Alfred Maurice Wakeman

lor) Wakeman. His preliminary education was obtained at the Greenwich Academy and the New Haven High School. He received his B.A. degree from Yale University in I919, graduating with honors. In the following year he entered the Yale Medical School, where his intellectual ability and high character at once marked him as an exceptional individual. He graduated in 1923 with a cum laude degree and in the course of his four years in the school received, in succession, the Perkins Scholarship "for the best record in scholarship in the basic subjects of the medical and biological sciences during his first year of residence"; the Ramsay Memorial Fellowship (I920), "awarded to a student of unquestioned ability and character after completing his first year in the Department of Clinical Medicine;" and, at graduation, in 1923, the Campbell Gold Medal, "awarded to the student who secures the highest rank in the examinations for graduation." After an interval of eight months, which was spent in completing , in the Department of Pediatrics, some work that he had begun in connection with his thesis for the M.D. degree, he went At the termination of his duties as resident he accepted the position of instructor in the Department of Internal Medicine, attached to the division of chemistry and metabolism, a position which he held until his death. The nineteen months in which he was an active member of the department were devoted to the development of further clinical experience and knowledge, especially in the particular field to which he had chosen to devote his major efforts; to enrichment of his medical knowledge by study; to the care of the