DON S. KNOWLTON, M‘21,
ON S.
EMINENT ALUMNUS
KNOWLTON
has
had a dis-
tinguishecd\and colorful career. Born in
Fairfield, Me., t e attended Colby College,
Yale University and Tufts Medical School
from which he gradtated in 1921. After
graduation, he interned at the Cambridge
Hospital and the Yale-New Haven Hospi-
tal and then had residences at the Syracuse
University
Hospital
and\
the
Episcopal
ern Medical Association.
Dr. Knowlton is Associate
Otolaryngology at Georgetown’
Professor of
U. Medical
School and is consultant to’ the George
Washington Hospital, Mt. /Alto Hospital,
and the Doctors Hospital, ds well as others.
At present he is Medical
Director of the
General Services Life
Masurance Company
Hospital in Washington, D. ‘C. His specialty is otolaryngology which h& practices in
the Columbia Medical Building in Wash-
of Washington, as wel as being a member
of its Executive Conynittee and one of its
Directors.
In addjtion, he is in private
practice.
Service to Country
MEDAL TO CARRIE CHAPMAN, M’34
Carrie E. Chapman, M’34, chief of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the VA
ington, D. C.
Earlier in his career he served with the
American Expeditionary Forces in France
from 1918-19 during World War I. He Was
on active duty in 1940 with the U. S.
Marines in Quantico, Va. During World Wa
II, he was assistant division surgeon of the
lst Marine Division and the Marine forces
in the seizure and occupation of Guadal-
canal in 1942-43. He was the surgeon at
Camp Lejeune in N. C. from 1943-44, division surgeon of the 6th Marine Division
FMF from 1944-45 with which he served
in the battle of Okinawa-Shima. Then he
was on occupation duty in North China ard
was promoted to the rank of Commodore
in 1945. From 1945-46 he served in the
Navy Department in Washington, PD. C.,
and finally retired as Rear Admiral m 1950
after over 34 years of service.
Honors
He wasthe recipient of ma
cluding the Presidential Unit
honors in-
3 stars, Legion of Merit wit
Hospital, Oakland, Calif., and a fellow in
physical
medicine and rehabilitation in the
Mayo Fotndation from 1946 to 1949, on
assignm¢ent from the United States Public
Mealth’Service, received the bronze medal of
the American Congress of Physical Medicine
anc Rehabilitation at its annual meeting in
ew\York City August 26 to 31, 1962 for
her 13:year study, “Atraumatic Hydrotherapeutic Mebridement of Severly Burned Patients.” She was also elected president of the
American\Institute of Ultrasonics in Medicine for 1962-1963.
Born in New Hampshire, she was a medical officer wih the United States Public
Health Service\from 1944 to 1949. After
she left Rochester, Minn. in 1949, she joined
the Medical Corts of the United States Na-
vy, reaching the grade of Commander. She
has practiced at the Oakland Veterans Administration Hospital since 1954.
Guadalcanal, Commendati
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of the Navy, Legion of M
for Okinawa, Navy Unit Citation, Purple
Heart, Asiatic-Pacific
Medal with 3 stars,
China Expeditionary
Medal, Victory Medal
World War I with /stars, Naval Reserve
Medal, Marine Reserve Medal, Pre-Pearl
Harbor Medal and others.
Medical Activities
He is a member of many medical and
professional
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organizations including
the
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terial culture so rapi
as to threaten to
smotheritself.
In 1931, Thomas Edisgn said “we don’t
know one millionth of oné per cent about
anything.”
If this be true of the medical sciences it
is well that we have prepared, as best we
can, to capture and control the expanding
knowledge that already is flooding upon us.
Tufts Medical Alumni Bulletin
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American College of Surgeons, American
Academy of Ophthalmology and Otofaryngology, the American Board of Ofolaryngology, and a Life Member of the
South-