Medical School
The Convocation, with the title of "Inquiry and Scholarship in the Society of the Seventies," is over and can be characterized as a huge success. The imposing list of speakers included: Dean Chapman; President Kemeny; President Toll of the State University of New York; William D. Carey, Management Consultant of Arthur D. Little, Inc.; Prof. James Cox of the English Department; Dr. Roger Egeberg, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; Dr. James B. Wyngaarden, Professor of Medicine at Duke; and Dr. James Bryant Conant, former President of Harvard. The crowd of some 350 at the dinner Friday evening were still enthusiastically buzzing about the material presented by the speaker. A highlight of the dinner program was the introduction of the sixteen candidates for the first Dartmouth M.D. Degree since 1914.
The meeting of the DMS Alumni Council and Class Secretaries was . held on the Thursday prior to the Convocation. The well-attended gathering considered in detail the changes and proposed changes at the School with Dean Chapman answering innumerable questions from the floor. At the business meeting following the writer was elected Chairman, Paul Lena M'51 Vice- Chairman and Jack Norris M'28 Secretary.
On September Ist, 53 first-year students registered, and on September 14 th, 52 second-year students. It is interesting to note that seven first-yearers and nine second- yearers are married, while those classes list respectively seven and five females. Times have certainly changed in the last 40 years!
Incidental Intelligence—Ed Oberton M'55, now Associate Professor of Medicine at Vermont, was spotted recently educating the profession in Northern New York in Diabetes. ... Speaking of Associate Professors of Medicine, Nick Anthonisen M'56 has been elevated to that rank at McGill.... We had a most pleasant visit with Jim LongcopeM'61 who was taking a respite from his duties in group practice in Acton, Mass., and Eric Sailen M'61 still recalls Anatomy in Old Medical as he opens his office in New Haven and Madison, Conn., to practice ObGyn.... Sandy Hyvarinen DavenportM'66 and John Davenport M'66 happily announce the arrival of Kristin from Washington where John has started his two-year Navy duty.... Al Munro M'66 stopped off in Hanover long enough to tell us of his Fellowship in Cardiology at Chapel Hill, N. C.... We are indebted to the Secretary of M'66, Sarah Donaldson from Stanford, for the following: Dick Shaw M'66 is married; Steve Sherman M'66 is in Anchorage, Alaska, with the Public Health Service; John Looney M'66 is married and has returned to Texas to do psychiatry.... Dean Mosher M'66 is doing research in Boston (our thanks to Sarah!). ... Tony Morrissey ex M'66 finishes his Ph.D. requirements at Harvard next June. ... Jon Stolk M'67 brought his family across the country from California for a visit.... Four more weddings to report: Debra Goff to Bill Compton M'69; Lory Rosoff to Ron Fisehler M'71; and Orasa Metmowlee to Tom Garland M'71.... Finally, making the Boston society pages was announcement of the engagement of Kathy Finnegan to Mike Shortsleeve M'70.
Let us hear from you before next month!
