Includes articles on: 100th kidney transplant, student admissions, election of a new Alumni Association president, "Isolation Techniques for Use in Hospitals" UOMS television show, merit pay and salary adjustments, a profile on head nurse Betty Cooke, educational techniques survey results, switching over to the Centrex telephone system, naming of the new MICU, staff retirements, security office moves, a plane crash near campus in 1953, Doernbecher Guild donates funds for new pediatric radio-immunoassay lab, student mock trials, and establishing the Edwin Osgood leukemia research center.