1915

Dale Barker reports that he received a nice letter from Gerry Shaw, stating that he was in pretty good health but that his wife was not in as good condition. We trust that they will be feeling enough better by next June that they will be attending our 65th reunion.

Fifteeners will be interested in the following paragraph from the 1979 Annual Review of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, which is made up of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, the Dartmouth Medical School, the Hitchcock Clinic, and the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction. "It is interesting to note that Dr. John P.Bowler founded the Hitchcock Clinic in 1927 employing the principles that would be the recommendations of the medical costs committee's final report five years later. Dr. Bowler, a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard Medical School, returned to Hanover in the mid-twenties after receiving additional training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Influenced by his experience in Rochester, Dr. Bowler presented a plan to the Mary Hitchcock Hospital board of trustees that he hoped would reverse the drain of physicians from the region and provide financial stability to the hospital. This plan, which established the Hitchcock Clinic, outlined a joint venture to provide a broad spectrum of services to the population served by the hospital. The clinic started with five physicians trained in medicine, surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology. Today, the Hitchcock Clinic is staffed by approximately 130 specialists who fulfill the clinic's commitments in education and research." We are proud that a '15er made such an outstanding contribution to the progress of medicine in northern New England.

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