I arrived in new haven 30 June 1935, ready to start work the next day. I had already arranged for living quarters in Harkness Hall and they were really quite comfortable and attractive. My sisters went to work decorating the studio, adding drapes and other niceties, so that it looked warm and home-like.

After a hectic year's internship at Duke on twenty-four-hour call, it was a great relief to know that I had no on-call responsibilities for the coming year. Getting through a night without being called out would be a really miraculous change. What I had not figured on was that my studio was on a courtyard adjoining Mory’s, the renowned watering hole frequented by sons of old Eli and immortalized in the famous Yale drinking song of the lost sheep saying baa, baa, baa. It would get pretty noisy at times but I slept so soundly that it rarely awakened me. I do recall one night when I was awakened by the rollicking singing in Mory's that was so melodious that I lay awake listening and enjoying it. There was a rendition of “On the Road to Mandalay” that was superior to any I had ever heard and there was one especially good baritone voice. Next morning I inquired at the dormitory office and learned that I was being serenaded by Lawrence Tibbett and the Yale Glee Club who were continuing in Mory's the concert they had started elsewhere on campus earlier that night.

Dr. Peters was extremely gracious, assigned me to a laboratory opposite his office, and introduced me to his staff consisting of Paul Lavietes, Alexander Winkler, and “Chunky Robins.” Ann Eisenman and Pauline Hald were the chief technicians, the backbone of the research division. The house staff included Bill Bruckner, Max Miller, and Cal Klinghoffer. It was a small, friendly, and compatible group of very intelligent and idealistic people loyal to their chief and on their way to careers in teaching, research, and academic medicine. I soon learned that there were really two major services in medicine at Yale, one directed by the Sterling Professor, Dr. Francis G. Blake, chairman of the department, and the other by Dr. John P. Peters, the John Slade Ely Professor of Medicine. Dr. Peters's service was devoted to metabolic diseases but not limited to these. Dr. Blake's service was a general medical service with a wide variety of case material.