'olume 8 ::., ,:,",::.< :" " ' :-., ,:,, " ,,' :<"-,:-'O.F •• •• ·M •• • ••• Eitl· •• i.I.·.· ..••. ·�· .. I··.··· •.•• I\I.·ieo F CHfCA'oOAUTUMN 1951 Number 1PAST PRESIDENTS' RECEPTIONDR. CARLSON, CHANCELLOR KIMPTON, and DEAN COGGESHALL'n the evening of November I threeu dred students and members of the;; ilty of the Medical School attended� . ception given by the Medical Alumnin ionor of the Chancellor and Mrs.C ipton. This was the first student bodya entertain the Kimptons since the::: ncellor's inauguration.ean Coggeshall's introduction of the::: ncellor was so warm that we all feltl-l we were welcoming him as a workingm iber of the School of Medicine. The�: ncellor's reply was received with adIII tion and enthusiastic appreciation.; efreshments were served from attraci- y decorated tables placed against thenr lis on the east and west walls of�: ngs Cafeteria. Tables were pushedIE , and the room was transformed by.1. :lecoration and the company into a handsome setting for the occasion.The past presidents and the officers ofthe Association were the hosts-John VanProhaska in charge of arrangements andHilger Perry Jenkins presiding. The partywas so successful that there is talk ofmaking it an annual affair.Chancellor's Speech toStudentsSince I am nothing but a dean of students at heart, I am glad to be here withyou tonight. Most of my academic careerhas required that I deal with students,and, unless you like students, believe inthem, and are concerned with how theyturn out, you don't stay in that part ofacademic work in which I mostly have been involved. I have been chancellorlong enough to enjoy this kind of diversion; tonight, at least, I do not have toask for money. But I warn you that, ifyou and I la-st long enough, I'll be seeingyou for that purpose after you arelaunched on your careers.Another reason why I am pleased to behere is that the Medical School is one ofthe ornaments and prides of the University of Chicago. It is one of the youngestmedical schools of the country and certainly one of the greatest. It will not reachits twenty-fifth anniversary until nextyear, yet its reputation is world wide. Itdid not gain this reputation by accidentor solely because it was part of the University of Chicago, though the kind ofmedical school we have could be createdonly at this kind of university.2 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINSince you either were not born or weretoo young to be interested when theMedical School first took shape, youprobably are unaware of the uproar itsfounding caused. The idea of a medicalschool with a staff devoting full time toresearch and teaching was a shock to theprofession. It feared that the MedicalSchool and its facilities, the UniversityClinics, were unfair competition to theprivate practitioner. There was talk ofa "corporation practicing medicine." Butthe profession comforted itself with theattitude that the scheme just wouldn'twork anyway; men good enough to staffthe Medical School would not be satisfied to work on a salary, without the income they could get from their ownpatients.Happily for the University and thecause of medical education and research,it was a minority who took this sordidview of the character and aspirations ofthose who take the Hippocratic oath.The original faculty assembled for theMedical School by Dr. Franklin C. MeLean assured the success of this revolutionary experiment. We are fortunate tohave many of them active in the Schoolstill, and their names are an indication toyou how the School, in a manner reminiscent of the beginning of the University itself, was great from the start.When I say that such men as EmmetBay, Lester Dragstedt, John Lindsay,Phillip Miller, Walter Palmer, and DallasPhemister were willing almost twentyfive years ago to forego the unquestionably larger incomes they could make inprivate practice for the less tangible attractions the Medical School could offerthem you can understand why the Schoolhas had such an impact. Ever since, theUniversity has been able to bring outstanding men here to work in the causeof medical science.Another advantage which this MedicalSchool has always had is in the strengthof the University's departments of basicscience. Whether this is your first orfourth year in the School, you mustalready know that medical research andteaching cannot flourish in isolation.These efforts demand the resources ofthe fundamental sciences. The view youhave every day of the medical investigations being conducted here are sufficient to demonstrate this interdependence and the necessity for co-operationamong the specialists in the clinical andthe fundamental sciences. Thus Dr.Hodges inspired a member of the Institute for Nuclear Science to go to workon a new type of fluoroscopic screen. Wehave a cardiologist working with a chemist to extend the benefits of drugs; wehave a pharmacologist operating a specialkind of botany hothouse so that theaction of drugs may be better known.On a broader scale of co-operation, the study of cancer extends into many ofthe buildings not directly a part of theClinics. .In bringing these unique aspects of theMedical School to your attention, I amneither engaging in reminiscence nor inthat particular vocational characteristicof presidents and chancellors-beatingthe drum about the excellence of hisinstitution. I emphasize them becauseyou may not be aware that they areunique. You may take this strength andthese opportunities for granted, as something that you could find in any Class Amedical school. Because your associationis limited to this school, you cannot havethe advantage of perspective and comparison, though I assume you did comehere because of the reputation of theSchool and not because of the lottery ofmedical admissions.Here in this School you see your teachers engaged in clinical treatment of thehighest level; certainly a patient in theClinics is assured the most advanced andskilful treatment he can get anywhere.But you also see these teachers thinkingpast the immediate case and the immediate personal recovery, though these areclose to them as they must be to anytrue doctor. But their eyes are on thehorizon-how the therapy may be improved and how the cause itself may beeliminated. In the wards and in the laboratories you see the clinical staff in theprocess, both imaginative and laborious,of extending medical knowledge. In thecourse of your four years you will seemany significant advances made.This doesn't happen everywhere. ThisMedical School was the first to breakaway from the didactic method; it wasthe first to give medical scientists the time and the facilities to put all theabilities and energies into teaching arresearch. In most medical schools, todadespite the undoubted influence of tlUniversity of Chicago School of Medcine, the didactic method is the majrone. The teachers generally have no tinbecause of the demands of their instrution and their practice to pursue the iJvestigations which many of them woulike to make.You are a very select group of Stldents, a small number-because of Hlimitations imposed by the special t)IIof instruction you are offered=-chosefrom thousands. You are getting an ed.cation that is costing society heavily iterms of the money it has made avaiable to the University. You have tlprivilege of an intimate association witeminent men, of working directly wilthem on problems in the wards and,you choose, in the laboratories. You aJexposed to a spirit of investigation anindependent thinking and the existentof a creative discontent.The special nature of this School, Itunquestioned advantages and opportunties which you have, will, I hope, lea.their mark on you. If they don't, a serous mistake was made in admitting y01It is the hope of the School that a gooprpportion of its graduates will folio·the example of their teachers and be Itones who will carry on the unselfish acvancement of medical science. At thleast, the School expects you to brininto your active professional career aopen and inquiring mind. The examplwhich is set before you in the dedicatioto humankind by those who are YOl:teachers requires no less a spirit of ded:cation by you.CHANCELLOR KIMPTON and STUDENTSMEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 3LeROYEW APPOINTMENTSDr. Evelyn Adams, '49, has been apnted director of the Employees Health"Vice. She interned at The Clinics andt year held a surgical residency at theiversity of Iowa. The new quarters ofEmployees Health Service are in partthe space that used to be occupied byCafeteria in the basement, directlyow Student Health.)r. Henrietta Herbolsheimer, '38, onitember 15 became assistant professorpreventive medicine and will workh Dr. Clayton G. Loosli in public.lth teaching. Dr. Herbolsheimer hasdegree of M.P.H. from Johns Hops and for eight years was associatedh the Illinois Department of Publicalth, as chief of the Division of Maial and Child Health and as chief ofspital Construction and Services. Iniation with the Illinois Office of Civil'ense, Dr. Herbolsheimer was the aur of Annex V, the Health Servicestion of the Illinois Civil Defense Plan.)r. George V. LeRoy, '34, has beenie Associate Dean of the Division oflogical Sciences to replace Dr. A. C.hmeyer, who retired from that officeOctober I. Dr. LeRoy spent the warrs in the South Pacific in the medicalrice. In September, 1945, he was sentlapan to study atomic-bomb casual, and in 1947 he organized a radioiso� unit which was ready to serve theoital in September, 1948. Last yearirepared and supervised a biomedical�ram as a part of the tests of atomicpons which were conducted in Eniok early this year. His main interestI hematology, and he has done worknalaria and respiratory physiology.most recent appointment before acing his present position was contnt to Los Alamos Scientific Labora, at the University of California. Class Representatives1931 Vernon DeYoung-I 1423Longwood Drive, Chicago 431932 Joel F. Sammet-S32S HydePark Blvd., Chicago IS1933 John H. Glynn-76S2 Euclid Avenue, Chicago 491934 Andrew Brrslen-e-c r t g WestI ozth Place, Chicago 431935 Vida Wentz-qI8 East56th Street, Chicago 371936 John Post-I 22 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago 31937 Carl Pfeifler-I853 WestPolk Street, Chicago 121938 Arthur Klotz-Departmentof Medicine, AMBH1939 Leon o. Jacobson-Department of Medicine, AMBH1940 Walter Hawk-Departmentof Medicine, AMBHRoger Morris-Departmentof Medicine, AMBH1941 William Lester, Jr.-Department of Medicine, AMBH1942 Robert Ebert-Departmentof Medicine, AMBHJames Fritz-Departmentof Surgery, AMBH1943 Mar. Matthew Block - Department of Medicine, AMBH1943 Dec. William H. T. MurrayDivision of Psychiatry, AMBH1944 Melvin Newman-Department of Surgery, AMBH1945 James Crosbie - Department of Medicine, AMBH1946 John Edgcomb - Department of Medicine, AMBH1947 Delbert Bergenstal-Department of Medicine, AMBH1948 Asher Finkel-Departmentof Medicine, AMBH1949 Nancy Warner - Department of Pathology, AMBH1950 John Benjamin Cleveland-9842 Calhoun Avenue,Chicago 171951 Robert Raiman-Department of Surgery, AMBHHERBOLSHEIMER PROMOTIONSTo Professor:J. Garrott Allen in SurgeryDwight E. Clark in SurgeryLeon o. Jacobson in MedicineJoseph Kirsner in MedicineFrancis Howell Wright in PediatricsTo Associate Professor:Joseph J. Ceithaml in Biochemistry(Dean of Medical Students)Russell L. Nichols in RadiologyMila Pierce in PediatricsTo Assistant Professor:Roger C. Baker, Jr., in SurgeryDelbert Bergenstal in MedicineIden N. Hill in ZollerTheodore Pullman in MedicineHarold C. Wagner in MedicineTo Instructor:Thomas W. Anderson in OphthalmologyHerman L. Bewersdorf in AnesthesiologyHarmia Charbon in Anesthesiology(LOA)James S. Clark in SurgeryJames Crosbie in MedicineJames M. Fritz in SurgeryPaul V. Harper in SurgeryBurton L. Hoffman in NeurosurgeryEdward N. Horner in Obstetrics &GynecologyNorman P. Johnson in Anesthesi-ologyRichard K. Jones in MedicineMorris A. Lipton in PsychiatryAllen L. Lorincz in DermatologyWilliam McClure in MedicineJames S. Miles in OrthopedicsEugene R. Mindell in OrthopedicsPeter V. Moulder in SurgeryWilliam H. T. Murray in PsychiatryWilliam B. Neal, Jr., in SurgeryMelvin M. Newman in SurgeryDunlap W. Oleson in PediatricsRobert R. Redfield in MedicineJ. Alfred Rider in MedicineSidney Schulman in NeurologyEdward H. Scnz in PediatricsPeter J. Talso in MedicineRoy Whitman in PsychiatryEdward R. Woodward in Surgery4 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINALUMNI NEWS'30. Isee 1. Connell has recovered fromhis illness of a year ago and was able toattend the A.M.A. meetings in Atlantic Cityin June. From there he and Mrs. Connellplanned to go to Cape Cod for the summer.'32. Alven M. Weil is president of theAkron Obstetrics and Gynecology Societyfor 1951-52 and chairman of the Educational Committee in the Department oiObstetrics and Gynecology of City Hospitalof Akron. He is on the senior staff in obstetrics and gynecology of City Hospitaland Peoples Hospital of Akron.'33. Alfred J. Benesh is chief of radiology in the new Veterans Hospital inSeattle.Wendell M. Willett is an associate indermatology at The George WashingtonUniversity and in private practice in Washington, D.C. He sends word of Lucia andChuck Dunham, '34, and of M. E. Obermayer, who stopped in Washington on hisway to an American Dermatologists' meeting in Hot Springs.'35. Sam W. Banks is president-elect ofthe Chicago Orthopedic Society for 1951-52and Mary Sherman, '41, is assistant secretarv.Dell Henry is second vice-president ofthe American College of Allergists this year.She is kept busy teaching at the University of Michigan Speech Clinic, running herfarm, and keeping her garden.'37. Leo Rangell addressed the TexasHeart Association and the American Psychiatric Association meeting in Cincinnation the psychiatric aspects of pain.The University of Chicago is well represented among the officers recently electedin the American Society for Pharmacologyand Experimental Therapeutics. K. K. Chenis president-elect, Carl e. Pfeiffer, '37, secretary, and Robert P. Walton, '41, treasurer.'38. James Whitten berger has recentlybeen made professor of physiology at Harvard.'.w. E. W. Haertig is in private practice-psychiatry for adults and childrenin Seattle.William Scott of Johns Hopkins MedicalSchool addressed the Jackson Park Branchof the Chicago Medical Society on October 18. His subject was "The Diagnosisand Treatment of Operable and InoperableCancer of the Prostate."'';0. Edward J. Whiteley was recentlycertiti.ed bv the American Board of Otolaryngology. He is still at Madigan ArmyHospital, Fort Lewis, Washington. He reports having visited with Clarence Hodges,'';1, and Henry Harkins of the Universityof Washington.'';2. Theron Hopple of Toledo, Ohio,visited The Clinics in May. The Hopplesha vc iour children-three daughters and ason.1. Rossman was recently appointed physician to the Farnilv Health MaintenanceDemonstration sponsored by Monteti.oreHospital and the Community Service Societ v. In this project the approach to thef a rnilv which is conceived of as the unitof health is in terms of modern conceptsof psychosomatic medicine. The physicianworks in co-operation with a psychiatricsocial worker and a specially trained nurse. '43. Joseph 1. Fleming has finished ayear as chief resident at Brooklyn VeteransAdministration Hospital and will take afifth-year residency with Dr. Green atBoston Childrens' Hospital.Shirley A. Mayer (Mrs. W. A. Barnes),with an eight-month-old son, is not practicing currently but manages to aid atthe Well-Baby Clinic in Ridgewood, NewJersey.'';4. Vernon K. S. Jim and his familyare back in -Chicago, where Dr. Jim is resident in ophthalmology. Mrs. Jim is theformer Yun Soong Choch, B.S., '42, andM.S., '43, from the University of Chicago.'';5. Harry W. Fischer began work insurgery at Childrens Memorial Hospital,Chicago, under Dr. Willis Potts on July 1.The Fischers now have three children.George Krakowka will join a clinicgroup in Wenatchee, Washington, as aninternist after finishing his fellowship atMayo's.John Russell is instructor in neurosurgery at the University of Indiana at Indianapolis.Mary and Jerry Sryrt write: "Sorry wewon't be able to attend the Medical Alumnimeeting, but on that day I shall be recovering from taking the American Board Examinations in psychiatry in Philadelphiaand thinking over whether or not I'll berepeating them soon. After that we'll startback on our trip to Fort Worth where I amstationed at the U.S. Public Health ServiceHospital as chief of the shock service andresponsible head of the training of residentstaff. Texas is not an easy place to learn tolike, and we're far from it as yet, but wefind it better than some places we've been.John Kozy, '.;6, is chief of medicine here.We find that we still like the University ofChicago medical school better than anyothers we've ever seen, and by now we'veseen a few."Louis B. Thomas has been assigned toneuropathology at Mayo Clinic for a yearunder the U.S. Public Health Service.Elwood E. Yaw says he is enjoying general practice in Imperial, Nebraska. He hastwo children-a boy two years old and agirl four months.'46. Capt. Nels Magne Strandjord was avisitor to The Clinics in July on his wayto an assignment at Fort Sam Houston,Texas.John W. Cashman sends news of JohnHogness, '46, chief resident in medicine atKing County Hospital in Seattle. He spokeon some of the clinical aspects of radiologicwarfare at the annual meeting of the PublicHealth Service Clinical Society.'47. Hillier 1. Baker, Jr., is in his secondyear of a radiology fellowship at MayoClinic. For the past few months he has beenassigned to the therapeutic radiology sectionand finds it very enjoyable and profitable.He says he would certainly like to hearfrom anv of his classmates and friends whomight write to him.e. Herbert Fredell has finished threeyears of residency training in general surgery, this past one at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, New York,which is a small edition of the Universityof Chicago Clinics and Billings Hospital in theory and practice, he says. He is waitingorders from the Air Force for active duty.Joan Longini has entered private practice in psychiatry in Chicago.Robert H. Shuler was a visitor to TheClinics in June. He is the medical officerin charge of the 38S-bed hospital at MountEdgecombe Medical Center, Mount Edgecombe, Alaska.'48. Leonard R. Lee is practicing in agroup in Bethany, Maryland, doing mostlyinternal medicine and enjoying it immensely. The Army hovers, he says, as a darkcloud on the horizon, as with most others.'49. Clara K. Lowell and her husband,Dr. Julius Levine, are practicing anesthesiology and otolaryngology, respectively, inHayward, California.Eugene G. Miller has been transferredfrom the 7th Cavalry Regiment in Koreato a very pleasant job in Japan. It consistsof being medical adviser to the JapanesePolice Reserve, which is Japan's future protective body against internal and externaldanger. The Reserve is based on Americanstandards, and Dr. Miller will be helpingthem with sanitation problems and bringing their medical men up to date on advances made during the war. He will travelextensively in Japan and hopes to learna great deal about the country and thepeople.'50. Harry G. Kroll has a fellowship inorthopedic surgery at the Mayo Foundationin Rochester, Minnesota. His wife, the former Jane Cornwell, was a nurse at St.Luke's in Chicago.The Martin Kohns (Jean Gatewood)have joined the growing alumni in theNorthwest. Jean is pediatrics resident atDoernbecher Memorial Hospital for Chilodren, and Ma rtin is medical resident at thePortland Veterans Administration.Eji Suyama writes enthusiastically of thetraining at Massachusetts General Hospitalin Boston, where he has just completed hisinternship. He began his residency there inJuly.Leaving University ClinicsDr. Richard Abrams of the Institute ofRadiobiology and Biophysics left the Uni·versity to become assistant director of theInstitute of Research, Montefiore Hospitalin Pittsburgh, on Septemher 1.Dr. Simon Black of Medicine has leftThe Clinics to work at MassachusettsGeneral Hospital in Boston.Dr. J. Harlan Carey, Jr., from Neurology, has accepted an appointment as instructor at the University of Michigan in AnnArbor.Dr. Mary Lou Eilert has gone into private practice in Walnut Creek, California.Dr. F. E. Kelsey, from Pharmacology,has left to direct the chemical departmentof the Nuclear Instrument and ChemicalCorporation in Chicago.Dr. Erwin Levin has left the Department of Medicine here to be head of gastroenterology at Mount Sinai Hospital and amember of the staff of Western Reservein Cleveland.[C ontinued on page II)MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 5INAUGURATION OF NEW CHANCELLORAmid medieval academic splendorcholars from all over the world paricipated in the inauguration of the Uni-ersity of Chicago's sixth administrator,.bancellor Lawrence A. Kimpton, onJctober 18, 195 I,The colorful procession of over sevenundred scholars marched from Ida�oyes Hall west down Fifty-ninth Streeto Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Firstarne the flagbearers with the flags ofhe United States and the Universityf Chicago and then, in order, the marhal of the University and student aides;ae faculties of the University of Chi-190; the delegates from three hundred'nited States universities, twenty-fiveireign universities, and seventy-onei .arned societies and foundations; andie Chancellor's party. Delegates withieir multicolored hoods-the scarlet and-rnine of Oxford, the blue of Yale, therld of California, and the cardinal oftanford-included eighty college presients,Laird Bell, chairman of the Board ofrustees, presided at the induction cereony. J. E. Wallace Sterling, president- Stanford University, spoke on "Theisciplines of Freedom," and Jamesryant Conant of Harvard Universityive the second address on "The Indemdence of Our Universities."Seven' renowned scholars were givenmorary degrees at the inauguration.remony. Robert M. Hutchins, associ. e director of the Ford Foundation and,rmer Chancellor of the University ofhicago, received a Doctor of Laws;etlev W. Bronk, president of Johnsopkins University, a Doctor of Science;rd the degree of Doctor of Humane-tters was presented to Edwin Arthur.irtt, former University of Chicago prossor of philosophy and now at Cornellriversity: Harold F. Cherniss, profes-The academic procession The Chancellor's party ready to leave Ida Noyes Hallsor of Greek at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; William AlbertNitze, University of Chicago AndrewMacLeish Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages andLiterature; Arthur Meier Schlesinger,Harvard University Frances Lee Higginson Professor of History; and GeorgeWiley Sherburn, Harvard Universitychairman of the Division of ModernLanguages, literary historian, and formerly of the University of Chicago.Before his election to the chancellorship, Kimpton served the University aschief administrative officer of the atomicbomb project, the Metallurgical Laboratory, dean of students, vice-president anddean of faculties, and finally vice-president in charge of development. Early in his inaugural address Chancellor Kimpton paid tribute to the Medical School as a unique conception inAmerican education. In closing, he spokeof the immense power of science in thepresent world. More than at any time inhistory, free education realizes that itsexistence and the existence of its countryare inseparable; yet free education is ableto do more to maintain a free nationthan ever before. "The world would beat war were it not for the fear abroad ofwhat free and great universities and university-trained men have devised andcould further conceive." Universitieshave also the obligation "to see that wedo not become what we seek to destroy,that we never yield the rights of manto the force of men."THE CHANCELLOR and LORD HALIFAX6 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINDEAN BACHMEYER RETIRES TO OHIO FARMOn September 25 a farewell dinner wasgiven at the Shoreland Hotel in honor ofDr. Arthur C. Bachmeyer, who retiredon October I, 1951, as Associate Dean ofthe Division of Biological Sciences andDirector of the Clinics. The dinner wasattended by approximately two hundredpersons: members of the Medical Schoolfaculty, their wives, hospital employees,and other University faculty members.The master of ceremonies was Dr. LowellT. Coggeshall, Dean of the Division ofBiological Sciences. Among those payingtribute to the untiring efforts of Dr.Bachmeyer was Vice-President R. Wendell Harrison, former dean of the division, and Dr. Lester Dragstedt, chairmanof the Department of Surgery. At thedinner Dr. and Mrs. Bachmeyer werepresented with a beautiful antique silverSheffield food warmer, vegetable dish,and a sterling-silver serving spoon.Dr. Bachmeyer received his medicaltraining at the University of Cincinnati,where he was granted an M.D. degree in1911. He interned in Cincinnati GeneralHospital and then became resident surgeon there until 1913. In 1913 he took astep which led him to become an outstanding authority in the field of hospitaladministration. In the latter part of thatyear he was asked to become actingsuperintendent of Cincinnati GeneralHospital. In H)14 he was named superintendent and medical director. This position included similar duties for the Cincinnati Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Duringthis period from 1914 to 1935 he was anactive member of the Ohio Hospital Association. In 1920 he became dean of themedical college of the University of Cincinnati while continuing to carry his administrative responsibilities in the hospitals.In 1935 Dr. Bachmeyer joined thefaculty of the University of Chicago asassociate dean and director of the Clinics.When Mr. John Dinsmore. then superintendent of the Clinics, left the University, Dr. Bachmeyer took over these administrative duties in addition to his own.Upon joining the faculty, he also became director of the graduate programin hospital administration. This programwas established a year previously byMichael Davis through a grant fromthe Julius Rosenwald Foundation. UnderDr. Bachrneyers very able direction thecourse left the experimental stage andbecame widely recognized in the hospitalfield as one of the best methods of training hospital administrators. The HospitalAdministration Program remained theonly one in the country until 1943. whenother universities began undertaking thistype of training. In the sixteen years theprogram was under his direction therewere graduated approximately one hundred and fifty students. many of whomare associated with leading hospitals of BACHMEYERthe country. In recognition of his deepinterest in hospital administration, thealumni of the University of Chicago Hospital Administration Program establishedthe Arthur C. Bachmeyer Address Fundin 1948. This fund is used to secure anoutstanding national person to address asession of the American College of Hospital Administrators at their annual convention.In 1916 Dr. Bachmeyer joined theOhio National Guard as a captain andremained in that reserve component untilthe unit was called to duty in 1917. Hethen became a major in the Medical Reserve Corps. United States Army. In 1919he was promoted to lieutenant colonelin the medical branch of the organizedReserve Corps.During his tenure at Cincinnati General Hospital he had developed a keeninterest in the work of the AmericanHospital Association. His ability wasquickly recognized, and he served onmany councils of the association. In 1925he was elected to the presidency of thatorganization. Through the years this interest has remained, and since 1946 hehas been continuously re-elected treasurer. In 1943 he was the recipient of theAmerican Hospital Association award ofmerit, which is annually given to a personwho, in the judgment of the nominatingcommittee. has made an outstanding contribution to the hospital field.From 1944 to 1946 Dr. Bachmeyerwas director of study of the Commissionon Hospital Care. This commission, sponsored by the American Hospital Association. investigated the hospital needs ofthe United States, out of which grew theHill- Burton Act.In 1940 the American College of Hospital Administrators elected Dr. Bachmeyer to the presidency. He had been oneof the charter fellows when it was organized in 1934· Though Dr. Bachmeyer was intenselinterested in the national hospital que,tion, he also found time to deal witlocal hospital problems. He is a paspresident of the Chicago Hospital Council and served as a member of the boarof trustees of that group for a numbeof years. He has also been a member 0the board of trustees of the HospitaService Corporation. of Chicago. At thnational level he has served as a membeof the board of directors of the AmericaiMedical Association and the America:Public Health Association.In 1935 the University of Cincinnatawarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree. His career was climaxed iJ1950. when he was elected president 0the Association of American Medical Colleges. Dr. Bachmeyer is also a membeof the Ohio Medical Association, theIllinois Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the Instituteof Medicine, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Hebelongs to Alpha Omega Alpha, honoraryscholastic medical fraternity. Dr. Bachmeyer is the only person to have heldthe presidency of the American Association of Medical Colleges, the AmericanCollege of Hospital Administrators, andthe American Hospital Association.One of Dr. Bachmeyer's special interests and activities that has been relativelylittle known and recognized has beenconcerned with the welfare of our medical students. This has included tirelesshours of study and effort as chairman ofthe Committee on Admissions, where important decisions regarding the enrolment of our students must be made,These activities have also included workon the Committee on Promotions and onthe Committee for Internships. In thelatter he has been especially helpful inthat his knowledge of hospital standardsand internships has made it possible toobtain desirable locations for our graduating medical students. Dr. Bachmeyerhas always encouraged our students toseek counsel and advice in this regardand has never been too busy to discussthese problems with them and devotetime to their welfare.When Dr. Bachmeyer left the campuson the first of October, it was not farewell. During the last two years he hasbeen consultant to the University's tenmillion-dollar medical center buildingprogram. He will continue in this capacity on the construction of the $4.400,000Gilman Smith and west-wing hospitalsand the $2,578,650 Argonne Cancer Research Hospital, now nearing completionon the east side of the Medical Schoolbuilding. These projects will require himto return at least one week every month.The rest of his time he hopes to devoteto his farm in Loveland, Ohio, Box 180,on Rural Route 2.MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 7HEAD OF CHEST CLINIC CALLED TO MONTEFIOREBy WILLIAM B. TUCKER, M.D.Chief, Tuberculosis ServiceVeterans Administration HospitalMinneapolisOn July 31, 1951, Dr. Robert Bloch,rofessor of medicine, and chief of theiivisicn of Pulmonary Diseases of theJepartment of Medicine of the Univerty of Chicago, ended a twenty-fourear association with Billings Hospitalnd the University of Chicago School ofIedicine. On August I, 1951, he comienced his new duties as chief of the-ivision of Pulmonary Diseases of Monfiore Hospital, New York City. Thusiother of the founding fathers of theruth Side Medical School of the Uni-rsity, known to thousands of youngiysicians in whose training he has par':ipated, has moved on to another postresponsibility and opportunity, and, e University of Chicago Clinics will noton forget his work and his contribulOS or his personality.Robert Gustav Bloch was born inuremberg, Germany, on March 3,1894.: � attended the usual German schools,� tong others those at Erlangen and: ille. When World War I broke out, he"IS twenty years old and soon was an enlted soldier in the infantry. His cornpe'lce demonstrated in the field soonJ Iced him in the officers' ranks-he was� aptain at the time he was taken prison« by the British. The remainder of the, r he spent in various British POWs nps. There he found or made opport iity to read. When too close associat n with hundreds of other prisonersJ' .de difficulties, he found solitary conf ement easy to achieve by the simplee iedient of attempting escape. On one5 ious attempt he reached sight of theI tch coast before being apprehendeda � of the very few British prisonerse ,r to come so close to success, for nonei: 'eported actually to have escaped.)ostwar Germany was chaotic; nevert: less, in the three years after his ret t n Robert Bloch completed the medicalc, rse at the University of Munich inr 2. The following year he was assistantJli' 'sician in the University Clinics of&. nich and worked for a time as well'rV 1 Sauerbruch, the famous GermanS1I reon who was blazing a trail withtl: racoplastics. But by 1923 Dr. Blochbs ame convinced that his future lay01 side his unsettled homeland, and heeJ grated to the United States.le came to New York-not as a physici expecting to practice but rather asa elf-confident young man certain ofol:Jrtunity to fulfil himself. At first heli�:l with relatives but shortly struck01. on his own. Even in the mid-twentiesjOi were not easy to find for the averageia: ugrant ; however, Robert Bloch wasnC .irdinary immigrant. Wearing armyof er's boots as an indication of subst. ce and of willingness to work, he BLOCHwent to a farmer's market early onemorning and immediately obtained employment with a farmer north of NewYork City. The farm was in BedfordHills, next door to a country home forconvalescent patients, and Dr. Blochsoon learned that there was an openingfor a physician on the staff. Changing tosuitable clothes, he applied for the position and was accepted. Thus he beganhis work in the field of tuberculosis inthis country: he was resident physicianto the Country Home of Montefiore Hospital, where most of the tuberculosis patients of that institution were being caredfor. For over a year, in 1924 and 1925, heworked with and under the great Dr.Fishberg, whose work on pulmonarytuberculosis was a classic for so manyyears, and which Robert Bloch himselfhas highly recommended.In 1925 Dr. Bloch married CharlotteDonnerstag, whom he had known inGermany. Their first home was in NewYork, but they left shortly to come toChicago, where Dr. Bloch became amember of the staff of the new MunicipalTuberculosis Sanitarium. In 1926-27 hewas instructor of medicine at the University of Illinois.In 1926 the University of Chicago haddecided to inaugurate a new medical program in keeping with its tradition of educational innovation. Even though affiliated with Rush Medical College, it haddecided to have its own medical schoolon the South Side, staffed by full-timephysicians dedicated to the triad of research, teaching, and clinical medicine,as an integral part of the graduate program in biological sciences. The creationof the Division of Biological Scienceswas to follow a few years later, but already the staff of the new medical schoolwas beginning to form.Dr. Franklin C. McLean, now professor of pathological physiology, was the first chairman of the Department ofMedicine at the University of Chicagoand was primarily responsible for bringing together the first staff of that department. By 192i, when the first patient wasadmitted to Billings, the staff of theClinics included: Drs. Dallas B. Phernister (from Rush), Edmund Andrews,George M. Curtis (from PresbyterianHospital, Chicago), and E. V. L. Brown(from Illinois) in Surgery; and, in Medicine, Drs. O. H. Robertson and Paul C.Hodges (both from the Rockefellerfinanced Peking Union Medical College),Walter L. Palmer (Seymour Coman Fellow in physiology at Cook County Hospital and the University of Chicago),Emmet C. Bay (frem Rush), C. PhillipMiller and Louis Leiter (from the Rockefeller Institute), Roy R. Grinker (fromNorthwestern), S. William Becker (fromMinnesota), and Robert G. Bloch (fromIllinois). The Departments of Pediatricsand Obstetrics and Gynecology were tobe organized later, and this initial nucleus of a staff was soon to grow intothe well-rounded medical faculty knownto generations of graduates of the "SouthSide Medical School" of the Universityof Chicago.It is related that Dr. Bloch met Dr.McLean at some social function. It is nothard to imagine that Dr. McLean, withhis demonstrated talent for picking menof ability and promise, was able to discern in Dr. Bloch the elements of thatwhich he was seeking: sound training ina branch of internal medicine (pulmonary diseases), including work in thefundamental field of pathology, enthusiasm for teaching and investigation, andan educational philosophy which fittedthe new program. Dr. Bloch joined thestaff of the Clinics as Douglas Smith Fellow and instructor in medicine in 1927;a year later became assistant professorof medicine; in 1930 was promoted toassociate professor of medicine; and in1942 to professor of medicine. With ayoung family, a pioneering share in astimulating new medical educational venture, and a new home, Dr. Bloch feltthat he had found a place where he couldstay and work. In 1931 he was naturalized as a United States citizen. In 1937 hewas certified as a specialist by the newlyformed American Board of InternalMedicine.To Dr. Bloch it was essential thatthere be available for the University ofChicago medical students and residentstaff adequate clinical opportunities forthe teaching of all pulmonary diseases,including tuberculosis, within the framework oi internal medicine. This was, inthe late twenties, almost a unique idea,for medical schools then, even more thannow, were prone to regard tuberculosisas something apart, and hospital administrators did not look with a kindly eveat either the infectious or the financial8 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINaspect of providing care for this chronicdisease. It is to Dr. Bloch's everlastingcredit that his plan to incorporate theteaching of tuberculosis into the undergraduate training program of medicinewas pursued with characteristic resourcefulness, vigor, and success.At first the clinical facilities forteaching and investigation in tuberculosiswere provided by an affiliation with Edward Sanatorium, a nonprofit institution,located at Naperville, Illinois, somethirty-five miles west of the Quadrangles.Medical students and interns wereassigned to work there in rotation forshort periods. Operation of the sanatorium was directly in the hands of a resident under Dr. Bloch's direction, and hemade at least two visits a week himself.Even though the physical layout of Edward Sanatorium, with its cottage plan,was not consistent with Dr. Bloch's ideasabout the systemic treatment of tuberculosis, the program at Naperville resulted in excellent patient care, excellentteaching, and the beginnings of important investigative work.This affiliation ended in 1930, partlyon account of financial problems at thesanatorium and partly because Dr. Blochwas to continue still further his efforts tounite the study of tuberculosis with thatof the rest of internal medicine. For atime isolated rooms on the regular medical wards at Billings were available fortuberculosis patients, but in the earlythirties, when the new hospital buildingat the corner of Fifty-ninth Street andEllis Avenue was completed, a fifteenbed ward was provided for tuberculosispatients. When the orthopedic servicegrew to the point of needing this spacein 1937, the tuberculosis service wastransferred to the north wing of 0-3,where it has remained. Throughout thisperiod medical students and members ofthe resident staff have been assigned totuberculosis along with other chest diseases as a regular part of their internalmedicine training-a provision availableeven today in only a few medical schoolsin the country.Bedside teaching has always been asimportant as the practice of medicine toDr. Bloch. His relationship with patientshas been such that he has continued tosee early Chicago patients up to the timehe left the Clinics. His attention to detail,his insistence on knowing the patient andhis f arnilv intimat elv. his demand formeticulou's histories �nd physical examinations and the reading of his own XLl)'S. his close daily' supervision of thepatient's course. and his willingness atany time to talk with the patient andfamily about the clinical problem-these:111 were mark- of the enthusiastic teacherand the enthusiastic r linir ian and wereinevitahlv st imulat ing to his studentsand his 'staff associates. Men were attracted (0 working with Dr. Bloch because of this infectious enthusiasm, andstudents year after year have said that he was among the best undergraduateteachers on the faculty of the medicalschool. His mastery of his field and hisgenuine concern for the individual beingtrained made him an outstanding teacher.The list of men beyond the internshipyear who have trained with Dr. Bloch isimpressive. In the very early years, during the Edward Sanatorium period, therewere J. Murray Steele, now professor ofmedicine at New York University; TomDixon, now in government service;Ernestine Kandel (now Mrs. Hamre);Dr. Allembaugh, now an internist in Oregon; Alberto deJa Guevara, now withhis own sanatorium in Guadelajara, Mexico; and Grace Hiller, now director ofstudent health at Goucher College inBaltimore.A man who was to become the firstmajor full-time associate of Dr. Blochwent to Edward Sanatorium as residentin 1929. He was Dr. Byron Francis, fromWashington University, St. Louis. Whenthe affiliation ended in 1930, Dr. Francisjoined Dr. Bloch on the full-time staff ofthe Clinics, progressed through the academic ranks to an assistant professorship,and remained as Dr. Bloch's close partner in clinical work, teaching, and investigation, until he left Chicago at the endof 1937. Dr. Francis is director of Riverton Sanatorium, Seattle, and clinical professor of medicine at the University ofWashington, as well as a highly regardedspecialist in chest diseases in the PacificNorthwest.Dr. W. Brocks Steen, with a Ph.D. inanatomy and medicine, joined Dr. Blochand Dr. Francis in 1934, and remaineduntil he went into practice in Tucson,Arizona, in 1937, where he is highly regarded as an internist. Others who havetrained with Dr. Bloch include Dr. Robert W. Vines, on the staff of the University of Colorado, Denver; Dr. LewisRoll, of Firland Sanatorium, Seattle; Dr.John L. Batty; Dr. Kirsten Vennesland,who joined the staff of Firland Sanatorium in October, 1951; Dr. Louis Sandock of South Bend, Indiana; and Dr.James Ahern, now at the new medicalschool at the University of Washington.In 1936, with Dr. Steen soon to leave,Dr. William B. Tucker, of Minneapolis,joined t he staff and was to remain withDr. Bloch until early 1947, when he ret urned to Minneapolis, where he is nowchid of the tuberculosis and pulmonarydisease service of the Veterans Administration Hospital and professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. Inthat position he has had a leading role inthe work of the Veterans Administration's investigations into the effects ofstreptomycin regimens in the treatmentof clinical tuberculosis. In 1938 Dr.George Gomori, now professor of medicine, joined the staff and worked closelywith the pulmonary diseases division formany years, contributing especially inbasic studies on the role of phosphatasein tuberculous calcification. In 1946 Dr. Robert H. Ebert, Rhodes scholar andholder of a Markle Foundation Fellowship, joined Dr. Bloch and has made outstanding contributions in the understanding of the basic tuberculous processthrough his work with the rabbit earchamber. Since Dr. Bloch's departure Dr.Ebert assumes the headship of the pulmonary diseases service.An early problem not entirely satisfactorily settled for a number of years wasthat of thoracic surgery for many of thepatients under Dr. Bloch's care. In thelate twenties the field of thoracic surgerywas embryonic, and the attitude largelywas that a well-trained general surgeoncould perform adequate thoracic surgery,even though certain surgical centers inthis country and abroad were alreadypointing in a different direction. After anunsatisfactory era with this approach,Dr. Phemister was convinced of the desirability of securing specialized training for one of his staff in this field, andin 1935 Dr. William E. Adams went toBerlin for a year of specialized trainingin thoracic surgery, to return to the Universi ty of Chicago as head of this service.Now professor of surgery, Dr. Adams hasfor years had an exceedingly happy association with Dr. Bloch in this field, andmany surgeons training with Dr. Adamshave also benefited from this association.Dr. Bloch attacked investigative problems with the same vigor, enthusiasm,and unrelenting persistence which characterize all his work. Added was a relatively rare and important quality: a reluctance to publish prematurely. Muchof Dr. Bloch's best work has remainedhidden from readers of medical literaturebecause after years of work it was to bediscarded or modified, or because othershad published on the subject in the meantime. Work was done in the early Chicago period on the physical characteristics of iodized oil used in bronchography;on artificial pneumothorax in the rabbitand other experimental animals; and onthe effect of ultraviolet irradiation on tuberculous infection. Relatively little 01this has seen the light of day, but it hasbeen shared generously with his students.In the Edward Sanatorium period atNaperville Dr. Florence Seibert, nowassociate professor of biochemistry atthe Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, holder of theTrudeau medal of the National Tuberculosis Association and of an honoraryDoctorate of Science from the Universityof Chicago, was working intensively onthe immunology of tuberculosis and thechemistry of tuberculin, which led to thedevelopment of Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) of tuberculin. Dr. Bloch andhis associates worked closely with Dr.Seibert at Naperville on the clinical aspects of this problem.Dr. Bloch has long been interested inthe peculiar phenomenon of calcification[Continued on page [0]MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 9FACULTY NEWSDr. Fred 1. Adair, now of Maitland,lorida, and Dr. Edith 1. Potter werenong fifteen alumni of the University ofinnesota's College of Medical Sciences toceive Outstanding Achievement Awardedals in early October. Dr. Adair was asitor to The Clinics during the sameonth.Dr. J. Garrott Allen talked before thenvention of the Association of Militaryrrgeons at the Palmer House on Octor 10 on the use of blood plasma, and ontober 22 he lectured to the Americansociation of Blood Banks at Minneapolis"Homologous Serum Jaundice and ItsIationship to the Methods of Storing: oled Plasma.".Dr. Alf Alving directed an army test of1, curative value of the antimalaria drug,) rna quine, in Tokyo late in the summer2:1 returned home with a group of prima-• ine-treated veterans.\rnong the participants at the Chicago]·dical Society's postgraduate courses, Oct .er 15-19, on endocrine and metabolicc eases and obstetrics and gynecology were:) s. G. J. Andros, Percival Bailey, DwightI Clark, M. Edward Davis, H. C. Hesselt: e, Carl P. Heber (Indiana University),(aries B. Huggins, A. K. Koff, H. T.I .ketts, Stephen Rothman, and W. W.E Itt (Johns Hopkins Hospital).. )r. William E. Adams was a guests: aker at the scientific program of theL iversity of Iowa All-Medical AlumniEO inion at Iowa City on June 9. In August1: Adams spoke on "The Use of ParaffiniJl :ollapse Therapy for Pulmonary Tubere: isis" before the London Thoracic Societya, the staff of the Brompton Hospital.I: September he attended the meetings oftJ Societe Internationale de Chirurgie inpo is and spoke on "Subscapular Paraffinpo k as a Supplement to Thoracoplasty."rr, E. S. Guzman-Barron was invited0: the Scientific Mexican Congress to disc. papers presented by Mexican scientistsin ommemoration of the four hundredth3.. versary of the foundation of the Nati. al University of Mexico in Mexico CityiBi ;eptember. After the Congress he leet\,!! d to the Institute of Cardiology on there: ion of the sulphydryl groups to cancerp.,lerns.uest speakers at the eighty-sixth annualse, on of the Michigan State Medical Sod. in Grand Rapids, September 26-28,ilW' .ded Drs. S. William Becker andS1: hen Rothman.r. Douglas N. Buchanan was a guest5])0 cer at the annual summer clinics ofCl:iren's Hospital in Denver in June.�. Dwight E. Clark presented a paper0'" An Evaluation of the Use of Radioact e Iodine in the Treatment of Carcin� l of the Thyroid" before the May 14mE ing of the Chicago Pathological Sode: . Lowell T. Coggeshall has been apP()!· ed chairman of the Committee onM. cal Science of the Department of Defell.! Responsibility of the committee willbe balance and correlate medical researchpre cts supported by the Defense Departme for the benefit of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, so that problems importantto the services will be investigated. In addition to Dr. Coggeshall, other membersare: Dr. Wallace O. Fenn (Rochester), Dr.Franklin C. McLean, Dr. Douglas D. Bond(Western Reserve), Dr. I. S. Ravdin (Pennsylvania), and the three surgeon-generals ofthe Department of Defense or their representatives.Dr. Coggeshall has recently been electedvice-president of the Chicago Society ofInternal Medicine.Dr, M. Edward Davis is president of theChicago Gynecological Society. During thesummer he spoke at meetings of the American Society for the Study of Sterility, theAmerican Medical Association, the UpperPeninsula Medical Society of Michigan,and the Postgraduate Medical Assembly ofSouth Texas.Dr. William J. Dieckmann gave lectures at the University of Florida and atthe meetings of the Florida Medical Association in June.Earl A. Evans, Jr., gave a series of lectures on virus work at Iowa State Collegein May.Among present or former University ofChicago personnel who were speakers at themeeting of the American Medical Association in Atlantic City in June were: Drs.Lester R. Dragstedt, "The Physiology ofGastric Secretion and Its Relation to theUlcer Problem"; Joseph P. Evans (Cincinnati) , "Acute Head Injury"; Arthur B.Hunt (Mayo Clinic), "Experiences withTest of Labor: Evaluation of Its PresentWorth"; Peter C. Kronfeld, "The Chemical Demonstration of Transconjunct ivalPassage of Aqueous after AntiglaucomatousOperations"; Franklin C. McLean, "Progress in the Prevention and Treatment ofRadiation Injury"; Walter 1. Palmer,"Medical and Social Aspects of Problemsof Population"; Bruce Proctor (Detroit),"Surgical Anatomy of the Neck"; JamesW. Watts (Washington, D.C.), "Psychosurgery: Accomplishments, Limitations, andRisks in the Management of IntractablePain"; and Ernest Yount (Winston-Salem,N.C.), "Therapeutic Use of Quinidine."Dr. Ralph W. Gerard was elected president of the American Physiological Societyat its annual meeting held in Detroit inMay.Dr. Charles B. Huggins gave the Bardeen Memorial Lecture of Phi Chi at theUniversity of Wisconsin on May 10.John O. Hutchens was chairman of asymposium held April 30 at the Federationmeetings on "Demand and Supply of Energy for Function."Dr. Edwin P. Jordon, formerly of theDepartment of Medicine and more recentlydirector of education of the ClevelandClinic Foundation, has been appointed executive director of the American Associationof Medical Clinics.Dr. Arlington C. Krause attended aspecial meeting of the Conference on Retrolental Fibroplasia in Atlantic City and anemergency meeting in New York at theBellevue Hospital Center. On May 28 hearranged the telephonic transmission of theChicago Ophthalmological Society to Oklahoma City so that speeches and illustrations of the cases were presented in the two citiessimultaneouslv.Dr. John R. Lindsay was elected secretary-treasurer of the American OtologicalSocietv.On September 4 Dr. Huberta M. Livingstone spoke in London before the jointsession of the International Anesthesia Research Society, the Association of Anaesthetists of G�eat Britain and Ireland, andthe section of Anesthetics of the Royal Society of Medicine. Her title was "The Valueof Oximetry during Anesthesia in Patientswith Limited Pulmonary Reserve." Later inSeptember she participated in the meetingof the International Congress of Anesthesiology in Paris.Dr. Frank J. Orland was recently electedpresident of the Chicago section of theInternational Association for Dental Research.Dr. Dallas B. Phemister and Mrs. Phemister flew to Paris in September, where Dr.Phemister participated in the meetings ofthe Societe Internationale de Chirurgie inhis capacity as vice-president of the Congress. Last year Dr. Phemister was a professorial lecturer at the University of ParisSchool of Medicine and gave courses insurgery. In appreciation of his help toFrench surgeons and French surgery he waspresented on September 28 at the QuaidOrsay with the insignia of d'Officier de laLegion d'Honneur.Dr. Evangeline E. Stenhouse is first vicepresident of the American Medical Women'sAssociation and chairman of the financecommittee.Dr. Sewall Wright was awarded thehonorary degree of Doctor of Science atthe June commencement of Harvard University.Argonne Cancer ResearchHospitalThe new hospital wing north of Goldblatt on Ellis Avenue is taking form andwill be opened sometime next spring.It will be administered through Tilt'Clinics, with Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall.as dean of the division, its director. Dr.Leon O. Jacobson will be associate director in direct charge of research and ofmedical and administrative programs.Dr. Robert Hasterlick will be associatedirector serving as liaison with the Argonne National Laboratory and its twenty-four participating institutions. Mr.Harry Blythe of The Clinics will beassistant superintendent assigned to theArgonne Hospital to synchronize allphases of patient care and perform otherduties usually assigned to the superintendent's office.In addition to the research quarters,there will be fifty-eight beds for patientsneeding treatment with radiant energy.The new equipment will include that forX-ray therapy as well as a betatron and asynchrocyciotron.10 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINDr. Btoeh-[Continued from page 8]in tuberculous tissue and has exhibitedingenuity in his attack upon this difficultproblem using chemical, radioisotope,histologic, and other techniques, to roundout the understanding gained from hisclinical insight.To Dr. Bloch research in medicine hasalways been a natural outgrowth of clinical problems and is regarded as both thehandmaiden and the governor of clinicalwork. Typical of this philosophy has beenhis work in the field of sarcoidosis. AtEdward Sanatorium very early a fewpatients with X-ray shadows characteristic of tuberculosis puzzled Dr. Bloch, forno tubercle bacilli could be found afterintensive search, and many were tuberculin-negative. This led to a twenty-yearstudy of the condition which has includedfundamental work with tests for anticutins, antigen material for the Kveirntest, and a broad understanding of theproblem which only now is in the processof publication.The epidemiologic aspects of tuberculosis also early came under Dr. Bloch'sinquiring scrutiny and led to his entering into the field of mass surveys fortuberculosis at a very early date. Today,with mass radiographic surveys so accepted a procedure, it is difficult to realizethe obstacles which were raised to securing a fluoroscope for Dr. Bloch's use inthe Chest Clinic. However, all obstacleswere overcome, and that instrumentplayed a large role from then on not onlyin clinical work and in teaching-for herewas a tool to take into the practitioner'Soffice-but :1150 in public health investigative studies. Dr. Bloch's work with thefluoroscope was genuinely pioneering inthis country and was a precursor to theintroduction of mass X-ray surveys. Inhis hands it was demonstrated that theaccuracy of the method approximatedthat of the regular film, but this was secondary to such other objectives as teaching, an understanding of pulmonary andbronchial physiology, and the relationships of the cardiac and respiratory systems. An important by-product was finding unsuspected lesions of clinical significance in medical students, the staff ofthe hospital. and in members of thehouseholds of the staff (several todayowe their health to having had their disC;lse found in an early stage).In 1932 the graduate students of theUniversit v were svst ernat icallv screenedfor t ube�culosis by the technique offluoroscopic and roentgenographic exarnin.iuons. and l.it er this technique was extended to the entire student body. Thisst udv inc luded pregnant women at Lyingin Hospital. and in the late thirties itlIas extended st il l further to all clinicadmissions at both Billings and Providentho-.pit als Close to 100.000 ex.uninat ionswe n: made :dtuge-ther. and reports fromthese studies-although it is characteris- tic that when mass surveys became accepted and even popular, Dr. Bloch felthe had accomplished his purpose andnever published final results-have beenconfirmed by other investigators.When streptomycin became availablein 1946, it was natural that Dr. Bloch andhis associates would immediately undertake some fundamental investigationswith this antibiotic. A small clinical service made any large study of the effect ofstreptomycin on tuberculosis in man outof the question, but problems were constructed to answer questions on an experimental basis. Publications from thework of this period are widely quoted inthe literature as pointing up basic aspectsof the role of this and other chemotherapeutic agents, including para-aminosalicylic acid and amithiozine, and thesestudies are being continued.In all things Dr. Bloch exhibits a keenintelligence, a quick wit, imagination, andperspective. These applied to medical research, both fundamental and clinical,have made his work outstanding. Hisappraisals of bronchiectasis, of bronchiogenic carcinoma, of so-called "idiopathic"pleural effusion, of artificial pneumothorax, and other pulmonary diseaseshave represented truly significant contributions to the literature.No account of the quarter-century inwhich Dr. Bloch was in Chicago is complete without some reference to the man.The mark of the man is the independenceand the soundness of his thinking. Original ideas come to him more frequentlythan to most men. He is stern in demanding honesty and sincerity and abhors carelessness. He is always thoughtf ul of others and goes to considerablelength to advance the fortunes of hisassociates. He shares generously of histime and talents with regard to all problems. for he is a lwavs available to hisfriends and associates' and particularly tostudents.Dr. Bloch enjoys music. and he hasa fine library, but his chief hobby, if hehas one apa rt from his work, is that offriendship, and fortunate indeed are thosewho shared the hospitality of the Bloch'shome. Mrs. Bloch. his charming wife, isas well known and as much admiredamong his friends and associates as he.Their older son. Francis. is completinghis work for a Ph.D. in physics at theUniversit y of Chicago. and Peter is anundergraduate at Coe College in CedarRapids. IOI\a.Dr. Bloch \1 as never a "public servant": that would be anathema to a manof his temperament. But he is not averseto public service within the limits of whathe feels to he his qualifications. In theI ()40's Mayor Kennelly asked him toserve on a committee to invest igat e andst udv conditions for the care of the tuberculous in the city. and he spent manylong hours on this endeavor and contributed to a most comprehensive report onthe subject. It cannot yet be said that the situation has greatly improved, because other factors obviously have operated. but this committee provided a solidbackground for the work ahead. A similar study for the Institute of Medicineof Chicago a few years earlier had beenan indispensable preliminary to workingon and for Mayor Kennelly's committee.Dr. Bloch's professional society memberships are representative. They includethe American Association for the Advancement of Science, the AmericanMedical Association; the American College of Physicians, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the Societyfor Clinical Investigation, the Society forExperimental Biology and Medicine, theCentral Society for Clinical Research,the Chicago Society of Internal Medicine, the Institute of Medicine of Chicago, the American Trudeau Society, andthe National Tuberculosis Association.He has not sought and has not held majorelective office in any of these societiesbut has supported those of their activities he believed to be worthy with thefull strength of his personality. In theNational Tuberculosis Association and itsmedical section, the American TrudeauSociety, he has been on the board of direct ors and on the council; he has beenon such important committees as thatfor medical research and for medical education. In these activities he has strivenfor the same goals he has pursued atChicago: the furtherance of the bestteaching and clinical medicine in thefield of pulmonary disease-includi1lg ill'berculosis=es an integral part of internal medicine. Dr. Bloch speaks well andis in demand at medical meetings and onmedical programs. His enthusiasm hasnot waned after twenty-odd years ofteaching four quarters a year.Dr. Bloch began his new work atMontefiore Hospital at the age of fiftyseven. It is reported that one reason forhis deciding to leave Chicago is the mandatory retirement rule at sixty-five. He isa vigorous fifty-seven and will continueto make contributions in clinical medicine. teaching. and research for manyyea rs to come..Dr. Bloch will be missed at the University of Chicago. Others will build on thatwhich he has built. Because it has beensolidly built. a fine superstructure is possible. The best wishes of a host of friends.former students, and former associatesaccompany Dr. and Mrs. Bloch.MARRIAGESDr. Julius Levine-Dr. Clara Lowell,December 24, 1950Dr. Martin Kohn-Dr. Mary Jean Gatewood, February 10, 1951Dr. Theodore Leigh .Iohnston-c-BarbaraAnn Ruby, May 19Dr. Harry G. Kroll-Jane Cornwell,J une 2 (,Dr. George L Nardi-Sally Marie Cant·well, August 25MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 11ANNUAL MEETING RESIDENT STAFF NEWSApproval of the nomination of officers'or 1951-52 was unanimous on the 185iallots returned before the annual meetng on June 14. The new officers are:"resident, DR. HILGER PERRY JENKINSlice-President, DR. WILLIAM CLAYDRENNAN, '46Treasurer, DR. LEON O. JACOBSON, '39�xeCiltive Secretary, DR. \VILLIAMLESTER, JR., '41"ouncil Member (3 years), DR. WRIGHTADAMS and DR. LOWELL T. COGGESHALLDr. Hilger Perry Jenkins needs no inroduction to the Medical Alumni. He'as secretary of the Association in 1945-6 and president in 1946-47 and has al-. -ays been one of the people who could beounted upon to put energy and compeence to work for the Association. He'as a surgical resident on the original.aff of The Clinics and a member of theiepartrnent of Surgery until 1947, whene became chief surgeon at the Woodiwn Hospital, where he still is. Underir. Jenkins' presidency, the Associationin be assured of an active and interest.g year.Dr. William Clay Drennan, '46, has reirned to The Clinics as senior assistant-sident in medicine after several yearsBethesda Navy Hospital.Dr. Leon O. Jacobson, '39, will serve; treasurer again this year. Dr. JacobIn is professor of medicine and is to besociate director of the new Argonneancer Hospital directly in charge ofientific research and of medical andIministrative programs. In addition, ofiurse, he will continue his work in.matology.Dr. William Lester, Jr., will continueexecutive secretary of the Associationd editor of the BULLETIN. Dr. Lesterads the Student Health Service and ismember of the Department of Medi-',le,3ULLETINf the Alumni Association'he University of Chicago:CHOOL OF MEDICINEAUTUMN 1951OL. 8 No.1\\'ILLIAM LESTER, JR., EditorHUBERTA LIVINGSTONE, Associate Editor. Members of the Editorial Board:CLAYTON G. LOOSLIROBERT H. EBERTJESSIE BURNS :MACLEAN, Secrrtar yiceof yearly su hscri ption for nonmembers, $1.00;Ice of single copies, 25 cents. JENKINSDr. Wright Adams, chairman of theDepartment of Medicine, succeeds himself for a three-year term on the Council.It would be difficult to think of the Association without his help and interest.Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall, Dean of theDivision of Biological Sciences, is thenew member of the Council on a threeyear term. Dr. Coggeshall has beenthoughtful of the aims of the Associationfor many years and extremely helpful infurthering our plans. He does us honorto become an officer of the MedicalAlumni.Dr. Peter V. Moulder, '45, has beenappointed by President Jenkins to a oneyear term on the Council. Dr. Moulderhas been a friend of the Association sincehis days as a medical student, and it isgood to welcome him to the Council.Medical Alumni BanquetTwo hundred and fifteen MedicalAlumni, the largest group ever, met atthe Hotel Del Prado on June 14 for theannual banquet. Dr. Prohaska, presiding,presented gold keys to Dr. A. C. Bachmeyer and Dr. B. C. H. Harvey for theirdevotion to the Association and to theUniversity. Dr. Paul Weiss was the mainspeaker. His talk on the problems concerned in fundamental research and theneed for individual integrity was characteristically sophisticated, humorous, andthoughtful. Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall presented the Borden Award to James H.Eldredge for his paper on "Effect of XRadiation on Iron Distribution in theMouse." The Chancellor and Mrs.Kimpton were guests. John R. Campbell, formerly a residentin opht halrno lozv at the Millard FillmoreHospital, Buffalo, New York, is now an assistant resident in ophthalmology at TheClinics.Edwin F. Daily, who has for severalvcars been director of the Children's BureauDivision of Health Services, Washington,D C, became deputy director of the HealthInsurance Plan of Greater New York inJune. Dr. Daily has been active in theinternational field, serving as expert consultant to the World Health Organizationin 1949 and 1950. He was at one time amember of the resident staff at Lying-in.Keith S. Grimson, professor of surgeryat Duke University, was a guest speakerat the May meetings of the Ogden SurgicalSociety.Lt. W, G. Hopkins' present address is.lSIOth Medical Group, Maxwell Air ForceBase, Alabama. He is enjoyinz his work in a450-bcd air-conditioned hospital.Duval Jaros, '.;6, is an assistant residentin ophthalmology.Vernon K. S. Jim, '.;.;, is an assistantresident in opht halmo logy at The Clinics.Helene Mayer is now in charge of theanesthesia department at Harlem Hospital.There arc seventeen members of her department, and she enjoys the work very much.Lt. Robert H. Moe, '';7, left The Clinicsin July for an assignment at Fort SamHouston.Edward S. Petersen has gone into practice in Chicago in association with Dr.Thomas Coogan and Dr. Joseph Davis atSt. Luke's Hospital and Northwestern University Medical School.George E. Poucher recently read a paperat the American Association on "MentalDeficiency."Gerald Rogers, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1931-3.';, has been practicing in Oklahoma City since leaving Chicago. He wasrecently promoted to clinical professor ofgynecology at the University of OklahomaSchool of Medicine. He is also chief of theDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecologyat St. Anthony's Hospital, the largest private hospital in Oklahoma. Gerry is marriedand the father of David, aged thirteen, andElaine, aged ten.Capt, E. J. Ryan writes from Pusan,Korea, where he has seen a wide varietyof patholozy and trauma.Nathan Steinberg is completing a twentv-bed minor surgical hospital in the same�edical building as his office on LongIsland.John A. Stonkus is in private practicein Marvsville, California.Isadore M. Tarlov, intern 1932-3';. hasbeen appointed professor of neurosurgeryand neurology and director of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery atNew York Medical College, Flower-FifthAvenue Hospitals, New York City.Leaving University Clinics[c ontinued from page .;lDrs. Lotti and Norbert Lewinson ofStudent Health have joined the staff ofMontefiore Hospital in New York.Dr. Lydia Marshak, from Dermatolouv.has �one into private practice in Aurora.Dr. Norman B. McCullough has leftThe Clinics to return to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Dr, Russell Nichols, from radiology. isat the Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital inOgden, Utah .Dr. Robert Smitrer, from Lvinu-in. is inprivate practice in Caliiornia.Dr, Charles E. Test, of Employees'Health, has gone to IndianapolisDr, Kirsten Vennesland has left thechest department to become clinical pathologist at Firland Sanatorium in Seattle,12 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINASSOCIATION ACTIVITIESCorridor CommentThe changes that need to be made toconvert the Pathology Museum into alounge for medical students and a homefor the Medical Alumni are extensiveand of course will take a long time. Butthe morgue is now greatly altered, andthat work must be complete before thespecimen cases can be moved from themuseum and the new character of thatroom can begin to emerge. In the meantime furniture is arriving, we accept offers from alumni and faculty for scientific journals for our shelves, study publishers' lists for suitable volumes for ourbrowsing library, and dream about ahousewarming some time around the firstof the year. We'll have a picture for youin the winter issue of the BULLETIN, butwe hope you'll come soon to see foryourself. By the time of the annual reunion in June, we'll be established instyle.While we wait for permanent quartersto be made ready, we are comfortablyand happily provided for in room B-13of Goldblatt through the generosity of DUES AND GIFTSWe have interesting things to dothis year-set ourselves up in thenew lounge and plan the FourthAnnual Reunion Banquet in June.The Past Presidents' Receptionwas a real success, and we willarrange more activities in whichstudents, faculty, and alumni maybecome better known to one another.We expect to do more this yearthan ever before, and that ofcourse means we shall need greatersupport from you.Dues cards, accompanied by apersonal note from your class representative, are inclosed with thisissue of the BULLETIN. Annual ReunionEvent of A.M.A. Week in ChicagoIn 1948 the A.M.A. met in Chicago,and we had our first grand reunionmany of you remember it.Next year, from June 9 to 13, theannual meeting of the American MedicalAssociation will again be held in Chicago. We are enthusiastic at the prospectof planning for the largest reunion weever have had. We know now that wewant another banquet, to include wives,and with the graduating class as ourguests. The date is June 1 I. There willprobably be planned activities at TheClinics as well. Details will be publishedin the winter BULLETIN.Convention headquarters of the A.M.A.are making hotel reservations now. Besure you get yours early.And save June 11 for the MedicalAlumni!Dr. Charles Huggins. We wish to say aspecial "thank you" to Dr. Paul Talalayand his group in the Ben May Cancer Research Laboratories for making us feelso welcome. PICTURES IN THIS ISSUECopies of any of these pictures area vailable at one dollar each.Against the background of the colorful murals in Billings Cafeteriaare some of the guests at the Past Presidents' Reception held on No"ember /. They are: Dr. Julius Ginsberg, Mrs. Lau-rence A. Kimpton, Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Rothman. Mrs. William V. MorgBnslern, Mrs.John Van Prohaska. Dr. Prohaska, and Mrs. Sam Banks.