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Show I OGDEN DOCTOR I EE HONORED Fellowship in American College of Surgeons Conferred on Hl Dr. Edward I. Rich HV 'Special Dispatch) Montreal. Quebec, is. A' unique ceremony the first of Its Kind ' for the United States and England took place when a silver mace, in the' traditional shape and proportion of the! H is Ic Mace Of the seventeenth century H Was presented to the American Col-j lege of Surgeon by toe consulting SUr-l geons of the British armj 'in memory' of mutual work and fellowship in thei Hi gteal war, 1914-1918." It hi the work! B of Omar Rameden, and its scroll work shows in .symbolic manner the close union of the United States and Kng-lang Kng-lang The extreme length is four feel and the weight of sliver is 1 40 ox. This presentation was made at the Eighth Convocation of the American College of Surgeona held here last nisht when Ut surgeons were admit-! to Fellowship in the college. of these. 4 f0 were from the United States., H; 155 from Canada. 3-1 from the repub- H' lies of Chile, Argentine, Uruguay andi Peru, in .South America and three In I China. The college now includes in its Fel-! lowship more than 5000 surgeons of! ' tin' two A merle. in continent!?. The i purpos of the organization is the bct- ' termcnt of the clinical practice of 8ur- gery. Although the organization la democratic and open in its member-1 shi) tn any ,i.. . .... who proves himself him-self to be competent, its scientific j Standard is exacting- By this means,! the college alms to provide for every man. woman and child in need of surgical treatment the best service known to the science of medicine. The Convocation closed a week of I ' clinics held In the Montreal hospitals, I f ,and scientific sessions where disting uished surgeons of the Americas and the continent discussed recent dlscov-l erles In the art and science of sur-' gery. Prominent among the foreign I guests were Sir Berkeley Movnihun.l L eds, England; Sir William Taylor. I Dublin; A Carless, London. His Ex-1 cellency, the Kt. Hon. Sir Auckland ; OeddSS, British ambassador to the! United States, delivered the address of1 welcome to the foreign guests. Fellowship In the American College , of Surgeons was conferred on the fol- 'lowing surgeons of Utah: UTAH. Augustus C Beble, Salt ivike City; Robert K. Hampton Salt Lake City. I Samuel H. Plnkerton, Salt Lake City; Edward I Rich. RdeD; Joseph E Ty- ree. Salt Lake City. |