Medical School

How many natives of North Troy. Vermont, have been honored by festivities rich with Middle Eastern flavor? Not many, probably, but we're certain about one. Before your former correspondent left New Hampshire for the sun of Florida, the warmth of his countless friends in the North focused on him and his wife Ella in the Syrian-American atmosphere of Lander Restaurant in Lebanon. For that mattery, Tuesday. October 26 seemed to be Harry W. Savage Day throughout this part of the Twin State area.

Harry and Ella have headed South this time of the year a number of times before but on this occasion it was more or less official because Harry had given up his last formal duties in Lebanon: with extreme reluctance Governor Walter Peterson had accepted Harry's resignation as Lebanon's District Court Judge. (In effect, he had to because Harry had told him that he was setting out for Florida whether he was still due to preside on J

At Landers the accolade accorded Dr. Savage had many components, for a host of V.I.P. speakers had complimentary things to say about the guest of honor's beneficent vocations. Those heaping praises on Harry's multiple careers included, among others, Governor's Councilor Lyle E. Hersom, who spoke for Governor Peterson; Crime Commission Coordinator Benjamin Thompson Jr.. who represented John Sloan Dickey, President Emeritus; Mayor Shirley K. Merrill of Lebanon, and Vergil H. Ferm, Chairman of the Medical School's Department of Anatomy.

As the evening progressed, a quantity of plaques and many other mementos amassed in front of the Savages, growing in number to a pile that looked like an emir's ransom. Though evidently highly appreciative, Harry accepted them with a humility of a North Trojan.

While the Savages were being feted so enthusiastically. Dean Chapman was in Washington where, at the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges, he formally took up duties as Chairman of the AAMC's Council of Deans. That chairmanship has been described as one of the most influential positions in medicine in the United States.

Dr. Chapman's chairmanship involves an interesting succession: he has succeeded Monte Du Val M'44, now Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The smoothness of the accession will be of great benefit to everyone and is a natural one, for Drs. napman and Du Val have been working together on many national medical affairs.

Incidental Intelligence—Tom Anglem M'28, who practices in Boston, says the home he bought in Kennebunkport is for retirement "in about 20 years." Over the Penn game weekend Dick Watson M'39 took time out for a thoughtful discussion with college classmates about the state of Dartmouth today regarding minority groups, ROTC, coeducation, and other meaningful subjects. William R. Schill-hammer M'46, chief medical director of the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont,has been elected vice president of that firm. Lee E. Bartholomew M'48 is now chief of the Arthritis Clinic of the University of Michigan. A report from the College Class of '13 shows that CharlesCunningham M'49 is resident physician for an industrial plant at Springfield, Vt.

Ray Alexanian M'53, in the Houston area for eight years as a hematologist at the M.D. Anderson Hospital, which is a cancer research and treatment center, reports that patients come to the Houston center from all over the Southwest. The news from Dick Carleton M'53 of Hinsdale, Ill., is both sporting and serious. Regarding the former, and his avocation of sailing, he reports that during the past summer he won the Chicago-Mackinac race. A much greater portion of his time has been occupied by cardiology and his part in the reopening of the Rush Medical College. A classmate of his, Ben Stein, has moved to Boston as Professor and Chairman of the Tufts-New England Medical Center's Department of Neurosurgery. Kenneth B.Robertson M'61 relates: "After two years with the Navy in Seattle, Wash., I spent a busy year in my old home town and then decided to do some more training in gastroenterology. . . . Joan and I will move on to Corvallis, Oregon, to settle and start practice around November."

Frank R. Virnelli M 61, with his practice limited to plastic and reconstructive surgery and surgery of the hand, has opened an office in the Professional Building in Winchester, Mass. Late in the summer John Zaia M'66 married Miss Constance Anne Ware, a 1965 graduate of St. Anne Academy who attended the College of New Rochelle, N. Y. By now John Stoskopf Ascher is probably well beyond his initial eight pounds four ounces but we want to congratulate Britt and Mike Ascher M'69 on the birth of their son earlier this year.