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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 38
September 29, 19^2
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Grant Will Aid
’Under-Served’
Medical Areas
The School of Medicine has received
an $86,383 grant from the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation of Princeton, N.J.
It is part of the foundation's
nationwide student aid program to
increase the number of future doctors
likely to enter practice in medically
under-served areas.
Receipt of the grant was announced
by Dr. Thomas D. Kinney, director of
medical and allied health education.
The grant provides support over the
next four academic years for scholarship
and loan awards to women students,
students from rural backgrounds and
those from the country's black, Indian,
Mexican-American and U.S. mainland
Puerto Rican populations.
Individual recipients and the amounts
will be determined by the School of
Medicine.
The grant is part of a $10 million
program financed by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation to assist students in
these categories through four-year grants
to all the nation's 108 schools of
medicine and seven schools of
osteopathy.
The foundation focused the program
on women students and students from
rural and minority-group backgrounds on
the basis of evidence indicating that they
are the most likely to choose practice
locations in the country's under-served
rural and inner-city communities upon
completion of their professional studies.
The nation's hospitals employ nearly
three million persons, including close to
100,000 persons in training in the
medical and paramedical professions.
POINTING C/f*—Lucius Geter, a brick mason who helped lay blocks during the
construction of the chapel on West Campus, points up mortar joints on the new
addition to Hanes House. The facility, scheduled for completion in January, will house
administrative offices, seminar space, faculty offices and a large auditorium, (staff
photo)
United Fund Starts Drive
The Medical Center's United Fund.
Campaign will be launched Monday
morning with a meeting in the Hospital
Amphitheater beginning at 9:30.
Durham Mayor Jim Hawkins,
representatives of the Durham United
Fund and representatives of the
university and medical center
administration will attend.
The meeting primarily is for key
assistants in the campaign who will be
soliciting donations on a persofi-to-person
basis throughout the medical center.
However, the meeting will be open to
anyone else who wants to attend.
A brief United Fund film will be
shown. Following the amphitheater
session, coffee and doughnuts will be
served in the cafeteria.
Richard B. Hayes, assistant director of
development for health affairs, is
chairman of the medical center UF
campaign. Vice chairman is Wallace
Jarboe, director of hospital planning
studies. Robert A. Pillillo Jr., associate
professor of education, heads the
university-wide campaign.
The university's goal is $83,000.
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