Medical School

There has been a surge in Medical School mail in recent weeks and it has been interesting indeed. Class Secretaries with mailing addresses as diverse as Paris, Palo Alto, Winnipeg, Concord, (Mass.) and South Bend have been corresponding, and those who haven't already heard from me in return certainly will. A variety of problems have been making it difficult to get the "DMS Alumni Newsletter" started, but it is not something that as been forgotten or whose planning is being neglected. College Designer Scottie Scotford. a classmate of mine, is working on a suitable format for the publication and we will be delighted to be able to get it into your hands. Our plan is to base its text on information you send to your Class secretaries. Also, we will update you on developments here - which are many. We would alos like to include any specific suggestions we receive from you. We have to guess about what you would like to see in the Newsletter. But you know.

or the time and energy it takes to be a Class We would by printing in full a letter we received from him since the February Alumni Magazine was distributed. (He also sent some other material we will discuss later.)

"Your letter of February 8 to all class secretaries was received and I would like to take the time to report on the Class of 1934. I have written them faithfully every December for the last five years or so and the reply has been rather disappointing, though gradually a little better, and this year I received six replies (and nice long letters), which is the most yet and represents one fourth of the class. So I suppose that isn't really too bad. I will enclose the letter of two to three months ago just for your information to see what has been done.

"We have had one more death in the Class in the last year and his son was kind enough to write me a note about his father's life and career, etc. This was Charles G. Neumann Jr. who died October 19, 1972 of pulmonary embolism. His wife was a doctor also, being an anesthetist at a New York hospital and dying in 1945. There was the one progeny only. Charley was a plastic surgeon in New York and in Westchester County. When one looks at the length of time that we have been graduated only two deaths out of 24 is quite good. So far as I know, there are no health problems of note amongst the others, although I am sure I don't know the whole situation.

"As for items for class news that you might be interested in, the main one from what the fellows have done medically is probably Ken Jacques of Los Angeles with men coming from all over the country to observe and train under him. He has done quite a pioneering job in establishing this operation, which began in England, in this country. I will also enclose an item of a few years ago about Paul Zamechik of our class and from the scientific aspect he has been the outstanding man in the class, but this is old news which you probably already have in your records.

"Our 40th college class reunion is this June and I hope to attend and no doubt will be around the Medical School a little bit and perhaps we will have an opportunity to meet you at that time."

The January issue of "Pulse," published by New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston, printed some information that interested us very much. It reported that Thomas J. Anglem M'28 published an article, "The Dubious Case for Conservative Operation in Operable Cancer of the Breast," in the November 1972 issue of "Annals of Surgery" and early this year he and two other specialists taped a panel discussion on the "Not For Women Only" show of Barbara Walters. The taped discussion will be broadcast this spring.