C AGOflJuUdin 0/ lite AIu�nni �ionSCI-IOOL OF MEDICIN,EU N V E R S T YVolume 1 o F' C HNumber 2MARCH 1945Medical Alumni Senate MeetsThe first meeting of the Senate of theAlumni Association of the University ofChicago School of Medicine was held atthe Quadrangle Club, January 18, 1945,with President Johnson presiding. Themembership of this body was very wellrepresented and included the officersof the Association and of the Council;Dean F. Joseph Mullin as representativeof the faculty; Dr. Walter L. Palmer aschairman of the Program Committee;Peter Moulder, president of the SeniorClass; Dexter Nelson and Louis Thomas,editor and business manager, 'respective­ly, of the Year Book; Bruce Heinzen, pres­ident of the Junior Class; and representa­tives of the past classes from 1930 to date.The meeting was honored by the presenceof Mr. Wrisley B. Oleson, president ofthe University of Chicago Alumni Asso­ciation, and Mr. Charlton T. Beck, itsexecu tive secretary.The Senate found itself in a somewhatanomalous position. According to the con­stitution, membership in the Alumni As­sociation depends upon a favorable voteby the Senate. Yet, here was a Senateduly assembled, no member of which wasas yet a member of the Association. Oneof its first acts, therefore, was unanimous­ly to elect itself, individually and collec­tively, to membership in the Alumni As­sociation. Twenty alumni who had paiddues of $20.00 each were elected to life­membership. The applications of sometwo hundred graduates for regular mem­bership are to be voted on by mail.Dr. Prohaska reported total resourcesin the bank of $903.55. It was voted thatthe investment of $300 to $500 of thisamount be discussed by the ExecutiveCommittee. Dr. Gordon reported that thefirst issue of the BULLETIN cost approxi­mately $300. Definite plans for the Alum­ni Reunion in June were postponed, pend­ing further clarification by the War Com­mittee on Conventions of policies con­cerning permission for such meetings. Itwas the consensus, however, that, in anycase, a scientific program should beplanned for that occasion. Messrs. Nelsonand Thomas reported good progress onthe 1945 Senior Year Book. Dean Mullinexpressed his hope that he might co-oper­ate with the faculty alumni Committee on Internships. He stated that, owing tothe fact that premedical students are nolonger being deferred, the classes of thefuture may be considerably smaller andwill contain a larger proportion of womenand 4-F men. Nine women are to be ad­mitted to the next class. Admissions willalso include a certain number of veteranswho will apply under the "G.r. Bill ofRights." There is no intention of loweringstandards. As a token of appreciation toMr. Beck for his enthusiastic assistance inorganizing the affairs of the Association,he was presented with the first officialgold key amid much applause. After ad­journment, pictures were taken for theBULLETIN and for the Senior Year Bookby Jack Kahoun, class of '40.The over-all impression given by thisfirst meeting of the Senate was that theMedical Alumni Association is a goingconcern with wheels well oiled and ma­chinery running smoothly. HUTCHINS TO.SPEAK AT SENIORDINNER JUNE 13The dinner for the graduating class ofthe School of Medicine will be heldWednesday evening, June 13, at 6:30 inthe Crystal Ballroom of the WindermereHotel. President Robert M. Hutchins willbe the speaker of the evening; Dr. PaulCannon will preside; Dr. Victor Johnson,president of the Alumni Association, willspeak for the alumni and Dr. M. EdwardDavis will speak for the faculty. Mr. Har­old Swift, chairman of the Board of Trus­tees of the University, will represent theBoard. All alumni are invited, but, owingto the limited facilities, tickets must beobtained in advance by remitting $3.25 toDr. Arthur C. Bachmeyer, 950 EastFifty-ninth Street, Chicago 37.Major Clayton Loosli is arranging fora medical scientific program of the Alum­ni Association for the afternoon ofJune 13.MEDICAL ALUMNI SENATEStanding: Mullin, Jacobson, Loosli, Bartlett, Maxwell, Thomas, Scott, Prohaska,Ricketts, Rider, Palmer, Oleson, DeYoung, Hand, Beck, Gordon, Tucker, DavisSeated: Dunham, Heinzen, Heinen, Wentz, Johnson, Nelson, Hite, Moulder, Bensley2 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINApplications Receivedfrom Former Facultyand Resident Staff,The graduates of the School of Medi­cine will undoubtedly be pleased to hearof the interest and support which is beinggiven to the Association by former mem­bers of the faculty of the Medical Schooland the resident staff of the hospitals.In addition to those listed in the life­membership column of this and the pre­vious issue, we are pleased to announceapplications from the following:Walter J. Aagesen, E.N.T. Res. Staff, '38-'40, now Lt. Col., M.C., chief of E.E.N.T.Service, Lovell Gen. Hosp.; George Bogar­dus" Med. Res. Staff, '38-'41, now 1St Lt.,M.C., at Bushnell Gen. Hosp., recoveringfrom wounds sustained during invasion ofFrance; A. Hughes Bryan, asst. prof. med.,now surgeon, U.S. Public Health Service,Bethesda, Md.; Paul A. Campbell, Surg. Res.Staff, '27-'28, now Colonel, M.C., A.A.F.School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Field,Texas; T. Howard Clarke, Surg. Res. Staff,'38-'41, now Major, M.C., somewhere in In­dia; Joseph P. Evans, Surg. Res. Staff, '30-'31, now assoc. prof. surg., Univ. CincinnatiCollege of Medicine; Byron Francis, formerlyasst. prof. med., now medical director of Riv­erton Hosp. and staff King County Hosp. andT.B. Hosp., Seattle, Wash.; John S. Gordon,Surg. Res. Staff, '41-'43, now practicingE.N.T. and Endoscopy at Milwaukee Hosp.and Milwaukee Children's Hosp.; KeithGrimson, Surg. Res. Staff, '35-'42, now asso­ciate in surgery, Duke Hosp., Durham, N.C.;Henry N. Harkins, Surg. Res. Staff, '31-'38,now associate prof. surg., Johns Hopkins,editor of Quarterly Review of Surgery andJohns Hopkins Bulletin; Paul Harmon,Orth. Surg. Res. Staff, '31-'36, now chieforthopedic surgery at Robert Packer Hosp.and Guthrie Clinic, Sayre, Pa.; Cecil RayHuggins, Res. Staff, 1944, now rst Lt., M.C.;Frederick E. Kredel, Surg. Res. Staff, '30-'36, now professor of surg., Medical Collegeof S.c., Charleston; William M. Krigsten,Orth. Surg. Res. Staff, '32-'36, now Lt. Col.,M.C., chief of surgery, O'Reilly GeneralHosp., Springfield, Mo.; Richard Stern­heimer, formerly instr. med., now in privatepractice, Chicago; William W. Swanson, for­merly assoc. prof. ped., now in private prac­tice, Chicago; Simon Lloyd Wolters, Ob. andGyn. Res. Staff, '37-'41,'instr., on leave forservice in Army; Tracy Haverfield, Neuro­surg. Res. Staff, '36-'40, now chief of Neuro­surgery Center, Dewitt General Hospital,Auburn, Calif.; Eugene G. Free, Ob. andGyn. Res. Staff, '41-'43, instr., '43-'44,now in Springfield, Ill.; Grace Hiller, Res.Staff, '29-'31, Instr. Med., '31-'34, now di­rector of student health, Goucher College,Baltimore, Md.; Daniel J. Pachman, Res.Staff, '34-'35, instr. ped., '37-'40: now Ma­jor, M.C., Station Hosp., Camp Patrick Hen­ry, Va.; John H. Lee, Res. Staff, Orthopedics,'37-'39, now in private practice, orth. surg.,1455 Cedar St., Long Beach, Calif.; CharlesE. McLennan, Res. Staff, Chi. Lying-inHosp., '35, now prof. and chairman dept. ob.and gyn., Univ. of Utah; Henry M. Lemon,Res. Staff, Med., '4°-'43, now Captain,M.C., with the Commission on Air-BorneInfection, Sec. 4, Madigan General Hosp.,Tacoma, Wash.; J. Howard Beard, Res.Staff, '43-'44, now Captain, U.S. Pub.(Continued on page 8) Retires from Long Career of ServiceB.C.H.HARVEYHodges Writes ofEuropean TourCapt.. Clarence V. Hodges (1940-41)writes that he has completed twenty-twomonths in the United Kingdom. BillOrnduff, who was an assistant resident inpediatrics, is stationed near him, and theymet in London recently. Both are flightsurgeons with Flying Fortress outfits. Ina recent letter to Dr. Huggins he writesof a "Cook's tour of Europe, otherwiseknown as a shuttle raid. Our tourist pro­clivities were somewhat restricted by thevery determined.enemy fighter oppositionand heavy flak that we encountered enroute+-in those places, it seemed best toforego sightseeing. The time interval nec­essary for a passing glance, as we flewover some of the enemy flak areas, wasmore than adequate to satisfy me; in fact,at times, it seemed almost interminable."I met Johnny Hammer in London notlong ago. He's been in England with a •station hospital for about a year ....."I had an acute attack of nostalgia thismorning when, examining a patient atSick Call, I had occasion to recall one ofyour axioms-e-Tbere are five causes ofgross hematuria.' It came back so vividlythat I could even visualize the five causeslisted on the blackboard of the classroomon S5-in your handwriting and in theorder that you gave them to us, ending upwith 'Acute cystitis in the female (notover 24 hours).' This particular patientturned out to have 'Stone in the Kidney,'the first item on your list, as I remember." It is fitting that one of the first issuesof the BULLETIN should honor Dr. BasilC. H. Harvey. He came to the Universityin 1901 to teach anatomy. In 1923 he wasappointed dean of medical students, andsince 1927, when the Clinics opened, hehas been intimately associated with thegrowth and development of "the SouthSide School." To the students of morethan forty years he has given unstintinglyof his time and energy. His interest hasbeen actively shared by Mrs. Harvey,and 'many an alumnus will remember be­ing rescued from a lonely Sunday or holi­day to partake of one of her roast-beefdinners.Dr. Harvey officially retired in 1940,though he continued to teach at intervals,and during 1943-44, responding to theUniversity's call, he again took over thedean's office in the absence of Dr. VictorJohnson. Finally relieved of his duties bythe appointment of Dr. F. J. Mullin, henow has the distinction of having retiredfor the second time, thus ending a longcareer of service marked by sympathy,humor, and a rugged Scotch forthright­ness which have endeared him to all whoknow him.-HENRY T. RICKETTSDr. Harvey kindly consented to sendgreetings to the Alumni Association. Hismessage follows:It is a pleasure to write a few words ofgreeting to fellow-members of the AlumniAssociation. Though dispersed the worldover, I am glad to think that we arenevertheless united by ties which spacecannot sunder-ties of understanding andaffection formed of hopes we shared andwork we did together years ago.My (older) generation apologizes toyours for the world we left you. SpeakerRayburn said, "After World War I, too(Continued on page 8)�t�::i�'S�ci�t: •The University of Chicago •SCHOOL OF MEDICINEVOL. 1 MARCH 1945 No 2F. B. GORDO'!n EditorHU8ERTA LIVINGSTONE, A ssociale EditorALLAN T. KENYON, Associate Editor(Scientific Section)HENRY T. RICKETTS, Associate EditorWILLIAM B. TUCKER, CLAYTON G. Loosr.rAssistant EditorsH. P. JENKINS, Business ManagerMRS. ROSEMARY JANDA. Reporter forResident StaffSTANLEY H. MOULTON, Reporter for Senior ClassBRUCE HEINZEN, Reporter for Junior ClassDELBERT M. BERGENSTAL. Reporter forSophomore ClassMELVIN M. NEWMAN. PhotographerJACK KAHOUN, Assistant PhotographerPrice of yearly subscription [or nonmembers, $1.00;price of single copies, 2S cents.MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 3Dean Bachmeyer DiscussesProblems of Medical EducationDr. Arthur C. Bachmeyer, Associate Dean, Division of Biologi­cal Sciences, is one of the University of Chicago's representativesin the Association of American Medical Colleges and is treasurerof that organization. He kindly consented to discuss some of thecurrent problems in medical education.By Arthur C. BachmeyerCurriculum under ExaminationThe medical curriculumis a constant source of con­cern. It is necessary andadvisable to examine thisproblem critically at fre­quent intervals so that in­struction may be improvedand strengthened as new de­velopments arise. Such prob­lems as these are ever pres­ent i'What should be taught?How shall the hours allottedto various courses be ap­portioned and new coursesbe introduced, particularlyin a schedule already dan­gerously crowded? What isthe best technique to bringabout essential co-ordinationbetween preclinical and clini­cal instruction? These arebut sample problems that 1confront the medical educa- .. -�tor. They have been the sub- A. C. BACHMEYERject of much study and de- Ibate (sometimes acrimonious), but all the "right" answers arenot yet forthcoming.The curriculum has been often revised; in fact, it is continu­ously in a state of flux. Its development, however, has beenrather haphazard. The great strides of scientific research haveadded materially to the content side of courses, but little of the"old" has been eliminated. Slight attention has been paid toadvances in pedagogy.At the meeting of the Association of American Medical Col- leges in Detroit last October (1944) several speakers urged thatthe medical school curriculum was in need of re-evaluation inthe light of present-day aims and objectives. This matter was re­ferred to om Curriculum Committee, an advisory faculty groupon such matters, which is now studying the question with a viewtoward formulating specific proposals.Objectives To Be ReviewedThe Committee's first task will be to review again the objec­tives of the medical program that were set forth when the Clin­ics and clinical departments were established. This will be fol­lowed by an examination of the present curriculum in the lightof those objectives. Following are certain proposals alreadyunder consideration: (I) relatively unessential material shall beeliminated; (2) significant material shall be carefully examinedand its relation to the objectives of the curriculum determined;(3) teaching methods shall be reviewed in the light of new tech­niques that have been developed in recent years, especially"visual" and "sound" techniques which have been used so suc­cessfully by the Army and the Navy; and (4) testing and exami­nation methods shall be studied, and, where indicated, newmethods shall be introduced which will determine better stu­dent accomplishment than those now in use.There is an urgent need that new material also be examined -and that its place in the curriculum be determined. This willinclude such areas as the social and economic aspects of medicalpractice as well as public health, industrial hygiene, and healthconservation.The Ministry of Health in Great Britain, including the De­partment of Health for Scotland, has recently published theReport of the Inter-departmental Committee on Medical Schools,which reviews the practices and methods followed in the teach­ing of medicine in the schools of England and Scotland. ThisReport contains many suggestions that are worthy of considera­tion and will be studied by our Committee in the course of itsdeliberations.Members of the Alumni are invited to send to the Editor ofthe BULLETIN or to the Curriculum Committee comments con­cerning the present curriculum, together with any suggestionsthey may care to submit as to measures that might be helpful inimproving the work of the School.Faculties DepletedMedical education is confronted with many perplexing prob­lems in these troublous days. Medical faculties have been great-(Continued on page 4)SERVICE AWARDSJoseph B. Kirsner, M.D., Ph.D., as­sistant professor of medicine, on leavefor military service, has recently beenpromoted to cap­tain. He is with ageneral hospi tallocated "some­where" in Bel­gium. CaptainKirsner came tothe U. of C. in1935 as an as­sistant in the de­partment of med­icine, was pro­moted to instruc­tor in 1939, andto assistant pro-KIRSNER fessor in 1942. Hehas been asso­ciated with Dr. Walter Palmer in the gas­trointestinal clinic and hospital serviceand was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1943. He enlistedin the medical corps on November 17, 1943.Word has just been received that CaptainKirsner has been a warded the Bronze Star,given for meritorious and heroic achieve­ment of the Ground Forces. His hospitalwas hit by a robot bomb which killed andwounded many men.Lieut. Ralph E. Kirsch, '39, formerlyof Safety Harbor, Florida, was recentlycommended "for exceptional services asflight surgeon attached to PhotographicSquadron 4 operating in the Pacific Area.Voluntarily participating in hazardousflights over heavily defended enemy tar­gets in the interest and advancement ofaviation medicine, Lieutenant Kirschmade and recorded valuable observationsunder fire and, by the special technics ofhis own devising, demonstrated the im­portant physiologic changes broughtabout by such flight circumstances ..... " STRADFORD RECEIVES AWARDLieut. Cmdr. H. Todd Stradford, classof '37-'38, was recently given the Presi­dential Citation and Bronze Star for heroicachievement in line of duty aboard hisship, where he is Senior Medical Officer.4 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN((barle� DiUiam �feiffer1918·1944It was near St. Vith on December 16that the whole staggering might of FieldMarshal Von Rundstedt's break-throughspearhead struck. Only five days pre­viously the 106th Division, fresh fromEngland and seeing their first action, ar­rived at this sector of the Siegfried Line.They were spread thin over a presum­ably "quiet sector." The whole eruptionof fire and steel struck them, and aftertwo days of heroic fighting the divisionwas almost completely wiped out. FirstLieutenant Charles Pfeiffer, in commandof Company B, 331st Medical Battalionof the 106th Division, while carrying outhis duties helping the wounded, was cap­tured by the Germans. On December 23,1944, he was killed in action while a pris­oner of war of the German government.Lieutenant Pfeiffer was born on De­cember 3, 1918, in Racine, Wisconsin,where he attended the public schools.He graduated cum laude from CulverMilitary Academy in 1936. His under­graduate work at the University of Chi­cago was exceptional; he was active inPsi Upsilon and on the Reynolds ClubCouncil, served as chairman of the Classof 1940, and was student Head Marshalin his senior year. He was elected to PhiBeta Kappa, receiving his B.S. on De­cember 17, 1940. Two years later he re­ceived the degree of Doctor of Medicinefrom the University of Chicago.In June, 1942, Lieut. Pfeiffer marriedJanet Geiger (B.A. 1940, University ofChicago), who was employed for severalyears in Telepage at Billings Hospital. Hebegan a general internship at AugustanaHospital on January I, 1943. At the ageof twenty-one he was commissioned a sec­ond lieutenant in the Field Artillery, sincehe was an R.O.T.C. member after grad- LIEUT. PFEIFFERuating from Culver. Upon receiving hisM.D., he was transferred to the MedicalOfficers Reserve Corps wi th the rank offirst lieutenant.On December 30, 1943, he was acti­vated and was indoctrinated at CarlisleBarracks and then sent to O'Reilly Gen­eral Hospital, Springfield, Missouri, fortwo months. He was transferred to MasonGeneral Hospital, Brentwood, Long Is­land, for a three-month course in neuro­psychiatry. After a few months at Long­view, Texas, Lieut. Pfeiffer went to CampAtterbury, Indiana, where he joined the331St Medical Battalion of the 106th In­fantry Division. When this division wasalerted in October he left for his port ofembarkation. He arrived in Englandabout the middle of November.Before he sailed, Mrs. Pfeiffer present­ed him with a son, born October 9, 1944,at Chicago Lying-in Hospital. Unfortu­nately, Lieut. Pfeiffer never got to see hisson before leaving this country.Lieut. Pfeiffer is one of the first gradu- Across the Dinner TableThe resident staff is a part of the medicalschool organization that one tends to takefor granted, in spite of the significance of itscontribution to our general effort. It was.proposed to remedy this situation by askingMrs. Rosemary Janda, wife of Dr. RudolphJanda, intern, to present the members of thepresent resident staff. The first instalmentfollows.By Rosemary JandaSome of the pleasantest hours in ourdays are those spent in the relaxing at­mosphere surrounding mealtime, when wecan compare notes on our recent activi­ties, discuss events of current interest, orjust "chew the fat." So many times, how­ever, we find ourselves seated across fromsomeone whose face is familiar, but, asthe old cliche has it, "I just can't remem­ber your name." So the following is aneffort to present the members of the resi­dent and intern staff to one another andto the rest of the medical school' in otherthan professional aspects. Take NormMcCullough, for instance.Mac isn't new to the environs, havingtaken his Ph.D. in bacteriology here in1937. While fulfilling the requirements ofhis undergraduate work at MichiganState, Mac met a fellow-Wolverine whomhe claimed in- the summer of 1939 as(Continued on page 5)ates of the University of Chicago MedicalSchool to lose his life in this war. Hewas a hard worker, an excellent student,a fine friend, and a credit to the medicalprofession. His sacrifice should serve asan inspiration to his classmates andfriends, who join me in paying tribute toa braveman.-RoBERT R. BIGELOW, M.D.Medical Education-(Continued from page 3)ly depleted. This is partic·ularly true of the young men who-notonly carried a large share of the teaching load and clinical serv­ice but were also the only source of replacements for the oldergroup. Interne and resident training has been so greatly reducedthat it has lost much of its value. The acceleration of the teach­ing program leaves the students no time for contemplative studyand the effect of such acceleration upon both students and facul­ty is already becoming evident.As a result of the war-time program, the medical colleges willhave graduated approximately 10,000 more physicians betweenthe years 1942 and 1947 than in any normal span of five years.The supply of physicians for the civilian population has beengreatly reduced especially in rural areas and in those regionswhere the establishment and operation of war industries has re­sulted in unprecedented population growth.Supply of Students CurtailedLast fall, in a period of overoptimism, both the Army andNavy terminated the programs which assured the country of acontinuing supply of medical students who would later becomephysicians. Now the picture has changed. It is evident that thewar is to last longer than was then anticipated and that therewill be a large policing job to do in the occupied countries when the fighting ceases, coupled with a restoration task which willrequire the presence of many physicians many of whom will bethe younger, able bodied men. It is now apparent that there willnot be the rapid return of physicians from military service thatso many predicted. It is also obvious that the Army, and par­ticularly the Navy, will maintain large forces requiring medicalservice with the consequence that many physicians willbe re­tained for a longer period. The Veterans' Administration like­wise is confronted with a huge task calling for a material in­crease in its medical staff.Confronted by these facts there can be little argumentagainst continuing the registration in the medical colleges atcapacity. However, because of the termination of Army andNavy premedical training programs and the regulations of Se­lective Service concerning deferments, the prospects at presentare that the colleges will not have more than about SO per centof the normal enrollment in freshman classes in 1946. Legislationwhich has been proposed, but not yet introduced into Congress,may, if enacted before June, provide a mechanism whereby theenrollment can be somewhat increased.The number of women students has been materially increasedbut the country cannot depend entirely upon them for its futuresupply of physicians, nor upon those men who for physical rea­sons are ineligible for military service. The situation merits theserious attention of the authorities in Washington in order thatthe standards of medical care may be maintained.MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 5LIFE-MEMBERSHIP LIST REACHES FIFTYNos. 20 to 39 are as follows:DALLAS BURTON PHEMISTER, M.D., Rush'04, Thomas D. Jones professor and chair­man, Department of Surgery since 1926.FREDERIC E. TEMPLETON, M.D., Res. Staff,'32-'35, instr., assist. prof., assoc. prof. ofroentgenology, '35-'43, now head of Dept.of Roentgenology, Cleveland Clinic.LILLIAN EICHELBERGER, Ph.D. '21, assoc.prof. biochemistry in Depts. Biochemistryand Medicine.JOAN FLEMING, M.D., '36, Res. Staff, '36-'39,instr. psychiatry, 1940-43, now on staff ofChicago Memorial Hosp. and IllinoisMasonic Hosp.ERNEST L. STEBBINS, M.D., Rush, '30, Surg.Res. Staff, 1930-31, prof. of epidemi­ology, Columbia University College ofPhysicians and Surgeons, New York, since1940•GEORGE A. NICOLL, M.D., Rush '37, Res.Staff in Roentgenology, '39-'41, now ro-'entgenologist of Miami Valley Hosp.,Dayton, Ohio.JOEL F. SAMMET, M.D., '33, chief of radiolo­gy, Chicago Memorial Hosp. (office: 104 S.Michigan Ave.).ANTON J. CARLSON, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D.,Sc.D., Frank P. Hixon DistinguishedService Professor Emeritus of Physiology.RAPHAEL K. KINNEY, M.D. '37, recently con­tract surgeon for Army at Fort Sheridan,now in private practice, Highland Park,Ill.GEORGE M. CURTIS, M.D., Rush '20, Ph.D.,formerly prof. surg., U. of C., now prof.surgery and chairman, Dept. ResearchSurgery, Ohio State Univ., attending sur­geon at Univ. Hosp. and White Cross.Hosp., Columbus, Ohio.WILLARD G. DEYOUNG, M.D. '36, in privatepractice, internal medicine, on staff ofWoodlawn Hosp., visiting staff of ChicagoMemorial Hosp.JOHN T. STOUGH, M.D., Res. Staff, '30-'33,instr. ophthalmology, 33-'36, recently onfaculty Baylor Univ. School of Med., nowin private practice of ophthalmology inHouston, Texas.JANE PEARCE, M.D. '42, Ph.D. (Physio!.),'41, recently resident at N.Y. State Psy­chiatric Inst. and Hosp., now in privatepractice, psychiatry, 504 W. 167th St.,New York 32.GRAHAM KERNWEIN, M.D. '30, Res. Staff,Surgery '32-'36, recently on assoc. staff,St. Luke's Hosp., and faculty, Northwest­ern Med. School, now Lt. Co!., M.C., asst.chief of surgery, Schick General Hosp.EVANGELINE E. STENHOUSE, M.D., Rush '31,formerly instr. dermatology, physician toStudent Health Service, now in privatepractice, dermatology, 55 E. WashingtonSt., Chicago.HAROLD ENTZ, M.D., fellow and instr. urolo­gy, '29-'31, now in private practice, urol­ogy, Waterloo, Iowa.DAVID G. COGAN, M.D., Res. Staff, Med.,'32-'33, now assoc. prof. of ophthalmic re­search, Harvard, and asst. surg., Mass.Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston.PAUL CAMERON FOSTER, M.D., '36, F.A.C.S.,associate surgeon, Holzer Hosp. and Clin­ic, Gallipolis, Ohio.M. EDWARD DAVIS, M.D., Rush '22, resi­dent, Chicago Lying-in Hosp., '25-'27,now prof. obstetrics and gynecology.PETER LEWIS BEAL, '42, res. staff, '42-'44,captain, M.C., A.U.S., doing bacteriologywith medical laboratory unit in Philip­pine theater. In addition to the life-membership ap­plications already listed, there have beeneleven others which recently arrived andwill be listed in the next issue. This makesa total of fifty life-memberships to date.The treasurer of the Association was au­thorized by the Executive Committee toturn over the proceeds from these fiftylife-memberships, which amounts to$1,000.00, to the treasurer of the Univer­sity of Chicago to be handled as a trustfund for the Association, with the under­standing that this will be invested in aU.S. Treasury bond, and the interestmade available to the treasurer of theAssociation for current expenses. Organization of Alumni Assoc.OflicersVICTOR JOHNSON, PresidentALFRED RIDER, Exec. Vice-PresidentHILGER P. JENKINS, SecretaryJOHN VAN PROHASKA, TreasurerCouncilElected: GAIL M. DACK, LEON JACOBSON, JAY BART­LETT; Appointed: HENRY T. RICKETTS, ROBERT R.BIGELOW; Ex Officio: (Former Assoc. Presidents) NOR­MAND L. HOERR, WILLIAM BROOKS STEEN, SAMUELBANKS, JOHN VAN PROHASKA, CARTER GOODPASTURE,ALFRED T. HAEREM, ORMAND C. JULLAN; (Editor ofBULLETIN) F. B. GORDONSenateFor the Graduated Classes: JOHN F. KENWARD '44, WIL­LIAM HAND '43, MATTHEW BLOCK, '42-'43, KATHERINERITE '42,HARlty P. MAXWELL '40-'4I, fuLEN fuINEN'3rr'40, WILLIAM W. SCOTT, '38-'39, CARL DAVIS, JR.'37-'38, CLAYTON LOOSLI '36--'37, VIDA WENTZ '35,W. B. TUCKER '34, LUCIA DUNHAM '33, VERNON DEYOUNG '32, SYLVIA BENSLEY '30-'31; For the ResidentSta_{f: RALPH VICTOR; For the Faculty: F. J. MULLINThe Accepted Treatment fora Common Heart Condition(I944)Lieut. Commander Frank J. Smith (DentalCorps) and Lillian Mary Novak, at Oak­land, Calif., Sept. 8. Commander Smithhas been stationed in Ha waii for some time.Dr. Charles Gabelman ('44) and CatherineLatham, June 30.Dr. Walter Ray Hepner, Jr. ('44), and' JeanHarvey, Sept. 8.Susanna Foss (Mrs. T. B. Gordon), 107 Red­land Road, Bristol 6, England.Dr. Morton Lee Pearce ('44) and Ruth Eliza­beth Schwartz, March I LDr. John Partridge and Beverly Armitage,Sept. 9.Dr. Vernon Jim and Yun Soong Chock,Sept. 9.Dr. Alfred J. Kahn and Judith Pes men,Sept. 10.Dr. Duke Choy and May Wong, Dec. 22.(I945)Lieut. Franz Wasserman and Sarah Webster,Jan. 4. Lieut. Wasserman is now in France.Dr. Edward Eby ('45) and Claire Sieger,Jan. 13. Is \ Often Followedby SequelaeTo:Lieut. Henry and Dr. Helen Heinen, JaneFrances, Jan. 27. Lieut. Heinen isin Wash­ington, D.C.Lieut. and Mrs. Clarence Butler, ElizabethClare, Feb. 14.Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Madura (Dr. EdithEason), Alice Ann, Feb. IS. Dr. Madura isoverseas.Lieut. (j.g.) and Mrs. James Fritz, Judy,Feb. 19. Dr. Fritz is in the South Pacific.Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Allen, Nanette, Feb. 24.Dr. and Mrs. Paul Woolf, Paul George II,Feb. 24.Dr. and Mrs. Dean Tasher, Lucienne Marie,March 26.Dr. and Mrs. William Tucker, William Kirk-by, May 8.Lieut. and Mrs. F. M. Owens, Lucy, May 17.Dr. and Mrs. J. Van der Laan, son, May 18.Dr. and Mrs. Henry N. Harkins (Jean Tres-ter), Anne Wayne, May 22.Dr. and Mrs. O. B. Scott, Dale Charles, May22.Across the Dinner Table-(Continued from page 4)"Mrs. Mac." You'll probably never hearthis determined anti-grass-skirter men­tion his Ph.D. or his research at the Uni­versity of Texas, but just mention kids,and he's off! Little Marulyn Kay cele­brated her eighth monthiversary on theeighteenth of February, and, Flash! sheblows bubbles in her milk. Norm is nowrounding out his internship in OB andgynecology .One of the local boys is the man witha double name, Donald McDonald ofChicago Heights, serving the last part ofhis residency in surgery, his preferredfield. Don, too, attended both the Col­lege and the Medical School at the Uni­versity of Chicago, getting his degree in1942. Early in July, AMBH is losing thisnative son to the Navy.Charley Marshall is a U. of C. man,graduating from the Medical' School in1942. He was a research and teaching as­sistant in 1940, after working as an as­sistant to Dr. Paul R. Cannon from 1935 Message to Class of '44By Alfred Rider, Secretary, Class of 1944Internship questionnaires are in theprocess of being mailed. We would like tohave them completed and sent back assoon as possible along with your vote onthe disposition of our finances. Also, anyfurther information or news items will begreatly appreciated. We are especially in­terested in knowing (I suppose you aretoo) your plans for the next nine months.to 1940. Dr. Marshall has been the ENTresident since November of 1943. Leav­ing his wife, Mary, a nurse at CookCounty, and our staff, Charley will bereceiving his mail at Carlisle Barracksafter the first of April.Dr. Leffie Carlton also leaves April Ifor Carlisle Barracks. He traveled fromFlorida to receive his M.D. at Duke Uni­versity and has been Dr. Wm. Adams'resident for an eighteen-month period.His wife, Lynn, is chief stewardess of theIllinois Central. [To be continued]6 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINS' C lEN T I F I C SECTION I. Several members of the faculty have beenkind enough to summarize their own work.That of Dr. Martin Goldner, of the Depart­ment of Medici��e, and now in the Army,d?ne together w�th Dr. George Gomori, as­s2st�nt professor of medicine, DouglasSmith. Foundation, has been discussed byDr. Gomori. Dr. William B. Tucker, classof IR3.4, and now in the Department ofMedicine, has dealt with the joint ioor]: ofmany individuals. Among them howeverhe has played an important Pal·t.' Dr. ClayG Huff, professor of parasitology, has sum­marized a recent publication by himself andDr. Frederick Coulston.A lloxan DiabetesThe interesting history of alloxan dia­betes starts with the observation of HenryJacobs working at the University of Chi­cago. (Department of Medicine) in 1937.He discovered that alloxan causes a hyper­glycemia in rabbits followed by hypo­glycemia. For seven years his paper layforgotten until in 1943 Dunn and asso­ciates in England came out with the sen­sational report that alloxan causes a se­lective necrosis of the pancreatic islets.They were unable to follow their animalsfor any appreciable length of time be­cause they all died within a few days.Within a few months after Dunn's firstpaper a number of authors, includingGoldner and Gomori, were able to reportthe successful production of alloxan dia­betes in several species, including the rab­bit, rat, dog, and rhesus monkey. Otherspecies, including man, were found to behighly resistant to alloxan.A .single diabetogenic dose (50--250mg/kg, depending on the species) willlead to the development of permanentdiabetes in about 80 per cent of the ani­mals treated, without any serious damageto organs outside the pancreas. There is atypical triphasic fluctuation of the bloodsugar level, starting about an hour afterthe injection. First, there is a markedhyp.erglycemia (up to 350 mg per cent),lastmg for about three hours. From thethird hour on there is a rapid decline ofthe blood sugar level, often to values aslow as 25 or 30 mg/kg, especially in therabbit and the rhesus monkey. The ani­mals may go into violent convulsions ofwhich many of them will die unless treat­ed promptly with glucose. By the end ofthe first day, hypoglycemia gives way toa second phase of hyperglycemia which ispermanent and of a true diabetic nature.The initial hyperglycemia is due to mobi­lization of sugar by epinephrine' it is ab­sent in animals in whom the adrenal me­dulla had been destroyed prior to alloxantreatme�t. The hypoglycemic phase wasfirst believed to be due to some insulin­like action of alloxan itself; however, it can be proved to be caused by insulinliberated from the disintegrating isletcells. Alloxan has no hypoglycemic effecton depancreatized animals or on animalsrendered diabetic by a previous injectionof alloxan.With the onset of the second (late)hyperglycemia the animal has entered thetrue diabeti.c phase of alloxan poisoning.All the typical symptoms of severe dia­betes as known from human pathologysu�h as hYl?eq�lycemia, glycosuria, poly�una, polydipsia, ketosis, and coma, willdevelop gradually. There is practically notendency to recovery from alloxan dia­betes, except in some rabbits; the animalswill die from diabetic coma or from latediabetic emaciation.The histologic changes of alloxan dia­betes are the same in all species. The betacells in the islets of Langerhans becomenecrotic within a few hours after injectionand disappear entirely within a fewdays. The alpha cells are entirely unaf­fected; in fact, they may proliferate.These changes observed in alloxan dia­betes are another proof for the theorythat the beta cells are the producers ofinsulin.In pigeons treated with a subthresholdd?se of alloxan which does not lead to anydisturbance of carbohydrate metabolisma curious goutlike condition may develop:The blood uric acid level may soar to anexcessive height, and sodium urate maydeposit in the viscera and on the seroussurfaces. Very conspicuous atrophy of themuscles is a common late change seen inbirds that had recovered from the acutephase of the disease.The specificity of the diabetogenic ef­fect of alloxan is remarkable. A largenumber of chemical substances closely re­lated to alloxan have been tested andfound to be eptirely ineffective.There is ?0solutely no evidence for al­loxan or some alloxan-like substance be­ing the etiologic agent in human diabetes'in fact, there are good reasons to believethat it is not. First, alloxan has neverbeen demonstrated in diabetic blood.Second, there are definite histologic differ­ences between human and alloxan dia­betes. Third, the extremely high bloodalloxan levels required in animal experi­ments for diabetogenic effect are most un­likely ever to occur in human beings. Ifone can depend on the results of animalexperiments, small doses such as may re­sult from endogenous production or fromabsorption, even if continued over a longperiod of time, would be harmless be­cau�e alloxan is decomposed by the or­gamsm at an extremely rapid rate.At the present time alloxan diabetes isa most valuable asset in the study ofmany. aspects of. diabetes. The uniquelyselective cytotoxic property of alloxan is a fascinating feature that should stimu­late extensive research work.GEORGE GOMORIChest FluoroscopyRoutine fluoroscopic examination ofthe chests of patients coming to the out­patient departments of Albert MerrittBillings and Chicago Lying-in hospitalshas been an established part of the ad­mission routine since October 1,1942. Theacceptance of this procedure as a neces­s�ry part of �h� examination of new pa­tients, equal 111 Importance to the routineblood count and urinalysis, was based onincontrovertible evidence that all meansof examination for unsuspected pulmo­nary tuberculosis short of the roentgen ex­amination were inadequate. Over a periodof many years Dr. Robert G. Bloch, chiefof the division of pulmonary diseasesand his associates, had fluoroscoped sev�eral thousand individuals in specialgroups, as members of the staff, em­p�oyees, and students, and found a sig­mficant number of cases of active tuber­cu�osis no� previously suspected. In 1937this practice was extended to the ma­jO.ri!y _of w�me?- attending the prenatalclinic 111 Lying-in Hospital. From this itb�came apparent that many patientsWith undetected tuberculosis were beingseen regularly in the various clinics of theinstitution.In a. twenty-five-month period endingOctober 31, 1944, 25,000 routine fluoros­copies were performed by members of thestaff. Eleven fluoroscopy periods werestaffed regularly each week, one eachmorning from 9: 00 to 10: 30, for morninzclinic patients; and one each afternoonfrom I: 00 to 2: 30 P.M., for afternoon pa­tients. Approximately 80 per cent of thei�dividuals fluoroscoped were new pa­tle�ts, t�e oth�r 20 per cent being returnpatients 111 various categories. The fluoro­scope is set up in a special room in theMedical Clinic near the Out-PatientLaboratory, and the patients are fluoro­scoped as they report to the laboratoryfor blood counts and urinalyses.Among the 25,000 individuals exam­ined, 305 cases of active tuberculosiswere f�u.nd, an incidence of 1.2 per cent.In.addition, 639 cases of clinically unim­portant or inactive tuberculosis, or 2.5per cent, were discovered, making a totalof 944 cases of reinfection tuberculosisdetected, or 3.7 per cent of the total ex­ami?-ed .. This is exclusive of primarycalcifications, As would - be expectedamong patients of the chest clinic theincidence of active tuberculosis (14.3 percent) was much higher than in the aver­age clinic. In other clinics, whether sur-(Continued on page 7)MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 7DR. A. J. CARLSONELECTED TO COUNCILDr. Anton J. Carlson, professor emeri­tus of physiology, was recently elected tothe executive council of the American As­sociation for the Advancement of Sciencefor a four-year term. He served as theninety-fourth president of the Associa­tion last year and was the second U. of C.professor within three years to be presi­dent of the Association. The other wasDr. Arthur H. Compton. Thejuly, 1944,issue of Gastroenterology, the official jour­nal of the American GastroenterologicalAssociation, was dedicated to Dr. Carl­son, who was also recipient of the Asso­ciation's Friedenwald Medal for 1944.The journal included editorial tributesto Dr. Carlson, in addition to scientificmaterial. A. J. CARLSONFluoroscopy-(Continued from page 6)gical or medical, specialized or not, theincidence was approximately the same,0.8 per cent. There was more tubercu­losis, both active and inactive, in men(1.5 and 2.9 per cent) than in women (1.0and 2.2 per cent).As was anticipated, there were valu­able by-products of these fluoroscopies inthe detection of other unsuspected chestdisease, much of it of minor importance,some of it of major importance to variousphysicians. A total of 16.9 per cent of the25,000 patients were found on fluoroscopyto have chest findings other than tuber­culosis. Among them were the following:Per CentIncidenceEnlarged hearts. 7.8Enlarged aortas . 6. IPleuritic residuals 3.4Scoliosis . . . . . . I. 0Tumors. . . 0.6Rib anomalies. . . . . . . . 0.6Emphysema. . 0.5There were smaller numbers of substernalthyroids (0.3 per cent), pleural effusion,(0.3 per cent), pneumonia (0.14 per cent),chronic passive congestion (0.3 per cent),and bronchiectasis (0. I 2 per cent). Ofparticular interest was the fact that ap­proximately one-third of the 144 tumorcases were primary bronchogenic car­cinoma, one-third metastatic, one-sixthlymphomata, and the remaining one­sixth miscellaneous.Aside from the justification which theabove results have given to the program,it is felt that it has been worth while alonein training members of the resident staff,and senior medical students, in a tech­nic which will be easy to employ in theroutine examination of their own patientsfor the detection of unsuspected chest dis­eases in the future.WM. B. TUCKER MalariaOne gap in the life-history of the ma­larial parasites of man still is unfilled. Thenature and place of development of thestages which evolve from the infectioussporozoites injected by the mosquitohave not, as yet, been described. Sincethe known antimalarial drugs do not actprophylactically and since they areknown to act primarily against the eryth­rocytic parasites, it is assumed that somestage in the life-cycle of the parasite in mandevelops outside of the red blood cells.In one species of avian malaria (Plas­modium gallinaceum) the events that oc­cur from the time of the introduction ofthe sporozoites into the animals until theinvasion of the red blood cells have beendescribed in the J ournal of InfectiousDiseases (Nov.-Dec., 1944). These studies reveal that the sporo­zoites of this species must enter phago­cytic cells belonging to the reticulo­endothelial system of the host before theyare able to continue their development.The generation of parasites coming di­rectly from sporozoites is called crypto­zoites. Some of these develop locally atthe site of inoculation in the skin, whileothers are carried to the spleen, wherethey develop in the macrophages of thisorgan. At the end of this generation,which requires 36 to 48 hours, the indi­vidual descendants of the divided crypto­zoite enter new macrophages and also theendothelial cells of the blood capillariesand produce similar generations of tissue­inhabiting forms. Beginning with the sec­ond generation these tissue parasites mayenter erythrocytes, and at each of thenext three or four generations a greaterproportion of them enter the bloodstream. By this time most of the organsof the body are infected with the tissueparasites. Thus, parasitism of the hostnecessarily begins in the tissues and grad­ually shifts to the blood.If such stages of development can bedemonstrated in the human malarialparasites, the way will be opened to amore logical approach to our search foran effective prophylactic drug.CLAY G HUFFDr. Huff has accepted an invitationfrom the Institute of Public Health andTropical Diseases of. Mexico City to visitthat institution as guest investigator fromMarch I to April 15, 1945. Dr. Huff's tripwill be under auspices of the Departmentof State. He is a member of the AmericanSociety of Parasitologists, the AmericanSociety of Tropical Medicine, and theAmerican Society of Naturalists and isvice-president of the National MalariaSociety.A discussion of "Iinmunity and Allergy" was given in Pathology 117 on the eve­ning of January 25 by Drs. P. R. Cannon, Chairman, Department of Pathology, Dr.Stephen Rothman, Associate Professor of Medicine (Dermatology), a�d Dr. Harold C.Wagner, Instructor in Medicine. A lively question-and-ans�er period �ollowed thediscussion. This program was sponsored by A. K. K. Medical Fraternity and wasvery well received. There were few vacant seats in the room.8 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINlJox :ffltbicorumOne of the functions of the BULLETIN isto serve as a medium for the presentation ofideas concerning our medical school and itsproblems by the members of the Associationor others interested. We will be glad to re­ceive letters for publication in this column.Please remember that our space is limited.A committee of the University is atpresent studying the problem of a facultyhousing project. It is sincerely hoped thatthey will also take into consideration aresident staff housing project whichwould provide accommodations for mar­ried interns and residents. This could bebuilt in close proximity to the hospitalswith a connecting passageway to permiteasy access. The relatively high percent­age of married interns and residents is avery healthy sign, and it is high time thatmedical institutions throughout the coun­try provided accommodations appropriatefor the marital status. The University ofChicago could set a new standard of "so­cial justice" (or living) for the residentstaff, who give so much of their energiesfor so many years for so little and yetcontribute such a large share in the medi­cal care of the patients.H. P. JENKINS, M.D.A pplications-(Continuedjrom page 2)Health Service, Woodville, Miss.; William A.Geer, Res. Staff, Surg., '35-'39, now Major,M.C., has spent most of 1943 in North, Africa, since then in Italy (he reports hav­ing seen Harwell Wilson, Berget Block­som, and Gordon Heaney); Earl B. Ritchie,instr., assist. prof. '29-'32 derm., now assoc.prof. derm. and syph. at Univ. of Texas;Galveston; Henry L. Schmitz, instr., assist.prof., med., '28-'34, now assoc. din. prof.med., Loyola, and on senior med. staff ofMercy Hosp., Chicago; John Van de Erve,Jr., Res. Staff, '30-'34, din. prof. dermatol­ogy, Med. Col. of S.C., Charleston; NormanW. Roome, Res. Staff, Surg., '30--'34, instr.urology, '34-'38, now on faculty of Univ. ofToronto and chief urologist at Toronto West·ern Hosp.Dr. Harvey-(Continued jrom page 2)many of us said 'Let the rest of the worldgo by: we can live here unto ourselves.' "So we "walked out" on peace. Thank God,and our good allies, and our own late butsuperhuman effort, for another chance.The treatment clearly indicated forthe sick world is international co-opera­tion. And Medicine can help. Medicineknows little of national boundaries: it hasgone across them all carrying with it thespirit of concord. Pasteur, Koch, Lister,Domagk, Fleming, are colleagues of alldoctors everywhere in one medical world.Speed the day, when "come it may,And come it will, for a' that,That man to man the world o'erShall brithers be, for a' that."-B. C. H. HARVEY MEET THE FACULTYMore than half of our alumni graduatedbefore 1939, and therefore probably do notknow many of the faculty members ap­pointed since that date. These are the first ofa series of introductions to our newer facultymembers.Dr. Thomas B. CoolidgeDr. Thomas B. Coolidge, formerly as­sistant professor of biochemistry at DukeUniversity, joined our faculty on Janu­ary I, 1943, as assistant professor of bio­chemistry in the Zoller Clinic. DL Cool­idge was born at Concord, Massachusetts.He received his A.B. and M.D. degrees atHarvard University in 1923 and 1927,respectively, and in 1933 received a Ph.D.from Columbia University.Dr. Coolidge's scientific investigationshave dealt with the study of urinary pig­ments and dental caries. His hobby issailing. He is married and has three chil­dren. tryon the "Gripsholm" he was in privatpractice in Shanghai.Dr. Dunlap has made numerous contributions to scientific literature. His special interest is in the nerve supply of th ..external and middle ear.Dr. Dunlap is married and has sbchildren. His hobby is golf.Dr. Adrian Holt Vander VeerDr. Adrian Holt Vander Veer was ap­pointed assistant professor of psychia­tryon January I, 1940. He was born inNew York City. After receiving a B.A.degree at Columbia University in 1930,he was awarded an M.D. by ColumbiaCollege of Physicians and Surgeons in1934. From 1937 to 1940 Dr. Vander Veerwas resident in psychiatry at MichaelReese Hospital, Chicago. His particularscientific interest is in pediatric psychia­try and psychoanalysis. Among his pub li-COOLIDGE DUNLAPDr. Albert M. DunlapDr. Albert M. Dunlap has joined. ourfaculty as visiting clinical professor ofsurgery (otolaryngology). Dr. Dunlapwas born at Savoy, Illinois. He receivedan A.B. degree from the University ofIllinois in 1906 and an M.D. from Har­vard Medical.School in 1910. The follow­ing year he -:pent on the otolaryngologyservice at the Massachusetts GeneralHospital. Dr. Dunlap was professor ofotology, rhinology, and laryngology andchief of the out-patient department ofHarvard Medical of China in Shanghaifrom 19I1 to 1919. He was also connectedwith the Harvard and Red Cross Hospi­tal in Shanghai. During 1916-17 heserved as clinical assistant at the Massa­chusetts Eye and Ear Hospital. The fol­lowing year, he had the additional ap- «pointment in China of associate professorof otology, rhinology, and laryngology atPeiping Union Medical College. Heserved as dean of the latter medical schoolfrom 1919 to 1921 and again from 1927 to1929. Dr. Dunlap was professor of oto­laryngology at the P.U.M.C. from 1921to 1931. During 1928-29 he was also act­ing superintendent of the hospital atP.U.M.C. Before returning to this coun- VANDER VEER WRIGHTcations have been articles dealing withshock therapy and child psychiatry. Dr.Vander Veer is a member of Phi BetaKappa and Alpha Omega Alpha. He ismarried and has one son. Chess and book­collecting are his hobbies.Dr. F. Howell WrightDr. F. Howell Wright, assistant professor in the Department of Pediatricsreceived his medical training at john:Hopkins University medical school, frorrwhich he graduated in 1933, having previously been awarded his B.S. at Haverford College. He is a member of Phi Bet.Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha. His internship and residency in pediatrics wertat Johns Hopkins Hospital. From 1935 tc1938 Dr. Wright was assistant residenland resident at Babies Hospital in NewYork City, and from 1938 to 1940 he wasa fellow in bacteriology and pathologyaithe Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. He has been a member of our Iaculty for five years. Dr. Wright's publica­tions have been in the field of pediatricshis major interest. He is married and hasa two-year-old daughter. He likes to playsquash and tennis in his free time.MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 9ALUMNI NEWS'31. William B. Steen, president of the As­sociation, 1935-36, is a captain in the Medi­cal Corps and chief of the section of gen­eral medicine, Station Hospital, GulfportArmy Air Field, Miss.'32. Maj. Egbert Fell is in a general hospi­tal in New Guinea. He is the first graduate ofour School of Medicine to be elected to theAmerican Surgical Association. He has alsorecently been elected to the Western Surg.Assn. He has been on the surgical staff of thePresbyterian Hospital, Chicago, and facultyof the University of Illinois School of Medi­cine ..... After spending the past year at theBureau of Medicine and Surgery of the NavyDepartment in Washington, CommanderArthur J. Vorwald has been assigned as liaisonofficer for the bureau in England, with head­quarters at the embassy in London .....Adelaide McFadyen Johnson, appointed lec­turer, School of Social Service Administra­tion, is on the staff of the Institute of Psy­choanalysis, and is assistant professor ofcriminology, University of Illinois School ofMedicine. cinnati chapter of the Red Cross ..... Lieut.(j.g.) Robert Schmitz, U.S.N.R., has been ona mine-sweeper which-paved the way for thelandings on Leyte. The Jap planes and mineswere successfully dodged, but the typhoonwas rather harrowing. He has more recentlyparticipated in the preparations for the land­ings in Lingayan Gulf, an experience whichdwarfed into insignificance prior episodes,including the typhoon ..... Henrietta M.Herbolsheimer has been appointed chief ofthe division of maternal and child hygiene inthe Illinois Department of Public Health,effective January I, 1945. She filled this posi­tion during the previous six months as actingchief after having been promoted from a staffposition ..... Capt. Arthur P. Klotz is with abattalion of field artillery in France. He re­cently saw Major Frank Kanthak, residentstaff surg., Zoller, '36-'38, who reported thatRalph Christensen was somewhere near by..... David Bodian, M.D., Ph.D. '34, re­cently assistant professor of anatomy, West­ern Reserve, is now a lieutenant (j.g.) in theNavy at Baltimore, Md.STEEN'33. Capt. Boris B. Rubenstein, M.D.,Ph.D., recently research associate at MichaelReese Hospital, Chicago, now in the Medi­cal Corps, is at Bel Air, Md.'34. Lieut. Cmdr. Herman Harms, M.C.,U.S.N.R., is now at the U.S. Naval Hospital,Fort Eustis, Lee Hall, Va. He has recentlycompleted a year and a half of service in theSouthwest Pacific area, where "things werehappening." .... Solomon S. Kauvar, res.staff, Med., '33-'35, is now attending physi­cian, Mercy and Denver General Hospital.'35. Capt. George M. Wilcoxon is flightsurgeon at Clinton Co. Army Air Field, Wil­mington, Ohio, where Col. Boynton waskilled ..... Capt. Nathanile Safran is atStation Hospital, Camp Kilmer, N.]. ....Capt. Sion W. Holley is at the army instituteof pathology, army medical museum, Wash­ington, D.C.'35-'36. John Post has recently been pro­moted to lieutenant colonel. He is with theCoast Guard on the island of Oahu .....Estelle T. Milliser is now on the medical staffof the Overlook Hospital, Summit, N.J .....Israel B. Cantor is in practice, 312 MedicalArts Building, Atlanta, Ga.'37-'38. Capt. Vladimir Sasko was quitebusy in an evacuation hospital during theAdmiralty campaign and has since beentransferred to a medical laboratory in NewGuinea. His wife, Helen Stamm Sasko, is as­sistant director of horne service of the Cin-FELL SCHMITZ'38-'39. Oscar A. Billeter has announcedthe opening of an office for the practice ofplastic and reconstructive surgery at 537Medical Arts Building, Minneapolis, Minn..... Maj. Edward Camp writes of travelingby auto over most of France, where he isbeing kept busy with surgery. The hospitalthey are now operating in France is "quite abarn of a place, without water or electricity."They are functioning as a holding, instead ofa general hospital, until repairs can be made.He has visited Cherbourg, Paris, Lyon, Mar­seille, Reims, etc., as well as the country ofthe Meuse River Valley ..... Among thoseat the recent dedication ceremonies of theVaughan General Hospital at" Hines, Illinois,was Elizabeth F. Vaughan, granddaughter ofVictor C. Vaughan, for whom the hospital isnamed. Dr. Vaughan is the wife of Robert M.Potter, Rush '39, now a lieutenant with theNavy Medical Corps ..... Lieut. (j.g.) JohnH. Gifford, U.S.N. (retired) has a residencyat the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal..... Capt. Elias E. Long is at Camp Bowie,Texas ..... Ruth Barnard has a fellowship inpsychiatry, Menninger Foundation, Topeka,Kan. Lieut. F. M: Owens is asst. neuro-sur­geon, McCloskey Gen. Hosp., Temple, Texas.'39-'40. Helen Heinen has recently beenappointed chief of the Bureau of Child Wel­fare of the city of Chicago ..... Capt. Wil­liam Jones is with a Hopkins unit in thePhilippines ..... Violet Horner Turner is resident in obstetrics and gynecology atDuke Hospital, Durham, N.C ..... Lieut.Forrest M. Swisher is ward surgeon at Eng­land General Hospital, Atlantic City, N.].'42. Lieut. Robert Ebert landed with themarines on Saipan and is now battalion sur­geon there ..... Marine Lieutenant FrankN. Davis writes that he received the seniorYear Book in a rush of Christmas packages,and, in spite of its having a few blobs ofcandy onthe cover, he thinks' it is a fine pieceof work. He has already used it as a directoryin locating one classmate ..... Capt. PeterBeal is doing laboratory work in the Philip­pines ..... George Ruggy has been appoint­ed to the new position of junior dean in theOhio State University College of Medicine..... Capt. Hugh Bennett took part in thefirst landings in the Netherlands East Indies.He doesn't like the climate and could use goodold U. of C. Coffee Shop cokes anytime .....Earl S. Stephenson is in practice in May­wood, Ill ..... Lyndon M. Hill is resident atHarlem Hospital, New York City .....Lieut. (j.g.) Robert Hall, M.C., U.S.N.R.,was recently on destroyer duty and is nowassigned to U.S. Naval Hospital at TreasureIsland, San Francisco.'4°-'41. Frank G. Ziobrowski is serving assurgical resident at the Detroit ReceivingHospital. .... Owen C. Berg is now a lieu­tenant in the Medical Corps and assistantmedical officer and surgeon on one of theNavy's new big carriers ..... Arnold Lazarowis senior instructor, department of anatomy,Western Reserve University, Cleveland;'42-'43. A note just received from Capt.Charles P. McCartney gives his A.P.O. num­ber % Postmaster, New York, N.Y. Lieut.(j.g.) Robert K. Gassier, U.S.N.R., is at theNaval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill. Richard V.McKay, Jr., has stayed on as assistant resi­.dent in medicine after his internship at Cin-cinnati General Hospital. . . . . .'43. Lieut. (j.g.) Wallace G. McCune,M.C., U.S.N,R. is assigned to a motor tor­pedo boat squadron, % F.P.O., N.Y, ....John Patrick Plunkett is assistant residentat the Cincinnati General Hospital. .....Arthur A. Hellebaum is professor and chair­man of the department of pharmacology atOklahoma University. He is continuing hisresearch in endocrinology .. , .. Dr. VirginiaVail (Mrs, Donald McDonald) arrived inHonolulu, Hawaii, after a circuitous voyageon a tramp steamer to commence her intern­ship at Queen's Hospital. She is engaged incaring for 127 patients with the aid of a nurs­ing staff which she finds capable, intelligent,and helpful. The climate, she declares, issuperlative; the resident quarters are simplebut adequate, including private swimmingpool, tennis court, and golf privileges to beenjoyed on alternate evenings free of respon­sibilities. One drawback to this seemingly en­joyable internship is the starting wage of $45a month, increasing to $100 a month in sixmonths. Her term of internship of twelvemonths permits adequate rotation of servicewithin the hospital and tours of out-patientclinics in the islands ..... Robert Fitzgeraldhas had a chance to compare his school withcertain others and he is "firmly convincedthat the U, of C. Medical School is the bestdamn school in existence."(Continued on page 10)10 MEDICAL ALUMNI- BULLETINRECENT CAMPUS VISITORSLieut. Joseph M. Dondanville ('43) visitedthe clinics recently on his way to Fort Lewis,Washington. He has been appointed an­aesthetist for a chest surgical unit which ex­pects overseas service soon.Lieut. Richard Rasmussen ('37-'38) isback from duty with the Seabees in the Aleu­tians. After a brief furlough with his family inGrand Rapids, Michigan, he is to be stationedat Great Lakes.Major Oscar Bodansky, M.C., A.U.S., '38,'coauthor of Biochemistry of Disease (NewYork: Macmillan Co., 1940), is now at Edge­wood Arsenal, Maryland.Molly Radford ('35) is president of the has returned from service in the South Pa­cific and at present is stationed at a P.O.W.camp in Maryland.Dwight E. Clark, instructor in surgery, hasbeen on leave for military service as a rstlieutenant in the Medical Corps since Sep­tember. He has been assigned to a hospital inTennessee. Dr. Clark recently completed aseven-year program of resident training insurgery here and has made fifteen contribu­tions to surgical literature. He has beencertified by the American Board of Surgeryand elected to fellowship in the AmericanCollege of Surgeons with honorable mentionfor excellence of his case reports.RASMUSSEN BODANSKYCounty Medical Society, Santa Fe, NewMexico. Among other things, she is doinganesthesia and is active in welfare clinics inSanta Fe. Her husband, Maj. Bill Martin,Alumni NeW5-(Continued from page 9)'(From the" Chicago Tribune," Feb. 26): "Oneof the busiest Chicagoans in the battle lines'on Iwo Jima is Dr. Marvin Courtney, who isdirecting care of the wounded. He expressedpleasure at the results gained by blood plasmain saving the wounded, but said shell shockand battle fatigue cases were on the increasebecause of the continued heavy explosions." 'They should call that guy a Comman­do,' said Jack Ente of Bridgeport, Conn.,naval hospital corpsman attached to themarine corps. 'He's everywhere, taking careof those disabled.' "Lieut. Courtney, 27, a native of Spokane,Wash., was graduated from the University ofChicago medical school in March, 1943, andentered the Navy two months later. He in­terned at the Great Lakes Naval TrainingStation and was sent to Guam in August,1944, with the Third Marine Division. Hiswife, Gertrude, a registered nurse, and hisnine-month-old daughter, Dale, live at 8103Marquette Ave.Lieut. Joshua H. Carey has completedsix weeks at Carlisle Barracks and is now sta­tioned at the Mayo Clinic, where he hasbeen assigned to a twelve-week course inanesthesia.Facility and Resident StaffMary Jane Fowler, former resident inophthalmology, has opened an office at 2376E. Seventy-first Street, Chicago. She hastwo children ..... Capt. J. A. Gans, who wasa resident and instructor in ophthalmology, RADFORDCapt. T. Heinz passed through Chicagorecently to a new assignment at Carson Gen­eral Hospital, Colorado Springs, Colo.Paul Ross ('37) of Munster, Indiana.COURTNEY BEADENKOPFChicago Men at Carlisle Barracks: Carey,Tasher, Freeman, Loewy, Block HEANEY HOPPLEAlfred Dick ('32) of La Jolla, California.Capt. H. Gordon Heaney, Class of 1934and former surgical intern, on a two-week fur­lough after twenty-seven months of activeservice in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France,and Germany. He has been with the SeventhArmy and wears insignia for six campaigns.He has worked with an auxiliary surgicalgroup, usually forward of the evacuationhospital. In Naples, Capt. Heaney saw Lieut.Col. Harwell Wilson, Capt. William Bes­wick, and Maj. William Geer, all formermembers of our resident staff in surgery. Healso encountered Maj. William Tuttle, whois now in France.Lieut. Theron L. Hopple was listed in theprevious issue as a campus visitor. We nowpresent his picture and the added informationthat he has become the father of Diane Lor­raine, born January 26, 1945.writes from England about having recentvisits with Major Ashley, formerly assistantresident in ophthalmology, and Capt. Stein­berg, formerly of otolaryngology. MajorAshley is EENT man with an evacuationhospital, and Captain Steinberg is chief ofEENT and is associated with an eye boardman ..... Capt. William Beadenkopf is witha Hopkins General Hospital Group in theFijis ..... Lieut. Richard Landau is a bat­talion aide surgeon probably in the Philip­pines ..... Capt. William Rennes is on ahospital ship in the European theater .....Lieut. Hampton Traynor is a medical officerwith civil affairs in France ..... Lieut. BertHoffman, M.C., U.S.N., has been on an islandin the Caribbean for two years ..... ·KarenHoward has joined one of Henry Kaiser'sPacific Northwest hospitals as pediatrician..... Maj. Julius Ginsberg, formerly resi­dent in dermatology, is in the Pacific area..... Maj. Myron Hipskind, formerly resi­dent in otolaryngology, is with a HospitalUnit near Paris ..... Senior Surgeon BengtHamilton, U.S. Public Health Service, is at­tached to UNRAA and is now in Italy. Heleft a private practice in Chicago in 1942 togo into the service.Major Francis Phillips, formerly assistantresident in surgery, completed nearly twoyears in the Aleutians and is now surgeonwith an artillery unit in which he has seenmany weeks of very active service.The marriage of Miss Violet Purwin toPFC Leon Carrow of the A.S.T.P. MedicalUnit took place on December 17, 1944.