Harvard School of Public
Health's Lifestyle-Questionnaire Studies Are Scientific Fraud!
The Harvard School of Public Health boasts that it "Prompted
revolutionary revisions to the U.S. Clean Air Act through the Six
Cities Study, begun in 1974 in response to the U.S. energy crisis. The
study found that air pollution-related cardiopulmonary problems were
occurring at exposure levels below existing standards; the most
dangerous components of air pollution were microscopic bits of solid
matter (particulates) produced by fossil fuel combustion; indoor air
pollution was sometimes significantly riskier than outdoor pollution;
and that passive smoking has significant effects on the respiratory
health of children." This is charlatanism, because the alleged
cardiovascular problems were among persons who already had serious
heart disease, and the supposed effects were concocted by massaging the
data with fast-fourier transform formulas, without regard to the role
of infection as a cause of either chronic or acute cardiovascular
disease. Furthermore, the death rates from
asthma
have steadily risen ever since the anti-smoking charlatans began
imposing smoking bans and inmtimidating suckers out of smoking in their
own homes.
The Harvard School of Public Health boasts that they "Showed that
the large majority of coronary
heart disease and diabetes cases can be prevented by avoidance of
smoking, moderate physical activity, weight control, a diet emphasizing
healthy fats, healthy carbohydrates, and generous intake of fruits and
vegetables, and optional moderate alcohol intake," which they attribute
to "research results from the Nurses’ Health Study I and II, the Health
Professionals Follow-up Health Study, and/or the Physicians’ Health
Study I and II which are conducted by researchers in the Division of
Preventive Medicine and the Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital, together with researchers in the Departments of Epidemiology
and Nutrition at HSPH." This is fraudulent on its face, because the
majority of heart disease patients do not have (and have never had) any
of those pretended risk
factors. And it is scientific fraud, because these claims are based on
extrapolation from studies based on nothing but lifestyle
questionnaires, which are not confirmed by randomized trials such as
the $625 million Women's Health Initiative:
Low-fat dietary pattern and risk of cardiovascular disease: the
Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification
Trial. BV Howard, et al. JAMA 2006 Feb 8;295(6):655-666. Randomized
controlled trial of 48,835 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 79 years,
1993-98. "The diet had no significant effects on incidence of CHD
(hazard ratio [HR], 0.97; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.90-1.06),
stroke (HR, 1.02; 95% CI, 0.90-1.15), or CVD (HR, 0.98; 95% CI,
0.92-1.05). "Over a mean of 8.1 years, a dietary intervention that
reduced total fat intake and increased intakes of vegetables, fruits,
and grains did not significantly reduce the risk of CHD, stroke, or CVD
in postmenopausal women and achieved only modest effects on CVD risk
factors..." After finding no effect, they nonsensically declare that
"more focused diet and lifestyle interventions may be needed to improve
risk factors and reduce CVD risk."
Their lies about smoking are specifically contradicted by the fact
that the decline in death rates since 1970 has been as large among
smokers as among non-smokers: "Nonsudden CHD death decreased by 64%
(95% CI 50% to 74%, Ptrend<0.001), and SCD rates decreased by 49%
(95% CI 28% to 64%, Ptrend<0.001). These trends were seen in men and
women, in subjects with and without a prior history of CHD, and in
smokers and nonsmokers." (Temporal trends in coronary heart disease
mortality and sudden cardiac death from 1950 to 1999: the Framingham
Heart Study. CS Fox, JC Evans, MG Larson, WB Kannel, D Levy.
Circulation 2004 Aug 3;110(5):522-527.) This is despite the different
rates of smoking and quitting between men and women during this
interval.
The Harvard School of Public Health boasts that they "Published a
groundbreaking study highlighting
the hazards of passive smoking, or 'second-hand smoke.' The study
linked this exposure to lung cancer." Presumably they are referring to
the specious trash of Dimitrios Trichopoulos, the author of vintage
1981 anti-smoking hate propaganda based on nothing but
a lifestyle questionnaire: "Born in the Greek city of Volos in
1938, he thrived and excelled as a student, despite civil war and a
ruined economy that made life hard following World War II. Encouraged
by his surgeon-father to pursue medicine, he chose to study psychiatry
and neurology at the University of Athens Medical School. There he met
epidemiologist Brian MacMahon of the Harvard School of Public Health,
who noted his facility with numbers and urged him to seek a master's
degree at HSPH... Eventually he was recruited to the HSPH faculty
full-time, where from 1989 to 1996 he served as the School's
Epidemiology Department chair."
(Epidemiology's Odysseus. By Peter Wehrwein. Harvard Public Health
Review, Fall 2004.)
The Harvard School of Public
Health has deliberately used its lackies within the National Cancer
Institute to fund defective studies, while ignoring
more than 50 studies which demonstrate that human papillomavirus is
involved in ten times more lung cancers than the anti-smoking
demagogues pretend are caused by secondhand smoke. Because passive
smokers are more likely to have been exposed to HPV, this is their
means to falsely blame passive smoking for lung cancer.
The Harvard School of Public Health boasts that "Gro Harlem
Brundtland, MPH ’65, was Director-General of the World Health
Organization from 1998-2003," and that "Since 1962, six directors of
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been Harvard School
of Public Health graduates." That explains their predeliction for
scientific fraud. Furthermore, it is a graduate of the Harvard School
of Public who is
the grand ringleader of global scientific fraud: Jon Samet has been an
anti-smoking activist since the Fifth World Conference on Smoking and
Health in 1983. He was one of three "consulting scientific editors" and
"prepared draft chapters or portions" of the 1986 Surgeon General
Report, "The Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking," and was also
involved in the 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2004
SG Reports, and was Senior Scientific Editor of the 2006 Surgeon
General Report, "The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to
Tobacco Smoke." He was also a member of the Science Advisory Board of
the so-called "EPA" Report on ETS, the key chapters of which were
actually secretly written by an anti-smoking activist crony of Samet's,
using illegal pass-through contracts to conceal his role. Samet was
Chairman of the IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer)
committee which produced the fraudulent Monograph on Smoking and
Involuntary Smoking in 2003. In 2005, Samet and three anti-smoking
activist cronies formed a majority of the voting board of the ASHRAE
Position Document on ETS. In addition, he committed perjury in 1998 in
the State of Minnesota lawsuit against the cigarette companies, and
testified in the US Department of Justice lawsuit against them as well.
(Milestones in HSPH History. Harvard School of Public Health,
accessed 2/23/08.)
The Harvard School of Public Health was founded to force Puritan
religious dogma down the world's throat, by disguising it as "science"
So it's not surprising that The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Health
& Society Scholars Program gave them a five-year, $5,494,665 grant
to those lifestyle questionnaire-peddling charlatans. "Program to
build the field of population health by training scholars to
investigate the connections among biological, behavioral,
environmental, economic and social determinants of health; and develop,
evaluate and disseminate knowledge and interventions based upon
integration of these determinants." Grants List, ID 53572, accessed
12/7/08.
(Gates Foundation Gives Millions for Coverage of World Health. By
Donald B. McNeil Jr. New York Times, Dec. 8, 2008.) Given Harvard's
record of health fascist scientific fraud, it's easy to guess what kind
of training this is.
Harvard School of
Public Health benefactor John L. Loeb
'24 funded the professorship of fraudulent smoking cost author David M. Cutler 1987, Ph.D.
(Economics) MIT 1991.
In 1868, the Overseers elected were E. Rockwood Hoar, Francis
Parkman, George S. Hillard, John H. Clifford, Charles W. Eliot, Charles
Devens Jr., William G. Russell, Theodore Lyman, Charles Francis Adams,
and J. Elliot Cabot, for six years; George E.C. Noble and Henry A.
Whitney, for four years; and Charles A. Humphries and John C. Ropes,
for two years. (Lowell Daily Citizen and News, Jul. 16, 1868.) Charles Francis Adams Sr.
(1807-1886) was the son of President John Quincy Adams, and
grandson of
President John Adams. He had been Ambassador to Britain from 1861 to
1868, and declined the presidency of Harvard. His wife was Abigail
Brown Brooks. (Wikipedia)
Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) left Harvard in 1863 and traveled in Europe. Upon his return in 1865, he was appointed professor of analytic chemistry at the newly-founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In that year, election of the Harvard Overseers was transferred from the state legislature to the alumni. Eliot was president of Harvard from 1869 to 1909, and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1914 to 1917. His son, Samuel Atkins Eliot II, a Unitarian minister, was the first and longest-serving president of the American Unitarian Association.
"Smoking and drinking were both touched upon and Dr. Eliot admitted he had been a moderate drinker before the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect. 'My father asked me to promise that I would not smoke while in college,' he said, 'and I kept that promise. After I was graduated I began to smoke and enjoyed a good cigar occasionally." (President Eliot Works 12 Hours Daily; Has No Fixed Rules for Health or Diet. New York Times, Mar. 1, 1922.) "Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University, has written the United Restaurant Owners' Association [of New York City] that thousands of persons kill themselves before their time by overeating and overdrinking, and extracts from his letter were made public yesterday by the association in connection with a movement to improve the health of patrons through suggestions for well-balanced diets." (Restaurants Plan Diet for Patrons. New York Times, May 18, 1924.)
Charles W. Eliot's first wife was Ellen Derby Peabody, whose father, Rev. Ephraim Peabody, a Unitarian minister, was a church and business associate of Rev. James Handasyd Perkins in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 1830s. Peabody and Perkins together published the Western Messenger, a religious monthly. (The Descendants of Richard Hutchinson of Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England; Centennial History of Cincinnati and Representative Citizens. By Charles Theodore Greve. Biographical Pub. Co., 1904, p. 624). Her grandfather was John Derby, son of Salem merchant Elias Hasket Derby, who was among the first to send ships to China. John Derby, Esq. was the banker in the family.
Centennial History of Cincinnati and Representative Citizens / Google BooksHis father, Samuel Atkins Eliot, Harvard 1817, was the treasurer of
Harvard from 1842 to 1853. In 1853, he became a partner of the
commission house of Charles H. Mills & Co. of Boston until 1859,
when he was elected President of the Boston Gas Light Company. He was
the Mayor of Boston from 1837-39, and a U.S. Congressman from 1850-52.
He was the son of Samuel Eliot and Catharine Atkins. He married Mary
Lyman, daughter of Theodore Lyman of Boston. (Alumni of Harvard
College. Necrology. Boston Daily Advertiser, Jul. 16, 1862.)
His grandfather, Samuel Eliot, married Katherine Atkins in
Newburyport. (Married. Salem Chronicle, May 25,1786.) He was the
manager of a lottery for the benefit of the "University at
Cambridge." (Scheme of a Lottery. To the Publick. Massachusetts Spy,
Worcester, Mass., Dec. 25, 1788.) He died in 1820 at the age of 81.
(Died. Boston Intelligencer, Jan. 22, 1820.) He founded the
professorship of Greek Literature at Harvard in 1814, with $20,000 in
specie. (Samuel Eliot. Boston Weekly Messenger, Feb. 3, 1820.) The
executors of his will were John Lowell and John Belknap.
(Advertisement. Boston Commercial Gazette, Feb. 3, 1820.) "The donation
bestowed by Samuel Eliot, in the foundation of the Greek Professorship,
was the largest sum ever bestowed on the College by any benefactor in
his lifetime, and the interest received before his death was equivalent
to an addition of eight thousand dollars to the original gift." His
paternal uncle, Rev. Andrew Eliot, had been a member of the Harvard
Corporation from 1765 to 1778. "In 1773, he formed the first book of
'Grants, Donations, and Bequests to Harvard College from the foundation
of the Society.'" His son, Rev. John Eliot, D.D., of Boston, was a
member of the Corporation from 1804 to 1813. (The History of Harvard
University, Vol. 2. By Josiah Quincy, 1840, pp. 313-315.)
His great-grandfather, Samuel Eliot, was a brother of Rev. Andrew
Eliot, HC1737, Pastor of the New North Church in Boston. Their sister,
Ruth, married Nathaniel Thayer, and was "ancestor of the Thayers of
Lancaster and Boston, Mass." (A Sketch of the Eliot Family. By Walter
Graeme Eliot, 1888, pp. 24-26.) Andrew Eliot HC1737 died in 1778.
(Boston Independent Ledger, Sep. 14, 1778.) During the Revolutionary
War, Rev. Eliot and his son, Rev. Andrew Eliot [HC 1762] of
Fairfield, Conn., sent "[L]arge confidential packets with directions to
take care
to maintain the secrecy" between each other, "to be given with
discretion to the right parties, who were never explicitly named;
although great care to identify names, places, supplies, and wounded"
were always given. They are suspected members of the Culper Spy Ring.
(Book extract from Missing Links to
the Culper Spy Ring? By Bernadine Fawcett.)
Rev. Andrew Eliot HC1762 married Mary Pynchon, daughter of Joseph
Pynchon, HC1726. Their son, Rev. Andrew Eliot, graduated from Yale in
1799. He was pastor of New Milford, Conn., and a Fellow of Yale College
until his death in 1829. (Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of
Yale College, June, 1792 - September, 1805, p. 354.)
Rev. Andrew Eliot 1762's brother, Samuel Eliot (1748-1784), married
Elizabeth Greenleaf, daughter of William Greenleaf. They were the
grandparents of Unitarian minister Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot Jr.
(1811-1887), founder of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. He was
born in New England, but raised in Washington, D.C. His mother,
Margaret Dawes, was the daughter of Judge Thomas Dawes of Boston, a
descendant of Maj. Dawes, who accompanied Paul Revere on his famous
ride. (Death of Dr. W.G. Eliot. St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat, Jan.
24, 1887.) His future father-in-law, Judge William Cranch, married his
grandmother's sister, p. 4. Cranch was a cousin and boyhood friend of
John Quincy Adams, p. 5. At Cambridge Divinity School, William G. Eliot
Jr. admired German philosophers such as Fichte and Goethe, whose
ideology that the individual exists to serve the state is the
foundation of modern totalitarian governments, p. 9. He visited Rev.
Ephraim Peabody in Cincinnati in 1834, during the journey to his
ministry in St. Louis, p. 19. He hated the personal liberty of the
French settlers there, p. 32. Washington University in St. Louis was
chartered in 1854, p. 82. William Chauvenet [S&B 1840], succeed
Joseph G. Hoyt [S&B 1840, his classmate] as Chancellor, p. 86. Henry Hitchcock [S&B
1848] founded the law school, p. 93. Eliot was active in the movement
for compulsory schooling in St. Louis, p. 318. His brother, Thomas
Dawes Eliot, was a member of Congress from Massachusetts [1859-1869].
(William Greenleaf Eliot: Minister, Educator, Philanthropist. By
Charlotte Chauncy Stearns Eliot, 1904.) His mother was the sister of
highly politically-connected James Greenleaf, a notorious land
speculator during the founding days of Washington, D.C. His uncle,
Samuel Eliot Jr., went there to be Greenleaf's assistant before Samuel
Eliot Sr.'s family moved there.
Members of the Eliot family were among the Fifty Associates, a real
estate syndicate,
"the oldest and closest corporation in the City of Boston... Its
shareholders are to be found 'at home' on Beacon Street and
Commonwealth Avenue, and their offices are in State Street and
adjoining lanes. Their blood is blue." It was founded in 1820. "The
leading stockholder and promoter of the new corporation was David
Sears, whose direct descendants still hold large blocks of the stock;
William Eliot, the builder of Tremont House, was also among the notable
fifty. His descendants at the present day, among them Dr. Samuel Eliot,
Charles Eliot Guild, Charles Eliot Norton, and others, hold
considerable of the stock." There were several Bradlees among the
stockholders. "The possession of this stock is such a distinction that
on the death of a holder this part of the estate is usually published
in connection with the fortunate heir." (The Fifty Associates. New York
Times, Nov. 6, 1894.)
In 1902, John D. Rockefeller made a conditional gift of $765,000 to
enlarge and endow the Harvard Medical School. Funds raised to secure
the money included $250,000 from Mrs. Collis P. Huntington,
specifically for a building to be named after her late husband; James
Stillman, $100,000; Francis L. Higginson, $60,000; Frederick C.
Shattuck, $50,000; Robert Bacon,
George F. Fabyan, Elliott C. Lee, W.L. Richardson, David Sears, and
Nathaniel Thayer, $25,000 each; Augustus Hemenway, $15,000; and H.H.
Hunnewell, $12,500. "There were ten gifts of $10,000 each, twelve of
$5,000 each, two of $2,000 each, and seventeen of $1,000 each, besides
many of smaller figures." "With Mr. Rockefeller's gift and the pledge
made by J.P. Morgan last June to give three buildings at a cost
exceeding $1,000,000, an aggregate of $2,821,225 will be available for
the use of the medical school." (Money Gifts to Harvard. New York
Times,
Mar. 14, 1902.) Bacon was a partner of J.P. Morgan until 1903.
Nathaniel
Thayer: "Mr. Thayer was the son of Nathan Thayer, a constructor
of many Western railroads, and Cornelia Van Rensselaer Thayer, a
descendant of the Rev. John Cotton of Boston. From his father, Mr.
Thayer inherited $2,000,000, which he increased considerably. He was
twice married, his first wife, Miss Cornelia Barroll of Baltimore,
leaving him three children, one of whom, Miss Cornelia Thayer, married
Count Von Moltke, the Danish Minister to the United States. His second
wife, Miss Pauline Revere, was a descendant of Paul Revere." He was
President of the Union Stock Yards Company of Chicago, a director of
the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and several other
railroads, a director of the American Bell Telephone Company, American
Telephone and Telegraph, Massachusetts Life Insurance Company,
Merchants' National Bank, New England Trust Company, Old Colony Trust
Company, United States Steel, and numerous other companies. (Nathaniel
Thayer Dead. New York Times, Mar. 22, 1911.) He was a trustee of the
Massachusetts General Hospital Corporation. (Local Matters. Fitchburg
Sentinel, Feb. 6, 1885; Massachusetts General Hospital. Boston Daily
Globe, Feb. 3, 1887.) Pauline Revere was the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Revere 3d. She was a member of the
Republican National Committee in 1924, "and was looked upon as advisor
and confidante of both Presidents Coolidge and Hoover." Among many
Boston chairities, her favorites included the Massachusetts General
Hospital. (Mrs. Thayer Dead; Paul Revere's Kin. New York Times, Sep.
30, 1934.)
His brother was Eugene Van Rensselaer
Thayer (1855-1907), who married Susan Spring. (Eugene V.R. Thayer Dead.
New York Times, Dec. 21, 1907.) Their daughter, Katherine Spring
Thayer, married Howland Russell, son of Henry Sturgis Russell. Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer Jr.
was president and a director of the Chase
National Bank.
His father, Nathaniel Thayer, was born in Lancaster, Mass., in 1808.
He
was a partner of John E. Thayer and Brother, bankers, with his brother,
John Eliot Thayer. He was an overseer of Harvard, 1866-1868, and a
fellow, 1868-1875. He married Cornelia Van Rensselaer, daughter of Gen.
Stephen Van Rensselaer of New York. He died in 1883. (Memorial
Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vol.
VIII, 1907, p. 129; Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Van
Rensselaer. Schenectady Digital History Archive.) He gave more than
$250,000 to Harvard during his lifetime. (Obituary. New York Times,
Mar. 8,
1883.) His estate was over $16 million, including $8 million in stocks
and $5 million in bonds. (The Late Nathaniel Thayer's Estate. New York
Times, Apr. 30, 1883.) Nathaniel Thayer was a director of the Colonial
Life Insurance Company of Scotland. Fellow directors included James S. Wadsworth and Thomas
Tileston, and its Governor was The Right Hon. The Earl of Elgin and
Kincardine, Governor General of Canada. (Insurance. New York Times,
Jan. 2, 1854.) Nathaniel Thayer and the family of Thomas Tileston each
gave $25,000 to Washington University in St. Louis. Thayer was one of
the largest stockholders in the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railway.
(Generous Donations to Washington University, St. Louis. Milwaukee
Daily Sentinel, Aug. 15, 1864.) The gift was attributed to the personal
influence of Rev. [William Greenleaf] Eliot [Unitarian minister who
founded WUSL]. (Boston Daily Advertiser, Sep. 7, 1864.) Thayer sold his
stock in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to Robert Garrett's
syndicate, which gained control. (Railway Work and Plans. New York
Times, Feb. 24, 1881.)
Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer was a Royal descendant (through the ubiquitous Livingstons) of Louis VI, King of France. (Americans of Royal Descent: A collection of genealogies of American families. By Charles Henry Browning, 1891, p. 586.) Her niece, Mrs. Howard Townsend, was one of the founders of the Memorial Cancer Center in New York City.
Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, p. 129 / Google BooksJohn Eliot Thayer married Cornelia Adeline Granger, only daughter of
Hon. Francis Granger, in Canandaigua, N.Y. (Marriages. Daily National
Intelligencer, Oct. 8, 1855.) Her mother was a Van Rensselaer. She was
a Royal descendant of Henry the Fowler, Emperor of Germany and Louis
IV, King of France. (Americans of Royal Descent: A collection of
genealogies of American families. By Charles Henry Browning, 1891, p.
397.) John Eliot Thayer left a $50,000 trust in the hands of Samuel A.
Eliot, Rev. George Putnam, and his brother Nathaniel, for scholarships
to Harvard. He gave $10,000 to Rev. George Putnam; gave more
than $5,000 to Rev. Ephraim Peabody's widow and daughters during his
lifetime; and left $1000 per annum for life to Dr. James Jackson or his
wife. The estate was thought to be about $3 million. (Will of the late
John E. Thayer. Boston Daily Advertiser, Oct. 14, 1857.)
Nathaniel Thayer Sr.'s grandson, Stephen
Van Rensselaer Thayer Jr. [Harvard 1894], married Julia Porter,
daughter of
A. Augustus Porter, at Niagara Falls, N.Y. Among the notable guests
were eight members of the Rumsey
family of Buffalo, and "Mr. George Howard, son of Henry Howard of England."
(Thayer-Porter. New York Times, Jun. 6, 1895.) He died in Vichy,
France. He had spent much time in Europe recently, and his daughter
Alice was born in Paris. (Death List of a Day. New York Times, Jun. 26,
1907.) Mrs. Thayer's sister was the wife of Lt. Clarence R. Edwards.
They were great-granddaughters of Judge [Augustus] Porter, who settled
at Niagara Falls in 1805. (Social Boston Will Greet Her. Boston Daily
Globe, May 5, 1895.) Mrs. Thayer and their three daughters continued to
live in France. (Table Gossip. Boston Daily Globe, Dec. 26, 1915.)
"The Charles Wilder Professorship in the Medical School. Founded in
1909 under the will of Charles Wilder and his sister, Florence E.
Wilder; in 1912 the fund was increased by Charles Wilder. Established
by the President and Fellows in 1920." From 1920 to 1935, Milton Joseph
Rosenau was the Charles Wilder Professor of Preventive Medicine and
Hygiene. (Holders of Endowed Professorships. Historical Register of
Harvard University, 1636-1936. Harvard University, 1937.)
The establishment of a "Department of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene" at Harvard in 1909 was announced in the Graduates' Magazine. The article proclaimed that "Its establishment is another symptom of the strong tendency to draw the physicians of the country into an organized public service. Though all doctors are now engaged in the work of preventive medicine, this work cannot be privately measured and paid for. No doubt so long as death continues to claim mankind there will be a province for the private practitioner. But his field is narrowing to the treatment of the more hopeless forms of disease. If he would live by what has become the chief part of medicine he must either enter the public health service or invade the field just opened by the enlightened business prudence of the life insurance companies. The example of Harvard must be followed by the other medical schools of the country, to supply the demand for specially trained men both in the service of these companies and in the public service." (Harvard's Pioneer School. New York Times, Sep. 13, 1909.)
Dr. Milton J. Rosenau was director of the hygiene laboratory of the
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, when he accepted the
newly-created chair of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at Harvard. (Dr.
Rosenau Accepts Harvard Chair. New York Times, Jul. 11, 1909.) Rosenau
was a member of the commission created by Adolph Lewisohn, Nathan
Straus, and the U.S. Ambassador to Constantinople Henry Morgenthau to
visit Palestine. Dr.
L.K. Frankel was also a member.
(To Investigate Palestine. New York
Times, June 13, 1914.) Frankel and Rosenau were both from Philadelphia,
and Lulu Rosenau was married to Lee Frankel's brother, Perry Frankel.
Rosenau was a director of the Health-Education League of Boston in
1906, when it published "The Boy and the Cigarette," an anti-smoking
screed by Hiram Sterling Pomeroy M.D., Yale 1872. Pomeroy was vice
president of the group, and its president was Dudley Allen Sargent,
Yale M.D. 1878, Director of Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard University
1879-1919. (Pomeroy- Obituary Record of Yale Graduates 1916-1917, p.
89; Sargent- Obituary Record of Yale Graduates 1924-1925, p. 266.)
Among the little
vignettes in the pamphlet is "The Cigarette Boy and the Employer,"
which states that, "In Chicago there is a large association of business
men pledged not to employ any cigarette smoking boys, and business men
in other parts of the country are following their example, on the
ground that the average cigarette fiend is so inefficient and dishonest
as to be not worth hiring," illustrated with a story from the Chicago
Chronicle. (The Boy and the Cigarette. By H.Sterling Pomeroy. A.M.,
M.D.
Health-Education League, 1906, p. 13.) Among the group's later
directors were Ellen H. Richards, whose nephew, Junius, was later a director
of Phillip Morris' predecessor, Benson & Hedges; and C.E.A. Winslow.
Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, Dr. Irving Fisher, Dr. William H. Welch [S&B 1870], and Dr. Haven Emerson were at the hearing of the Advisory Committee of the "Council of National Defense," whose purpose was to shut down the sex trade and impose prohibition on the U.S. military. Members of the Advisory Committee included Bernard M. Baruch. Raymond B. Fosdick headed the Commission on Training Camp Activities. (Barring Sex Diseases from the American Army. New York Times, October 28, 1917.)
(exerpt from) Barring Sex Diseases from the American Army / The Mead Project, by Dr. Lloyd Gordon Ward, Brock U."Until 1910, there were no facilities for the training of public
health workers in the United States. In that year the University of
Michigan awarded the first specific public health degree. The first
school, however, was organized in 1912 by William T. Sedgwick at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1913, Sedgwick joined forces
with Milton J. Rosenau, professor of preventive medicine at the Harvard
Medical School, and George C. Whipple, statistician and sanitary
engineer, also of Harvard, to form a school of public health. In 1918,
the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene was opened with William H. Welch
[S&B
1870] as
its first director." (A History of Public Health. By George Rosen. JHU
Press, 1993.)
Rosenau was a member of the committee, headed by Dr. Lee K. Frankel
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, that was appointed by the
Executive Committee of the American Jewish Relief Commission to visit
Jewish centers in Europe. (Jewish Advisors to Sail. New York Times,
June 17, 1922.)
"The Harvard School of Public Health, established last year as the
result of the endowment received last year from the Rockefeller
Foundation, which will ultimately amount to more than $2,000,000,
will
open Monday for the first time. During the first half year, Roger I.
Lee, Professor of Hygiene, will serve as acting dean of this school in
the absence abroad of Dr. David L. Edsall, Dean of the Medical School.
The faculty of the school will include Drs. Richard P. Strong, Milton
J. Rosenau, Lawrence J. Henderson, George C. Whipple, Cecil K. Drinker
and Professor Edwin B. Wilson." The Harvard Theological School also
opened that year. It was "formed last June by agreement between the
Harvard authorities and the Trustees of Andover Theological Seminary,"
with Rev. Willard L. Sperry as Dean. (Harvard Will Open Two New
Departments. New York Times, Sep. 24, 1922.)
Rosenau and Frankel were among eleven members of the Public Health
and Medical Reference Board of Hadassah. (Doctors to Aid Hadassah. New
York Times, June 22, 1930.)
The President and Fellows of Harvard University during 1909-1912
consisted of
Henry Pickering Walcott (1890-1927); Henry Lee Higginson (1893-1919);
Francis Cabot Lowell (1895-1911); Arthur Tracy Cabot (1896-1912); and
Thomas Nelson Perkins (1905-1924 and 1926-). Clarence
Cook Little, the future head of the American
Society for the Control of Cancer - and later, the Tobacco Industry
Research
Council - was secretary to the Corporation of Harvard University from
1910-12.
The President and Fellows of Harvard in 1920-22 consisted of Henry
Pickering Walcott (1890-1927); Thomas Nelson Perkins (1905-1924 and
1926-); William Lawrence (1913-1931); John Farwell Moors (1918-1931);
and James Byrne (1920-1926). Charles
Francis Adams was the Treasurer (1898-1925). (Chronological Tables:
Treasurers. Historical Register of Harvard University, 1636-1936.
Harvard University, 1937.) Abbott Lawrence Lowell was the President of
Harvard from 1909 to 1933, when he was succeeded by James Bryant Conant.
Henry Pickering Walcott (1838-1932) was a physician and a member and
later chairman of the
Massachusetts Board of Health. "Dr. Henry Pickering Walcott '58, the
new president of the Alumni Association, after graduating from college,
studied medicine at the Medical School and at Bowdoin, as well as in
Vienna and Berlin. He served for 33 years on the Massachusetts State
Board of Health, of which he was chairman from 1886 to 1914. He has
been for many years chairman of the Massachusetts Water and Sewerage
Commission. He has also served as president of the Massachusetts
Medical Society, the American Public Health Association and the
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and as vice-president of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 1887 to 1890 he was a
member of the Board of Overseers of the College, and since then has
been one of the Fellows, being now the senior member of that body. From
1900 to 1901, during one of the temporary absences of President Eliot,
Dr. Walcott was Acting President. He received the honorary degree of
LL. D. from Yale in 1907." And Robert Frederick Herrick '90 was
appointed the Chief Marshal for Commencement. Marshal At Commencement.
The Crimson, Jan. 21, 1915.) He was a member of the executive committee
of the American Public Health Association (Health Association.
Galveston Daily News, Nov. 16, 1883) and president (The Health
Congress. Milwaukee Sentinel, Dec. 12, 1885.)
Dr. Arthur Tracy Cabot (1852-1912), HC1872, a surgeon, was one of
eight children of Dr.
Samuel Cabot HC1836 and Hannah Lowell Jackson. His grandmother was a
daughter of Thomas Handasyd Perkins. He was an advocate of clean
surgery, and he and his brother Samuel established a fund for
pathological research at Massachusetts General Hospital. He married
Susan, a daughter of George O. Shattuck. His grandfather, Samuel Cabot,
was a believer in homeopathy, but failed to convince his physician son.
(A cyclopedia of American medical biography: comprising the lives of
eminent deceased physicians and surgeons from 1610 to 1910, Vol. II. By
Howard Atwood Kelly, M.D. W.B. Saunders Co., 1912, pp. 187 and 188.)
Thomas Nelson Perkins,
Harvard 1891, was the grandson of James Handasyd Perkins (1810-1849),
who was a Cincinnati
crony of Skull & Bones founder Alphonso Taft.
He was the son-in-law of Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1835-1915), son of Charles Francis Adams Sr.
Meanwhile,
his brother was involved in buying large amounts of American Tobacco
Company stock.
Bishop William Lawrence (1850-1941) was the son of Amos Adams
Lawrence (1814–1886), HC 1835, the founder of Lawrence University in
Appleton, Wis., and grandson of Amos Lawrence. (Amos Adams Lawrence
Papers. Massachusetts Historical Society, accessed 09-03-09).
Amos A. Lawrence "was greatly interested in the claims of Eleazer
Williams of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and through loans to this 'lost
dauphin' came into possession of much land in Wisconsin." President
Pierce was a nephew of his mother. He was treasurer of Harvard from
1857-1862, and an overseer from 1879-1885. (Online Encyclopedia,
Originally
appearing in Volume V16, Page 305 of
the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.) Amos A. Lawrence's wife, Sarah E.
Appleton, was a royal descendant of Louis VII, King of France.
(Americans of Royal Descent. By Charles Henry Browning, 1891, p.39.)
Amos Adams Lawrence was the head of
the firm of A.A. Lawrence & Co. (Obituary. New York Times, Aug. 24,
1886.) "The firm were the agents for the sale of the cloths
manufactured by the Pacific Mills, the Cocheco Company and the Salmon
Falls Company." [One of the incorporators of Pacific Mills was C.C.
Little's grandfather.] (Amos Adams Lawrence. Memorial Biographies of
the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1907, p. 271.) Amos A.
Lawrence was vice president of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Corporation in 1885. (Local Matters. Fitchburg Sentinel, Feb. 6, 1885.)
One of
the members of A.A. Lawrence & Co. was William G. Lambert, the
father of two members of Skull & Bones, who founded the New England
Mutual Insurance Company and the Equitable Insurance Company of New
York. William Lawrence's grandfather, Amos
Lawrence, was a
supporter of notorious anti-smoker Rev. George Trask.
Right Rev. William Lawrence was
the Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts from 1893 to 1925. He was known
as "the banker Bishop" because his fund raising drives "invariably
developed with Midas-like magic." J. Pierpont Morgan was associated
with the Church Pension Fund from its beginning in 1918, and served as
its Treasurer. Bishop Lawrence was a cousin
of Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell. His daughter, Ruth, married Lansing P. Reed, Skull &
Bones 1904. (Miss Ruth Lawrence Weds. New
York Times, Jun. 4, 1911; Dr. Lawrence Dies; Bishop Emeritus. New York
Times, Nov. 7, 1941.) Reed was a director of I.T. & T, which made
"numerous payments" to Heinrich Himmler in the late 1930s. Bishop
Lawrence, Maj. Henry Lee Higginson, and
Prof. Eugen Kuehnemann, visiting professor from the University of
Breslau, Germany, were special guests of the Harvard Cosmopolitan Club
when it honored the German and Japanese ambassadors, Count von
Bernstorff and Baron Takahira, by making them honorary members, "an
honor which Pres. Elliot alone holds at present." Canon H. Hensley
Henson of Westminster Abbey was also a guest, and E.F. Haenfstaengl
'09 [Ernst F. Hanfstaengl, aka "Putzi", who later became Adolph
Hitler's publicist], was a member of the
undergraduate committee of the club. (Pres. Eliot Receives Honors From
Mikado. Boston Daily Globe, May 12, 1909, p. 1.) While Bishop Emeritus,
he was involved in an
effort to slip a new common prayer book onto the Church of England.
(Sees Prayer Book A Political Puzzle. New York Times, Jun. 20, 1928.)
Another of the Bishop's daughters married Morton Lazell Fearey, Skull
& Bones 1898. Her two brothers, William Appleton Lawrence and
Frederic Lawrence of Boston, also became Bishops. (Mrs. Morton L.
Fearey. New York Times, Apr. 26, 1962.)
Dr. Robert B. Greenough was born in Cambridge, Mass. He graduated
from Harvard College in 1892 and Harvard Medical School in 1896. He was
appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School in
1909 and served until 1932. Since 1932, he was consulting surgeon at
the Massachusetts General Hospital, and consulting surgeon and head of
the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital in Boston. He was a director
of the American Society for the Control of Cancer since at least 1916,
and was its president at his death. (Dr. R.B.
Greenough, Surgeon, Dies At 65. New York Times, Feb. 17, 1937; Robert
Battey Greenough 1871-1937. By Channing C. Simmons. Annals of Surgery
1938 Oct;108(4):798-800.) His daughters were great-nieces of Dr.
Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard. One of the attendants
at Ellen Greenough's wedding was Mary L. Deming [whose father, Nelson L. Deming, Berzelius 1890,
was a founder of the American Heart
Association in 1916]. (Ellen
Greenough Weds H. Stires. New York Times, Jan. 20, 1924.) Dr. Frederick
Fuller Russell of Boston replaced Greenough both as a member of the
board of managers of Memorial Hospital for the
Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases, and as president of the
American Society for the Control of Cancer. (Gets Memorial Hospital
Post. New York Times, Jun. 16, 1937.)
Dr. Robert Battey Greenough's father was Prof. Greenough of Harvard
University. "James Bradstreet Greenough was born May 4, 1833, in
Portland, Me., son of James and Catherine [Greenough] Greenough. His
father having removed to Boston, he received his college preparatory
training at the Boston Latin School. As weakness had affected his eyes,
he was obliged for a time to refrain from further study, and upon
leaving the Latin School, he became a clerk in a wholesale goods house
in Boston. He did not find this occupation congenial, and having
decided to enter college, he studied under a private tutor, James M.
Chase (H.U. 1850), for three months, and entered Harvard in 1852....
Upon graduation he entered the Cambridge Law School, and after staying
there one term, removed to Marshall, Mich., where his father and
brother had business interests, and entered the law office of Brown and
Van Arman, and in due time was admitted to the Michigan bar. In October
1858, he succeeded Mr. Van Arman, and a new firm was formed under the
style of Brown and Greenough. This firm was afterwards dissolved, and
he continued alone in the practice of law until 1865." In that year, he
accepted the position of tutor in Latin at Harvard. He was appointed
assistant professor of Latin in 1873, and professor in 1883. In 1882,
he was one of the directors of the society that established Radcliffe
College. He first married Mary Battey Ketchum of Marshall, Mich., who
died in 1893. James Jay Greenough (H.U. 1882) was born in 1861; and
Robert Battey Greenough (H.U. 1892) was born in 1871. (Class of 1856.
The Report of the Secretary, Harvard College, 1899.)
His brother, James J. Greenough, married Katharine Nash, the
daughter of George Washington Copp Noble. (Deaths. New York Times, May
8, 1957.) He was the headmaster of Greenough & Noble's School in
Boston. (Yearbook and List of Active Members of the National Education
Association, 1903, p. 153.) G.W.C. Noble was Principal Emeritus of the
Noble and
Greenough School, and the last surviving member of the Board of
Overseers of Harvard College which approved the selection of Dr.
Charles W. Eliot as President of the university in 1869. (G.W.C. Noble,
Educator. New York Times, Jun. 8, 1919.) "Noble & Greenough,
founded by George in 1866, catered to the Boston
aristocracy. His wife Laura was the daughter of Francis Lister
Hawks, writer, historian and long time Rector of the Episcopal Calvary
Church in New York City." Their son, Francis Noble, enrolled at Harvard
in 1884, where he met William Randolph Hearst, the business manager for
the Harvard Lampoon. "Upon graduation in 1888, Noble received an urgent
plea along with many Harvard Lampoon cronies, to join the staff of
Hearst’s first Newspaper; The San Francisco Examiner. He rose to
the position of Managing Editor of the paper that was known for
exaggeration and sensationalistic headlines. Hearst acquired The New
York Journal in 1895 and Francis Noble became the Journal’s Sunday
Editor.... The term Yellow Journalism was coined during a battle for
subscriptions with Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World.... Noble
followed Hearst again to become the Sunday Editor of The Chicago
American and later as the Sunday Editor for Hearst’s New York
World. Moving back to Boston, Noble worked for The Boston Evening
Transcript, Boston Herald and Boston Daily Globe. At the age of
46, Francis retired from the Newspaper business and came to live in
Kennebunkport year-round." (A Noble Pursuit. By Sharon Cummins.
Originally published in The Log, Kennebunkport Historical
Society's quarterly publication.)
The Overseers of Harvard University between 1900 and 1922 included
Robert Swain Peabody (1888-1899 and 1907-1912; Robert Bacon 1889-1901 and
1902-1908; William Lawrence 1894-1906 and 1907-1912; Theodore Roosevelt
1895-1901 and 1910-1916; Charles Francis Adams [Jr.] 1895-1907; James
Jackson
Storrow 1897-1909; Francis Lee Higginson 1897-1909, 1910-1916, and
1916-1922; Jerome Davis
Greene 1910-1913 and 1917-1923; Thomas
William Lamont 1912-1918 and 1919-1925; William Cameron Forbes
1914-1920; Robert
Frederick Herrick (1915-1921); William Sydney Thayer (1915-1921); John
Pierpont Morgan (1916-1922); Leonard
Wood (1917-1923); Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1917-1923); and Ellery Sedgwick (1919-1925).
(Overseers. Historical Register of Harvard University, 1636-1936.
Harvard University, 1937.)
Robert Frederick Herrick, Lawyer, Boston; partner of Fish, Richardson, Herrick & Neave; later Herrick, Smith, Donald & Farley. Robert Frederick Herrick graduated from Harvard in 1890, and Boston University Law School. He was a graduate member of the committee on athletics and coached the Harvard crews, and was chairman of the Graduate Rowing Committee since 1908. He was "a director of some forty of the largest industrial and financial corporations of New England, and but two or three financiers are connected with a larger number of institutions." He was a director of the Walter Baker & Company [with which his wife's cousin James H. Perkins was connected early in his career]; also of General Motors. (History of Worcester and Its People, Vol. 4. By Charles Nutt. Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1919.) In 1917, he was a director of the American International Corporation [which was a brainchild of James H. Perkins], and the New York Life Insurance Company; and a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation. (Chapter VIII, 120 Broadway, New York City. Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, by Antony Sutton.) In 1919, he was president of the Reed-Prentice Company; and at some time was chief legal advisor for United Shoe Machinery Co ["The Shoe Trust," connected with First National Bank of Boston and Lee Higginson & Co.] (Gordon McKay (1821-1903. Prof. Victor Jones Homepage, Harvard University); and a director of City Trust Company, Boston. (The Tech. MIT, 1904?.) In 1929, he was a member of the Advisory Committee of Yale's Institute of Human Relations. His first wife was Alice Taft, who died. In 1922 he married Margaret Forbes Perkins Rice, a sister of Robert Forbes Perkins, and a daughter of Charles Elliott Perkins of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. (Robert F. Perkins, Retired Broker, 72. New York Times, Feb. 21, 1938; R.F. Herrick Dies; Boston Lawyer, 76. New York Times, Oct. 15, 1942.)
History of Worcester and Its People / Welcome to Worcester County, MassachusettsIn 1931, Herrick presented a memorial to fellow attorney Frederick
P. Fish, a crony of over 25 years. Fish had been an attorney for
Thomson-Houston and General Electric, and was president of AT&T
from 1901 to 1907. He was a partner of the architural firm Peabody
& Stearns, with John G. Stearns, Harvard B.S. 1863.
Robert Swain Peabody (1845-1917) was the son of Unitarian minister
Ephraim Peabody. President Charles W. Eliot was his brother-in-law.
His mother, Mary Jane Derby, was the daughter of John Derby and the
granddaughter of Elias Hasket Derby of Salem, Mass. He graduated from
Harvard in 1866, and studied in Europe until 1870. He was a member of
the Corporation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology "for many
years" as well. His first wife was Annie, daughter of John G. Putnam.
(Robert Swain Peabody. Later years of the Saturday Club, 1870-1920. By
Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, p. 369; The Harvard Graduates' Magazine. By
William Roscoe Thayer, 1918, p. 280.)
His brother, Francis
Greenwood Peabody, Harvard 1869, D.D. 1872, was
a Unitarian minister and professor of theology from 1881-1912 (Dean of
the Faculty of Divinity 1901-1906). "In his teaching, preaching and
writing, he portrayed a religious tradition that stressed members as
agents of social change, de-emphasizing personal salvation in favor of
social action." He married Cora Weld in 1872. (Francis Greenwood
Peabody (1847-1936). Harvard Divinity School at the Turn of the Last
Century. Harvard University.) "Peabody was an early thinker of the
Social Gospel movement and was convinced of the establishment of the
kingdom of God on earth through the reform of society 'by changed men
and women.' ... Peabody, along with his brother-in-law Charles Eliot,
helped organize the Committee of Fifty in 1893 to examine physiological
and sociological aspects of alcohol. Peabody was its secretary and
editor of some of the committee's publications..." He was an Overseer
from 1877 to 1882. (The progressive era's health reform movement: a
historical dictionary. By Ruth C. Engs, 2003.) Cora Weld was the
daughter of Francis Minot Weld, HC 1835, and Elizabeth Rodman. Dr.
Francis Minot Weld of New York City was her first cousin. (The Seven
Weld Brothers: 1800 to 2000. By Nicholas Benton, 2004, pp. 123 and 92,
respectively; The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,
Volume 41, 1887, p. 422.) Dr. Weld's son, Francis
M. Weld. Jr, co-founded White, Weld & Company.
James J. Storrow graduated from Harvard in 1885, then Harvard Law
School. For eleven years he was a member of Fish, Richardson &
Storrow, which handled the legal work for Lee, Higginson & Co. In
1900, he joined Lee, Higginson. He was chairman of the Nash Motors Co.
since 1916, and a director of the U.S. Smelting and Refining Co., U.S.
Mining Co., William Underwood Co., and the Railway and Light Securities
Co. He was chairmam of the executive committee of General
Motors from 1910 to 1915. He married Helen Osborne, a sister of
Thomas Mott Osborne of Auburn, N.Y. (James J. Storrow, Noted Banker,
Dies. New York Times, Mar. 14, 1926; Storrow Left $16,250,000. New York
Times, Apr. 7, 1926..) Mrs. Storrow was a member of the
committee in
charge of the anniversary celebration of Memorial
Hospital. (Memorial Hospital to Mark 50th Year. New York Times, May
20, 1934.)
William Sidney Thayer, M.D., was born in Milton, Mass., in 1864 and
graduated from Harvard College
in 1885, and Harvard Medical School in 1889. "He came to Baltimore in
1891 to become second assistant to Sir William Osler, first professor
of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and from
1891 to 1898 was his chief assistant. Later he succeeded Dr. Osler as
physician-in-chief to the Johns Hopkins Hospital." Mrs. John W. Ames of
Cambridge was his sister. (Dr. Wm. Thayer Dies, Aged 68. AP. Hagerstown
Daily Mail, Dec. 12, 1932.) He was a co-founder of the American Heart
Association in 1924. William S. Thayer of Johns Hopkins University
was a member of the American Red Cross
Mission to Russia. (Berkman Held Up to Russians As Martyr. Lowell Sun,
Jan. 4, 1918.) He was a correspondent of William H. Welch, Skull
&Bones 1870, between 1919 and 1931. (Welch Papers Series I, S-Z.)
He was one of the physicians of former Pres. William H. Taft, S&B
1878, and was consulted during Taft's final illness. (Physicians Doubt
Taft Will Recover. AP. Ironwood Daily Globe, Feb.4, 1930.)
His father was James Bradley Thayer, Harvard 1852. (Victim of Heart
Failure. AP. Lowell Sun, Feb. 15 1902; Thayer, James Bradley,
1831-1902. Papers, 1787-1902: Finding Aid.) His grandfather was
Unitarian Rev. Samuel Ripley, 1783-1847.) [James Bradley Thayer was a
professor at Harvard Law School from 1873 to 1902; his son, Ezra Ripley
Thayer, was a professor and dean from 1910 to 1915; his grandson, James
Bradley Thayer, was a professor from 1935 to 1945; and his
granddaughter, Polly Thayer Starr, funded a chair in her father's
name.] Ezra Ripley Thayer married Ethel Randolph Clark, daughter of
Mrs. Randolph M. Clark. (Married. Boston Daily Advertiser, Jun. 27,
1898.) Mrs. Thayer was the grandniece of George C. Clark, the first
president of the American Society for the Control of Cancer.
In 1922, the Office of Cancer
Investigations of the US Public Health Service at Harvard University
(which was subsequently merged into the National Cancer Institute), was
established at Harvard by Assistant Surgeon General Joseph
W. Schereschewsky. Schereschewsky
had been director general of the 50th Session of the International
Congress of Hygiene and Demography, which was held at the Red Cross
Hall in Washington, DC, of which William H. Taft, Skull & Bones
1878, was the honorary president. (Health Exhibit Opens. Washington
Post, Sep. 17, 1912.) Schereschewsky
was the son of Rt. Rev. Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, who was the
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of China from 1875 to 1888. He was
"instrumental in persuading the Surgeon General of the Public Health
Service that cancer was a public health problem," and the Office of
Cancer Investigations was established in the department of Dr. Milton
J. Rosenau,
Professor of Preventative Medicine. When Rosenau retired in 1930, Howard B. Andervont became the
first professional staff member of Schereschewsky's Office of Cancer
Investigations. (Howard B. Andervont: An Appreciation. By Michael
Shimkin. J Natl Cancer Inst 1968 Jun;40(6):XIII-XXV.) The Surgeon
General
in 1922 was Hugh S. Cumming,
later a member of the advisory committee of the Yale Institute of Human
Relations. Edwin B. Wilson was
another member of this Harvard group, who became an original members of
the
Scientific Advisory Board of the Tobacco Industry Research Council from
1954 to
1964, when Andervont replaced him.
Andervont in addition was Chief of the Laboratory of Biology at the
National Cancer Institute from 1947-60, and Scientific Editor of the
Journal of the National Cancer Institute from 1961-67.
Original members of the National Advisory Cancer Council of the
National Cancer Institute, appointed by Surgeon General Thomas Parran
in 1937: James Ewing, Director of
Memorial Hospital; Dr. Francis C.
Wood, Director of the Crocker Institute of Cancer Research at Columbia
University; Harvard University President James B. Conant; Dr. Arthur H.
Compton of the University of Chicago; C.C.
Little, Managing Director of
the American Society for the Control of Cancer;
and Dr. Ludvig Hektoen
of Chicago. In 1938, Dr. James B. Murphy of the Rockefeller Institute
and Dr. Mont R. Reid replaced
Ewing and Wood. (Named to Cancer Council.
New York Times, Dec. 11, 1938, p. 30.) Ewing, Hektoen, Little, Murphy,
Parran, and Wood were all affiliated with the ASCC.
When Conant was U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, his special
legal advisor from 1954-55 was Charles Dewey
Hilles Jr., Skull & Bones 1924. Hilles was an officer of the
American Cancer Society and its
predecessor, the ASCC, from 1939 to 1959, and an officer of I.T.&T.
from 1941 to 1969. (New Yorker Sworn In As Conant Legal Aide. New York
Times, Apr. 21, 1954.)
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