Duke University School of Medicine - Aesculapian Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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MEM ORIAM FRANK L. ENGEL, 1913-1963 The story of Dr. Engel's success clearly begins with the DNA of his mother and father. They produced three boys, and each has made his mark in the world. Lewis Engel is a distinguished biochemist at Harvard University. George Engel is Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Medicine at University of Rochester, and Frank was Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Physiology at Duke. Frank was a scholar and a scientist and received international acclaim for his work on the mechanism of action of the hormones produced by ductless glands. He enjoyed the laboratory and was never willing to give up working at the bench with his own hands. He attracted to Emory and Duke many residents, fellows and graduate students. Ten of his disciples have already climbed to professorial rank. Frank was an unusually gifted teacher. He taught effectively at all levels. First- year medical students, third- and fourth-year medical students, interns, residents, fellows and faculty col- leagues all came under his spell. His work in physiology with the first-year students was one of the most effective recruiting devices ever developed by the Department of Medicine. Dr. Engel never ceased to be a physician. He was interested in both the patient and the disturbance caused .fix by the disease. The patients sensed the sincerity of his interest and responded to it. To have him see a patient with you was a most eiective form of graduate instruc- tion. As might be expected, there were many outside de- mands on his talents. Within the medical school, he was chairman of the committee which integrated the activi- ties of the departments of Medicine, Pediatrics and Gynecology into an effective endocrine division. He was chairman of the Policy Committee for the development of the Duke Clinical Center, and was responsible for the planning of the research ward which opened recently. He had a leading role in the development of a new medical school curriculum which is projected for 1965. He was an active member of the Library Committee and the Beaumont Committee. At the national level, he was a leader in the Endocrine Society, and played a large role in the development of its postgraduate assemblies. He served on the editorial board of seven scientific journals. We know that Frank devoted many hours to his work. He was unwilling to narrow his fields of interest. He wished to keep abreast of the fields of general medicine, of physiology, and of biochemistry. What is the significance of man's life? Surely not the number of years he has lived. The years are sig- nificant only as they are filled with worthy deeds-deeds which may have i unlimited beneficent consequences. When a great teacher is also a great physician, he effects eternity to a magnified degree, his influences are pro- jected through his disciples whom he has inspired and also through the useful lives he has prolongedf' By this means, Dr, Engel has attained immortality and will always live with us. Dr. Engel's inHuence on the Medical Center is a classic example of the concept that the effect of the whole may be far greater than the sum of the individual parts. It is this whole which we are going to find irreplaceable. The breadth of scholarship, the depth of his knowledge in many specialized fields, the interest in education at all levels, the ability to perform well in all parts of the Medical Center, the skill to tie together science and prac- tice, the ability to build without destroying, the ability to inspire and not limit the growth of young men: these are the marks of a master.

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CONTENTS Administration and Faculty .,... Classes . . A Seniors .... Iuniors ,... Sophomores . , . Freshmen .........,. ,..... Research Training Program Organizations .... ,,..,..... 4..,..,... I 0 1 Student Government Association SAMA Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Dames Features . . . Index and Advertising .... fizfe

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MEMORIAM '15 EDWIN CROWELL HAMBLEN--1900-1963 Edwin Crowell Hamblen, gynecologist and pioneer clinical endocrinologist was born at Greenville, Missis- sippi, August 23, 19oo. He received the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine at the Uni- versity of Virginia. He interned at the University of Virginia Hospital from 1928 to 1929, was resident in Ob- stetrics and Gynecology from Iuly to December, 1929. He served as assistant in Surgery and Gynecology at the Gamble Brothers and Montgomery Clinic in Greenville, Mississippi from December, 1929 to April, 1930. He began his teaching career of thirty-three years as clinical instructor and assistant in Obstetrics and Gyne- cology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in April, 1930. In Iune, IQ5I, he moved to Durham to become associated with the Duke University School of Medicine as Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gyne- cology. In 1944, he was named as Clinical Professor U671 of Endocrinology and made Professor of Endocrinology in 1947. He founded the Division of Endocrinology Ianuary, 1937. He was the chief of this division until Iuly 1, 1955. Following this, he devoted his full time to teaching and research in the field of reproduction. He made important contributions to the physiology of repro- duction and to the pathology, diagnosis of treatment of disorders of gonadal function. He was the author of four books: g'Endocrine Gynecology, 1959, uFacts for Child- less Couples, 1942, Endocrinology of Woman, 1945, and 'KFacts About the Change of Life, 1949. Besides these he contributed more than 200 articles to various medical journals and chapters to many books. From 1950 until his sudden death on November 24, 1963 he was editor of the American Lectures in Gynecology and Obstetrics. Dr. Hamblen performed a large amount of post- graduate teaching in all sections of this cou11try, in seven countries of South America and in Canada. Partly due to his articles in Spanish and Portuguese, he was well known in Central and South America. He had many fellows from these countries study at Duke University with him, in addition to fellows from Scotland, Belgium, Canada, Israel, Lebanon, Iapan, Thailand, Iran and the Philippi11es. He was married ir. December, 1930 to Miss Agnes Morton Baptist of Albemarle County, Virginia. She survives him as well as two daughters and five grand- children. Dr. Hamblen had the most interesting hobby of gardening with special attentio11 to extensive rose grow- ing. He was instrumental in organizing the Durham Rose Society in 1948 and also served as a director-at- large of the American Rose Society for two 3-year terms. Edwin Crowell Hamblen will always be remembered for his teaching. His teaching material was always well organized and excellently presented.