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...recognized there in 1941. From Massachusetts General and a few other pioneer hospitals, the idea spread, particularly during the two World Wars, through almost all large city hospitals and many community and private institutions. The Phillips Brooks contingent lay virtually dormant until the start of the current term when Reiss, one of 30 Volunteers in 1954-55, decided to reorganize the program. Registration in September jumped form last lear's 30 to a total of 124. Probably one of the most efficient social services in the College, the General Hospitals Program reports only two unexcused absences in the 660 occasions...
...Volunteers' remarkable record can be attributed to two factors; first, their serious interest in the work of medicine, and secondly, an acutely sensitive direction of the immense organization. Director Reiss has the help of six PBH Social Services Committee members. Mary Costanza '58 and M. Joyce Gahm '58 respectively coordinate Mount Auburn Hospital Volunteers and are promoting the new Tufts College extension of the PBH program; John L. Higgins '57 organizes Cambridge City workers, and Morton F. Goldberg '58 is in charge of PBH work at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary; David Chernof '57 directs the Program's relations with...
...addition to the regular weekly hospital work, Reiss now has four special projects in the planning stage which he hopes will increase the effectiveness of the Volunteers...
...General Hospital Volunteers have roused Tufts and Jackson Colleges, in nearby Medford, with the same enthusiasm that has stirred the College and Radcliffe. Reiss estimates that Tufts recruits may well equal the PBH volunteer group and although Massachusetts General needs no additional volunteers, each of the other four hospitals has room for many more. Cambridge City, for instance, has no volunteers at all on Saturdays and during vacations...
...Reiss looks forward to an official link with the University's Medical School. He sees no reason why the program's pre-med students cannot align their interests with those of the Medical School in some arrangement of practical preparation. He has started preliminary investigation and shortly expects to contact Medical School faculty members...