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While Dr. Leo M. Taran was gathering ideas for a new operating suite, to be built at St. Francis Hospital and Sanatorium for Cardiac Children at suburban Roslyn, N.Y., he visited dozens of U.S. hospitals and inspected their equipment for delicate heart surgery. Always he ended by asking his hosts: "What's wrong with it?" And always, from their experience, they could suggest improvements. Last week, as medical director of St. Francis, Dr. Taran unveiled the operating suite that he had planned as a result of these studies. It had everything...
...ultramodern operating setup was a dream come true, not only for Harvard-trained Dr. Taran, but for Mother Mary of Kevelaer and the 46 sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who run the Long Island hospital-sanatorium. When it was founded in 1937, in a rambling mansion and stables given to the nuns by Shipowner Carlos Munson (a Quaker), it was a home for child victims of heart disease, and little more...
...Young Are Different. Mother Mary of Kevelaer, herself a victim of rheumatic fever, teamed with Dr. Taran to build it into an all-inclusive institution for the total care and rehabilitation of children and young adults crippled by heart disorders-some born with defective valves or blood vessels, others damaged in childhood by diseases. They added wing after wing, until now St. Francis has 200 beds, making it the biggest specialized hospital of its kind in the U.S. It is nonsectarian in selection of its patients, most of whom come from poor homes, where rheumatic fever strikes oftenest...
George Haven Scholarships in the Medical School to Frank L. Dunn 1M., of Erie, Pa.; Norman W. Elton 1M., of Boston; Wilfred G. Jones 1M., of Newark, Ohio; John W. Spies 1M., of Bonham, Texas; Leo M. Taran 1M., of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Jacob Fine 1M., of Roxbury; Frederic W. Lathrop 1M., of Carmel, Conn.; and Charles S. Woodall 1M., of Macon...
...Harvard Menorach Society Prize of $100 for an essay by an undergraduate on a subject connected with the work and achievements of the Jewish people, has been won by Joseph S. Shubow '20 of Dorchester, honorable mention being given to Nathaniel R. Taran '21 of Roxbury. Half of the Dante Prize was awarded to Walter L. Bullock, a first-year graduate student from Rugby, England. The Ricardo Prize Scholarship in Economics has been awarded to Elmo P. Hohman 1G. of Nashville, III. The Sargent Prize for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace has been...