Medical School
The first piece of business is to explain that you have a new amanuensis who can only try to emulate the personal touch achieved so skillfully for so long by HarryW. Savage M' 27. As a member of the class of '38 I undoubtedly know some of you but to the rest I'm simply a title—special assistant to Dr. Chapman for publications and information. That long handle, I'm happy to say, includes respon- sibility for being your ALUNMI MAGAZINE correspondent. Hopefully, I'll get to know all of you before long, personally and through the mail.
For us in Hanover this past summer the event of the season was the breaking of ground for the James D. Vail Medical Sciences Building. With President Kemeny ready to assist, shovel in hand, a huge power scoop ceremoniously dug into the lawn adjacent to, and north of, the present Medical Sciences Building. Among the others present for the event in addition to Dr. Chapman were Ort Hicks '21, Mr. and Mrs. James D. Vail, Mrs. Kathleen Remsen and James J. Sullivan, regional engineer, HEW, Boston. Current facilities of the Medical School will be doubled when the new glass and brick eight-story structure is completed in 1973.
On April 10 the Jersey Journal reported the burial of Edmund J. Daley M'12 in Arlington National Cemetery. He was 83 and had practiced in Journal Square, Jersey City, N. J.
Incidental Intelligence—Harry A. Durkin Jr. M' 49 announces the opening of the Durkin Clinic for Children and Youth at 1141 Beacon Street, Brookline, Mass. His staff associates are Mrs. Mary S. Fogel. formerly senior psychiatric caseworker at Childrens Hospital, Boston, and William L. Shumate Jr., Ph.D.
In a letter to John L. Norris M'28,Tom Sawyer M' 46 reported that his younger daughter, Diane, had been accepted into the six-year Honors Program of Northwestern University Medical School. "Assuming she completes the program," he wrote, "she will be a fourth-generation physician." He also said that the only classmate he had heard from lately ha" been Charlie Tourtellotte. In another letter—this one from Russell P. Sherwin M' 46 to Tom Sawyer—Russ said he one daughter going to USC this fall, 'one about to get married at the age of 20 and just beginning a career as an electronmicroscopy technician, and a boy of 14 interested in, of all things, psychiatry no doubt a reflection of all the psychiatrist jokes I have been telling him. particularly those dealing with the easy life you people lead."
Gerald C. Finkel M'57 wrote Dr. Savage from the Brooklyn-Cumberland Medical Center, saying he had gone there aS pathologist-in-chief after deciding that "academia was not all that it is cracked up to be "He pointed out his need for first class personnel. "I view the potential for a quality academic medicine fused with Community program of delivery of health of services to be both highly care of services and desirable. Anyone who compatible to this institution at this time could play a maior role in its development."
A succinct card from William R.Compton M'69 reveals that he was married to the former Debra June Goff of the Peter Brent Brigham Hospital School of Nursing in Boston. Dr. Compton interned at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. His career plans: diagnostic radiology
'"Before he left for Alaska, JPMI IN ice received a letter from Jim Sise M*69 who also referred to Salt Lake City. He said he was enjoying internship there and was living for the PHS Indian Health Program.... We've had word that Robert E. Naylor M'69 is interning at the University Hospital of San Diego County. That hospital is the primary teaching hospital of the University of California at San Diego.... Jim Lawrie M'59 writes: "I am now in Houston doing a straight medical internship with Bob McAuley who is doing the same. The program here (Baylor affiliated hospitals) is quite good and the department of medicine is collecting many fine people with many Texas $s to help. Both Bob and I are working hard but learning a great deal."
A newspaper clipping reveals that last June Miss Catherine Ann Finnegan became Mrs. Michael J. Shortsleeve M'70. Brian Shortsleeve served as best man for his brother.... Gary Blaich M'70 wrote Phil Nice about his appreciation of his years in Hanover. Gary wrote from Seattle which, he said, had been good to him and his wife.
I have been very fortunate in having your letters accumulate over the summer. Many thanks to you for them. Please keep them coming to Hanover, for we want to keep close contact with you.
