Medical School
After an absence of two issues, I will try to catch up on such news as has reached me in Florida. I hope you have all received my recent letter addressed to each of you individually describing the major advances at DMS. If not, please let us know. It should have reached you not later than March 1.
Your Dartmouth Medical Alumni Council met in New York on April 23 and 24, courtesy of Mike Wright M'38. On the agenda was the development of plans for a program for the June 1971 reuning alumni. Tom Almy, Professor of Medicine and chairman of that department, is arranging an interesting session.
A happy announcement—word has been received of a Special Project Grant supporting the Department of Maternal and Child Health. This provides adequate initial funding for the last of the clinical departments needed for the M.D. curriculum.
Incidental Intelligence—Hillie Poindexter M'27 has returned from a special six months of Relief and Rehabilitation duty in the war-torn areas of Nigeria. Charlie Tourtelotte M'46 carries the title of Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda Medical School at Riverside, Calif. Les Bauer M'53 recently looked in from Wenatchee, Wash., where he does Internal Medicine at the Wenatchee Valley Clinic. Don Brief M'55, after a tour in Vietnam as Chief of Surgery at the 24th Evacuation Hospital, is now doing peripheral vascular and general surgery in Millburn, N. J., and carries the rank of Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry. He reports that Floyd RobinsonM'59 was doing neurosurgery at the Evacuation Hospital in Vietnam when he was there. Between trips on his 36-foot sailboat, Bill Yahr M'59 does cardiothoracic surgery at the Mt. Sinai Hospital at Miami Beach.
It was nice to know that Barry Smith M'60 has agreed to serve as secretary of his class thereby permitting the former secretary, Ted Harris M'60, to serve on the DMS Alumni Council. The Tom Ashbys M'62, with their two youngsters, now live in Honolulu where Tom is doing internal medicine with the Hawaii Permanente Medical Group. They hope to visit Hanover this summer. We received a nice note from Meryl Ram M'65 who is doing his military duty at U. S. Patterson Army Hospital in Fort Monmouth, N. J. John Mulvihill M'67 will spend two years with We Epidemiology Branch of the National Career institute. Add to the list of DMS heirs, Kenneth Mark Ehrenberg, who recently arrived to bring joy to the BruceEhrenbergs M'69.
This column could not close without reporting the sad news that "Maddie" Sowles, secretary for many years in administration, finally lost her battle after two bouts with open-heart surgery. She will be greatly missed, especially by students and faculty who were fortunate enough to have been associated with this remarkable girl. She will not be forgotten.
