rume 18 AUTUMN 1961 Number 12 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN"Tbe real revolutionin medical educationis the greatlyexpanded medicaland premedicalh "researc ...DEAN H. STANLEY BENNETTto the Association of AmericanMedical CollegesSophomore ED BRODY anJunior JOHN SCHNEIDElwith Biochemistry's electron microscopJunior A, GERSON GREENBERG andJANICE PLZAK, '60, Resident in SurgeryMEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 3The current need for medical studentloan funds is critical. In the past year,with living and education costs continu­ing to rise, more students have found itnecessary to request loans to help themfinance their medical education. Fortu­nately, we have been able to meet theseloan requests because the reserves in ourmedical student loan funds have in thepast been adequate. However, recentlythe money available in all our loan fundstotaled less than $3,000, the lowest levelin years. Consequently, the need foradditional funds is acute, and I appealto all of our medical alumni for help.I appeal to our graduates who are ina position to do so to make contribu­tions, large or small, to loan fundsestablished by our alumni body (Medi­cal Alumni Loan Fund, Paul C. CannonLoan Fund, Basil C. Harvey Loan Fund,and Eleanor Humphreys Loan Fund)which have materially helped hundredsof our medical students in the past dec­ade.At the same time I appeal to ourgraduates who have loans outstandingfrom these and other loan funds at theUniversity. Those who have not yetmade any repayment but may be in aposition to do so should begin repay­ment at this time. On the other hand,those who have begun repayment mightconceivably consider increasing thetempo of their repayments. Moreover,let me suggest to those who have loansoutstanding that it is preferable to havesmall amounts repaid regularly, perhapson a monthly or semi-monthly basis,than to receive larger payments on anirregular schedule.Over the years it has been gratifyingto me to be able to encourage bright butneedy applicants to come to our medicalschool for their education. To permit usto continue to offer the educational op­portunities of the University of ChicagoSchool of Medicine to such worthy stu­dents, it has become necessary to in­crease our loan funds as Quickly as pos­sible.We have been and are currently re­ceiving some contributions from non­alumni sources, but in the past it hasbeen our alumni who have establishedloan funds at appropriate times andwho have contributed magnificently tothose loan funds. For this reason at thistime of critical need I once again tumto you, our alumni.JOSEPH CEITHAMLDean of Students AN URGENT APPEALUse of FundsThe extent to which the four loanfunds created by medical alumni havebeen used in the last five years is givenbelow. A great advantage of these fundsfor the students is that the loans carryno interest until after internship andthen only 2 per cent.Number of Totalstudents loans1957 27 $ 5,2201958 35 12,2711959 58 18,6221960 37 12,2711961 57 20,495Here are some actual examples of stu­dents whose education was made pos­sible through these funds.The medical education of Student Awas financed by some help from hisfamily, scholarships, and loans. He con­tributed by working as an orderly, anextern, and as a laborer during his offquarters. During his internship hestarted small monthly payments on hisloans. After two years in the Army, he isnow in private practice.Student B financed her pre-medicaland medical education entirely withoutassistance from her family throughscholarships, part-time work, and loans.In spite of a heavy work load, sheachieved a creditable academic recordand was engaged in research through­out medical school. She is now a residentin psychiatry.Student C served in the Air Force forfour years before completing his pre­medical requirements. Although he wasolder, already married and the father oftwo children, we still considered him agood applicant. During all four years ofmedical school, he worked twenty hoursa week, and on two occasions was chosento be a teaching assistant. In his senioryear he worked in the emergency roomof a local hospital. In addition he par­ticipated in a research project whichwon him one of the senior awards atgraduation.Student D was in pre-medical schoolin Hungary when the 1956 revolt brokeout. All members of his immediate fam­ily were killed and he fled to the U.S.After an intensive three-month coursein English, he was able to complete his pre-medical requirements in one yearand to enter our medical school. He hasfinanced his medical education throughscholarships, tuition aid, loans, and hisown earnings from jobs as varied as la­borer and research assistant. He has alsoengaged in research work leading to thepublication of three papers of which hewas co-author. After completion of hisstudies he plans a career in some under­developed or underprivileged land underthe auspices of the United States Gov­ernment or possibly the World HealthOrganization.Student E worked in business for fouryears before coming to medical school.With scholarship aid, loans, and the helpof his wife, he was able to finance hisown medical education and to help hisparents through his father's illness. Hegraduated in the middle third of hisclass. Only two years after graduationhe insisted on repaying the entire amountof his loan, although he had to borrowthe money from a bank to do so.Student F's father and uncle are bothalumni of this School of Medicine. Hisfather became ill and had to give up hispractice at the end of this boy's fresh­man year. He was able to continue hiseducation without interruption with theaid of our loans.Sophomore BERNARD J. RANSIL4 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINREUNIONTONY GOTTLIEB speaks for the Seniors As the medical school grows, the re­unions get bigger. This year over fourhundred guests crowded the Del PradoHotel to honor the graduates of 1961and to congratulate returning classes ontheir anniversaries. Our special guestswere from the class of 1911 celebratingtheir fiftieth.On the next pages are pictures and de­tails of the evening's program.SENIOR A WARDSDean of Students Joseph J. Ceithamlpresented senior awards and honors.The fifteenth annual Borden Award foroutstanding research was won by JohnR. Green for his paper on "Mechanismof Rhodanese Action." David G. An­derson won the Medical Alumni Awardfor the best presentation at the SeniorScientific Session with his paper on "Bio­logical Effects of the Polyoma Virus inEmbryonal and Newborn Rats." Sharingthe Smith, Kline, and French Award for"meritorious achievement" in the fieldof psychiatry were Louis Tinnin andMatthew Dumont for their papers on"Cognitive Activity Without Aware­ness," and "Family Care After a Thou­sand Years-A Crisis in the Traditionof St. Dymphna." It was also announcedthat Richard Tracy won the Bauschand Lomb Medal for a research paper President GILCHRISTentered in a competition sponsoredthe American Society of Clinical Pathoogists,For their uniformly high achievemenin leadership, scholarship, and researcCharles Urschel and Philip Eaton weiselected to graduate with honors.JOHN GREEN and friendTINNIN receives congratulations from the DeanURSCHEL and . . . EATON with honors DUMONT of Ste. Dymphna fameSeniors EATON,KAPLAN, WENTZ,and OLSEN level withJOHN KENWARD6 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINTwelve members of the class of 1911and their wives were present to cele­brate their fiftieth anniversary. Thosewho received testimonials at the Ban­quet are:Christian Alford Fjeldstad retired in1951 from the clinical faculty of theUniversity of Minnesota where he hadbeen in the Department of Ophthalmol­ogy and Otolaryngology since 1921. Heinterned at Presbyterian in Chicagoand did post-graduate work at the Man­hattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital.Dr. Fjeldstad retired from private prac­tice in 1958.Nelson Leroy Heller has been ingeneral practice in Dunkirk, Indiana,since 1914, except for one year at CampGrant during World War I. He is onthe staff of hospitals in Portland, Mun­cie, and Hartford City, Indiana.Arthur R. Metz has spent the lastfifty years in hospital practice doinggeneral surgery and x-ray in associationwith Washington Boulevard Hospitaland as a member of the clinical facultyof the University of Illinois, Rush Med­ical College, and Northwestern Schoolof Medicine. He is one of the foundersof the American Board of Surgery andof the Central Surgical Association. Dr.Metz served as president of the latterorganization as well as of the WesternSurgical Association, and the AmericanAssociation for the Surgery of Trauma.Samuel M. Morwitz interned at Mil­waukee County Hospital and did post­graduate study in London and Vienna.From 1916 until 1930 he was ClinicalInstructor in Otolaryngology at RushMedical College. In 1930 he joined thefaculty of the University of Illinois Col­lege of Medicine and is now AssociateProfessor Emeritus. Dr. Morwitz waspresident of the Mount Sinai Hospitalmedical staff from 1948 to 1950, andcontinues as senior attending otolaryn­gologist. He practices with his son-in­law, Irwin D. Horwitz, in Chicago.James Patterson entered general prac­tice in South Portland, Maine, imme­diately after his graduation and con­tinues to derive much enjoyment fromhis work and family. Dr. Patterson hasthree sons, one of whom is a pediatri­cian and head of his department in thehospital in Fort Devens, Massachusetts. COURT STANLEY, '11, brought a print of the class pictureCLASS OF 1911Robert Lawrence Reynolds, afterinternship in Portland, Oregon, servedas a medical officer in World Wars Iand II and holds the rank of Lt. Colonel.He practiced in Kalispell, Montana,Maywood, Illinois, and since 1946, inFranklin Park, Illinois.Louis D. Smith is a member of theBoard of Directors of the South Chi­cago Community Hospital as well as ofthe staff of South Shore and JacksonPark Hospitals. Dr. Smith is a Fellowof the American College of Surgeons anda diplomate of the American Board ofUrology. The Smiths live in Chicagoand have two children, both graduatesof The University of Chicago.John J. Sprafka became attendinggynecologist at the Hospital of St. An- thony de Padua in Chicago in 1913 andhas since been lecturer in surgery in thehospital's School of Nursing, presidentof the medical staff, and attending sur­geon, a position he still holds.Philip E. Stangl is a pathologist atthe Veterans Administration Hospitalin St. Cloud, Minnesota. Dr. Stangl isa member of the American College ofSurgeons, the American Board of Pathol­ogists, and the American Society ofClinical Pathologists.Court Roger Stanley interned in thePhilippines and traveled around theworld before beginning general practicein Minnesota. In 1920 he formed a part­nership with four other men and estab­lished the Worthington Clinic in Worth­ington, Minnesota. After six years ofMEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 71911 Class: Standing, JOHN J. SPRAFKA. ARTHUR R. METZ, PHILIP E. STANGL, FRANK LEE WILLIAMS, SAMUEL M.MORWITZ, ROBERT LAWRENCE REYNOLDS, WALTER H. THEOBALD, and LOUIS D. SMITH; seated, COURT STANLEY,NELSON LEROY HELLER, JAMES PATTERSON, and CHRISTIAN A. FJELSTAD.general practice there, Dr. Stanley tooka residency at the Eye, Ear, Nose, andThroat Hospital in New Orleans, thenrejoined the clinic until his retirementin 1955. Dr. Stanley is now in practicein Minneapolis and helps with the careof students in the eye department of theUniversity of Minnesota.Walter Henry Theobald joined thestaff of St. Luke's Hospital in 1916 andis now on the emeritus staff. He is alsoEmeritus Professor of Otolaryngology atthe University of Illinois Research Hos­pital. Dr. Theobald has been presidentof the Institute of Medicine of Chicagoand the American Academy of Ophthal­mology. His son is an otolaryngologistand is in practice with his father. Frank Lee Williams practiced inOregon after internship and then en­tered surgical practice in Des Moines,Iowa. In World War I Dr. Williams re­ceived the Distinguished Service Crosswith three Oak Leaf clusters while serv­ing with the Rainbow Division. He thenentered the U.S. Public Health Service,and later the Veterans Administrationwhere he served for twenty-seven years,eleven years as Chief Surgeon in Wads­worth, Kansas. In June, 1961, the Wil­liamses moved to Chicago.Those members who were unable toattend the Reunion were sent testimo­nials to commemorate their fiftieth an­niversary. They are:Samuel D. Avery, Washington, D.C.John Z. Brown, Salt Lake City, Utah Harry L. Dale, San Francisco, Calif.Russell C. Doolittle, Clearwater, Fla.Clarence Emerson, Lincoln, Neb.Paul Forgrave, St. Joseph, Mo.Rex R. Frizzell, Pasadena, Calif.Frank F. Gardner, Santa Ana, Calif.Charles C. Hillman, Miami, Fla.F. Roscoe Huckin, ChicagoHerbert H. Hughes, Gresham, Ore.Charles F. Nelson, Los AngelesRobert D. Spencer, Piqua, OhioRoscoe G. VanNuys, Lafayette, Calif.Henry O. Wernicke, ChicagoFifty-first anniversary testimonials:Paul Gallagher, EI Paso, TexasBenoni Austin Place, Berkeley, Calif.Robert O. Ritter, DeLand, Fla.GOLD KEYPaul Chesley Hodges was presentedfor the Gold Key of the Medical Alumniby Walter Lincoln Palmer, '21.When our clinical departments werees ta blished in 1927, Franklin McLean,'10, persuaded Dr. Hodges to leave Pe­king Union Medical College where hehad been since 1919 and join our newDepartment of Medicine as radiologist.He and his staff soon became a separatedivision and finally an autonomous de­partment from which Dr. Hodges re­tired as chairman in 1958.Perhaps only those of us who havebeen closely associated with Dr. Hodgesover those years can appreciate the mag­nitude of his contribution to the devel­opment of The Clinics. His boldness andimagination and his dedication inspiredour respect and affection. His contribu­tions in research reflect a scientific pas­sion to measure with precision. Roent­genologic equipment designed by him isin use all over the world.Arthur Hawley Parmelee, '11planned to attend the Reunion but wasstricken by sudden illness and died onJune 6 in his home in Pacific Palisades,California. The Gold Key was awardedposthumously by F. Howell Wright.Dr. Parmelee was educated at BeloitCollege ( 1905), Rush Medical College(1911), and the University of Vienna(1925) and became one of the outstand­ing pediatricians of Chicago and clinicalprofessor at his alma mater. In his earlywritings he described accurately the as­sociation of pancreatic and lung pathol­ogy, shortly thereafter designated ascystic fibrosis of the pancreas. Later hewrote one of the standard texts on clin­ical disorders of the newborn.In 1947 he moved to Los Angeles andthe University of Southern Californiaand for a time was administrative headof the Los Angeles Children's Hospital. HASTINGS HODGES receiveskey from PresidentGILCHRISTCLARKMULLAN In his presentation for the Distin­guished Service Award, Douglas Bu­chanan said of David Barrett Clark,'46:He joined the Department of Anat­omy of The University of Chicago in1935. He worked with Dr. StephenPolyak and with Dr. George Bartelmezand gained his Ph.D. in neuroanatomyin 1939. During the war years he wasengaged in neuropathological researchwith the U.S. Army Division of GasWarfare. His medical work was inter­rupted but he graduated in Medicine in1946 with honors. Dr. Clark was thefirst graduate of The University of Chi­cago to be appointed a Resident Physi-McCLINTOCKAWARDThe graduating class selectedJohn F. Mullan (left), AssociateProfessor of Neurosurgery, to re­ceive the McClintock Award forthe outstanding teacher of theyear.The a ward was established in1960 by James A. McClintock,'42, of Muncie, Indiana, in honorof his father on the occasion ofhis retirement from the faculty ofPurdue University. Both McClin­tocks were with us in June, 1960,when the award was first given,but in August of 1961 ProfessorMcClintock died at the age ofseventy-two. DSAcian in Medicine at The Johns HopkinsHospital. There he was made Residentin Neurology, a post which had been inabeyance for many years. He is nowProfessor of Neurology at Johns Hop­kins. He is a graduate of The Universityof Chicago worthy of this special honor.A. Baird Hastings was presented byhis devoted student, Lillian Eichelber­ger, who described him as "one of theextremely small group of men whosework and influence have brought aboutphenomenal upsurge and expansion ofbiochemistry in our time." Before 1926when he came to the University as Pro­fessor of Physiological Chemistry, Dr.Hastings did significant research in thefield of acid-base balance in respiratoryand metabolic disorders at the Rockefel­ler Institute. While at the University hebegan studies on electrolyte water char­acteristics, on electrolyte balance, andon calcium ion concentrations of theblood. In 1935 he left to become headof the biochemistry department at Har­vard and continued research on inter­mediary metabolism of carbohydrates,fats, and proteins until his retirement in1958. Dr. Hastings has since been a re­search member of the Scripps Clinicsand Research Foundation at La Jolla,California.Robert Moseley introduced Henry S.Kaplan, Rush '40, Professor of Radiol­ogy and head of the department at theStanford School of Medicine since 1948.He completed residency training atMichael Reese Hospital, and then wentto Minnesota for further training and10 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN1921: WALTER PALMER, FRANCIS LEDERER, DEAN BURNS, ABRAHAM LASH, ARTHUR COLWELL, ANDREW B. JOHNSON,RAYMOND J. HARRINGTON, CARL DRAGSTEDT, CHESTER HENN, GAIL SOPER, and HOWARD M. SHEAFF.the MS degree. He taught at Yale from1944 to 1947, and spent a year as radiol­ogist at the National Cancer Institute atNIH. He has done significant work inroentgen diagnosis of congenital heartdisease, carcinogenesis by irritation, bio­logical effects of radiation on experimen­tal tumors, and electron beam therapy ofcancer. He was president of the Radia­tion Research Society, 1956-57, and theAssociation of University. Radiologists,1954-55. Since 1958 he has been Direc­tor of the Biophysics Laboratory atStanford.Edward C. Rosenow, Rush '02, Pro­fessor Emeritus of Experimental Bac­teriology at Mayo Foundation since1944, was presented by Lowell T.Coggeshall. Dr. Rosenow is known forhis work in elective localization of bac­teria, transmutation of pneumococciand streptococci, and in vitro productionof antibodies from streptococci andother bacteria. He has been given hono­rary degrees from Cincinnati, CarletonCollege, and Hamline and Park Collegein addition to the Gold Medal of theAmerican Medical Association and theStacey Award from Cincinnati. After graduation from Rush he stayed on asfellow in pathology and medicine, andwas an instructor from 1907 to 1915. Dr.Rosenow has been on the staff of Long­view Hospital in Cincinnati since 1945.1921 REUNIONTwenty members of the class of 1921gathered for their fortieth anniversary.There was a spirited cocktail party inthe Fiesta Room before dinner for theclass members and their wives.1951 REUNIONThirty-four members of the class of1951 and their wives met in the FiestaRoom of the Del Prado on June 7 for areception and cocktails to celebrate theirtenth anniversary. Members who couldnot attend received a biographical sketchof the entire class. Robert Wirtshafterand Henry Wild berger were respon­sible for compiling the class biographyand for the reception and banquet ar­rangements. -raa MID'CAL AL�ru",ON BANQU",TIll! UNIVU�f CHICAGOH,_,;ng1%1 GRADUATING CLASSCLASS OF 1911RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGETIll! DEL PRAOOJUN. TBB nlGHTH, MINITIIN HUNDIBD SIXTY-ONIMEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 11Our new Dean .•• DEAN BENNETTIn his first address to the alumni ofthe medical school, Dean H. StanleyBennett spoke of the need and difficultyof combining the time-honored purposeof medicine with the rapidly developingnon-traditional methods of medical re­search. No new methods, he emphasized,must obscure the fact that medical edu­cation and research are conducted forthe benefit of the public, not for thebenefit of the students or the medicalprofession. Ultimately, students must betrained to become instruments to bringknowledge and skill to the public in aform which it can understand and fromwhich it can benefit. On the other hand,the art of medicine increasingly is in­volving the application to human prob­lems of scientific disciplines hithertooutside the traditional field of medicine-methods and findings, for instance,often related to those of the physicalsciences, including mathematics. Theprimary aim of modem medical educa­tion, then, is to make its training morerigorous and more far-reaching than be- and Mrs. Bennettfore without the loss of human under-standing and fundamental human values.GEORGE CARL de HEVESY and CHARLES HUGGINS. Nobel prize-winner de Hevesy was here to receive the Rosen­berger Medal.12 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINMEDICAL ALUMNI OFFICERS 1961-62The Medical Alumni Association'snew president is F. Howell Wright,Professor of Pediatrics and Acting Chair­man of the Department of Pediatrics atthe University. Dr. Wright has been onthe pediatrics faculty since 1940, andwas Chairman from 1946 until 1961when he asked to retire from that posi­tion to devote more time to teachingand research. He will continue to serveas Acting Chairman, however, until asuitable successor is appointed.Dr. Wright received his M.D. fromJohns Hopkins in 1933 where he re­mained until 1935 for further pediatrictraining. He was an instructor at Colum­bia and spent two years with the Rocke­feller Institute as a fellow in bacteriol- ogy and pathology before he came tothe University. Dr. Wright's special in­terests are virology, infant care, andpsychologic adjustment of infants andchildren.Helen Holt, Rush '34, is Vice-Presi­dent of the Association. Dr. Holt isAssistant Professor of Ophthalmologyat Northwestern University MedicalSchool and maintains a private practicein Chicago.Secretary is Marc O. Beem, '48, whois Associate Professor of Pediatrics onour faculty.John L. Sommer, '53, is Treasurer.He has been Assistant Professor ofUrology at the University since 1959.Good night all WRIGHTMEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 13FACULTY NEWSEmmett B. Bay, Rush '23, and Robert M.otter, Rush '39, are members of the BoardDirectors of the Central Service for thehronically III of the Institute of MedicineChicago.Ross Benham, Director of the Clinical.icrobiology Laboratory, has been ap­iinted to the Board of Governors of thehicago Technical Societies Council.Dean of Students Joseph J. Ceithaml,�.D. '41, was appointed Chairman of theational Committee on Financial Needs of.udents, a continuing Group on Studentffairs of the Association of American Medi­LI Colleges.Albert Dorfman, '44, was the guest>eaker at a postgraduate course on rheu­atic fever sponsored by the pediatrics de­irtrnent of the State University of Iowaollege of Medicine in September.Lester R. Dragstedt, Rush '20, gave thecond Dwight E. Clark Memorial LectureL October, 1961, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Kenneth P. Dubois, Pharmacology, isrving on a USPHS Surgeon General's Ad­sory Committee on Environmental Health.F. Harold Entz, '29-'31, of Waterloo,iwa, is president-elect of the Central Uro­gical Association.Martin G. Goldner, '39-'47, has been ap­ointed Director of Medicine of the Jewish.ospital of Brooklyn and professor of medi­ne of the Downstate Medical Center ofew York State University.Duncan E. Govan, '53-'54, is assistantrofessor of urology at Stanford School of[edicine.Anna Hamann, '38-'48, has been ap­ointed associate professor of radiology at'orthwestern University School of Medi­ne.Charles Huggins was co-recipient of theTalker Prize given once every five years byie Royal College of Surgeons for the "best'ork in cancer research." Dr. Huggins went) London in October to receive the prize.Paul C. Hodges is spending six months1 Formosa assisting in the development ofae Radiation Therapy Training Center athe National Defense Medical Center in'aipei which he helped establish in 1960.Leon O. Jacobson, '39, is a member ofhe Advisory Committee on Biophysics tohe Surgeon General of the Army and haseen appointed Consultant to the Surgeon;eneral of the USPHS as a member of the[ational Advisory Committee on Radiation.Louis N. Katz, '30-'40, was awarded a961 Gold Heart by the American Heartissodation for his contributions to under­tanding of the cardiovascular diseases.Joseph B. Kirsner is a member of theIoard of Trustees of the Institute for Psy­:hoanalysis. Ray Koppelman is conducting an elemen­tary course in biology for college credit ontelevision for the Columbia BroadcastingSystem's "College of the Air" this year.George LeRoy, '34, participated in therecent hearing of the Subcommittee onResearch and Development of the JointCommittee on Atomic Energy in Washing­ton, D.C.Willard Libby, '45-'54,1960 Nobel Prize­winner in chemistry for his discovery of the"atomic calendar" in work done at the Uni­versity of Chicago, delivered the first C. R.Musser Lecture of the Law School here, No­vember 29, on "Science in Administration."Geraldine Light spent a week in Octoberat the University of EI Salvador as visitingprofessor of anesthesiology.Gwyn Lile, Edgar Draper, and MortonMillman have become diplomates of theAmerican Board of Psychiatry.John R. Lindsay received the Award ofMerit from the American Otological Societyat its annual meeting. He is also secondvice-president of the American Academyof Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology.Huberta M. Livingstone, '32-'52, ispresident and chairman of the Board ofDirectors of the Girl Scouts of Chicago.Albert B. Lorincz, '47, became chairmanof the Department of Obstetrics and Gyne­cology at Creighton University, Omaha,Nebraska, in October.Charles P. McCartney, '43, is secretaryof the Jackson Park Branch of the ChicagoMedical Society.Franklin C. McLean, Rush '10, has beenmade a Claude Bernard Professor by theUniversity of Montreal Institute of Experi­mental Medicine and Surgery. Dr. McLeanspoke on "Induction of �one Formation"when he was there in November.Robert D. Moore is a member of theprofessional advisory committee of theUniversity of Illinois' division of servicesfor crippled children.William Dewey Neff has left the De­partment of Psychology to take a researchposition with Bolt, Beranek, and Newman,Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Frank W. Newell has been appointedto the American Board of Ophthalmologyfor a four year term.Walter L. Palmer, Rush '21, was awardeda Mastership in the American College ofPhysicians at the Miami convention lastMay. He was elected president of the Uni­versity of Chicago Cancer Research Foun­dation in December.E. Jurgen Plotz has left to become pro­fessor and chairman of obstetrics and gyne­cology at the Albany Medical Center ofUnion University in Albany, New York. Albert M. Potts received the Frieden­wald Award of the Association for Researchin Ophthalmology for his outstanding con­tributions to ophthalmic research.Klara J. Pree, '53-'61, has opened an of­fice for the private practice of pediatrics inDowner's Grove, Illinois.John J. Procknow, '50, has been electedvice-president of the Chicago Medical Myco­logical Society.Nicolas Rashevsky's latest book, M ath­ematical Principles in Biology and TheirApplications, traces the development ofmathematical biology and is intended forbiologists and physicians with a generalknowledge of mathematics.Henry T. Ricketts has been appointed amember of the editorial board of the Ar­chives of Internal Medicine.Stephen Rothman went to Kampala inUganda, East Africa, last spring with agroup sponsored by the International UnionAgainst Cancer to study Kaposi's sarcoma,a form of cancer prevalent in that area. Onhis way to and from Uganda Dr. Rothmanspoke in Capetown, South Africa, and at theUniversity of Athens in Greece.Ira G. Wool, '53, spent last year at Cam­bridge, England, as visiting scientist in bio­chemistry.j ohn �. <Bross1921-1961John Gross, '54, died July 2, 1961,after an illness of a year. Dr. Grossinterned at Bobs Roberts and Wood­lawn Hospitals and completed a resi­dency in pediatrics. He was appointedInstructor in Pediatrics and at LaRabida in 1960. He had planned toaccept the position of assistant pro­fessor in pediatrics at Louisiana StateUniversity School of Medicine whenhe first learned of his fatal illness.He was thirty-seven years old, mar­ried, and the father of two youngsons, Daniel, aged three, and Donald,aged nine months. Friends are in­vited to contribute to a fund to bepresented to his wife to be investedfor the future education of the boys.Checks should be made payable toAlbert Dorfman and sent to LaRabida Sanitarium, Jackson Park at65th Street, Chicago 49, Illinois.MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN14CINE SEMINARSALUMNI NEWS Hilger Perry Jenkins, '27, Audio­Visual Coordinator of the School ofMedicine, has introduced a highly popu­lar film supplement to the regular teach­ing program. Under his direction "CineSeminars" are held five or more consec­utive weeks each quarter.The series features films with highteaching value which present materialparticularly suited to motion picturephotography. Each seminar focuses onone or two sound films, or, if possible,on a film with the author's narration anddiscussion. Following the film, an appro­priate member of the staff leads d.scus­sion and answers the questions of theaudience of students, interns, and resi­dents.'35. Vida B. Wentz has been electedpresident of the medical and dental staff ofChildren's Memorial Hospital of. Chicago.She is the first woman to hold this position.'36. Charles H. Rammelkamp, Jr. re­ceived the first Research Achievement Awardof the American Heart Association for hiscontributions to the prevention and manage­ment of streptococcal infections, rheumaticfever, and rheumatic heart disease.'37. Carl C. Pfeiffer is the head of thesection on pharmacology in the Neuro-Psy­chiatric Institute in Princeton, and is presi­dent of the American Society for Pharma­cology and Experimental Therapeutics.'38. Charlotte G. Babcock, professor ofpsychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh,has a fellowship for a year's study at theFord Foundation for Advanced Study in theBehavioral Sciences in Stanford, California.'40. Helen Dickerson Heinen was named"Alumna of the Year" by MacMurray Col­lege. Dr. Heinen is chairman of the Depart­ment of Pediatrics at Evangelical Hospitalof Chicago and at Christ Community Hos­pital, Oak Lawn.'41. Joseph Ransohoff has been ap­pointed professor of neurosurgery and chair­man of the department at the New YorkUniversity Belleview Medical Center.'42. Robert H. Ebert, Western Reserve,is president of the American Thoracic Soci­ety.'47. Daniel J. Black of Manhattan Beach,California, visited The Clinics during the October meetings of the American College ofSurgeons.'47. John T. Grayhack has been pro­moted to associate professor of urology atNorthwestern University Medical School.'52. Leslie Schroeder writes that he isgoing into practice with the Truesdale Clin­ic in Fall River, Massachusetts. DaveGreer, '53, and Robert Moe, '47J are alsomembers of this group.'53. Jack W. Japenga is practicing radi­ology in Glendora, California.'54. Hugh Davis is now in practice ofinternal medicine at the Henry J. KaiserHospital in Honolulu.'54. Arnold L. Flick has begun the prac­tice of internal medicine in San Diego, spe­cializing in diseases of the esophagus and di­gestive tract.'56. Eugene L. Balter completed a resi­dency in radiology at Kings County Hospitallast June and has entered the Air Force.'57. Harvey L. Lerner is now with theU.S. Navy at Great Lakes, Illinois, aftercompleting a medical residency at Monte­fiore and Kings County Hospitals in NewYork City. He married Mimi Kurtz ofBrooklyn in June.'60. Allan M. Dekelboum has begun asurgical residency at the Presbyterian Medi­cal Center, San Francisco.'61. Thomas Necheles won the 1961American Diabetic Association Award of$250 for his paper on "In vitro Effect of In­sulin and Thyroxine on Protein and NucleicAcid Synthesis of Rabbit Bone Marrow." LOUTIT LECTURESThe Section on Nuclear Medicine ofthe Department of Pharmacology spon­sored a series of lectures in October on"The Irradiation of Mice and Men."Dr. John Freeman Loutit, director ofthe United Kingdom Research Council'sRadiobiological Unit in Harwell, Eng­land, an outstanding authority on radia­tion and leukemia, gave the three lec­tures of the series. He spoke on "Radia­tion Biology: The Facts of Life," "Can­cer, Leukemia, and Longevity," and"Strontium-90."MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 15______________D__E_A_T__H_S II R_U_S_H N_E_W__S__ �'19. John A. Bondzinski, Chicago, July12, age 66.Arthur T. Farisy, Daly City, Calif., Sep­tember 24, 1960, age 68.Onis H. Horrall, Chicago, April 1, age 72.Henry S. Portogallo, La Crescenta, Calif.,January 10, 1961, age 70.Isadore Sandock, South Bend, Ind., June4, age 69.George Smith, Portland, Ore., May 31,1960, age 67.'20. William D. McNally, Spring Hill,Ala., June 29, age 79.'21. George W. Jones, Los Angeles, Calif.,August 21, age 65.Lawrence J. Lawson, Evanston, Ill., July11, age 65.'23. Ralph G. Lommen, Manton, Mich.,October 4, age 67.Joseph E. Schaefer, Chicago, June 29, age76.'24. Frederick N. Bussey, Chicago, May24, age 60.Frank H. Cooley, Aberdeen, S. Dak., J an­uary 5, 1962, age 61.Eugene P. King, Waukegan, Ill., Febru­ary 12,1961, age 68.Newton Miller, Porterville, Calif., J anu­ary 7, 1961, age 81.Willard Van Hazel, Chicago, August 24,age 65.'25. Edward H. Dunn, Elgin, Ill., Octo­ber 18, age 59.'28. William C. Fairbrother, Inglewood,Calif., July 28, age 59.Agnar T. Smedal, Stoughton, Wis., April21, age 58.'29. Walter B. Brown, Livermore, Calif.,April 14, age 61.Preston H. McClelland, Santa Monica,Calif., April 1, age 62.'30. Franklin S. Du Bois, New Canaan,Conn., June 24, age 55.'31. Maurice J. Hoilien, Eureka, Calif.,August 15, age 58.'32. Martin Dworkin, New York City,July 9, age 54.Arvid E. Westerdahl, Oak Park, Ill., Sep­tember 6, age 65.'35. Anthony R. D'Addario, Newark,N.J., December 19, age 51.'37. Lester H. Emmett, Ontario, Ore., Au­gust 14, age 56.Joseph M. Kochanek, Ludlow, Mass.,April 12, age 49.'39. Raymond W. Polk, Miles City,Mont., December 7, age 47.'40. Walter W. Hamburger, Rochester,N.Y., September 21, age 46.'92. John H. Corliss, Sumner, Wash.,April 13, age 94.'94. Frank E. Wiedemann, Terre Haute,Ind., December 24, age 89.'96. Max A. Weisskopf, Berwyn, Ill.,August 19, age 87.'97. Owen S. Townsend, Englewood,Colo., January 26, 1961, age 85.'00. Oscar A. Dahms, Chicago, May 18,age 82.Karl A. Danielson, Litchfield, Minn.,January 5, 1961, age 85.Charles S. Woods, Indianapolis, Ind.,January 23, 1961, age 83.'01. William E. Lamerton, Enid, Okla.,November 24, age 87.Francis M. Link, Paris, Ill., June 2, age81.'02. Ralph C. Hamill, Winnetka, Ill.,July 5, age 84.Hal S. Naramore, Seattle, Wash., March6, age 83.'04. Hal A. Childs, Creston, Iowa, June28, age 82.'05. George Halperin, Chicago, Novem­ber 7, age 80.Arthur S. Hoon, Missoula, Mont., July23, age 81.'06. John F. Adams, San Dimas, Calif.,July 8; age 83.'07. Ranson D. Bernard, Ames, Iowa,July 7, age 79.Vernon C. David, Evanston, Ill., Novem­ber 15, age 79.'09. Harry E. Bryant, Beverly Hills,Calif., July 26, age 77.'10. Johnson F. Hammond, Chicago, De­cember 5, age 79.Adelbert M. Moody, San Francisco,Calif., January 28, age 77.Edward F. Zoerb, Scottsbluff, Nebr., No­vember 21, age 84.'11. Arthur H. Parmelee, Los Angeles,Calif., June 6, age 77.'12. Selim W. McArthur, Elkhart, Ill.,August 2, age 77.Harry F. Watt, Ocala, Fla., May 14, age76.'13. David G. Edmunds, Salt Lake City,Utah, February 16, 1961, age 79.Robert L. I. Smith, South Laguna, Calif.,April 6, age 76.'14. William B. Sharp, Galveston, Tex.,March 24, age 71.'15. Frank B. Marek, Racine, Wis., Au­gust 24, age 70.'17. leRoy H. Sloan, Michigan City, Ind.,June 2, age 69.'18. Charles F. Taylor, Norton, Kan., De­cember 23, age 70. '04. Archibald L. Hoyne, Emeritus Clin­ical Professor of Pediatrics, writes that hehas been on the faculty of the ChicagoMedical School as Professor of Pediatricssince his retirement here in 1948. In addi­tion he has continued as chairman of theContagious Disease Department at CookCounty Hospital. In his spare time Dr.Hoyne has contributed articles to medicaljournals and chapters to various books.'11. Walter H. Theobald was given theGeorge Howell Coleman medal, awarded an­nually to a scientist who has made "out­standing contributions to the welfare of thecommunity" by the Institute of Medicine ofChicago.'24. Esmond R. Long received the WillRoss Medal and the Trudeau Medal at theannual joint meetings of the National Tu­berculosis Association, the American Tho­racic Society, and the National Conferenceon Tuberculosis last spring.The autumn issue of Perspectives in Biol­ogy and Medicine carries an autobiographicsketch by Dr. Long cal1ed, "A Pathologist'sRecol1ections of the Treatment, Investiga­tion, and Control of Tuberculosis." It in­cludes many passages about his experiencesat The University of Chicago as a studentand a description of his own struggles withtuberculosis. It is written with the charmand clarity that are characteristic of him.'24. Howard Wakefield was re-elected aregent of the American College of Physiciansat the annual session in Florida.Mary Thompson Hospital of Chicagohonored Eloise Parsons, '25, and Evange­line Stenhouse, '32, for their outstandingservice to medicine during the year.Dr. Parsons was also re-elected presidentof the medical staff of the hospital.'35. Kate Hirshberg Kohn has been ap­pointed Clinical Assistant Professor ofPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation at theUniversity of Illinois College of Medicine.George H. Ruggy, Comstock Park, Mich.,August 19, age 50.Milton D. Starekow, Thief River Falls,Minn., August 20, age 47.Francis Blonek, Assistant '39-'41, RockIsland, Ill., October 9, age 71.Frederick E. Kredel, Resident '29-'36,Charleston, S. Car., October 8, age 58.Raymond L. Young, Resident '40-'43,Santa Fe, New Mex., September 8, age 47.George D. Fuller, Faculty '09-'34, Chi­cago, November 22, age 92.Katsuchi Kato, Faculty '42, Tokyo,Japan, September 6, age 76.16 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINJACOBSON NEW CHAIRMAN OF MEDICINELeon Orris Jacobson, '39, becameChairman of the Department of Medi­cine on November 9. He will continue,however, to be Director of the ArgonneCancer Research Hospital and has nointention of giving up his research, careof patients, or teaching.Multiple responsibilities seem to restlightly on Leon Jacobson but his relaxedmanner belies his great gifts as a physi­cian, investigator, teacher, and adminis­trator.He is internationally known for hiswork on blood formation, diseases of theblood, and protection against radiationinjuries. Most of his research has beenconcentrated in two fields, both con­cerned with red blood corpuscles. Hehas made extensive pioneer studies ofthe hormone, erythropoietin, which hefound is produced by the kidney andcontrols the formation of the corpuscles. He has also conducted important studiesof the body mechanism by which blood­forming tissues recover after they aresubjected to radiation, and for this workin 1956 he received the Robert Roeslerde Villiers Prize of the Leukemia Soci­ety of New York.During World War II he was Directorof Health for the Atom Bomb Projectand for five years after the war wasAssociate Dean of the Division. Since1951 he has been Professor of Medicine,head of the section of hematology, andDirector of the Argonne Cancer Re­search Hospital.A native of North Dakota, he taughtcountry school for three years before go­ing to the State College. In, 1935 hecame to the University of Chicago Schoolof Medicine. As an intern and residenthe was a member of the "Billings BoysClub" and has ever since been active inthe affairs of the Medical Alumni. ADMINISTRA TIVECHANGESThe Board of Trustees of the Univer­sity has created three new positions inthe administrative staff and has changedthe title of its chief officer .. George Wells Beadle is now Presi­dent of the University instead of Chan­cellor. Since there have been severalvice-presidents but no president for tenyears or more, it seemed logical to Mr.Beadle to change his title. -Lowell T. Coggeshall has been namedVice-President of the University. Hehad been Vice-President for Medicaland Biological Affairs and, before that,Dean of the Division of Biological Sci­ences. He will now assume broader aca­demic and administrative responsibilities.Mr. Ray E. Brown, who had beenSuperintendent of the University Clinicsand Hospitals, has been appointed Vice­President for Administration. He re­tains his academic position as Professorin the Graduate School of Business andDirector of the Program for TrainingHospital Administrators.Special Assistant to the President isMr. John T. Wilson who was head ofthe biology division of the National Sci­ence Foundation.RICKETTS AWARDThe Howard Taylor Ricketts goldmedal was awarded to Seymour Benzer,Purdue University biophysicist, lastMay.Photographs on pp. 1, 2, 3, & 14 by J. L.M archaei; all others by Archie Lieberman.BULLETIN ,of the Alumni AssociationThe University of ChicagoSCHOOL OF MEDICINE950 East Fifty-ninth Street, Chicago 37, IllinoisAUTUMN 1961VOL. 18 NO.1EDITORIAL BOARDJESSIE BURNS MACLEAN, SecretaryWRIGHT ADAMS ROBERT]. HASTERLIKJOHN D. AllNOLD ELEANOR M. HUMPHREYSL. T. COGGESHALL HUBERTA LIVINGSTONERICHARD EVANS PETER V. MOULDERWALTER L. PALMER