Harvard School of Public Health - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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BIOSTATISTICS Prove all things, hold fast to that which is good. St. Paul I N the Biostatistics Department, formal train¬ ing, designed to provide all students with a healthy skepticism regardirg the use of sta¬ tistics, is undertaken with vigor tempered with compassion. The staff also provides a statistical consultation service, as well as an advanced training program for young statisticians. To students who undertake the annual cruise through the School, Biostatistics looms as a distinct hazard to navigation. That safe pas¬ sage was accomplished in 1956 is a tribute to the patience and tutorial ability of Twelve- year-old Boy” Muench, Penny-tossing” Wor¬ cester, Tennessee” Drolette, and the lab assistants, who met resourcefully the simple- minded” problems presented by students of varied background and experience. As the ship reached calmer waters, the crew was in¬ troduced to cosmic thinking where each small world became a universe” in itself. DR. MUENCH Standing (left to right) MUENCH DROLETTE REED ELASHOFF Seated WORCESTER 13

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Standing (left to right) QUINLISK, PURDY, PARSONS. Seated (left to right) BARNABY, WHITTENBERGER, O ' NEILL, SNYDER, MURPHY, LASKEY, SPAULDING. ADMINISTRATION Administration is an art becoming more and more of a science. Expert Opinion E ACH September the reception hall at 55 Shattuck Street becomes an interna¬ tional lobby,” as students from here and abroad register for postgraduate studies designed to make them more effective as public health workers in all parts of the globe. Dean Snyder, Asst. Dean Leavell, and the Admissions, Curriculum and Degrees Committees had already prepared the academic path of approach. During registra¬ tion week, the Deans and faculty advisors gave valuable advice as they signed the masses of necessary documents. At this time the efficient administrative staff began teaching their year long field course: the Care and Nourishment of Public Health Students (C.N.a,b,c,d) Under the direction of the chief instructor, Mrs. Barnaby, and research assistants, Beverly Laskey, Mrs. Purdy and Jean Parsons, the course dealt with the orientation of students to life in urban New England. With the Faculty Wives as Associates in Housing and Transportation, the staff provided a pleasant introduction to the year at Harvard, smoothing the rough days of househunting, program planning and physical examinations. At midyear the ecological situation changed as the Administration became mysteriously concerned with the students’ scholastic progress. With the coming of Spring and the last quarter, the course included psychological consultation and guidance to all overworked worriers. Conclusive evidence of the success of this comprehensive course in care and nourishment was the fairly compleat H.S.P.H. graduate of 1956. 12

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Standing (left to right) DUFF, LEFCOE, BORST, FERRIS, FRANK. Seated (left to right) MEAD, WHITTENBERGER, AMDUR, BERGLUND. PHYSIOLOGY The spending of our energies is the greatest possible stimulus to their re-creation. Darwin T HE courses and research projects under the direction of the Physiology staff are closely related to those dealt with in Industrial Hygiene and Sanitary Engineering. At present, major emphasis is being given to studies of the effects of environment on body function, with special concern about the problems of ionizing radiation. Results of the Department’s research on the mechanics of respiration and pulmonary circulation were applied recently by Drs. Whitten- berger and Ferris during the polio epidemics in Massachusetts and Buenos Aires. In process are studies of the effect of air pollution on the physiology of the lungs and of the factors influencing the work of the heart. SANITARY ENGINEERING . . . Where the river flows ivith the foreign flotations. T. S. Eliot U NDER the cultured tutelage of Prof. Fair, cross-connected with the expert pres entation of Prof. Moore, the students became familiar with the principles of water treatment and sewage disposal. Having been informed by Prof. Fair that this is Harvard and not a trade school, the class was relieved to find that the Sanitary Engineering course did not require them actually to build the privy. Dr. Bradley provided practical solutions to the problems of handling food and dairy products and none of us will ever forget about milk stone, or the menace of public eating places. After the midterm exam, it was evident that students from other countries were under no handicap, since a knowledge of English was purely academic. (Left to right) THOMAS, FAIR, MOORE, MORRIS.