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One less car on the road For the past four years Raymond Aten, Ph.D., a research scientist in obstetrics and gynecology, has commuted to work from his home in Hamden on a bicycle. The state of Connecticut recently named him Commuter of the Month for his example. “It's sort of an ideal commute,” Dr. Aten says of his four-mile, 15-minute trip from the Whitneyville section of Hamden. “I can make it in about the same time as someone driving.” Dressed in shorts, T-shirt, helmet and goggles equipped with a rear-view mirror, Dr. Aten carries in his saddlebags a change of clothes, paperwork, a spare inner tube, reflective gear for night driving and a laptop computer. He rides his bicycle to work year-round, regardless of the weather. “It's one less car on the road,” says Dr. Aten, who is president of the Connecticut Bicycle Coalition. Portrait of a pioneer A portrait recently added to the walls of the School of Medicine honors Dorothy M. Horstmann, M.D., Sc.D., the John Rodman Paul Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Pediatrics. In 1961 she was the first woman named as a professor and eight years later was named to the endowed professorship. The portrait is a color photograph, taken by James C. Niederman, M.D., H.S. '50, clinical professor of epidemiology, that has been printed on linen rather than photographic paper. The framed portrait hangs near the Beaumont Room on the second floor of the Sterling Hall of Medicine. Dr. Horstmann came to Yale in 1942 as the Commonwealth Fund Fellow in preventive medicine. She worked with Dr. Paul, for whom her endowed chair was named. In 1944 she returned to the University of California at San Francisco, where she pursued her medical studies, and joined the Yale faculty in 1945. She played a major role in developing and evaluating vaccines for poliomyelitis and German measles. Moment of reflection In a ceremony Feb. 11 in the Beaumont Room University officials unveiled a portrait of Gerard N. Burrow, M.D., '58, H.S. '66, who stepped down last year after five years as dean of the School of Medicine. New Haven artist Steven R. DiGiovanni painted the portrait. Dr. Burrow met the artist at the Creative Arts Workshop where the former dean does metal sculpture. During their sessions, Mr. DiGiovanni set up a mirror so Dr. Burrow could watch him paint. Addressing the crowd that gathered in the Beaumont Room for the unveiling, University Provost Alison F. Richard, Ph.D., said: “Thanks to the artist and to the subject I think people will pause and say, 'He looks like a really wonderful person,' and they'll be right.” Added current Dean David A. Kessler, M.D.: “As the 14th dean of Yale School of Medicine, Dean Burrow personified a tradition of excellence with a degree of great and distinguished service that we all can admire.” < back | top of page >  Originally published in Yale Medicine, Summer 1998. Copyright © 1998 Yale University School of Medicine. All rights reserved. |