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BRANDON BECOMES BUSINESS
MANAGER FOR SURGICAL SOPC
Mr. George Brandon has been appointed Business
Manager'of the Surgical Outpatient Clinic succeeding
Mr. James Hines. Mr. Hines will join the staff of
former Outpatient Department Director B. Jon Jaeger
who is now the Administrator of the Tulane University
School of Medicine Hospital
and Clinics, New Orleans.
Mr. George Brandon
iness office at the
in Chapel Hill.
Mr. Brandon is a former
Durham resident who worked
in Duke Emergency Room as
a part-time registar from
1959 to 1963. After re
tiring from the U.S. Air
Force, Mr. Brandon served
as Director of the Business
office at the J. Hillis
Miller Health Center in
Gainsville, Florida. Before
returning to Duke, Mr. Brand
on was manager of the bus-
North Carolina Memorial Hospital
Duke is quite fortunate to have a man with Mr.
Brandon's experience in business office management.
He says of his new position, "I am very happy to be
back at Duke full time, and especially glad to see
mciny of my old friefids again."
Mrs. Brandon is married to the former Dorothy Ross;
They have three children, Dennis 24, William 21, and
Deborah 13. The Brandons reside at 114 Fiske Street
in Durham.
Former Navy Divers Assist
Hyperbaric Chamber Research
Five former Navy divers add a great deal of techni
cal knowledge and experience to the Duke University
Medical Center's Hyperbaric Chamber and investigation
of the utilization of Hyperbaric Medicine.
Mr. William L. Greeman, Chief Engineer and Chamber
Operator, entered the U.S. Navy in 1945. He was grad
uated from the Navy's First Class Diving School in
*1948 and is qualified to dive to any depth using all
types of diving equipment and mixed gases. He was
also graduated from Navy Welding School, Fire Control
School. Before retiring from the Navy in 1963, Mr.
Greeman was an instructor at the Submarine Escape
Diving Tower teaching emergency escape techniques and
free ascent from depth of 100 feet.
Mr. Joseph Beitl, Chamber Operator, is shown above
demonstrating the intricacies of the central control
panel of the new Hyperbaric Chamber to visitors.
JIM SMELTZER NAMED EMPlOrMENT MANAGER
Jim Smeltzer, a former school teacher, coach. Army
parachutist and Viet Nam veteran has been named Em
ployment Manager in the Medical Center Personnel
office. Mr. Smeltzer will be responsible for pro
viding manpower for all areas
in addition to his function
as recruiter for the Nursing ‘
Service.
A native of Greensburg,
Pennsylvania, Mr. Smeltzer
was graduated from Catawba
College before entering the
teaching profession in North
Carolina. He served for
three and a half years in
the U.S. Army where he was
graduated from parachute
ranger and pathfinder schools. Mr. Jim Smeltzer
Mr. Smeltzer served a one^
year tour of duty in Vietnam as Commander of the
First Division Pathfinder Detachment, an elite para-
troop team of fifteen men who precede airborne or
helicopter assaults. He is married to the former
Eleanor Spencer and has one daughter, Jamey, six.
Joseph Beitl, Chamber Operator, is a former deep
sea diver and medical technician. He has been trained
in the anatomy and physiology of diving, mixing and
analyzing gases used in diving, and treatment of
diving diseases and injuries. Mr. Beitl served as
medical deep sea diving technician on the USS Greenlet
and the USS Safeguard. He was Chief Master at Arms
of the Hospital Corpsman Quarters, U.S. Naval Hospital,
San Diego, California, and Petty Officer in charge of
the Medical Department, USS Sperry. Before coming to
Duke in 1966, Mr. Beitl was medical deep sea diving
technician and instructor in diving diseases and in
juries, Underwater Demolition Team Training Unit,
Naval Amphibious Base, Coronade, California.
Delmer L. Shelton, Chamber Operator, received his
training at the Basic Hospital Corps School, Urology
Technicians School, Advanced Hospital Corps School,
and the U.S. Navy Deep Sea Diving School. While in
the Navy, Mr. Shelton was responsible for treatment
and nursing care of sick and injured, control and
maintenance of drugs, narcotics, and medical equip
ment, and medical aspects of diving, including opera
tion of recompression chambers on the USS Kittiwake.
Mr. George Clear, Electronics Technician, retired
from the Navy in 1966 and joined Duke in 1967. His
22 year Navy career was involved with almost eveiy
type of diving from work on missile projects, to air
plane crash recovery.