Med. School Faculty Member Dies in Plane Crash in Tenn.

Dr. Alfred Leitner, instructor in Medicine, was killed in an airplane crash near Oakridge, Tenn., Thursday night. He was 32.

For the past two years Leitner had been doing research on the biochemistry and enzymology of normal and lukemic blood cells. His special interest was in immunological aspects of blood clotting; he had published three articles on that subject in medical journals.