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Clinical Investigation, and the Journal of Laboratory President Bishop: Thank you, Dr. Harken. Wel-
and Clinical Medicine. He is now on the editorial come, Dr. Bean. I bestow on you the highest award
board of the A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine. of the College, the Groedel Medal, and in com-
My candidate, Mr. President, has a quality of gentle pliance with the unanimous vote of the Board of
humor that is rare in a great doctor. He has a gift of Trustees you are hereby appointed Groedel Lecturer
elegant and succinct expression and the slant of his for this convocation.
medical thinking can best be set down in his own
words, which are quoted from a letter that he wrote: INDUCTION OF NEW PRESIDENT

“My medical interests are eclectic and universal. President Bishop: It is now my duty to relinquish
In addition to cardiology, nutrition and liver disease, the gavel to Dr. E. Grey Dimond, the President-
my favorite hobby is deflating stuffed shirts.” Dr. Elect of the College, who has served a strenuous year
Bean has been known for many years as the defender of apprenticeship. He will take the helm of our
of the painstaking observation, of the unhurried organization for the year of 1961-1962. I wish at
effort, of the uncompromising standard of excellence. this time to give my heartfelt thanks to the officers,
As a critic, he is feared, but as a scholar he is honored. trustees and committee chairmen who have done SC
Mr. President, the Awards Committee has recom- much the past year to make my administration a
mended and the Trustees have unanimously con- pleasant and rewarding experience.
curred that William Bennett Bean be awarded the Ladies and gentlemen, I now present the President
Groedel Medal for 1961 and be appointed Groedel of the American College of Cardiology, Dr. E. Grcy
Lecturer for this convocation. Dimond.

Announcements
Robert P. Glover Memorial Fund now has an official historian and you may be
When the chapter organization of the sure that the snapshots will remain in the
American College of Cardiology was dis- College Office with a notation not only of the
continued, the various chapters throughout the subjects of the shots themselves but also of the
country returned their balance funds to the donor of the prints.
general treasury. This week we have received
Young Investigator’s Award
in the Central Office of the College the balance
At the annual Convocation of the College
of $310.00 which remained in the Pennsylvania
on May 19, 1961 the Young Investigator’s
chapter and there is a request that it become the
Award, consisting of a silver medal, a certificate
nucleus of an endowment in the name of our
and a prize of $1,000 was presented to J. H.
Past President and Honorary Trustee, Dr.
Mitchell, M.D., National Heart Institute,
Robert P. Glover, the proceeds of the endow-
Bethesda, MaryIand, for his investigation on
ment being used to further the educational
“The Transport Function of the Atrium.”
purposes of the College.
Honorable mention, consisting of a $200.00
This wish of the Pennsylvania chapter to
prize, was awarded to D. M. Long, Jr., M.D.,
memorialize one of the most energetic and
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minne-
beloved of the builders of the College was
sota, for his investigation on “Myocardial
announced at the Tenth Anniversary Business
Necrosis and Electrocardiographic Changes
Meeting, and a number of the Fellows came
Related to Microcirculatory Abnormalities.”
forward and expressed a willingness to con-
Each of the eight other finalists received $100.00
tribute to the Glover Memorial Fund so as to
as a consolation award.
build it up into the required proportions as
rapidly as possible. Registration at Convention
Photographs of the Tenth Annual Convention The following is a tabulation of the attendance
Many of the Fellows at the Tenth Annual at the Tenth Annual Meeting held May 17 to
Convention were busy with their cameras and 20, 1961 in New York City.
flashbulbs, taking candid shots of the various Fellows of the College 506
activities that were going on. In former years Associate Fellows of the College 198
some of these candid shots were sent to the Nonmember Physicians 583
Central Office and became part of a valuable 1,287
Total
scrap book in our College Archives. It is
hoped that this year the Central Office will This does not include wives, exhibitors, medical
again receive a donation of prints of candid students, technicians and other guests, a total
photographs for our scrap book. The College of 385.

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