DMSCO Log Book Vol.39 3-12/1961

THE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE & SURGERY

SQUIBB GIVES NOF $2,500Plan To Improve

FundamentalsCourse

A plan to improve the practical applica-tion of osteopathic procedures and tech-niques, as taught in the freshmen andsophomore classes, has been announced byDr. Byron Laycock, head of the departmentof Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

In reiterating a national observation Dr.Laycock said, "Our College is known thecountry over as one of the strongest if notthe strongest college of osteopathic medicinefrom the standpoint of faculty, clinic andthe teaching of basic sciences and clinicalsubjects in general, and the practical as-pects of patient management and osteopa-thic manipulation techniques specifically."

Dr. Laycock said that in an attempt to fur-ther improve the status of patient manage-ment and manipulation procedures, addi-tional clinical faculty ideas and assistancein the clinic and in the technique laboratoryare being investigated.

Members of the clinical staff are takingturns in the technique laboratory to teachthe application of specific techniques to thestudents. "We feel that the results of suchinstruction will show in the improved skillsof our students," Dr. Laycock said.

Participating clinical sta members inlclude:Dermatological Clinic: Dr. Harry B. Elmets.General Clinic: Dr. E. John Ware.Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat: Drs. Fergus

Mayer and Verne J. Wilson.Internal Medicine: Drs. Milton J. Dakovich,

Sanford S. Herr, Donald J. Kay, J. R.McNerney and William B. Strong.

Pathology: Drs. Lloyd W. Ficke and JohnH. Seibert.

Pediatrics: Drs. Gerald J. Hohn and MyronS. Magen.

Psychiatry: Drs. Erle Fitz and Harold E.Higley.

Surgery: Drs. Edward F. Leininger, BryceWilson and Ronald K. Woods.

Grant For Post Graduate Proqram To COMS

Howard W. Baldock, right, direc-tor of medical relations for E. R.Squibb and Sons, presents a checkfor $2,500 to the National Osteo-pathic Foundation for use in apilot study on providing post-graduate education to D.O.s inpractice. Receiving the check isDr. Merlyn McLaughlin, presidentof the College of Osteopathic Medi-cine and Surgery at Des Moines,which will direct the experimentalprogram. Looking on is Dr. TrueB. Eveleth of Chicago, secretaryof the foundation.

Straight "A"Two Sophomore students, Class of '63,

have attained outstanding academic recordsfor the first semester of school year 1960-61.

Right: Joseph B. Doctor, son of Joseph F.Doctor, 93 Somerton Ave., Kenmore, NewYork. Doctor attended Grover ClevelandHigh School in Buffalo, N. Y., and theUniversity of Buffalo, from which he wasgraduated with a B.A. in 1958.

Left: Robert C. Kapanjie, son of Mrs.Matilda M. Kapanjie, 119 Sheridan Ave.,Clifton, New Jersey. Kapanjie, a graduateof Clifton High School, received a B.S. withhonors from Rutgers University, College ofPharmacy, in 1958.

MIAMI BEACH-A $2,500 grant to theNational Osteopathic Foundation from E. R.Squibb and Sons will make possible a pilotstudy on a new approach to postgraduateosteopathic education, announced Dr. TrueB. Eveleth of Chicago, foundation secretaryand AOA executive director.

The grant will finance a program to becarried out by the College of OsteopathicMedicine and Surgery at Des Moines, Dr.Eveleth said.

Under the experimental plan, the collegewill provide accredited post-graduate educa-tion to doctors in practice by holding pro-grams in Iowa districts or neighboring divi-sional society locations. Thus, the facultywill travel to the doctors, rather than hav-ing the doctors go to the college, said Dr.Eveleth.

Subjects to be taught would be determinedin advance by the desires of the doctorsplanning to register for the training. Thecollege will solicit these requests in the nearfuture and will plan the programming, ac-cording to Dr. Merlyn McLaughlin, presidentof COMS.

By utilizing full-time college facultymembers, the program can be operated onan expenses-only basis, thus providing amaximum program at minimum cost, saidDr. Eveleth.

HOMECOMING-JUNE 1, 2, 1961Postdoctoral Course: "Recent Advances In Medicine and Surgery"

Reception and BanquetClasses to be honored: 1901-06-11-16-21-26-31-36-41-46-51-56 and 1961

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Alumn I Meet

Seated at the head table were, left to right: Dr. Stan J. Sul- C.O.M.S.; Dr. W. Clemens Andreen, '33, Wyandotte, Michigan,

kowski, '48, Kansas City, Missouri, delegate at large and newly president of the alumni association; Mrs. Campbell A. Ward, pres-

elected secretary-treasurer of the alumni association; Dr. Charles ident of the Auxiliary to the American Osteopathic Association;

L. Naylor, '33, Ravenna, Ohio, president-elect of the American and Dr. Campbell A. Ward, '27, Mount Clemens, Michigan, trustee

Osteopathic Association and immediate past president of the alumni of the American Osteopathic Association. Dr. McLaughlin was the

association; Mrs. Naylor; Dr. Merlyn McLaughlin, president of featured speaker at the meeting.

One hundred alumni and guests gatheredat the Deauville Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida,on Wednesday, January 25, 1961, to hear a"State of the College" message from Dr.Merlyn McLaughlin, president of C.O.M.S

In his message, Dr. McLaughlin reviewedthe status of the request to the Urban Re-newal Board for 25 acres of land on whichto build a new institution (see January issueof the Log Book) and the conferences thathe and members of the Board of Trusteeshave had with the Appeals Review Board ofthe Chamber of Commerce relative to afund drive in Des Moines. "Both of thesesituations look very favorable at this time,"stated Dr. McLaughlin.

In continuing his comprehensive report,Dr. McLaughlin made the following state-ments:

1. The number of accepted student appli-cants is ahead of last year at this time.

2. Faculty recruiting is and will continueto be a priority item.

3. O.P.F. is greater than it was this timelast year.

4. We are setting up more Postdoctoralcourses.

5. Our general clinic is progressing aDermatological Clinic and a Metabolic Dis-eases Clinic have been established. A Gas-trointestinal Clinic will soon be established.

6. An Educational Policies Committee hasbeen established and is functioning veryeffectively.

7. As usual, there are budget problems,but the Finance Committee of the Board ofTrustees feels that these can be resolved.

8. More members needed in the AlumniClub Plan program.

In closing, President McLaughlin stated,"Alumni everywhere can be of great serviceto the College by helping us recruit out-standing students and faculty. We welcometheir cooperation."

Dr. W. Clemens Andreen, '35, Wyandotte,Michigan, president of the National AlumniAssociation, presided at the meeting.

Dr. Donald T. Leigh, '39, Coral Gables,Florida, was in charge of local arrange-ments.

Postdoctoral CourseThe College of Osteopathic Medicine and

Surgery is prepared to offer to properlyqualified Osteopathic Physicians in the Stateof Iowa a Postdoctoral course in Surgeryfor the General Practitioner. The course isorganized in such manner that it may bepresented in several different localities inIowa, depending upon local demand.

The first course will begin on March 4and 5 at the Y.M.C.A. in Sioux City. Dr.Kenneth L. Clayton of Spirit Lake is incharge of arrangements.

The second course will begin on March18 and 19 at the College in Des Moines.Dr. Henry J. Braunschweig, 1836 East Uni-versity Avenue, is in charge of arrange-ments.

A total of 400 clock hours of postdoctoralcredit may be earned as indicated in thefollowing table:

Area of StudyPathologySurgical Diagnosis

and TechniqueRoentgenologySurgical AnatomyNeuroanatomyBiochemistryPhysiologyPharmacologyAnesthesiology

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bal 100Description: The course is designed to covera period of nine (9) months, and is com-prised of 9 monthly sessions. Each sessionoccurs on a week end (Saturday afternoon4 hours, and Sunday 7 hours).The Basic theme of the program is Surgery,

covering the fields of Urology, E.E.N.T.Orthopedic Surgery, Neurosurgery, Cardio-vascular Surgery, and General Surgery, Ob-stetrics and Gynecology, and involves aconsideration of the principles of the under-lying basic medical sciences. A team of

Student CouncilThe Student Council has started the sec-

ond semester with various new projects.One is the weekly bowling activity which

takes place at Plaza Lanes and enables anystudent to bowl at reduced rates for a ten-week period. James Grekin, junior, fromDetroit, is in charge of this function super-vised by the Council. Basketball continuesweekly (every Wednesday) at Willkie House.

Another project undertaken is to developa class ring for our students. The designhas been accepted by the various classesand orders can be placed soon.

The Student Council sponsored a repre-sentative Ed Blumberg, senior from Detroit,to the National Convention held at MiamiBeach in January. He attended the conven-tion as chairman of the committee whichdeals with Student A. O. A. activities atC. O. M. S.

Four new members have been elected tothe council by the Freshman class. Theyare: Grant Born, George Gustavson, PatMcClellan, and Harold Steinbaum.

instructors will present each individual pro-gram.

Prior to each session, an outline of thepresentation shall be provided to each doc-tor enrolled.

A formal final comprehensive examina-tion shall be passed before credit can beallowed and a certificate issued.

Attendance. At least 80% attendanceshall be maintained for credit (8 sessionsout of 9).

Eligibility. An acceptable candidate shallbe a graduate of an approved college ofosteopathy, and shall be currently a mem-ber of his state society and of the AmericanOsteopathic Association.

Tuition: $150.00 payable with application.For enrollments under 20, tuition will beprorated upward.

Preliminary arrangements for presenta-tion of the course in any district of theState may be made by contacting the Dean.

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Board Memberof the Month

When Karl B. Greenlee became a memberof the Board of Trustees for the Collegeof Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in1958, he was well acquainted with the fieldof osteopathy having served as administra-

tor for the Wilden Osteopathic Hospital inDes Moines since 1946. This backgroundof experience has made him an invaluablemember and, presently, secretary of theBoard.

Serving as the administrator of a hospitalwould be enough for the average person,but Karl Greenlee takes such duties in hisstride along with many other activitiesincluding the presidency of Hopkins Sport-ing Goods, Inc., of Des Moines. When onelistens to his soft, pleasant voice and ob-serves his calm manner, he senses that hereis a man who "gets things done with littlefuss."

Soon after his birth in Lineville, Iowa,Mr. Greenlee's family moved to Des Moineswhere he has since made his home. He isa graduate of East High School, Iowa StateUniversity where he received a B.S. degree,and the University of Iowa where he wasawarded the M.A. degree. He later studiedadvanced courses for two summer terms atColumbia University, New York.

In 1929, Mr. Greenlee married ChristineCorbett, a Des Moines girl and graduateof Drake University. They have no children.

Interested in the educational field andathletics, Mr. Greenlee served as coach inthe Humboldt, Iowa, schools for one year,then transferred to the Des Moines schoolsystem where he taught boys' physical edu-cation for ten years. He then was appointedvice-principal for the Woodrow WilsonJunior High School and remained in thatposition for ten years. During this timehe served a term as president of the IowaPhysical Education Association.

In 1942, Mr. Greenlee left the teachingfield to enter military service and was com-

missioned a Lt. Colonel in the United StatesAir Force. He was stationed in the Euro-pean theater. After his discharge, fouryears later, he was offered his present posi-tion as hospital administrator.

Mr. Greenlee is a member of Phi DeltaKappa, the American College of HospitalAdministrators and the Air Force ReserveAssociation. He is also the president-electof the American Osteopathic Hospital Asso-ciation. He was elected as a member ofthe Board of Directors for the Greater DesMoines Chamber of Commerce, as Chairmanof the Des Moines Civil Service Commissionand as a member of the Advisory Councilfor the Iowa Air Force Reserve Center.

In spite of these many activities, Mr.Greenlee finds time to indulge in his favoritehobbies-fishing and hunting. "Twenty-fiveyears ago," he said, "I built my own cabinin Minnesota-just south of the Canadianline-and when I want to relax, that's whereI go."

Mr. Greenlee is a member of the Methodistchurch and holds active memberships inthe Des Moines Chamber of Commerce, EastDes Moines Club, Des Moines Club, LeeMen Index, Hi-12 and the Reserve OfficersAssociation. He is a member of the MasonicLodge, the Consistory and Shrine.

"500" Club MemberThe College of Osteopathic Medicine &

Surgery is pleased to announce the additionof a new member to our "500" Club. Thismeans that the new member contributes$500.00 to the collPepe eaeh vToar

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Ellerbroek AppointedPaul N. Ellerbroek, Des Moines, has been

appointed as Assistant to the President forthe College of Osteo-pathic Medicine andSurgery, Dr. MerlynMcLaughlin, presi-dent of the college,announced Feb. 20th.

E 11 e r broek, for-merly from Sheldon,Iowa, attended theArt Institute in Chi-cago and later en-rolled at the Uni-versity of Iowawhere he received aB. A. degree. -He isa member of the

a- .....- TDelta Upsilon fra-ternity. Following his graduation he at-tended Drake University for advancedstudy.

He was an instructor in English and Artat the Washington Irving Junior and Lin-coln High Schools in Des Moines. InMarch 1958, he was appointed Superintend-ent of Parks for the Polk County Conser-vation Board and served in that office un-til his resignation in February. He is alsopresident of the Izaak Walton League.

Mr. and Mrs. Ellerbroek are the parentsof one daughter, aged 14 months, and aremembers of the Immanuel Methodist Churchin Des Moines.

President Represents U. S.Dr. Merlyn McLaughlin, president of

C.O.M.S. flew to Paris, France, where heserved as the United States Representativeto the International Commission of Aero-space Education meetings held on February13 and 14.

The Commission of Aerospace Educationis one of the several commissions whichmake up the Federation Aeronautique In-ternationale. This organization is comprisedof official representatives from forty-eightnations. One-half of the member nationsare now promoting aerospace education pro-grams in their public schools.

Dr. McLaughlin is also serving as vice-president of the Commission of AerospaceEducation whose purpose is to promote in-ternational understanding through the ex-change of aerospace education books andmaterials, and by encouraging the exchangeof teachers and students between membernations.

Dr. MiroyiannisThe chairman of the Department of An-

atomy, Dr. Stanley D. Miroyiannis, hasbeen invited to become a Consultant to theNational Scientific Bureau's ConsultationService. His letter, dated Jan. 24, 1961,reads as follows:

"The United States Air Force has askedthe National Scientific Bureau to identifyinnovators and 'problem solvers' and torecruit such individuals for special purpose.Your excellent qualifications lead us toselect and identify you as an innovativeindividual and a 'problem solver'. So, thisis our invitation to you to participate asa Consultant to our Consulting Service."

CalendarEaster Vacation.. .March 30-April 4, Inc.Pacemaker Ball ............ April 8(Fort Des Moines Hotel)Public Health Banquet.........April 10(Savery Hotel)Homecoming . .............. June 1-2Reception and Banquet.. ..... June 1Graduation .................. .June 2-- .

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Auxi iaryNine hundred dollars was raised at the

15th Annual College Benefit Ball sponsoredby the Auxiliary to the Polk County Societyof Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, Feb-ruary 4, at the Savery Hotel in Des Moines.

Proceeds will go to the College of Osteo-pathic Medicine and Surgery.

Mrs. Myron S. Magen, general chairman,was assisted by Mesdames Gerald Hohn andLee Ghormley (prizes committee), DonaldKay (decorations), Richard Kotz and J. R.McNerney (ticket sales, Robert Weissinger(publicity), Henry J. Braunschweig (reser-vations), and Milton J. Dakovich and JohnP. Schwartz, Jr (decorations).

Mrs. Ralph A. Gaudio is president of theAuxiliary.

Holds 15th Benefit Ball

Standing left to right: Mesdames Ralph A. Gaudio, Henry J. Braunschweig, Gerald l.

Hohn, J. R. McNerney, and Robert F. Weissinger.Seated, left to right: Mesdames Richard I. Kotz, Milton J. Dakovich, Lee Ghormley

and Myron S. Magen.

Dr. Jean '. LeRoque (seated lett), presi-dent of the Iowa Society of OsteopathicPhysicians & Surgeons, visits with guestsof the Auxiliary during intermission. Stand-ing (left to right) William F. Denman andRay Hanrahan, state representatives fromPolk County and Dr. Edmund G. Zimmerer(seated) Commissioner of Health, State ofIowa.

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Des Moines and West Des Moines drug-gists talk shop during intermission. Leftto right: James Keeler, Triangle Drug; JohnWhitaker, Whitaker Drug; Charles Vanden-burg, Vandenburg Drug (West Des Moines);and Everett Westphal, Park Ave. Drug.

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ALL TIME RECORD INCHRISTMAS SEAL DRIVE

The 1960-61 Christmas Seal Drive was anoverwhelrming success at CObMS. So fEarmore than $1700.00 has been recorded-almost $1000.00 more than any previousyear's drive! Sigma Sigma Phi, HonoraryService Fraternity, was in charge of thedrive.

Wednesday, May 31

7:00 p.m. Student Wives Club BanquetDes Moines Golf and Country Club

Thursday, June 1Hotel Savery

9:00 a.m.6:30 p.m.7:30 p.m.

Postdoctoral Course - Des Moines RoomReception -Des Moines RoomBanquet- Terrace Room

Friday, June 2

9:00 a.m. Postdoctoral Course- Des Moines Room - Hotel Savery8:00p.m. Graduation- North High School

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From lett: Kaymond Failer, 'Z, 'lint MieVnc.;Eugene Rongaus, '62, Donora, Pa.; and TomChambers, '62, Owensboro, Ky. Rongausand Chambers served as co-chairmen of theseal drive.

FACULTY WIVES PROVIDENAME PLATE

"THANK YOU, FACULTY WIVESCLUB!" . . . this comes from the entirestaff for providing our college hospital withits brand new name plate.

When the Board of Trustees for theC.O.M.S. agreed to rename the hospital theCOLLEGE HOSPITAL, the Faculty WivesClub immediately made plans to secure aproper sign. Through the cooperation ofMarion E. Wallace, a member of the Boardof Trustees, the Stoner-McCray Systemmade and installed the new name plateon the front of the hospital building earlyin March.

This is but one of the many fine thingsthe Faculty Wives Club has given the col-lege to aid in the progress we are making.Our institution is most grateful for thesupport from each of the members.

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POSTDOCTORAL COURSECARDIOPULMONARY DISEASE

June 1, 1961

MorningExpanding Horizons in Pulmonary Disease ...... William B. Strong, D.O.

A Consideration of Ventilation Studies ........ William F. Hewitt, Ph.D.IntermissionMiddle Airway Obstruction ...................... Donald J. Evans, D.O.

(Bronchogenic Carcinoma)Radiologic Observationsin Respiratory Obstructions ................... Charles J. Karibo, D.O.Lunch

AfternoonBronchiectasis and Lung AbcessIts Diagnosis and Management .................. .onald J. Evans, D.u.Radiologic Study of the Infected Lung ......... Charles J. Karibo, D.OAIntermissionManagement of the Pulmonary Infectionn........ Byron E. Laycock, D.O.The Cardiac and Pulmonary Neuroses ............ Harold E. Higley, D.O.

June 2, 1961

MorningEarly Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease.....Myron S. Magen, D.O.Chamber Radiographyand Cardiac Catheterization .................... Charles J. Karibo, D.O.IntermissionE.K.G. Studies in Congenital Heart Disease.... Stuart F. Harkness, D.O.Repair of Septal Defectsand Commissuratomy.......................... Donald E. Evans, D.O.Lunch

Afternoon1:00 - 1:40 Radiologic Studies in Acquired Heart Disease....Charles J. Karibo, D.O.1:40 - 2:20 The Impact of Structure and Posture

in Heart Disease ................................... . M. Korr, Ph.D.2:20 - 2:30 Intermission2:30- 3:10 Panel Discussion-Diagnostic and Therapeutic Problems in Heart Dissea

Moderator -Dr. William B. StrongPanel Members- Drs. Evans, Harkness, Kaiibo, and Korr.

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BOARD MEMBEROF THE MONTH

"PLA-A-Y BALL!!"Those words have been like music to the

ears of John R. Astley-a member andfinancial advisor of the Board of Trusteesfor the College ever since he was a boyand pitched for the neighborhood sandlotball team. Mr. Astley has been, and stillis, a baseball enthusiast. In fact, he enteredhis present career as a banker via the "ballteam circuit".

Mr. Astley was born and raised in DesMoines. He graduated from North HighSchool where he starred in both footballand baseball, and then enrolled in DesMoines University where he received a B.A.degree. By this time his abilities as a base-ball player were well-known and he wassigned to play professionally for a teamsponsored by a bank. Several no-hit, no-run games were credited to his prowess asa pitcher.

Through contacts made during this timehe was invited to join the Iowa Loan andTrust Company. When the company laterdecided to liquidate, Mr. Astley joined theIowa State Banking Department for twoyears, after which he was employed by theContinental Bank and Trust Company untilthe company merged with the Valley Bankand Trust Company of Des Moines. Sincethat time he has been associated with ValleyBank and is now serving as a vice-presidentand completing thirty-one years of bankingexperience.

Chuckling, Mr. Astley recalls that whenhe was first invited to become a banker, aclose friend said, "Heck, John, you can'tbe a banker. Your handwriting is so pooryou can't sign a readable name!" (The

POSTDOCTORAL COURSEIN OREGON

The Oregon Osteopathic Association inCooperation with the College of OsteopathicMedicine and Surgery sponsored a Post-doctoral Course in Portland, Oregon, Feb-ruary 16 and 18. The theme of the coursewas "Recent Advances in Medicine and Sur-gery." Subjects covered included Cardio-logy, Renal Diseases, Gastrointestinal Dis-eases, Endocrinology, Orthopedics, Neurol-ogy and Athletic Injuries.

Appearing on the program from C.O.M.S.were Stuart F. Harkness, D.O., ClinicalProfessor in Osteopathic Medicine; WilliamF. Hewitt, Ph.D., Professor in Pharma-cology and Physiology; and Byron E. Lay-cock, D.O., Professor in Physical Medicineand Rehabilitation.

Certificates of attendance were awardedto 42 osteopathic physicians.

Dr. George L. Kemp '53, Assistant Direc-tor of Postdoctoral Education for Oregon,headed the postgraduate committee of thePortland Osteopathic Hospital that arrangedthe course.

friend is still inquiring as to his hiero-glyphic ability!)

Mr. Astley and a Des Moines girl, GladysM. DeLong, were married and had one son,Donald, who is now serving as a chemistfor the Firestone Company. Mrs. Astleypassed away in 1954. In 1957, Mr. Astleyand the former Hortense Kate Kauffmanwere united in marriage. "As a result ofthis marriage," Mr. Astley proudly said,"I acquired two step-daughters-twins-aged 15, and named Mary and Kate."

Mr. Astley is a member of the AmericanInstitute of Banking and is a past-presidentof the Iowa Mortgage Bankers Association.He is a member of the Board of Directorsand current Treasurer for the Iowa So-ciety for Crippled Children and Adults, andis also a member of the Board of Directorsof the Valley Bank and Trust Company. Heis presently serving an appointment as amember of the Board of Adjustment andReview for the City of Des: Moines .... -

Mr. Astley holds an active membershipin the Greater Des Moines Chamber ofCommerce, the Des Moines Club, the DesMoines Golf and Country Club, the EastDes Moines Club and the Za-Ga-Zig Shrine.He is a director of the Bohemian Club andduring the past year was awarded a 25-yearmembership button by the Des Moines Ki-wanis Club.

One might wonder how he would havetime for hobbies-until one talks to himand senses his zest for sports. It is onlynatural that his hobbies would include golf,fishing and bowling . . . and as a memberof the Kiwanis bowling team, he will com-pete in the 1961 state tournament.

His enthusiasm for his work and hob-bies extends to his interest in the Collegeof Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery. "Weare definitely taking big strides forward,"he says, "and I see fine things ahead forthe college. We have much to offer thepeople of Des Moines and Iowa -and eachday the realization of this fact grows moreapparent!"

Dr. John Seibert, Assistant Professor inPathology and Miss Sandra Jellinghaus, In-structor in Chemophysiology, prepare to doblood alcohol determinations. Results ofthese tests are used by law enforcementagencies in 16 Iowa Counties. The labora-tory is also equipped to do blood narcotics,barbiturates and other toxicological tests.

RED WINGS DIRECTORSAT CONVOCATION

The Detroit Red Wings, members of theNational Hockey League, were representedat a recent all-school convocation by theirgeneral manager, Jack Adams and CoachSid Abel. Abel is a former member of the"great production line", composed of hoc-key's immortals-Howe, Lindzey, and Abel.The students were informed the most pro-fessional athletic teams in the Detroit areautilize the services of osteopathic physicianstotally for the medical needs of their clubs,and that the Red Wings have had only oste-opathic physicians for many years.

Dr. Erle Fitz, of the Department of Psy-chiatry, COMS, who is Director of the Hawk-eye Hockey League and Coach of the DesMoines Capitols, arranged the visit withthese men whom he has known many years.

Left: Sid Abel, Red Wings Coach; Center,Dr. Erle Fitz; Right, Mr. Jack Adams, Gen-eral Manager of Red Wings.

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DR. MIROYIANNISLt. Col. Stanley D. Miroyiannis, Chairman

of the Department of Anatomy, C.O.M.S., hasrecently received notification of his appoint-ment as Section Chief of the Medical ServiceCorps, 5211 United States Army GarrisonUnit, at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Under hisdirection are the following units: MedicalCorps, Dental Corps, Nursing Corps, Vet-erinary Corps and Specialists Corp. His sec-tion is composed of thirty-seven high rank-ing officers and a number of enlisted menand women.

YEARBOOK CONVOCATIONThe third annual Yearbook Convocation was held on February 28, in the Moingona

Lodge Room of the Des Moines Consistory. This convocation is set aside for the dedica-tion of the yearbook, The Pacemaker, by the yearbook staff; for recognizing individualstudents and a fraternity for academic achievement by Psi Sigma Alpha (better knownas P.S.A.) honorary scholastic society; and for the presentation of the graduating classcomposite picture to the College.

Richard D. MacKay, third-year student from East Lansing, Michigan, presidentof the Student Council, presided over the convocation. Don Turner, member of theClass of '61, from Dayton, Ohio, co-editor of the 1961 Pacemaker represented the year-book staff and Psi Sigma Alpha (he is vice president of this society). Representing theClass of 1961 was Robert J. O'Neil, Sharon, Pennsylvania, class president.

FRESHMEN ELECT OFFICERSPresident-Frank O'Connor, Boston, Mass.Vice-pres.-Samuel Williams, Clinton, Iowa.Secretary-Richard Lane, Dallas, Texas.Treas.-Herbert Gearhart, Hopkinton, IowaStudent Council:Grant Born, Petoskey, Mich.George Gustavson, Gibralter, Mich.Harold Steinbaum, Jackson Heights, N. Y.Patrick McClellan, Los Angeles, California.

New freshmen class officers, first row,from left: Lane, Williams, O'Connor, Gear-hart. Standing, from left: Gustavson, Stein-baum, McClellan, Born.

STUDENT WIVES CLUBMiss Alvira Lunsford, Health Educator

of C.O.M.S. was the speaker at our Februarymeeting. Following a discussion on theduties and responsibilities of her depart-ment, pamphlets on osteopathy and publichealth were reviewed and discussed.

For our March meeting Mr. Don Solidayof KRNT Radio and Television fame showedhis movies on Russia and explained his manyexciting adventures while touring this for-eign country. A discussion period followed.

On March 21 the "Know Your Neighbor"panel, composed of women from centralIowa representing the various races, faiths,and national origins in the communityappeared before a joint meeting of our Cluband the Auxillary to the Iowa Society ofOsteopathic Physicians and Surgeons. Thismeeting was held in the Leon Smith Roomat the Y.M.C.A.

"The 1961 Pacemaker is dedicated toWilliam B. Strong, D.O. This name belongsto one of the exempliary men of our pro-fession. He has given wholly throughouthis career as a physician to the AmericanOsteopathic Association. He has given un-stintingly to bettering the best of profes-sions. He has given to all of us a part ofhis knowledge. Physician, executive, andeducator; we dedicate this book to you.Class of 1961. 9" With these words, DonTurner presented a complimentary copy ofthe Pacemaker to a very surprised Dr. Wil-liaw B. Strong, the medical director of theCollege.

Senior class president, Robert J. O'Neil,of Sharon, Pennsylvania, presents the seniorclass composite picture to President Mc-Laughlin. In making the presentation, Mr.O'Neil said, "Since we are the largestclass to graduate since 1.928, when theyhad 72 graduates, it is a pleasure forme to present to you, Dr. McLaughlin, thelargest composite picture in the history ofour college. We hope that this is the begin-ning of bigger and better classes to graduatefrom C.O.M.S." This composite picture willhang in the lower lobby of the College build-ing until the time of graduation of the classof 1962.

P.S.A. awards. Reading left to right.Third-year student, Stephan A. Fudell ofBrooklyn, New York, received the P.S.A.award for having had the highest gradepoint average as a second-year student.

Graduating student, Sidney Weinstein,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, holds plaque onwhich his name will be inscribed for havinghad the highest grade point average in theclass of '61.

James A. Grekin, Detroit, Michigan, pres-ident of Lambda Omicron Gamma, holdsplaque on which will be inscribed the nameof his fraternity. L.O.G. had the highestgrade point average among the fraternitiesfor the past academic year.

Ronald P. Rosenberg, second-year student,from Detroit Michigan, received the P.S.A.award for having had the highest gradepoint average as a first-year student.

Mrs. Charles Parker and her daughterCharlene received a complimentary copy ofthe 1961 Pacemaker. A page in the bookwas set aside in memory of Charlie Parkerfor his faithful dedication and service tothe College, 1928 to 1960. Charlie, Parker,or Deacon, as he was affectionately knownto students and to graduates all over thecountry, passed away September 12, 1960,a victim of cancer.

THE LOG BOOK

STUDENT EVALUATIONCOMMITTEE

Members of the Student Evaluation Com-mittee confer with Mr. Wendell R. Fuller,Registrar, regarding the scholastic statusof the members of the student body at theclose of the fall semester of the 1960-61academic year.

The function of the Student EvaluationCommittee is concerned with the overallevaluation of any or all students at anytime.

This Committee may investigate the schol-arship, morality, ethics, and general deport-ment of any student and make its recom-mendation to the appropriate authority forthe disposal of any student problem afterconducting the necessary investigation. TheCommittee meets periodically after the closeof a semester to consider the stati of themembers of each of the classes, and mayhold impromptu meetings at any time.

maker (dean and chairman) Dr. William B.Strong (medical director) Dr. Wm. F. Hew-itt, and Fuller.

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L. 0. G.L. 0. G.'s pledges for this year are: Al

Birrer, Harvey Blum, Saul Bresalier, KarlDeyhle, Burt Eisenberg, Henry Gonte, Char-lie Gillman, Stan Halprin, Lionel Katchem,Dick Layne, Paul Lippman, Barry Rubin,Stan Sacks, Rod Shaw, Bob Sims, Ron Stew-art, Chico Verona, and Al Waldman.

The head of this year's pledge committeeis Gerald Sussman. The officers of thepledge class are: Stan Halprin, president;Bob Sims, vice president; and Lionel Kat-chem, treasurer.

January 7 was the date of our annualsenior banquet. This year the affair washeld at the Hotel Savery in the main ball-room and without a doubt was the top ofthe social calendar for the L. 0. G. men.Irwin Eisenberg managed the banquet anddid a fine job.

The affair started with a cocktail party,followed by a roast beef dinner and dancing.The guest speaker was Dr. Henry Elmets,a L. 0. G. alumnus, who spoke on the valueand satisfaction of osteopathic education.

President James Grekin, left, announced therecipients of the two annual LOG Fraternityawards. Benjamin N. Sherbin, standing, OakPark, Mich., received the William's Key,awarded to the senior who has contributedthe most-in his four years at the college-to the fraternity. Paul S. Glassman, Detroit,Mich., received the Ronald Lawrence Award,as the senior student who as a sophomore,contributed the most to the Freshman Class.

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Also awarded at the banquet were fra-ternity keys to all active seniors of thefraternity.

Congratulations are in order for two moreL. 0. G. men: to Jim Grekin for his recentmarriage and to Harris Ross on his engage-ment.

L. 0. G. has a new advisor, Dr. DonaldKay of Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Kay is inhis first year of residency in internal medi-cine at the College Hospital. Dr. Kay isreplacing Dr. Bernie Kay who finished aresidency in Pediatrics in 1960.

ATLASAtlas fraternity is happy to announce its

new fraternity members:Wilbur Franklin, Xenia, Ohio.Kent Rens, Orange City, OhioAnthony Salamoney, Columbus, OhioGene Trell, Youngstown, Ohio

New officers have been elected and theyare:President: Robert O'Neil, Sharon, Pa.Vice-pres: Frank Tepner, Creighton, Neb.Treasurer: Herb Kaufman, Youngstown, 0.Secretary: John Block, Flint, Mich.

A recent worknight was held on osteo-pathic technique by Marvin Schless, a mem-ber of the department of Physical Medicineand Rehabilitation, C.O.M.S., and attend-ance was excellent.

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THE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHICMEDICINE AND SURGERY

Volume 39 Number 4

Accepted for mailing at special rates of postageprovided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917,authorized Feb. 3, 1923.

Entered as second class matter, February 3, 1923,at the post office at Des Moines, Iowa, under the Actof August 24, 1912.

WENDELL R. FULLER, EditorJOHN W. NELSON, Associate Editor


At Des Moines, Iowa


* ALUMNI ACTIVITIES ANNOUNCED* YEARBOOK CONVOCATION

* STUDENT EVALUATION COMMITTEE* FACULTY WIVES PROVIDE NAMEPLATE

WANTEDMcMANUS THORACIC PUMP

The Department of Physical Medi-cine and Rehabilitation at COMSwould like to obtain the above itemfor research purposes. Please com-municate with Dr. Byron E. Laycock.


Dr. Arthur Flemming Commencement SpeakerSeventy-four Graduates To Receive D. O. Degree

Will Deliver Sixty-secondGraduation Address

Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, President of theUniversity of Oregon and former Secretaryof Health, Education and Welfare underPresident Dwight D. Eisenhower will deliverthe sixty-second graduation address atNorth High School on Friday, June 2 at 8:00p.m.

Before joining President Eisenhower'scabinet Dr. Flemming had previously beenPresident of Ohio Wesleyan University atDelaware, Ohio, and an active participantin educational and governmental affairs formore than 25 years.

Born in Kingston, New York, June 12,1905, Dr. Flemming received his degree fromOhio Wesleyan University in 1927; an A.M.degree from American University in 1928;and an LL.B. degree from George Washing-ton University in 1933. He holds a numberof honorary degrees from colleges and uni-versities.

Dr. Flemming held posts as an Instructorof Government, Director of the School ofPublic Affairs, and Executive Officer ofAmerican University prior to his appoint-ment to the U.S. Civil Service Commissionin 1939. For four years he served as a mem-

Arnold H. Aaron....... Oak Park, MichiganStanley L. Abrams ..... Philadelphia, Penn.Franklin D. Aks ...... Brooklyn, New YorkCleophas Barnett .......... Jefferson, TexasLouis T. Bascoy.... Los Angeles, CaliforniaBert M. Bez ............ Detroit, MichiganEdwin C. Blumberg...... Detroit, MichiganRobert L. Campbell.......... Gilman, IowaFred E. Carpenter, Jr........ Newton, IowaAlvin V. K. Chong. .Waimanalo, Oahu, Haw.Leon Cogann.............Detroit, MichiganElwood Cohen ...... Woodbury, New JerseyNicholas R. Conway...... Detroit, MichiganG. Richard Culp .... Elverson, PennsylvaniaHarry L. Davis .......... Youngstown, OhioJohn P. Eichorst....... South Bend, IndianaJohn P. Ferris ........... Detroit, MichiganSeymour J. Gardner.. Farmington, MichiganRichard J. Garrett. North Miami Beach, Fla.Dale J. Gierthy ....... Royal Oak, MichiganPaul S. Glassman ........ Detroit, MichiganArthur L. Griswold... South Lyon, MichiganSidney M. Grobman .... Philadelphia, Penn.Hugh L. Grover............ Flint, MichiganMehdi Hamidi ............... Meshed, IranWilliam S. Hendricks ... Los Angeles, Calif.Floyd E. Henry, Jr ........ Des Moines, IowaDavid M. Higgins. Wheatland, PennsylvaniaArnold M. Jacobs ...... Oak Park, MichiganChris Karides........ Corpus Christi, TexasFeraydoon Khani ............ Teheran, IranPatrick J. Kirlin ....... Council Bluffs, IowaStephen C. Koffler .... Bristol, PennsylvaniaSheldon Kule ......... Bellerose, New YorkBernard R. Lang ....... Flushing, New YorkJames R. Leach ........Valley View, TexasRichard C. Leech........ Texarkana, Texas

ber of the Editorial Staff of the U.S. Daily(now U.S. News & World Report).

He was a member of the Civil ServiceCommission from 1939 until 1948. Duringthis period he also served in a variety ofother commissions and agencies, includingthe War Manpower Commission, concernedwith government organization and man-power problems.

Dr. Flemming became President of OhioWesleyan in 1948.

In 1951 he served as Assistant to theDirector of the Office of Defense Mobili-zation in charge of manpower problems. In1953 he was named Director of ODM, astatutory member of the National Security

Robert W. Lowry ........ Detroit, MichiganStanford E. Lubeck .... Philadelphia, Penn.Herbert Moss...Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaPhillip Naples........... Youngstown, OhioRichard T. Neal ........... Girard, OhioRobert J. O'Neil...... Sharon, PennsylvaniaHarry T. Phillips ........ Detroit, MichiganOliver J. Popa ...... River Rouge, MichiganCharles R. Porter ........ Des Moines, IowaNeil T. Purtell....... Milwaukee, WisconsinRobert S. Pushkin..Los Angeles, CaliforniaMilton A. Raskin ...... Oak Park, MichiganRichard D. Rhodes ..... East Liverpool, OhioHector L. Rivera..... Bayamon, Puerto RicoJerome J. Rose ........ Brooklyn, New YorkAlan J. Ross ............ Bayside, New YorkJohn J. Rusina .............. Joliet, IllinoisLouis J. Schaner .............. Toledo, OhioEarl C. Scheidler .......... Cincinnati, OhioRichard C. Scourfield ........ Dayton, OhioBenjamin N. Sherbin... Oak Park, MichiganWilliam R. Silverstone .... Detroit, MichiganPaul D. Tenney ........ Mount Vernon, IowaFranklin L. Tepner.... Creighton, NebraskaM. George Thompson..Watertown, South D.Gerald J. Tolan ..... Green Bay, WisconsinEdmund F. Touma...Port Huron, MichiganJoseph E. Treon............ Dayton, OhioDonald L. Turner ............ Dayton, OhioRobert M. Waite .......... Columbus, OhioJohn A. Walker ......... Jackson, MichiganGerald Weingarden...... Detroit, MichiganSidney Weinstein....... Philadelphia, Penn.James E. White........ Scottsdale, ArizonaMoneta D. White....... Scottsdale, ArizonaGeorge A. Wright...........Carlisle, IowaWalter R. Wunderlich... .Voltaire, North D.

Council, and by invitation of the President,participated in meetings of the Cabinet untilMarch 1957, when he returned to Ohio Wes-leyan University.

Dr. Flemming served as a member of theHoover Commissions which were chargedwith the responsibility of making reeom-mendations relative to the reorganizationof the Government. He is currently a mem-ber of the President's Advisory Committeeon Government organization.

Dr. and Mrs. Flemming have five children,two girls and three boys (including a set oftwins). He is a Methodist, and a formervice-president of the National Council ofChurches of Christ in Ameriea.

Class of 1961

MAY, 1961

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BOARD MEMBEROF THE MONTH

When you step into the tastefully furnishedoffices of the Roy L. Swarzman InsuranceAgency, locsted on the twelfth floor of oneof Des Moines' large office buildings, you atonce feel that these are the offices of a suc-cessful, well-organized individual. After afew moments' visit with tall, courteous RoySwarzman, you are certain of it. Since 1927he has been associated with the EquitableLife Assurance Society of the United States,and since 1958 has been agency manager inDes Moines with 25 counties in southwestIowa.

Saleswork was a natural choice for Mr.Swarzman. When he was one year old hisparents moved from Chicago to Adair, Iowa,where his father operated a clothing store.Young Roy began his sales career at theage of ten when he "helped out" in the storeafter school and on Saturdays. Later, whena student at Drake University, he-helpeddefray his expenses by working part-timein a Des Moines clothing store. During theearly 1920's his mother became one of thefirst women insurance salespersons whenshe joined the Equitable Life AssuranceSociety of the U.S.

Mr. Swarzman's parents moved to DesMoines when he was 15 years old and hewas graduated from West High School."Then, after two years at Drake," he said,smiling, "the 'adventure bug' bit me and Iwent to Florida where I worked as a sales-man for the National Cash Register Com-pany for two years." Following that, hejoined the Equitable Life company.

For 17 years he has been a Chartered LifeUnderwriter-a designation granted afterextensive study and passing examinationson life insurance, investments, taxes, eco-nomics and estate planning. He is a founderand past president of the Des Moines EstatePlanning Council, past president of the Des

STUDENT COUNCIL ACTIVITIESThis past week concluded the ten week,

council sponsored, bowling activity for thepresent year. This year's results show itwas a very successful project.

Plans are underway for one of the school'sbiggest "Skip Days". This year's activitiesinclude: golf, tennis, baseball, and a bridgetournament; all followed by a big picnicdinner for the entire student body, faculty,and administration.

An Academic Council was set up to re-ceive student greviences on academic mat-ters. Members of this committee are:Richard MacKay, Lansing, Michigan, Stu-dent Council president; Raymond Failer,Flint, Michigan, representing the Juniorclass; Sanford Berlin, Detroit, Michigan,representing the Sophomore class; GeorgeGustavson, Gibralter, Michigan, represent-ing the freshman class.

New council members are Randall Willis,Freshman, Springfield, Ohio, and LeonRosky, Junior, Youngstown, Ohio.

Vending machines are to be installed onthe third floor, Clinic, for the convenienceof Junior students. Also, new beds arebeing purchased for outpatient studentswho stay over night on duty in the Hospital.

Moines Life Underwriters Association, ofthe Des Moines General Agents and Man-agers Association, a charter member andpast president of the Iowa Leaders RoundTable and the local C.L.U. chapter.

He is an active member of the Greater DesMoines Chamber of Commerce, the DesMoines Club and the Standard Club. Inaddition to serving as a member of theBoard of Trustees for the College of Osteo-pathic Medicine and Surgery during the pastfive years, he has been active in the DesMoines United Fund campaigns and was aco-chairman of the United Jewish Appealcampaign.

In 1932 Mr. Swarzman was married toDorothy Pike, a Des Moines.girl. They werethe parents of two children-a son, Judd, whois also in the insurance business in Cali-fornia, and a daughter, Sue, who is theadvertising director for a magazine soonto be published by McCalls. Mrs. Swarzmanpassed away in 1954. In 1955 Mr. Swarzmanand Mrs. Ruth Miller, of Los Angeles, Cali-fornia and the mother of two boys, Larryand Phil, were united in marriage.

In spite of his many activities Mr. Swarz-man finds time to relax with his favoritesport, golf-and to travel. One of his mostinteresting trips was taken a year ago whenhe took an Island Hopping tour, via plane,to the West Indies.

"I've thoroughly enjoyed my life andwork," Mr. Swarzman said, "because I feelthat it is not only a business but a realservice to people. In fact," he added, "ifI were to quote my philosophy after 34 yearsin the insurance field, I'd say 'the more yousell the more good you do'."

Dr. SulkowskiElected to Alumni Office

Stan J. Sulkowski, D.O., class of 1948,1601 Belmont, Kansas City 26, Missouri,the newly elected secretary-treasurer of theNational Alumni Association, reviews thealumni records with Wendell R. Fuller whoformerly held the office. Mr. Fuller recentlyresigned his position as Registrar for theCollege to accept another position.

Present PaperThe Department of Anatomy, in collabor-

ation with the Department of Obstetrics andGynecology, presented a paper before theIowa Academy of Science at its seventy-third annual session, held at SimpsonCollege, Indianola, Friday, April 14, 1961.Co-authors of the paper were Dr. S. D.Miroyiannis, head of the Department ofAnatomy, A. R. Dzmura, Instructor in Ana-tomy and Dr. Elizabeth Burrows, head ofthe Department of Obsterteis and Gynecolo-gy.

The paper delt with The Application of aNeuclear Stain Celestine Blue B, in Ex-foliative Cytology.

Correction PleaseThe STUDENT WIVES CLUB will

honor the SENIOR WIVES at aLUNCHEON at the DES MOINESGOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB onFRIDAY, JUNE 2 at 1:00 P.M.

The above event takes the placeof the Wives Club Banquet on Wed-nesday, May 31, as announced in theApril issue of the Log Book and inthe programs sent to all alumni.

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PACEMAKER QUEEN Thank You Dr. KorrFor your participation in one of the most

enlightening panel discussions to be held inthe College in many years.

new yearbook queen, poses with her aance,Hector L. Rivera, class of 1961, of Bayamon,Puerto Rico, following coronation cere-monies at the annual Pacemaker Ball heldat the Fort Des Moines Hotel, Saturdayevening, April 8.

Miss Fitzpatrick was selected by a com-mittee composed of (1) Walt Reno, KRNTRadio and Television; (2) Max Rauer, KSORadio; and Jim Zabel, WHO Radio and Tele-vision.

A summer wedding is planned by MissFitzpatrick and Mr. Rivera.

Dr. I. M. Korr, Professor of Physiologyand Chairman of the Division of Physiologi-cal Sciences, Kirksville College of Osteo-pathy and Surgery, Kirksville, Missouri,was guest panelist for a discussion on "ThePhilosophy of Osteopathic Education" dur-ing an all student convocation in the Moin-gona Lodge Room on Wednesday, April 12.

Staff members appearing with Dr. Korrwere Dr. Myron S. Magen, Associate Pro-fessor in Pediatrics, moderator; Dr. HaroldE. Higley, Associate Professor in Psy-chiatry; Dr. Byron E. Laycock, Professorin Physical Medicine and Rehabilitationand Dr. William B. Strong, Professor inOsteopathic Medicine and Medical Director.

The panel also appeared before the Col-lege faculty on Monday, April 10.

LIBRARY RECEIVES MEMORIAL FUND BOOKSBooks purchased from two Li-

brary Memorial Funds are checked

by Mrs. Mary B. Kenderdine, Li-brarian, before being added to the

library.

Books on the left were purchasedfrom funds in the Dr. P. RalphMorehouse Library Memorial Fund.

This fund, ($975.00) started by theMichigan Association of Osteopa-thic Physicians and Surgeons, wasthe first library memorial fund inthe history of this institution. Con-tributions were received from os-teopathic organizations in Michi-gan as well as numerous osteopa-thic physicians in Michigan andother states. At the present timeseventy-one books have been pur-

chased at a cost of $722.02.

Books on the right were pur-

chased from funds ($1000.00) in the War- Anyone wishing to contribulren G. Bradford Memorial Library Fund these funds may do so by maestablished by the American Osteopathic to Mrs. Mary B. Kenderdine.

Academy of Orthopedics in memory of War- cheks payable to The Librar

ren G. Bradford, D.O., orthopedic surgeon Osteopathic Medicine and Suof Dayton, Ohio. To date eighty-seven notation on the face of the(87) books have been purchased at a cost which fund your contributionof $849.97. for.

te to either ofailing a check

Please makery, College ofrgery, with a

check as tois to be used

Dr. Phil R. Russell (right) beloved execu-tive secretary of the Texas Association ofOsteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, re-ceives a certificate from President Mc-Laughlin during an all student convocationhonoring Dr. Russell on March 21, 1961.

The certificate reads, "This is to certifythat Dr. Phil R. Russell is hereby appointedCounselor at Large in recognition of hismany years of devotion in furthering theinterests and welfare of this institution."

Appear OnConference Program

Dr. William B. Strong, medical director,and four faculty members appeared on theprogram of the Ninth Midwestern StudyConference at the Hotel Continental in Kan-sas City, Missouri, on March 24, 25, 26.

Appearing with Dr. Strong, the programchairman, were Stuart F. Harkness, D.O.,Clinical Professor of Medicine; S. S. Herr,D.O., Senior Resident in Internal Medicine;Jen-yah Hsie, Ph.D., Associate Professor ofMicrobiology, and Donald L. Kay, D.O., firstyear Resident in Internal Medicine.

Panel members for the conference were(left to right): Harvey S. Sadow, Ph.D.,Director of Clinical Research and MedicalDirector of the U.S.-Vitamin and Pharma-ceutical Corporation; Edward Tolstoi, M.D.,Professor of Clinical Medicine, Cornell Uni-versity Medical College; Joseph Rogers,D.O., chairman of the Department of Medi-cine, Riverside Osteopathic Hospital, Tren-ton, Michigan; R. McGregor Slick, D.O.,Diplomate of the American College of Osteo-pathic Internists, Detroit, Michigan; and Dr.Harkness.

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THE LOG BOOK

P.S. G.Phi Sigma Gamma welcomes the follow-

ing in Delta Chapter:William B. Anderson, Jr., Birmingham,

Michigan, Class of 64.Harvey A. Bergren, Muskegon, Michigan,

Class of 63.Grant R. Born, Jr., Petosky, Michigan, Class

of 64.John B. Dolven, Horace, North Dakota, Class

of 63.Douglas A. Dunham, Akron, Ohio, Class

of 64.John K. Edleman, Grand Rapids, Michigan,

Class of 63.Louis M. Fortuna, Philadelphia, Pennsyl-

vania, Class of 64.George R. Gustavson, Gibraltar, Michigan,

Class of 64.Jim L. Johnson, Canton, Ohio, Class of 64.Robert A. Komer, Detroit, Michigan, Class

of 64Albert T. Luster, Cleveland, Ohio, Class

of 64.Francis W. O'Connor, Boston, Massachus-

etts, Class of 64.Richard M. Touma, Port Huron, Michigan,

Class of 64.Louis P. Ricca, New York, N. Y., Class of 64.William V. Utter, Kansas City, Missouri,

Class of 64.James L. Reuter, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan,

Class of 64.John M. Vargo, Aurora, Illinois, Class of 64.Ronald J. Zarzycki, Dearborn, Michigan,

Class of 64.

Iota Tau SigmaThe Pacemaker Ball was the big event

for the month and our lovely candidate forPacemaker queen was Carol Reel, wife ofsophomore Richard H. Reel.

We are happy to announce the newlyelected officers of Beta Chapter for thecoming year:

President.........Oscar E. Gutierrez ('63),San Antonio, Texas

Vice-President... Vernice W. Strickland, Jr.('64), Starke, Florida

Recording Secretary... Patrick K. McClellan('64), Los Angeles, Calif.

Corresponding Secretary..F. Leith Mitchell('64), Albuquerque, N. Mexico

Treasurer..........Victor Jurczenko ('63),Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Historian..........Ronald R. Ganelli ('64),Brooklyn, N. Y.

Appointed chairmen for the coming yearare:Social ........ Sheridan A. Thiringer ('63),

Spokane, Wash.Co-social...... Chorde W. Davidson ('64),

Tulsa, OklahomaFund Raising Projects... Emanuel Kourakis

('63), Chicago, Ill.Editor and Alumni ..... Ben A. Raines ('64),

Kansas City, Mo.Worknights .......... Rex E. Ollom, ('63),

New Braunfels, TexasInterfraternity Council... Thomas G. Lavaty

('63), Dearborn, Mich.

HOMECOMING - JUNE 1, 2, 1961Postdoctoral Course: "Cardiopulmonary Disease"

Reception and BanquetClasses to be honored: 1901-06-11-16-21-26-31

36-41-46-51-56 and 1961

e/2E 00oo722 Sixth Avenue

DES MOINES 9, IOWA

* ANNOUNCE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER

* SEVENTY-FOUR 1961 GRADUATES

* LIBRARY MEMORIAL FUND BOOKS

* HOMECOMING-JUNE 1-2, 1961

ATLASBy now all the Alumni have received their

tickets, and are anxiously awaiting the re-sults. This refers to the annual Atlasraffle, and this year it was decided that theticket sale be restricted to alumni membersonly. In this way those men who have sup-ported us so generously in the past, wouldhave every chance of winning.

The drawing will be made on May 20,1961, in conjunction with our senior banquet,to be held in the Colony room of the Com-modore Hotel. All those members not con-tacted, and are interested in attending thebanquet, write Robert O'Neil, 1507 12th St.,Des Moines, Iowa.

Latest happenings; Dr. Henry Ketmanis relaxing at home after a brief illness.He is one of our club's hardest workers,and we will be happy to see him back onthe job in the near future.

Dr. Boatman, having practiced in SantaFe, New Mexico for a number of years, isgoing to give the state of Iowa a whirl. Hisresidence is Montezuma, Iowa. WelcomeLarry, we hope your stay will be a pleasantone.

IF YOU HAVEA CHANGE OF ADDRESS


Published 1Monthly byTHE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC


Volume 39 Number 5

Accepted for mailing at special rates of postageprovided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917,authorized Feb 3, 1923.

Entered as second class matter, February 3, 1923,at the post office at Des Moines, Iowa, under the Actof August 24, 1912.

WENDELL R. FULLER, EditorJOHN W. NELSON, Associate Editor


At Des Moines, Iowa

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COLLEGE RECEIVES FEDERAL RESEARCH GRANTSArnold Herbert Aaron, D.O.

Stanley Leonard Abrams, D.O.

Franklin David Aks, D.O.

Cleophas Barnett, D.O.

Louis Turbay Bascoy, D.O.

Bert Marvin Bez, D.O.

Edwin C. Blumberg, D.O.

Robert Lavern Campbell, D.O.

Fred E. Carpenter, Jr., D.O.

Alvin V. K. Chong, D.O.

Leon Cogan, D.O.

Elwood Cohen, D.O.

Nicholas Conway, D.O.

George Richard Culp, D.O.

Harry Leslie Davis, D.O.

John Paul Eichorst, D.O.

John Peter Ferris, D.O.

Seymour J. Gardner, D.O.

Richard Jales GJarrett, D.O.

Dale John Gierthy, D.O.

Paul Stanford Glassman, D.O.

Arthur Lee Griswold, D.O.

Sidney M. Grobman, D.O.

Hugh LaVerne Grover, D.O.

Mehdi Hamidi, D.O.

Wm. Smith Hendricks, D.O.

Floyd Eugene Henry, Jr., D.O.

David Michael Higgins, D.O.

Arnold M. Jacobs, D.O.

Chris Capotis Karides, D.O.

Feraydoon Khani, D.O.

Zieger Osteopathic Hospital,Detroit, Michigan

Cherry Hill Hospital,Merchantville, New Jersey

Flint General Hospital,Flint, Michigan


Davenport Osteopathic Hospital,Davenport, Iowa

Doctors Hospital,Columbus, Ohio

Zieger Osteopathic Hospital,Detroit, Michigan

College Hospital,Des Moines, Iowa

Des Moines General Hospital,Des Moines, Iowa

Mt. Clemens General Hospital,Mt. Clemens, Michigan

Art Centre Hospital,Detroit, Michigan


Normandy Osteopathic Hospital,St. Louis, Missouri

Lancaster Osteopathic Hospital,Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Warren General Hospital,Warren, Ohio

South Bend Osteopathic Hospital,South Bend, Indiana

Garden City-Ridgewood Hospital,Garden City, Michigan

Northwest Hospital,Miami, Florida


Mt. Clemens General Hospital,Mt. Clemens, Michigan


Carson City Hospital,Carson City, Michigan

Allentown Osteopathic Hospital,Allentown, Pennsylvania



Waldo General Hospital,Seattle, Washingon

Portland Osteopathic Hospital,Portland, Oregon

Bashline Osteopathic Hospital,Grove City, Pennsylvania

Zeiger Osteopathic Hospital,Detroit, Michigan

Saginaw Osteopathic Hospital,Saginaw, Michigan


JUNE, 1961

Dr. Mark Goldie, Assistant Professor inthe Department of Anatomy, has been

awarded a re-search grant of$8,728 from theNational Instituteof Health, withrecommended sup-port of $12,877 fortwo additionalyears.

ANNOUNCE

INTERN

ASSIGNMENTS

FOR

1961

GRADUATES

Patrick Joseph Kirlin, D

Stephen Cyrus Koffler, I

Sheldon Kule, D.O.

Bernard Reuben Lang, I

James Roy Leach, D.O.

Richard Collier Leech,

Robert William Lowry,:

Dr. Goldie's re-search studies will

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Dr. Mark Goldie Include me cevel-opmental patterns

of phenocopies in the chick embryo. Pheno-copies are non-heritable duplications of mu-tant traits, induced by a variety of chem-ical and physical agents. This phenomenonthus affords some possibility of understand-ing biochemical and physiological conse-quences of the action of mutant genes.

Dr. Goldie joined the College of Osteo-pathic Medicine and Surgery faculty inSeptember, 1960.

Confirmation of the awarding of eightMedical Student Part-time Research Fel-lowships by the United States Public HealthService was received by the College earlyin May.

The Fellowships pay a stipend of $600to each student for part-time work duringthe regular school year or full-time worlrduring the summer.

Dr. William Hewitt, Project Director forthe Fellowship, emphasized their import-ance in the training of medical investiga-tors and teachers. The work of the Fel-lows will be supervised by the heads of thevarious research projects in the Depart-ments of Biochemistry, Microbiology, Phar-macology, Physiology and Anatomy.

.O. Dallas Osteopathic Hospital,Dallas, Texas

).O. Victory Hospital,North Hollywood, California


D.O. LeRoy Hospital,New York, N. Y.

Fort Worth Osteopathic Hospital,Fort Worth, Texas

D.O. Fort Worth Osteopathic Hospital,Fort Worth, Texas

D.O. Rocky Mtn. Osteopathic Hospital,Denver, Colorado

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Volume 39 June 1961 Number 6

Published Monthly byTHE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC


Address all mail, change of address, orForm 3579, to

722 6th Ave., Des Moines 9, Iowa

Second class postage paid at Des Moines, Iowa

EditorAssociate EditorPhoto Editor

Alvira LunsfordJohn W. Nelson

Lynn Baldwin

The College of Osteopathic Medicine andSurgery is proud of its 1961 class of grad-uates of seventy-four Doctors of Osteop-athy . . . and of its many alumni who,through their own professional high stand-ards and sincere counseling, encouraged suchstudents to enroll in the college.

A 1959 report from the United StatesDepartment of Health, Education and Wel-fare predicts a shortage of more than 50,000physicians and surgeons by 1975. In orderto hold the present day ratio of doctors topopulation it will be necessary to increaseour own number of graduates.

The college is making definite stridesforward to meet this challenge by increasingits facilities and faculty and by securingnecessary grants to enlarge the very im-portant research program underway.

To continue the medical training of youngmen and women-emphasizing the philoso-phy of osteopathic education-requires thehelp and support of each alumnus. Suchsupport has been generous during the pastyears and it will be greatly appreciatedin the future.

K.C.O.S Visitors

These four visitors, Vern Griswold, SouthLynn, Michigan; John Graham, Canton, Mo.;D. B. Walker, Nantucket, Mass.; and GaryRoat, Flint, Michigan, from the KirksvilleCollege of Osteopathy and Surgery, Kirks-ville, Missouri visited the Des Moines Col-lege on Monday and Tuesday, May 1 and2. Their visit was a part of the annualintercampus exchange program between thetwo schools which was developed by theC.O.M.S. Student Council.

While here the Kirksville students at-tended regular classes and participated inthe college activities. Raymond Failer,Flint, Michigan, Junior student at theC.O.M.S., served as host for the visitorsduring their two-day stay.

Young Future "Scientists" Visit C.O.M.S.One of the most interested-and youngest

-group of visitors the college has ever wel-comed was the 5th grade class from the DesMoines Park Avenue Elementary School onFriday, May 5.

The visit, arranged by Dr. William Hew-itt, Professor of Physiology and Pharma-cology, and the class instructor, Mrs. SarahMcCabe, resulted from the gift of a doglast November by a member of the class,ten-year old Diane Lewis, (Dec. '60 LogBook). Since that time the class has lookedforward to visiting the college, and becausethe students are now studying anatomy intheir own science class this seemed anappropriate time.

The group first visited the anatomy de-partment where instructor Robert Dzmurapresented a short illustrated talk, and thento the physiology laboratory where Dr.Hewitt discussed the use of animals in ourresearch program.

Board Member of theMonth

For the latest information and advice oncommercial and industrial real estateproperties, Harold L. Calkins, Des MoinesRealtor, is one person many people callupon. After thirty-two years in the realestate business and specializing in thoseproperties, Mr. Calkins can be consideredan authority in his profession.

Born in Milford, Iowa, Mr. Calkins'parents later moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa,where his father operated a real estateagency for many years. This exposure tothe profession made it a natural choice foryoung Harold when he graduated fromhigh school at Fort Dodge and completedtwo years' study at Coe College in CedarRapids.

From there he went to Omaha, Nebraska,where he worked for a real estate firmfor one year. In 1931 he became associatedwith the Hubbell Realty Company and theF. M. Hubbell Estates in Des Moines.Finally, in 1946, he opened his own realestate offices which are now located in oneof Des Moines' downtown office buildings.

Mr. and Mrs. Calkins were parents of twochildren, a son now living in Omaha, and adaughter, married and living in Des Moines.Mrs. Calkins passed away in 1957.

Mr. Calkins is an active member of the

Dr. William Hewitt, discusses the useof animals in the medical research program

with the 5th grade class from Des MoinesPark Avenue Elementary School.

Des Moines Real Estate Board, the Na-tional Association of Real Estate Boardsand is a past vice-president and presentdirector of the National Society of Indus-trial Realtors.

He is a member of the Greater DesMoines Chamber of Commerce, the DesMoines Club, the Embassy Club, Des MoinesGolf and Country Club, East Des MoinesClub and Hi-12 Club. He is also a memberof the Auburn Masonic Lodge, the Za-Ga-Zig (White Shrine) and the Des MoinesConsistory.

His favorite hobby is golf-but, quitemodestly, he insists that he is only anaverage player. When he takes time for avacation he usually combines it with oneof the real estate professional group meet-ings.

Mr. Calkins has been a member of theBoard of Trustees of the College of Osteo-pathic Medicine and Surgery for severalyears and his guidance has been of greatvalue as the college plans its future pro-gram of expansion.

L. 0. G.Congratulations to these new members

of L.O.G.: Jerome Kwartowitz, Bob Sims,Rodney Shaw, Bob Verona, Al Waldman,Barry Rubin, Lionel Ketchum, Saul Bressa-lier, Paul Lippman, Henry Gonte, Stan Hal-prin, Ben Kohl, Harvey Blum, Carl Deyhle,Dick Lane, Ronald Stewart and Stan Sachs.

L.O.G.'s dinner dance honoring the newmembers was held at the Hotel Kirkwoodon Friday, May 5. Guest speaker was L.O.G.alumnus, Dr. Myron Magen.

The best wishes of the Fraternity are ex-tended to Dr. Donald Kay, who is complet-ing his first year of residency in InternalMedicine at the College Hospital and thengoes to Brentwood Hospital in Ohio to con-tinue his tenure. The Fraternity will longremember the excellent role he played asour Advisor this year.

Representing our chapter at the NationalL.O.G. convention in Atlantic City wereBob Cohen and Stanley Sackner. They re-port fine progress in both the National andlocal chapters of L.O.G.-Julian Kutinsky

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Conducts Session OnMedical Writing

Mrs. Ruth Good, consultant on MedicalWriting techniques, visited the college onMonday, May 1, under the auspices of theAmerican Osteopathic Association, to lec-ture to faculty members and students.

Staff members and students are shownhere in conference with Mrs. Good at aspecially arranged meeting. They are, leftto right, Dr. Harold Higley, head of theDepartment of Psychiatry; Dr. RaymondHenshaw, Resident in Surgery; Dr. WilliamHewitt, Professor of Physiology and Phar-macology; Mrs. Ruth Good; Louis Bascoy,Senior Student; and Dr. Sanford Herr, Res-ident in Medicine.

AtlasAnother year has inched by and, with its

passing, some of the men who sparked theAtlas House since 1957 will be fading intothe shadows of a myriad of memories. Atthat time Davis, Naples, O'Neil and Tepnerwere Freshmen, all living under one roofand enjoying that rare commodity-frater-nalism. Now, along with Wright, Karidesand Higgins, they will take their places withother Atlas alumni, not forgetting that firsthome away from home, and the school thatmade it possible for them to graduate asDoctors. For this they will be forever grate-ful and will endeavor to make this "miracle"possible for many others in the future.

More than forty persons attended the an-nual Atlas Senior Banquet at the Commo-dore Hotel. We want to thank Dr. LarryBoatman for his outstanding address, andthe alumni who found time in their busyschedules to help make the banquet a suc-cess.

New officers elected for 1961-62 includeJack Block at the helm as Noble Skull,with Eugene Trell as his capable Vice-Pres-ident. Wilbur Franklin will take the bankaccount as Treasurer and Tony Salamonywill serve as Secretary and House Managerand writer for The LOG BOOK.

And now we close the book on anotherchapter, hoping that future members willwrite a more vivid and illuminating accountof the Atlas Club . . . always trying toelevate its ideas and ideals.-Robert O'Neil.

Elected to PhotographicOff ice

Medical Photography Department, waselected President of the Upper MidwestChapter Biological Photographic Associa-tion 'at the group's annual meeting in IowaCity, Iowa, May 6-7.

Membership in the association includesmedical and scientific photographers in thethree-state area of Iowa, Minnesota andWisconsin.

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Stanford Edwin Lubeck, D.O. D

Herbert Moss, D.O. M

Phillip J. Naples, D.O. G

Richard Thomas Neal, D.O. D

Robert John O'Neil, D.O. F

Harry Trevor Phillips, D.O. P

Oliver John Popa, D.O. R

Charles Robert Porter, D.O. D

Neil Thomas Purtell, D.O. P

Robert Sheldon Pushkin, D.O. C.

Milton Arnold Raskin, D.O. Zi

Richard David Rhodes, D.O. V

Hector Luis Rivera, D.O. D

Jerome Joseph Rose, D.O. D

Alan Jay Ross,D.O. P(

John Joseph Rusina, D.O. R(

Louis Joel Schaner, D. 0. F]

Earl Clarence Scheidler, D.O.

elaware Valley Hospital,Bristol, Pennsylvania

[etropolitan Hospital,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

rrand Rapids Osteopathic HospitalGrand Rapids, Michigan

etroit Osteopathic Hospital,Detroit, Michiganlint Osteopathic Hospital,Flint, Michiganontiac Osteopathic Hospital,PFontlac, Michigaocky Mtn. Osteopathic Hospital,Denver, Coloradoes Moines General Hospital,Des Moines, Iowa

ontiac Osteopathic Hospital,Pontiac, Michigan

ommunity Hospital of Los AngelesLos Angeles, California

ieger Osteopathic Hospital,Detroit, Michiganrarren General Hospital,Warren, Ohio

avenport Osteopathic Hospital,Davenport, Iowaoctors Hospital,Los Angeles, Californiaontiac Osteopathic Hospital,Pontiac, Michiganocky Mtn. Osteopathic Hospital,Denver, Coloradolint Osteopathic Hospital,Flint, Michigan

Richard Clyde Scourfield, D.O.

Benjamin Norman Sherbin, D.O.

Wm. Robert Silverstone, D.O.

Paul D. Tenney, D.O.

Franklin Louis Tepner, D.O.

Marion George Thompson, D.O.

Gerald Joseph Tolan, D.O.

Edmund F. Touma, D.O.

Joseph Treon, D.O.

Donald Leo Turner, D.O.

Robert Myron Waite, D.O.

John Arnold Walker, D.O.

Gerald Weingarden, D.O.

Sidney Weinstein, D.O.

Carolyn Moneta D. White,D.O.

James Edwin White, D.O.

George Allan Wright, D.O.

Walter Robt. Wunderlich, D.O.

Grandview Hospital,Dayton, Ohio

Portland Osteopathic Hospital,Portland, Oregon

Flint Osteopathic Hospital,Flint, Michigan


College Hospital,Des Moines, Iowa

Wilden Osteopathic Hospital,Des Moines, Iowa

Normandy Osteopathic Hospital,St. Louis, Missouri

Grand Rapids Osteopathic HospitalGrand Rapids, Michigan

Dallas Osteopathic Hospital,Dallas, Texas

Warren General Hospital,Warren, Ohio

Grandview Hospital,Dayton, Ohio

Doctors Hospital,Columbus, Ohio

Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital,Pontiac, Michigan


Metropolitan Hospital,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania




Doctors Hospital,Los Angeles, California

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Student Council ActivitiesThe Student Council-sponsored annual all-

college holiday, held this year at BirdlandPark on May 4, was a huge success. The"intramural sports" events were a popularform of recreation. The Sophomores camehome with a well-earned softball trophy,and our congratulations go to Bob Simsfor winning the golf trophy and to DickPerry for the tennis trophy.

Trophy winners at the all-college holidayintramurals include, left to right, RichardTouma, golf handicap; Robert Sims, FirstPlace, golf; Herbert Miller, Second division,tennis singles; Richard Perry, First Place,tennis singles; Earl Scheidler, Runner-up,tennis.

On hand to serve the picnic meal wereDr. Burrows, Dr. Hewitt, Miss Jellinghaus,Dr. Hsie, Dr. Goldie and Dr. Fitz. Ourthanks to them for a fine job! . . . and toSandy Berlin for his job as chairman ofthe all-college holiday committee and to allthose who helped him.

The first annual student exchange pro-gram with the Kirksville College of Oste-opathy and Surgery was successfully car-ried out.

A new vending machine was recently in-stalled on the third floor Clinic for the bene-fit of the Junior students.

Student Council elections will be heldsoon. The outgoing president, Dick MacKay,wishes to thank the entire Council for itsfine support and cooperation during thisyear and for the many services renderedto the schools

P. S. A.During the past year Psi Sigma Alpha,

National Osteopathic Scholarship Frater-nity, held a series of dinner meetings inwhich various speakers discussed importantphases of medical practice. Included wereDaniel Hannan, Atty., Medical Law andTaxes; Dr. Robert Kreamer, Liver FunctionTests; Dr. Arthur Simon, Practical X-Ray;and Dr. John Schwartz, Jr., Medical Prac-tice.

The Senior Dinner was held at the BreeseHouse in Ankeny on Monday, May 22. Dr.Stuart Harkness spoke to the Seniors andtheir wives on Future Responsibilities.Awards were presented to the following PsiSigma Alpha officers:

President: Sidney Weinstein; Vice-Presi-(lent: Donald Turner; Treasurer: HerbertMoss; Corresponding Secretary: StanfordLubeck, Recording Secretary: Edwin Blum-berg; Parliamentarian: Robert Pushkin.

The following scholarships were announ-ced:

Senior: Sidney WeinsteinJunior: Stephen FudellSophomore: Ronald RosenbergPsi Sigma Alpha Fraternity expresses its

appreciation to Dr. Harry Elmets, our Ad-visor, for his untiring efforts during theyears on our behalf.-Edwin Blumberg

Iota Tau SigmaThe annual banquet honoring Beta Chap-

ter's eighteen graduating seniors was heldMay 26 at the Elks' Club. Guest speakerswere Dr. Elizabeth Burrows, Chairman ofthe Department of Obstetrics and Gynecol-ogy and Dr. Byron Laycock, chairman of theDepartment of Physical Medicine and Reha-bilitation. We wish to thank our seniorsfor their loyalty and service to Beta Chap-ter and wish them all success in their futurepractice.-Ben A. Raines.

P. S. G.Dr. J. Q. A. Mattern recently sponsored

an undergraduate alumni dinner at thehouse for all active members, interns, res-idents and alumni in this area. Delta chap-ter appreciated this opportunity for themembers and alumni to become better ac-quainted.

The newly elected officers for 1961-62 in-clude:

President: Robert K. Simpson ('62), Par-kersburg, West Virginia; Vice-President:Herbert Bez ('63), Detroit, Michigan; Secre-tary: Louis Fortuna ('64) Philadelphia,Pennsylvania; Treasurer: Roger Monsour('63), Flint, Michigan; House Manager: Ce-cil (Bud) Miracle ('63), Stillwater Ohio;Co-Pledge Chairmen: Grant Born ('64), Pe-tosky, Michigan; Norm Rose ('63), Brook-lyn, New York; Sgt. at Arms: Donald Bea-ver ('63), Petosky, Michigan.-Dick Josof.

Chief cooks and servers at the all-collegeholiday picnic supper were, left to right,Drs. Jen Yah Hsie, William Hewitt (rear)Elizabeth Burrows, Mark Goldie, Erle Fitz.



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THE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE & SURGERYDes Moines, Iowa

JULY 1961

GRADUATES HEAR NOTED SPEAKERSApproximately one thousand persons

heard Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, formerSecretary of the U. S. Department ofHealth, Education and Welfare, under theEisenhower administration, tell the seventy-four 1961 graduates of the College ofOsteopathic Medicine and Surgery that"Americans should be thankful enough forfreedom to make sacrifices for it." Com-mencement exercises were held at the DesMoines North High School auditorium onFriday evening, June 2.

"The objectives I would like to lift upto you is to make the maximum possiblecontribution to the preservation of the con-cept of freedom," he said, and emphasizedthat there has never been a time in thehistory of our nation or of the world whenthese contributions have been more neededthan they are today.

Dr. Flemming also told the graduatesthat the qualified person who fails to vote,

is not active in a political party or refusesto serve in public office must not be verythankful for his freedom. The standardsthat prevail within our political partieswill determine to a large extent the stand-ards that will exist in government itself,"he said.

On Thursday evening, June 1, Dr. John

H. Harris, Superintendent of the DesMoines Public Schools, was the guestspeaker at the Senior banquet. "Brainpower," he told the class, "is the battlefieldin the world today and "average perform-ance" is not good enough. Mediocrity isquickly becoming an item of antiquity anda special form of technical knowledge isdestined to be a must for economic andpersonal survival".

He warned that we are challenged atevery turn by a power determined in-dividually, scientifically and politically todestroy our way of life and form of govern-ment. "Our greatest weapons of protec-tion," he said, "is the intolerance of apathy,bitter opposition to mediocrity, a surge toput forth every best effort and an abidingfaith in quality."

Both Dr. Flemming and Dr. Harris wereawarded the honorary Doctor of Humani-ties degree during the commencement cere-monies.

College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery Proudly Presents-

THE CLASS OF 1961

Lert to right: 'lRSTi UW : J. Ruslna, R. OlNeil, r. INaples, M. iNamape , i . Lu- E. Touma, R. Lowry. FOURTH ROW: S. Grobman, D. Gierthy, E. Sheidler,beck, H. Rivera, F. Khani, S. Kule, L. Schaner, E. Cohen, 0. Popa, J. Eichorst. F. Aks, B. Bez, B. Lang, A. Jacobs, J. Walker, R. Rhe F. Tepner, M. RaskinSECOND ROW: G. Tolan, C. Porter, A. Chong, C. Karides, N. Conway, P. Kirlin, R. Scourfield, F. Carpenter, H. Moss. FIFTH ROW: S. Abrams, H. Davis, WFR. Leech, R. Waite, H. Phillips, L. Cogan, A. Griswold, S. Gardner, S. Weinstein, Wunderlich, N. Purtell, G. Weingarden, H. Grover, C. Barnett, A. Ross, J. Leach,G. Wright. THIRD ROW: B. Sherbin, L. Bascoy, W. Hendricks, J. Rose, R. Push- R. Neal, S. Koffler, E. Blumberg, G. Thompson, R. Garrett, R. Silvertone, R. Camp-kin, M. White, J. White, D. Higgins, P. Glassman, F. Henry, A. Aaron, J. Treon, bell, J. Ferris, NOT SHOWN ARE: Donald Turner, George Culp, and Paul Tenney-

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.Alvira LunsfordJohn W. Nelson

Lynn Baldwin

Visits CollegeDr. Norman A. Bomengen, Portland, Ore-

gon, member of the C.O.M.S. 500 Club, wasa recent visitor at the college.

Dr. Bomengen graduated in 1951 and be-gan his private practice at Portland in 1954.Today he operates his own clinic, assistedby another staff physician and five officestaff members. Plans are underway to be-gin construction this year of an addition tothe clinic which will increase its capacityto seventeen rooms.

The following ex-cerpts are from thewelcoming addressdelivered by Dr. W.Clemens Andreen,Wyandotte, Michi-gan, President ofthe C. O.M. S. Na-tional Alumni As-sociation, at theSenior banquet,June 1.

My first and most pleasant duty is thatof greeting and congratulating the gradu-ating class. As president of the alumniassociation, I invite you to become activemembers of the alumni groups that arelocated all over the country and to sharethe fellowship of others who have pre-ceded you.

You will face problems and difficulties-for this is the way of life. But as analumnus of this college, you are not alone.Hundreds who have preceded you havegone through the same problems but, re-gardless of where you locate or the prob-lems you face, there is a fellowship amongthe alumni which means that you are notalone.

I greet you as graduates and welcomeyou as alumni, and I urge you to seekout your local chapters and become activemembers in their programs. Truer wordsthan these were never spoken: "Only as aman loseth himself, shall he find his soul".It is only as we lose ourselves in thesegroups, working together with colleagueson common problems, do we find ourselves.The lone wolf is just that-a lone wolf-who contributes very little, if anything, tosociety, to himself or to his family. Joinyour group-work with it-and find your-self.

In extending this invitation I am thesymbol of all the students who have pre-ceded you-who have trod the same paths,and who have had the same feelings ofculmination.

My second invitation to you is an invita-tion into the osteopathic profession as apracticing physician, applying the princi-ples of osteopathic medicine. It is a chal-lenge to each one of you graduating-achallenge that has never been as realisticas it is at this moment. As a practicingosteopathic physician, I can assure youthat you have a public that is waitingfor you, one that will seek you out andwill support you.

iur. anda lrs. iNorman A. BomengenMrs. Bomengen, born and reared in Vir-

ginia, serves as the Doctor's office manager.Dr. Bomengen, born in Boston, Massachu-setts, said laughing, that "he's a Yankeemarried to a Rebel!"

It is important that you be a good osteo-pathic physician-that your true goal bethat of service to the people and that youpractice daily the principles of osteopathicmedicine you have learned in your collegeclasses and clinics.

You have had fine training in the artand science of healing. You are up to dateas of this first day of June, 1961. Medicalresearch proceeds so fast and in suchvolume that you will need to read con-stantly and to attend postgraduate coursesto keep up to date. You are starting withthe best training you could receive. Youhave been well-trained in the principles ofosteopathic medicine-principles that arefar reaching not only in their influence,but also in their implications for the future.

The emphasis of medicine today is onemergency medicine-on treating the pa-tient who has become ill and who comesto you to assist him in the medical emer-gency. You have been trained to help himwith all the modalities of modern practiceof medicine including drugs, surgery andcobalt radiation.

One of the great challenges of the futureis the movement of osteopathic medicineinto preventive medicine-as opposed toemergency medicine. This challenge willbe proven during your years of practice.The aim of medicine should be that of as-sisting people everywhere to live long anduseful lives with a high level of health-fulnss. You have been trained in thisaspect of medicine more thoroughly thanany other group of physicians. This is thechallenge that your practice will bringto you. It is the challenge of medicinetomorrow.

Dr. Bomengen has made many trips in theinterest of the osteopathic profession. InMarch of this year he attended a MedicalLegal Seminar sponsored by the Collegeof General Practitioners in OsteopathicMedicine and Surgery at Palm Springs,California.

In October 1960, Dr. Bomengen attendedthe Medical and Surgical Refresher Courses,sponsored jointly by the American Collegeof General Practitioners in OsteopathicMedicine and Surgery, California Society,and the International College of OsteopathicSurgeons. The meetings were held inHawaii and Japan.

Included in the Hawaiian program werefourteen speakers and a panel of eightmembers of the Hawaii State MedicalGroup, and the Chiefs of Staff of theHonolulu Hansen's Disease Clinic-all ofwhom presented new developments in Medi-cine.

Following the Hawaiian meetings themajority of the osteopathic physicians andsurgeons moved on to Japan where theyviewed Japanese new surgical techniquesat the hospitals of the Medical Schools ofthe University of Chiba, the Nippon Uni-versity and the University of Tokyo.

Dr. and Mrs Bomengen are the parentsof two children, a girl 19, who is a stu-dent at Oregon State College at Corvallis,and a son, 17, who is now a senior in highschool with definite plans to follow in hisfather's profession as an osteopathic phy-sician and surgeon.

As osteopathic physicians you are dif-ferent. You know this difference throughone of two sources-through the oppositionof the other school of medicine or throughyour own positive understanding of thebasic principles. If your knowledge is basedon a positive understanding of the prin-ciples of osteopathic medicine you willknow that the public will lose irreparablyif these principles are lost.

My final welcome is into the future ofosteopathic medicine. It will not be easy,but I do not believe that our goal is thatof an easy future. As a profession wemust put more emphasis on preventivemedicine, on you:th: development and mtoreemphasis on the contributions of this pro-fession to the aging, to the youth withemotional disturbances and to the groupsseeking new patterns of medical practice.

Along with these directions in whichour profession is moving must go the de-velopment of our colleges, the increasingresearch in the basic principles of our pro-fession and in the unique contributionsthat our school of medicine has to offer thepublic.

You will do these things to the exactdegree that you achieve leadership in yourcommunities as osteopathic physicians.Serve your communities, take an active rolein their affairs. Serve your fellow manand you will be a leader, a success as acitizen and as a physician.

In conclusion, I again welcome you intothe alumni of this college-into the ranksof the osteopathic profession and into thefraternity of community service.

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WELCOME, DR. STARK!

A most welcome visitor to our collegeduring commencement, and representingthe earliest graduating class in attendancethis year, was Dr. Earnest F. Stark ofAbilene, Kansas. Dr. Stark graduated inthe class of 1916. He is pictured here, onthe right, as he visits with Dr. Harry L.Davis, Youngstown, Ohio, one of the 1961graduates.

"The college I remember back in 1916was much different than it is today," Dr.Stark said. "It was then located on LocustStreet . .. and there have been many otherchanges in Des Moines, too. In fact, I hadto ask for directions a few times !"

Dr. Stark's visit was his first one inforty-five years.

Sponsors Softball TeamJoe Major, junior student from Denver,

Colorado, president of the C.O.M.S. StudentCouncil, announced that the Council issponsoring a softball team, composed ofC.O.M.S. students, throughout the summer.

The team, in charge of Ralph Martin,junior, will play two games weekly in alocal All-Star City League.

Attend Postdoctoral CourseTwenty-eight physicians attended the

two-day Postdoctoral Course in Cardiopul-monary Disease scheduled as a part of thecollege's pre-commencement activities onJune 1 - 2. Physicians receiving certificatesinclude:

Drs. W. Clemens Andreen, Wyandotte,Michigan; Clive R. Ayers, Atlantic, Iowa;B. B. Baker, Tulsa, Oklahoma; J. C. Bar-tram, Glenville, West Virginia; Byron A.Beville, Tampa, Florida; Darrell D. Brown,Des Moines, Iowa; Milton J. Dakovich, Des

instructors ior mne rostaoctoral Coursein Cardiopulmonary Disease include, leftto right: Dr. Donald E. Evans, Dr. CharlesJ. Karibo, both from Detroit, Michigan; Dr.William B. Strong, Dr. William Hewitt andDr. Myron Magen, C.O.M.S. staff members.Other instructors not pictured include Dr.Harold E. Higley, C.O.M.S., and Dr. I. M.Korr, from Kirksville, Missouri.

Moines, Iowa; Stanley E. Daniels, Cleve-land, Ohio; Kermit Davidson, Scottsdale,Arizona; Laurel A. Deitrick, Bison, SouthDakota; Louis H. Eske, Jr., Dayton, Ohio;Walter B. Goff, Dunbar, West Virginia;R. J. Haas, Crescent, Oklahoma; Sanford S.Herr, Des Moines, Iowa; Donald L. Kay,Des Moines, Iowa; James F. McKeever,Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Louis G. Mancuso,Dallas, Texas; C. M. Parkinson, Denver,Colorado; Aldo G. Pigneri, Anaheim, Cali-fornia; Thomas C. Reed, Tulsa Oklahoma;Frank R. Renier, Allen Park, Michigan;Opal L. Robinson, Houston, Texas; Paul T.Rutter, Central Point, Oregon; Robert J.Smick, Salem, Wisconsin; E. Fred Stark,Abilene, Kansas; Sara E. Sutton, Renwick,Iowa; Fred M. Tente, Des Moines, Iowa;J. V. Wilkes, Rochester, Michigan.

"Time out to relax" was the theme whenthis picture was taken of members of thePostdoctoral Course in CardiopulmonaryDisease.

Sigma Sigma PhiSigma Sigma Phi held its annual senior

banquet at Rocky's Steak House late inMay. Dr. William B. Strong, Medical Direc-tor of C.O.M.S., was featured speaking on"The Future of Osteopathic Medicine".

Seniors honored were: Edwin C. Blum-berg, Nicholas Conway, Harry L. Davis,John P. Ferris, Arthur L. Griswold, SidneyM. Grobman, James R. Leach, Neil T. Pur-tell, Richard D. Rhodes, Earl C. Scheidler,Benjamin N. Sherbin, Donald L. Turner.

- Tom Chambers

A Family Choice

Osteopathy was a natural choice for Dr.Arthur L. Griswold, a 1961 graduate, pic-tured here with his family at a receptionhonoring the Senior class. They are, leftto right, Dr. Arthur Griswold, his wife,Patricia, his mother, Mrs. L. A. Griswoldand father, Dr. L. A. Griswold, a graduateof Kirksville College of Osteopathy andSurgery. All are from South Lyon, Michi-gan. A brother, Ross, was graduated thisspring and another, LeVern, will graduatenext year, both as Doctors of Osteopathy.

Psi Sigma AlphaPsi Sigma Alpha, Honorary Scholastic

Fraternity, rewarded its graduating seniormembers with a banquet held late in Mayat the Breese House in Ankeny, Iowa. Dr.Stuart Harkness addressed the membershipand their ladies. Seniors present whograduated on June 2, 1961 were:

Edwin C. Blumberg, Fred E. Carpenter,Jr., Elwood Cohen, Seymour J. Gardner,Dale John Gierthy, Sidney M. Grobman,Hugh LaVerne Grover, Stephen Cyrus Kof-fler, James Roy Leach, Stanford EdwinLubeck, Herbert Moss, Oliver John Popa,Neil Thomas Purtell, Robert Sheldon Push-kin, Alan Jay Ross, Gerald Joseph Tolan,Donald Leo Turner, Sidney Weinstein, Car-olyn Moneta White, Walter Robert Wunder-lich.

-Keith Simpson



Attention Alumni:During the summer select stu-

dents of C.O.M.S. will contact anumber of our alumni in theirhometowns.

These calls are part of our newprogram designed to establish acloser relationship between thecollege and its alumni.

Any comments or suggestionsyou can give these students willbe appreciated and will help toguide us in better serving you.

The success of this programnecessarily is dependent on thecooperation of all alumni.

Sincerely,

paul la 6ller4ProJcAssistant to the President

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 1961 COMMENCEMENT

1. Staff members Kathryn Chisholm and Sandra Jellinghaus visit 8. Dr. Arthur Flemming delivers commencement address to 1961with Dr. Merlyn McLaughlin and Dr. Arthur Flemming before graduates.the commencement ceremonies. 9. Mrs. Campbell A. Ward, Mt. Clemens, Mich., president of the

2. Dr. Flemming receives honorary Doctor of Humanities Degree. Auxiliary to the A.O.A., is guest speaker for the annual Student3. Dr. John Harris greets C.O.M.S. graduates at the Senior ban- Wives Club luncheon.

quet. 10. Keith Simpson, Parkersburg, W. Va., receives the Dr. Louis4. Friends and relatives join the new Doctors of Osteopathy at a Kesten Memorial Award of $100, given annually to the out-reception held in the North High School gymnasium. standing Junior Student.5. Mrs. Patrick J. Kirlin (with the help of four children) well- 11. Hugh Grover, Flint, Mich., receives the Dr. Paul T. Rutterearned her P.H.T. (Putting Hubby Through) degree she re- Award of $25, given annually to the senior excelling in Osteo-ceives at the Student Wives Club luncheon. pathic technique.6. Faculty wives serve refreshments in the North High School 12. Dr. John Harris, Dr. Merlyn McLaughlin and Dr. Arthur Fler-cafeteria following the reception. ming meet together before the commencement ceremonies,7. Dr. John Harris receives the honorary Doctor of Humanities 13. Dr. H. L. Gulden, Ames, Iowa, serves as Master-of-CeremoniesDegree. at the banquet honoring the Senior class.



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THE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE & SURGERYDes Moines, Iowa AUGUST 196

Two members of the C.O.M.S. facultyrecently received invitations to appear asguest lecturers in foreign countries.

Dr. Jen-Yah Hsie, Associate Professor ofMicrobiology, has been invited by Dr. HaungKwe-Ru, Minister of Education, to lectureat the Medical Association of the Republicof China, on Formosa during the periodAugust 14 through September 15.

During his month's stay Dr. Hsie willvisit the Medical College of Tai-wan Uni-versity and the Army Medical College ofthe Defense Department of Formosa. Hewill also visit important medical hospitalsincluding the University Hospital and Yun-Ming General Hospital at Tai-pei, as wellas the important public health organiza-tions under the sponsorship and introductionof the Department of Health of the Republicof China.

Dr. Hsie joined the C.O.M.S. faculty in1951. His wife, Betty, and nine-year son,plan to accompany him on his lecture-tour.

Jur. Jen- Yah Hlsie Dr. Byron Laycock

Dr. Byron Laycock, Professor of PhysicalMedicine and Rehabilitation has been in-vited to appear as a guest lecturer at theBritish Osteopathic Association's AnnualConvention in London, England, duringOctober 4 through 7. He will conduct aten hour course in Osteopathic Principlesand Diagnosis, and Manipulative Tech-niques.

. ABROADDr. Laycock, who has been a member of

the C.O.M.S. faculty since 1940, has spokento many osteopathic and other groups in theUnited States and Canada but this markshis first invitation to appear before an in-ternational group.

He is a graduate of the Kansas CityCollege of Osteopathy and Surgery andtook post graduate work in Orthopedics,and Osteopathic Principles and Techniquesat Denver, Kirksville, Philadelphia, KansasCity and Des Moines. He is certified bythe American Osteopathic Board of PhysicalMedicine and Rehabilitation.

The British Osteopathic Association hasa membership of seventy-five Doctors ofOsteopathy. Twenty-five are graduates ofAmerican osteopathic colleges and theothers are British medical physicians whohave attended a two-year course offered bythe London Osteopathic College.

Initiateij funior keeiearcAThis summer marks another "first" for Department of Microbi4C.O.M.S. in its medical research and re- Yah Hsie, Associatesearch training program, as well as its Briedis.

service to community groups, with thebeginning of its Junior Research Associates Department of Physica(JXA) program. Rehabilitation--Dr. Byron

sor-Carol Bruns, Lynne IEarlier this year Dr. William Hewitt, The students selectedDirector of Research Affairs and Professor he s t e n t s sof Pharmacology and Physiology, discussed the JRA program representwith Des Moines Public School officials the high schools. Four are fplan of permitting top high school science School and four fromstudents to volunteer for work on medical h n 191 graresearch projects in the College's labora- h o o . ne l s a 19 6i gra dltories, under the direction of regular staff ter college in the fall; twomembers. The plan met with instant ap- midyear; one will be a Seniproval and when discussed with Des Moines one is now a Junior anchigh school science classes approximately Juniors in September.twenty students applied to become JRA's. iiee

High school science instrAfter careful screening, eight were as-signed to summer research projects under ing n the proram includdirectors as follows: East High School; Willian

Department of Anatomy-Dr. Stanley ence Irwin, Herman KirkpaMiroyiannis, Chief Investigator, and A. and Guy Michener, all fromRobert Dzmura, Associate Investigator School.Scott Cram, Ron Goddard. The JRA's are workil

Microanatomy-Dr. Mark Goldie, Assist- projects and for most of tant Professor-Linda Bennett. give approximately half-tin

Department of Pharmacology and Physi- is usually done by researchology-Dr. William Hewitt, Professor-Joe as literature searching, surgGray, Ann Grogan. Pl, ..

ology - Dr. Jen-Professor-Peter

.1 Medicine andLaycock, Profes-Faber.

o participate int two Des Moinesrom East HighRoosevelt Highuate and will en-will graduate ator in September;d three will be

'uctors cooperat-e Wilbur Yount,n Houser, Clar-atric, Jack KochRoosevelt High

ng on severalhe summer willne to work thatassociates, such,ery, microscopy

Junior Research Associate Linda Bennett,Roosevelt High School, is shown here (stand-ing) as she works on a research project inMicroanatomy under the direction of Dr.Mark Goldie (seated left) and Richard Per-ry, Junior C.O.M.S. student.

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. Alvira LunsfordJohn W. Nelson

. .. Lynn Baldwin

When classes open at the C.O.M.S. nextmonth its sixty-third class of Freshmenwill begin a four-year course of study tobecome Doctors of Osteopathy. Indica-tions are that it will be the largest first-year class to enroll at the college.

We look forward to greeting the newclass, as well as the returning upperclassmen. With a stronger college, clinicand hospital staff we believe we can offereach student one of the finest medicalcourses possible to obtain.

The over-all growth of our institutionhas been made possible through thestaunch support of our alumni, now num-bering approximately twenty-one hundredand practicing in forty-three states (in-cluding the District of Columbia) andfour foreign countries. The caliber of ouralumni and their adherence to high pro-fessional standards during their years ofpractice has helped to win for osteopathya firm place as one of the healing arts.

Our college is recognized as an out-standing school of osteopathic medicineand surgery and will continue to growas a credit to the profession.

We welcome another year of close as-sociation with our students and alumni!

Accepts Alumni OfficeDr. L. P. Mills, Platte, South Dakota, has

accepted the post of Chairman of the SouthDakota State C.O.M.S. Alumni Association.

Dr. Mills attended the Northeast Missouri

Teachers College at Kirksville, Missouri,during the 1930's. After completing hiscourses there he enrolled in the Collegeof Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery andgraduated with a Doctor of Osteopathy de-gree in January 1942. In August of thesame year he entered private practice inPlatte, South Dakota.

Dr. Mills is a member of the South Da-kota State Board of Health and was instru-mental in obtaining the Platte CommunityHospital of twenty-four beds. He is a pastmember of the Platte City Council and ispresently active in civic affairs and holdsmembership in several community organi-zations.

Board Member of the MonthThis month we greet Mr. Harry I. Prugh,

Production Director for the Register andTribune Company of Des Moines, as thenewly-elected member of the Board of Trus-tees for the College of Osteopathic Medi-cine and Surgery.

Mr. Prugh is one of Des Moines' busyexecutives and to visit with him in hisrecently remodeled office on the second floorof the R & T building and observe his calmand seemingly unhurried manner makes onerealize it is his efficiency and organizationalabilities that enables him to accomplishhis many tasks.

He was born in Lyndon, Kansas, and aftergraduating from high school he enrolledin Coe College at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, wherehe received the B.A. degree. He took gradu-ate work at Iowa State College in Ames

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and slide preparation, discussion and as-sembling of results. Regular meetings willbe held with members of the staff to discussresearch methods in general and their ownprojects in particular. C.O.M.S. studentswho are working on United States PublicHealth Service and Tobacco Industry Re-search Committee Fellowships will alsomeet with the discussion group.

Dr. Hewitt emphasized that the JRA'sare bonifide research associates and areserving without pay during the program'sinitial start. "They are not to be used as"bottle washers" or animal caretakers.These are superior science students recom-mended to us by their instructors," he said,"and we believe that by opening the re-search laboratories of a recognized medicalschool to select students and giving themthe opportunity to work under skilledleadership we may aid in the developmentof future professional men and women forAmerica."

and in 1931 he was awarded an M.S. degreein Business Administration. He served asan instructor in Accounting at Iowa StateCollege until he yielded in 1937 to repeatedoffers to join the R and T Company as abookkeeper. He thoroughly enjoyed thischange to the business world and, after aseries of promotions, he became AssistantBusiness Manager for the company untilrecently appointed to his present position.

Mr. and Mrs. Prugh, the former MarjoryHager of Piqua, Ohio, are the parents offour children-two daughters, Susan 18, andSallie, 21, and two sons, Robert, 16, andPeter, 23.

Mr. Prugh is a charter member of thelocal chapters of both the National OfficeManagers Association and the NationalAccountants Association. He is a past- pres-ident of the Polk County Tuberculosis andHealth Association and also the FamilyService-Travelers Aid Society. He is pres-ently serving s Vic e-president fWh DeMoines United Campaign Community Serv-ices and holds active membership in theDes Moines Club, the Kiwanis Club of DesMoines and the Des Moines Greater Cham-ber of Commerce. He is well-known for hiswork with the Boy Scouts and is now serv-ing as a member of the Advisory Board.Recently he became a member of the Execu-tive Board of the Des Moines Area Councilof Churches. He is a member of the DesMoines Central Presbyterian Church.

Aside from his family, Mr. Prugh insistshe has no special hobbies-but he does ad-mit to being a member of the R & T corn-pany bowling team. "I think," he says,"that I enjoy my vacation tours of theUnited States as much as anything." Hehas visited in all but five of the states."And," he adds, "I hope to include them inmy future tours."

Pictured here working on a research proj-ect in Pharmacology and Physiology, underthe direction of Dr. Hewitt are, left to right,Marvin Rivken, Junior C.O.M.S. student;Joe Gray, East High School (JRA); AnnGrogan, Roosevelt High School (JRA);Jerold Kramer, Junior C.O.M.S. student.

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Michael S. Barry, who has joined theC.O.M.S. as Registrar for the college. Mr.Barry assumed his duties on July 10.

During the past ten years he has servedas Director of Counseling and Testing Serv-ices for Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.Prior to that he was a Training Officer Su-pervisor for the Veterans Administration inErie, Pennsylvania.

He served for three years during WorldWar II with the United States Marine Corpsat Parris Island, South Carolina, where hewas assigned as a Personnel ClassificationSpecialist and Occupational Technician. Be-fore entering military service he was aPrincipal in the Center Township Schoolsat Homer City, Pennsylvania.

He is a graduate of Indiana State College,Indiana, Pennsylvania, where he receivedthe B.S. degree. He was awarded the M.A.degree in Counseling Psychology at Teach-ers College, Columbia University, New YorkCity, N. Y. A doctoral candidate at Co-lumbia University, he has completed allworking requirements except a thesis.

Mr. and Mrs. Barry reside at 3804 ValdezDrive, Des Moines.

Student Wives' ClubElects Officers

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Student Wives' Club officers for 1961-62are, from left to right: Back row: Mes-dames Tom Lavaty, Second Vice-President;Ben Raines, Treasurer; Front row: Mes-dames Harvey Blum, Secretary; Dave O'-Mara, President; Dick Clarke, First Vice-President.

Dr. Benedict B. O'Malley, Professor ofPhysiology at Fairleigh-Dickinson Univer-sity, Rutherford, New Jersey, will join thefaculty on September 1, as Professor ofPhysiology for the College of OsteopathicMedicine and Surgery.

Dr. O'Malley, who has done extensiveresearch in Biochemistry and Pharmacologyof Cancer, received his A.B. degree fromFordham University, Bronx, N. Y., in 1944.He was awarded the M.S. degree in 1948and the Ph.D. degree in 1950, also fromFordham University.

He was formerly a graduate instructorin Biological Sciences at Fordham Univer-sity, a special lecturer in Biochemistry andPhysiology in the Department of Medicine,New York City Hospital, and served asAssistant Professor and Chairman of theDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacol-ogy at the St. Louis (Missouri) College ofPharmacy and Allied Sciences. He wasalso the Director of the Tumor ResearchDepartment at the Institute of AppliedBiology in New York City.

Dr. O'Malley is an active member of theAmerican Chemical Society, American Biol-ogy Teachers, American Institute of Bio-logical Sciences, Association for the Ad-vancement of Sciences and the AmericanPharmaceutical Association.

He is a native of New York City, a mem-ber of the Roman Catholic Church, is mar-ried and has four children.

A man and wife team will join the fac-ulty of the College of Osteopathic Medicineand Surgery on September 1. They are Dr.David Celander, who has been appointedProfessor in the Department of Biochemis-try and his wife, Evelyn, who has beenappointed an Instructor in the same de-partment.

Both Dr. and Mrs. Celander have beenwith the Department of Biochemistry at theUniversity of Texas, Medical Branch, Gal-veston, Texas, for the past nine years.While there they have done extensive re-search on developing methods of evaluatingthe fibrinolytic state of the individual, andon the isolation and purification of enzymesof potential value in the treatment of throm-botic conditions. They have also done re-search in the area of blood coagulation andfibrinolysis.

Dr. Celander was born and reared in DesMoines. He received his B.A. degree atDrake University in 1946, and was awardedthe M.S. degree in 1949, and the Ph.D. de-gree in 1952, at the University of Iowa.

He is a member of the Drake ChemistryClub, British Biochemical Society, AmericanChemical Society, American Association forthe Advancement of Sciences, Texas Acad-emy of Science and the American Associa-tion of University Professors.

Mrs. Celander was born in Ottumwa,Iowa, and received the B.A. degree fromDrake University in 1948. She is a mem-ber of Theta Sigma Phi, Psi Chi, Phi BetaKappa, the Women's Club of the Universityof Texas, Medical Branch, the John SealyHospital Auxiliary and the Galveston Coun-ty Mental Health Association.

Dr. and Mrs. Celander are members ofthe First Methodist Church and have twochildren, aged two and five years.

Congratulations!Robert K. Simpson of Parkersburg, West

Virginia, a senior at C.O.M.S., was namedthis year's winner of the $1,000 PfizerFoundation Scholarship award.

The award, made bythe Committee on Ed-ucational Grants ofthe National Osteo-pathic Foundation, isbased on achievementas a student, leader-ship in the studentbody and promiseshown of becoming ag'ood osteopathic phy-sician and profession-al man.

Mr. Simpson's ac-tivities in student af-fairs are extensive.He is serving as Pres-

ident of Phi Sigma Gamma fraternity, Vice-President of Sigma Sigma Phi Service Fra-ternity, Secretary of Phi Sigma Alpha Hon-orary Fraternity, President of the Inter-Fraternity Council and is Co-editor of thePacemaker yearbook. During the pastschool year he was Vice-president of theStudent Council.

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Writes For PublicationsTwenty-five short articles on various

drugs and their use, written by Dr. WilliamH. Hewitt, Professor of Pharmacology andPhysiology, at the request of the GrolierSociety of New York, will appear in themedical section of the Society's forthcomingedition of The New Grolier Encyclopedia.

Topics of some of the articles contributedby Dr. Hewitt include Actinomycin, Cam-phor, Cocaine, Lipotropic Factors, Nicotine,Penicillin, Resorcinol, Smelling Salts, Strep-tomycin, Truth Serum and others.

During the past two years Dr. Hewitthas also collaborated with Dr. George M.McCole of Great Falls, Montana, in thepreparation of a book soon to be publishedand entitled STUDIES IN OSTEOPATHICMANIPULATIVE THERAPY AND THEAUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM.

In addition to editing the entire text, Dr.Hewitt' h'as 'contributed two :chapters, oneof the historic and philosophic backgroundsof the osteopathic movement and one onfeed-back control systems in physiologyand medicine.

The book, intended primarily for osteo-pathic physicians and students, will be dis-tributed to other medical schools and uni-versity libraries as an example of osteo-pathic thinking in the analysis of diseaseprocesses.

Visits CollegeWe were happy to see Dr. Leslie E. Stiles,

Jr., a college alumnus (1942) from CarlJunction, Missouri, when he stopped in for'a short visit early in July. Accompanyinghim was his son, Richard, a tenth-gradestudent-with plans of becoming an osteo-pathic physician-and his father, Dr. LeslieE. Stiles, Sr., a dentist at Woodward, Iowa.

Receives GrantThe Department of Psychiatry has been

awarded a grant of $20,832 by the UnitedStates Public Health Service, Institutes ofHealth, through the Mental Health Train-ing Grant Fund for the school year 1961-1962.

Included in the grant are stipends of $600each for nine senior students who are partof the department's special training pro-gram in mental health. The balance of thegrant will be used for the general under-graduate program in psychiatry and psycho-somatic medicine. Both programs are underthe direction of Dr. Harold E. Higley,Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry.

Elect Student Council OfficersFor 1961-62

Joe J. Major, (Junior), Denver, Colorado,was named President of the C.O.M.S. Stu-dent Council for 1961-62, at the annualspring election. Other officers include San-ford S. Berlin (Junior), Detroit, Michigan,Vice-President; Patrick Kevin McClellan(Sophomore), Los Angeles, California, Sec-retary; and Donald R. Beaver (Junior),Petosky, Michigan, Treasurer.

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* REPRESENT COMS ABROAD* INITIATE J.R.A. PROGRAM* FALL REGISTRATION SCHEDULED

Registration ProgramFALL 1961

September 6-Wednesday8:30 a.m. Freshman Orientation

Program3:00 p.m. Freshman Registration *-

September 7-Thursdiy8:00 a.m. Junior. Xegistration-.*8:00 a.m.; FkT"9M tn, Physical Exam-

September 8-Friday9:00 a.m. Sophomore Registration*9:00 a.m. Library Orientation-

Freshman10:00 a.m. Library Orientation-

Freshman

September 11-Monday8:00 a.m. Classes Begin.

* The registration date September 11 stated incatalog is advanced to the above dates.

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PLAN SECOND PUBLIC HEALTH BANQUETOne of Des Moines' early fall social

events will be the second annual publichealth banquet scheduled for Wednesdayevening, October 11, at the Hotel Savery.The obanoqet, a formal affair, sponsored bythe Health, Education and Welfare Com-mittee of the Polk County Society of Osteo-pathic Physicians and Surgeons and repre-sentatives of the College of OsteopathicMedicine and Surgery, promises to becomeone of the annual highlights of Polk Coun-ty osteopathic activities.

Dr. Verne Wilson, staff member ofWilden Osteopathic Hospital in Des Moinesand a faculty member of the College, ischairman of the committee in charge ofbanquet arrangements. He announced thatthe theme of the program will be "Healthis America's Wealth."

"When we planned our first banquet lastyear," Dr. Wilson said, "we did so as adifferent means of acquainting the people

of our state and county with osteopathicactivities. Its success was such that wehave been urged by lay groups, as well asour own, to continue sponsoring a banqueteach year."

invited guests will include state, countyand local govenrment officials, businessmen, civic organization leaders, labor unionofficers, political figures and medical asso-ciation members.

Featured on the program will be a talkby Dr. Otterbein Dressler, noted Pathologistfor Garden City Hospital, Garden City,Michigan. The topic of his address will be"The Purpose of Living."

Members of the Polk County Society ofOsteopathic Physicians and Surgeons,representatives of the College of Osteo-pathic Medicine and Surgery, their wivesand invited guests will participate in asocial, get-acquainted hour preceding thebanquet.

Pictured here are members of the plan-ning committee for Des Moines' secondannual public health banquet. They are,left to right: Dr. E. F. Leininger; Dr. JohnAgnew; Dr. Merlyn McLaughlin, Presidentof C.O.M.S.; Dr. William B. Strong, Medi-cal Director for C.O.M.S.; Dr. Verne Wilson,Chairman; Dr. Stuart Harkness, Presidentof the P.C.S.O.P.S.; Mr. William Fultz,Promotion and Publicity; Dr. ThomasGriffith and Dr. Paul G. Hutson, all fromDes Moines.

Members of the committee not shownhere include Dr. Harry Barquist, Dr.Harry Elmets and Dr. John Schwartz, Jr.,also from Des Moines.

C.O.M.S. Graduate New President of A.O..It was with considerable pride that the ber of the class of 1933, had been installed

students and entire staff of the College of as President of the American Osteopathic0steopatcic Medicine and Surgery receivedthe announcement that Dr. Charles L. Association at the group's annual summerNaylor, Ravenna, Ohio, and graduate mem- meeting in Chicago.

Since his graduation Dr. Naylor has beenan active supporter not only of the Collegebut of the entire osteopathic profession. Heis a past-president of the C.O.M.S. Nation-al Alumni Association, and an activeparticipant in the Osteopathic ProgressFund. During the past year he has servedas President-elect of the American Osteo-pathic Association.

Dr. Naylor begins his term of Presidencyat a time when the osteopathic professionneeds the strongest of leadership. Those ofus who have had the privilege to know andwork with him are assured that he willprovide that leadership.

Dr. Charles L. Naylor"To you, Dr. Naylor, go the best wishes

of C.O.M.S."

Receive CertificationsThree Des Moines area graduates of

C.O.M.S. were included among four Iowansrecently approved by the Board of Trus-tees of the American Osteopathic Associa-tion for certification as specialists in theirselected fields of medicine.

. They are Dr. Joseph McNerney ('37), ofWest Des Moines, in Internal Medicine; Dr.Bryce E. Wilson, ('49), a staff member ofWilden Osteopathic Hospital, in Surgery;and Dr. Arthur Simon ('53), a staff memberof Des Moines General Hospital, inRadiology.

The fourth, Dr. Ralph L. Willard, ofDavenport, Iowa, a graduate of the Kirks-ville (Missouri) College of Osteopathy andSurgery, was also certified in Surgery.

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The log BookVolume 39 September 1961 Number 9







Alvira LunsfordJohn W. Nelson

.Lynn Baldwin

To our new class of Freshmen studentsWELCOME!

You are beginning a four-year courseof study that will lead to a degree of Doctorof Osteopathy-one of the finest careers ofservice an individual could choose.

We do not think you will find your pro-fessional studies easy . . . they will involvemany hours of study, research and hardwork. We assure you that the entire staffis ready to assist you in every way pos-sible.

Our College is beginning its sixty-thirdyear of training osteopathic physicians andsurgeons. Our progress has paralleled thatof the osteopathic profession and we knowthat here you will receive an excellenttraining program so that, after graduating,you may join our alumni--well-equipped toprovide the needed up-to-date medical serv-ice to our nation's people.

We are glad to have you here-we hopeyour work and stay in Des Moines will bemost enjoyable and-we wish you everysuccess!

We're, So Proud!

. . . to claim Mrs. William B. Strong,newly-installed President of the Auxiliaryto the American Osteopathic Association,as one of "our own." Mrs. Strong suc-ceeded Mrs. Campbell A. Ward as presidentduring the group's annual summer meetingin Chicago.

Board Member ofthe Month

This month we salute Dr. Joseph R.McNerney-not only as a very interestedand active member of the Board ofTr-stees for the College of OsteopathicMedicine and Surgery, but also to offerour congratulations to him for recently re-ceiving his Certification as a Specialist inInternal Medicine. It is an honor well-deserved and we wish him continued suc-cess in his chosen field.

Born and reared in Des Moines, Dr.McNerney's interest in osteopathy datesback to his boyhood days when his mother,whose personal physician was an osteopath,became enthused d and convinced that osteo-pathic medicine was an ideal form of thehealing arts. That the belief "rubbed off"on her young son was evidenced when,after completing his schooling, he enrolledin the College of Osteopathic Medicine andSurgery.

Following his graduation he went intoprivate practice at Ledyard, Iowa, thenmoved to near-by West Des Moines wherehe has maintained offices for the pasttwenty-one years. In addition to his ownpractice Dr. McNerney serves as a staffmember in the Internal Medicine depart-ment of the College Clinic.

Dr. and Mrs. McNerney, the former RuthM. Atwell of Grove City, Pa., and theirfamily of nine children have many diversi-fied interests, "which," says Dr. McNerney,"makes for very few dull moments"

Dr. McNerney is interested in severalcivic and professional organizations. He isa past-president of the West Des MoinesLions Club, the West Des Moines Chamberof Commerce and the Polk County Societyof Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons.He is a member of the Board of Trusteesof the Iowa Society of Osteopathic Phy-sicians and Surgeons and holds an activemembership in the American College ofOsteopathic Internists, the Iowa Heart As-sociation, American Public Health Associa-tion, Dowling Club, Knights of Columbusand the Elks Club.

Dr. McNerney is enthused about thefuture of the College of Osteopathic Medi-cine and Surgery. "In fact," he says, "dur-ing the past six months we have definitelymoved ahead and with the completion ofour building program plans we will be ableto provide the Des Moines area with anexcellent medical center."

Appointed to National PostDr. Merlyn McLaughlin, President of the

College of Osteopathic Medicine and Sur-gery, has been appointed to serve as amember of the Osteopathic Progress Fundas the Reprepresentative of the Associationof Colleges. The appointment was made byDr. Charles Naylor, President, and theBoard of Trustees of the American Osteo-pathic Association.

Completes PostdoctoralCourse

Dr. Richard Bond, Bristol, Pa., recentlycompleted a one-month course of study asthe first participant in a new postdoctoralcourse inaugurated this summer by theCollege of Osteopathic Medicine and Sur-gery.

The four-weeks' course, presented byCollege staff personnel, is designed as a"Postdoctoral Course in Metabolic Diseases,

Endocrinology a n dHematology." It isplanned for the in-dividual doctor-stu-dent, though it mayw e 11 accommodateas many as three.Briefly, the courseis planned as fo-lows-the doctor--fud-nir^ -- ic ,,0 ^ .-, A _

Dr. Bond r'&'A i U 1 ctOigsiuthree topics each

week. He first spends several hours onindividual research and study then partici-pates in conference sessions with facultymembers. He is next given case-historiesinvolving the assigned subjects. Afterfurther study and research he meets anddiscusses with the College Hospital interns,residents and externs the details of thecase-histories.

Dr. Bond, who is in private practice_ inBristol and is specializing in internal medi-cine, expressed great enthusiasm for thepostdoctoral course. "It is the finect studyprivilege I have had and the special tutor-ing has been most invaluable," he said,and added, "I have enjoyed being the'guinea pig' for this pilot program whichI believe has great merit and will becomepopular with members of our profession."

Dr. Bond is a graduate of the Phila-delphia College of Osteopathy and Surgery.

Attends Chicago MeetingMrs. Harold Higley, C.O.M.S. Students'

Wives Club Advisor, attended a meeting ofclub advisors at the Drake Hotel in Chica-go during July. Mrs. Frances E. Warnerof Bloomington, Indiana, the NationalA.A.O.A. Students' Wives Advisor, spoketo the group and participated in a round-table discussion.

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Participates in Cooperative ProgramA new cooperative public health program,

developed this summer by Dr. William B.Strong, Medical Director of the College ofOsteopathic Medicine and Surgery, and Dr.James F. Speers (M.D.), Director of theDepartment of Public Health for the City ofDes Moines and Polk County, is well un-derway.

The "clerkship" program, under the di-rection of Dr. Speers, is designed for seniorC.O.M.S. students to secure on-the-job-training in public health services. Students,in groups of five, report to the city healthdepartment for a one-month tour of duty.During that time they work closely withsuch departments as Public Health Nursing,Administration and Epidemiology, Com-municable Disease Control, LaboratoryHealth Services, Environmental Sanitation,Public Health Education, Bio-Statistics andMiulk Sanitation, both rural and city dairyplants.

The purpose of the program, Dr. Strongsaid, is to give the senior student actualtraining in preventive medicine and illus-trate the close relationship between thephysician and disease control. "More andmore emphasis is being placed on pre-ventive medicine in our medical schools,"he added, "and in smaller communities thathave no organized public health depart-ments the local physician is looked to forthe answers. With such fine cooperation asthat extended to us by the Des Moines CityPublic Health Department we feel that agreater service will be provided to the citi-zens of our conmmunities"

JRA's "Graduate"

Faculty Member HonoredDr. Stanley Miroyiannis, (Ph.D.), Pro-

fessor and Chairman of the Department of

Anatomy and Chair-man of the Pre-Clinical Science Di-vision of the Collegeof OsteopathicMedicine and Sur-gery, has been hon-ored by the RoyalSociety of IHealth,London, England-the Patron of theSociety being Her

Dr. Miroyiannis, Majesty, The Queen

of England, Elizabeth.

Students participating in the publichealth "clerkship" program include, left to

right, Anthony Elisco, New Castle, Pa.;

Arthur Angove, Albia, Iowa; Sil Zlarins,

Detroit, Michigan, and Elwyn D. Crawford,

Reading, Michigan. They are watching as

Nelle Fishel, bacteriologist in the city-

county health department, prepares a slide.

Receives GiftA recent and most welcome gift of a

Kidde machine for tubal insufflation wasmade to Mr. Al Parmenter, College Hos-pital Administrator, by an annonymousdonor for use in the Department of Ob-stetrics and Gynecology. Pictured here ex-amining the machine are left to right, Dr.Elizabeth Burrows, Associate Professor inObstetrics and Gynecology; Dr. R. E. Hen-shaw, Resident in General Surgery; SeniorStudent Doctors Martin Karp, Martin Dia-mond, and Herbert Goodwin and Mr.Parmenter.

The Certificate of Membership, No.

27154, is pictured here.

Dr. Miroyiannis, who has been a faculty

staff member since 1953, is well-known both

nationally and internationally for his work

and writings in the field of anatomy. He is

also active in the Army Reserve Corps and

holds the rank of Lt. Colonel. He is pres-

ently serving as Commanding Officer of the

U. S. Army Garrison Unit, U.S.A.R. Medi-

cal Service Corps, Fort Des Moines, Iowa.

The entire C.O.M.S. staff shares with Dr.Miroyiannis his pride in receiving his new-est honor and offers him hearty congrat-ulations.

Six Junior Research Associates (JRA),

who completed their summer research

projects (August, Log Book), are shown

here after receiving Certificates of Ap-

preciation from Dr. Merlyn McLaughlin,President of the College of Osteopathic

Medicine and Surgery. They are, left to

right, Ann Grogan, Roosevelt High School;

Joe Gray and Ron Goddard, both from East

High School ; Dr. William Hewitt, Direc-

tor of Research Projects; Scott Cramm,

Lynn Faber and Linda Bennett, all from

Roosevelt High School.

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C.O.M.S. STUDENT WIVES'CLUB

wvill hold a get-together for all newstudents' wives Thursday, Septem-ber 14-8:30 p. m. at the Dr. andMrs. Harold Higley residence,1541 Germania Drive.

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Attention: National Alumni Association MembersThe National Alumni Association of the

College of Osteopathic Medicine and Sur-gery is preparing for the annual meetingwhich will be held during the AmericanOsteopathic Association convention sched-uled for January 1962, at Las Vegas,Nevada. Your National Executive Secre-tary, Dr. Stan J. Sulkowski, Kansas City,Mo., calls attention to the following Articlesand By-Laws of the Constitution and By-Laws of the National Alumni Association:

ARTICLE V-Constitution:.... Each divisional Chapter shall beentitled to one delegate, 'and one additionaldelegate for each ten (or major fractionthereof) of the number of active membersof the Association located within the terri-tory represented by the divisional Chapter.

ARTICLE IV-Section I-By-LawsThe Secretary of this Association shall

cause to be published in the Log Book (orby other adequate means) a list of thedivisional Chapters showing: (1) the num-

ber of delegates and alternates that eachdivisional Chapter is entitled to seat inthe House of Delegates; (2) the number ofvotes to which each divisional Chapter isentitled.

Section II-By-Laws:The Secretary of each divisional Chapter

shall certify its delegates to the Secretaryof this Association in writing (or wire) atleast fifteen days prior to the date of theannual meeting of the House of Delegates.Such delegates and alternates must be ac-tive members in good standing in this Asso-ci'ation.

Alumni records as of August 15, 1961,indicate that each of the following divis-ional Chapters is entitled to ONE votingdelegate-with the exception of Iowa,Michigan and Ohio whose numbers of dele-gates are listed:

ArizonaCaliforniaColorado

DelawareFloridaGeorgia

Iowa (4)KansasKentuckyMaineMassachusettsMichigan (3)MinnesotaMissouriNebraskaNew Jersey

New MexicoOhio (2)OklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaSouth DakotaTexasWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsin

Amendments to be submitted atthe 1961 annual meeting of the Na-tional Alumni Association are:

(1) ARTICLE IV-Section 1-By-Laws:Should be changed from FEBRUARY

Alumni Issue of the Log Book to AUGUSTAlumni Issue of the Log Book.

(2) ARTICLE III-Section 1-By-Laws:The fiscal year should be changed from

JUNE 1 to JANUARY 1 to coincide withthe terms of office.

AK ~ - - SJianh. . . and a Welcome to these

"500" Club(These members give $500 to the College each year)

additional Club Members.

"250" Club(These members give $250 to the College each year)

Dr. Paul T. RutterCentral Point, Oregon

"350" Club('These members give $350 to the College each year)

Dr. E, E. JohnsonEspanola, New Mexico

Dr. James A. BarnettDes Moines, Iowa

Dr . .A. DierdorffSunnyside, Washington

Dr. Dale DodsonNorthfield, Minnesota

Dr. Paul E. DunbarPaducah, Kentucky

Dr. George E. EvansNorwalk, Ohio

Dr. Don R. HickeyBayard, Iowa

Dr. George E. JacksonDetroit, Michigan

September, 1961Second Class Postage paid

at Des Moines, Iowa


* PLAN SECOND ANNUAL PUBLIC HEALTHBANQUET

* BEGIN COOPERATIVE PUBLIC HEALTHPROGRAM

* ALUMNI ASSN. MEETING-JANUARY, '62

Dr. Robert J. HindmanPlymouth, Michigan

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OCTOBER, 1961

C.O.M.S. ANNOUNCES NEAR-CAPACITY ENROLLMENTFreshman Class One of Largest

In History of CollegeEighty-two future doctors of osteopathy began their four-year course of study at

the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery on Monday, September 11. They are,

by State: COLORADO: Lewis A. Fraterelli, Denver; FLORIDA: Joseph W. Chatfield,

Miami; Allen Fischer, Miami Beach; Ellington Hardin, Jacksonville; Richard C.

Harrison, St. Petersburg; Gaetano Urso, Tampa; INDIANA: Norman Armstrong,

Crawfordsville; IOWA: Carl A. AagesenDows; John Agnew, Des Moines; Daniel

Francis, Creston; James Hospodarsky, Des Moines; Calvin Kay, Des Moines; Richard

Mills, Cedar Rapids; Terry Podolsky, Des Moines; Joseph J. Stork, Adel; Alan E. Tyler,

Cedar Rapids; Roger Waltz, West Des Moines; Ellis Zussman, Des Moines; KANSAS:

Dennis Mallory, Lawrence; MASSACHUSETTS: John A. Zuransky, Dedham; MICHI-

GAN: Joseph Balog, Detroit; Henry Beckmeyer, Sheridan; William Benyak, Flint;

Roy Bulson, Grand Rapids; Kenneth Blazofsky, Detroit; Vincent Condino, Grosse

Pointe; Seymour Cywiak, Detroit; Frank Donar, Highland Park; Elliot Feldman,

Detroit; Lionel Gatien, Southgate; Paul Gorelick, Oak Park; Irwin Gutenberg Detroit;

Craig Huffman, Belding; Robert Inman, Royal Oak; Sheldon Katanick, Detroit; Gerald

Kronk, Detroit; Arthur Lieberman, Detroit; Robert McDonald, Jackson; John Ozog,

Detroit; Arthur Pancioli, Detroit; Laurence Ribiat, Detroit; Max Robins, Detroit;

Russell Seaman, Jr., Royal Oak; Jerry Taylor, Detroit; George Valley, Muskegon;

Donald Weiss, Detroit; NEW JERSEY: Frank Barcellona, Newark; Loy Harrell, Col-

lingswood; Ronald Izbicki, Paterson; Henry L. Morganstein, Bayonne; James F.

Sosnowski, Bayonne; NEW YORK: Gerald Friedman, Flushing; Myron Kaplan, Jamai-

ca; Barry Leibowitz, Brooklyn; Lawrence Mazzarella, Jr., Jackson Heights; Robert

Orr, St. Albans, Queens; Francis Schrade, Bronx; Melvyn Sherman, Franklin Square;

Richard Sherman, Brooklyn; Cornelius Shubiak, Bayport; Hugo Stierholz, Buffalo;

OHIO: Robert Brown, Pomroy; Ivan Collins, Youngstown; Perry Dworkin, Columbus;

John C. Hardy, Dayton; Jim L. Johnston, Canton; John Sandru, Youngstown; OKLA-

HOMA: Don Hughes, Oklahoma City; Jerry Hutchinson, Tulsa; PENNSYLVANIA:

Joseph E. Czarnecki, Philadelphia; Alan Cohn, Havertown; Max Polonsky, Philadelphia;

John Sybert, Nanty-Glo; Michael Venditto, Philadelphia; TENNESSEE: Ben Manley,

Union City; TEXAS: Bernard Feigelman, Houston; Jerold M. Lynn, Dallas; John Sar-

tori, Fort Worth; WASHINGTON: Patrick Enyeart, Seattle; WISCONSIN: John G.

Krueger, Neenah; WASHINGTON, D. C.: Toon Lee; FOREIGN: Ambrose Wotorson,

Grand Cess, Liberia.

With a near-capacity enrollment of two

hundred and seventy-five (275) students,

the College of Osteopathic Medicine and

Surgery has begun its sixty-third year of

training new osteopathic physicians and

surgeons.

In addition to one of the largest classes

of Freshmen to enroll for the four-year

course of study, returning upper-classmen

include sixty-five Sophomores, sixty-three

Juniors and sixty-five Seniors.

"We are gratified with our enrollment,"

Dr. Merlyn McLaughlin, president of the

College, said, "We know that our students

will receive one of the finest courses of

training possible to prepare them for their

future careers as osteopathic physicians

and surgeons. Also, this year's enrollment

bears out the fact that as the public be-

comes acquainted with the complete medica?

care offered by the doctors of osteopathy

more of our young people are applying for

admission to our schools of osteopathic

medicine ..

Returning students have found many im-

provements in the physical plant of the

college, clinic and hospital. During the sum-

mer many of the classrooms, laboratories

and treatment rooms have been re-decorat-

ed and re-arranged to care for the increas-

ed enrollment and to provide a better ser-

vice.

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Receives Research GrantThe College of Osteopathic Medicine and

Surgery has received notification from Dr.Alexander Levitt, chairman of the GrantsCommittee of the Foundation of Researchof the New York Academy of Osteopathy,that a grant of $25,833 has been made tothe College for four research projects andtraining programs.

Projects selected to receive grants, andtheir amounts include:$10,000 toward the fellowship training pro-

gram in clinical medicine under thedirection of Dr. William B. Strong,Medical Director.

$11,933 toward establishment of an inter-departmental instrumentation lab-oratory (c o n s t a n t-temperaturerooms, radio-isotope equipment,recording spectrophotometry, phy-

siologic polygraphy), under the di-rection of Dr. William Hewitt,Director of Research Projects andProfessor in Pharmacology.

$ 2,500 toward expansion of the third-yearcourse in correlative clinical osteo-pathy, under the direction of Dr.Byron Laycock, Professor of Physi-cal Medicine and Rehabilitation.

$ 1,400 toward a study of manipulative andpharmacotherapeutic means of al-tering intracranial blood flow, car-ried on by Dr. Laycock and Dr.Hewitt.

These grants represent an allocation offunds from a grant made to the Founda-tion by the Rockefeller family for researchin osteopathic medicine.

Jack E. Backer, who has been namedDirector of Public Relations for the Col-lege of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery.

Mr. Backer, who assumed his new dutieson September 1, is a native Iowan. He wasborn in Britt and later moved with his fami-ly to Mapleton where he graduated fromhigh school. Following his graduation heenrolled for Agricultural Journalismcourses at the Iowa State University atAmes. He transferred to Nebraska StateTeachers College, Wayne, Nebraska, wherehe received the B. A. Degree in 1958. Hethen attended the University of Iowa forgraduate study.

Mr. Backer served for one year as theInstructor in Journalism and AthleticCoach for the Bloomfield High School atBloomfield, Nebraska. During the past twoyears he has been Instructor in Journalismand Assistant in the News Service Depart-ment at Fort Hays State College, Hays,Kansas.

Mr. and Mrs. Backer are the parents ofa two-year old daughter and are membersof the Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Backer replaces Paul Ellerbroek,who has accepted a position as Superin-tendent of the Grounds for the Des Moines(Iowa) Water Works.

Visits College"Healing the sick" is as backward today

as the old modes of travel would be in thisage of jet planes. From now on the empha-sis in medical training must be on pre-ventive-and space-medicine."

This was the assertion made by GillRobb Wilson, one of the most interestingrecent visitors to the College, when hestopped to visit with Dr. Merlyn McLaugh-lin and accompany him to Simpson Collegeat Indianola (Iowa) where both men wereparticipants in the three-day AerospaceInstitute held there during September 5-7.

"The human body is still the most com-plex and interesting phenomena Nature hasproduced," Mr. Wilson added, "and today'sdoctor cannot be sure of the status of thepeople he will serve in any given communi-ty. Improved means of communication andwider travels have brought a greaterknowledge of many things to all people.Hence, our doctors must know many psy-chologies."

Tall, energetic Gill Robb Wilson, who be-lies his seventy years, is one of the nation'sforemost consultants on aeronautic prob-lems and is in constant demand from vari-ous military and civilian groups who seekhis counsel and services.

Mr. Wilson, who was a pilot in theFrench army during World War I until helater transferred to the United States Armyforces, has been flying for "half a century"and has flown every known make of plane.He insists that, from the pilot's point ofview, today's planes are not much differentthan the earlier ones-"they both serve thesame navigational purpose." His flying ex-periences, which include special missionsfor the government during World War II,have taken him to seventy different coun-tries of the world.

He is convinced that we will have spacetravel on a tourist's scale-far sooner thanwe may think. "By then," he says, "themakers of space aircraft and equipment

will produce less complicated machines forsuch use."

Mr. Wilson, who formerly served as As-sistant to the President of the United StatesFreight Company, Boston, Mass., until his"retirement" to his home at San Gabriel,California, is now actively serving as Chair-man of the Board of Directors for theElectronics Communications Corporation,whose firm develops guidance systems foraircraft. He is also a member of the Boardof Directors for the Bankers National LifeInsurance Company of New York. But heis probably best known as the publisher ofthe magazine FLYING-which has an in-ternational circulation of 80,000 copies eachmonth.

'nill Kobb Wilson, left, and Dr. MerlynMcLaughlin take time out for a chat duringMr. Wilson's recent visit to the college.

Mr. Wilson scoffs at retirement and in-sists that the easiest way to "wear out" isto stop working. He pointed out that theproblems of longevity is the biggest chal-lenge our doctors must face in the future."Science has lengthened our span of lifebut-are we physically able to live it well?"

Despite his busy schedule, Mr. Wilsongreeted the College's new class of Fresh-men who were meeting to register on thesame day he visited us-"and, Gill RobbWilson, we sincerely hope you will come tosee us again soon."

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Editor .. .. Alvira LunsfordAssociate Editor .' John W. NelsonPhoto Editor ... . Lynn Baldwin

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It Was Good to See... C.O.M.S. Fraternity Officers1961 - 1962

ATLAS FRATERNITYJohn T. Block, PresidentEugene F. Trell, Vice PresidentAnthony T. Salamony, SecretaryWilbur Franklin, Treasurer

IOTA TAU SIGMA FRATERNITYOscar E. Gutierrez, PresidentVernice Strickland, Vice PresidentVictor Jurczenko, TreasurerPatrick K. McClellan, Secretary

LAMDA OMICRON GAMMAFRATERNITY

David J. O'Mara, PresidentGerald Sussman, Vice PresidentDonald Bernstein, TreasurerJoseph Doctor, Recording SecretaryStuart A. Megdall, Corresponding Sec-

retaryNelson H. Sklar, Sgt. at Arms

in Physiology, when he stopped to visitwith us recently. Dr. Nusser, who is on aleave-of-absence from C.O.M.S., is at EmoryUniversity at Atlanta, Georgia, where heis taking advanced work on a Fellowshipgrant in the Department of Anatomy. Hisspecial studies are in the field of neuuo-physiology. He reports that he is enjoyinghis work very much and he made manyfavorable comments regarding the severalchanges that have been made at the Col-lege during his absence.

To Publish AlumniDirectory

Plans are underway to prepare aC.O.M.S. alumni directory to be distributedto each alumnus. Dr. Merlyn McLaughlinannounced recently.

The directory, to be prepared under thedirection of Jack Backer, director of PublicRelations, will contain the names and pres-ent address of each alumnus and the yearof graduation. e llege h ege has long feltthat such a directory would be of valueand interest to both college personnel andalumni.

Alumni records for the years 1907-1921are not complete. Information concerninggraduates during those years will be ap-preciated.

Letters to The Editor"... .I note with pleasure the announce-

ment of the election of Dr. Miroyiannis asa member of the Royal Society of Health.I wonder and would be very interested inknowing the number of men associated withthe College and its profession who are mem-bers of this society. I was elected to mem-bership in the Royal Society in 1957. Ifyou have knowledge of others who aremembers, I would appreciate knowing aboutthem."

Sincerely,Richard C. Rogers, D.O.Eldora, Iowa

Atlas ClubThe Atlas Club officially started its school

year the evening of September 11 with ageneral meeting of members. Tentativeplans for this year's rushing program werediscussed.

We wish to welcome Marvin Schles,sophomore, on his reactivation into the club.Word has it that one of the illustriousAtlas members has acquired a new studypartner ... a monkey, named Suzie!

The members of the Atlas Club were in-vited by Dr. Marshall E. Lowery (AtlasAlumnus) to look over his new and ultra-modern office in West Des Moines. We wishhim the best of success in his new location.Dr. Lowery will participate in one of ourrushing program meetings and will speakon "The Practice of Modern Osteopathy."

-Tony Salamony

It Was A Nice Dayv .

. . . for the Freshmen Class picnic, spon-sored by the Executive Committee of theFaculty Wives' Club and held at DesMoines' Union Park on Sunday, September10.

Pictured here is Dr. Merlyn McLaughlin,president of the College, visiting with agroup of new students.

Approximately one hundred persons, in-cluding freshmen, their families, and facultystaff members were on hand to enjoy theouting.

PHI SIGMA GAMMA FRATERNITYR. Keith Simpson, PresidentHerbert Y. Bez, Vice PresidentLouis Fortuna, SecretaryRoger Monsour, TreasurerCecil H. Miracle, House ManagerNorman Rose, Grant R. Born, Pledge

Chairmen

SIGMA SIGMA PHIEarl F. Gonyaw, PresidentR. Keith Simpson, Vice PresidentThomas E. Chambers, Secretary-Treasur-

erRaymond V. Failer, Sgt. at ArmsJohn W. Nelson, Corresponding Secretary

PSI SIGMA ALPHAChris N. Bakris, PresidentJames Mendola, Vice PresidentJohn W. Nelson, SecretaryR. Keith Simpson, TreasurerFelix K. Milton, Parliamentarian

"Will It Hurt?".. .

That's what three-year old Janice ReneeSamouris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. RobertSamouris, 1948 S.W. First, Des Moines(Iowa), seems to wonder as she appearedfor her physical examination during therecent Disabled American Veterans' 1961Baby Contest held in Des Moines. Morethan 455 entrants in the contest were ex-amined in the College Clinic Departmentof Pediatrics, under the direction of Dr.Myron Magen and his staff. Shown hereare Dr. Chris Bakris, left, Mrs. Samourisand Dr. Nick Rimedio as they assure Janicethat "it won't hurt!"

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i. Lr. ivlerlyn McLaugnlln welcomes the 1961 freshmen Class to 8 and 9. Dr. Byron Laycock introduces the 1961 Freshmen ClassC.O.M.S. to the Philosophy of Osteopathy.2. It's "pay up" time. 10 and 11. Dr. John W. Campbell, President of the Iowa Society3. Dr. William Strong meets the new students. of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, and Dr. H. L. Gulden,4. Gill Robb Wilson was a welcome visitor during Freshman osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, and Dr. H. L. Gulden,o4. Gill obb Wilson was a welcome visitor during Freshman President of the Iowa Alumni Association, bring greetings.orientation. 12. "Ah! At last! The food is served!" at the Freshmen picnic.5. Dr. Stuart Harkness, president of the Polk County Society of 1. "A h ! A t l a s t ! T h e foo d is s e r v e d a t e Freshmen picnic.Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, greets the class. " e physically fitthis 1961 class!6. "Just waiting for the food" ... at the Freshman picnic. 14. Paul Ellerbroek, Assistant to the President; 15. Michael Barry,7. Keith Simpson, President of the Intra-fraternity Council, left, Registrar; and 16. Cecil Looney, Business Manager, bring moreJoe Major, Student Council President, center, and Earl Gonyaw. information to the new students.

President of Sigma Sigma Phi, discuss student activities. 17. "Time out, fellows, for refreshments!" Michael Barry pouring.

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ANNOUNCE PLANS FOR ALUMNI MEETINGFinal arrangements for C.O.M.S. alumni

functions at the national A.O.A. meetingJan. 15-18 in Las Vegas, Nevada, have beencompleted according to college alumni of-ficials.

Dr. Clemens Andreen, alumni president,and Dr. Stan Sulkowski, alumni secretary,confirmed dates for the House of Delegatesmeeting and the alumni luncheon during arecent visit to the college.

Members of the House of Delegates willmeet at the Flamingo Hotel at 7:30 a.m.Tuesday, Jan. 16, for a breakfast meetingas guests of the alumni association.

The alumni luncheon is scheduled for1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17, also in theFlamingo Hotel. Tickets are included in theregistration fee. Dr. Andreen said thatwives are invited to the luncheon.

A nominating committee will submitnames of alumni officer candidates to theHouse of Delegates. Members are Dr.Charles Naylor, Ravenna, Ohio, chairman;Dr. Jean LeRoque, Des Moines, Iowa; Dr.Paul E. Dunbar, Paducah, Kentucky, andDr. Glenn Fisher, Tulsa, Okla.

Dr. Andreen has asked that alumni sub-mit names of doctors they think would makegood alumni officers to members of thecommittee. Nominations are to be completedby Dec. 15.

Dr. J. R. Forbes, Phoenix, Ariz., currentpresident-elect, will become president. nomi-nations are irn erder for a president-elect,vice-president and executive secretary.

Delegates certified by divisional associa-tions will also consider amendment changes,alumni members of the Board of Trustees,and names for honorary life memberships.

Alumni who have been in practice at least30 years and who have reached age 65 maybe named honorary life members. Names ofeligible candidates should be submitted tothe alumni office by Dec. 15.

In addition to two amendment changesprinted in September's Log Book, ArticleII, Sec. III has been reworded. It now reads:

"By Specific action of the Executive Com-mittee, approved by the House of Delegates,associate membership may be granted topersons outside of the profession who arenot graduates of C.O.M.S. Such associatemembers shall pay dues and will be ac-corded all the rights and privileges of analumnus with the exception of a diploma."

Secretaries of divisional chapters shouldcertify members for the House of Delegates

Hr. vv. ulemens Anareen, Wyandotte, Michigan, President of the C.O.M.S. NationalAlumni Association, left, and Dr. Stan J. Sulkowski, Kansas City, Missouri, ExecutiveSecretary, approve an honorary membership plaque to be awarded to Honor Clubmembers.

by Dec. 15. Names should be sent to thealumni office in Des Moines.

At the present time the college does nothave alumni officers in Arizona, Arkansas,Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois,Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, NewJersey, New York, North Carolina, NorthDakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Ten-nessee, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin,Canada and Washington, D. C.

Alumni from these states willing to serveas delegates or who know of doctors whowill be in Las Vegas and who would serveas delegates are asked to send names to thealumni office for certification.

Each alumni chapter is entitled to onevoting delegate, with the exception of Iowa,

Michigan and Ohio who are allowed three,five and two respectively. Additional dele-gates are assigned for each 10 or fractionthereof of the number of active membersin the local chapter.

The alumni luncheon program will includeinstallation of new officers, President Mc-Laughlin's report on plans for the future, areport of the year's activities by Dr.Andreen, a brief talk by Dr. Naylor, pastpresident, awarding of plaques to membersof the college club plans, and the awardingof several counselor-at-large awards to in-dividuals who have contributed much to thecollege and the profession.

Dr. Sulkoski said letters have been sentto alumni members reminding them to payalumni dues. He said payments should bemade to the alumni office at the college.

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were recently adopted by the College ofOsteopathic Medicine and Surgery AlumniAssociation.

Late in September college officials ex-tended an invitation to 82 graduates of theMassachusetts College of Osteopathy to be-come associate members of the C.O.M.S.Alumni Association.

Early acceptances were received fromDr. H. H. Borders, St. Petersburg, Fla.;Dr. Paul B. Harbour, Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr.H. E. McTighe, Tulsa, Okla.; Dr. Joseph P.Valeska, Reno, Nev., and Dr. William J.Welch, Lewiston, Maine.

Requests for associate membership cameto the college through Dr. Paul Kimberly,St. Petersburg, Fla., (1940 grad) and mem-berships were offered after approval wasgiven by the A.O.A. and the Board ofTrustees.

Doctors accepting the offer will have allthe privileges of alumni with the exceptionof a diploma.

Presents PostgraduateProgram

Dr. Strong Dr. Higley Dr. WoodsThree members of the College faculty, Dr.

William Strong, Medical Director and Pro-fessor of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. HaroldHigley, Chairman of the Department ofPsychiatry and Associate Professor in Psy-chiatry, and Dr. Ronald K. Woods, ActingChairman of the Department of Surgery,presented a postgraduate program for mem-bers of the Lapeer County Osteopathic As-sociation, the Lapeer Medical Associationand the Oakland County Osteopathic Asso-ciation at Lapeer, Michigan, on September23 and 24.

Board Member of theMonth

Leonard G. Howell is a builder a builderof big, strong and beautiful things ofbuildings, roads and even an occasionaldam. (Though he scoffs at the suggestionthat such a profession requires artisticability, his sensitive face and eyes tell onethat here is a man with insight and visionto create such work.) He is presently serv-ing as president of the Weitz Company ofDes Moines, Iowa, whose construction workextends throughout the United States, al-though most of its operations are in themidwest.

Mr. Howell is a native Ohioan-born andreared at Ironton. After his graduationfrom high school there he was employedin the Ironton City Engineer's office andliked the work so much that he later en-rolled in Denison University at Granville,Ohio, where he received a B.S. degree inEngineering. During his college years hecontinued working part-time for the sameengineering office and, in addition, heldthree other part-time jobs to defray ex-penses.

The sessions were held in the LapeerCounty General Hospital and program ar-rangements were made by Dr. Donald P.Harrington of Imlay, Michigan.

The postgraduate program was made pos-sible through the financial grant made byE. R. Squibb and Sons, Division of OlinMathiseon Company, New York, to the Na-tional Osteopathic Foundation for use in apilot study on providing postgraduate edu-cation to D.O.'s in practice.

Federal Grant ReceivedA $25,000 continuing grant for Cancer

has been made to the College of OsteopathicMedicine and Surgery by the Department ofHealth, Education and Walfare NationalInstitutes of Health.

The grant will be used for undergraduateteaching and training in Cancer studies.

At the age of twenty-one years he wasemployed as City Engineer for Ironton andserved in that capacity for ten years. Thiswas followed by five years of highway con-struction until he was appointed as the firstCity Manager of Ironton. From there hewent to Port Huron, Michigan and, sixyears later, to Madison, Wisconsin as CityManager and finally to Des Moines, in1950, where he served for six years as itsfirst City Manager.

Mr. Howell was honored in 1950 with acitation by the Board of Trustees of Deni-son University in recognition of his servicein municipal government. He was alsoawarded an Honorary Membership by theOmicron Delta Kappa fraternity at DrakeUniversity in Des Moines. He is listed in"Who's Who in America."

Mr. Howell is a past-president of the In-ternational City Managers Association andholds an active membership in the DesMoines Greater Chamber of Commerce, theDes Moines Club, Rotary Club and MasonicBodies. He is a member of the Baptistchurch.

A genuine pride shows on Leonard How-ell's face as he discusses his family whichincludes Mrs. Howell, the former Fay Henryof Ironton, and their two sons, Leonard H.,who is in the automobile business in Ottawa,Ohio, and Dr. J. T., who is assistant directorof the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit,Michigan.

Because of his heavy work schedule dur-ing his college days he confined his sportsactivities to intramural team play in bas-ketball and baseball, and later engaged incivic tournament play in tennis. He nowlists fishing as one of his present-day"sports interests" and, with his family,spends many of his vacations near a goodfishing spot.

Yes, Leonard Howell is a builder-a manwith vision-and with such men serving asmembers of the Board of Trustees, the Col-lege of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgerycan only move forward!

Publishes ArticleAn informative article entitled "Aero-

space Education Council of Iowa" andwritten by Dr. Merlyn McLaughlin, presi-dent of C.O.M.S., appeared in the October(1961) issue of NATIONAL AERONAUTICmagazine.

Dr. McLaughlin who is a Lt. Colonelin the United States Air Force Reserve anda former Director of Aeronautics at theUniversity of Denver, is internationallyknown for his work in aerospace education.

Installed As PresidentKarl Greenlee, member of the Board of

Trustees for the College of OsteopathicMedicine and Surgery and Administratorof Wilden Osteopathic Hospital, Des Moines(Iowa), was installed as President of theAmerican Osteopathic Hospital Associationduring the group's convention meetings inDenver, Colorado, October 29 - Nov. 1.

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invited to participate in the program for theAmerican College of Osteopathic Surgeons

at its thirty-fourthannual clinical as-sembly in Denver,Colorado, on Oc-tober 2 9 throughNovember 2. Theyare Dr. Joseph Pri-or and Dr. StuartHarkness.

Dr. Prior is agraduate of the Col-lege of OsteopathicAI /N -1A ** --Amp Dra

Dr. Prior ivieuicmie ani Siur-gery and is present-

ly serving as an Assistant Professor ofAnesthesiology and Chairman of the De-partment of Anesthesiology of CollegeHospital. He is a founder member of theAmerican Osteopathic College of Anes-thesiologists.

Dr. Prior addressed the afternoon ses-sion on October 30, and discussed the Safe-guards in Anesthetizing Patients. His pre-sentation considered the preanesthetic con-trol and evaluation of surgical, obstetricaland emergency room patients including themanagement of transporting patients whennecessary. Surgical suite environment aswell as patient safeguards during levelsof anesthesia were also considered.

Dr. Harkness, who is a graduate of theT-1-_ ! l _ 1 __ 1 _ 1rniiaaeipnia collegeof Osteopathy, is aClinical Professor ofOsteopathic Medi-cine at the Collegeof Osteopathic Medi-cine and Surgeryand Chairman of theDepartment of In-ternal Medicine atDes Moines Gener-al Hospital. He isalso a Consulting

Dr. Harkness Internist at Wildenand other area hos-

pitals. He is a Diplomate of the AmericanOsteopathic Board of Internal Medicine andis serving as its Secretary. He is also aFellow in the American College of Osteo-pathic Internists.

Dr. Harkness, also scheduled to speakat the afternoon session on October 30,discussed Pulmonary Function Studies. Hispresentation included a practical applica-tion of Pulmonary function studies as wellas a scientific review of the pulmonarylaboratory.

Other College staff members who attendedthe meetings were Dr. Merlyn McLaughlin,president, and Almon Parmenter, CollegeHospital Administrator.

Several C.O.M.S. alumni who were listedas participants on the program includedDrs. Louis M. Radetsky (1942), Denver,Colorado; Donald J. Evans (1937), Detroit,Michigan; H. W. Merrill (1945), Portland,Oregon; Robert Rheinfrank (1941), Tulsa,Oklahoma, and George G. Smith (1928),Saginaw, Michigan.

Enrollment Figures AnnouncedThe 1961-62 student body of the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery has

a "cosmopolitan flavor," according to enrollment figures released by the Office of theRegistrar, Michael Barry.

One hundred and sixteen colleges and universities, including seven in Iowa, arerepresented among the 279 students. Iowa institutions listed are Coe College, CedarRapids; Drake University, Des Moines; Loras College, Dubuque; St. Ambrose College,Davenport; Simpson Colege, Indianola; State University of Iowa, Iowa City and Uni-versity of Dubuque, Dubuque.

Students registered come from twenty-six states, the District of Columbia and 3foreign countries-China, India and Liberia.

Interesting facts concerning the 1961 Freshman class-one of the largest to enrollat C.O.M.S.-reveal that 199 applications for admittance were received; 103 were givenacceptance and 82 were finally enrolled to begin the four-year course of study. Reasonscited for non-enrollment of accepted applicants were:

1. Personal illness

2. Family difficulties

3. Financial problems

4. Inability to meet balance of admission requirements5. Desire to complete requirements for the bachelor's dgree6. Acceptance and enrollment in another medical school7. Acceptance and enrollment in a European medical school.8. Desire to pursue graduate work.

A more complete breakdown of fall enrollment figures are shown below:ItemNumber of Students ............W omen .......................States Represented .............Colleges Represented ..........Degrees - Bachelors ............Married .......................Veterans ......................Enrolled under G. I. Bill ........Foreign Countries ..............

Fr. So.82 65

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Alumni NotesDr. Arthur Brockway (1911), Waukesha,

Wisconsin, recently completed his fiftiethyear of practice. The Waukesha RotaryClub, of which Dr. Brockway is a chartermember and past-president, honored himat their September meeting when severalmembers paid tribute to him.

Dr. M. L. Sanfelippo, (1936), Milwaukee,has been appointed to the Wisconsin StateBoard of Medical Examiners by GovernorGaylord Nelson. He was one of four Wis-consin physicians appointed in July 1961.

Dr. Tom Reed (1951) has been nominatedfor the office of Vice-president of the Okla-homa Osteopathic Association. He is inpractice at Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Dr. Marshall E. Lowry (1953) has an-nounced the opening of a new office at 320Grand Avenue, West Des Moines, Iowa.

Dr. Charles Naylor, 1933 alumnus andcurrent A.O.A. president, has participatedin or will participate in 10 conventionsin 10 states between Oct. 2 and Nov. 15. Heis a past president of the C.O.M.S. AlumniAssociation.

Dr. Naylor is working to organize andstrengthen alumni groups across the nationas well as to represent the A.O.A. and workfor its members He will speak to C.O.M.S.students Nov. 15 at a special convocation.

Jr.

631

133639391711

Sr.

650

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Uncl.403433100

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116179150

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He has attended meetings in Florida,Missouri, California, New York, Pennsyl-vania, West Virginia, North Carolina andColorado. He will speak at the OklahomaOsteopathic Association in Tulsa Nov. 7-9before going to Des Moines.

Dr. Gerald J. Hohn (1955) is now asso-ciated with Dr. Richard O. McGill (1942)at 100 West Osborn Road, Phoenix, Arizona.

Dr. Clemens Andreen (1935), Wyandotte,Michigan, spoke to the students and facultyat convocation on October 11. He discussedrecent developments in national osteopathicaffairs.

Family of C.O.M.S. GradFeatured

The September issue of the OklahomaOsteopathic Association's JOURNAL fea-tured a story about Dr. Paul F. Benien,C.O.M.S. graduate (1926), of Tulsa, Okla-homa, and his three sons Paul, Jr., 21, andJohn David, 19, who are the only brothersin Oklahoma University's football team thisyear, and Jim, 11, who hopes to be on theteam "in about six years."

Both Paul, Jr., and John are better thanaverage students and are listed on theDean's honor roll at the University.

Our congratulations to Dr. Benien and hisfamily!

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Pag 4TLELGBOPsi Sigma Alpha

Psi Sigma Alpha, National HonoraryScholastic Fraternity, is pleased to an-nounce eleven new pledges from the juniorclass who have achieved the academic andprofessional prerequisites necessary formembership: Donald Andrysiak, Wyandotte,Mich.; James Cameron, Flushing, Ohio;Joseph Doctor, Kenmore, N. Y.; RobertDzmura, Philadelphia, Pa.; Robert Kapanji,Clifton, N. J.; Emanuel Kourakis, Chicago,Ill.; Jerry Kramer, Philadelphia, Pa.; IrvinMerlin, Philadelphia, Pa.; Norman Rosen-berg, Detroit, Mich; Ronald Rosenberg, De-troit, Mich.; Harris Ross, Philadelphia, Pa.

Our first meeting (September) was heldat the Elks Club featuring Dr. RobertKreamer who presented an excellent reviewof basic electrocardiography. Dr. HarryElmets, our fraternity advisor, was alsopresent.

Sigma Sigma PhiSigma Sigma Phi, National Honorary

Service Fraternity has accepted nine newpledges for the school year 1961-62. Theyare: Donald Beaver, Detroit, Mich.; JosephDoctor, Kenmore, N. Y.; John Edleman,Grand Rapids, Mich.; Oscar Gutierrez, SanAntonio, Texas; Emanuel Kourakis, Chica-go, Ill.; Joseph Major, Denver, Colo.; DavidO'Mara, Des Moines, Iowa; Norman Rose,Marietta, Ohio; William Stanley, Birming-ham, Mich.

Work is underway on the Christmas SealCampaign and we anticipate exceeding lastyear's record breaking drive. Arrangementsare also being made for the Pre-Natal Pro-grams which S.S.P. presents as a publicservice to the city of Des Moines. Anotherproject, the College yearbook-The Pace-maker-is now almost completed and wehope for an early distribution.

Officers for the fall semester, 1961 arethe following senior students: Earl Gonyaw,president; Keith Simpson, vice-president;Tom Chambers, sec-treas.; John Nelson,corresponding sec.; and Ray Failer, ser-geant-at-arms.-Keith Simpson

Atlas ClubA pre-pledge party was given by the

Atlas Fraternity on Saturday evening, Sep-tember 23, in the Colony Room of the Com-modore Hotel. Student nurses provided ex-cellent dancing partners and congenial hos-tesses.

There is a real cut-up in our Fraternitywho makes like the "Barber of Seville."

The Fraternity card party held on Fridayevening, September 29, was well attended inspite of stormy weather.-Tony Salamony

T. T. S.Beta Chapter members have had the

pleasure of entertaining the freshman classand guests at several very successful partiesrecently. Our first function of the year washeld September 15 at the Elk's Club indowntown Des Moines. Guests includedDrs. M. McLaughlin, H. Doylak, M. Goldieand Dr. and Mrs. D. R. Celander.

The freshman wives were welcomed Sep-tember 28 with a reception at the home ofDr. Elizabeth Burrows. Mrs. Hsie, the wifeof our Microbiology professor, was in at-tendance.

Most recently we sponsored a barbecuesupper at the Izaak Walton League ClubHouse which was honored by the presenceof Dr. Ronald Woods.

New administrative appointments for theyear include Mike Kourakis as Work Nightchairman. It also gives us pleasure to an-nounce the following Beta members whohave been elected to sophomore class of-fices:

Herb Gearhart, president; Sam Williams,vice-president; Louie Hood, and Pat McClel-lan, student council representatives.-BenRaines

L.O. G.The educational, cultural and social func-

tions of L.O.G. fraternity got underway theevening of October 6 with an informal partyheld at the Officer's Club in Fort Des

Moines. Our wives presented the annual'Tea Party' honoring freshmen students andtheir guests at Doctor's Hospital, October11. This evening was highlighted by a tourthrough the almost-finished hospital. Aworknight in Anatomy was held October 12for edification of the freshmen and October14 saw our popularly attended "AutumnLeaves" dance.

New officers for the year are: President,Dave O'Mara; Vive-President, Jerry Suss-man; Treasurer, Don Bernstein; Secretaries,Joe Doctor and Stuart Megdall; Sergeant-at-Arms, Nelson Sklar; Editor, Bob Verona;IFC, Julian Kutinsky.

L.O.G. proudly announces our new advis-ors, Drs. Robert Kreamer and Arthur Sim-on, both of whom, we are sure, will provideus with the proper guidance so necessaryfor a professional fraternity.-Bob Berona.

Student CouncilThe annual Student Welcome Dance was

held at the Des Moines Golf and CountryClub, Saturday, October 21. Music providedby Jack Oates and his Orchestra provideda most relaxed atmosphere for one of thelargest crowds an all-school function hashad.

Student Council meetings this year willbe held the first and third Mondays ofeach month.

The Council has endorsed a group lifeinsurance plan offered to the student bodyabout which details will be published soon.

An all-school convocation held Wednes-day, October 11 featured Dr. Kenneth R.Moody, representing the United StatesGovernment's Veterans Administration andDr. W. Clemens Andreen, president of theC.O.M.S. Alumni who presented informationconcerning careers in V.A. work for os-teopathic physicians.-Sandy Berlin



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ANNOUNCE CHANGE FOR COMS PUBLICATIONSPlans Complete For

Interest in COMS alumni functions Jan.15-18 in Las Vegas, Nev. during the na-tional AOA meeting is growing and alumnifrom scattered parts of the United Stateshave indicated they will attend.

Arrangements are complete, however, notall states have appointed alumni as dele-gates to the House of Delegates meetingJan. 16.

State delegates will attend a 7:30 break-fast meeting as guests of the alumni as-sociation. They will consider amendmentchanges, names for honorary life member-ships and elect alumni officers.

Alumni officers of state associationsshould appoint alumni as delegates and sub-mit their names to the alumni office inDes Moines by Dec. 15.

Dr. Clemens Andreen, alumni president,will chairman the program at the alumniluncheon at 1 p.m. Jan. 17. The programincludes:

President Andreen will welcome alumniand guests before calling on Dr. Stan Sul-

Las Vegas Meetingkowski, secretary-treasurer, for his report.

Dr. Andreen will award certificates toalumni eligible for honorary life member-ships and COMS President Merlyn Mc-Laughlin will present counselor-at-largeawards to individuals who have helped pro-mote COMS and the profession.

Dr. Charles Naylor, AOA president, willreceive a club plan plaque from Dr. An-dreen and will then award plaques to otherclub plan members present.

Dr. Andreen will report on activities ofthe House of Delegates and will install newofficers of the alumni association. Dr.J. R. Forbers, current president-elect, willassume the duties of president.

Three alumni, Dr. E. C. Herzog, Brain-erd, Minn.; Dr. Pauline Winters, Rockford,Ill., and Dr. Bertha Rocine, Portland, Ore.,have been nominated for honorary lifemembership.

Alumni who have been in practice 30years and who have reached age 65 areeligible for honorary life membership.


COMS alumni from all parts of the United States will journey to Las Vegas, Nev., Jan. 15-18 foralumni functions and to attend the national AOA meeting. Distribution of 1,737 alumni is shown bystates-1961 graduates currently interning are not included.

Changes in two COMS publications wereannounced recently by alumni and collegeofficials in an attempt to keep alumni andfriends of the college better informed aboutcollege and alumni affairs.

The LOG BOOK will grow from a four-page monthly pamphlet to a 16-page quar-terly magazine and alumni will receiveseven issues of a special President's News-letter each year.

Reasons for the changes included limitedspace in the four-page format, duplicationbetween the LOG BO'OK and newslettersand a desire to have a more prestige-typealumni publication.

In addition, the new publication schedulewill save the college and the alumni asso-ciation money, while giving an additional16 pages in the LOG BOOK each year andproviding information monthly 'to alumni.

Tentative plans include publishing theLOG BOOK in March, June, Septemberand December. A newsletter will be pub-lished seven of the remaining months.

LOG BOOK content will include: (1)news of alumni meetings and alumni offi-cials; (2) college news of interest to alum-ni and friends; (3) an alumnus-of-the-month feature; (4) features of college de-partments; (5) personal alumni news sec-tion; (6) picture stories of various events;(7) editorials by alumni, and (8) letters-to-the-editor.

Alumni news will include stories of alum- -ni elected to national and state offices,lists of club plan donors and individualsmaking special contributions to the collegeand stories about alumni functions.

College news would include stories aboutnew faculty members, enrollment, applica-tions, the building program, researchgrants, curriculum changes, new boardmembers, awards and citations to the col-lege, faculty members and students, andother news of interest to alumni.

Each issue will feature a different alum-nus with a picture and biographical sketch.Nominations are currently open for alum-ni members who may be featured.

Candidates should have contributed to theosteopathic profession and to the communi-ty in which he/she served. Individualsnominating candidates should include infor-mation about the doctor and, if possible, aglossy photo. A selection committee willreview nominations and candidates.

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Ltac given oy Dr.W. Clemens An-dreen, Wyandotte,Michigan, to theMichigan Osteopath-ic Association ear-lier this fall, isprinted here becauseof the widespreadinterest his messagehas to all membersof the osteopathicprofession. Dr. An-dreen is currentlyse.Prvnav ae residentf.

of the Michigan Osteopathic Association aswell as president of the COM\S NationalAlumni Association.

It is a pleasure to be able to talk thingsover with you. At no other time duringthe year will I have the opportunity as yourPresident to visit with so many membersand friends of this profession. I want todiscuss with you the responsibilities wehave as professional men, the leadershipwe must exert as a profession and thebasic position our profession must take.

It is time we talked about these thingsso that we and the lay public may knowwhere we stand and where we intend to goand how we intend to discharge our respon-sibilities to that public.

The necessity for this understanding hasbeen called to our attention forcibly duringthe past year. There have probably beenmore newspaper stories, public study groupreports and magazine articles describingevents of the osteopathic profession duringthe past year than at anytime before in theentire history of our profession.

This coming year, and the several yearsto come, will be years of decision for thisprofession. They will also be years ofdecision by the public with regard to thefuture of the whole practice of medicine.Our profession, as well as our families,will have to live by these decisions.

What is the meaning of a profession?We call ourselves members of the osteo-pathic profession. We all know what theadjective osteopathic means, but have wethought much about the meaning of pro-fession? Have we considered the responsi-bilities that the term profession imposeson us as a group and as an individual?

A profession basically is a group ofhighly trained and carefully selected menwho earn their place in society and theirlivelihood by performing a very personalservice for other men. The traditional pro-fessions are the ministry or clergy, thehealing arts and the law. Others exist to-day, but these are of more recent origin.

The physician who wrote 'The Instinctsof the Herd in Peace and in War" wrotethis regarding the healing arts profession,"it must be alert to accommodating itself tochanging society . . . it must not hardeninto a narrow group, fighting stubbornlyto maintain its privileges". He also liststhe elements which make a profession:

.. A health profession must have thecapacity to develop under pressure a com-mon purpose and moral unity.

. . . Its curriculum must be in accordwith the progress of medicine and not be asanctified order of ancient rituals and obso-lete practices.

. . The knowledge that this system isorganized and supervised to a reasonableexent but free enough to afford scope forexperiment both in methods and ideas.

. . The possession of an ethic, a decorum,a standard of conduct and of manners.

. .. An acceptance of the HippocraticOath axiom . . . never intentionally to doharm or injury to any patient or person.An understanding of suffering and thecompassion which should minister to it.

.. A readiness to share in the dutiesand burdens which the state lays upon itsmembers and a cognizance of the fact thatthe willing horse is given the largest shareof the load.

... A decent modesty in voicing claimsof the profession for recognition. An ac-knowedgement of the fact just as man isborn not unto himself alone so in thesedays the craft of osteopathic medicine isonly one of the crafts concerned with thehealing arts . . . and because these craftslook to medicine for leadership and forrecognition there should be a willingnessby the profession to assume that responsi-bility.

These are the hallmarks of a profession,approved and accepted by the community

. .. these are large words for they definethe stature to which we as professional menshould aspire.

This profession, if it is to live up to itsname, and if it is to fulfill its responsi-bilities to the public, must assume leader-ship in accommodating itself to a chang-ing society, in meeting changing needs,and in preparation for the future.Two areas in which we will need to exert

our leadership in the coming year are(1)providing health care within reach ofall and (2) providing health care for theaging.

The public is more interested in its ownhealth than ever before. The public wantsthe best health care possible. The publiccan vote, and eventually it will find a wayto vote the legislation that will provide theservice it wants.

As physicians and experts in the area ofproviding health care services, we must

exert leadership in this area. We cannotcontinue fighting a rear guard action tomaintain the status quo. We must leadthe way.

One area which is disturbing to all pub-lic-spirited citizens is the constant rise inthe cost of health care. Some of these areunavoidable and some are not. We havethe deep and profound responsibility to pre-vent any unnecessary increases in healthcare costs.

Everyone wants his aged parents orgrandparents to have the best care possible,regardless of cost or of the ability of theaging to pay. There are approximately 16million people over age 65 in the UnitedStates, and the number is increasing.

The term socialized medicine has beenused as a bugaboo. Personally, I have nofear of my future, nor of my profession'sfuture, so long as the patient has a freechoice of physicians, and so long as the re-turn for my services is commensurate withthe patient's satisfaction with my services.Therefore, socialized medicine could neverembrace these two principles. I have nofear of any governmental system whichwould include these principles and permitthe aging to secure the best health care. Asa profession, therefore, we must supportsome system for the care of the aging, whichwill meet this problem regardless of whatagency it is attached to.

The principles of osteopathic medicineare well known to us all and I need not re-peat them here. These have been the guid-ing principles of the osteopathic physiciansduring the entire history of their practice.We know these principles work. In tens ofthousands of cases in our own offices we,as physicians, and the public, as patients,have seen them work. We have all thepragmatic proof we need as to the valuesof the osteopathic approach in the practiceof medicine.

The public has supported the practicesof osteopathic physicians by going to themand by returning to them. If the publichad never visited the osteopathic physicianat all, or had visited him once and neverreturned, the osteopathic profession wouldhave vanished long ago. We have enduredand grown because the public needed osteo-pathic medicine and has supported it.

The osteopathic profession has practicedosteopathic medicine under handicaps andagainst professional opposition. It wouldbe different for the layman to understandthe bitterness of this opposition and thedifficulties under which we, as a profes-sion, have existed and grown.

We have developed, built and maintainedour own colleges, our own hospitals andour own research programs with funds se-cured from within the profession. Thereis no alumni group anywhere in the worldthat contributes as heavily to the supportof its colleges and institutions as do theosteopathic physicians. Recently the pic-ture has begun to change and we are nowreceiving limited funds from the Federalgovernment and from a number of Founda-tions.

We are appreciative of their convictionsof the place of this profession in the healthcare field.


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We have long conducted research into thephysiologic factors that support the osteo-pathic principles. This research becomesinvolved in the basic chemistry of the bodyand is the most involved, long range andcostly program in the field of health. Wewill welcome a greatly expanded programof laboratory research for we are con-vinced that, with such a program, the prin-ciples of osteopathic medecine can be givena new validation in the laboratory. Wealso believe that this research will open upnew and exciting vistas of health carewhich will offer undreamed of potentials inhealth. Until such a program of researchis undertaken and carried through to com-pletion, we must continue the applicationof the principles of osteopathic medicine inour health care practice. The public sup-ports this-they have faith in it. We donot believe that it is desirable for the fu-ture health of the people that these prin-ciples be dropped without a hearing, with-out objective testing, or without the labor-atory research program.

We must, therefore, remain a separateprofession, continuing to apply these prin-ciples and conducting a program of re-search. The faith which the public hasplaced in our profession gives us no otherrecourse but to remain a separate schoolof medicine.

When the principles of osteopathic medi-cine have been subjected to tests in modernlaboratories we are convinced they will re-quire there the same validation the publichas given them in actual practice in ouroffices. When this comes it will be our re-sponsibility to provide the leadership in se.curing the adoption and the application ofthese principles by all physicians so thatall people may benefit. When that hap-pens and all physicians are offering theirpatients a health care that is based uponthe principles of osteopathic medicine thenthe major objective of this profession willhave been achieved.

We welcome all support and cooperationin a research program. We believe theproper relationship with other allied pro-fessions in the area of health care is thatof scientific comradship, disagreeing in theapproach perhaps, but complete agreementas to the importance of further research.We ask that everyone join with us in thisendeavor. There are few things moreworthy of united effort than 'that of im-I:'oving the health care of the people.

I call upon you, as professional men, tolive up to the responsibilities of yourprofession. To take the leadership in thedevelopment of a long range research pro-gram. To take the lead in providing healthcare within the reach of all. To supportmedical care for the aging, to exert lead-ership in the practice of the principles ofosteopathic medicine, and above all, toprovide the best health care for the peo-ple.

Convocation Speaker"Our Osteopathic Profession is at the

cross roads, D ouwe've been there be-fore and each timewe've gone aheadwith greaterstrength a n d weshall do the samething again," Dr.Charles Naylor,President of t h eAmerican Osteopa-thic Association andCOMS alumnus, toldthe student body ata convocation on

Wednesday, November 15.

Dr. Naylor described plans of the na-tional association to increase educationaland research facilities for the osteopathicprofession.

I)r. Naylor visited the College as heended a ten-state tour he started in Octo-ber.

Scientific ExhibitScientific research from COMS will be

projected at the national AOA meetingJan. 15-18 in Las Vegas, Nev.

Robert Dzmura, anatomy instructor, andLynn Baldwin, medical photographer, areworking on an exhibit to be displayedamong scientific displays in Las Vegas.

The exhibit will interpret and project apaper written by Dzmura that pertains tocelestine blue B as nuclear stain in vaginalexfoliative cytology.

Baldwin has received several awards onprevious exhibits.

Visitors From Wisconsin

Recent visitors to the College from Mil-waukee were three members of the Wiscon-sin Osteopathic Association. Shown herevisiting with COMS students are, left toright, Wayne A. Reif, Executive Secretaryof the Association; Joseph B. Doctor, Elyria,Ohio, Junior student; Dr. Snyder J. John-son; Dr. Henry O. Wick, Jr.; and, seated,Daniel A. McDonnell, Allan Park, Michigan,Senior Student.

College Hospital Has"Face-Lifting"

There's a look of pride ... and satisfac-tion for a job well-done . . . on the faces ofour COMS students these days . . . and itis well deserved. During the entire week-end, October 28 - 29 - 30, the students ap-peared at the college dressed in overalls orother old clothing and, armed with ladders,buckets and paint brushes, gave the CollegeHospital a gleaming white coat of paint-the first paint job the brick structure hasever had.

The project was sponsored by the SigmaSigma Phi Service Fraternity and organizedthrough the aid of Cecil Looney, BusinessManager of the College.

With the completion of this project, thethree buildings comprising the osteopathicmedical center-the College, the CollegeClinic and the College Hospital-are allwhite and makes the corner of Sixth andCenter Streets one of Des Moines' moreattractive corners.

Not only are the students proud of theirwork ... we are all proud of THEM!

Head Christmas SealCommittees

Mrs. Lanette (Ralph) Martin of theStudent Wives' Club, and William Stanley,member of Sigma Sigma Phi Service Fra-ternity, were named to head committees incharge of the COMS, 1961 Christmas SealSale.

The Seal program, initiated in 1931, sup-ports the AOA's Student Loan Fund andResearch Program. The Student LoanFund is available to junior and senior stu-dents in Osteopathic colleges who meet thequalifications sets forth. The ResearchProgram is dependent on the seal funds fora considerable portion of its funds. Sup-port is also received from the National In-stitutes of Health and other governmentaland private health agencies; dues incomefrom the AOA, foundations, gifts and be-quests.

Approximately one thousand seal packetswere mailed by the two committees in theCOMS campaign.

"It's A Bartain"!

That's what the customers thought wnenthey visited the College Hospital Guild'srummage sale, held in the Clinic buildingon October 23 and 24. Among the earlybargain hunters were (top) Enid McCon-nell, left, and Mrs. Garnet Koder, right,from the College Hospital staff, as Mrs.Merlyn McLaughlin, Guild president, dis-played various articles, and (below) Mrs.Dorothy Parks, 521 Waterbury Circle, Guildmember, makes a sale to Jean Wood, 1201Forest Goode Dr., and Wilma Harvey, 2611Cambridge.

Congratulations! ...

.. . to Dr Myron Magen, head of the Pedi-atrics Department of the College of Osteo-pathic Medicine and Surgery, for his ap-pointment by Iowa's Governor Norman E.Erbe as a member of the Governor's StateChildren and Youth Commission. (Picturedabove is a picture of Dr. Magen's certifi-cate of appointment.)

Dr. Magen was recently invited as arepresentative of the Iowa Society of Os-teopathic Physicians and Surgeons topresent the group's opinion on Iowa Adop-tion Laws to an Iowa Legislative Committee.

Exhibit for Iowa TeachersIncluded among the displays for 18,000

Iowa teachers at the Veterans MemorialAuditorium in Des Moines (Iowa) duringthe State Education Association meetingson October 19-20, was this exhibit by theCollege through the cooperation of the IowaSociety of Osteopathic Physicians and Sur-geons .

Pictured here is Darrell Opicka, studentat the Kansas City College of Osteopathyand Surgery who was present for the meet-ings, as he stopped to visit with AlviraLunsford, Director of Health EducationDivision for the College. The exhibit wasdesigned and built by Lynn Baldwin, Medi-cal Photographer for COMS.

Participate in DisasterProgram

Dr. Stanley D. Miroyiannis, (right front)Professor of Anatomy and Chairman of theCOMS Disaster Committee, discusses withDr. William Strong, (left) Medical Director,and Dr. John Seibert, Assistant Professorin Pathology, the last-minute plans for thepractice disaster program held on Wednes-day, November 1, and sponsored by thePolk County (Iowa) Civil Defense Office.

A selected group of COMS studentsserved as stretcher-bearers while othersmanned various stations to receive the"casualties" from a supposed explosion at aDes Moines Junior High School. All DesMoines hospitals and several local agenciesparticipated in the program.

Faculty Staff PresentsProgram

A postgraduate program, sponsored bythe Kansas State Osteopathic Association,was presented at Wichita, Kansas, on De-cember 2 and 3 by three members of theCollege faculty. They were, Dr. Byron E.Laycock, Professor of Osteopathic Princi-ples and Technique and Physical Medicineand Rehabilitation; I)r. Joseph R. McNer-ney, Lecturer in Osteopathic Medicine andDr. William B. Strong, Medical Directorand Professor of Osteopathic Medicine.

This postgraduate program was anothermade possible through the financial grantmade by E. R. Squibb and Sons, Divisionof Olin Mathieson Company, New York,to the National Foundation for use in apilot study on providing postgraduate edu-cation to D.O.'s in practice.



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The following excerpts from a let-ter recently received by the College

will indicate why we are all proud ofthe many fine things our students (do:

" . .. I am happy to send this noteof appreciation and commendationfor the men working with our footballteams this fall. Our coaches feel thatthese men have done an excellent job.We have received reports from ourparents of their fine work.

I am certain these men will be anexcellent addition to the medical pro-fession. Please allow this letter toserve as a thank you for the servicesof these men this fall."

Sincerely yours,

Don K. BlackmanVice-PrincipalAbraham Lincoln High School

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Features of the college departments willinclude information about the curriculum,staff members, facilities, projects, grantsand future plans.

The personal alumni news section willinclude short paragraphs about alumni whohave retired, changed locations, married,had children, died, been elected to office,earned professional or community awardsand similiar news. Notes will be groupedaccording to year of graduation. Alumniare urged to forward information to thecollege alumni office.

Lynn Baldwin, head of the Departmentof Medical Illustration, will supply themagazine with pictures of individuals andmajor events. He will also prepare a pic-ture story for each issue on such eventsas commencement, the national alumnimeeting and other events.

The President's Newsletter will be pub-lished in a new format and will includeshort, concise information about currenthappenings at the college. The first ofseven newsletters for 1962 will be publishedcarly in January. The second will be dis-tributed in February and the first issue ofthe new enlarged LOG BOOK will be mail-ed in March.

Aumni are invited to submit suggestions.These should be mailed to either JackBacker or Miss Alvira Lunsford at the col-lege alumni office. Backer is director ofpublic relations and Miss Lunsford is incharge of the health education division.Both will serve as editors of the LOGBOOK, with Lynn Baldwin as photo editor.

Alumni NotesIDr. Dale Dodson (1951), Northfield,

Minnesota, is the new chairman of the Com-mittee on Colleges of the American Osteo-pathic Association. He succeeds Dr.George W. Northup, now AOA Editor.

)Dr. Norman B. Welch (1930) announcesthe removal of his offices to 16250 School-craft, I)etroit 27, Michigan.

Dr. N. T. Purtell (1961) was featuredwith other intern staff members in an ar-ticle in the October 1961 issue of theHEART BEAT, published by the PontiacOsteopathic Hospital.

The following alumni were reported de-ceased during the past month:

I)r. O. A. Jungman (1935) passed awayat his home on October 19th. Dr. Jung-man practiced at Scotland, South Dakota.

I)r. R. B. Kale (1929) died at his homein Sun City, Arizona, on October 31.

DTr. W. W. Loker (1930) passed away onOctober 27 at his home in Framingham,Mass.

Iota Tau SigmaIt was another successful month for Beta

Chapter. Our final rush party-the MonteCarlo Night-was held on Friday, Novem-ber 10, at the Isaak Walton League Club-house. Honored guests included Dr. Eliz-abeth A. Burrows, Dr. and Mrs. DonaldSloan and Dr. and Mrs. E. J. Ware.

-Ben A. Raines.

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Names should be submitted to the alumnioffice by Dec. 15.

Ninety-five alumni have paid 1961 duessince a reminder from Dr. Sulkowski wasmailed. Seventy-three, including 37 clubplan members, had previously paid dues.Club members are life member.5.

Alumni officials reminded members thatone dollar of their five dollar dues is re-mitted to chartered state alumni associa-tions.

Atlas ClubThe Fraternity had a Coffee Klatch at

the Atlas House on Tuesday evening, No-vember 7. Student nurses from the Luth-eran Hospital School Nursing were presentto greet the Freshmen who attended.

A pre-pledging "Roaring 20's" party washeld Saturday evening, November 11, atthe Colony Room at the Commodore Hotel.Student nurses served as hostesses.

Freshmen living at Atlas House thisyear are Vincent Condino, Grosse Point,Michigan; Ivan Collins, Youngstown, Ohio;Seymour Cywiak, Detroit, Michigan, andJohn Sartori, Fort Worth, Texas.

A group of avid football fans has beenmeeting at the house on Saturdays to watchthe game of the week on TV. Members ofthe group include Bob Brown, Pomeroy,Ohio; Russ Seaman, Detroit, Michigan;Richard Sherman, Brooklyn, N. Y., andPerry Dworkin, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

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