Volume 11 WINTER 1955 Number 2PEDIA TRIC PSYCHIA TRYA clinic for pediatric psychiatry.pened this quarter under the directionIf John F. Kenward, '44. With the·stablishment of this clinic, the Univer­ity of Chicago again plays a role in thelevelopment of an important field ofnedical education. Although it is gener­lly recognized that abnormal patterns,f behavior can be most successfullyreated before they have become fixed,ew medical schools have a well-roundedrrogram of patient care, student train-19, and research in the problems ofhild psychiatry.There once was a psychiatric serviceor the pediatrics department in Bobstoberts Hospital in which psychiatricocial workers were trained, but medi­al students and residents had little or­anized part in the work with patients. A plan was formulated to enlarge thescope of pediatric psychiatry to embodythe educational aims traditional in thismedical school, whereby medical stu­dents and house officers could have theopportunity to become familiar withthis important field of pediatrics. Theultimate success of such a plan, ofcourse, depends critically upon the per­son who directs it.When Kenward was a junior medicalstudent, he knew that he wanted a careerin academic pediatrics. He was encour­aged to learn as much as possible aboutother fields of medicine until after hisinternship, when it would be time toconcentrate on his specialty. This he didand proceeded through a rotating in­ternship and a residency (interruptedby two years in the Army) to become a member of the faculty of pediatrics inthe University.When the proposal of heading thenew clinic was made to him in 1950, hisacceptance was enthusiastic, althoughhis career in pediatrics was alreadylaunched and this meant starting overagain, in a way. He was awarded a Com­monwealth Fellowship, and for fouryears he studied here, at the Institutefor Juvenile Research, at the Institutefor Psychoanalysis, and at the IllinoisNeuropsychiatric Institute, where heworked with Margaret Gerard (Rush'25), with George Moore, and with IreneJosselyn, '33, on the psychosomatic ward.And he completed a personal analysis atthe Institute for Psychoanalysis.In July of last year he returned to theUniversity and his new job. The first2 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINJOHN F. KENWARD, head of the new clinic for pediatric psychiatrymonths have been spent in outliningplans with students and faculty, consult­ing with other physicians in the hos­pitals, seeing a few patients in tempo­rary quarters, and of course superin­tending the remodeling and decoratingof the new suite on the fourth floor ofBobs Roberts.A three-year grant from the Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute and onefor six months from the Illinois StateDepartment of Public Welfare havecovered the heavy initial expenses ofthe clinic. A gift from the Service Clubof Chicago completely furnished theunit, which consists of two playrooms,six offices, and a conference room. Theplayrooms are equipped with a carpen­ter's workbench, dolls and a dollhouse,a sink for water play, clay, paints, andmodel cars and planes. One-way view­ing panes form the wall of each play­room, connecting it with an interviewroom adjoining; the playroom side ofthe pane is a mirror. Children are in­formed that they may be observed andare told when. The offices, used mainlyfor parent interviews, are furnishedcomfortably and quietly. The confer­ence room is a solarium with two longtables and what was thought would beplenty of chairs for group therapy ses­sions with parents and seminars withstudents and residents. The eagernessand interest of the students, however,have already taxed these facilities.The full-time staff will eventually in­clude another psychiatrist of facultystatus, two psychiatric social workers, and a psychologist. At present Dr. Ken­ward is assisted by Miss Helen Frazee,psychiatric social worker, and WardHalstead, of medical psychology, whosupervises the clinic's psychologicalfacilities, including psychometric andprojective testing. Eventually the serv­ice will have a residency. The clinic works closely with other services of 1hospitals, and Dr. Kenward is alwsavailable for consultation on probleencountered with child patients.For the time being patients are beiaccepted only as referrals from otlclinics in the hospitals. There areplans for residential treatment althouhospital patients in pediatricstreated as outpatients in the clinic.The emphasis in training is concernmainly with senior medical students,though some juniors and an occasioisophomore ask permission to atteconferences. The seniors have a veactive role in the work with patieiand with parents, always closely sup,vised by Dr. Kenward. They presecases at general seminars where tcourse of treatment is decided. The stdents follow through on their own calwith the help of weekly conferences afrequent private interviews with IKenward.Physicians in other clinics appreciathe help they can count on from IKenward and his staff. Their awareneof the value of such collaboration is Ifleeted in their effort to see that cahistories include data useful to him.The field of pediatric psychiatry offean adjunct to pediatrics that is a criical need in our time. It is importato have a place where worried parencan seek expert help and advice. Mothan immediate benefit to the childthe incalculable value to the child as 1adult. Pediatric psychiatry is a vital paof modern medicine.DR. KENWARD and a patient are observed through one-way viewing pane by ROBERTDA Y, a junior medical student.MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 3ADMISSION TO MEDICAL SCHOOL THEN AND NOWorWANTED: ;MORE WELL-QUALIFIED APPLICANTSBy JOSEPH J. CEITHAML, PH.D.Dean of Students, Diuisiono] Biological SciencesIn the United States there are noweighty-one medical schools with placesfor about seventy-five hundred freshmenand with some fourteen thousand fivehundred applicants for those places.Fifty years ago there were hundredsof medical schools in this country, alleager to accept any applicant who quali­fied. In Chicago alone there were four­teen such schools. Most of these wereproprietary schools operated for profit.Not only were the students charged tui­tion for a two- or three-year course ofstudy, but the doctors who taught inthese schools had to pay for the privi­lege of teaching. As a matter of fact, asmembers of the teaching staff were pro­moted, they were required to pay morefor their staff appointments. The pres­tige associated with teaching in a medi­cal school enhanced the reputation andincreased the practice of the teachingphysician.Entrance RequirementsAt the tum of the century, applicantsFROSH for admission into the medical schoolswere not required to have been grad­uated from high school, provided theycould pass an entrance examination. Ifan applicant had attended a college orhad been graduated from high school orhad a certificate from a recognizedmedical society proclaiming his fitnessto study medicine, he was admitted di­rectly into the medical school withoutany examination.The Flexner ReportIn 1908 the trustees of the CarnegieFoundation authorized a study of themedical schools of the nation, and in1910 the classic report of AbrahamFlexner was published. Shortly there­after, state boards of medical examinersrefused to recognize graduates of theproprietary schools, and one by onethese schools were closed. By 1918 theremaining approved schools establisheda basic requirement of two years of col­lege work for admission into medicalschool.SOPHPI LGRIfV7'S PROGRESS Need for SelectionIn 1924, for the first time, there weremore applicants for admission into medi­cal schools than there were places, andthe problem of selective admissions be­came a common one for all medicalschools. In the thirty years since thena variety of techniques and screeningmethods have been devised for the se­lection of medical students.In the period immediately after"World War II, the problem of selectionof qualified applicants entered a c�alphase. In addition to the normal com­plement of high-school graduates inter­ested in medical careers, a large numbeJof returning veterans embarked uponpremedical programs, with the resultthat all medical schools had many morequalified applicants than they could ac­commodate. Frequently a well-motivatedapplicant who had completed premedi­cal requirements with entirely satisfac-­tory scholastic records failed to gainadmission to medical school. If such an4 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINFreshman Year No. of Applicants(A) TABLE 1MEDICAL ApPLICANTS IN THE UNITED STATES*1947-48 . _1948-49 ... _ .. _ ...1949- 50 . _1950-51... _1951-52 _1952 -53 ...1953-54 .... __ . __ ._. _1954--55 _ No. of Freshman Places Ratio(B) (A/B).!M_29'--_-- ___§_6QZ_-- .. -----li24£__ 6736 3.624,4�4 7042 3 ,-, 7182 .___:U__19,920 7469 2.716,763 7493 2.214,678 7478 1.9614,538 7500t 1.93• John M. Stalnaker, !. Med. Educ., 29, 13-20 1954. Edward L Turner et at JAM A156, 137-7.6, 1954. ,.., .... ,t Personal estimate from J. Stalnaker.applicant were a veteran, he oftendid not feel that he could afford to waits�ill another year to apply again, espe­cially since there was no assurance thathis chances for admission the next yearwould be any better than they had beenthe previous year. If the disa pointed�licant were � nonveteran an, ur­mg the postwa�nod, a veteran wasoFten given preference over a nonvet­eran because of his age), he usuallyaidapPlY again the next year, and in thisway the backlog of applicants spreadover a period of several years.ExpansionBecause qualified applicants were be­ing denied admission into medicalschools in the postwar period, therearose a great deal of public sentimentregarding the inadequate capacity ofour medical schools. This public interestin our medical schools often was trans­lated into active support of the expan­sion of existing schools and the con­struction of new ones. To be sure, thebulk of this expansion occurred in tax­supported medical schools, both becausethey are more sensitive to public pres­sure and because they are financiallybetter able to undertake such costlyprojects. However, the privately en­dowed schools likewise made significantcontributions to the expansion of medi­cal-school facilities in the United Statesduring this period.In the last ten years new medicalschools have been established at theUniversity of Washington, the Univer­sity of California at Los Angeles, andthe University of Miami in Florida. Thetwo-year medical schools at the Univer­sity of Alabama and the University ofNorth Carolina expanded into four-yearschools. At the present time, Missouriand West Virginia are in the midst ofchanging from a two-year to a four­year program. Construction has begunon new schools at the University ofFlorida and at Yeshiva College.In addition to new construction, therehas been a significant increase in thesize of classes in existing medicalschools. In the last eight years the totalenrolment in American medical schoolseach year has exceeded that of the year before. Whereas in the fall of 1947there were 23,085 medical students, inthe fall of 1954 there were 28,400. Thisincrease of over 5,300 medical studentsover a seven-year span is equivalent tothe establishment of sixteen new medi­cal schools.The StudentsNow let us examine the other side ofthe picture, that is, the number of quali­fied applicants seeking these places inmedical schools. In Table 1 are shownthe numbers of individuals applying foradmission into medical school in eachof the last eight years and the totalnumber of places available each year.From the table, it can be seen that thenumber of applicants reached a peak in1949-50, when 24,434 applicants viedfor 7,042 freshman places: a ratio of3.5 applicants for each admission. Afterthis peak year, the number of appli­cants steadily fell in successive years,until for 1954-55 the number was 14,-538, and the ratio of applicants to ad­missions had declined to 1.93.At the University of Chicago thenumbers of applications for admissioninto our School of Medicine paralleledthe national trend. In 1949-50 we hadmore than twenty-three hundred appli­cants for the seventy-two places in ourfreshman medical class. Last year thenumber had declined to slightly overnine hundred applications. Lest one bemisled into thinking that this is still atremendous excess of applicants for ad­missions, it must be remembered thatlstudents apply on an average to threeor four different medical schools; there­fore, each of the nine hundred individ­uals who applied for admission into ourSchool of Medicine also applied to sev­eral other schools.Thus we see from Table 1 that, onthe national scene in recent years, thenumber of freshman places in our medi­cal schools has steadily increased, whilethe number of applicants has decreasedto the point where more than half of allthose who apply for admission, whetherqualified or not, can be accepted. When�one considers that many applicants donot possess one or more of the generalqualifications for the study of medicine, jnamelY, (1) intellectual ability, (2) unquestionable character, (3) emotionastability, (4) physical fitness, and (5sincere motivation, to mention but fiveit is evident that the selection of qualified medical applicants has agairreached a very critical phase. This timehowever, in contrast to the postwa:years, the difficulty is not caused b)an excessive number of well-qualifiercandidates for medical school but by ,distinct short1ille of such candidates. P,contmuaITon of tlils downward trencwould have serious effects, not onlyupon our medical schools, but also up or,the health and welfare of our nation.The ReasonsWhat is the explanation for this scar­city of well-qualified medical appli­cants? Actually, a number of factorsare involved. First of all, as mentionedabove, the backlog of applicants whichdeveloped in the postwar years disap­peared several years ago. Moreover, ourpresent medical freshmen were bornsome twenty-one years ago, during theeconomic depression when the birth ratewas low. Consequently, the number ofpotential premedical students at thepresent time is reduced. Furthermoreat the present time the nation is enjoy:ing an economic prosperity, a�y�ege students are enticed info acceIlt-10 hIghly remunerative siti in .-t rence to an a� Then, too, in recent years, manybnght young students, interested in thesciences, have been attracted to the new­ly developed fields of nuclear physics,electronics, and the like; this has ag-ravated the medical situation further.Finally, it is my opinion that many acollege student who might be interestedin the study of medicine has an exag­gerated idea of the difficulties in finan­cing a medical education. Such a stu­dent may not realize the various formsof financial assistance available to himat most medical schools. In addition toscholarship and loan funds, there existopportunities for part-time employmentduring the school year and full-time em­ployment during the vacation periods.A recent survey of the cost of medicaleducation to the student revealed thatthe average medical student todayspends approximately $9,200 to coverall expenses during his four years ofundergraduate medical training. (Schol­arship aid and remuneration from em­ployment would reduce this figure corre-spondingly.) .Nevertheless, without minimizing thehigh cost of a medical education, I dobelieve the financial problem can besolved by any student seriously inter­ested in a medical education. In my ca-[Continued on page 10]MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 5GRADUATE NEWS'31. Vernon R. DeYoung, Chicago, spokeon "Infant Feeding" at the January 18 meet­ing of the Southern Cook County Branchof the Chicago Medical Society.Egbert H. Fell talked on "Surgical Treat­ment of Aortic Stenosis" at the December10 meeting of the Chicago Surgical Society.Normand L. Hoerr, Cleveland, has beenelected secretary-treasurer of the AmericanAssociation of Anatomists for 1954-56.Last June the International Feltinelliaward in Medicine was made to A. RossMcIntyre by the Academia Lincei at Romefor his work in making curare available forclinical use. He is professor of physiologyand pharmacology at the University ofNebraska.Robert T. Porter, Greeley, is president­elect of the Colorado State Medical So­ciety.William B. Steen, a member of the staffof the Tucson Clinic, recently spent a shorthour between planes visiting The Clinics.'33. Winston H. Tucker is now pres­ident of the North Suburban Branch ofthe Chicago Medical Society for 1954-55.'35. Sam W. Banks, Chicago, discussed"The Surgical Anatomy of the Knee" atthe Cleveland Sectional Meeting of theAmerican College of Surgeons. William M.Tuttle, '31, of Detroit presided at a sym­posium on thoracoabdominal injuries at thesame meeting.Last November Willard G. DeYoungjoined the Pronger-Smith Clinic in BlueIsland, Illinois, as the internist for thegroup. His brother Vernon DeYoung, '32,is across the street in the pediatrics sectionof the St. Francis Hospital.A motion picture on "Pulmonary Biopsy"was presented at New York City's Monte­fiore Hospital last October by Karl P.Klassen, professor of research surgery atOhio State University.Edmund N. Walsh is in a partnershippractice of dermatology in Fort Worth,Texas.'36. Charles H. Rammelkamp, Cleve­land, spoke on "Prevention and Treatmentof Rheumatic Fever" at the Novembermeeting of the Cleveland chapter of theArthritis and Rheumatism Foundation andthe regional members of the AmericanRheumatism Association.'37. Richard V. Ebert, professor of med­icine at Northwestern University and di­rector of the medical service at the Veter­ans Administration Research Hospital inChicago, has been appointed professor andchairman of the department of medicine atthe University of Arkansas, Little Rock. Hewas a guest speaker at the sixth annualSymposium on Heart Disease held in Seattle.mder the auspices of the Washington StateDepartment of Health and the WashingtonState Heart Association.'41. James M. Goldinger has left The':linics and has opened an office in Chicago'or the practice of internal medicine.A paper, "Cerebral Angiography as a)iagnostic Tool," was read by Harry P.�axwell at the Pan-Pacific Surgical:ongress last October in Honolulu. CONGRATULATIONSWe have just had notice thatHarry Williams, '52, has been ap­pointed a Markle Scholar at EmoryUniversity School of Medicine in theDepartment of Pharmacology.Neal B. Groman, Ph.D., '50, is aMarkle Scholar in microbiology atthe University of Washington Schoolof Medicine.'42. Lillie Cutlar Walker divides hertime between three jobs: assistant in theDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Uni­versity of Tennessee; working as a pedia­trician for the County and City Health De­partments, Memphis; and keeping house forher husband, Mr. John Farrior, who is anEnglish professor.'43. Joseph M. Dondanville of Alton,Illinois, has six children and is expecting aseventh in April. He wants to know if anyof his classmates can beat that record.Harold R. Reames, Kalamazoo, Mich­igan, has been transferred from the medicaldivision of the Upjohn Company to a posi­tion as director of the department of in­fectious disease in the research division.Fenton Schaffner has just completed aneighteen-month tour of duty as gastroenter­ologist of the Naval Hospital at GreatLakes, Illinois, and is now back in prac­tice of internal medicine at the WoodlawnClinic across the Midway from The Clinics.He has accumulated four children in thelast ten years.LaRele J. Stephens reports that he andhis family are all O.K. Stephens has a prac­tice of obstetrics and gynecology in Mos­cow. Idaho, that is.William H. Thompson is practicingradiology in a group including John Find­ley, '44, in San Mateo, California.'44. Andrew J. Canzonetti is senior at­tending surgeon at the New Britain, Con­necticut, General Hospital.Robert E. Joranson, Council Bluffs, isenjoying his two sons, his busy practiceof internal medicine, and his part-timeteaching position at the University ofNebraska Medical School in Omaha.'45. John P. Lombardi wants to takethis opportunity to establish contact againwith his many colleagues from the Univer­sity. After entering the Public Health Serv­ice, he was appointed surgical resident inDetroit and is now chief of thoracic surgeryat the Public Health Service Hospital inStaten Island. He says he gets as muchthrill out of the accomplishments of histhree children as he does out of segmentalresection. Plans for the future includesettling in southern California next July,but in the meantime he would enjoy hear­ing from any of his old classmates.'47. J. R. Barberio is completing his lastyear of general surgical training in theGeorge Washington University training pro­gram as chief resident in surgery at St.Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. Harold G. Carstensen has completedresidency training in obstetrics-gynecologyat Walter Reed Army Hospital and is nowat the William Beaumont Army Hospital,Fort Bliss, Texas.H. Virginia Gilliland of Portland, Ore­gon, writes: "Full-time pediatric practice inGod's country. Have renewed myoid inter­ests in photography and horses. Am con­sidering skiing too, though the joints getstiff easily. P.S. 80 miles to the ocean and 50to the mountains."'48. Charles J. Buhrow is now a residentin radiology at the Public Health Hospital,Baltimore, Maryland.Asher J. Finkel is the new director of theHealth Division at Argonne National. Labo­ratory, Lemont, Illinois.After his tuberculosis "exile" at TrudeauSanatorium, Ernst R. Jaffe is now back onthe house staff as assistant resident in inter­nal medicine at Presbyterian Hospital inNew York City, where he hopes to finishnext June. At the same hospital are SanfordWeismann, '49, Peter Wolkonsky, '52, andArnold Flick, '54.Paul S. Russell is spending a year in Lon­don with Professor P. B. Medawar in theDepartment of Zoology, University College,of the University of London studying prob­lems of transplantation of tissues. He andhis wife chose this opportunity to have theirfirst child, Katherine. After the year is up,he plans to return to Massachusetts GeneralHospital to complete his surgical training.'49. In May, after completing his tour ofduty at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base,Gerald M. Miller plans to enter the privatepractice of urology in the same city. He willalso be on the faculty of the University ofColorado School of Medicine and urologicalconsultant to the base.Robert E. Slayton is currently assistantmedical officer at the Naval Air Station,Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.Nancy Warner stopped by The Clinicsfor a short visit last December while on herway back to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital inLos Angeles from Florida where she hadtaken her pathology board exams. She sug­gested we not inquire about the reason forMarilyn Monroe's recent admission to thehospital.'50. George H. Berryman, North Chi­cago, spoke on obesity at the annual meet­ing of the American Dietetic Associationheld in Philadelphia last October.Harold A. Mason is working as a medi­cal missionary in French Equatorial Africaafter studying sixteen months in France. Atpresent his work consists of helping in thesupervision of six widely scattered dispen­saries, but soon the area will have a newhospital. The climate is hot, but only rarelyis it uncomfortably so. The Masons' threechildren have forgotten the French theylearned in Paris and are now picking up afew words of Sango.James M. Sutherland is spending an en­joyable year (and perhaps two) in neonatalphysiology at Boston Lying-in. He has seenEji Suyama and family and Jean and Mar­tin Kohn.[Continued on page 12]6 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINEXECUTIVE HEALTH PROGRAMAs a business executive grows morevaluable to his company with maturityand experience, his health is at the sametime increasingly threatened by theusual hazards of aging and the strain ofadded responsibility. Realizing howmuch they have at stake in protectingthe health of their key executives, manycorporations have asked to have theirofficials periodically examined at TheClinics. Wright Adams, chairman of theDepartment of Medicine, has workedout a program designed to meet theirimmediate needs and, on a larger scale,to study the general question of how toextend man's productive years.The examinations consist of a medicalhistory, a physical examination, and aseries of laboratory tests. A personalhistory with emphasis on work and lei­sure habits and stresses is included.The examinations are planned to de­tect life-threatening disease before itproduces symptoms and to evaluate thephysical effects of work stresses. Thediagnostic procedures which expose hid­den disease will yield full value fromthe time of the first examination, butsome of the tests will become more andmore valuable as they are repeated.Most of the latter are attempts to meas­ure the aging process. Some methodsserve both functions. The evaluation ofthe aging process as it affects executivefunction and as it is modified by thestresses of executive work is a relativelynew field. As successive annual exami­nations are carried out, the accuracyand usefulness of such estimates shouldincrease.Although the battery of procedureshas been carefully selected, the value ofsome of them is controversial, andothers of possible worth have not beenincluded. One of the objectives of theprogram is to test the tests, and it isanticipated that the schedule will bealtered as experience is developed. Inthe minds of the University group thedevelopment of a simple, effective pat­tern for health examinations is one ofthe major objectives. The usefulness ofthe annual "check-up" to the individualwill increase as the battery of tests isimproved, as a personal base line oftests develops, and as confidence andunderstanding grow between the patientand the physician.Corporations will be provided withan annual report based on the generalfindings of the survey. A technical re­port will be made of each examinationand furnished to any physician theexaminee may designate. In addition tothese two reports, there will be a per­sonal discussion with each executive.Positive findings will be explained, and, if indicated, advice will be given aboutwork habits and the desirability of fur­ther medical care.Reports of individual medical exami­nations can be made to the corporationif the examinee consents, but experi­ence has shown many disadvantages tothis, and we do not recommend it. Re­porting of findings from the group as awhole without individual reference ismore valuable to the corporation andless threatening to individuals who takeadvantage of the service. It is hopedthat findings will be made which will behelpful in guiding personnel policies.Several objectives included in somesimilar programs are not a part of thisone. First, this is not an effort to pro­vide complete medical care. Every ef­fort will be made by the examininggroup not to interfere with previouslyestablished relationships between indi­viduals and personal physicians. Longexperience has shown conclusively thatno aspect of medical. care is as effectiveas a continuing relationship between apatient and his personal physician. Ifsome of the executives have membersof our medical group as physicians, thatrelationship will be maintained asidefrom the Executive Health Program.This program is designed to supplementrather than to replace the service ren­dered by a personal physician.Second, special examinations designedto make diagnoses of remedial defectswhich do not constitute major threatsto life or health are not included. Thusspecial examinations of sight, hearing,teeth, etc., are not included. Almosteveryone of the patients has adequatecare for these conditions, and it is in­efficient to separate diagnosis and treat­ment for such defects. Full advantagewill, of course, be taken of findingswhich the general examination elicits.Third, this is not an attempt to eval­uate executives for promotion or to de­termine aptitudes for specific work. Theprogram is limited to the evaluation ofthe factor of health as it bears upon theover-all work effectiveness of the indi­vidual.Examinations will be carried out an­nually. A few of the tests will not re­quire repetition so frequently, but thegreat majority should be done eachyear. The examinations will requireabout three days in the hospital. Thisis necessary because some of the testsmust be performed early in the morn­ing, and some require that the subjectreceive special preparation the eveningbefore. Examinees may enter the hos­pital on Sunday evening and leave dur­ing the day on- Wednesday or enterWednesday evening and leave Saturday. WILLIAM LESTER, JR.,LEA VES . THE UNIVERSITYOn March 1, 1955, William LesterJr., associate professor of medicine anrdirector of Student Health Servicesince 1950, left the University to takeup his duties as chief of staff of theLESTERnew one-hundred-and-fifty-four-bed hos­pital-sanitarium which serves the Sub­urban Cook County Tuberculosis Sani­tarium District. Completed at a cost ofapproximately four million dollars, thenew hospital has been constructed andequipped to provide the most modernfacilities for the care and treatment oftuberculous patients. However, unlikemost sanitaria, laboratory facilities anda budget are also provided for investi­gative work in all phases of tuberculosis.Dr. Lester brings to the sanitarium theexperience of an established investigatorin the field of infectious disease.After being graduated from the Uni­versity of Chicago School of Medicine in1941, Dr. Lester took his internship atthe' N ew Orleans Marine Hospit41; afterwhich he spent the next four -years inmilitary service, reaching the rank ofmajor in the Army Medical Corps. In1946 he returned to the University asinstructor in medicine and became asso­ciated with O. H. Robertson in thestudy of the fundamental nature of air­borne infections. Following the retire­ment of Dr. Robertson, he and his asso­ciates have continued studies .on physi­cal factors which contribute to the sur­vival or death of organisms in the en-vironment. .For the last two and a half years Dr.Lester's group has been investigating theepidemiology of pulmonary tuberculosis,including modes of dispersal and sur­vival of tubercle bacilli in the environ­ment and mechanisms of spread fromMEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 7::>ENTAL ANTHROPOLOGYIN ZOLLEREstablishment of a laboratory for fur­hering the study of common problemsf dentistry and physical anthropologylas been announced by Frank J. Orland,lirectcr of the Zoller Memorial Dental:linic. The activities of the Zoller Lab­ratory of Dental Anthropology will beuided by Albert A. Dahlberg, researchssociate in anthropology and in Zoller)ental Clinic. Dr. Dahlberg has beenrriting and doing research in the fields,f dental evolution, morphology, and:enetics with emphasis on the applica­ion of these sciences to dental prob­ems. He was associated with Billings)ental Clinic from 1932 to 1936 andesumed affiliation with the University11 1949, when he was appointed to thenthropology staff, to, further his basictudies of dentition.The new Zoller laboratory promiseso become a leading center of dentitiontudies. Currently interested in this de­relopment and in allied areas of activity.re Sherwood Washburn, chairman ofhe Department of Anthropology;�verett C. Olson, secretary of the De­artment of Geology; Herluf Strand­kov, human geneticist from the De­iartment of Zoology; and Bryan Pat­erson, paleontologist at the Chicago�atural History Museum. Another scien­ist involved in dentition studies is Dr.:lark Howells, of St. Louis University,vho is returning to the University thispring. Kenneth Oakley, chemist-anthro­iologist of the British Museum of Nat­iral History in London, will join thetroup next year for a quarter to give 'aeminar course on dentition. Professor)akley is credited with having disclosedhe hoax of Piltdown man by his micro­:hemical studies of the specimens,ALBERT DAHLBERG, D.D.S,me individual to another. The new hos­iital-sanitarium will be ideally suited'or continuing the study of these andither fundamental problems concerning.he epidemiology, treatment, and control)f tuberculosis.The hospital-sanitarium is located ont forty-acre tract of land at Countyjne Road and Fifty-fifth Street in3:insdale, Illinois. Dr. and Mrs, Lestermd their two sons will live on thisieautifully landscaped area in an attrac­ive ranch-type house which was con­.tructed for the superintendent.Since his return to the University, Dr,.ester has been active in the affairs ofhe Medical Alumni Association and forhe last four years has been Editor ofhe Medical Alumni Bulletin. His asso­iates and many friends wish him everyuccess in his new responsibility. GALLERY OF MEDICAL HISTORY"Une lecon clinique a la Salpetriere" (Charcot)Long before the history of medicinebecame a branch of study worthy ofinclusion in the curriculum of medicalschools, it had been the avocation ofmany physicians and even laymen. In­numerable books denoting milestones ofmedical progress have survived neglectand destruction because of the lovingcare given to them by amateurs ofmedical history. After enjoying theirlibraries for years, many of these col­lectors felt impelled to part with theirtreasures in order to make them avail­able to a wider audience. Thus, the Uni­versity of Chicago has been the gratefulrecipient of several such collections,which still bear the names of their do­nors. Outstanding among these is Dr.Lester E. Frankenthal's collection ofrare works on gynecology and obstetricswhich is deposited in the Lying-in Hos­pital. Dr. Arno B. Luckhardt's collectionof Beaumont memorabilia is on perma­nent display in the Billings Library.One of its items of general historicalinterest is a chair given to Dr. WilliamBeaumont by Captain Robert E. Lee.Equally precious, and perhaps evenmore unusual, are pictures of medico­historical interest, and it is the goodfortune of the University to have re­ceived two such collections shortly be­fore it opened the doors of its newSchool of Medicine in 1927. The gener­ous collectors were Charles B. Pike, aChicago businessman, and Dr. FrankWebster Jay, a physician of Evanston.Medicine is a continuous progress towhich innumerable physicians and scien­tists have contributed. Nothing illus­trates this point better than the picturescontained in the Pike and Jay collec­tions. From Hippocrates to Billroth, from Albertus to Roentgen, the story ofmedicine unfolds in the accomplishmentsof these men.In addition to portraits, these collec­tions contain pictures of famous earlyhospitals and of a number of strikingmedical situations. Thus, the pictorialrepresentation of a seance of Mesmer,Charcot's demonstration of hysteria, astreet scene of Marseilles during itsplague epidemic in 172O-just to namea few-convey the mood of these occa­sions better than could be done in thebest of verbal descriptions. Also part of,the collection is a letter of Boerhaave,the eminent Dutch physician.The most valuable piece from a mate­rial point of view is contained in Dr.Jay's collection: it is a line engravingdepicting a scene of the plague in Phyrg­ia which was executed in the fifteenthcentury by the first and most famous ofthe Italian engravers, Marcantonio Rai­mondi. Four hundred years later, an im­pression of this rare print brought theequivalent of almost two thousand dol­lars at an auction in London.The Pike and Jay collections are tooextensive to be displayed in toto. Sev­eral hundreds of the pictures are keptin a special cabinet in Billings Hospital;they are fully catalogued and availablefor inspection and reproduction. Aboutone hundred engravings, which had been,framed almost thirty years ago, are nowbeing restored and will be hung in Bil­lings, in expression of a thought onceformulated by Sir William Osler: "Inthe continued contemplation' of great­ness of the past, nations and individualsreceive their inspiration."ILZA VEITH8 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINRUSH ALUMNI NEWS 1'01. Fred L. Adair, Maitland, Florida,was the recipient of the honorary scroll pre­sented at the Congress Banquet, Thirty-fifthAnniversary Celebration of the AmericanCommittee on Maternal Welfare, which washeld at the Sixth American Congress onObstetrics and Gynecology last December inChicago.'03. Thomas Parsche and Mrs. Parschevisited us in February. They are makingplans to live permanently in Biloxi, Missis­sippi, where he will practice as a diagnosti­cian. For many years he has been attendingsurgeon at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago.The Parsches were our guests at his fiftiethanniversary in 1953. We wish them well.'10. Robert L. Benson has retired frompractice and is living in Portland, Oregon.'13. Ralph H. Kuhns bas been appointedto the Committee on Veterans of the Ameri­can Psychiatric Association.'16. Claude W. Mitchell, of Silver Spring,Maryland, has retired from active practice.He plans to attend the Anniversary Con­gress of the International College of Sur­geons to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, inMay.'17. Aaron E. Kanter has been appointedprofessor and chairman of the Departmentof Obstetrics and Gynecology at the ChicagoMedical School. He is a past president of theChicago Gynecological Society.LeRoy H. Sloan, Chicago, is the new edi­tor-in-chief of the Tice-Sloan Practice ojMedicine.Claire L. Straith is part of a group ofthe Straith Clinic, Detroit. The new clinicand forty-bed hospital have been estab­lished mainly for the care of plastic andreconstructive surgery cases.'19. William A. Kristensen, of Pasadena,California, has recently returned from a six­month stay in Europe.'20. George M. Curtis, former chairmanof the department of surgical research andprofessor of surgery at Ohio State Univer­sity, has become emeritus professor.'22. The A. C. Eitzen family have just re­turned to Hillsboro, Kansas, from a nine­week trip abroad. Three weeks were spent inseven countries in Europe, and the rest ofthe time in Egypt and the Holy Land. First­hand observation of the Arab-Israel prob­lem was especially interesting.Leo M. Zimmerman is secretary-treasur­er of the Society of Medical History of Chi­cago and is chairman of the Department ofSurgery at Chicago Medical School.'23. Willis J. Potts's presidential addressat the thirty-ninth annual meeting of theInstitute of Medicine of Chicago last Decem­ber was entitled "Children Cry."'24. Arthur N. Wilson, of Ketchikan, isa member of the Alaska Territorial Boardof Health. He has read two papers at meet­ings of the Territorial Medical Society:"Epidemic of Poliomyelitis in Ketchikan,1952," and "Salmonella Infection Trans­ferred by Sea Gulls, 1954."'25. Ralph W. Gerard, of Stanford, Cali­fornia, was married on January 1 to LeonaBachrach Chalkley.D. W. Heusinkveld, of Cincinnati, ispresident-elect of the Ohio State Medical So­ciety. BQ\lid john Barns1875-195tDavid John Davis, M.D., Rush '03, Ph.D.in pathology, 'OS, died in Chicago Decem­ber 19, 1954, in his eightieth year.In the formative years when Dr. Davis'interests in basic research, medical educa­tion, and teaching were being developed, hecame under the influence of Frank Billingsand of Ludvig Hektoen, under whom hetook his higher degree.He became part-time instructor and as­sistant professor of pathology at Rush Med­ical College and was also pathologist withThis portrait of DR. DAVIS hangs in thePathology Conference Room among the otherPh.D.'s of the department.Hektoen and LeCount at Presbyterian Hos­pital. In 1908 he assisted Hugh McKenna,'03, in establishing a clinical laboratory inSt. Joseph Hospital, Chicago. Correlatedwith this was one of the first programs forthe education of staff physicians by meansof conference work, case reports, and semi­nars with scientific papers. Diagnostic bac­teriology at this time meant fundamentalstudies on common bacteria and on suchrare diseases as glanders.After a year of study in Vienna and inFreiburg;... with Aschoff, he became head ofthe newly organized pathological laboratoryat St. Luke's Hospital. In 1913 as head ofthe Department of Pathology and Bacteri­ology at the University of Illinois he beganhis career as teacher and as trainer of in­vestigators and teachers. In 1924 he wasappointed dean of the College of Medicineof the University of Illinois and for eighteenyears served in this capacity. This was theperiod of the greatest growth and develop­ment of the medical school in which heintegrated the teaching programs for thethree professional colleges at the Chicagocampus.Dr. Davis had broad general interests inliterature and music and was deeply inter­ested in history. In recognition of his greatinterest in medical history, the D. J. DavisLectureship was established in his honor atthe time of his retirement. '26. Esmond R. Long and his wife leftPhiladelphia in September for a very pleas­ant two-month trip to Spain to attend thesemiannual meeting of the InternationalUnion against Tuberculosis in Madrid,where Dr. Long was a delegate of the Na­tional Tuberculosis Association.'27. Alexander Brunschwig, New YorkCity, was guest speaker at the third annualcancer seminar presented by the Arizona di­vision of the American Cancer Society inassociation with the Arizona Medical Asso­ciation at Phoenix in January.'28. Meyer A. Perlstein, Chicago, isassistant professor of pediatrics at North­western University and is president of theAmerican Academy for Cerebral Palsy.'32. Mildred McKie Keithahn leads avery interesting life in South India. She re­ports that Western medicine is not availableand is too costly for 85-90 per cent of thepeople who live in the villages. She has beentrying to make up for this lack of medicalaid by rediscovering and reinstating the nat­ural methods of healing as used in ancientIndia. Much has been lost, more forgotten,and with the inroads of Western civilizationthe villagers have gotten away from theirown health practices. She has also beenworking hard to finance a surgical clinic fortreatment of cataract. She has been asked topresent her plan to the government for pos­sible introduction into the basic school sys­tem.Dr. Keithahn plans to make her decennialtrip to the United States with one of hertwo daughters either in 1956 or 1957. Bothgirls plan to become doctors with degreesfrom state-side schools."We are pioneering in a needy field. If anyof you are interested, come on over-thewater is fine--even if a bit brackish in thewells and muddy elsewhere."'34. During his six months at The Clinics,Ralph B. Cloward, of Honolulu, spoke on"Pathology and Mechanism of Pain of Rup­tured Lumbar Intervertebral Disk: Treat­ment by Vertebral Body-Tusion" at the No­vember meeting of the Chicago NeurologicalSociety.Marie A. Hinrichs, director of the Bu­reau of Health Services, Chicago Board ofEducation, and editor-in-chief of the Journaloj School Health, lectured on "The Promo­tion of Better Health Services for the Pupilsof the Chicago Public Schools" before theCook County Federation of Women's Clubslast October.Bernadine Siebers-DeValois is honoraryconsultant in ear, nose, and throat at theChristian Medical College and Hospital,Vellore, South India. She is also working inpublic health work connected with the ruralreconstruction program of World NeighborsInc., U.S.A.'35. Paul T. Lambertus has a practice ofobstetrics and gynecology and is head ofthat department at the Quincy Clinic,Quincy, Illinois.William L. McEwen, who has a generalpractice of surgery in Taft, California, re­ports that he and his family are all in excel­lent health. His spare time is taken up withhunting, fishing, and ranching.MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 9FACULTY NEWSWilliam E. Adams has been elected as­iistant director of the American Board ofl'horacic Surgery. He discussed "Esopha­:itis," and Joseph B. Kirsner talked on'Ulcerative Colitis," in October at a meet­ng of the North Side Branch of the Chicagovledical Society.Percival Bailey, of the University of Illi­lois faculty, delivered the 1954 Charles A.�lsberg Lecture in November at the New{ork Academy of Medicine. His subject was'Psychomotor Epilepsy: Its Relation to the1isceral Brain." A dinner in his honor wasield in the President's Gallery of the acad­my preceding the lecture.Drs. William and Margaret Barclay.nd their family will leave for a six-month�uropean visit on March 29. He will work.t Oxford and London in connection withlis Lowell M. Palmer, Sr., Fellowship. TheIarclays will tour the Continent before theireturn.Emmet Bay, Rush '23, spoke at a sym­iosium of the Kentucky Heart Association.n "The Use of Anticoagulant Drugs in Am­.ulatory Patients" at the University of.ouisville Medical School in January. He,irnest E. Irons, Rush '03, and Morris Fish­rein were the speakers at a joint meeting inlctober of the Institute of Medicine of Chi­ago and the Society of Medical History of.hicago in memory of James B. Herrick.Earl P. Benditt gave a paper on "Thesolation and Some Properties of Rat Mast.ell Granules" at the December meeting ofhe Chicago Pathological Society.Delbert M. Bergenstal, '47, talked onEndocrinology" at a symposium on malig­ant disease held in Cleveland in November.hich was held as a community serviceostgraduate educational program under theuspices of the Cuyahoga unit and the Ohioivision of the American Cancer Society'ield Army.Henry W. Brosin, Pittsburgh, deliveredhe Christopher C. Beling Memorial Lecture,Some Disorders of Eating," in Novembert the first annual Psychiatric Institute ofae Veterans Administration Hospital, EastIrange, New Jersey, under the sponsorshipf the New Jersey Neuropsychiatric Asso­iation and the hospital.Ray Brown is president-elect of the. merican Hospital Association.The Wesley M. Carpenter Lecture wasiven by Paul Cannon before the New'ork Academy of Medicine last October. HeJoke on "The Changing Pathologic Picturef Infection since the Introduction ofhemotherapy and Antibiotics."Donald Cassels spoke on "Practicaloints in the Diagnosis and Treatment ofheumatic Heart Disease" at the Novembereeting of the Aux Plaines Branch of thehicago Medical Society. Egbert Fell dis­rssed "Surgery of Congenital Malforma­ms of the Heart."At the Sectional Meeting of the Americanallege of Surgeons held in Cleveland in.ibruary, the following were speakers:.mes Clarke, "An Outbreak of Wound In­:tions Due to Antibiotic Resistant Staphy­coccus Aureus": William E. Adams,ichalasia of the Esophagus"; and Paul V. Harper, "Isotope Therapy for Carcinoma ofthe Pancreas."Lowell T. Coggeshall spent two weeksin Egypt in January as chairman of theAdvisory Panel on the Medical Sciences tothe Department of Defense and as consult­ant to the Naval Medical Research UnitNo.3 at Cairo. This unit is set up to studydiseases of the tropics and of the MiddleEast.Gail Dack, of microbiology, director ofthe Food Research Institute, met with theWorld Health Organization Expert Com­mittee on Meat Hygienes in Geneva, Swit­zerland, in December.In February Thomas Dao spoke on "TheTreatment of Advanced Breast Cancer" be­fore the Medical College of Evangelists,Los Angeles, and gave seminars at DonnerLaboratory, University of California, SanFrancisco.M. Edward Davis participated in a post­graduate session of the Iowa Academy ofGeneral Practice last February in DesMoines. He and H. C. Hesseltine led paneldiscussions at the Sixth American Congresson Obstetrics and Gynecology held at thePalmer House in December.Raymond Dern, research assistant inmedicine, has joined Peter Talso at LoyolaUniversity as assistant professor of medi­cine.William Dieckmann spent three weeksvisiting Caracas, Venezuela, and Lima. Peru.He also went to Yucatan and Mexico topursue a special archeological interest-pre­Columbian obstetrics and gynecology.Albert Dorfman talked on "Treatmentof Rheumatic Fever" for the postgraduatecourse given by the American College ofPhysicians at Michael Reese Hospital lastDecember.John Doull, '53, of pharmacology, hasbeen appointed director of the Air ForceRadiation Laboratory here at the Universityof Chicago.Two talks were given by E, M. K. Geilingin January, both on weighty subjects: "TheImpact of the Atomic Age on the BiologicalSciences," heard by the Volunteer MedicalCompany 9-20, U.S. Naval Reserve, at thenew Veterans Research Hospital in Chicago,and "The Biology of Whales," at JeffersonMedical College, Philadelphia .J. Thomas Grayston, '48, spoke on "ThePathogenesis and Pathology of Experimen­tal Histoplasmosis Injections in Mice," andD. Koch-Weser on "The Influence of Iso­nazid and Streptomycin on Acid-fastness,Tetrazalium Reduction, Growth, and Sur­vival of Tubercle Bacilli" at the Decembermeeting of the Chicago Group of the Amer­ican Federation for Clinical Research. Theevening address was presented by WilliamBloom, whose subject was "Irradiation ofSmall Parts of Dividing Celis."In January Robert Hasterlik, Rush '38,spent ten days in the Bahamas as consultantto the Lerner Marine Biological Laboratory,Bimini.Paul Hodges served as moderator at apanel discussion on "Diagnosis and Thera­py" at the October meeting of the IllinoisChapter, American College of Chest Phy­sicians. Friends of A. J. CARLSON gave him aparty at the Quadrangle Club on his eighti­eth birthday. This picture was taken on thatoccasion.Charles Huggins has been elected amember of the Commission on Cancer Re­search of the Union Internationale ContreIe Cancer.Eleanor M. Humphreys, Rush '31, wasmoderator at a panel discussion on "Careersin Medicine for Women" in November be­fore a meeting of the American MedicalWomen's Association in Chicago.Dwight Ingle spoke at a symposium ofthe Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of theNew York Academy of Medicine in Phila­delphia in December. His subject was "TheEffect of Endocrine Changes on NormalMuscle Work."Leon Jacobson participated in a paneldiscussion dealing with the clinical use ofisotopes at the annual meeting of the Radi­ological Society of North America whichwas held in Los Angeles in December.H. P. Jenkins, Rush '27, and Lester R.Dragsredr, Rush '21, were on the Januaryprogram of the Chicago Surgical Society,which consisted of a symposium on pan­creatitis.Richard Jones, of medicine, spoke on"The Physiology of Atherosclerosis" at theUniversity of Buffalo in October.Allan T. Kenyon spoke on "Androgens"at the February program of the ChicagoMedical School Lecture Series.George V. LeRoy discussed "Clinical Useof Radioactive Drugs" at the January meet­ing of the Calumet Branch of the ChicagoMedical Society.Clayton Loosli, '37, has been electedFellow of the American College of Phy­sicians, president of the Central Society forClinical Research, appointed a member ofthe Committee on Diabetes Detection ofthe Chicago Medical Society, and appointeda member of the Postdoctoral SelectionCommittee, Division of Medical Sciences,National Research Council (for evaluationof qualifications of applicants for the Na­tional Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fel­lowships).10 MEDICAL .ALUMNI BULLETINThe National Research Council now hasFranklin C. McLean on its Army MedicalEducation Committee.Jules H. Masserrnan spoke in Decemberat the New York Academy of Medicine.The lecture was entitled "Is Psychiatry aScience?" and was open to the laity.Benjamin Miller has been appointed di­rector of the Jewish Hospital Association'sMay Institute for Medical Research in Cin­cinnati. He formerly was senior associatephysician at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital,Boston, and lecturer on medicine at HarvardMedical School. .C. P. Miller has been appointed to mem­bership on the Advisory Medical Board ofthe American Hospital of Paris. He wasalso recently made a member of the edi­torial board of the Journal of Immunology.Russell H. Morgan, Baltimore, partic­ipated in a program on X-rays andinstru­mentation given at the seventh annual Con­ference on Electrical Techniques in Medi­cine and Biology, which was held in Chicagolast November.Peter Moulder, '45, presented "Prob­lems in the Management of Hypothermia"at the January meeting of the Jackson ParkBranch of the Chicago Medical Society. Atthe same meeting Stanley P. Rigler, res­ident in surgery, discussed "The Effect ofPyloric Stenosis on Gastric Secretion andPeptic Ulceration," and Harry A. Ober­helman, Jr., resident in surgery, presented"Clinical Failures Following Vagotomy andTheir Causes."Heney Necheles, professorial lecturer inphysiology, who is also director of the de­partment of gastrointestinal research atMichael Reese Hospital, has been namedhonorary member of the gastroenterolog­ical societies of Uruguay, Chile, and Peru.He recently returned from a lecture tourthrough South and Central America.William Neff has been promoted to pro­fessor in the Department of Psychology.His appointment is in both the Biologicaland the Social Sciences divisions.Sidney W. Nelson, assistant professor,department of radiology, will become chair­man of that department at Ohio State Uni­versity next July.In February Frank Newell gave lecturesat the University of Minnesota Center forContinuation Studies. His titles were "Glau­coma Surgery" and "Recent Advances inTherapeutics."Walter 1. Palmer is president-elect ofthe American College of Physicians.Henry Perlman addressed the KansasCity Otolaryngological Society on "Vas­cular Problems of the Cochlea" in No­vember.Mila Pierce is now a medical adviser ofthe Hematology Research Foundation. Atthe October meeting of the Chicago Pedi­atric Society she talked on "The Treatmentof Erythroblastosis with the ExchangedTransfusion." At the same meeting EdithPotter talked on "The Management of theRh Negative Patient."Edith Potter gave the Katherine BairdMemorial Lecture at the University of Wis­consin in November.Bruce Proctor, Detroit, spoke on "Tech­niques of Radical Neck Dissection" at theannual meeting of the Indiana State Med­ical Association in Indianapolis last October. O. H. Robertson has found awonderful way to retire: "At presentI'm having a very good time carry­ing on experimental work on theendocrinology of salmon and trout,more particularly the pituitary-gonadrelationship in these fishes. I have alaboratory at home in the Santa CruzMountains where the experimentaltrout are maintained and anotherlaboratory at Stanford University.I am conducting field experiments atLake Tahoe on the nature of thepost-spawning death of the Pacificsalmon and am collaborating withthe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serviceon the Upper Columbia River intheir investigations of ways andmeans of increasing the salmonruns."On a visit to Dr. Robertson'shome recently, Clayton Loosli, '37,found our emeritus professor busyperforming hypophysectomies on fishout of water, using special techniqueswhich he had developed.The new chairman of the HypertensionCommittee of the Chicago Heart Associa­tion is Theodore Pullman.Richard B. Richter talked on "UnusualMyopathy" and gave two case reports atthe J arruary meeting of the Chicago Neu­rological Society.Henry T. Ricketts spoke on "Diabetes"in November at the fifth annual scientificassembly of the Nassau County, New York,Chapter of the American Academy of Gen­eral Practice, held in Garden City, LongIsland. He is the new chairman of theboard of the Institute of Medicine ofChicago."Clinical Evaluation of 205 PatientsTreated with Phenylbutazone" was the sub­ject of David Ruml's talk before the Chi­cago Rheumatism Society in January.Ernst Albert Scharrer, who was in chargeof the Neurological Institute at the Uni­versity of Frankfort-on-Main before com­ing to this university as a Rockefeller Fel­low in 1937, has been appointed professorand chairman of the department of anatomyat the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,Yeshiva University, New York City. Since1946 he has been associate professor ofanatomy at the University of Colorado.Helmut Seckel will leave in April tospend six months at European universitiesand to present a paper on precocious puber­ty at the annual congress of the GermanPediatric Society in Freiburg, in September.Prior to the congress, he will lecture andmake rounds at several children's hospitalsin Germany. A great deal of his time willbe spent in the university hospitals atGeneva. He will study the Franceschettisyndrome of facial deformity at Dr. Fran­ceschetti's own hospital there.Ben H. Spargo, '52, spoke on "The Ef­fects of a Low Phosphorus Ration on Cal­cium Metabolism in the Rat with the Pro­duction of Calcium Citrate Urinary Cal­culi" at the December meeting of the Chi­cago Pathological Society. Several former faculty members were (the program of the Annual Clinical COlference of the Chicago Medical SocietyMarch. Peter J. Talso, Loyola UniversitChicago, lectured on "The Management,Hypertensive Disease"; Edward 1. COilpere, Rush '27, professor and chairmadepartment of bone and joint surgerNorthwestern University, presented "Curent Ideas in the Management of Fracturof the Upper Extremities" on color tel,vision; Seymour J. Gray, assistant pnfessor of medicine, Harvard, discuss!"Stress Hormones and Peptic Ulcer"; arClinton 1. Compere, '38, assistant pnfessor, department of bone and joint sugery, Northwestern University, present!"Extremity Ainputations and the ModelProsthesis" on color television.Paul Steiner gave a lecture entitled "TINature of Cancer" at Northwestern Unversity in November.Among those who recently entered miltary service are: Harry Trosrnan, PS)chiatry, who is at the U.S. Naval HospitaCamp Pendleton, California; Ernest BeuIer, '50, medicine, who is at Camp Die1rich, Maryland; William Kenner, radiology, who is in the Army; Conrad T'huistone, '53, surgery, who is at an Air ForeBase in Alaska.Joseph Wepman discussed "Recoverof Language as Related to Rehabilitatioof Aphasic Patients" at the January meeting of the Chicago Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.The 1954 winner of the Joseph Goldberger Award in Clinical Nutrition presented by the Food and Nutrition Boarrof the National Research Council waRussell M. Wilder.Sheldon Zinn, ophthalmology, is novwith the U.S. Public Health Service ancis stationed at Fort Defiance, Arizona, oran Indian reservation.[Continued from page 4]Admission-pacity as Dean of Medical Students, ]have yet to meet a student who wasforced to abandon his medical studiesfor purely financial reasons. Whateverthe reasons may be for the present lackof a sufficient number of well-qualifiedapplicants for the study of medicine, itis apparent that serious efforts must betmilde to increase the numbers of prom­sing premedical students. Otherwise notnly our medical schools but also theealth and welfare of our nation willuffer.Some time ago a physician, writingto me in support of an applicant, stated,"Medicine is a rigorous field and shouldbe recommended only to the mentallygifted, the emotionally stable, and thephysically strong." Add to this state­ment the qualities of "good characterand sincere motivation," and one has aconcise description of the desired medi­cal student. There are many students incollege today who fit this description,and our medical schools have places forevery one of them.MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 11RESIDENT NEWSMichael Atkinson, who is sponsored bythe Nuffield Foundation in England, isworking with. Walter Palmer, Rush '22,and Joseph Kirsner in medicine here.Brahm Baittle is now in private prac­tice in psychiatry in Chicago as well as afellow in child psychiatry at the Institutefor Juvenile Research.Maxine T. Clarke has been elected sec­retary-treasurer of the Chicago Society ofI\.nesthesiologis ts. She is in the private prac­tice of anesthesiology at Mercy Hospital,Chicago.Joaquin Coto, director of anesthesiologyIt the University of San Salvador, visitedChicago friends in October.Ruby K. Daniel talked on "OphthalmicManifestations of Internal Diseases" at theNovember symposium on office proceduresoresented in Colorado Spring by the Colo­.ado Academy of General Practice. WilliamJ. Dieckmann discussed "Gynecologic OfficeProcedures."Three former members of our resident;taff participated in the National Assemblyif Surgeons in Mexico City last November:Guillermo de Orando, Mexico City, spokeIn "Hypotensive Drugs"; Jesus Salda­mando, Guadalajara, lectured on "Aries­:hesia in Intrathoracic Surgery"; and Al­fonso Topete, Guadalajara, presented anew anestheticc apparatus for use in re­;earch surgery.John J. Fahey presented his film on'Trigger Finger in Children" at the J anu­iry meeting of the Chicago Pediatric Society.After leaving The Clinics in 1947, Louis::ioldstein went to Washington, D.C., aslead of the department of obstetrics andrynecology at Group Health Association..n 1951 he entered private practice. Helas had the pleasure of seeing many of thetudents of the University whom he knewluring his residency and has given ob­tetrical care to many of their wives.Keith Grimson, Duke University, Dur­tam, North Carolina, presented a film onPheochromocytoma" at the clinic meeting-f the American Medical Association in1iami in December.This was received from William B.. ooney at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Be­hesda, Maryland, last November: "The.gyptian government has requested myervices to introduce the medical and bi­logical uses of radioisotopes in Egypt. Iiall be leaving for Egypt shortly to assist1 the selection of personnel to bring tolis country for training. This program isesigned to extend over a three-year period.is hoped that these Egyptians will beccepted in laboratories in this country. hich can best give them training for work11 the medical and biological problems of.eir country."Ruth C. Martin, now on the faculty ofuke University, was a participant in theientific exhibit on "The Influence of Anes­etic Drugs and Techniques on Cerebro­inal Fluid Pressure," which was presentedthe annual meeting of the American So- Last June Paul C. Bucy returnedfrom a three-month trip to SouthAmerica, where he gave lectures ata number of universities in Brazil,Peru, and Uruguay. However, thereal purpose of his visit was to serveas Visiting Professor of NeurologicalSurgery at the University de MinasGerais at Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Hespent two months there giving lec­tures and demonstrations, seeing pa­tients, and performing a few opera­tions. At the end of this time he waselected Honorary Professor.He and Mrs. Bucy then made atour of interesting portions of thecontinent. They visited rural dis­tricts, leprosariums, mental, general,and private hospitals, and most ofthe medical schools of Brazil. He en­joyed a half-hour visit with DictatorPeron in Argentina, found Uruguaya contrastingly delightful little de­mocracy, and was most interested inthe fascinating prehistoric Indian cul­ture of Peru.In the previous autumn theyjoined the Percival Baileys for avisit to Spain and Portugal includ­ing a lecture in Seville. Leaving theirfriends in Spain, they began an auto­mobile tour through several of themajor countries of Europe.Dr. Bucy is now professor ofsurgery at Northwestern Universityand attending neurological surgeonin charge of the division of neuro­logical surgery at Chicago WesleyMemorial Hospital.ciety of Anesthesiologists in Cincinnati,Ohio, last October.In October Edward S. Petersen wastransferred from the Veterans Administra­tion Research Hospital, Chicago, to a full­time position at Northwestern Universityas medical director of the Clinics and di­rector of the Graduate Division. He expectsto be returning here frequently in the futureto learn something about the operation ofThe Clinics .Alfonso Topete, professor and chairmanof the department of surgery, University ofGuadalajara, Mexico, has been elected amember of the Mexican Academy of Sur­gery and also a member of the Pan PacificSurgical Association. He recently delivereda paper on "Surgical Management of Ar­terial Trauma and Uses of Arterial Grafts"at a meeting of the latter organization inHonolulu.Graham Vance has returned to Chicagoto be western regional medical director ofthe Pennsylvania Railroad.Glen Weygandt is now in the privatepractice of anesthesiology in Peoria, Illinois.Captain Richard W. Zimmerman iscompleting a two-year tour of duty withthe U.S. Air Force in England. NEW APPOINTMENTSThe new director of the Walter G.Zoller Memorial Dental Clinic, ].Frank Orland, is a product of TheUniversity of Chicago and of the Uni­versity of Illinois. He was graduatedfrom our College in 1937 with the de­gree of Associate in Arts, then offeredby the College, and went to the Schoolof Dentistry at the University of Illi-nois, where he received the B.S. degreein 1939 and a dental degree (D.D.S.) in1941.After receiving his dental degree, Dr.Orland came to the Zoller Clinic for aninternship and was subsequently awardeda fellowship for graduate work in bac­teriology. He obtained his Master's de­gree in bacteriology in 1945 and hisPh.D. in that department in 1949. Thiswas followed by appointment to thestaff at the rank of assistant professor,from which position he moved to thedirectorship of the Zoller Clinic lastautumn, succeeding Dr. J. Roy Blayney,who retired.Dr. Orland received the 1955 Prize­winning Award of the Chicago DentalSociety in its annual scientific essay con­test at the midwinter meeting of thesociety in February of this year. Hispaper was on the production of dentalcaries in white rats which were rearedfree of bacteria and infected with astreptococcus. The research was donepartly at the University of Notre Dame,where Professor James Reyniers oper­ates a laboratory for research on germ­free animals.12 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINREPORT ON MEDICALALUMNI LOAN FUNDTO ALUMNI ANDFRIENDSBy JOSEPH J. CEITHAML, PH.D.Dean of Students, Division ofBiological SciencesIt has been eight months .since theMedical Alumni Loan Fund was estab­lished. The original fund amounted to$2,860.00, the proceeds from governmentbonds that had been bought wit.h life­membership reserves. Continued growthwas assured by the assignment of life­membership dues to the fund and bygiving alumni the opportunity of desig­nating their annual gifts to this fund.Since July 1 a total of $1,006.00 hasbeen contributed by medical alumni andfriends, swelling the principal of thefund to $3,866.00. Already eight medicalstudents have received amounts totaling$2,815.00, at an average of about$350.00 per loan. In addition, two resi­dents, one in medicine and the other insurgery, borrowed $500 and $300, re­spectively, to meet unexpected financialproblems. These two loans will be re­paid within a year. Returns of the loansto medical students are not expected be­fore about 1960.Four hundred dollars remains in theMedical Alumni Loan Fund. As ofMarch 1, only $1,265.79 is available forloans from the combined sources at thedisposal of the Dean of Students. It isquite evident that the Medical AlumniLoan Fund has already played an impor­tant role in emergency situations and inaiding future physicians to finance theireducation.This past year medical students havereceived more loan aid' from our variousloan funds than during any previousyear. This is heartening, because it in­dicates that more students appreciatethe opportunities of our loan funds.They are willing to request aid in orderBULLETINof the Alumni AssociationThe University of ChicagoSCHOOL OF MEDICINE950 East Fifty-ninth Street, Chicago 37, IllinoisWINTER 1955 No.2VOL. 11EDITORIAL BOARD TO BE APPOINTEDHUBERTA LIVINGSTONE, Associate EditorROBEIIT J. HASTERLlK, Rush Editorjsssra BURNS MACLEAN, SecretarySubscription with membership:Annual, $4.00 Life, $60.00 to devote more time to their medicalstudies and less time to outside jobswhile in school.The low state of our currently avail­able funds is not alarming, for the idealsituation will be one in which a dy­namic equilibrium exists between theloans repaid by graduates who securedthem as students and the requests forloans by the present generation of medi­cal students and resident staff. To besure, we are far from that ideal situa­tion. But each contribution to our loanfunds brings us a little bit closer to ourgoal.In recent years four new medical stu­dent loan funds have been establishedon our campus. The Frank H. WoodsMemorial Loan Fund was reported inthe Bulletin of Winter, 1954. The CarlGilbert Johnson Fund, the Basil C. H.Harvey Loan Fund, and the MedicalAlumni Loan Fund were direct conse­quences of the interest of medicalalumni in the needs of students. It isgratifying to report that contributionsare continually being received to add toall these funds.[Continued from page 5]Graduate N ews-'51. William J. Browne is in his secondyear of residency at the Western PsychiatricInstitute in Pittsburgh.This from Harold M. Malkin: "I havejust returned from Europe and have startedmy own medical laboratory in Palo Alto,California. Doing specialized tests such asPBI's and steroids in addition to routineprocedures. I hope to get back into researchand teaching on part-time basis once thelaboratory is well established. I'm doing noclinical work at all."Jack McCarthy and his wife Victoria arein Wiirzburg, Germany, where he is in thesu rgical section of an Army hospital.Until the Navy claimed him in January,Arnold 1. Tanis was in private practice ofpediatrics in Chicago. CORRIDOR COMMENTJune 9 is the date for the 1955 Re­union Banquet-at the Hotel Shore.land.The Senior Scientific Session will begiven this year on Friday evening,June 3.If you plan to attend the A.M.A. meet­ings in Atlantic City in June, we hopeyou can stop on the way and listen tothe seniors before the meetings start.Wallace McCune, '43, is arranging aMedical Alumni dinner in Atlantic Cityon Wednesday, June 8.One place or another, 'our medicalalumni will be meeting:June 3-Senior Scientific SessionJune 8-M.A.A. dinner in Atlantic CityJune 9-Reunion banquet here'52. Elsa and Leon Gordon have joinedthe migration to California, Elsa to go intopediatrics or pediatric psychiatry, and Leonto continue in surgery at the Oakland KaiserFoundation Hospital. At present Elsa ispracticing her own pediatrics on theirdaughter.'53. Even the smog does not dim H. R.Baker's appreciation of Los Angeles. Hewill start a surgical residency at the Vet­erans Administration Hospital there nextJuly.Harry W. Parks is completing the secondyear of internship at the Hartford Hospitalin Connecticut. In February he visited uswith his beautiful new bride. In the springhe will probably enter the Navy.'54. James W. Crawford is enjoying "oneof those 'do-a-lot yourself' internships" atthe Wayne County General Hospital andInfirmary at Eloise, Michigan.From Edwin 1. Stickney in Minneapolis:"Enjoying internship very much. Feel thatChicago gives a good background for anytype of medicine. Will probably be in gen­eral practice at this time next year out inBroadus, Montana, a town of 750. Haveto start from scratch re medical equipment,office, etc. Should be a cballenge.""-AND THEN IN 1'107, -- OR WAS IT 1'105 ?-"BR.fJNEMEIt:R