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VOLUME 12, NUMBER 6
DECEMBER, 1965
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
A Scotsman Joins Staff
A Scotsman who is holder of
more than a dozen American
newspaper awards has joined the
staff of the Duke University Of
fice of Information Services.
Dominic Crolla, 38, has as
sumed responsibility for report
ing news of the Duke Medical
Center, according to an an
nouncement by Clarence E.
Whitefield, director of the Office.
The appointment was effective
December 1.
Mr. Crolla came to Duke from
the staff of the Rocky Mountain
News, Denver, Colorado, He
formerly was with the Tucson
(Arizona) Daily Citizen, where
he earned national and state
aw'ards for medical writing,
feature writing, general news re
porting, sports writing, and
photography.
At Duke, Mr. Crolla will be in
charge of publicizing research,
teaching, and patient care in the
Schools of Medicine and Nursing
and the Hospital. He will con-
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Mr. Crolla
eentrate on reporting major
programs and events for state,
regional, and national media.
He succeeds Mr. Wes Lefler, who
has joined the News Bureau of
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
Mr. Crolla has specialized in
medical writing for the past five
years. In addition to extensive
newspaper coverage of many
aspects of medicine, lie has
served as Tucson and Southern
Arizona correspondent for Medi
cal Tribune and World Wide
News (Medical) Service.
In 1963 he won regional
honors in the Annual Russell I.
Cecil Awards contest and took
first place nationally in a contest
sponsored by the American
Osteopathic Medical Association
with an article describing the
difference between osteopathic
and allopathic medicine. A 1962
story on open heart surgery, il
lustrated by his own photo
graphs, won first prize in feature
writing in Arizona. Also that
year, he was runner-up in the
Cecil Awards contest for a story
he wrote on arthritis quackery.
In 1960 and 1961, Mr. Crolla
was the top journalism awards
winner in Arizona. His news
and feature writing and photog
raphy earned two national and
three state awards in 1960 and
four state awards in 1961.
Tliis is the third country in
w'hich Mr. Crolla has practiced
journalism. Prior to coming to
the U.S., he w'orked for more
than six years for Canadian
newspapers and for several years
with newspapers in his native
Scotland.
He is a graduate of Glasgow
University and also completed
his earlier schooling in Glasgow.
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Often there is the need for solitude ... for a sanctuary ...
A Worthy Cause ... The Chapel
The following is a Christmas letter written by Dr. Barnes Wood-
hall, Vice Provost, to friends concerning the Duke Hospital Chapel.
Intercom thinks this may have meaning for others and has received
permission to reprint it.
Many of you I suspect have purchased Christmas cards from an
international organization called UNICEF and thus have con
tributed to child care throughout the world. While you continue
this and other worthwhile contributions as you wish, I commend to
your attention another warm and personal program in our own
Medical Center called the Duke Hospital Chapel that deserves the
same order of individual support and is of course quite non-competi
tive.
You are familiar with the Chapel’s two-fold jirogram of the
building of a sanctuary and the development of adequate facilities
for the hospital chaplains’ program. A number of generous gifts
have initiated this development but it is a fact that some ninety
thousand dollars are needed to complete our financing and it is a
hope tliat we can start construction some one and one-half years
from now when the Main Entrance Building has assumed one of its
functions as a main lobby for patients.
All of us give and receive gifts as symbols of the meaning of
Christmas; we attempt to honor our friends to whom we are devoted
for one reason or another. In the University Hospital setting, we
may wish to repay in some part the professional care we have
received or our patients want to do more than is usual or we have
close friends who are ill or who have been ill. It is at these times
that we might remember that a hospital with its human problems
remains incomplete without a sanctuary.
Gifts of any amount \vill aid this program, one which I trust will
be accepted as a continuing program. Contributions should be
designated for the ‘ ‘ Duke Hospital Chapel Fund ’ ’ and are deducti
ble for income tax purposes. They should be sent to Chaplain Aitken
who will notify the recipient of this honor in an appropriate fashion.
As one who has followed this concept in what one might call an
experimental model, I can testify that both donor and recipient
experience a warm and satisfying reaction that, if not rare among
us all, is at least unique in our own life at Duke University.
PHOTO BY MCKEE