4 largely basic science. Those departments heads who were here constituted the executive committee which met on a weekly basis, and which served as the admissions committee and almost everything else at that time, since we didn't have a large enough faculty to draw many members from. We were an executive committee, admissions committee, curriculum committee, and everything else. There were some special problems that arose during the first year. I mentioned we had two graduate students in physiology, and other departments had some graduate students with them. But we had no approved graduate program. A good deal of our: first half-year was spent in presenting a plan for a graduate program and getting it approved through the office of the graduate school. Dean [Linton E.] Gringer [Dean of the Graduate School] was sympathetic with our position, but it was difficult to convince him immediately that we were really capable of mounting a graduate program on such short notice. It became apparent right away that no single department had enough strength to convince the graduate school that it should have a graduate program, so we pooled our resources, and developed the graduate program in Medical Sciences, with majors possible in the separate disciplines. This scheme has since worked to our advantage in many ways. Since the departments in general have been relatively small, andhad small graduate programs, individually, we might have had some problems in convincing the higher authorities that we were really viable. But since we had a pooled program, it is clear that