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The President of New York University requests the pleasure of your company for luncheon and the Dedication Ceremonies of the New York University Environmental Medicine Research Center and the Anthony J. Lanza Research Laboratories for Environmental Medicine at twelve o'clock noon WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1964 R.S.V.P university valley STERLING FOREST NEW YORK The official program will begin at one o'clock. Guest Speakers will be Dr. ROBERT ANDERSON Assistant Surgeon General Chief, Bureau of State Services United States Public Health Service Department of Health, Education and Welfare The Honorable JOHN E. FOGARTY United States Representative Second Congressional District of Rhode Island Mr. CHURCHILL RODGERS General Counsel Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Guided tours of the research facilities conducted by the staff of the Department of Environmental Medicine will begin at eleven o'clock preceding the luncheon and Ceremonies. See accompanying Information sheet for further particulars. y. It has been said that "all history becomes subjective: in other words_there is properly no history, only biography." Insofar as this is true of the general >ystems of law and science and culture concernin ft which it was written, it is also true of the special system of principles and rules and guides that are distinctive of in dustrial medicine, particularly in their develop ment period. As with all movements that have grown into maturity, industrial medicine had its years when the men who were fashioning it* form and shaping its future, themselves made its events, each distinguished by the addition of a timely talent or a needed ability as its possessor laid it on the altar of his dedication. The history of those years is the combined biographies of those men. and the order of industrial medicine that evolved from their work is the result of their combined contributions. Many of those men are gone, but a few have survived to see their field of endeavor become a profession. Profiles in Occupational Health tfntkmf J. Xanja, fcfa 1884-1964 One of the few is Anthony J. Lanza -- "Tony." for so "this side of our known world esteems him." His contribution was an aggregate of con tributions, a lifetime of them. That ia an objec tive estimate. His own preference Is to charac terize his career in terms of one accomplishment rather than many. The nearest he can come to this singularity ia to describe his part in the de velopment of industrial medicine as haying been principally that of a "catalyzer.'* It 1 an apt ex pression. If the catalyzer concept be transferred from substance to circumstance, and given the working arena of human instead of material contacts, tht taro may comprehend an action or reaction induced or accelerated by a personal presence, and in that sense it is applicable to much of what this man has been doing for near ly fifty years. The term if his, but the biographer could not have found a better one to describe a part -- and only a part, but perhaps in tome respects the better part -- of his many activities. It is probable that, in "catalyzer" capacity, Tony Lanza has converted more physicians and indus trialists to the philosophy of industrial medicine, reconciled more opposing views, made more Dr. Anthony X Lanza, a distinguished pio- near in occupational health, died in New York City on Monday, March 23, 1964. In the November, I960, issue of this journal, there appeared a living tribute to Dr. Lama, j Since it appears unlikely that any more suit- able tribute might be prepared after hit I death, that I960 Profile is here reproduced. i recommendations in a greater variety of situa tions, softened away more arguments, attended and presided at more meetings and conferences formal and informal, been chairman of more committees, and guided more discussions into constructive channels than any other man in the field of occupational health. Hia contributions echo in a thousand places. Unfortunately for the record as to many of hia "catalyzer" accomplishments, however, "echo" is about all that remains ia the way of identifica tion. Their details have been obscured by time, and there is practically no documentation in anything ha has, nor any guide to it elsewhere in Muttrial Mtditinr and & what he will admit. He possesses no diary, no -crapbook of clippings. no files of copies or rejiriius. A.< to such reminders his comment is that he can't liother with them. If, for reasons of merit, and regardless of whom they concern, they are worth keeping, their preservation is the . business of those who staff the archives. This attitude extends to all of his contributions, but it has an added meaning for such of them as have the catalyzer connotation. The catalyst has a use but no history. It comes and goes unchanged. For it to assume that it did more than that, and to buttress the assumption with accumulated proof, might savor of supererogation. And so he preserves few contacts with the past. Among his meager concessions to the permanence of time that is gone are the copies he has in his library of the books of which he was author or editor. Chronologies of the "Who's Who" type he can't escape, but it is suspected that his feel ing toward them is acquiescence as much as pride. The reason for this is not modesty or indiffer ence. Rather it seems involved with temperament and sense of values. About the time he graduated in medicine he was deeply impressed by a state ment he found in an essay by Sir William Osier to the effect that if one performs each day's work to the best of his ability ha need not be unduly concerned for the future, as it will take care of itself. Thrt, in general, has been his philosophy -- "each day's work to the best of his ability." In particular, and in keeping with the sense of finality -- almost fatalism -- implicit in such discipline, he considers that what is done is done, "and that's an end of it," and now to go on from there. This applies in whatever he under takes. If he were a bridge player he would treat a hand played aa e hand played, and have no interest in the prompt postmortem. Sufficient unto the occasion is what it was; its importance is the score at its end. If that is deserving of a lasting place, the future will pot it where it be longs. And Kismet then win be amanuensis. In terms of his philosophy, and aubordinating the "catalyzer" characterization, Tony Lanza's career in industrial medicine is a half-century multiple of "each day's work to the best of his ability." Examination of the "day" in its repeti tions, and tha "ability" in ita manifestations, may, therefore, prova revealing. Doctor Lanza was born in New York City in March, 1884, the son of Manfredi and Clara I Hammond) Lanza, and was named Anthony Joseph. His father died when he was a small boy, and the family moved to Washington, D. C, where he grew up with the ambition to add one more to the three, successive generations in which a family member had practiced medicine in the United States. Successful hi a competitive Juna, 1944 examination for one of the scholarships estab lished by William Corcoran, founder of the Cor coran Art Gallery, he enrolled at George Washington University Medical School, and graduated M.D. in 1906. After a period as Chief Resident at the Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, he was commissioned in the Marine Hospital Service (later the United States Public Health Service), and in 1907 was assigned to the Marine Hospital in San Francisco. There he had the unforgettable experience of finding in the surgical ward a case of bubonic plague, diagnosed postmortem, whereupon, "ail hell broke loose." When the confusion was com pounded by the discovery, also in his ward, of a second case, likewise diagnosed postmortem, the Surgeon General sent Doctor Rupert Blue to take command of antiplague operations. Doctor Blue recognized the situation, brought it under control, and the "plague epidemic" aborted. In 1908 Doctor Lanza was detailed as Ship's Surgeon in the Revenue Cutter Service, now the Coast Guard, and made several cruises to the Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea on the Cut ter Ruth. He also served on the Cutters Manning, McCuUovgk, and Bear, The tour of duty on the Bear was another experience to be remembered, for the Beor -- even then recognized is "the stoutest ship ever built" -- was to become famous as Admiral Byrd's flagship in the Ant arctic in 1933. Following his Revenue Cutter assignments. Doctor Lanza was appointed Medical Inspector in the Immigration Service, Port of San Francis co. As Boarding Officer he examined immigrants under the same medical regulations as those that governed entry at Ellia Island. After about a year ha was detailed to the Marine Hospital Tuberculoaia Sanitarium at Fort Stanton, New Mexico. There he became interested in clinical tuberculosis, and in tuberculosis as an occupa tional disaaaa. That was tha beginning of hia lifelong identification with industrial medicine. In 1913 he was sent from Fort Stanton to the old Hygienic Laboratory in Washington, ante cedent of the National Instituta of Health, and already famous for the work of ita distinguished physicians in connaetion with tha principal health problems of the time; Stilee, in hookworm; Goidberger, in pellagra; Lumsden, in typhoid; Francis, in tularemia; McClintoek, in Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. At the Laboratory, undtr preceptors of their quality he received intensive instruction in biological diagnosis and research techniques in general, and when this was finished he was appointad to tha Bureau of Mines aa Chief Surgeon. From then on hie work in the Public Health Service was to be in con nection with occupational disease*. Hi* first assignment as Chief Surgeon was to take over the investigations of health conditions in the lead and zinc minesin the Joplin, Missouri, district, which had been started by the Public Health Service but in 1914 were assumed by the Bureau of Mines. There was on extraordinary prevalence of tuberculosis among the miners, and, accompanying it, was an underlying occupa tional disease which they themselves recognized and labeled "miner's con." Doctor Lanza ex amined the miners at a clinic established for that purpose at nearby Webb City, and, with Edwin Higgins, Mining Engineer, made extensive studies of ventilation, temperatures, and dust conditions underground. His first report (with Higgins), published in 1915, covered the pulmo nary diseases among the miners and their rela tion to rock dust in the mines. His second, in 1917, was on "miners' consumption." And his third (with Harrington), in 1921, bad special reference to lung conditions in the Montana area. About the time Doctor Lanza began the Joplin studies, the Public Health Service established its Division of Industrial Hygiene, under Doctor Joseph Schereschewsky, who, as head of the Office of Field Investigations of Occupational Diseases, had just completed an exhaustive study of the health of garment workers in New York City. When World War I interrupted the mining investigations centering in Butte, Doctor Lanza waa assigned to the Laboratory Station in Pitts burgh, under Schereschewsky'* direction. He was followed as Chief Surgeon of the Bureau of Mines by Doctor R. R. Sayers, who had been associated with him in the Joplin and Butte investigations. In January, 1918, Schereschewsky was given charge of the USPHS Division of Scientific Research, and Doctor Lanza succeeded him as head of the Division of Industrial Hy giene. While the war continued, this Division's principal concern waa the health of the workers in munitions plants and the environment in which they lived and labored. In 1920, after thirteen years in the Public Health Service, Doctor Lanza resigned to become Medical Director of the Hydraulic Steel Company, at Cleveland, Ohio. This waa an unusual company. All its executives were young men -- none waa over forty; and its labor relations and social and personnel policies were decades ahead of their time. Being the head of its Medical Department waa a comfortable Job. But Deatiny hadn't been preparing this man for that kind of a life. It allowed him a year of it, and then the Interna tional Health Board of the Rockefeller Founda tion, which had been arranging to set up a Division of Industrial Hygiene in the National Health Service of Australia, offend him the position of Special Field Officer. He promptly accepted, and -- with Wilbur Sawyer who after ward became head of the International Health Board, and Frank Longley, Engineer -- net sail for "down under." He was stationed in Melbourne, the capital; his Chief was Doctor H. L. Cumpston, Director General of Health. Australia, however, was not ready for industrial hygiene supervision on a national scale, and the undertaking resulted in not much of permanent value. The State of New South Wales established Us own Industrial Hygiene Division, which is still active; but it took the exigencies of World War II to demon strate to the general economy the advantages of doing the same. After a little more than three years -- during which he had visited mines and factories in all parts of the continent, seeing and learning, and had ventured a published com ment on his observations -- Doctor Lanza felt that he had accomplished all he could, notified the International Board, and returned to the United States. He was thinking of going back into industry as a Medical Director -- not, how ever, for Hydraulic Steel, as it had lost its identity in a merger -- when the opportunity to join Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as an Assistant Medical Director presented Itself. He saya of this: "Fortunately for me, I had the good sense to accept" At Metropolitan, together with the late Doctor Wade Wright, he conducted a consultation service in industrial medicine and Industrial hygiene for the benefit of the many concerns whose group life insurance was carried by his company. Among those who worked with him side by side throughout the twenty-three yean he waa with Metropolitan were J. Wm. Fehnel, experienced in industrial hygiene, and Doctor Wm. J. Mc Connell, quiet, capable possessor of vast wisdom in industrial medical matters, freely shared when it would serve a need. The varieties of working conditions with which these men became familiar were ell that could be imagined, and the problems they presented ran the gamut of the possible end sometimes nudged the Impossible. A soondiscovered relation between the problems end the kind of industry in which they occurred led to the inauguration of industry-wide studies, and beginning with its survey of occupational pul monary disease in the asbestos industry, the Metropolitan group became distinguished for its Industry-wid* analyses of the hazards to health in foundries, potteries, chemical plants, the making of steel, and many other kinds of work. In 1925 the Metropolitan Ufa organization, together with the Mine Operators' Association, the Public Health Service, and the Bureau of Mines brought about the establishment, at Picher, Oklahoma, of tho Picher Clinie for the further inveetigatlon of miner*' diseases and Industrial Mtdirtiu end Surgery *\i.rknijf conditions in the Tri-Stste are* (Kans.is. Missouri, Oklahoma). Two years later, at age forty, Dr. Leroy U. Gardner, already distin guished as a pathologist and authority on tuber culosis and pneumoconiosis, became Director of the Saranac Laboratory, at Saranac Lake, New York, and thereafter, at Doctor Lama's behest, he and his Assistant Director, Donald Cummings, gave invaluable aid to the Picher Clinic in advice and counsel, and by way of scientific research that brought the Saranac Laboratory into en during fame. Reports of the Picher enterprise are found in various governmental publications. Doctor Lanza and Doctor Gardner became great friends, and each was a source of inspiration to the other. Considering the unusual ability both possessed to inspire others in general, this was a high-voltage relation. The remarkable succesa of Doctor Gardner's Symposiums on Silicosis in bringing together scientists and researchera from all over the world owed much to Doctor Lanza's cooperation, and reflected, to an extent, hia international acquaintance among those who were Interested in the pneumoconioses. During the 1930's Doctors Lanza and Gardner, together with Doctor R. R. Sayers, of ths USPHS, who had suc ceeded Doctor Lanza as Chief Surgeon of the Bureau of Mines, were "a persuasive triumvir ate" in widespread educational activities among medical and technical societies, industrial organ izations, and legislative groups, aimed at bring ing about a better understanding of occupational diseases in their clinical as well as their compen sation aspects. Doctor Gardner died in 1946, at age 58, untimely taken in his brilliant prime. At the outbreak of World War II, Doctor Lanza, on leave from Metropolitan, waa com missioned Lieutenant Colonel in the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army, and put In charge of the newly-created Division of Occupational Health, Preventive Medicine Service, under the direction of the late General James S. Simmons, who afterward became Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. This waa an entirely new enterprise for tho Army, and it necessitated much reshaping of traditional attitudes regard ing the functions of a military physician. The Army quickly became owner of all types of manufacturing plants, and the operator of most of them, the others being run by eontraetora. Doctor Lanza's Division was concerned only with, tho Army-operated plants, but these pro duced ordnance, airplanes, chemicals, clothing, food and food containers, munitions, quartermas ter supplies, and whatever else the Army needed, and, at the peak of tha war effort, employed more than a million people, about forty percent of them women. Here again Doctor Lanza had the benefit of the abilities and services of Doctor Wil . liam McConnell, who was charged with the re sponsibility of health supervision in the ordnance plants. Under Doctor Lanza's Division of Oc cupational Health were the Army Industrial Hygiene Laboratory, first set uo in the School of Public Health at Johns Hopnins, under the direction of the late Doctor Raymond Hussey, and the Armored Force Medical Research Labor atory at Fort Knox, better known as the Tank Laboratory, a most successful enterprise headed by Doctor Willard Machle. In 1942, Doctor Lanza was promoted to the rank of Colonel. When he left the Service three year* later and returned to hia position at Metropolitan Life, he left to his successor, Colonel Leigh Cook, the well-organized industrial medical program he had established in the Army. This has been continued, mnd for s long time has had its counterparts in the Navy and the Air Force. The Industrial Hygiene Laboratory becams the Environmental Hygiene Laboratory, located at Edgewood, New Jersey. Doctor Lanza waa awarded the Legion of Merit. In 1947, Doctor Lanza was asked by New York University if he would be interested in organiz ing an Institute of Industrial Medicine in its Poet Graduate Medical School. This he considered a challenge and an opportunity he could not re fuse, and so, through the cooperation of the University authorities and Metropolitan Life, it waa arranged that he would give half his time to each until hia retirement from Metropolitan which, under Company regulations, would be due in 1949. At the start the Institute waa part of the Department of Preventive Medicine, of which Professor Edward Melany was Chairman. After two years it waa set up independently, with Doctor Lanza as Director and Professor of Industrial Modicino. The Institute was successful in bringing together as faculty members a young and enthusiastic group, both full-tims and parttime; and when Doctor Lanza, under the Univer sity's compulsory retirement system, retired in 1954 as Professor Emeritus he left it solidly established, with Doctor Norton Nelson as its able and energetic Director, and Doctor David Goldstain. Medical Director of Tkt ,Veio York Times, ita Professor of Industrial Medicine. Although compulsory retirement age has over taken him twice --at 65 at Metropolitan Life, sad at 70 at New York University -- the third time la not yet, for now, at 76. Doctor Lanza is still active, still interested, writing and editing within hia beloved field. In addition to ether com mitments, he is Editor-in-Chief of tho series of Modern Monographs in Industrial Medicina <Grune 4 Stratton) now appearing from time to tm. One wishes he would pen the narrative of bis long and varied experience. There la more /uns, 196i than the suggestion of drama in many of hia 'catalyzer" episodes. Their stories ail would be interesting, and some could have definite value, particularly those of his contacts with the mili tary nund -- which knew nothing and cared less about industrial medicine, and couldn't conceive <i ;.n Army doctor in any other relation than as serving troops. What he did, and the fact that he did it, are history, but the firsthand account of Imir he did it could prove useful in many places. Doctor Lanza's thirteen years in the Public Health Service, 1907-1920, coinciding as they did with the years of industcial medicine's most rapid and intensive growth, brought him into contact with practically the whole range of its problems; and his investigative, analytical, and retentive mind stored up an encyclopedic knowledge of their causes and solutions. This, as the years were to prove, was excellent scientific equipment for a long future as consultant. The year or so as Medical Director for Hydraulic Steel reinforced hi* practical .background, and his temperament and special abilities furnished all rise that was needed to make that long future a successful one. Interestingly, it does not appear that such a future was the one he sought -- there was even a period, just after his return from Australia and while he was in an advisory capacity with the National Health Council, dur ing which tha comparative security of a Medical Directorship in industry seemed much more attractive. However, it was the future for which he had been prepared and the Guiding Hand that had led him thus far was not to let him stray. Industrial medicine already had consul tants -- in surgery, diagnosis, toxicology, ad ministration, research, occupational diseases, techniques in general. But, even so, there was the feeling that more were needed, although what for was only dimly seen. Tony Lanza's emergence was a sort of cumulative answer. It waa gradual, almost imperceptible as it came to pan; the suc cessive needs he filled had a way of seeming to appear tangible only after he had met their demands, or quieted their latent threats. And so his progress toward the eminence that is hia waa little noted as it want along, and thus waa unrecorded. And by the time it was realized that he had become a consultant of such abilities os gave new meaning to the term, it waa much too late for timely memos on how ho got that way. In review, however, and because there ia no alternative, something of a record may bo at tempted from several objective sources. One of these sources is the recollections of the many who have worked with him or have seen him in action. He was always a "team'* worker; never a "cause" man, or crusader; never pro tagonist in any individualistic portly Lanza US enterprise. The matter in hand was his only concern; And his Attitude towmrd it was objective, his interest in it proportional to its value in the development of industrial medicine, his treatment of it impersonal. In his contacts with orgsnized medicine, grudgingly awsre of the new profes sion growing in its midst, and with industry, in terested but unconvinced, he was the perfect liai son. Unselfish, sincere, plain spoken -- sometimes almost blunt -- his presence was felt, even when his part in what was going on wss only the undrsmstic "passiveness of a catalyst in the result." Granting the "catalyzer" role, he gave it his own distinction. Whether active or passive in the action or reaction, he left something of himself in it and added something to his own experience from it. He wss too forceful to be present without the one; too sensitive to leave without the other. The influence of his personal ity was almost tangibly and measurably a quiet, palpable, centripetal force, impelling toward the center of whatever was in hand. All this, throughout tbe years, built up a second source from which, with search and pa tience, the record as to Tony Lanza's place in the development of industrial medicine may be con firmed. This consists of the impressively large number of references to him, items about him. and comments on hia work that one comes upon in the literature of industrial health, occupational diseases, and industrial hygiene -- "comes upon" because they are not indexed and mostly they occur in identification with co-workers and as sociates, or with the subject of the text. An example Is found in a reference to "a world re view and evaluation" of "Silicosis and Allied Dis orders." One rads: "This report was prepared by the (Industrial Hygiene) Foundation's Medical Committee, under the leadership of its Chairman, Dr. A. J. Lanza, and `brought together for the first time a practical summary of what waa known and remained to be learned about dust diseases.' " Another occurs in connection with in dustrial medicine In Western Pennsylvania; he ia named as one of four distinguished men who "figured prominently in Us development" There an many similar alluaiona to hia part In what ever waa going on. But much more numerous are such capsule encomiums aa: "pioneer in the in vestigation of industrial duat hazards in the United States"; "diatlngulshed for long and in structive experience in industrial hygiene"; leader in the development of industrial medicine in the United States and the world." Students of the punished material on occupational diseases and industrial hygiene encounter recognitions of this kind so frequently and in so many contexts that they take them quite for granted as fittingly phrased and properly placed. In the permanence ndnitriai Mtdieint and Surgery of the printed word, "A. J. Lanza" is an oftenmet and much-respected name. A third source from~which information about this man may be derived is the formal, indexed account of the books he has to his credit, the ad dresses he has made, and the articles, reports, and technical papers he has produced. These are listed in several chronologies. Their texts con firm his distinction as indeed a pioneer in the investigation of dust diseases in general, and the identification of silicosis in particular. His books include Silieoaia and Aabeatoaia (1938) -- "the still definitive book in this field" -- and Industrial Hygiene (with Jacob Goldberg, 1939).The timing of his articles and reports shows the second half of them published in 1933-35 (the last two in J.A.M.A.), after which it seems that the "catalyzer" part of his work grew into first attention. His continuing interest in occupational diseases, however, is evident from his organization affiliations. He was a Trustee of the Trudeau Foundation, and of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation, and in the latter, Chairman of the Medical Committee. In the New York Academy of Medicine he was Chairman of the Committee on Industrial Health; in the American Public Health Association, Chairman of the Com mittee"on'Pneumoconiosis;"In the American In stitute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, member of the Committee on Health and Safety in Mines; in the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association, Chairman of the Industrial Hygiene Committee. He was a member of the Medical Subcommittee of the Pennsylvania Com mission on Compensation for Occupational Dis eases, which made its report in 1933, and a member of the Committee on Prevention of Silicosis through Medical Control, established by the Secretary of Labor in 1936. The American Medical Association's Council on Industrial Health, established in late 1937, added him to its membership a year later. If they mention it at all, the long-time chroni cles of industrial medicine no doubt will consider it pure coincidence that the middle thirties, when Doctor Lanza was beginning to be really effective in his self-styled role as "catalyzer," saw the start of a remarkable spreading out of Industrial medical programs among industries of all kinds. This was clearly reflected in the upsurge that be gan about theft In the membership of the indus trial physicians' association. From the lowly 1935 total of 257 -- survivors of the twenty-year dol drums in which the average had been barely more -- the number of members grew to seven times that many ten years later, and then went on to double that in the next ensuing ten. The economic K influences then at work will be credited, of course, but it is within the memory of many who lived in the thirties that there were also the inilu- ences of powerful personalities, and that these had so much to do with the happenings of the period -- in big affairs and little -- as to make its truest history properly biography. Tony Lan za was one of them; and the Knudsen Award, in dustrial medicine's highest honor, given him in 1946, was one of the ways his medical colleagues had of telling him, and the world, that they knew him to be so. He was the seventh recipient of this Award. The citation stressed his leadership. But a "catalyzer" leader? Easily enough, when the leadership is less of leading than of being fol lowed. In this man's case it was effectively that. Unmatched skill in unifying; a positive genius for enlisting the aid and cooperation of those with whom he worked; the "with" that pervades the chronology of the things he accomplished; the results obtained, with the credit shared equally by ail -- these characterized the many years of days in which he did "to the best of his ability" whatever fell to him to do. At the meeting of the Permanent Committee and International Association on Occupational Health on the day preceding the official opening of the Thirteenth International Congress on Oc cupational Health, at New York, July 25-29, I960, Doctor LaftZif, atottg with Doctor R. R. Sayen (United States) and Professor F. Koelsch (Germany), was made an Honorary Member of the Permanent Committee. Thla brought to five the number of Honorary Membera, only W. R. N. Kranenburg (Holland) and Alice Hamilton (United States) being the living holders of that distinction at the time of the meeting. And on July 27, 1960, at a reception at New York Uni versity Medical Center, Doctor Lanza was the recipient of a New York Univeriity Presidential Citation "for his leadership in the field of in dustrial medicine and hia service to the Univer sity." Some three hundred of hia colleagues, many of them delegates to the Interaatipna! Con gress on Occupational Health, attended the cere mony. After stating that Doctor Lanza in 1947 be came the first Director of the University Medical Center's Institute of Industrial Medicine, and, in 1949, the first Chairman of the newly-organized Department of Industrial Medicine in the NYU Poet Graduate Medical School, the citation con tinued: "Throughout hie career Doctor Lanza's guidance has been sought bymanjr.He hasserved ms adviser in industrial medicine to many indus tries and other organisations. . . Behind any recital of dates, titles, and geography are those qualities that help make the man those around him have known: the warm understanding, the unfailingly perceptive intellect, the unassailable Integrity, end, meat of ell, the calm and steady wisdom." --AJ).C. June, 19H ita