±^ Connecticut Daily Campus Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXIX, NO. 131 STORRS. CONNFCTICUT MONDAY. JUNE 7, 1965 University Laments Death of Medical 2400 Receive Degrees Today, School Dean Stowe Waugh To Deliver Address Dr. Lyman Maynard Stowe, 51, Some 2,400 students at the Uni- other 710 students expect to re- who died Wednesday at Hartford versity of Connecticut are candi- ceive graduate degrees. Hospital was the first dean of dates for degrees and certificates In addition to the undergraduate the University of Connecticut's to be awarded at UConn's 82nd degrees, UConn will award 42 Medical School. The Hartford na- annual Commencement here today certificates to graduates of the tive returned here to accept this at 11 a.m. in Memorial Stadium. post In 1963 from Palo Alto, Cal- two-year Ratcllffe- Hicks School of if., where he had been associate The 1965 degree total is expec- Agriculture and 57 L.I.B.'s to ted to top by some 4 per cent graduates of the School of Law. dean of the Stanford University the 1964 figure and represents Other advanced degrees Include: School of Medicine. new highs at both the graduate A record 85 doctors of philosophy; Dr. Homer D. Babbidge Jr., pres- and undergraduate levels. ident of the University of Connec- about 268 master's of arts; about More than 10,000 spectators and 213 master's of science; 36 mas- ticut, said today, "I am griev- degree recipients are exDected ter's of business administration; ously shocked by the untimely to attend the colorful exercises and 51 master's of social work. death of Lyman Stowe. He was a which are being held on a week- man of extraordinary ability and Among the undergraduate degree day for the first time In a quar- recipients, 16 will graduate as integrity and his death comes as ter century. The Commencement University Scholars, the highest a severe blow to his friends and Address will be delivered by colleagues. Dr. Stowe made Im- academic honor accorded by the Provost Albert E. Waugh. Gov. University. Twenty-one students pressive contributions to the ad- John Dempsey also plans to at- will graduate with distinction. vancement of medical education C tend the UConn graduation. and it should be a source of so'.- In the morning, some 104 Army Mrs. Margaret Seeler, a designer-craftsman, shows University of This year's overall graduation and Air Force ROTC Cadets will ace to his family and friends Connecticut President Homer D. Babbldge Jr. a colorful new silver- figure exceeds by about 100 the that the school of medicine at the receive their commissions as se- enameled ceremonial medallion to be worn Commencement Day. previous record set in 1964. Some cond lieutenants. In the event of University of Connecticut will in Looking on (center) is Evan Kullgren, Columbia, a retired silversmith 1,648 students are candidates for inclement weather, exercises will a very real sense be a lasting who helped Mrs. Seeler. undergraduate degrees while an- memorial to him." be held in the Field House. Governor Dempsey said today he was "shocked" to learn of the sudden death of Dr. Stowe. "Those of us who knew him in Pres. Babbidge Wears New the short period he was In Con- necticut found this to be a sin- Silver Medallion Today cere dedicated individual whose one goal was to make our med- New color will be added to Com- mounted on silver to form a pen- ical dental school the best In the mencement at the University of dant. The chain will sit on Pres- country." Connecticut this year with the ac- ident Homer D. Babbidge Jr.'s * * * quisition of a handsome sterling shoulders when he officiates to- A graduate of Loomis School sliver chain for the President's day at the University's 82nd An- In Windsor and Yale, Dr. Stowe ceremonial medallion. nual Commencement. had a background of 24 years Fashioned by designer-crafts- Mrs. Seeler was assisted in her In medical education. man Margaret Seeler, Good Hill handicraft by Evan Kullgren, a After his graduation from Yale Rd., Weston, the chain's Individual retired silversmith from Colum- School of Medicine in 1938, he links represent the several col- bia who is a member of the Con- did postgraduate work at Jersey leges and schools. They are joined necticut Society of Craftsmen. City Medical Center and at New together to support the medallion, The medallion, which embodies Haven Hospital. He became a which in turn, symbolizes the U- the seal of the University, was teaching fellow In 1941 in ob- nlversity as a whole. presented to UConn by Interna- stetrics and gynecology at the The links were executed in gold tional Silver Co. of Meriden and University of Minnesota hospi- cloissonne and colored enamels used for the first time last year. tals. He was with the University of Minnesota until 1944 when he was called into the Navy where he John Patterson Named Acting served as a lieutenant. Upon leaving the Navy In 1946 he returned to Minnesota as a Dean of UConn Medical School senior fellow for one year, then accepted a post as instructor In Dr. John W. Patterson, a mem- staff, he had been dean of med- obstetrics and gynecology at Yale ber of the planning team of the icine and professor of anatomy School of Medicine. University of Connecticut Medi- at the new medical school at the • ♦ * cal School, has been named acting University of British Columbia Dr. Stowe joined the Stanford dean of the Medical school by In Vancouver. And from 1952-56 medical faculty two years later President Homer D. Babbldge. he was associate dean of medical as an assistant professor and be- Dr. Patterson, whose most re- education at Western Reserve U- came an associate professor In cent post at Vanderbilt was as nlverslty during the period when 1955. His energies were spent professor of physiology, served as that institution was developing a heavily in administrative matters vice chancellor of the Nashville, new medical education program. and he was responsible for edu- Tenn. institution from 1959-62 and Dr. Patterson received his bach- cational research, curriculum de- was dean of the medical school elor's degree from Ohio Wesleyan velopment, and admission at Stan- from 1958-62. University In 1939, and was a- Helping Mother, Mrs. Laura Pope of Slmsbury for her big day from ford. A native of Baldwin, Kan., the warded master's and Ph.D. de- left (standing) are son, Frank; Dad, Marvin; and daughter, Frances. At the time of his death Dr. 48 year old physician-scientist grees from Ohio State in 1941 Seated from left are sons James and Robert. Stowe was also a consultant and is especially familiar with the and 1942, respectively. He re- adviser to the universities of Wis- problems related to medical school ceived his M.D. degree from West- consin British Columbia, Kansas, development. ern Reserve in 1949, after having Continued to P. 13 Col. 3 Before joining the Vanderbilt been an Instructor there for two years. Mother of Four Receives Dr. Lyman M. Stowe He began his academic career Dr. John Patterson as a chemistry instructor at the University of Vermont in 1942. UConn Law Degree Today Dr. Patterson's research inter- ests have focused on the eye, A yen for legal training, sparked necticut Milk Consumers' Assn. with stress on the cataract de- by an encounter with the State's (CMC*), Inc., she had participated velopmental machanlsm of the "milk Industry" in 1957, will be in a number of Legislative and lens. He has also done work on satisfied today for an energetic Congressional hearings. experimental diabetes and writ- Simsbury mother of four. "The CMCA was instrumental," ten articles on spectroscopy. The mother, Mrs. Laura Pope, she says with a trace of pride," He is a member of the Ameri- will receive her law degree at the In the legalization of half gallon can Chemical Society, the Asso- University's 82nd Annual Com- and gallon glass containers for ciation of Research Ophthalmol- mencement here in Memorial Sta- milk which brought savings to Con- ogy, the American Association for dium. necticut housewives." the Advancement of Science, the Interviewed on the eve of grad- Her "baptism" in milk economics American Association of Ana- uation, Mrs. Pope, an attractive led to her appointment as a mem- tomists, the Society for Exper- 38-year-old brunette, took a mo- ber of the Advisory Committee on imental Biology and Medicine, the ment to recap the circumstances Milk and Dairy Products in 1960. American Diabetes Assn., The So- which led her to embark on a Today, Mrs. Pope Is one of two ciety of Sigma XI, Phi Beta Kap- three-year law program at a time consumer-members on this na- pa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Lam- when her youngest child was Just tional committee which meets at bda Upsllon, Sigma Pi Sigma, and entering Grade 2. the call of the U.S. Secretary of Phi Mu Epsllon. "Matching wits with the milk in- Agriculture. Dr. Patterson is married to the dustry," she confides, "first stim- Asked what her law school train- former Margaretta Crawford, also ulated a desire for more training." ing has meant to her, this student Continued to P, 13 Col. 1 As a "fact-finder" for the Con- Continued to P. 14 Col. 1-2 MONDAY. JUNE 7, 1965 PAGE TWO CONNECTICUT DAILY CAMPUS Letters to the Graduates Connecticut ship, Intellectual excitement and ahead to the future, we must real- learning. Some of you are going ize our responsibility to act upon, DdHy CdlTipUS •<« Open Letter off to graduate school, some to our knowledge and increased per- Jobs, and some to the armed For- spectives, In an effort to help others, and to improve the com- I extend my hearty congratula- ces, but I am sure all of you must be thinking over your recent years munity in which we live.