News About Medical Folk at Camp Greene, Charlotte, from The Caduceus, 1918

From The Caduceus, Camp Greene edition, Nov. 2, 1918

Friends of Captain Grover C. Wilkes have received notification of his safe arrival over seas. He is attached to the 122^nd Infantry as a medical officer. Captain Wilkes was one of the pioneers at the U.S. Army Base Hospital, Camp Greene, having arrived here in August, 1917 and remained a part of the hospital until the last of June 1918. His work was in the isolation wards and in B-8.

Captain Harry N. Long joined the temp. duty October 23, from Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. Assigned to the Surgical Service.

1^st Lt. Leonard Dursthoff joined October 23 for temp. duty on the surgical service, having completed a course of instruction at Rockefeller Institute, N.Y.

Lt. Wallace, Hamilton, Ohio, was transferred October 24^th to U.S. Army Base Hospital No 92, which was stationed at Camp Greene, N.C., and left a few days ago for “over there.”

Captain Ellen left on a five days leave October 26^th, at Rocky Mount, N.C.

1^st Lt. Beckwith left Campe Green October 26^th en route to Walter Reed Hospital for treatment.

2^nd Lt. Ringstom, Hugo joined October 27^th for duty from Yale Army Laboratory School, New Haven, Conn., and was assigned to the laboratory service.

1^st Lt. Thomas T. McGurl joined for duty October 27^th from Camp Greenleaf, Ga., and was assigned to the medical service.

1^st Lt. Samuel Gayman joined October 28^th from Camp Greenleaf, Ga., and has been assigned to the surgical service.

Faithful service and efficiency now brings it’s own reward, is an old axiom that was upheld by the recent promotion of sergeant 1^st class Richard H. Dickinson to the rank of first lieutenant in the sanitary corps. For the past year he has been mess sergeant at the patient’s mess at the Base Hospital Camp Green, and for that period he has toiled in a seemingly tireless fashion, day after day for the welfare of the sick boys. All through the long winter of 1917-18 he was to be seen in the kitchen and mess hall from early morning to late at night, supervising the preparation of the food and looking after the sanitary conditions of the building. “Dick” as he was affectionately called by the boys who knew him, was always at hand with a smile and a cheery word for the men who stood with him in the fight to give the patients the best “grub” that the mess allowance afforded. Now, they in turn are the first to come forward with congratulations and wishes for the best success for him in the future.