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

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First you ' , left to right —Dr. Robert Shihman Chang, Dr. Edward Stevenson Murray, Miss Barbara Theobald, Dr. William L. Jellison, Dr. John Crayton Snyder, Dr. Robert Brown Pennell. Second row —Susan Adam Myers (Mrs.), Miss Mary Jane Francis, Dr. Johannes Ipsen, Jr., Miss Jane Driscoll, Miss Helen Liepens, Miss Ann Abbott. Third row -—Dr. John William Vinson, Dr. Samuel Dennis Bell, Jr., Dr. James E. Froeschle, Dr. Suchinda Udomsadki. DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY John C. Snyder, A.B., M.D., Professor of Microbi ology and Head of the Department Edward S. Murray, A.B., M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of 1Microbiology and Assistant Physician to University Health Services Johannes Ipsen, C.A., C.M., Dr.Med., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Public Health and Superintendent of the Institute of Laboratories, Massachusetts Department of Public Health Robert S. Chang, S.B., M.D., S.D. in Hyg., Assistant Professor of Microbiology Samuel D. Bell, Jr., A.B., M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Microbiology 20

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The Johns introduce the first class baby of ... The suspense mounts—is it a boy or girl, the year to Pauline Stitt . . . STUDENTS MAJORING IN MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH Dr. Claudia Demello, Dr. Harbans Dhillon, Dr. Jamal Harfouche, Miss Alice Hosack, Dr. Charlotte John, Dr. Monique Govaerts, Dr. Genevieve Masse, Dr. Roger Meyer, Dr. Naomi Morris, Miss Kathleen O’Donoghue, Dr. Cornelius Post, Dr. Virginia McNamara. T HE Public Health Family” is perhaps symbolized most clearly by the Maternal and Child Health Department. The spirit of instruction drawn from Dr. Eliot and her team of teachers focuses each profession dynamically and effectively on problems of children and their families. A rich fund of understanding and wide practical expe¬ rience characterized the teaching activities from the basic course with its Fund B and historical overview, to the advanced studies dealing with more detailed work with crippled children’s programs, delinquency and the like. True to the spirit of the de¬ partment, students are given action assignments throughout the country as part of the yearly field” migrations, giving firsthand knowledge of a community’s problems and medical care. Active participation in both established and spontaneous community programs in Boston and the country at large provides teaching and research resource for a number of actively ongoing projects. Community health centers, schools, health departments, day care centers are some of the teaching opportunities. Members of the department family” are frequently sought as visiting lecturers and consultants here and in other countries. The department also continuously carries out research projects on the problems and needs of children. An unusual community contact has been provided since 1930 by Dr. Stuart’s famous longitudinal growth and development study now gathering data and experience together for one of the great classics in the field. 19

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The egg comes first” in microbiology. STUDENTS MAJORING IN MICROBIOLOGY Dr. James E. Froeschle, Dr. Suchinda Udomsadki. HE Microbiology family has functioned as a team not only in teaching, but also in collaborating with investigations of mutual interest in other parts of the world. Special interests of the Department of Microbiology have included rickettsial and viral diseases, properties of human cells in tissue culture, problems of immunology and biologic aspects of host-parasite relationships. In Yugoslavia there is continued interest in the immunization of man against certain rickettsial diseases. Since 1954 trachoma research has been carried on by the joint efforts of the Department of Microbiology and the Arabian-American Oil Company. All of the school faculty members concerned in the trachoma project have devoted time to field and laboratory investigations in Saudi Arabia. One of the products of this cooperative endeavor has been the finding of a strain of trachoma virus which is toxic to small laboratory animals. This may facilitate finding whether trachoma viruses from different regions are similar, i nforma¬ tion which is important in progress toward the development of an efficient vaccine. Previously the only way to study immunity in trachoma was to experiment on human beings or apes. 21