1940

This year the Dartmouth Medical School is celebrating two centuries of medicine at Dartmouth. In 1797 there were three medical schools— University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, and Harvard—all located in busding urban centers. Nathan Smith chose Hanover. Getting there from Boston required a week's tough travel over a wretched, bumpy track. But students came and the North Country grew, as did the Dartmouth Medical School.

Match Day—the day when all the nation's graduating medical students find out where they'll be doing their residency training—for DMS '97 was spectacular. This is only one of the areas of comparison of medical schools. Of those participating, 54 percent matched with their first choice of program, 22 percent with their second choice, and 6 percent with their third choice—for a total of 82 percent getting one of their top three choices.

DMS has been important to the class of 1940. Of the 31 M.D.s in the class, IS were DMS graduates. They were StuartAnderson*, Hiram Belding*, EdwinBovill*, Lewis Chipman, EverettCzerny*, James Darnley, ArthurFrench, Alfred Humphries*, FremontKoch*, Percy Mclntire*, CharlesPinderhughes, John Schleicher*,William Sinclair, Gordon Stokes*,Robert Storrs* (*—deceased).

Even back in 1914, when DMS was forced to drop its four-year M.D. program and become a two-year institution, its academic standing was never called into question. Lew Chipman wrote, "As was the case for many classes before us, we would prove that those who had finished their first two years of medical education at Dartmouth not only were readily able to transfer to almost any other school that they desired to attend, but they also were able to leave a record from their third and fourth years that was a credit to their professors back at Dartmouth." Lew also recalls afternoon teas hosted by Professor Syvertsen's secretary Janet, whom he later married.

Jean and Jack Little have moved to 88 Hunting St., Southampton, NY 11968; (516) 283-1049. This past summer Jack was knocked down by a rottweiler and broke his hip on the same side as his knee replacement. In September, Joyce andBrownie Browne flew to London and then to Scotland. From there they toured the Lake District, Wales, Stratford-On- Avon, Bath, and back to London. Then the train and tunnel to Paris for a trip to Le Mont-St. Michel. East meets West in Harbor Springs, Mich., when Ann andBob Berger entertained Sally and BobBreech. Both couples have summer homes in Harbor Springs.

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