University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys arc marching — human guinea pigs tramp the treadmill to test Dr. Keys ' army rations. a: N army travels on its stomach mij ht well Ix- ilic motto of Dr. Ancd Keys, professor of physiology and physical eilucation. In the labo- ratory in the stadium. Dr. Keys has done research on fatigue effects in rations. His pep pills were first used in the African campaign. The arctic or the trop- ics, the ilesert or humid regions — men stationed in one region must eat dillerently than those i n another. I )i . Keys ' job is to test the effects of tlifferent rations uiulcr difTereni conilitions, and to ilecidc who will eat what. More guinea pigt — This time eating

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DR. Gayloru Anderson, the former director of PM and PH in the Minnesota medical school, is now Major Gaylord Anderson of the Meili- cal Corps, U.S. Army. St.it ionctl at Washington, D.C., where he is a consultant to the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army on the control of epidemic diseases, Dr. Anderson has been doing educational work for venereal disease prevention in the arm y. Teaching students, naval reserves, and army air corps ' men to steer destroyers, battleships, PT boats, and all army airplanes by the stars is the work of Prof. Willcm Luyten, professor of astronomy. These men learn to steer their crafts by certain stars in several constellations. One of Luyten ' s harder tasks is to have these celestial navigation students realize that it is very important to remember what hemisphere they are in. Carroll S. Geddes, former financial advisor to stu- dent organizations, is now a first lieutenant in the Adjutant General Department in the Army Air Corps at Miami Beach, Florida. Dr. Lynn H. Rumbaugh, formerly an associate pro- fessor of physics, is stationed at the Naval Ordnance Laboratories in the Washington Navy Yard. Formerly an English instructor, Frank Buckley is now a lieutenant in the pre-flight school at Ellington Field, Texas. A f r Corps Specialists Professor Willem J. Luyten — teaches celestial navigation to day students, night students and to air cotps cadets. Carroll Geddes takes in Florida sun- shine in his new capacity in the Army Air Corps. Frank Buckley, formerly oi Folwcll, now of Texas and the Air Corps. 19

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Medical Research THIS war has greatly increased the needs for medi- cal and public health services, both for the dura- tion and the following period of reconstruction. Doctors are urgently needed to care for our armed forces, industry, and civilians; and on Minnesota, the only complete medical school between the University of Wisconsin and the Pacific Northwest, has fallen the burden of supplying doctors for the large inland part of our country. Medical curriculum in wartime stresses first aid, public health, the prevention of venereal diseases, dermatology, internal medicine, aviation medicine, tropic and military medicine; all except the last two are thoroughly covered here at Minnesota. The program in our medical school has been re- vamped to aid the war effort — summer vacations have been eliminated, comprehensive exams have been discontinued, clinical clerkships have been re- quired in the junior as well as the senior year, the army and navy have commissioned students on an in- active basis, providing that they go into service at the end of their training here. Thus on the medical school has fallen a large responsibility in winning the war. i Dr. AHhur Hcnrici workinq to change starch to sugar for an experiment in the production of industrial alcohol. Dr. Wallace Armstrong of the department of physiological chemistry working to accelerate the healing of fractures. Drs. Maurice Visscher and Karl Sollncr who have perfected the process for distillation of sea water by body heat. 21