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                       JeffNEWS, September 13, 1994
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Cancer Researcher Receives Dean's Medal at Opening Exercises
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At the 171st opening exercises, Jefferson welcomed back to the campus 
Harold L. Stewart, MD, JMC '26, internationally recognized physician, 
educator and cancer researcher, to receive the Dean's Medal.	

The Jefferson family also welcomed 766 new students: 223 to Jefferson 
Medical College (JMC); 160 to the College of Graduate Studies (CGS) and 383 
to the College of Allied Health Sciences (CAHS).

In addition, James M. McDonnell, PhD, was awarded the CGS Alumni Thesis 
Prize.

James W. Stratton, chairman of Jefferson's board of trustees, made the 
opening proclamation for the exercises, and Edward C. Bradley, SJ, MD, 
clinical associate professor of medicine, gave the invocation.

University president Paul C. Brucker, MD, presided at the convocation, 
which featured remarks by Jussi J. Saukkonen, MD, vice president for 
special programs and dean, CGS; Joseph S. Gonnella, MD, senior vice 
president for academic affairs and dean, JMC; and Lawrence Abrams, EdD, 
vice president for student affairs and dean, CAHS.

Grand Marshal was Linda G. Kraemer, PhD, senior associate dean, CAHS, 
and marshals were Gerald B. Grunwald, professor of anatomy/developmental 
biology, pathology/cell biology and biochemistry/molecular biology, and 
Joseph R. Sherwin, PhD, professor of physiology, associate dean of 
scientific affairs and director of the office of research administration. 
Program coordinator was Lyn Sobolewski, dean's office, JMC, and the 
organist, Frederick B. Wagner Jr., MD, the Grace Revere Osler Professor 
Emeritus of Surgery and University Historian.

Dr. Stewart was senior class president, JMC '26, winner of the surgery 
prize and later assistant professor of pathology. In 1937, Dr. Stewart 
joined a research group at Harvard, which moved to Bethesda, Maryland, 
where it became the nucleus of the National Cancer Institute.

He is the principal investigator for the World Health Organization's 
Collaborating Centre for Research on Tumors in Laboratory Animals. Doctor 
Stewart has been a leader in nearly every major pathology society and has 
published more than 250 scholarly articles. A Jefferson trustee from 1969 
to 1972, he has received many awards and honorary degrees in this country 
and abroad.

Dr. McDonnell received his doctor of philosophy degree in immunology in 
June. His doctoral thesis, "The Role of the CDR3-like Region of CD4 in T 
Cell Activation," was completed under the direction of Bradford A. Jameson 
PhD, associate professor of pharmacology. Dr. McDonnell is now a 
postdoctoral fellow in the department of biophysics at King's College, 
London.


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