Medical School Given $42,226; Grant to Increase Faculty Pay

The Medical School will receive $42,226 from the National Fund for Medical Education, it was announced yesterday. The money will be used to increase salaries for teachers in "the basic medical sciences."

The fund was established in 1951 under the leadership of former President Conant, President Eisenhower, and Herbert Hoover, now honorary chairman of the fund's board of trustees.

In a letter to Chase Mellen '20, the fund's executive director, C. Harold Berry, Dean of the Medical School, said that the gift would be used to meet the school's "top priority, that is, making more secure our teachers in the basic medical sciences."

Berry went on to applaud the fund's policy of not restricting the school's use of the grants. "The educational value throughout the country of what you are doing," Berry wrote, "is even more significant than the money which you give us. It is also of national importance because we feel that tomorrow's medicine is in the laboratory today."

Largest Collection

The National Fund raised over $2,500,000 last year, the largest annual collection in its four-year existence. Half of the money comes from corporations through the fund's committee in industry, and the other half from physicians through the American Medical Education Foundation.

Eighty-one medical schools will benefit from the fund's award this year. The largest single grant was $62,884 to the Northwestern University School of Medicine, while Yale Medical School received $30,386.