Third Century Professor

President Kemeny announced during the Commencement weekend that Dr. Thomas P. Almy, chairman of the Department of Medicine and currently the Nathan Smith Professor of Medicine, was confirmed by the Trustees as the first incumbent of a newly established Third Century Professorship in the Medical School.

The professorship, created with funds raised during Dartmouth's Third 'Century Fund campaign, is designed to encourage innovation in medical education and carries with it special funds for that purpose.

Dr. Almy, an authority on digestive diseases with more than 30 years' experience in gastroenterology, has been a member of the Dartmouth Medical School faculty since 1968 and is chairman of the Clinical Department of Medicine at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. In 1969 he was named the first incumbent of the Nathan Smith Professorship.

Dr. Almy, who received his A.B. degree from Cornell in 1935, was graduated first in his class from the Cornell Medical College in 1939, and taught there for 28 years before coming to Dartmouth. He also was associated with the New York Hospital, becoming in 1945 chief of the gastroenterology division in the department of medicine and later the director of the Second (Cornell) Medical Division of Bellevue Hospital in New York City.

In 1967, Dr. Almy, a former president of the American Gastroenterological Association, organized and chaired a national Conference on Digestive Disease as a national problem which produced a major study of the social and economic impact of digestive disease in the country. He is a leading advocate of the establishment of a separate National Institute of Health for gastroenterology.