Medical School

A feeling of reverence pervaded the Medical School early in May as the newly established William N. Chambers Visiting Professorship was initiated. Our first Chambers guest lecturer was Dr. Morton D. Bogdonoff, Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He spent three days in Hanover meeting with medical students and house staff members, holding seminars, and touring the whole Dartmouth-Hitch-cock Medical Center. In addition, he gave a formal public lecture on the subject of "The Art of Medicine as a Discipline." Though his visit was not the return of a native, it was somewhat close to that, for Dr. Bogdonoff had been here several times before and recalled that on one occasion he had traveled to Hanover to witness a baseball game as sports editor of Cornell's student newspaper.

As most of you will readily recall, the late Dr. Chambers was for almost 15 years a member of the Medical School's faculty and staff member of Mary Hitchcock, the Hitchcock Clinic and the Veterans Administration Hospital at White River. The Visiting Professorship was established through a popular memorial fund created through the efforts, among others, of Tom Almy and Louis Matthews in the Department of Medicine.

With the Alumni Magazine lauditory "A Wah Hoo Wah for—" changed to "Give a Rouse for—" it should be noted for the record that Dean Chapman was one of the last recipients of the old cheer. That was on the occasion of his being elected Chairman of the Council of Deans of the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC).

East Greenwich, R. I., has a newspaper appropriately named The Pendulum, and it published an article of exceptional interest just recently. Joseph H. Ladd M'00 was honored by the Town Council as the oldest person living in East Greenwich. There was a good reason to laud the 96-year-old physician in addition to his longevity. He is the founder of the Ladd School for Mentally Retarded Children. When he opened the school in 1907 the student body consisted of seven boys. When he retired almost half a century later nearly 1,000 children were attending the school. In the picture published with the article about him, the DMS alumnus appeared alert and vigorous.

Heartiest congratulations go to Frank P. Foster M'30, who at the Atlantic City meeting of the American Society of Internal Medicine was given its highest honor as "Internist of the Year." Frank, who retired from the Lahey Clinic in Boston two years ago and now lives in Hanover, is currently chairman of the American Medical Association's Council on Scientific Assembly and is medical consultant to the Surgical Services at the Veterans Hospital in White River Junction. He is past president of the Northeast Medical Association and the Massachusetts Society of Internal Medicine.

The Medical School was well represented at the past meeting of the American College of Physicians at Atlantic City. Tom Almy served as Regent of the College and Chairman of its Committee on International- Activities and also participated in a panel discussion. In addition, papers were presented by Assistant Professors of Medicine Richard K. Tompkins and Harold C. Sox. At a subsequent meeting of clinical academic societies, papers were presented by Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine L. Herbert Maurer and Fellow in Medicine Alan D. Kaplan. Noteworthy was the announcement by Ted Harris M'60 of his finding of a new cancer enzyme.