Medical School
Pending the appointment of a permanent columnist, the undersigned has been requested to function as a guest reporter.
First, we are pleased to report the advent of Jim Strickler M'51 to assume the position of Associate Dean after several years of administrative work, as well as teaching, at Cornell. Jim will be responsible for transfer activities and regional medical planning among his many duties.
In early October there was a meeting of the Executive Committee of Dartmouth Medical School alumni for the purpose of establishing a more effective organization of the alumni group. Representing out-of-towners were: President Jack Norris M'28, MikeWright M'38 and Spence Snedecor M'21. The local delegates were: Dean Chapman, John Milne M'38, Marsh Tenney M'44, and yours truly. A list was compiled to arrange for geographical representatives, and some of you will be contacted soon for that purpose. Note: this is not a fund raising effort!
Indicative of the ever-widening fame of DMS is the fact that, as of November 1, some 1450 inquiries had been received relative to possible admission to the 1968 fall entering class, and over 550 completed applications had already reached Hanover.
It is interesting to note that the present first-year class has on its roster representatives from 19 colleges or universities, including four women from four different schools.
INCIDENTAL INTELLIGENCE: After 40 years' service as physician and surgeon in Haverhill, Mass., Herb Home M'24 has announced his retirement.... The 13 th Annual Distinguished Alumnus Award at Boston University was presented to Ken Christopher M'26 who has served that school as Clinical Professor of Orthopedics for many years.... George Gates M'34 has welcomed to the South Bend Medical Foundation his son Greg M'64 who graduated from Washington University in 1966.... After 20 years in his own industrial medical center on Long Island, Jim Higgins M'36 has assumed the position of Medical Director of the Oxford Paper Company at Rumford, Maine.... The new president of the Ohio State Heart Association is Sanfis Sanford Courter M'42.... The Temple chapter of the Student American MedicalMedical Association has awarded a certificate of merit for his outstanding contribution to students' education to Dave Smith M'43.
Who 20 years ago would have expected to read of Jack Garry M'48 lecturing to North Store Chapter 89, Parents Without Partners Inc. at Swampscott, Mass.... We report with pride the appointment as Dean of Miami University School of Medicine of Dean Warren M'48.... Did anyone ever hear whether Eddie Landau M'52 was successful in his bid for election to the Worcester School Committee? ... Al HathcockM'54, now doing Orthopedics in Fort Smith, Ark., visited Hanover with his wife and two children for the first time since graduation. ... Another Orthopod, Bruce LaFolletteM'55, has opened an office in Portland, Maine, after completing his military duty. ... Paul Andreini M'56 has been honored at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine for outstanding performance in rheumatology. ... Joe Gonnella M'59 is now functioning as Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Jefferson.... The BillGallaghers M'58, with a new daughter, are doing dermatology in Quincy, Mass.
Another Mayo Graduate School of Medicine award, this time for outstanding achievement in pediatrics, has been received by Mark Cloutier M'58.... Dick LindsethM'58 now functions as Assistant Professor of Orthopedics at Indiana University.... Tay Weinman M'61 took his "lovely blonde Viking" wife from Iceland to San Francisco where he expects to work in Ophthalmology. ... It is interesting to note that Sol Rockenmacher M'61, with Linda and their two girls nearby, is working on the old World War II stamping grounds of the writer at the U.S. Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Md.... A card from Ted Tapper M'62 confirms what we read in TIME that he had been in Vietnam as a member of the Committee of Responsibility.... The Doug Zipes M'62, now doing cardiology at Duke, added David to Debby and Jeff on the family roster. ... Val Leval Graham M'62 brought in her two youngsters for inspection while she was vacationing in Thetford.... Through the Massachusetts Physician we learned that Jack Babson M'63 is serving in Vietnam.... Bruce Feldman M'63 belatedly reports his marriage to Sherry Pearlman last December. ... And Mike Rie '64 quite appropriately has taken as his life partner a young lady known to her friends as Mika.... Rich EdelsonM'64 was also scheduled for the altar in September with Judy Lando and will go to Atlanta in the USPHS We have learned that Martha (Micky) Webb M'64 is now Mrs. G. Robert Hess in Dallas And another of our coeds, "Little Annie" HoareM'65 was married to a Temple classmate, Dr. Lawrence Koons.
Weddings, weddings, weddings: Abe Aronow M'64 to Alice Barney; Warren SewallM'65 to Ronee Skornik; Vince Sites M'65 to Judy Grossman; John McGowan M'65 to Linda Hudson; Frank Reilly M'65 to Louise Blystone; Patricia (Pat) Cronin M'66 to Robert Adams; and Bob Hands M'66 to some young lady whose name we do not have. Among engagements: Wendy CloughM'66 to her DMS classmate, Ronnie BenzM'66; and Rick Trowbridge M'66 to Karen Kuhl.
Recent Hanover visitors: Barry Levine M'63, Phil Boulter M'64, Charles Hamlin M'65, Eric White M'65, Jeff Bert M'65, Mr. and Mrs. John Bullock M'66, and Mr. and Mrs. Clay Vaughan M'66.
Keep the news coming; someone will report it.
Graduate student Peter Titcomb '66 explains the 1720 Data Display system toDean Myron Tribus (c) in the presence ofMilton Sanders (r), division manager ofSanders Associates, Inc., Nashua, N. H.,which has donated electronic displaysto the Thayer School of Engineering.
