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

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Dr. Gordon M. Fair, Dr. Harold A. Thomas. DEPARTMENT OF SANITARY ENGINEERING Gordon M. Fair, S.B., S.M. (hon.), Dr. Eng. (hon.), Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering , Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Enginering and Head of the Department Harold A. Thomas, Jr., S.D., Gordon McKay Professor of Civil and Sanitary En¬ gineering J. Carrell Morris, S.B., Ph.D., Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Chemistry Ralph E. Wheeler, A.B., M.D., Dr.P.H., Lecturer on Sanitary Biology Leon A. Bradley, S.B., Ph.D., Lecturer on Sanitary Engineering Wilfred B. Krabek, S.M., Instructor in Sanitary Biology 28

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Cecil G. Sheps, M.D., Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine, HAIS and General Director, Beth Israel Hospital William J. Curran, Lecturer on Law, Department of Legal Medicine, HMS (Professor of Legal Medicine, Director of Law-Medicine Research Institute, Boston University) Dr. Kenneth I. E. Mcleod, Instructor in Public Health Practice Dr. Zekin Shakhashiri, Visiting Associate Professor in Public Health Practice David M. Kaplan, Instructor in Mental Health Dr. Dean Clark, Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine HMS and General Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Mr. Jerry Solon, Instructor in Medical Care Dr. Sidney Lee, Associate in Public Health Practice Dr. Franz Goldmann, Associate Professor of Medical Care, Emeritus STUDENTS MAJORING IN PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE Dr. Augusto Aguilera, Mrs. Marion Edna Alexander, Mrs. Judith Mogil Blanc, Miss Ellen Ann Cain, Dr. Louis J. P. Calisti, Dr. John W. Carr, Dr. Felix Cohen, Miss Amney C. Caurdy, Dr. Robert T. Cutting, Dr. Barbara Terrile Ganem, Mrs. Lorraine V. Klerman, Dr. Jean Henri Puyet, Dr. Fernando Serpa-Florez, Miss Bernice Wright, Dr. William Hafner, Jr., Dr. Milo D. Leavitt, Jr., Mrs. Irene D. Merker, Dr. Maurice M. Osborne, Jr., Mr. Michael Rodzenko, Dr. Ascher J. Segall, Miss Janet Elaine Waite, Miss Gertrude Woodruff. HE largest department in the School, Public Health Practice, unites many lineages L into a clan concerned with myriad activities of teaching, research, and active par¬ ticipation in public health programs. The non-resident clan members who, while working as Health Officers, lecture and lead discussions in school courses help keep the con¬ nection between theory and practice strong. Dr. Leavell, the busy head of the clan, presides over many things, including the tribal initiation rite called PHP lb,c. There he explains (with puns) the principles of preventive medicine and administration and coaxes every student through the diabolically complete outline, Solving a Community Problem. Dr. Shakhashiri acts as assistant chief (or in Polynesian, talking chief ), holding tireless discussions with confused students, delivering memorable final lectures, and justifying extra assignments. The separate lineages that make up the clan each have a specialty and their own place of residence. The Mental Health Unit, under Dr. Caplan, continues its unique research and consultation program based in- the Whittier Street Health Center. Dr. Caplan’s lucid lectures on mental health in 40b,c were one of the high points of the year. Students become familiar with the Social Science Unit in the first quarter through the well organized crash course on the Human Community. Under Dr. Paul, Dr. Levine and others, research into reactions to fluoridation programs and community organization flourishes. Health Education, led by Dr. Young, impressed the students by their practical demonstrations of the team approach and the profession’s techniques before lecture and seminar groups. The Chronic Disease Unit, represented by Dr. Snegireff, emerged from intensive cancer research to contribute excellent lectures on the special problems of this growing public health interest. Dr. Ingbar, in the Medical Care Program, was able to give provocative presentations of medical economics, while increasing the population of the clan. Such are the activities of this large kin group that are best known to the class. They indicate only a small proportion of the clan’s contribution to public health. 27

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T HE principal objective of the Sanitary Engineering Department is to present the engineering aspect of this area of the health sciences to those oriented toward the biological aspects. The courses are not intended to make engineers out of physicians but merely to acquaint them with all ramifications of the problems so that better co¬ operation may be achieved. It is ridiculous, for instance, for a public health physician to insist on an excessive standard of purity which is, from the engineering viewpoint, uneconomical, or frankly impossible. Besides the broad principles related to water supply and purification, sewerage and sewage treatment, refuse collection and disposal and food, milk, and shellfish sanitation, many other pearls of wisdom (of more immediate interest) were acquired, such as: why oysters can only be eaten in the R” months, how to pick out a fresh lobster in a restaurant, and that Hood Milk Company products are delicious. Probably the memories of Sanitary Engineering lb will include the polish and humor of Prof. Fair’s lectures, the differential equations of Dr. Thomas and the concern of Dr. Bradley for better trained sanitarians. Certainly this course must have the recommendation that it dealt in concrete facts during a period in the curriculum when abstract concepts abounded elsewhere. 29