Medical School
Once again we are found with a lack of floor space. To offset this, a Butler building will be added during the coming summer to provide an additional 5200 square feet. This will be constructed in the parking space immediately adjacent to the delivery area of the Medical Science Building.
Plans are underway to make graduation more meaningful to the departing students. On the Saturday before Commencement a "Medical Day" will be inaugurated featuring Grand Rounds, an invited speaker, picnic and sports at Loch Lyme Lodge, and a skit by the class in the evening. On Commencement Day there will be a buffet lunch for the graduating class with parents and guests at the Tenney home following the formal exercises.
In the near future those of you who had the distinction of attending classes in Old Medical on the hill will be advised of a modest plan to memorialize the site. This project has resulted from innumerable communications, practically insisting that something be done to commemorate this historical building which served for 150 years. It will be!
Dr. Nice reports that transfer arrangements for the second-year class have been completed, and the DMS product will be represented at the following nine schools: Colorado, Columbia, Cornell, Einstein, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, McGill, Southwestern, and Vermont.
Incidental Intelligence - Harrison O'Connor M' 43, who has offices or hospital appointments .in Medford, Maiden and Lawrence, Mass., decided he was using only 23 of the 24 hours daily in his orthopedic practice, so opened another office in Reading. ... We are proud to learn that Larry Carpenter M' 47 left his Santa Rosa, Calif., home to serve as a volunteer for two months without pay with Project Viet-Nam to work and spread goodwill among the civilians in that country. ... John Monahan M'56 reports that he moved his girls back home to Erie, Pa., where he keeps busy using his orthopedic and reconstructive training among crippled children Howie Munro M'60 will soon leave Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, S. C., to go to Atlanta to do hematology. ... Dick Preininger M'61, now awaiting his discharge at Oakland Naval Hospital before going to Grady Hospital in Atlanta and then Johns Hopkins for orthopedics, reports on DMS "fighting men" in the Far East. While with the 3rd Marine Division in Viet Nam, he ran into Jim Penza M'61 with the Ist Marines. He also found Tippy Putnam M'60, a Navy flight surgeon, and JimLongcope M'61 with a Seabee outfit. Dick says "Join the Navy and be a Marine."
Ted Tapper M'62 provided a real newsy letter from Philadelphia where he is doing two years pediatric residency before another two years in Public Health Service. He reports: Al Larimer M'62 with the Naval Air Force at Johnsville, Pa.; Bob Prouty M'62 in pediatrics at Philadelphia Naval; Art Provisor M'62 aboard the Thuban in the Caribbean; George Peter M'62 in pediatrics at Strong Memorial in Rochester; Mike Norman M'63 returning next year to Philadelphia Children's Hospital in pediatrics; and Bill Weintraub M'62 doing a surgical residency at Strong Memorial before going with the Navy next year. ... Another interesting item from Ted (read this slowly): Al Larimer M'62 was married last June to a lovely girl from Turkey whom he met in Finland, and dated while both were in school in North Carolina!
Ken Falchuk M' 63 returned to the fold for a brief visit recently. ... An LSU Fellow ship in Tropical Medicine took Rog ThomasM'64 away from Baltimore to the Panama Canal Zone as attested by several colorful postcards. .. . Pete Kwiterovich M'64 was supported up to the altar by Tom MclnernyM'64 as best man, to be married to Kathleen Justin, an Instructor in Public Health Nursing.
