Volume 17 AUTUMN 1960 Number 1·\l�-;":C. L;:I�:,!"C' 4CO'f � ----� . , ANI 7 196'�2 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN1960 REUNIONThe Annual Medical Alumni Reunionprogram honoring the 1960 graduatingclass and the 1910 graduates of RushMedical College was initiated with con­versation and cocktails at a receptionin the Louis XVI Room of the Shore­land Hotel last June. Officers of theMedical Alumni Council took turns inan informal receiving line to welcomealumni, faculty, students, and theirwives. There was an air of happy ful­fillment in the reunion of old friendsand classmates.Dinner and the program that fol­lowed in the Crystal Ballroom werepresided over by President George W.Snippy. 1910Seven members of the Class of 1910,most of them with their wives, werepresent to receive alumni congratula­tions. Fiftieth anniversary testimonialswere presented to:Frederick H. Falls, who practicesobstetrics in Chicago. M. EdwardDavis', '22, presentation of Dr. Fallsfor a Distinguished Service Award isgiven below.Earle Bloodgood Fowler, a pastpresident of the Chicago Ophthalmologi­cal Society, became assistant surgeon atIllinois Charitable Eye and Ear follow­ing an internship there and at CookCounty Hospital. During World War I,he served as a Captain overseas, then became an assistant in ophthalmology alRush and the University of Chicago until 1929. Dr. Fowler has been attacheto the staff of Presbyterian Hospital irChicago since 1917 and in 1940 was appointed Attending Surgeon.Franklin C. McLean, Professor Emeritus of Pathological Physiology at thjUniversity of Chicago. Dr. McLean gavjthe principal address of the evening orthe early history of medical education a:the University. His talk is reprinted orpage 9.John Beverly Moore returned fronthe Army as a Captain in 1919 to opela hospital in the First National BanIBuilding of his home town of BentonIllinois. His hospital was expanded several times and in 1955 became thlMEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 3Dean of StudentsJOSEPH CEITHAMLpresents JOSEPH JARABAKwith the Medical Alumni Prizeat the Medical Alumni Banquet.nnklin Hospital where he now servess chief of the surgical staff.James Hubert Skiles, has been prac­icing in Oak Park since finishing his in­enship at Cook County Hospital. He4S had surgical teaching appointmentst Rush College, the University of Illi­ois, and the Chicago College of Medi­ine and Surgery. He is a member ofDe surgical staff of the West Suburbaniospital and is a life member of itsloard of Trustees.Clifford E. Smith, who practices op­�Imology and otolaryngology with hisGn in De Kalb, Illinois, has been secre­Iry of the De Kalb County Medical So­iety fifteen years and was its president� fi.ve different occasions. Charles H. Swift, professor emeritusof anatomy, was awarded the Gold Keyof the Medical Alumni. Allan Ken­yon's, '25, presentation of Dr. Swift tothe alumni appears on page 6.Members of this class who were notable to be present were sent their testi­monial by mail. They were:Erastus S. Edgerton of Wichita,KansasRalph Towns Gilchrist of Mil-waukeeJohnson F. Hammond of ChicagoHarry R. Hoffman of ChicagoAdelbert M. Moody of San FranciscoIrving Perrill of ChicagoJames Thomas Rooks of WallaWalla, WashingtonJohn G. Ryan of DenverEugene S. Talbot of ChicagoDavid D. Todd of La Jolla, Cali­forniaMartha A. Welpton of San DiegoA contribution of $630 from this classfor the A. J. Carlson Fund was pre­sented by Franklin McLean.A testimonial in recognition of hissixty-first anniversary was sent toBranwell F. Stevens, '99, of EI Paso,Texas. He became an active member ofthe Association last year.D.S.A.Distinguished Service Awards werepresented to four alumni for outstand­ing contributions in their fields of medi­cal science. They were:Frederick H. Falls, Rush '10, comesfrom five generations of physicians andplayed football under Amos AlonzoStagg before starting to study medicine.M. Edward Davis, Rush '22, who intro­duced him, told how thirty years agoDr. Falls joined a small group of indi­viduals forming the American MaternalWelfare Committee: "With the aid ofthe local maternity mortality studygroups, governmental agencies such asthe children's Bureau, and private in­itiative, a dynamic program was estab­lished. Its alms were to determine thefactors responsible for maternal andperinatal mortality, to educate physi­cians, nurses, and other professionalgroups, to improve facilities for obstet­rics and to alert the public concerningGUY POTTER speaksfor the senior class. modern maternity care. It is a matterof record that in 1931 sixty-eight moth­ers in 10,000 lost their lives in child­birth; in 1959 less than four in 10,000failed to survive the birth process."Arnold Lazarow, '41, was introducedby Peter P. H. DeBruyn, Professor andChairman of the Department of Anat­omy. As a graduate student, Dr. La­zarow worked with one of the most dis­tinguished anatomists in the country,Dr. R. R. Bensley r and since then hascontinued to work in his teacher's sci­entific tradition. His researches in cyto­chemistry and on the mechanism ofalloxan diabetes are fundamental con­tributions to these fields. He is chair­man of the Department of Anatomy atthe University of Minnesota.O. H. Robertson" Faculty '27-51(see cover), Professor Emeritus of Med­icine and a lecturer in biology at Stan­ford University, was presented by LeonJacobson, '39, Professor of Medicineand director of Argonne Cancer Re­search Hospital. During World War I,Dr. Robertson founded the modernblood bank by introducing the preserva­tion of blood in a sugar citrate solution,He went to Peking Union Medical Col­lege after the war where he became headof the Department of Medicine. Return­ing to the University of Chicago in1927 he became interested in the patho­genesis of lobar pneumonia and was oneof the first to utilize the anti-pneu­monococcic serum as the successful ther­apeutic device for controlling one of4 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINVALE!the major killers of all time. All threeof his sons received medical degrees atthe University of Chicago and -two ofthem, Allan '44 and Robert, '48, werepresent to see their father honored. SaidDr. Jacobson of Dr. Robertson: "Hehas carved for himself a second careerin animal ecology and today is consid­ered one of the foremost students inthis area of science-knowing more thanany other living man about the endo­crinology and physiology of westerntrout and salmon."Friedrich Wassermann, Faculty '38-49, now Professor Emeritus of Anatomyand Senior Scientist at Argonne Nation­al Laboratory, was introduced by Clif­ford W. Gurney, '51, who recalled fromGregg's book on the young doctor thathe begins medicine at the dissectingtable. "The anatomist, coach, manager,and trainer is a good description ofFriedrich Wassermann," said Gurney."He was one to help each student, oneto perform magnificent dissections fordemonstration purposes and one whoembued his contagious enthusiasm foranatomical dissections to each student­one by one-again and again." Nextto stand humbly before the speaker'stable was Charles H. Swift, Rush '10.He was presented with the Gold Keyof the Medical Alumni (see page 6) byAllan T. Kenyon, Rush '25. SENIOR AWARDSEdward Weinshelbaum won theBorden Award for his paper on "In­corporation of C14 from Protein Pre­cursors into Isolated Muscle: Role ofAdrenal Steroids." Joseph Jarabak wonthe new Medical Alumni Prize of onehundred dollars for the. best presenta­tion at the Senior Scientific Session andhonorable mention for the BordenAward with his paper on "Some As­pects of the Stereospecificity of EnzymeReactions." Edward Wolpert, for hispaper on "An Electromyographic Studyof Dreaming," was awarded the Smith,Kline & French prize for a study inpsychiatry.Dean Ceitheml then introduced theseniors who would graduate with honors.These students were selected by thePromotions Committee for their su­perior performance in the classroom, inthe clinics, and in the laboratory andfor their overall qualities of cultural andintellectual leadership. The four chosenthis year were Lloyd Ferguson, AlfredHeller, Charles Mittman, and FrankThorp. Guy Potter, spokesman for the SeniClass, described the "transformati:from nervous freshmen to poised seiors." "Can you imagine," he said, "sonof the problems a student must sol,before he faces his first real live ptient? .... One day I saw a sophomoappeal to a senior to show him the Wito drape his stethoscope in his lab poket, so it would look casual, but not tIcasual."Then, finally, "To show what selassurance and composure can accorplish with meager material, one of 0professors confided to me that senioterrified him. They always carried therselves as if they knew more than 1and 'you know,' he said, 'they do SUIa convincing job that sometimes I gthe horrible feeling they may be right.'He announced the class gift ofbronze plaque on which would be recored the names of the recipients of tlMcClintock Award for outstanding teacing in the School of Medicine.The Ladies: MesdamesMcLEAN, FALLS, MACLEAN,FOWLER, MOORE, SWIFT,and SKILES.Dr. and Mrs. FREDERICK H.FALLScheck in at the reception desk.CLIFFORD F. SMI!and fifty years of memors6 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINGOLD KEYPresentation of Charles H. Swift,'10, by Allan T. Kenyon, '25:The alumni tonight introduce theclass of 1960 to a hero of their own.Charles H. Swift was born in Newcastle,Kentucky in 1881, and went to highschool in Louisville. In 1899, he enteredthe University of Chicago. He joinedthe anatomy department in 1910, serv­ing until his retirement in 1946. In1920 he married Juliana Streid of Wash­ington, Illinois who is here tonight andwho shares this key of our regard.The anatomy department from theearliest days was a great department asit has been since. Dr. Swift's own Ph.D.thesis of 1913 on the "Origin and EarlyHistory of the Primordial Germ Cellsin the Chick" was an important paperand is referred to still. For the mostpart thereafter he left the making ofgreat names to others and gave himselfto the day-in and day-out needs of thestudents. He was the man who was al­ways there, the man with the open door.He taught gross anatomy and in addi­tion developed a seminar course in thehistory of medicine. As a naturalist onhis own he knew every tree and flowerand every bird about and could tracefor you-if you wish-point by point,the enclosure of the prairie by the vary­ing kinds of towers that we now callhome.It is a reassuring thing in a chaoticworld to know that there are only twocoracoid processes and that the inter­costal nerves lie so. And it is a necessarything as well. Through two great worldwars the students Dr. Swift taught andprayed for looked at form and struc­ture through his eyes and sought to keepit going, alive, and well.May we look to form and structureas he would have us do. The growthof knowledge since those first days onthe prairies has been a mighty thing andthis is good. May we use this knowl­edge as physicians should, to preservethis structure, to restore it, and to heal.And may we help to teach those aboutus who play with eternal fire, with thepower of the sun itself, that this is theproper use of knowledge. So, Dr. Swift,for your guidance and forbearancethrough many years and for remindingus still of what we need to do, thealumni give to you and Mrs. Swift thistoken of regard. LAZAROWWEINSHELBAUMWASSERMANN STRAND]ORDFarewell until next year:R. K. GILCHRIST, '3D,President- Elect, WALTERPALMER, '21, ASTRID PRO­HASKA, ELEANORHUMPHREYS, '29, andSARA JANSON, '03."To CHARLES SWIFT ••• "ALLAN KENYON PresentsThe Gold Key8 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINMcCLINTOCK AWARDThe McCLINTOCKSNEW OFFICERSR. Kennedy Gilchrist, '30 acceptedthe gavel from George W. Stuppy,'32, retiring president, and as the As­sociation's new president, closed the1960 Medical Alumni Reunion.Dr. Gilchrist has been active in theAssociation for many years as a mem­ber of the Council. He is Clinical Profes­sor of Surgery at the University of Illi­nois and Attending Surgeon at Presby­terian-St. Luke's and Cook CountyHospitals.Vice-president for 1960-61 is WilliamR. Barclay, Associate Professor of Med­icine and head of the chest service atThe Clinics. He directed the SecondMedical Career Conference for highschool students on November 12. He isa graduate of the University of Albertain 1945 and has been on our facultysince 1951.Marc O. Beem, '48, is Secretary ofthe Association. He has been on ourpediatrics staff since 1954 and is nowAssociate Professor.Robert E. Slayton, '48, is Treasurer.He practices internal medicine in Chi­cago and is Clinical Instructor of Medi­cine at the University of Illinois. An award for excellent teaching ithe medical school was presented thiyear for the first time. The recipieruchosen by the graduating class, was NelM. Strandjord, '46, Associate Professoof Radiology.The award of five hundred dollarwas created by James A. McClintod'42, a practicing surgeon of MuncieIndiana, in honor of his father, ]. AMcClintock, who retired this year fronthe faculty of Purdue Un-iversity whenfor thirty years he has been Professoof Horticulture. Both McClintocks wenpresent at the Reunion.In his presentation, Dr. McClintoclexpressed the hope that succeediruclasses would consider the award traditional.I CORRIDOR COMMENT II._ __R_U_S_H_N_E_W_S__The Roane County Medical Society (Ten­nessee) presented the first Dwight E. ClarkMemorial Lecture at Oak Ridge on Sep­tember 28. Dr. Charles E. Rea, Professor ofClinical Surgery at the University of Min­nesota spoke on "Goiter and Man."Henry N. Harkins, Rush '30, gave thefourth Dallas B. Phemister Lecture on"The Surgical Treatment of Duodenal Ulcer:Physiologic Basis and Present Status" atBillings Hospital on November 29. Dr. Hark­ins is Professor and Executive Officer of theDepartment of Surgery at the University ofWashington.Karl Friederich Meyer director emeritusof the George Williams Hooper Foundationfor Medical Research of the University ofCalifornia, received the Howard TaylorRicketts Memorial Award for 1960. His lec­ture on June 6 was on "Plague in the Lightof Newer Knowledge."Fourteen professors from the Free Uni­versity of West Berlin visited the medicalschool, hospitals, and research laboratorieson the campus on October 14. Vice-presidentCoggeshall conducted their tour, Dean ofStudents Ceithaml discussed with them therelationship of medical and graduate stu­dents within the Division, Assistant DeanRobert G. Page gave them a view of themedical education program, and Superin­tendent Ray Brown described the operationof The Clinics. The group was accompaniedby two members of the Johns Hopkins Hos­pital faculty in their study of AmericanMedical Schools to help them formulateplans for the new teaching hospital that willbe built to provide facilities for the medical- . . '10. Franklin C. McLean spoke at thldedication of the orthopedic research laboratories of Massachusetts General Hospitain September on "The Hospital and Research."'13. Ralph H. Kuhns has received th:fifty-year pin of the Phi Beta Pi medical Iraternity. He has also been elected a life member and director of the U.S. Chess Federation.'20. Lindon Seed has been lctd first vicepresident of the American Goiter Association, Inc.'23. James L. McCartney is organizing arinternational psychosomatic seminar for thrwinter of 1962-63. A group of physician'will hold a teaching seminar in each 01twenty-five different parts of the worldtra velling via the American President LineLeaving in October or November from NellYork, they will take ninety-seven days fOIthe trip, allowing ample time for sightseeingWillis J. Potts was awarded a plaque b)the Chicago Jaycees for eminence in his fieldThe alumni association of the Children'Memorial Hospital, in recognition of hi�fourteen years as chief surgeon, gave a din­ner in his honor, and presented the hospitawith his portrait.'26. Stanley E. Lawton has been electeerecorder of the Chicago Surgical Society.'31. Jack P. Cowen presented his demon­stration on pool gonioscopy for the TokyrOphthalmological Society at Keio Universit)in October.'34. Kenneth R. Nelson, formerly chielof the division of hospitals of the U.S. Pub­lic Health Service, is now chief medical offi­cer of the U.S. Coast Guard.'37. Ruth B. Baskin, formerly on the stafof Northwestern University Medical School�s_ no� clinical pathologist at the Evansto'MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 9ADVENTURES IN MEDICAL EDUCATIONAfter internship at Cook Coun­ty Hospital, Franklin McLeantaught pharmacology at the Uni­versity of Oregon, studied for ayear at the Universities of Grazand Vienna, then joined the Rock­efeller Institute in 1941. From1916 to 1923 he was concernedwith the planning, building, andearly operation of the PekingUnion Medical College. For thenext ten years he was involvedin the development of The Clinicson this campus as professor andchairman of the Department ofMedicine and in 1928 became itsdirector. In 1933 he resigned fromclinical and administrative workto become Professor of Pathologi­cal Physiology. During WorldWar II he was a colonel in thechemical warfare service. He hasbeen emeritus since 1953 but con­tinues his avid interest and re­search activity in calcium metab­olism and the chemistry of bone.His continuing efforts to improvethe education of American negroeshave been effective locally andnationally.This address to the alumni onthe fiftieth anniversary of hisgraduation from Rush MedicalCollege adds a new chapter tothe history of medical educationat the University of Chicago.For my talk tonight I have borrowedthe title of the autobiography of G. Can­�Y Robinson, published in 1957. My titles.however, a cover title, since I will notindulge in autobiography, and will nottalk about my own adventures. Most ofthe events about which I shall speak tookplace while I was a teenager, before I en­�ered the University of Chicago as atreshman college student in 1904. SinceI am to be concerned with what others�d, and since these others are no longer�'ith us, I shall start by introducing mylast of characters, the names of some ofthese not being familiar to you. The�cene is laid at the University of Chicago,�ainly during the five-year period begin­lUng in 1898 and ending in 1903. May IIntroduce: By FRANKLIN C. McLEAN, M.D.'1OProfessor Emeritus of Pathological PhysiologyFirst: The Founder, Mr. John D.Rockefeller.Second: The first president, WilliamRainey Harper, to whom we are indebtedfor making the University of Chicagowhat it is. The University opened itsdoors to students on October 1,1892, andPresident Harper served continuouslyuntil his death on January 6, 1906.Third: Mr. Frederick T. Gates, a Bap­tist minister, who became personal ad­visor and mentor to Mr. Rockefeller, andwho was responsible for formulating mostof the plans for his philanthropies.Fourth: Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,the son of the Founder, who was born in1874 and who graduated from BrownUniversity in 1897. At the time ourstory opens, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.was beginning his close association withthe philanthropies of his father, and bythe time the story ends he was workingclosely with Mr. Gates, and was carry­ing much of the burden of correspond­ence. Up to the time of his death, amonth ago, on May 11, 1960, he and hisfather, between them, had contributednearly a billion dollars to many causes,and they established a new pattern ofgiving.Fifth: Dr. Frank Billings, a distin­guished Chicago physician. Born onApril 2, 1854, on a farm in Wisconsinhe became eventually the acknowledgeddean of the medical profession in Chi­cago, and his outstanding achievementwas his contribution to medicine at theUniversity of Chicago. He died in 1932.Early HistoryWhen in 1952 Ilza Veith and I pub­lished the story of Medicine at the Uni­versity of Chicago in connection withthe 25th anniversary of the opening ofthe new clinics and clinical departmentsat the University, we reviewed the earlyhistory of President Harper's adventuresin medical education, and the affiliationwith Rush Medical College, and it is tothese adventures that my title refers.We concluded this review by statingthat "the facts have never been madeknown in their entirety." It is to thesefacts, which constitute the roots ofmedicine at the University of Chicago,that I wish to address myself tonight,and it is precisely because they have notheretofore been made known in their en- tirety that I have chosen this topic.Since most of those concerned with theearly story are now gone; since theevents of the period constitute an im­portant chapter in the history of Amer­ican Medicine; and since there is dangerthat the facts may be lost to posterity, Ihave felt some responsibility for puttingthem in perspective. This, then, is thetask I have set for myself for tonight;the story will later be available to youand to others in the Medical AlumniBulletin. If the story seems to beginwith some frustration, and with the fail­ure of two strong characters to come toterms, I ask you to await with patiencethe happy ending, in which it will be­come clear that The University of Chi­cago and Rush Medical College, andtheir faculties and officers, played animportant part in the developments inAmerican Medicine for which the twen­tieth century will always be known.Rush Medical CollegeAs early as the spring of 1894, lessthan two years after the University ofChicago was opened to students, Mr.Harper was interesting himself in medi­cine, and in the possibility of an affilia­tion with Rush Medical College. Thiswas brought up and seriously discussedwith Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Gates,and on March 4, 1894, Mr. Gates wroteto Mr. Harper as follows: "In view ofthe gravity of the matter, Mr. Rocke­feller would prefer not to form any con­clusion at present but to hold the mat­ter in solution." On December 18, 1895,Mr. Rockefeller wrote a memorandumto Mr. Gates, who forwarded it to Presi­dent Harper. In this he wrote: "It hasbeen intimated to me that there wassomething about a . . . department ofmedicine at the University. If we are tohave a department of medicine there I. . . would desire that in medicine 'aswell as in all other departments, weshould be aggressive." During thatperiod there was frequent reference toRush as an "allopathic" school of medi­cine. Since this is a term no longerfamiliar to many of us, I am quotingthe definition of allopathy from Web­ster's New International Dictionary, asfollows: "That system of medical prac­tice which aims to combat disease bythe use of remedies producing effectsdifferent from those produced by the10 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINspecial disease treated; a name inventedby Hahnemann, as opposed to homeo­pathy." Webster's goes on to say: "also,erroneously, the system of medical prac­tice making use of all measures whichhave proved of value in the treatmentof disease." These were important is­sues at the end of the 19th Century, andwe find Mr. Gates writing that it is "Mr.Rockefeller's desire that . . . no rela­tionship be entered into with allopathicinstitutions . . . I have no doubt thatMr. Rockefeller would favor an institu­tion which was neither allopath or ho­meopath, but simply scientific in its in­vestigations of medical science. That isthe ideal."Since Mr. Gates was so largely re­sponsible for formulating Mr. Rocke­feller's ideas and programs in medicine,a further word about him is appropriateat this point.The IdealIn 1897 Mr. Gates bought a copy ofOsler's Principles and Practice of M edi­cine, and he, a Baptist minister, read it"without skipping any of it." He laterrecorded his impressions at length; hisconclusions were: "It became clear tome that medicine could hardly hope tobecome a science until medicine shouldbe endowed and qualified men couldgive themselves for uninterrupted studyand investigation ... entirely independ­ent of practice. To this end it seemed tome an Institute of medical researchought to be established in the UnitedStates. Here was an opportunity, to methe greatest which the world could af­ford, for Mr. Rockefeller to become apioneer. This idea took possession ofme. The more I thought of it, the moreenthusiastic I became. I knew nothingof the cost of research; I did not realizeits enormous difficulties; the only thingI saw was the overwhelming need andthe infinite promise, world-wide, uni­versal, eternal." The subsequent actionsof Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Gates mustbe seen against this background. Mr.Gates did not share Mr. Rockefeller'sfeeling about allopathic medicine; buthe saw the necessity of approachingmedicine as a science, without any label,and in the end this was the positionthat the Rockefellers took in all of theirmedical interests and philanthropies. Itmust also be recorded that until 1910,when Mr. Rockefeller made a large giftto the University, generally known asthe "final gift," he and John D., Jr., aid­ed by Mr. Gates, kept a very close reinon the affairs of .the University of Chi- cago. The University operated under adeficit, which Mr. Rockefeller made upevery year, usually at the June Convo­cation. While Mr. Rockefeller approvedof the expenditures, from time to time,that went into the accumulated deficit,all of Mr. Harper's commitments wereunder close scrutiny from Mr. Rocke­feller's New York office, and this officemade every attempt to keep Mr. Har­per's ideas of expansion under control.President Harper ActsAgainst this background, and within afew months of Mr. Gates' formulationof his ideas about medical research, theUniversity of Chicago Trustees, in De­cember, 1897, entered into a formalaffiliation with Rush Medical College tobecome effective June 1, 1898. This wasreported to Mr. Rockefeller's office onJanuary 10, 1898, without prior prepa­ration of either Mr. Rockefeller or Mr.Gates, and it is clear from the corre­spondence which followed immediatelyafterward that it came as a distinctshock to them. In a long letter datedJanuary 18, 1898, and sent to PresidentHarper, Mr. Gates wrote in summary ofa "far higher and better conception,which has been one of the dreams of myown mind at least, of a medical collegein this country conducted by the Uni­versity of Chicago, magnificently en­dowed, devoted primarily to investiga­tion, making practice itself an incidentof investigation and taking as its stu­dents only the choicest spirits, quite ir­respective of the question of funds.Against that ideal and possibility a tre­mendous, if not fatal, current has beenturned. I believed the ideal to be practi­cable and I hoped to live to see it real­ized."This brought the matter of medicaleducation at the University of Chicago,so far as Mr. Rockefeller was concerned,to an impasse, and the question was notreopened with the Rockefeller office un­til 1902. In the meantime the work ofthe first two years of the course in RushMedical College was transferred to theUniversity of Chicago and made an or­ganic part of the University work, inApril 1901. A year later, in April 1902,the Trustees of Rush Medical Collegemade a proposal to the University ofChicago for organic union of the twoinstitutions. This was forwarded to theRockefeller office in New York, for ap­proval, and again there was considerablecorrespondence. Much of the corre­spondence centered around a proposal,by the Rush Trustees, that they would raise the sum of $1,000,000 to imple­ment the objectives of the union. Thiscorrespondence came to an end, and theproposal for union was dropped, as theresult of a letter dated October 22, 1903.and signed by F. T. Gates and John D.Rockefeller, Jr., which included the fol­lowing revealing paragraph: "Since theaffiliation with Rush, Mr. Rockefellerhas embodied his own ideals for medicaleducation in the Institute for MedicalResearch, an institution devoted exclu­sively to research, not united organicallywith any medical college or school, hos­pitable alike to all." This letter confirmsthe belief that many have held, i.e., thatMr. R�ckefeller and Mr. Gates failed tofind the opportunity they sought at theUniversity of Chicago, as so eloquentlyexpressed by Mr. Gates more than fiveyears earlier, and that they turned tothe establishment of a new institution tocarry out their own desires. Not until1916, on the basis of recommendationsby Mr. Abraham Flexner, was the dooragain open for a major step forward inmedical education at the University ofChicago. Organic union with Rush Med­ical College, having been long delayedwas finally accomplished in 1923, ancthen dissolved in 1941. In the mean·time, the University of Chicago Clinicsand the new Departments of Medicineand Surgery were opened to medical stu­dents and to patients on October 3, 1927-thirty-five years after the Universit,of Chicago began instruction in collegesubjects on the Midway.The Rockefeller InstituteWhat I have said has been intendedto constitute a factual statement, withspecial reference to the period 1898-1903, and to the influence of Mr. JohnD. Rockefeller, Sr., and Mr. F. T. Gateson the events of this period, and mortparticularly on the effect of their vetcpower on the new developments proposed by Mr. Harper. I have avoidecpassing any judgment on the wisdom 01the affiliation with Rush Medical College. Given the circumstances of thttime, and the state of medicine in Chicago and the Nation, the only questiorthat might properly now be raised is a:to the political acumen of Presiden'Harper in accomplishing the affiliatiorwith Rush Medical College in 1898without first having reached an accor:with Mr. Gates. Here were two strontmen, both laymen, both with advanceideas about medicine and medical education, and each with the capability 0reaching his own objectives. It would bfMEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 11interesting to speculate about the prob­able outcome, had the two reached anaccord in 1897 or 1898. Certainly theRush affiliation would not have beenconsummated, at least on Mr. Harper'sterms, and it is almost certain that therewould have been a four-year medicalschool on the campus of the Universityof Chicago early in the nineteen hun­dreds, with a strong leaning toward medi­cal research, located where Stagg Field isnow. Instead each of the two men wenthis own way. President Harper was pri­marily an educator, and his interest laylargely in raising the standards for ad­mission to medical school and in im­proving the quality of medical educa­tion. Both of these goals were attainedby means of the Rush affiliation, andwith little or no help from Mr. Rocke­feller. Mr. Gates, with a lively imagina­tion, and untrammeled by any institu­tional needs, was fired with enthusiasmfor medical research, and he broughtabout the establishment of the Rocke­feller Institute for Medical Research­certainly a major accomplishment. Nowafter sixty years it is interesting to seethat the paths of the two institutionsare converging. As we shall see, medi­cine at the University of Chicago wasfounded in 1927 on much the same plat­form as that put forth by Mr. Gatesnearly thirty years earlier. The Rocke­feller Institute for Medical Research hasrecently shortened its name to TheRockefeller Institute; it calls itself aGraduate University and Research Cen­ter; and it confers degrees in the medi­cal sciences.Dr. Frank BillingsBut we are getting ahead of our story.Medicine at the University of Chicago,during the period we have been consid­ering, i.e., 1898 to J 903, was not repre­sented solely by President Harper.There were other strong figures, andthey exerted an important influence onMr. Harper's thinking. Of these the bestknown was Dr. Frank Billings. In 1898he resigned from the medical faculty of�orthwestern University and acceptedan appointment as a professor of medi­cine at Rush Medical College, by thenin affiliation with the University of Chi­cago. From that time on, until his deathin 1932, he played a leading role inmedicine in Chicago, and in the nation.In 1903 Dr. Billings, then dean of thefaculty of Rush Medical College andprofessorial lecturer in medicine at theLniversity of Chicago, gave the presi­dential address at the fifty-fourth annual session of the American Medical Asso­ciation, entitled "Medical Education inthe United States." In this address hemade a plea for scientific medicine aswell as for research in the clinicalbranches and said that "the hospitalshould be constructed with a definiteidea of teaching students and of makingresearches into the nature, cause andtreatment of disease .... With such hos­pitals it would be necessary to choosethe professors of medicine, of surgery,and of obstetrics, with competent as­sistants, of the same type as the teachersof the fundamental sciences. Theyshould give their whole time to the workof teaching and to original research inthe hospital."The idea of full-time appointments inthe clinical branches of medicine wasfirst given expression on February 28,1902, when Dr. Lewellys F. Barker,then professor of anatomy in the Uni­versity of Chicago, gave an address,since then much quoted, in which he de­fined the university hospital clinic as aplace which should train students tocarry on research in the wards and thelaboratories. He said that such a clinicshould be staffed by men of the sametalents, attainments, and personality asother professors in the university. Thesemen should, "like other university pro­fessors, give their whole time and ener­gy to the work of the university, toteaching and to investigating in the hos­pitals .... They should be paid well bythe university. They should not engagein private practice."In the same year Dr. John M. Dod­son, dean of medical students in RushMedical College and the University ofChicago, published an important paper,entitled "The Modern University Medi­cal School: Its Purposes and Methods,"in which he stated that "the medicalschool must be an intimate, integral partof the university" and that "this means,in the first place, the provision of acorps of teachers in each of the clinicalbranches who, divorced entirely fromthe labors and distractions of activepractice, may devote themselves unre­servedly to teaching and investigationin their several departments."A New PlanIn the President's Report, coveringthe first ten years of operation of theUniversity of Chicago, 1892 to 1902,President Harper gave a full account ofthe Rush affiliation, and of the proposalfor organic union, to which referencehas already been made; which did not win the approval of Mr. Rockefeller;and which was not put into effect. Inaddition to continuing the work at Rush,on the West Side of the City of Chicago,this proposal included a plan for threeclinical departments-Medicine, Surg­ery, and Obstetrics-on the campus ofthe University on the South Side, thework of these departments to be con­ducted (1) for undergraduates, and (2)for research work.This plan appears to have been thebasis for negotiations with John D.Rockefeller, but so far as the recordsshow, these negotiations got boggeddown on the issue of the sum of $1,000,-000 that Rush Medical College was toraise as a condition of organic union.Certainly Mr. Harper thought that Mr.Rockefeller committed himself to a sumof $5,000,000 to implement the plan.This was reported by Dr. Billings, in anunpublished manuscript, and also by Dr.Dodson, Dean of Medical Students, inan account. quoted at length in Dr.Irons' Story of Rush Medical College.The story as told by Dr. Billings is thatwhile on his way to Russia in the sum­mer of 1903 President Harper had aninterview with Mr. Rockefeller, Sr., dur­ing which Mr. Rockefeller consented toa large contribution to the medicalschool, provided that one million dol­lars could be raised in Chicago. Anysuch understanding, however, must havebeen reached in conversation only, ason Mr. Harper's return from Russia,again according to Dr. Billings, "Mr.Rockefeller stated that President Har­per had been mistaken in the statementmade or alleged to have been made byhim to the effect that if one million dol­lars were subscribed in Chicago he wouldgive the additional sum needed, five orsix millions necessary to organize andfound a medical school at the Universityof Chicago." In any event, this five orsix million dollars was sunk without atrace, and in the letter of October 22,1903, which closed the discussions aboutorganic union, there is no mention ofsuch a sum. Moreover, the plans forunion and for further developments onthe South Side disappeared from the an­nual President's Report, and were nevermentioned again.There thus remains the mystery ofthe five million dollars, which I havebeen unable to solve. Any attempt to re­construct what actually happened is idlespeculation. One may imagine, however,that Mr. Rockefeller listened sympa­thetically to President Harper's idea,and that Mr. Harper, as so often hap-12 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINpens in such instances, construed this asgiving assent to his proposals. WhileMr. Harper was in Russia, however,there must have been a firm decision onthe part of Mr. Rockefeller, presumablyinfluenced by Mr. Gates, to support in­stead the newly formed Rockefeller In­stitute for Medical Research in NewYork City, and this decision was dulyreported to Mr. Harper on his returnand confirmed by the letter of October22.Full- Time MedicineThere is, however, ample evidencethat the University of Chicago and RushMedical College, at the turn of the cen­tury, were supporting very advancedideas about the future of medical educa­tion and medical research: They as­sumed a position of leadership in in­creasing the requirements for admissionto medical school, and they made thefirst explicit proposal for full-time ap­pointments in the clinical departments.Not until 1913, however, were any suchappointments made in the United States,and then at the Johns Hopkins Univer­sity School of Medicine. FollowingPresident's Harper's death in 1906, andunder the administration of PresidentHarry Pratt Judson, the University en­tered upon a long period of consolida­tion and retrenchment. Plans for clini­cal departments at the University werelaid aside; organic union with RushMedical College did not materialize;and the faculty, at Rush and the Uni­versity, appears to have settled down tomake the best of the status quo. It wasduring this period that the class ofRush 1910, whose members you arehonoring tonight, was graduated, andthis class, like the others of the period,included many who have served medi­cine with honor and distinction.A New StartA new start was made in 1916, whenMr. Abraham Flexner visited Chicagoand made recommendations concerningthe future of medicine at the University.These recommendations, after a lapse ofanother eleven years, led to the develop­ments with which you are all familiar,and with which I do not propose to dealhere. I do wish to close, however, byquoting from a document that becamethe charter for the School of Medicineat the University of Chicago, and whichis reminiscent of the statements by Mr.Gates, and by members of the facultiesof the University and of Rush Medical DEATHS'91. Frank Ernest Sampson, Creston,Iowa, April 21, age 93.'95. Auburt Linnaeus Berkley, SedroWoolley, Wash., June 29, age 89.'96. Ulysses Simpson Lewis, East Du­buque, Ill., March 20, age 93.Hiram O. B. Young, Gurnee, Ill., July 6,age 87.'97. William Fred Butterman, Lionville,Pa., February 20, age 94.'99. S. E. Gavin, Fond du Lac, Wis., Au­gust 31, age 83.'00. Jerome Hill Titus, Ontario, Calif.,February 8, age 83.'01. Claude Allen Lloyd, Washington,Ind., March 19, age 84.Alfred Nicholas Murray, Evanston, Ill.,May 26, age 87.'02. Adelard Elphige Bessette, Belen,N.M., June 7, age 86.'03. John S. Montgomery, Milan, Mo.,Aug. 18, age 84.'05. Fred C. Rathje, Chicago, June 21,age 78.'09. Arrie Bamberger, Chicago, March 13,age 72.'11. Daniel Johnson Glomset, DesMoines, Iowa, February 29, age 78.'12. Paul Christopher Fox, Coral Gables,Fla., May 8, age 74.Harry Nicholas Sutherland, Ely, Minn.,February 28, age 75.'14. Clarence Edward Lynn, Dubuque,Iowa, May 3, age 74.Walter Henry Stephan, Bellevue, Wash.,February 23, age 72'15. Russell D. Herrold, Chicago, Sep­tember 29, age 72.Warren Preston Sights, Paducah, Ky.,May 17, age 72.'16. Albert G. Bower, Pasadena, Calif.,September, age 70 .Elbert Clark, Winnetka, Ill., April 16, age78.Robert Lupinski Zaegel, Sheboygen,Wis., July 10, age 67. '17. Michael Higgins Ebert, ClevelandHeights, Ohio, March 12, age 74.George Oliver Solem, Oak Park, IJl.,May 5, age 71.'19. Carl Theodore Olson, St. Petersburg,Fla., April 1, age 66.'20. Ivan Raleigh Egbert, Arco, Idaho,April 26, age 69.'24. Thomas A. Baird, Chicago, August22, age 65.'25. John Vincent Lawrence, St. Louis,June 12, age 66.Ruben Nomland, Iowa City, Iowa, April13, age 61.'28. Wilfred E. Newman, Spokane,Wash., August 4, age 62.'30. Michael Peter Ohlsen, West Allis,Wis., June 22, age 64.'31. David C. Atwood, Madison, Wis.,October 13, age 56.Arthur Franklin Cunningham, Spokane,Wash., April 11, age 55.'34. August Costello Orr, Bismarck,N.D., May 22, age 58.'35. Sion Woodson Holley, Farmingdale,N.Y., May 13, age 53.'36, Paul Norton Smith, Oxnard, Calif.,May 7, age 54.'37. Paul L. Bergstrom, Hot Springs,Ark., Oct 7.'42. Henry Edward Schlegel, OregonCity, Ore., October 16, age 47.'43. Carl D. Magsdick, Jr., Sioux Falls,S.D., March 30, age 42.FACULTYTheodore E. Heinz, Faculty, '28-'35,Greeley, Colo., October 3, age 61.Wilfred Hamilton Manwaring, Faculty,'04-'05, Palo Alto, Calif., June 20, age 88.Hermann I. Schlesinger, Faculty inChemistry; Chicago, '07-'60, October 2, age78.John Malcolm Tindal, Resident, '30-'32,Chicago, October 22, age 64.College some twenty to twenty-fiveyears earlier. This document is a reportof a committee appointed from the Uni­versity Senate "to advise with thePresident on Medical Development,"and it was formulated in 1923. It readsin part as follows: "The aim of theUniversity of Chicago Medical Schoolshould not be primarily to increase thenumber of practitioners. . . . Furtherprogress in medicine depends upon theadvancement of medical knowledge, andit is believed that the University of Chi­cago is in a peculiarly favorable positionfor promoting research and training in­vestigators in the medical sciences. Thestrength of the basic departments of physics, chemistry and biology and theresearch spirit with which these depart­ments are imbued, the more or less com­plete organization of the preclinical de­partments which already exists, the un­usual opportunity for developing hos­pitals, research institutions, clinical de­partments and medical libraries in closecontiguity to the present scientific labo­ratories, the strategic position of Chicago and its probable influence uponmedical development throughout thEMiddle West and the South are allreasons for believing that a Universityof Chicago Medical School should btfounded, having for its chief aim thtadvancement of the medical sciences.'MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 13When Professor Herrick came to Chi­cago the ecologic studies of the uniqueenvironments of the Indiana Dunes werewell under way and nature lovers at theUniversity realized the opportunitiesthey offered for fresh air and exercise.Though no one had a motor car, theLake Shore RR provided convenienttransportation at all seasons. An experi­enced field naturalist, Herrick was en­thusiastic; eventually he acquired a boxcar converted into a cabin that wasperched on the edge of a sand 'glacier'.Invitations to spend a week-end withhim had the proviso "unless we find thatthe cabin has been buried by the sand orundermined by the wind and toppledover!" Here he could retire for a fewdays or longer to read, write and medi­tate or to relax after a day's tramp withdaughter Ruth or a colleague. The invi­tations were highly prized for 'Ci]'.' wasalways a stimulating companion and anaccomplished cook. His dinners of fishfresh from the trap half a mile down theshore were memorable.He was always ready to devote timeand effort to the community. He had therare gift of being able to present hisproblems clearly and interestingly to anaudience with little scientific back­ground. When President Judson organ­ized a group to combat the scoundrels atCity Hall, he joined in with characteris­tic energy. At the outset of the FirstWorld War, he helped organize a coursefor neurologic surgeons and then volun­teered for service in the Army, remain­ing in the Sanitary Corps until the endof the war.At my first scientific meeting, thepaper by C. J. Herrick impressed me asthe clearest and best organized that Ihad heard and on arriving in Chicagosome months later, I was happy to learnthat he had just come as Professor of�eurology. When I went to him for per­Illission to register for his advancedcourse, he pointed out that it wasplanned for a group of students who hadcome to carryon research under his di­rection and not for neurologic tyros.Fortunately for me enthusiasm was ac­cepted in lieu of background. The vistashe opened up stimulated all of us to con­tinue working on the nervous system. <iharlcs judson iftcrrirk1869,1960By GEORGE W. BARTELMEZProfessor Emeritus of AnatomyHERRICKEarly YearsThe leitmotiv of Charles Judson Her­rick's scientific career was the integrationof the several disciplines involved in theunderstanding of the nervous system.When such a plan was originally envi­sioned by his elder brother, Clarence, in1891, the factual basis was meager, anda frontal assault on the barriers betweenuniversity departments could not be tol­erated. In the course of 70 years, "C.J.",as his friends called him, contributed awealth of histological detail on the fund­amental structure of the nervous systemand correlated his findings with therapid advances of the 20th century inpsychology, physiology, and psychiatry.From early boyhood his brother hadbeen his teacher in "natural history"and before graduating from college Her­rick began to study the brains of fishes.In 1893 his brother had to resign hisprofessorship at Denison University andhasten to Arizona because of tuberculo­sis. "C.J.", two years out of college, un­dertook to conduct, single-handed, all ofthe scheduled courses in biology. He as­sumed an even heavier burden in savingthe Journal of Comparative Neurology,which his brother had founded, "becauseits suspension would break my brother'sheart and retard his recovery." He be- came editor, business manager withouta secretary, proofreader, and supervisorof the printing of engravings. Until 1908.he paid the inevitable deficits of theJournal from his own salary. On oneoccasion he felt called upon to deciphera manuscript in longhand which hadbeen charred black in the fire which de­stroyed his laboratory. Many a robustman would have been overwhelmed bythese labors. They did not keep C. J.Herrick from continuing his research.To Burn or RustAfter a year's leave of absence in 1896he completed his doctoral dissertation, amonograph of 302 pages. It was the firstcomplete analysis of the cranial nervesand contributed more . than any othersingle work to the establishment of the"American School" which was interpret­ing the structure of the nervous systemin terms of its functions. By 1907 hehad published 17 papers on the nervoussystem of fishes in which certain affer­ent systems are highly developed andtheir centers in the brain are hypertro­phied, so that the connecting fibers canbe followed without experimental inter­ference. A study of the behavior of nor­mal catfish (1902) clearly demonstratedthe gustatory function of the "terminalbuds" which are distributed over the skinof head and trunk.The reputation established by thesestudies resulted in an invitation to Her­rick to become professor of neurologyat the University of Chicago when H. H.Donaldson resigned to go to the WistarInstitute in 1907. Herrick hesitated tomake so radical a change because of hishealth. The matter was decided by hiswife's question, "Would you rather goto Chicago and burn out or stay hereand rust out?" He joined the depart­ment of R R. Bensley, who was in themidst of correlating the structuralchanges in cells with the cell functions.The change provided ample facilities,technical help, and leisure for research;gave him inspiring colleagues in the Uni­versity, and freed him from executiveduties. A year later he presented theJournal of Comparative Neurology, freeof debt, to the Wistar Institute, so thathe was relieved of much of the labor itinvolved. He continued to guide its edi-14 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINtorial policies until 1948 and saw it be­come one of the outstanding biologicaljournals.His training and extraordinary pa­tience and persistence led him to con­tinue the histologic analysis of the brainas a working mechanism. He turnedfrom the highly specialized fishes to theprimitive and generalized tailed am­phibia. In the course of 40 years hemade the most complete analysis thatwe have of a vertebrate brain. It culmi­nated in publication of The Brain of theTiger Salamander (1948). He showedthat the larval and adult nervous sys­tems are primitively organized for re­sponses of the body as a whole to nor­mal environmental stimuli. This mech­anism for the stereotyped, inheritedbehavior has evolved in all species thathave survived through the ages. All liv­ing creatures are also capable, to agreater or lesser extent, of adaptation toa change. The elaboration of the abilityof the individual to learn by experiencehas, in vertebrates, gone hand in handwith the development of the cerebralcortex. In the light of his studies of rep­tiles and primitive mammals, Herrickcould recognize in the amphibian fore­brain the primordia from which the cor­tex has evolved. This provided the fun­damental plan for the entire vertebratebrain and has been invaluable for theanalysis of more complex brains. Thesetopics were elaborated in his N eurologi­cal Foundations of Animal Behavior(1924). The relations of brain and mindwere clarified for "the man in the street,"as he used to call him, in The Brains ofRats and Men (1926). He wrote TheThinking M achine (1929) with the needsof students of psychology in mind.No Elementary TextbookTeaching was an essential part of hismission. During the first year at Chicagohe organized a new type of course. inneuroanatomy and gave a brilliant seriesof lectures on the evolution of the nerv­ous system and its functions to thegroup of advanced students his cominghad attracted to the university. To thoseof us who had encountered only the cur­rent textbooks of anatomy, he openedup a new, fascinating field of study.His "seminar in neurology" was popular,and as members of other departmentswere invited to contribute, it developedinto the stimulating Neurology Club ofthe University.In 1914 there was still no elementarytextbook on the nervous system, so hewrote one. Its unique point of view soon GRADUATE NEWS'34. The irene Josselyn Clinic is the newname of the Chicago North Shore MentalHealth Association for her efforts in estab­lishing the project.'35. Molly Radford Martin married Cap­tain Clarence Oliver Ward of the U.S. Navylast June in Santa Fe, New Mexico.'37. Clinton L. Compere has been re­elected secretary of the American Academyof Orthopaedic Surgeons. He is secretary­treasurer of Chicago Wesley Memorial Hos­pital.'38. Charles Kligerman is a member ofthe Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.'41. Arnold Lazarow was elected presi­dent of the Minnesota Medical Foundation.He is professor and head of the Departmentof Anatomy at the University of Minnesota.'43. Michael Bonfiglio, associate profes­sor of orthopaedic surgery at the State Uni­versity of Iowa, has become a fellow of theNew York Academy of Sciences .Colin G. Thomas took part in the Inter­national Congress on Goiter held in London,England last summer.'44. Melvin Newman, chief of surgery atthe National Jewish Hospital, Denver, ispresident of the Society for Artificial Organs.'46. Mark S. Beaubien of Birmingham,Michigan is vice-president for medical oper­ations of the ship HOPE (Health Opportu­nities for People Everywhere). He flew toJ ahkarta as advance guard for the HOPE, afloating medical center and school, whichsailed from San Francisco in September tospend six months in Indonesia.Nels M. Strandjord is serving a year atthe National Defense Medical Center in Tai­pei, Taiwan as a visiting professor of radi­ology. Paul C. Hodges, has returned to theUniversity of Chicago after spending sixmonths at that same post.Herbert E. Warden has been named as­sociate professor of surgery at the West Vir­ginia University Medical Center. He leavesthe faculty of the University of Minnesotawhere he was one of a four-man team thatpioneered open heart surgery in 1954.'48. J. Thomas Grayston is chairman ofthe Department of Medicine and PublicHealth at the University of Washington in Seattle. For the last three years he had bee Iin Formosa with the Office of Naval Research and the University of Chicago working on a program of research on viral antrickettsial diseases in the Far East.'55. Captain Thomas F. Ednie is stationed with the Air Force in Guam.Howard R. Engel has opened a practioof internal medicine in South Bend, IndianaE. Jack Harris is practicing obstetrics an:gynecology in Massapequa, New York. Hannounced the arrival of a second son, DonaId, in May.Betty Jo Tricou was awarded the Ph.Ddegree in pharmacology at the Autumn Convocation. She has joined the staff of th:Council on Drugs of the A.M.A.'56. Eugene L. Balter is a resident in radiology at Kings County Hospital, New YorkHe soon plans to enter the Air Force.Harold Boverman has a two year fellowship in child psychiatry at the Yale ChileStudy Center.'57. Howard I.. Bressler has been discharged from the Air Force and is now,surgical resident doing cardiovascular research in the laboratory of Peter Moulder'45.'58. Shamay Cotev, now practicing irIsrael, was married this summer to EdnaGrossman in Jerusalem.Richard Gier announced the birth of ason, David Andrew, in September.Lawrence Rose has a residency in op­thalmology at the Presbyterian MedicaCenter in San Francisco.'60. Susan Cook, who appeared in a Lookmagazine picture story about the Universityof Chicago School of Medicine last springwill also be featured in A merika, the maga­zine published by the U.S. InformationAgency for distribution in Russia and Po­land.'61. Richard L. Tompkins has received IISmith Kline & French Foreign FellowshipHe will spend three months this winter atRumah Sakit Advent, a Seventh-Day Ad­ventist Hospital in Bandung, Java, Indo­nesia where he will observe the diseases ojthe tropics and study preventive measuresto combat them.stimulated the production of a wholeflock of texts designed for the coursesin neuroanatomy patterned after his. HisIntroduction to Neurology provided abackground for his course for psychol­ogy students, offered from 1916 to 1934(except during his service in the Army).This was a true university course, with­out formal lectures or examinations andwith unlimited opportunities for discus­sion. ]. B. Obenchain assisted and latercontinued it. From the outset scholarsf rom abroad as well as many advancedstudents came to work in Herrick's labo­ratory. To them his splendid library as well as his advice was always available.Ten years after his retirement toGrand Rapids, Michigan, he found itnecessary to give up the long hours ofobservation at the microscope. He de­voted himself to meditation, readingand writing on the philosophy of science.In his last book, The Evolution of Hu­man Nature (1956), he brought sociol­ogy into the field of psychobiology. Hedied at the age of 91 on ] anuary 291960, before he had completed all hehad planned to do.Missoula, MontanaNovember 17, 1960MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 15RESIDENT STAFF NEWSFACULTY NEWSWilliam E. Adams is president of thellinois chapter of the American College of.hest Physicians. He has also been appoint­d a member of the International Board of\ditors of Excerpta Medica. He representshe United States in the section on surgery.C. Knight Aldrich, psychiatry, and R.W"endell Harrison, Acting Chancellor ofhe University, have been appointed to thedvisory committee of the Foundation for\motionally Disturbed Children.Alf Alving reported on primaquine athe Research Meeting on Chemotherapy ofhe World Health Organization in Geneva inlovember.John D. Arnold, '46, is on leave at theJniversity of Frankfurt, Germany for thenitumn quarter. He will return to the De­artment of Medicine in January.Charles F. Barlow, '47, returned to The71inics at the end of November after threenonths at the University of Frankfurt.Paul C. Bucy, '28-'41, is president of theiociety of Neurological Surgeons.L. T. Coggeshall is a member of theloard of Directors of the Museum of Sci­nee and Industry. He was chairman of thenmrnittee that drew up recommendationso the National Heart Committee concern­ng the establishment of a National Primate�es{'arch Station.M. Edward Davis, Rush '22, has beenippointed to the Committee on Standards'or Resident Training by the American Col­ege of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He re­:eived the Rubin Award at the annual meet­ng of the American Society for the Study)f Sterility.Nicholas W. Fugo, '50, has left The Clin­es to become professor and chairman of the)cpartment of Obstretics and GynecologyIt the University of West Virginia Medicalichool.Clifford W. Gurney, '51, will spend this'ear in research with Professor Laszlo.ajtha in the Biological Radiation Labora­ory at Churchill Hospital in Oxford.Paul V. Harper, Jr. has been electedreasurer of the Chicago Surgical Society. Helas also been elected a member of the So­iety of Clinical Surgery.H. Close Hesseltine was elected viceresident of Blue Shield. He is also president)f the Illinois State Medical Society and:ounselor-at-Iarge for the Chicago Medicaliociety.Charles B. Huggins is president of theiarvard Medical Alumni Association.Leon O. Jacobson, '39, and Alf Alving�ere in Tokyo in September for the Eighthinternational Congress of Hematology. Dr.lacobson participated in the sessions on nu­:Ieonics and hematopoietic factors and Dr.living reported on primaquine sensitivity.�chard Blaisdell, '48, reported on hisI'ork with the Atom Bomb Casualty Com­lUssion in the session on radiation injuries,Ind Ernest Beutler, '50, on sensitivity tolrug-induced hemolytic anemia., F. lamont Jennings, '52-55, is now with�e University of Texas Medical Branch inJalveston. Eugene P. Kennedy has accepted the ap­pointment of Hamilton Kuhn Professor ofBiological Chemistry and head of the de­partment at Harvard Medical School. Hehas been a member of the University of Chi­cago faculty since 1951 and last year was afellow of the National Science Foundationat Oxford.Joseph B. Kirsner is president of theJackson Park Branch of the Chicago Medi­cal Society and a member of the Board ofInternal Medicine.Joyce Lashof. '54-'60, has joined the staffof Presbyterian-St. Lukes Hospital to set upan infectious disease section. She is clinicalassistant professor at the University ofIllinois.Rachmiel Levine has been appointedprofessor and chairman of the Departmentof Medicine, New York Medical College. Hehas been a professorial lecturer in physiologyat the University of Chicago and on the staffat Michael Reese Hospital.John R. Lindsay is president of theAmerican Laryngological, Rhinological, andOtological Society.Allan L. Lorincz, '47, succeeded StephenRothman as head of the section of dermatol­ogy in the Department of Medicine.Charles P. McCartney, '43, has beenelected secretary of the Chicago Gyneco­logical Society.Robert D. Moseley, Jr. is president of theAssociation of University Radiologists.Henry B. Perlman, Rush '25, has beenelected president of the Chicago Laryngo­logical and Otological Society.John Van Prohaska, '33, is guest editorof the Chicago issue of The Surgical Clinicsoj North America.Richard Richter, Rush '25, has been elect­ed president of the American Association ofN europathologists.Stephen Rothman became professoremeritus of dermatology on June 30. He willcontinue to conduct research in the ArgonneCancer Research Hospital.Ralph Scott, has left The Clinics to bechief of radiation therapy at the Universityof Louisville.William H. Taliaferro, professor emer­itus of microbiology, has joined the staff ofArgonne National Laboratory at Lemont.Andrew Thomson has returned to TheClinics as assistant professor of medicineafter a year in private practice at the MasonClinic in Seattle. Lauretta Bender, '28, professor of clinicalpsychiatry at Columbia University, gave thefirst Percival Bailey Lecture at the IllinoisState Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Bailey is Di­rector of Research at the Institute.Myron M. Hipskind, '33-'37, has beenelected vice-president of the Chicago Laryn­gological and Otological Society.Jay J. Jacoby, '46-'47, was recently select­ed by the medical students of MarquetteUniversity as their best clinical teacher. Heis chairman of the department of anesthesi­ology there.Clifton Mountain, '54-'60, is on the sur­gical staff at the University of Texas M. D.Anderson Hospital in Houston.Cesar Borquez Vial, has returned after ayear here as a surgical fellow to South Amer­ica where he is assistant professor of thoracicsurgery at the University of Chile.CLASS LISTSAVAILABLEWe now have verified class lists ofall graduates arranged according tothe year in which they completedmedical school.Those of you who graduated in theperiod from 1918 to 1936 were award­ed a four-year certificate instead of adegree. M.D. degrees were conferredonly after completion of internship.Since official records identify physi­cians by the year in which they re­ceived their doctoral degrees, individ­ual members of a class become sepa­rated by the number of years elapsedbefore internship-sometimes two,three, and even five years after gradu­ation.We consulted Convocation pro­grams, Dean's lists, alumni records,and early catalogues of Rush MedicalCollege and are now ready to supplya bona fide class list to any alumnuswho requests it.Let us help you with your reunionplans.BULLETINof the Alumni AssociationThe University of ChicagoSCHOOL OF MEDICINE950 East Fifty-ninth Street, Chicago 37, IllinoisVOL. 17 AUTUMN 1960 No.1EDITORIAL BOARDJESSIE BURNS MACLEAN, SecretaryWRIGHT ADAMS ELEANOR M. HUMPHREYSJOHN D. ARNOLD HUBERTA LIVINGSTONEL. T. COGGESHALL PETER V. MOULDERROBERT J. HASTERLIK WALTER L. PALMER16 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINNEW DEAN ON NEW YEARH. Stanley Bennett becomes Dean of the Division of Bio­logical Sciences on January 1, 1961. He replaces Lowell T.Coggeshall who, since last spring, has been Vice-Presidentof the University in.charge of medical and biological programs.Dr. Bennett comes: from the University of Washingtonwhere he was professor and chairman of the Departmentof Anatomy.He was born of missionary parents in Tottori, Japan, in1910. At fourteen he came to the United States and theGermantown Friends School in Philadelphia. He is a graduateof Oberlin College and of Harvard Medical School in 1936;he took a medical internship at Hopkins, then returned toHarvard in 1939 where for three years he conducted researchand taught anatomy and pharmacology.In 1945 he was awarded the Navy Legion of Merit for com­bat service as a medical intelligence officer with the FleetMarine Force in Guam and Okinawa.From 1945 to 1948 Dr. Bennett was assistant Professor ofCytology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In1948 he joined the faculty of the University of Washingtonand played a major role in the development of that splendidnew medical school in the Northwest.His principal research interests are in histology, submicro­scopic cytology, cellular fine structure, optical instrumenta­tion, and electron microscopy. Through his research activitiesand leadership in professional and scientific groups, Dr. Ben- nett has established himself as a scientist and administranof international stature. He is a fellow of the AmericrAcademy of Arts and Sciences. He was appointed a membof the National Advisory Health Council to the U. S. P. H.in 1958. In 1959-60 he was president of the American Asociation of Anatomists. He is a member of the Society IClinical Investigation and of many other national and regieal societies.Dr. Bennett has maintained his interest in Japan and tlJapanese people. On a recent visit to Japan he addressed 1anatomical meeting in Japanese and on a recent visit to Clcago he complemented a young laboratory worker, whom 1recognized as Japanese, by conversing with her in her ovlanguage.Mrs. Bennett is the former Alice Helen Roosa and theare four Bennett children: Edith, Anna, Henry, and PatiencThey will live in Hyde Park.Dr. Bennett has said, "We are now experiencing great da:for biology and medicine. I am looking forward to great daat the University of Chicago."The days ahead promise to be exciting under Dr. Bennettleadership. Our next issue will carry a message from the neDean. -a: ..J] �.-s:r.:a .J:.� � , �'7. � � _sr� � • I \2 �.,1·) �� :r.-�. I·� �(Happy New Year, Happiness, and a Long Life!)Class of 1910 at June Reunion: FOWLER, McLEAN, MOORE, FALLS, SWIFT, SMITH, and SKILES.