Medical School

Doubtless you have read in the press that plans for expansion are progressing rapidly here. The Trustees have approved in principle, pending submission of a satisfactory program, the return of the 3rd and 4th years on a limited scale. The projection calls for increases: in the class size to 64; in 100% additional space for teaching and research; in a proportionate number of faculty members. Whereas this is not scheduled to occur immediately, detailed studies are well underway to determine its feasibility. Substantial additions to the Hitchcock Hospital in the immediate future increase the attractiveness of such a possibility.

Plans have been developed to produce a Medical Day for the graduating class the day before graduation, designed to make a day to remember for departing students.

Doctor William B. Castle, Francis Weld Peabody Faculty Professor of Medicine at Harvard, has accepted an invitation to deliver the Dartmouth Medical School Annual Lecture and will speak on "Pernicious Anemia: From Cure to Comprehension."

Dartmouth will host the Student Study Section of the AAMC in late June and representatives of 20 medical schools are expected.

Incidental Intelligence — Another of our boys," Jim Hennessy M'24, has been serving on the good ship HOPE "making friends with our Latin-American brothers' in Nicaragua and practicing some pulmonary medicine on the side. ... Mel Jacobs M'28 has been elected a Fellow in the American College of Radiology.... Did you note that Seymour Ochsner M'38 is currently Chairman of the Radiology Section of the A.M.A. Tom Sawyer M'46, now a certified psychiatrist and a certified psychoanalyst, is teaching psychopathology at Northwestern. Excerpts from an M'52 newsletter: Rog and Nancy DesPrez busy with three boys and three girls; the Goulburns making it four straight (boys, that is); the Tyke Millers adding two horses to their household; the Al Carpenters leaving practice and doing a urology residency; Jim Thorp leaving his family at home to blow his tuba in a band: the Ace Muellers adding their fifth, Beth Ann. ,

The metropolitan papers carried the recent story of the surrender of Frankie Hoefle M'59 to Patricia Parker, R.N., or vice versa Art Proviser M'62 plans to be in Hanover for June reunions to tell anyone who will listen about lolling around the Caribbean in an attack cargo ship, with the Mediterranean and California in future prospect before he settles down to pediatrics Barry and Ellen Levine M' 63 liked Chicago so well they are keeping little Susan (6 months) there while Daddy does a medical residency. ... An indication of the changing times is Ned Harley M' 64 not having time for skiing because he was working on a psychoanalytic theory! .. . The engagement of Suzanne Budd, a Hitchcock Medical Technologist, to Pete Mooney M'65 made the Boston papers.

The Class of M'64 has really searched the world over for knowledge: Brian Catlin with the Grenfell Association in Newfoundland; Rog Clapp in England for pediatrics; Rick Edelson in Colombia studying malnutrition; Harold Hawkins in Liberia chasing Plasmodia; Elliot Prager in England; Mike Rie in France solving renal problems; Jay Shuraaker in Costa Rica for tropical medicine; Mickey Webb in Kenya; and we previously reported Brad Rodgers in India and Rog Thomas in Panama.

Rick Hayes M'64 was married to a Canadian dentistry student named Olga, and Rusty Hays is scheduled for a June trip down the aisle, with an internship at Colorado General in Denver to f0llow.... Phil Boulter M'64, Brad Rodgers M'64 and Rog Thomas M'64 were elected to A.0.A... . Don Loew M'64 reports a new boy, Jonathan, and the Greg Gates M'64 have acquired number two.

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