Show V V SUt Sister r Mary Celeste eI Frey Fray MD M.D. has been collaborating with two other well known women research scientists at Columbia Columbia Columbia Colum Colum- bia University's College o of Physicians and Surgeons They are Dr Hattie Alexander anc and Dr Katherine Sprunt both notable notable notable no no- table for their work In contagious contagious con con- s childhood diseases The March of Dimes supported Dimes supported grant under which Dr Alexander Alexander Alexander Alex Alex- ander and Dr Sprunt work calls for tor studies in the possible control of the hereditary factor factors fac- fac tor torp tors of The findings findings findings find find- ings of this team have added new knowledge to the whole field of virus research Rubber Stamps at atThe Tho The Times Independent Q a t aw Women Play Key Role In Dimes Research Growing a killer dUer virus in ina a laboratory test tube to see what makes it tick may not seem like an ideal pastime for women Yet in recent years an increasing number of women have attained top rank recognition as medical research scientists many of them under grants supplied by The National Nation Nation- al Foundation with New March of Dimes funds The researches of these wom women women en have enlar enlarged ed the body oj ot of new medical information and helped solve a wide variety of oi health problems Not least among these was the conquest of a virus that killed and crippled crip crip- pled its victims in wave after wave of epidemics epidemIcs polio Pioneer in Protection Dr Isabel Morgan Mountain is one of the most famous of oi these women scientists As a member of the Johns Hopkins research group some years ago she won medical recognition for demonstrating that animals could be protected against polio polio po po- poi i lio by a vaccine This was a giant step toward the development development development develop develop- ment of the Salk vaccine for humans which which like like Dr Mountains Mountain's Mountains Mountain's Moun Moun- tain's work work was was done under grants financed by the March of Dimes Dr Mountains Mountain's parents Dr and Mrs Thomas Hunt Morgan Morgan Mor gan were both well-known well geneticists Her father won a aNobel Nobel Prize in 1933 as the originator of the gene theory of heredity Dr Mountain who is married to a prominent sur surgeon sun sur geon in New York is included in m the Polio Hall Halt of Fame at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation Until recently Dr Mountain rr VV r V n I. I to r. r Drs Hattie Alexander Isabel Morgan Mountain and Katherine Sprunt At Yale University Dr Dorothy Dorothy Dorothy Dor Dor- othy Horstmann has won fame for her researches in poliovirus poliovirus poliovirus polio- polio virus in the science of epidemic diseases andin the newer viruses only recently discovered She is on the research team of Dr John Paul under a National Foundation Foundation Foundation tion grant Nun Studies Proteins At St St. Louis Lous University Sis I ter Mary Celeste cf the Order I of or the Immaculate Heart of ot Mary Wary and a doctor cf rf medicine is s involved in studying the therole therole therole role proteins may play in virus reproduction Her research project headed ed by Dr Norman E. E l one of the most advanced scientists in the virus tI field ld is il also nillo financed fina by New March or oi limes Dimes funds rot r woman scientist who can bp be found hard at work Inn in n II fa n Dr Matilda Melnick at Baylor University Medical School Houston Tex rex Sh She aur auf her famous scientist husband Dr Joseph L. L Melnick Melnick Melnick Mel- Mel nick are conducting experimental experimental experimental mental studies in the Sabin virus live-virus polio anti-polio vaccine which like the Salk vaccine was developed under March of Dimes funs funds These projects are aimed primarily against three major crippling diseases birth defects defects defects de de- de- de arthritis and polio But every new discovery made by these women and other scientists scientists scientists with New March of Dimes support adds to the great body of our medical knowledge and contributes to mans man's health and well well-bei well being g MOTHERS' MOTHERS DOOR COUNT TOPS MARCH OF DIMES The 1960 New March forth of o Dime flutes campaign for lor lund to 0 support research patient pallen aid and the she training of o experts expert In Inthe inthe the he three health area areas of o birth oct defects arthritis and polio pallo it is climaxed by a Mothers Mother March forth Marcho of oJ two luo million volunteers volunteer The Tie Marching Mothers Mother are also alia a nationwide door oar count at as tome some 30 million homes Rome home to 0 collect tolled lad acts concerning concerning con tall the she problems problem of 01 crippling crip trip crippling pling diseases In their beir coon coin muni munie The local New March arth of o Dime o office ite ha has alto also appealed appl ap ap- pl pealed to 0 all donors donon who hare hareno not no already done to so to 0 tend send in their heir contributions contribution In do the mailer made oller appeal en envelopes elope dit- dit at ot the e beginning of o the she year SAVE DAVE ON e I OFFICE SUPPLIES PPL I ES I I h i Speedy Delivery on rI R All Types of Steel Office Equipment II We Will Stock Office and Bookkeeping Supplies to j Suit Your Needs Come ComeIn Comek k I In Discuss Your Need With Us 7 The Times-Independent Times 29 EAST CENTER STREET MOAB UTAH I g 1 i ii i |