Colonel Henry Page, a member of the staff of Major General M. W. Ireland, Surgeon General of the United States Army, at Washington, is to be appointed to be dean of the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati, according to an official announcement made by Frederick C. Hicks, President of the university, yesterday.
Although Colonel Page practically had been decided on as the new dean of the Medical College for several weeks, official announcement of his appointment has been withheld until such time as he will be retired from the army.  According to a dispatch from Washington he is to be retired next week on the grounds of disability, after more than 25 years of army service.
Colonel Page will assume his new duties as head of the medical College as soon as he can obtain his official release from the army.  He succeeds the late Dr. Christian R. Holmes, former dean of the Medical College, who was instrumental in having the college building and the General Hospital erected.

Educational Honors Won

Colonel Page was born in Maryland in 1871.  He is the son of Justice Henry Page, of the Maryland Court of Appeals.  He is a graduate of Princeton University, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1891.  He also is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his M. D. degree in 1894.  He was graduated from the Army Medical School in the class of 1898, and from the Field Service School at Leavenworth, Kan., in the class of 1913.  At the time he was graduated from Princeton University Colonel Page also received the degree of Master of Arts.
An honorary degree of Doctor of Public Health was conferred on Colonel Page by the University of Pennsylvania in 1918.  This degree was given in recognition of his war services, and is the only degree of its kind ever conferred by the University of Pennsylvania to any person except a member of the faculty or a graduate of the university.
The new Dean is a Fellow of the American Medical Association, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Fellow of Maryland Academy of Natural Sciences and a member of the Far Eastern Tropical Association.
Colonel Page married the daughter of General Charles R. Greenleaf.  Mrs. Page is the granddaughter of Rev. Patrick Henry Greenleaf, who for many years was rector of one of Cincinnati's oldest churches.  Colonel Page has three sons, two of whom are in their third year at Princeton University.
During the Spanish-American War Colonel Page was commander of the General Hospital at Corregidor, Philippine Islands.  He was Health Officer of ports at Manila and Cavite, and was assistant to the Chief Surgeon of the Phillipine Islands.  During the period of the insurrection he was surgeon of the Twelfth Infantry.

Conducted Training Camps.

Prior to the World War Colonel Page was identified with the formation and instruction of the Medical Reserve Corps and militia with the rank of Inspector Instructor.  For a period of six years he conducted training camps for reserve and militia officers at Raleigh, N.C.; Ft. Oglethorpe, Tobyhanna and Plattsburg.
The largest camp to which Colonel Page was assigned was the war training camp consisting of 13,000 medical officers and men which, during the war, was known as Camp Greenleaf.  He planned and organized this camp, and commanded at it until shortly before he was ordered to France, following the entrance of the United States into the World War.  When in charge of the camp Colonel Page instituted new teaching methods in the training of men in military duties and medical diagnosis, to fit them for service abroad.
When in France Colonel Page erected and had charge of Rimaucourt Hospital center, which consisted of 10,000 beds.  Later he was appointed to be inspector of camps for General John J. Pershing.
Following the signing of the armistice and during the last two years Colonel Page has been Commandant at Ft. McHenry General Hospital, which has accommodations for 4,000 beds.  He also has been in charge of the General Hospital for tubercular soldiers at Denver, Colo.
In 1916, at the invitation of former President Theodore Roosevelt, Colonel Page organized the Medical Department of the Division for Foreign Service, of which he was scheduled to be a member of the staff.

Wounded Soldiers Aided.

Among the many educational departments with which he has been associated and in which he organized special training courses are those at Camp Greenleaf and Ft. McHenry, Baltimore, Md.  Because of the success he attained at Ft. McHenry in inaugurating vocational training for wounded soldiers the Federal Vocational Board decided to send former service men to this school for training.  In conjunction with his educational work Colonel Page has specialized in the teaching of sociological subjects relating to the control of men, which is a new subject in army training.
Coincident with Colonel Page's call to his new duties as head of the Medical College Dr. J. C. Oliver, who since the death of Dr. Holmes has been acting Dean of the college, will relinquish the office and take charge of the first and second surgical services at the college and the General Hospital.  He was assigned to these services by the Board of Directors of the university Tuesday afternoon.  He also will teach surgery at the Medical College.

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