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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