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342 111.—Capt. Roger H. Fuller, MC, USN, Deputy Director, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1959—1963.

The directorate remained unchanged for more than 2 years until, in August 1959, Captain Silliphant retired and joined the staff of the Cancer Research Institute of the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. His successor as the representative of the Navy on the directorate was Capt. Roger H. Fuller, MC, USN (fig. 111), who had taken his academic training at Yale and his medical degree at Tufts, and who came to the Institute from the post of Chief of Laboratory Service at the Naval Hospital, Camp Pendleton, Calif.

Succeeding Captain Silliphant as the Director of the Institute was Col. Frank M. Townsend, USAF, MC (fig. 112). The new Director had been, since 1954, the Consultant in Pathology to the Surgeon General of the Air Force, and a Deputy Director of the Institute for 4 years. A Texan by birth and rearing, he had done his premedical work at San Antonio College and the Univer-