Our "Gifts to the World" are so abundant, I must continue the theme in this issue.
Dr. Norton Canfield: to Michigan for medical degree and post-doctoral training for specialty practice in otolaryngology, then to Yale Medical to teach for 17 years, with the exception of' 42-46 when he was in the army, rank of colonel. Three years in office of chief surgeon in the European Theater of Operations, won six military decorations, author of many books and papers. Practiced in New Haven for ten years prior to the war. Taught in the Virgin Islands. He and a co-author wrote a book on the treatment of migraine without drags, a great advance. It was a great success, widely heralded.
Andrew Foster: Did yeoman service in the Foreign Service for 22 years. Retired in 1957. Had posts in Montreal, Salonika, Athens, Cairo, Canberra, London. Between assignments he served in Washington as secretary of the U.S. section of the Permanent Joint Board of Defense, U.S.-Canada. Chief of the Division of Foreign Service Planning.
Schuyler Foster: Served in U.S. Department of State. Director Public Opinion Studies staff, political science teacher at Ohio State and Harvard. Served in Washington chapter of Public Opinion Research Association. Published articles on public opinion in foreign affairs, and in Department of State Bulletin. Wrote especially on evolution of U.S. foreign policy from isolationism to world leadership. At the end of his career, worked under John Dickey '29.
Robert Jay Misch: authority on wine in The New Yorker, Esquire, the New York Times. Chairman New York Food and Wine Society. Honored by French government in ceremony in New York.
Robert McKennon: anthropologist. In his studies of the American Indian, he visited the Walapai of northwestern Arizona, made archaeological reconnaissance along the Thelon River in the heart of Canada's Barren Grounds, and lived with the Indians of the Upper Tananna River in Alaska. He spent the summer of 193 3 with Chandalar Kutchin in the Brooks Range of Alaska, two years' service in the early days of the Siberian ferry route, and tested cold-weather equipment high on the slopes of Mt. McKinley. He was in the U.S. Army Air Force three and a half years in Alaska as a It. colonel.
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