Medical School
The 1968-69 academic year opened for the second-year class on September 16, but first-year students did not report until the 23rd. This innovation was arranged to accommodate the new curriculum being introduced in the first year as the initial step on the way to the four-year school.
The new class numbers 53, and includes six girls. Twenty-two colleges are represented by citizens of 20 states, plus one student from Norway.
Friends of Jack Watson M'53 may be interested in knowing of The Jack and Rita Watson Memorial Fund at the University of Buffalo where Jack was Assistant Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Renal Division. Jack, Rita and the four children were on the way to Atlantic City where Jack was to deliver a paper, when a car jumped the median strip, hitting Jack's car head-on, and killing both Jack and Rita. They will be missed.
With the start of the new academic year, after a lapse since last May, we will try to bring you up to date on Incidental Intelligence - Wouldn't you enjoy hearing Bernie Manning M'26 give his talk on the many changes in medicine in his 38 years of practice? - Did you know that Jack Norris M'28 received the Albert David Kaiser Award, Rochester, New York's highest medical award. - Paul Zamecnik M'34 has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. - Mike Wright M'38 was married to Nancy Dewing in June. - Always a skier, BudLittle M'40 was chosen Vice President of the F.I.S., the World Ski Federation. - FrankBrooks M'42 was selected to be the speaker at the first annual meeting of the Lahey Clinic Foundation Alumni Association. - In a byline column of a Boston paper it was noted that Waldo "Doc" Fielding M'43, eminent obstetrician and lecturer, was made president of the Tub Thumpers Club. - Frank West M'43 has been made chief of the Hahnemann Psychiatry Service at the Philadelphia General. — We hope SkagBurke M'43 will tell us how he made out in his political plunge as candidate for the Rock Island, Ill., School Board.
Congratulations to Charlie Regan M'44 on his promotion to Associate Surgeon in Ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. - And to Jack Harmon M'49 on his promotion to Colonel in the USAF. - We are also most happy to report the appointment of Sam Katz M'50 to the chairmanship of the department of pediatrics at the Duke University Medical Center. - John Turner M'50 hit the headlines with his lecture and film on Modern Advances in Cardiac Surgery. - We are proud of the selection of our own Bernie Carpenter M'56 as one of the ten Outstanding Young Men of 1968 by the Boston Junior Chamber of Commerce. - Neil Raskin M'57 has completed his work as Research Associate at NIH and is joining the faculty of the University of California as Assistant Professor of Neurology. - Bob Shirley M'58 has left the Navy flat, and is now doing Ob-Gyn in Boston. - The Margaret Schroeder Achievement in Ophthalmology Award was made to Fen Riley M'58 at the Mayo Clinic.
Saul Roskes M'61 has decided to go to work and opened an office in Baltimore. - Following four years in Ob-Gyn at the Mayo Clinic, Steve Larson M'6l began his Air Force tour of duty in July. - A very welcome phone call from Dave Vaules M'61 revealed that he will assume Chief Resident's responsibilities in Rochester in January. - The work of Ted Tapper M'62 in Vietnam with war-injured children merits high praise. - Al Rozyki M'63 is slated for Army duty this fall, hopefully as a pediatrician in Europe. - For M'63, Frank DeGiacomo committed matrimony with Rhoda Corbin; SteveKurland planned similar action with Carol Ann Lochan in August; and Frank Pauli has signed up with Bonnie Busse. - While on the subject Ned Harley M'64 was scheduled for marriage with Barbara Hurwitz (also an M.D.?) in May. - Abe Aronow M'64 is on his last year with the NIH.
If you have not already seen it, try to get hold of a copy of The Green Journal, edited by John McGowan M'65, in which you will find detailed information of most of that class. This newsletter rivals the one published by the class of M'52 all these years. Both are excellent. - The marriages and/or engagements in M'65 include: RoSegal and Barbara Boardman; John Lavorna and Carol Morasco; Barry Pressman and Beth Jaffee; Routt Reigart and Valerie Taft; Vince Sites and Judy; Bill Christensen and Carol Swanson; Dick Connors and Nancy O'Donnell; and John McGowan and Linda Kay Hudson. - Captain Bill Couser M'65 stopped a load of schrapnel in Vietnam but recovered well and is now back in the USA. - Dave Schall M'66 was married in May to Deborah Mitchell, a graduate of the Hitchcock School of Medical Technology. - Another, Charles Kelley M'67 and Kathy Smith.
Now the final peal of wedding bells for this issue: Joy Baynard M'68 and Leo CassM'68; Cynthia Nichols M'69 and Bill KettyleM'68; John Reinisch M'68 and Mary Adams; and on THE wedding day, August 17, Jackand Joyce Lockhart M'68; Pete and MargoTuxen M'68; Mike and Cindy McLaughlinM'68; and Ken and Betty Blunt M'68 Thus endeth the matrimonial report for September.
