In This Issue

Alumni Day Program May 19, 1961 . . . Page 4

Pre-Alumni Day Activities Page 3

Long Range Medical Center Development Plan Page 6

Floor Plan of Medical Library Page 8 WMAN

University Hospitals Report Wisconsin Medical Alumni The new program authorized by the Wisconsin State Legislature for the finan­ Newsletter cial operation of University Hospitals in relation to the educational and service published ] anuary, April, ] uly, October responsibilities was effected on January 1, by the 1960. A year of progress and changes have WISCONSIN MEDICAL ALUMNI since taken place. ASSOCIATION, INC. Mr. E. J. Connors, Superintendent of the 418 North Randall Avenue hospital, recently spoke on "Legislation Madison, Wisconsin Covering Use of Wisconsin Hospitals" at ALUMNI OFFICERS the winter conference of the Wisconsin President Board of County Judges and reported that Mischa]. Lustok, M.D., ' 35 Milwaukee the legislation passed in November, 1959, President-Elect appears to be accomplishing the purpose Albert Martin, M.D., '3 5 Milwaukee of increased referrals to University Hos­ Dh·ectors pitals. He indicated that for State patients Ben Lawton, M.D., '46 Marshfield Joseph Stone, M.D., ' 35 Milwaukee there has been a 19% increase in admis­ Raymond Welbourne, M.D., '42 Watertown sions and a 12% increase in patient days Ex Officio for the first quarter of this fiscal year as ] . Z . Bowers, M.D., Dean compared to the similar period last year. U . W. Medica l School Madison Clarification of certain parts of the law is Past-Presidents needed regarding the authority of the Einar A. Daniels, M.D., ' 34 Milwaukee A. A. Quisling, M.D., '30 Madison county judges to authorize patients who Secrelary-Treasurer are not legal residents of their county for George Rowe, M .D., '45 Madison care at University Hospitals. In comment­ Edi1or ing on the reaction of the judges, Mr. Robert M . Sa mp, M .D ., ' 51 Connors said: "It is evident that the per­ Associale Editor sonal contacts carried on by Dr. William Mrs. Marcella Hilgers Stovall and Mr. Richard Vevle is creating Alumni dues $ 5.00 p er year. a positive and supportive attitude on the (Your dues make this publication possible­ part of the county judges. It is hoped that Have we received your check?) these contacts will continue to foster good relationships with practicing physicians in the State. The challenge that now faceR the Medical Center is to earn this support Aienzory Joggers-- through excellence of service." Alumni Meetings Dr. William Stovall, Coordinator of Post­ graduate Medical Education and Special Febr'Uary 10. 1961 Milwaukee Winter Meeting Assistant to the Dean, and Mr. Vevle, University Club 7:00 p.m. Assistant Superintendent of University April. 1961 Spring Up-State Meeting Hospitals, have been calling on county Marshfield. Wis. Noon Luncheon judges and physicians throughout the state May 2. 1961 General Alumni Meeting informing them of hospital programs and Milwauki:le Arena Noon Luncheon the need for patients for educational pro­ May 19. 1961 Annual Alumni Day grams while also seeking their opinions Madison Day Program and Evening and s.uggestions concerning improvement Banquet of University Hospitals services. June. 1961 A.M.A. Meetings New York City Noon Luncheon CLASS OF 1951-HELP! MISS IRENE BLAKE DIES We are unable to locate the picture A former secretary of the Department of your class taken as a group. If you of Pharmacology, Miss Irene Blake, died have a copy of this picture, could we Friday, December 30 at her home in Madi­ borrow it for a short time? Copies will son. Miss Blake will be remembered by be made for the Alumni records file many of the alumni as she was secretary and it will be returned to you. We to the chairman of the department for 32 would appreciate your cooperation. years .until she retired in 1958. She was Send to Wisconsin Medical Alumni secretary to Drs. A. S. Loevenhart, A. L. Association, 418 N. Randall Avenue, Tatum and at the time of her retirement, Madison, Wisconsin. to Dr. F. E. Shideman, present chairman.

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Pre-Alumni Day Activity 1943-William Gilmore, 1911 Dudley Ave., Parkersburg, West Virginia May 18, 1961-Holiday Inn 1945-Loron Thurwachter, 3862 N. Shore Highlights: Honored Class Reunion Dinners Drive, Milwaukee, Wisconsin First Meeting of Council of Class Rep- 1947-Solomon Kann, 1451 N. Bayshore resentatives Drive, Miami, Florida Cocktail Hour 1951-Robert J. Samp, University Hospi­ Past President's Dinner tals, Madison, Wisconsin A Dinner for Alumni Wives 1954-George M. Kroncke, 1335 S. Sher­ ClaE:s Representatives for the honored wood, Charleston, South Carolina reunioning classes are proceeding with 1955-Eugene L. Weston, Captain, US.n..t'·, plans for reunion dinners to be held the Air Force Academy, Colorado evening of May 18. They are: Springs, Colorado Thomas Leonard, 1023 Regent St., Madi­ 1957-Charles D. Schoenwetter, 5738 Rus­ son, Wis., 1931 sett Road, Madison, Wisconsin Marvin Steen, 740 Elmwood Ave., Osh­ 1960-Robert Sievert, 1309 Oakwood kosh, Wis., 1936 Place, Middleton, Wisconsin Harold Youngreen, 2010 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif., 1941 Fall Alumni Meeting Robert Samp, Wisconsin General Hos­ November 19 pital, Madison, Wis., 1951 A large number of Class Representatives have already indicated that they will attend the first meeting of the Council of Class RepreEentatives scheduled for 5 :00 p.m., May 18 at the Holiday Inn. At the meeting a President of the Council will be elected and Alumni Association plans and policy discussed. Following the meeting and cocktail hour, the Class Representatives will join with the Past Presidents and members of the Board at the Past Presidents' Dinner. Dr. Kenneth Lemmer, '30, first President of the Association, will preside. Mrs. Kenneth Lemmer has taken leader­ ship in planning a dinner for wives to co­ About ninety visiting Alumni returned incide with the Past Presidents' Dinner. to Madison Saturday, November 19, for All wives will receive advance registration the Annual Fall Meeting of the Wisconsin materials for the dinner. Medical Alumni Association. The morning A block of rooms is being reserved at program consisted of five talks on the gen­ the Holiday Inn to accommodate all re­ eral subject of injuries associated with turning Alumni. athletics, presented by Dr. Elston Belknap, Reunio:r:iing classes, class representatives Assistant Professor of Medicine; Dr. Rob­ and wives plan now to attend all activities ert Coye, Assistant Professor of Pathology; on the evening of May 18. You will soon Dr. Herman Wirka, Professor of Surgery; be receiving more detailed information and Dr. Harry Bouman, Professor of Physical registration materials. Medicine, and Dr. Arthur Siebens, Profes­ sor of Pediatrics and Physiology. Class Representatives Pictured above are six members of the An additional number of Medical Alum­ Association "conferring" in Bardeen Audi­ ni have accepted the position as Class Rep­ torium. Top row: left to right, Howard resentatives. They include: Lee, '30, Milwaukee: Silas Evans, '36, Mil­ 1930--Herman Wirka, University Hospi- waukee; L. M. Simonsen, '33, Sheboygan; tals, Madison, Wisconsin Theodore Fox, '57, Berwyn, Illinois; Shel­ 1931--Thomas A. Leonard, 1023 Regent don Wagner, '57, Chicago, Illinois, and St., Madison, Wisconsin R. W. Farnsworth, Preceptor from Janes­ 1935-Stanley Edwards, 1930 Wilshire Yi!le, Wisconsin. Blvd., Los Angeles, California The morning program was a success but 1940-Burnell Eckhardt, 1226 N. 8th St., the afternoon football game between Wis­ Sheboygan, Wisconsin consin and Minnesota ended .unhappily as 1942- Miles B. Smith, V.A. HoHpital, Minnesota won 27-7, thereby earning a Wood, Wisconsin berth in the Rose Bowl.

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A Special Invitation to All Alumn'i and Wives All F acuity and Wives ALUMNI DAY May 19, 1961 Service Memorial Institutes Auditorium

REGISTRATION-S :30 a.m.

A.M. PROGRAM-President Mischa Lustok, presiding. Speakers { F acuity) Dr. John K. Curtis, Clinical Professor of Medicine. Dr. David B. Slautterback, Assistant Professor of Anatomy. Dr. Vincent L. Gott, Assistant Professor of Surgery. John W. Harris Lecture Dr. Milton McCall, Professor and Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pittsburgh Medical School. Business Meeting-11 :30 Election of Officers Brief presentation of Library plans, Miss Helen Crawford, Medical Center Librarian.

Luncheon-12 :30-Hospital Cafeteria. P.M. PROGRAM-Or. John Z. Bowers, Dean, presiding 2:00-3:30 P.M. Speakers State of Union Address-Or. John Z. Bowers, Dean Silver Anniversary Class of 1936 Representative­ Or. Marvin Steen, Oshkosh, Wisconsin Guest Lecturer Dr. Jonathan E. Rhoarls, John Rhea Barton Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medi­ cine.

EVENING PROGRAM-Social Hour Banquet and Dance ($5.00 per person) 6 :30 P.M.-East Side Businessmen's Club. Emeritus Faculty Award Medical Alumni Citation Dr. Conrad A. Elvehjem, President of University of Wisconsin, will be an honored guest. * * * Graduating seniors, their wives or dates will be guests of the Medical Alumni Association.

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Guest Speakers Chosen Historical Gift For Alumni Day ...

Two guest speakers, both from the State of Pennsylvania, have been chosen to pre­ sent major addresses on the Alumni Day program, May 19. Dr. Milton McCall, well-known teacher and author who heads the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Univer­ sity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and is Medical Director and Chief of Staff of the Elizabeth Steel Magee Hospital, will present the John W. Harris lecture as part of the morning program. His title ''Ad­ vances in Detection and Therapeusis of Cervical Cancer," A recent gift of historical value was re­ covers one of his ceived by the Medical Library when Dr. major research in­ Merritt Jones, Wisconsin alumni and Pre­ terests. ceptor at Wausau, gave a collection of Dr. McCall re­ memorabilia-pictures, certificates, lecture ceived his degree notes and instruments-of significant med­ at Indiana Univer­ ical-historical vaLue from the effects of his sity School of Med­ grandfather, Dr. David La Count, and his icine and postgrad­ father, Dr. David T. Jones, both of whom uate training in practiced medicine in Wausau. obstetrics and gyn­ Pictured above is a photograph from the ecology in Phila­ collection showing Dr. Ludvig Hektoen delphia. He w as and Dr. David T. Jones, performing a pro­ P r of e s s or and sectomy at the College of Physicians and Chairman of Ob­ Surgeons in Chicago in 1886. stetrics and Gyne­ The Jones family name in Wausau rep­ cology at Louisiana resents three generations of medical serv­ State University School of Medicine, New ice to the community, Dr. David La Count, Orleans, before going to Pittsburgh in Dr. David T. Jones and Dr. Merritt Jones, 1959. He has published many papers on U.W. Alumnus, M.D. graduate of Harvard, obstetrics and gynecology including sub­ and Preceptor at Wausau since 1926. jects on toxemia of pregnancy, pelvic ma­ Dr. Hecktoen, one of the most distin­ ligancy, surgical techniques and diagnostic guished pathologists and bacteriologists of methods. America, first showed the danger of isoag­ glutination in transfusions and was the The afternoon program will be high­ founder and long-time editor of the Jour­ lighted by an address "Dynamic Bound­ nal of Infections Diseases. aries of Preventive Surgery," by Dr. Jona­ than E. Rhoads, John Rhea Barton, Pro­ fessor of Surgery, and Professor of Surgery Alumni Wives- Research in the graduate school, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadel­ Attention! phia. An author of numerous chapters in medical textbooks and articles in medical While your husbands are attending their journals, he has been on the staff of the Clat:s Reunion and generally acting in a University of Pennsylvania since 1934. Dr. manner reminiscent of their student days, Rhoads, an M.D. graduate of Johns Hop­ why not meet with other wives and get kins with a D.Sc. (Medicine) from Penn·­ acquainted or map a plan of strategy to sylvania, will discuss recent advances in curb your h.usband's exhuberance? A din­ prevention of a disease by surgical means ner for the wives of Association members and the balancing of risks against antici­ is planned. This dinner will be held the pated gains. He emphasizes that every evening of May 18 at the approximate advance leading to reduced risk extends time of the reunioning class meetings at the boundaries of surgical endeavor in the the Holiday Inn. You will receive notice preventive areas. of the time and place for the meeting.

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Long Range Medical Center Development Plan Approved

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A major administrative development A new and more desirable site for the reached fruition on January 6 with Uni­ Medical Library is established on Linden versity Regent approval of a long-range Drive, immediately north of the eventual Development Plan for the Medical Center. high rise building. Surrounded by greens­ Climaxing several months of study by a ward and with no encroaching buildings, Medical Center committee and the Insti­ the Library will be the focal point for the tutional Planning Staff, headed by Profes­ Medical Center campus on the North. sor Leo Jakobson, the plan provides a The ubiquitous parking problem may be logical, flexible pattern of development solved by the development of a parking­ designed to meet the need for all new ramp south of University A venue on the facilities envisioned for the next twenty site of a current parking lot. Space is now years. available for a ramp providing 350 parking stalls. Eventual expansion to approximate­ The salient feature of the plan is a high ly 1,000 parking stalls is planned. The rise (10 to 12 story) building, extending parking ramp would be reached by an ele­ from the current D wing of the Hospital, vated walkway over University A venue through the site of the present North wing entering the main Hospital. of the Infirmary, to a westerly point near A proposed ed.ucational building for the the Interns and Residents Dormitory. Nursing, Occupational Therapy and Phys­ ical Therapy programs is located in the This unit would tie together several of plan on North Randall Avenue abutting the dispersed areas of the Medical Center into the high rise building. complex and provide a back drop for the Future expansion of basic science facili­ Medical Library and the main Hospital ties is envisioned on Linden Drive- an L building mass. With the principle of ver­ shaped structure adjoining the Bardeen tical expansion to this height approved, Building and extending west across the many space problems can be solved. Ele­ current ambulance entrance and south at ments of the high rise building may be the present site of Bradley. constructed individually as program devel­ Significant to the hospital programs is opments and availability of funds permit. a proposed clinic building to the west of The first unit might be the new Cancer the Hospital on the current site of the In­ Research Building. Clinical facilities or firmary and the addition to two stories to other research institutes might also be the B and C wings of the Hospital. These included. (continued on next page)

-6- MEDICAL ALUMNI NEWSLETTER I JANUARY, 1961 additions are urgently needed to replace pitals in 1950 for a residency in Medicine the beds which will be lost in the Hospital and has been associated with the Cardio­ remodeling program converting l a r g e vascular Research Laboratory since that wards to single and double rooms. time. The recipient of a Markle Scholar­ The plan also provides for an eventual ship in 1955, Dr. Rowe is the author of addition to the Children's Hospital, a new many scientific publications. Institute building (possibly Rehabilitation or Geriatrics) on the site of the Nurses Dormitory and another institute south of Postgraduate Courses University Avenue (possibly a Psychiatric Institute) on the site of the current old Three postgraduate courses remain on University Heating Station and Service the schedule for the 1960-61 academic Building. year. The aesthetic values of the Medical Of particular interest is the first post­ Campus would be greatly enhanced by a graduate course to be offered in Milwau­ planned elevated Mall extending from kee, entitled Recent Advances in the Diag­ University A venue to Linden Drive on nosis and Treatment of Neurological Dis­ Randall Avenue. Vehicular traffic to the eases, to be presented February 6 and 7, Clinic Building and Hospital Service en­ under the direction of Francis M. Forster, trance would be directly from University M.D. The Senn Wing Staff Room of Mil­ Avenue beneath the Mall. waukee Hospital has been reserved for the course which will stress pre::ent day con­ Particularly attractive features of the cepts of neurological disorders, including plan are its flexibility and its ease of im­ the treatment of Epilepsy, Vascular Dis­ plementation as funds become available, ease and Parkinsonism. Reservations may without razing major buildings and dis­ be addressed to Dr. Wm. D. Stovall, 1103 rupting programs. The Medical Library, Tower Building, 606 West Wisconsin Ave­ the Cancer Research Building, the School nue, Milwaukee 3, Wisconsin. of Nursing Building, the additions to B and C wings of the Hospital, and the first unit The two remaining courses will be pre­ of the parking ramp can all be constructed sented in Madison at the Wisconsin Center with only the razing of several houses Building. Reservations for the following required. courses may be made with the Wisconsin Center Building, 702 Langdon St., Madi­ son, Wisconsin.

New Appointment Announced Pediatric Hematology T h e Wisconsin April 13-15, 1961 (2lj2 days) Medical A l u m n i Nathan J. Smith, M.D., Director Ass o ci a t i o n an­ A seminar devoted to various disorders nounces the ap­ of the blood in infants and children. Se­ pointment of Dr. lected case histories will be abtracted and George Rowe as mailed to the participants for study prior Secretary -Treasur­ to the seminar. Recent research activity er, replacing Dr. on hemolytic disease, leukemia, bleeding W i II i a m Smiles, disorders, reticulo- endotheliosis and ane­ ' '42, of Ashland, mias will be discussed. Wisconsin, who re­ signed. Dr. Rowe, a 1945 The Pathology and Radiology of Diseases graduate of the of the Chest and Cardiovascular System University of Wi~ - May 11-13, 1961 (2% days) Dr. George Rowe consin Medic a l D. Murray Angevine, M.D. and School, at present holds the rank of Asso­ Lester W. Paul, M.D., Directors ciate Professor of Medicine in the Medical This course, designed especially for School. An extremely capable investigator, specialists in the fields of Radiology and teacher and clinician, he is a recognized Pathology, is proving to be a popular authority on cardiovascular diseases. He choice as advance registrations have now interned at Philadelphia General Hospital reached 80. The co.urse offers a joint ap­ and served as General Medical Officer, proach to diseases of the lungs and heart USA MC, attached to the Veterans Admin­ wherein an effort will be made to correlate istration Hospital at Wichita, Kansas. the radiology and pathology of diseases of Dr. Rowe returned to University Hos- the chest.

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MAIN FLOOR PLANS WILLIAM S. MIDDLETON MEDICAL LIBRARY -STAIRWAY I (PRELIMINARY) GROUP. ~GROUP! • ~~------~~------~--~ BROWSING ~~ STUDY ROOM STUDY --,...-----' STAIRWAY 24 X 27 ~ FREIGHT 9 X 1 0 9 x 10 ELEVATOR

MAIN STACK CORE 54 X 45 [ WORK ROOM MEDICAL 22 X 45 LIBRARY SERVICE MAIN READING ROOM I 22 X 30 45 X 54

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STAIRWAY HEAD LIBRARIAN ·--~SEC. I A year end upsurge in Library Fund Architect William Kaeser and the State contributions has bro.ught the campaign Architect's office are contin.uing with site total to $510,000. A large number of con­ studies and preliminary plans and a fresh, tributors have paid up their pledges well imaginative approach is assured. in advance of their original schedule-and The new site (see Long Range Develop­ made new pledges. $200 pledges have been ment Plan, page 6) represents a signifi­ increased to $500, $500 pledges raised to cant improvement both aesthetically and $1,000 and $1,000 pledges markedly in­ in closer proximity to the major number creased. of library users. Former students of Drs. T. H. Bast, In current planning (see Floor Plan) the J. A. E. Eyster, W. F. Meek and Ralph basic s t r u c t u r e is three stories high, Waters are making contributions to ap­ three sides of a core of book stacks, two propriately honor and memorialize these tiers to a story. The middle, or main, floor respected teachers in the new library. contains the major reading and administra­ The School of Nursing Alumnae are tive areas, with control being centered at making contributions in memory of Chris­ the circulation desk. Additional study and tina Cameron Murray. reading space, service areas and the equip­ ment room surround the stack core in the The Reunioning classes have initiated basement. The third floor contains the De­ campaigns for class gifts to be presented partment of the History of Medicine, the on Alumni Day. historical collection, seminar rooms and Continued efforts of this nature will studies. crown our efforts with success. (continued on next page)

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This is not a '·modular" building, but parents of William Kessler of Ripon, Mr. the space has been kept open, with a mini­ and Mrs. Alex Kessler; and Mr. and Mrs. mum of permanent walls and corridors. Ben Anderson of Madison in memory of The arrangement gives a flexible interior, their son, Ben Anderson, Jr. unbroken by stairways, with all services close to the readers. Areas adjoining the stacks can be switched from reader to book Dr. Van Potter To Speak space, or vice versa, when the need re­ At Milwaukee Meeting quires. Even within the stacks, the modules permit opening 9-foot square reading areas One of the wherever de:>ired. The double tier of stack" world's authorities to each floor places a large proportion of on the biochemis­ the book collection within one flight, either try of cancer, Dr. way, of the stack entrance. Van Potter, will speak on "Cancer Research at McAr­ Need For Medical Student ·Aid dle Laboratories" Dr. Robert Coye at the Milwaukee Assistant Professor of Pathology Winter Meeting of Member, Student Affairs Committee the W i s c o n s i n Medic a 1 Alumni The number of well qualified applicants Association to be to the Medical School has been decreasing held February 10 for several years here at Wisconsin as well at the University as in medical schools throughout the Club. country. One of the important reasons for Dr. Potter, a Ph.D. graduate in biochem­ this decline is the very high cost of medical istry at the University, at present holds education to the student as compared to the title of Assistant Director of Mc­ other types of professional education. Ade­ Ardle Memorial Laboratory in Madison. He quate loan funds are considered essential has been associated with the laboratory for increasing numbers of students to be­ since its founding in 1940 and during this gin or to continue their medical education. period has achieved international recogni­ O.ur current loan sources consist of: tion for his investigations and original con­ 1. The Medical School Loan fund, a re­ cepts on the origin of cancer. volving loan fund in excess of $44,000 Returning Alumni will also hear Dean donated by Alumni and friends, of John Z. Bowers report on Medical School which all but $2,000 is presently on progress and President Mischa Lustok and loan. Alumni officers report on Alumni affairs at 2. The Charitable, Educational and Scien­ the evening meeting. tific Foundation of the State Medical Society, a similar revolving loan fund which is at present exhau:oted. Ruling On W.M.A.A. Tax Status 3. The University Loan Fund, which is not used extensively as the loans must be As required by Federal Law, at the end repaid before most medical students of our first year of operation as a corporate are producing adequate incomes. body, a ruling from the Internal Revenue 4. The National Defense Loan Fund, Service was sought governing the tax which is also exhausted at present. status of the Wisconsin Medical Alumni It is clear that these funds are not suffi­ Association, Inc. cient to cover present needs, and that in­ The Internal Revenue Service has ruled creases will be necessary to meet existing that as a charitable and educational body, and anticipated loan requests. the Alumni Association is exempt from Studies by the Student Finance Commit­ Federal Income Tax and that contributions tee are presently being made to character­ to the Alumni Association are deductible ize more exactly the need for loan funds, by donors as provided in Section 170 of and to develop a loan program to ade­ the Internal Revenue Code. Bequests, lega­ quately meet these needs. cies, etc., are deductible for Federal Estate Friends and alumni of the Medical and Gift Tax purposes under the provisions School who have provided Student Loan of Section 2055, 2106 and 2522 of the Funds include: Mr. Richard Hartenstein Code. of Milwaukee in honor of his son, Dr. Hans A previous, interim ruling had stipulated Hartenstein; the family and classmates of that gifts to the William S. Middleton the late Robert Gavin of Fond du Lac; the Library Fund were tax exempt.

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Prominent Visitor School of Nursing and the Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy Depart­ ments are requested in the c.urrent Uni­ versity building priority listing. On page 6 you will notice the site for the eventual Nursing Building. During the past semester, one half of the Dormitory has been used by University Residence Halls for "overflow" women's housing. The Dormitory will also sene a most useful "safety valve" function for th~' Medical Center to house programs dis­ placed due to remodeling and new con­ struction. Currently the staff of the Psy­ chiatric Institute occupies half of one floor Dr. Benjamin Barrera, Profesor of Path­ of the structure. ology and Dean of the College of Medicine, University of the Philippines, was a recent visitor to the Medical Center. He is shown Dr. Johannes Steudel above with (1. to r.) Dr. Alfred L. Kennan and Dr. Ben Peckham of the Gynecology­ Visiting Professor Obstetrics Department. A learned scholar and historian, Pro­ Under the auspices of the China Medical fessor Johannes Steudel of the University Board of New York, Inc., Dr. Barrera spent of Bonn, Germany, has accepted the invi­ two weeks at the Medical Center visiting tation of the Medical Center to serve as each department to learn methods of ad­ Visiting Professor in the History of Medi­ ministration in an American medical school cine for the second semester, 1961. and teaching hospital. Dr. Steudel, a Doctor of Philosophy and Dean and Mrs. John Z. Bowers wert> Medicine, holds the rank of Director of hosts to Dean Barrera at a Thanksgiving the Medizin Historische Institut. He is f\ Day dinner. 1923 graduate of the University of Konigs­ berg, with a degree of Doctor of Philoso­ phy and a 1941 graduate of the University New Use For Nurses Dormitorv of Leipzig, Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Steudel has been on the staff of the History of The School of Nursing recently consoli­ Medicine at the University of Bonn l'!ince dated its offices under one roof in the 1943, serving as President (Rector) for eastern half of the former Nurses Dormi­ the academic year 1958-59. tory Building. Prior to this move the Nurs­ ing faculty had been housed in three loca­ Dr. Ste.udel is married and the father tions on Randall A venue and in Temporary of two children. Building 14, resulting in a great deal of inconvenience and lack of communication. Classrooms in T-14 and the Nurses' Dor­ mitory will continue to be used for the HELP WANTED! major portion of the school's instructional program. The Dormitory has been closed Male and Female as a living accommodation for nursing stu­ dents since June, 1960, when they were absorbed into the University's general Loyal Alumni and wives to attend a housing facilities. day-long reunion. Specific qualifica­ tion required- a desire to enjoy a day Because of the rapidly expanding pro­ among old friends and colleagues. grams in all ph_ases of medical science, the Anyone interested in the hundreds of need for teaching and office space is acute. postions open-contact your Wiscon­ This move, while not a solution to the prob­ sin Medical Alumni Office, 418 N. lem, serves as a temporary measure until Randall Ave., Madison, Wisconsin. permanent quarters are secured. Funds for a new facility to house the

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ALUMNI UAPSULES Frederick G. Gaenslen, Green Bay and will practice friends, acquaintances and '40, has recently returned in the three hospitals in that colleagues who would like from Jordan where he prac­ community. A native of to find out more of what a ticed his medical specialty, Mauston, Dr. Lund is a '55 very enlightened community orthopedics, .under sponsor­ Alumnus who recently com­ is doing in the field of men­ ship of the Medical Coop­ pleted a residency at Univer­ tal health. He and his wife eration Organization (MED­ sity Hospitals. have four children and are ICO). Dr. Gaenslen has Thorn L. Vogel, '29, Mil­ in the throes of being par­ a private practice in Mil­ ton Jun.ction, left that com­ ents to a teenager in junior waukee, Wisconsin, and also munity on October, to accept high school. is an Associate Professor in a position in the Department Albert L. Fisher, '50, La Orthopedics at Marquette of Maternal and Child W el­ Crosse, has been appointed University Medical School. f are of the Milwaukee consulting psychiatrist at the 0. A. Backus, '29, has giv­ Health Dept. Dr. Vogel has State Child Care Center at en up his practice in Port practiced in Milton Junc­ Sparta. In private practice, Edwards, Wiscom:in, and tion since 1932. he is part-time psychiatrist moved to Tucson, Arizona, R. 0. Ebert, '25, Pine Riv­ at the LaCrosse County Child where he plans to do post­ er, Wisconsin, recently re­ Guidance Clinic and served graduate work in gynecol­ turned from a round-the­ until recently as medical di­ og;r and later specialize in world tour which included rector of the Northeast Iowa that field. visits to more than a dozen Mental Health Center in De­ N. A. Franken, '41, who countries. The trip took five corah, Iowa. practices General Surgery in months. A retired specialist L. J. Ganser, '46, directo1· Havre, Montana, was elected who practiced in Oshkosh, of the mental hygiene divi­ Presfaent of the Montana Dr. Ebert has visited almost sion of the State Department Division of the American all parts of the world in re­ of Public Welfare, was the Cancer Society, and as a pro­ cent years. main speaker at the dedica­ fessional delegate attended James W. Nellen, '39, an tion of a new $1.6 million the recent annual meeting of orthopedic surgeon in Green addition to the Dane County the American Cancer Society Bay, recently took on more Hospital and Home. held in New York City. responsibilities by accepting the position as team physi­ Lucille B. Glicklisch, '50, Three Wisconsin gradu­ cian for the Green Bay Pack­ reports the recent birth of a ates were recently inducted ers professional foot b a 11 fourth child. But her activ­ as Fellows of the American team. Hope he keeps them ity is not limited to caring College of Surgeons at the in good physical condition for her family. She is medi­ San Francisco meeting in for next year's season. They cal director of the Cerebral San Francisco. They include: didn't do too badly this year Palsy Clinic in Milwaukee John D. Hurley, '52, Edwin -j.ust one more win was all and finds it very stimulating, H. Schalmo, '46, and Ray­ they needed. with a schedule leaving time mond R. Watson, '48 of Mil­ John A. Koepke, '56, who for husband and children. In waukee. has been practicing in Mil­ addition, she teaches pedi­ Dean A. Emanuel, '47, who waukee since interning atrics at Marquette Medical has been associated with the there, has joined the ranks School, a contact providing Marshfield Clinic in Wiscon­ of the teaching profession reseaTch sources. sin since 1958, was recently and accepted a position as Robert W. Edland, '56, a warded a substantial re­ Assistant Professor of Clin­ (Capt., Medical Corps, U.S. search grant by the National ical Pathology at the new Army) recently completed Institutes of Health in Wash­ University of Kentucky Med­ a three year residency in ington. The award provides ical School in Lexington. Radiology at Brooke General for the first year of a five­ George Arndt, '53, is very Hospital in San Antonio, year program involving ex­ enthusiastic about his new Texas. He and his family perimental investigation of position as Medical Director have been assigned to the "farmer's lung." of the Winnebago County U.S.A.H., Augsburg, Ger­ Lawrence 0. Lund has Guidance Center at Neenah, many where he will be in joined Frederick D. Cook, Wisconsin. He reports they charge of the Department of '47, as an anesthesiologist in would welcome visits from Radiology.

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Fqculty In the News of medicine at the University sities of Liverpool, Belfast, of Alexandria, Egypt. The Dublin, Wales and London h.cnneth Lemmer, Profes­ grant is provided under auE­ to lecture and viist their lab­ sor of Surgery, and Past­ pices of the U.S. Department oratories in connection with president of the Alumni As­ of State. Dr. Reese will serve his research program on the sociation, was recently re­ as an American Education placenta and reproductive elected to a third term of Exchange Professor. tract. He will also confer three years on the Board of with W . J. Hamilton, Char­ Governors of the American James A. Miller, Professor ing Cross Hospital, London College of Surgeons repre­ of Oncology, left December and J. Dixon Boyd, Profes­ senting the Central Surgical 9 for Geneva, Switzerland sor of Anatomy at Cam­ Assn. He attended the No­ to attend an Expert Commit­ bridge on a revision of their vember meeting in San Fran­ tee on Food Additives of the textbook on Human Embry­ cisco where he participated Food and Agricultural Or­ ganization and World Health ology. in the Board of Governors' Luther Albert, Director of Meeting. Organization, where repre­ sentatives from various coun­ the Animal Care Unit of the Harold Bradley, Emeritus tries will discuss the prob­ Medical Center, was recently Professor of Physiological lem of food additives on a named Wisconsin Veterinar­ Chemistry, who now makes world-wide basis. ian of the Year by the Wis­ his home in Berkeley, Cali­ consin V e t e r in a r y Medi­ fornia, was a visitor to the Seymour Crepea, Associ­ cine Association. The award Medical Center in Novem­ ate Professor of Medicine, honored him in recognition ber. He was in town to visit has accepted a position as of his efforts in establishing his family and reports them Medical Director and Re­ and administering the Ani­ spread across the United search Director of the Sahu­ mal Care Center at the Med­ States and Europe. David, a are School for Asthmatic ical School in its research Wisconsin alumnus who re­ Children in Tucson, Arizona. program. ceived his M.D. degree from Dr. Crepea, who joined the The University of Wiscon­ Harvard, is now teaching staff of the Department of sin Press announces that Dr. English literaure and Ameri­ Medicine January 1, 1950 Paul F. Clark's history of can Thought at the Univer­ and has headed the Allergy early American microbiology sity of Helsinki, Finland. Dr. Clinic since then, began his is now off the press. Entitled Bradley has continued his new duties the end of the "Pioneer Microbioligists of interest in Conservation and first semester. America," the book authori­ last spring was invited by Robert E. Parks, Jr., tatively summarizes the con­ the Thai Government to visit Markle Scholar and Associ­ tributions of the early seek­ Thailand and aid in the de­ ate Professor, Department of ers, discoveries and achieve­ velopment of a National ments which established the Park System. Pharmacology and Toxicol­ ogy, will study at the Karo­ framework of the many Hans H. Reese, Professor linske Institute in Sweden branches of microbiology of of Neurology, has been under a George I. Haight today. Dr. Clark, Emeritus awarded a Fulbright Foun­ Fellowship. Professor of Medical Micro­ dation Fellowship to lecture biology, has spent a lifetime on medical science in the Harland W. Mossman, in the field and has known areas of Neurology and Psy­ Professor of Anatomy, has personally many of the men chiatry and the general field been invited by the Univer- about whom he writes.

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