University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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The Alice Crocker Lloyd Radiation Therapy Center, located underground between the Kresge Medical Research Building and University Hospital, uses radioactive cobalt to treat cancers which are deeply situated in the body. To protect researchers, the source, which is the l.nm si in a non-governmental laboratory, is stored in a water tank and manipulated by remote control. University Researchers Explore Frontiers in Medicine

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to tbe Orient Manila and Okayama are Michigan Centers For four years the University worked with the University of the Philippines in Manila to organize that school ' s Insti- tute of Public Administration. The two universities were linked by an International Cooperation Administration contract. The ICA provided $440,000 to finance Michi- gan ' s expenses in the project, and furnished $100,000 more to establish a modern library at the Institute and to finance the training of Institute faculty members in the United States. Offering both graduate and undergraduate train- ing, the Institute opened to students in November, 1952. As many as twelve members of the Michigan staff were in Manila at one tim e to aid in the program. The number was reduced gradually as Filipine educators became quali- fied to assume both teaching and administrative responsi- bilities. In January, 1956, University President Harlan Hatcher traveled to Manila to inspect the project before the termination of the contract in June, 1956. The University kept a staff of faculty members in Manila to assist the University of the Philippines in establishing the first Institute of Public Administration in the Far East. The plan used ICA funds. The University ' s Japanese Studies field station in Okayama served Michigan staff members and students from 1950 to 1956. With the establishment of the Social Science Reseearch Center, the field sta- tion will probably be re-established near Tokyo to continue the work. Through the activities in a small office on the first floor of Haven Hall, the University of Michigan reaches half- way around the world to Japan. The University ' s Center for Japanese Studies, directed by Associate Professor John W. Hall, administrates two programs in Japan proper. The first, which has been operating since 1950, is a field study unit for Michigan students and faculty. The original field station at Okayama has been replaced by the Michi- gan-sponsored Social Science Research Center at Okayama University. Plans are in progress to relocate the field sta- tion near Tokyo. The second program was announced in November, 1955. The Center for Japanese Studies will coordinate a three-year Japanese-American exchange pro- gram among professors under a Rockefeller Foundation grant. In 1955, Shuichi Sugai, Kyoto University professor of law, and Yoshio Sakata, of the Kyoto philosophy de- partment were at Michigan. American professors lecture at Kyoto or Doshisha.

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Salk s Success Announced, A Victory Over Polio On April 12, 1955, the tenth anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt ' s death, the long months of tension ended. In the Rackham Building auditorium, Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr. reported the Salk vaccine to be eighty to ninety per cent effective. After the field trials of the vaccine in the summer of 1954, the data were sent to Dr. Francis, University pro- fessor of epidemiology, to be analyzed. He was the only person able to decode the numbers on the bottles of vaccine used to innoculate 654,000 children in the tests. The Na- tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis financed the tests and analysis. Dr. Jonas E. Salk relaxes with his family. The young University of Pittsburg doctor made medical history by discovering the first effec- tive vaccine against paralytic polio. He made initial tests on sons. Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr., Dr. Jonas E. Salk, and Basil O ' Conner. President of the National Foun- dation for Infantile Paralysis confer in the Rackham Building. Dr. Francis holds the report on the success of the vaccine which he delivered to assembled scientists, physicians, and Foundation officials. Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr. (left) reported on the success of the vaccine after analyzing the results of the testing program. I