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Only requirement for the Central Medical School, at Suva in the Fiji Islands, is the equivalent of a good U.S. high-school education. Students are given four years of anatomy and surgery. One thing students find hard to unlearn: their fear of native witch doctors...
From Makeshift to McGusty. The Suva Medical School began back in the 1880s with verbal instruction (no textbooks, no laboratories) by the British Medical Officer at Fiji. For the first 40 years it was only a makeshift. In 1928, bulky, energetic Dr. Sylvester Maxwell Lambert, who spent 20 years in the South Pacific for the Rockefeller Foundation, persuaded the Foundation to help. In 1929, the Suva School dedicated a new dormitory and mess hall. Enrollment was increased from 16 to 40, extended to include non-Fijians. In the 1930s, pathological and bacteriological laboratories were added. In 1940 a European nurse...
Since Dr. Lambert's retirement in 1939. Dr. Victor William Tighe McGusty, director of Fiji's medical services, has had complete charge of the school. Rockefeller support, no longer needed, has been withdrawn. The regular teachers are British-paid Colonial Medical Service doctors...
...months he lived with Fatoia Tufele, king of a group of islands near Pago-Pago-and he still talks about the two beautiful damsels Fatoia provided to fan him as he sat dining on the hot porch of the king's palace. After that he went to Fiji, Tonga. British Samoa and on to China, where he worked three years on the China Press and the Shanghai Times-did special pieces for Reuters, the New York Times, Asia, Travel and the Christian Science Monitor when he wasn't too busy ducking Jap bombs. In 1936 he made...
McLean says he has received "27,000 marriage offers" (one from the Fiji Islands), since his banknote binges began. For his philanthropies he has a standard explanation: "The basis of a new social order must be happiness...