Medical School

If you have not already heard, RalphHunter M'32 is serving as Acting Dean pending the appointment of the new Dean, which is expected in the near future. Bert Mudge has assumed the direction of the new Department of Medicine which includes the graduate education of interns and residents as well as the clinical orientation of our students.

With the cooperation of our four-year sister institutions, a new transfer system is to be inaugurated this year. Second-year students will submit a single choice for early consideration so that the great majority of transfer problems, if not all, should be eliminated before Christmas recess. This arrangement should alleviate markedly the work of the involved schools and the needless strain on the student.

Incidental Intelligence - If all of us follow the example of Waltman Walters M'17 when we reach emeritus status as he has, we might just as well continue working. An excerpt from his recent schedule: International Surgical Society at Philadelphia; 1917 class meeting in Hanover; back to Rochester, Minn., to write a chapter on Gastric Surgery; then to the College of Surgeons sessions in Atlantic City; etc., etc. Retirement is inviting? . . . Milt Hunter M'25 is doing a short period of concentrated relaxing in Maine with his family. . . . CharlieSullivan M'27 moans about his 35th reunion at McGill.

Time does fly - Don Hight M'32, whose son (Don also) is in our second-year class, is spending some time in Scotland.... Speaking of Dartmouth sons, Norm Simon M'37 had the pleasure of attending the graduation of his son this last June.... Seymour Ochsner M'38 is now Chairman of the Radiology Section of the AMA Council on Postgraduate Education, as well as a member of the Executive Council of the American Roentgen Ray Society, and Associate Professor of Radiology at Tulane.... Charlie Neer M'40 was one of the participants in symposia on the program of the American Association for Traumatic Surgery, and on that of the American College of Surgeons three days later.... Ken Gross M'42 was scheduled to attend the International. Congress of Radiology in Rome, Italy, in mid-October.

"Psychic Dynamics" is the title of a recent book authored by Bert Schwarz M'45.. . . Dan Winters M'48 breezed in for an overnight respite from his Orthopedics, bringing with him one of his four attractive daughters. . . . The parents of Burt Onofrio M'55, last reported ofF the shores of the Dominican Republic with the Navy, recently visited us. .. . Charlie Tannenbaum M'55 has moved from Bakersfield to Arcadia, Calif., and now instructs in Ophthalmology at the California College of Medicine. . . . John Stanley M'56 returned home to Hanover for a brief visit recently.