Medical School

The Medical School is historically enriched today, thanks to the contribution made by the daughter of an eminent alumnus of some time ago.

One Sunday, September 1, 1878 President Samuel C. Bartlett gave "a Memorial Discourse delivered before the Faculty and Students of Dartmouth College" on the life and achievements of Edmund Randolph Peaslee D' 36, who lived from 1814 to 1878 and who was a Dartmouth Medical School professor for 30 years of his highly honored career. The Discourse was handsomely bound and published by D. Appleton and Company of New York.

When Eliot Bishop M'04 acquired a copy of the published Memorial Discourse it may have been 25 years old then. However, when it was presented to the Medical School last month, it was evident that he must have treasured it, for it was almost in mint condition. The presentation was made by Dr. Bishop's daughter, Mrs. Mary Bishop Ross, associate editor of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, whose husband is Robert H. Ross II D'38 and whose son is Robert H. Ross Ill D'68.

Dr. Eliot Bishop, who graduated from Dartmouth College in '01, practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Brooklyn, N. Y., was president of the Obstetrical Society of New York, honorary member of the Royal Society of Great Britain, and founder of the Travelers Club, an organization that met regularly in the United States and England.

Dean Chapman, author of the forthcoming brief history of the Dartmouth Medical School and father of a historian, said he was extremely grateful for Mrs. Ross's donation. College Archivist Kenneth C. Cramer said the well-preserved volume would be most welcome at Baker Library.

We've heard indirectly from HarrySavage M'27 and are very happy to relay his intelligences:

Jack Smith M'27, was in Hanover for the Princeton game. He's a retired Navy Captain, is living in Annapolis, and is consultant to the Naval Hospital there.

Loring Wood M'45, has been in contact with Harry and let it be known that he has moved from Buffalo to New York where he can be reached at the telephone company's Medical Director's office.

Bill Yahr M'58, in Hanover for the Brown game, also spoke to Harry and revealed that his bustling practice as cardiac surgeon in Miami had him looking for another man to join him.

Harry's setting a fine example as a correspondent, what?