Smallpox vaccination of eczema patients with attenuated live vaccinia virus.

Friends of Grover Powers. The late Daniel Darrow, a long-time and dis. tinguished member of your faculty, in 1946, on dedicating his first 76 sci. entific papers in a bound volume to Grover Powers, inscribed it as follows: "To Grover F. Powers, whose faith in people made this work possible." Faith in people is perhaps the best way to characterize Grover Powers' basic attitude in life and this faith colored all his work in pediatrics and medical education. In lauding Grover Powers, as a truly lasting and vital influence on so many, we can take joy in the model department he built here at Yale. He brought Milton Senn to Yale, and there came and continue to come since then, under Dr. Cook's leadership, a group of idealistic, dedicated, and able young men and women among whom are clearly tomorrow's great names. Grover Powers is a man of quality; quality in its classic Greek sense: how to live with grace, and intelligence, and bravery and mercy. It might be well to say a few things about what Grover Powers is not. In a recent book, Theodore White, talking about our current society called it the "Digital Society." Digits for the boys who are drafted, digits for the social security and income tax people, digits on credit cards and union cards, digits replacing familiar telephone exchanges, the electronic recordings that answer the telephone at airports and railway stations as well. Grover Powers' total life thrust has been the other way: to individualize and cherish each for what he is and what is best in him, has been his great concern through the years. Grover Powers, by choice, is a teacher and clinician; he trusts in people, and he possesses an enormous sense of mercy and compassion for the sick and a great deal of unashamed love for children who are pretty perfect and adults who are not so perfect. He never showed fretful anxiety about sick children but rather intelligent concern, which he was able to communicate promptly, often by telephone, to his associates.