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School of Medicine, the Augusta At the annual meeting of the Campaign, the beginning of a MCG Foundation Trustees at Jekyll campaign in Albany, election of Island on April 10, we reported new alumni officers, and a number that the total assets of the of other events indicate just how Foundation as of March 1, 1976 much change and growth continue amounted to $1,216,158. This is an the assets at MCG. increase of $473,325 over The College is fortunate to have reported one year ago. obtained the services of Dr. Total gifts and pledges received Fairfield Goodale as the Dean of in the Campaign as of April 5, 1976 the School of Medicine and amounted to $1,070,226. Alumni Medical Director of the Hospital have reached $348,499 toward and Clinics. He and his wife, Mary their $700,000 goal. Margaret, have met many alumni All friends of the Medical during the Jekyll Island MCG College join me in expressing deep meeting and at the recent Albany appreciation to Mr. Charles Regional Dinner meeting. Presley and his Augusta Steering We enjoyed having them Committee for the fine job they did with us at the Rome Regional in helping us raise nearly $400,000 Dinner on May 26 and at many in Augusta. other alumni events yet to be As of this writing, we have just announced. kicked-off the Campaign effort in Dr. Floyd Jarrell is to be the Albany area with real vigor. commended by all for the Drs. Robert Waller, Joe Berg, Bill exceedingly fine job he did as Lowery, Frank McKemie, Zeb President of the Alumni McDaniel and Dan Batemen are Association last year. It's good to leading out in the alumni phase of know he will continue on the this Campaign with a $75,000 goal. Board of Managers and that he also President's Advisory Council continues his term of office as a member, John T. Phillips, Trustee of the Foundation. We look Chairman of the Board of the forward to working with Dr. Lilliston Corporation, is heading Woodrow Goss of Ashburn as we up the effort in the non-medical continue the exciting and community. Similar programs revitalized programs of the have been started in Columbus Alumni Association. Dr. Goss has and Rome. announced as one of his goals, In the interest of promoting the 1,000 paid members in the Alumni Sesquicentennial Campaign, Dr. Association by the end of his term. Frank McKemie, at a recent The Division of Institutional breakfast meeting in Albany, Relations staff pledges to assist him quoted the following from the in achieving this goal. I wish to Hippocratic Oath, . "TO express appreciation to the School RECKON HIM WHO TAUGHT of Medicine Alumni Association ME THIS ART EQUALLY DEAR for the generous grants to the TO ME AS MY PARENTS »TO Sesquicentennial Endowment SHARE MY SUBSTANCE WITH Fund designated for the HIM •& RELIEVE HIS Sydenstricker Professorship Fund NECESSITIES IF REQUIRED. and the Edgar R. Pund Pathology We are grateful for our loyal Fund. alumni who endeavor to make MCG greater each year. 2 Table of Contents Alumni House is Assured 5 Dr. Richard Torpin Remembered 6 'Pivotal Research' by Dr. Ahlquist is Having Profound Scientific Effects 8 Dr. Goodale Assumes Duties as Dean of the School of Medicine 9 Greater Understanding Evolves Through Community Dentistry 10 On Campus 12 Anatomy Teaching is Increasingly Handicapped by a Lack of Cadavers 13 An Outstanding Family Practitioner Elected President of Alumni Association 13 Alumni News 14 School of Medicine Alumni Association Members 18 Spring, 1976 Volume 5, Number 2 MCG Today is published quarterly for alumni and friends by the Medical College of Georgia, Division of Institutional Rela- tions. Correspondence is invited and may be addressed to 1120 Fifteenth Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901. Second Class postage paid in Augusta, Georgia. Editor-in-chief James C. Austin Editor Alex H. Vaughn Contributing Editors Garon Hart Susan Martin Julie Sechler Kay Hanson Dia Lee Classnotes Editors Mary Glennan (Medical Record Adminis- tration); Jessie O. Brown (Dental Hygiene); Octavia Garlington (Medical Illustration); Susan Martin (Medicine); Susan McCord (Radiologic Technology); Mary Thomoson (Nursing); Ruth Winningham (Medical Technology). Dr. Richard Torpin Remembered EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Richard With the death of Dr. Richard first year as head of the Depart- Torpin, professor emeritus of Torpin the Medical College of ment of Obstetrics and Gynecology obstetrics and gynecology, died Georgia lost another member of at the University of Shiraz in Iran. February 6 at the age of 85. Dr. "the old guard." His tenure began He then returned to Augusta and Torpin was with the Medical Col- in the lean days of the Depression, the Medical College in an emeritus lege for 22 years, serving as chair- and he lived to see the institution position to continue many of his man of the Department of expand in numbers and budget in activities which had made him Obstetrics and Gynecology from an unprecedented manner. one of those unusual members of July, 1936 until his retirement in Dr. Torpin was born in Oakdale, the faculty in the history of the 1958. Nebraska in 1891. He received a Medical College. In the following article, Dorothy Bachelor of Arts degree from As a teacher, he had been H. Mims, associate professor, MCG Nebraska Wesleyan College in dynamic and demanding. To give Library, and a friend of Dr. Torpin, 1913, a Bachelor of Science degree the students and residents addi- recalls his accomplishments. from the University of Chicago in tional training in obstetrics, he 1915 and his M.D. degree from had, around 1940, organized "The Rush Medical College in 1917. He Stork Club." Not a night club in served in the U.S. Army Medical the sense of the other institution by Corps during 1918 and 1919. After that name, it was a new way of giv- seven years of rural practice in his ing medical care which benefitted native area, he returned to Rush, both students and patients. At a where he was on the clinical time when many babies were faculty from 1931 to 1936. He came delivered at home by midwives to the Medical College of Georgia because families could not afford in 1936 as professor of Obstetrics hospital and medical costs, Dr. and Gynecology, serving as head Torpin arranged to have patients of the department until reaching brought into a clinic in the old the manadatory age for retirement Newton Building (which stood in 1958. In his typical dynamic near the present site of the new fashion, Dr. Torpin did not go off University Hospital.) There deliv- to fish and meditate. He spent his ery was accomplished under far more satisfactory conditions than found the amputated part embed- produced a number of devices and those encountered in the home, ded in the placenta. Although instruments for the facilitation of and students were able to partici- others had made scattered reports his art. Among these were models pate under teaching conditions. of such cases in the literature, he for teaching and illustration and a Mothers and babies were kept was the first to do an exhaustive number of instruments which there until it was determined that search of the literature and bring it were in use for many years. The in- there were no complications.