israel. - Don BurnhamM'44 is doing psychiatric research at the NIMH and serves as Chairman of the Curriculum Committee of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. - Don Brown M'46 does his psychiatry on the other side of the country at the University of California (S.F.) and has added a master's degree from Columbia to help in his administrative work. - Bill Folger M'46, after service with Project HOPE in Southeast Asia and Peru, is now a Fellow in Physical Medicine at Bellevue Medical Center but plans to return to his post as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at California (S.F.) next July. - Another M'46er, Charlie Tourtellotte, is also in California working as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda.

Bob Berry M'48 spends his time playing second banjo and first washboard with the Jackson Pike Skifflers when he gets a break in his Bridgeport practice of thoracic surgery. — John Tower M'49 now has practiced pediatrics in Anchorage, Alaska with a respite of one or two hours in the midst of the March 1964 earthquake. - Ed SnokeM'50 apparently thinks there really is a population explosion in the Detroit area, basing his opinion on his personal Ob-Gyn experience. - The services of Sam JeffersonM'51 in internal medicine are being dispensed at the Tripler General Hospital. What rank, Sam? - Red Watson M'52, more affectionately known as "Old 24," has received a Research Career Development Award and holds the rank of Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Vermont. — Erik Gundersen M'52 has returned to Wisconsin after 1½ years in Norway and England in thoracic surgery. - Bob MillhouseM'53, another California resident, crossed the country to visit us this fall. — Larry Wilson M'53 left the ranks of bachelors September 5 to marry Ellen Spangler.

Bruce Pattee M'55 has "finally made it," as demonstrated by the announcement of the opening of his office in Colorado Springs and the purchase of a home. - BillHansen M'57, now married, has finished his Army duty in Germany and is back at Michigan completing his surgical residency. - Larry Seymour M'57 plans to leave the Army for neurosurgery at Minnesota next July. - Arnie Mulder M'58 also expects his release from active army duty next summer and will return to his interrupted surgical residency at Roosevelt in New York. — DonMiller M'60, after a year in hematology at Duke, joins the Oncology Service in the Boston Public Health Service hospital in July. - Bob Young M'60 is currently doing internal medicine at Lackland AFB, Texas.

- How about Captain Tay Weinman M'61 playing around with a fighter squadron in Keflavik, Iceland!! — Late rumor: the Eric Sailers M'61 have just welcomed aboard a new Sailer, Chris by name. — Valerie Leval Graham M'62, our first female is finishing her fourth year at Harvard after taking a long coffee break to produce an heir, described as "a living doll."

More in the Quarterly or next month.