University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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ADMINISTRATION So it ' s Dcan-Dcan-Dcan — pages of ' em. Not the ferocious brow beaters that the quaking undergraduate fears but a fine gang — understanding, willing to help, interested in this year ' s 1943 student — a wartime stutlent. More care, more inter- est, more time is exerted this year by these capable and efficient directors of Minnesota ' s various colleges. Board of Regents FRED B. SNYDER President of the Board James F. Bell Minneapolis Daniel C. Gainey - - - - Owatonna Richard L. Griggs Duluth George W. Lawson - - - - St. Paul Albert J. Lobb Rochester E. E. Novak New Prague A. J. Olson Renville Albert Pfaender New Ulm Ray J. Quinlivan St. Cloud F. J. Rogstad . - . - Detroit Lakes Fred B. Snyder Minneapolis Sheldon V. Wood - - - - Minneapolis Back Row: Quinlivan. Gainey, Middlebrook, Willey, Grigss. Seated: Rogstad, Wood, Coffey, Snyder, Lobb, Bell, Olson. 25

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Dr. Arthur Kirschbaum, one of Minnesota ' s cancer doctors, do- ins research work on white mice. Dr. Wesley Spink perfecting the sulfanilamide drugs to male them more effective and less toxic. Research and Treatment THE George Chase Christian professorsliip for cancer research has greatly expanded this re- search program at Minnesota. The Citizen ' s Aid Society of MinneapoHs donated this gift of S5,500 per year which is the first endowed profes.sorship at Min- nesota. Dr. John J. Bittner, formerly of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory at Bar Harbor, Maine and the winner of many research honors, joined Drs. Maurice B. Visscher and Robert G. Green in the study of mammary cancer in mice. Working on mice, these men will transfer that information to the study of cancer in man, the cause of the highest percentage of deaths in persons over 50. In this Minnesota trio, Dr. Bittner will study cancer as a geneticist, Dr. Vi.sscher as a physiologist, and Dr. Green as a bacteriologist especially interested in virus. Formerly an Australian bush nurse and now the foremost authority in the world on the treatment of infantile paralysis, Sister Elizabeth Kenny has revo- lutionized the former splint treatment by her suc- cessful hot packs and massage method. The length of treatment depends upon the individual case, but the time has been considerably shortened. Doctors, nurses and technicians from all over the U. S., and even from Puerto Rico and Hawaii, have Hocked here to learn the new Kenny treatment. Sister Kenny and one of her trainees applying the famous, though rev- olutionary, hot pack treatment which has given new hope to polio victims. Sister Kenny, the Australian bush nurse who has brought additional notice to Min- nesota ' s already famous medical school. 24

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W. C. COFFEY WALTER C. COFFEY President of the University One of those rare quiet evenings at home. Always eager to meet students j KTsonally, smiling President Walter C. Coffey promptly puts them at case wlicn ushered into his spacious brown-toneil of- fice. Working iiartl at the numerous tasks that face the president of one of the largest universities in the coun- try, President Coffey ' s main interest is si ill ihc wel- fare of the thousands of students at the University of Minnesota. Never too busy, he welcomes letters from i)arents and sees that they are promjuly an- swered. 26