GRADUA TION
DA Y— For North
Carolina residents,
April 16 marked the
last day for filing
income tax returns.
But for Sherman
Allen and Brenda
Mangum, this day
represented the
culmination of a
year’s study in
Operating Room
Technique and the
beginning of a new
dareer. As LPNs,
Allen and Ms.-
Mangum partici
pated in the LPN
Postgraduate.
Program in
Operating Room’
Technique which has
graduated more than
100 nurses. Both of
the graduates will
remain at Duke to
continue their work
as Advanced LPNs
working in the operating rooms. (Photo by Dale Moses)
Trading Post
Laundry
Continued front-page 1),
his team of workers processed
approximately four and one half million
pounds if laundry, an increase of 7.3 per
cent over 1972-73.
"As long as the hospital and medical
center keep expanding," Gower added,
"our volume of work will increase. We are
perhaps one of the busiest departments
serving the hospital, for we have the
important responsibility of supplying
departments, wards, medical personnel
and patients with a basic hospital
commodity— clean linen—which most
people take for granted."
"The key to an efficient operation,
like we aspire to have, is organization,"
Gower continued. "Each of the 70
workers which make up our team has
learned to rely on the good-will and hard
work of one another, for that is the only
way we can meet the demands expected
of us all."
-DALE MOSES
Volunteers
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or another, but this is not a requirement
for joining, and anyone with an interest
in making the hospital a little nicer place
is encouraged to participate in the
activities.
"I'm very proud as president of this
organization of these women who quietly
and unselfishly give their time and efforts
in support of the hospital," Mrs.
Wyngaarden said.
"Why do they do it? I think it's simply
because they feel a need to be useful and
bring a little pleasantness to someone
else's day," she added.
-DAVID WILLIAMSON
You may send ads to "Trading Post,"
Box 3354, Hospital. Ads are printed free,
but we do not advertise real estate,
personal services or commercial
enterprises. Please give your home
telephone number. Duke extensions will
not be listed.
FOR SALE-Electric stove and refrigerator,
must sell, moving into furnished apartment,
good condition and reasonably priced. Call
596-1125 after 5:30 p.m.
FOR SALE-Llving room sofa and chair;
desk; lamps; typewriter; linens; round table
with four chairs; trunks; dinette; rugs; 1968
Mustang. See at 101 E. Maynard Avenue or call
477-5011.
FOR SALE-1970 Cougar XR7, 37,000
miles, a/c, auto trans, pb, ps, tape deck. Call
383-1466 evenings.
WANTED-Set of twin beds, also chest type
freezer. Call 596-9404 after 6 p.m.
WANTED-Hardtop fold-down camper. Call
682-4514 or 682-4077.
WANTED-Used copy of "The Comparative
Anatomy of the Nervous System of Vertebrates
Including Man" by Ariens Kappers, Huber and
Crosby. Contact Deena Mesnick at Box 6133
'College Station (East Campus).
FOR SALEr-1967 Buick Skylark, t»«»o doors,
hardtop, factory air, pb, ps, green writh black
vinyl top, asking $675. Call 688-8692.
FOR SALE-Piano, newly refinished cherry
mahogany upright, $300 or will trade for
photographic and/or darkroom equipment or
automobile in running condition. Contact
Sandy Welensky at Palm Park Apts., 8-10, 2112
Broad St.
FOR SALE-Men's Raleigh 10-specd bicycle,
new, used only 12 hours, excellent condition.
Call 471-2093.
WANTED-A reliable person to drive my car
(Checker-auto like yellow cab) to Los Angeles,
Calif., one way only during June. For
information call 471-1285 after 6 p.m.
FOR SALE-Large 9' x 12" tent, excellent ’
condition, has Ijeen used very little, $150 new,
will sacrifice for $75, great for family camping
trips. Call 682-7314 after 5 p.m. or anytinne
during the weekend.
FOR SALE-Sears 8,(X)0 BTU window air
conditioner, 110 volts, nine amps, unit doesn't
require special wiring. Call 383-5622.
FOR SALE-Zenith "Circle of Sound" stereo
console with two external speakers and stand,
$95 or tjest offer. Call 489-1389 after 6 p.m.
Additional Income
Benefits Offered
If you are 65 years old and over, blind
or disabled, you may be eligible to receive
a supplementary security income.
Since last July, the American Red
Cross-sponsored Supplementary Security
Income-Alert Program (S.S.I.) has been
seeking out low income residents in six
local counties who are not receiving
adequate Social Security benefits.
As a new program, S.S.I. has taken the
place of Federal-State programs of public
assistance payments to people who are
elderly or disabled.
Eligibility is determined by a person's
regular income, the amount of property
he owns and the number of valuables
(stocks, bonds, jewelry, etc.) he possesses.
The aim of the S.S.I. program is to
provide monthly checks, if they are
needed, so that anyone who is 65 or older
or blind or disabled can have a basic cash
income.
All money used to pay supplemental
security income pomes from general
funds of the U.S. Treasury. Even though
the Social Security Administration runs
the new U.S. Government program,
supplemental income is not the same as
social security.
Social security benefits are paid from
contributions of workers, employers, and
self-employed people. Social security
funds are not used to pay supplemental
security income, however, people who get
social security checks can get the
supplemental security income, too, if
they are eligible for both.
People who think they are eligible for
this supplemental income, should contact
the social security office at 286-7731 or
the American Red Cross at 489-1961.
S.S.I. volunteers are also needed by
the Red Cross to alert and inform the
community of these additional benefits.
Anyone interested in volunteering for the
program should call the Red Cross.
THE NEW THEATRE
The New Theatre, sponsored by the
Durham Department of Recreation, will
present The Flying Prince, a children's
play at the Erwin Auditorium on the
corner of Erwin Road and Oregon St.
Performances will be held on Sunday,
April 28 and May 5 at 2 p.m. Admission
is $.75 for children and $1.50 for adults.
SPEAKER TODAY-Dx. W. Ferguson
Anderson, professor of geriatric medicine
at the University of Glasgow, Scotland,
will speak here today at 4 p.m. in Room
1504, Gerontology Building (Blue Zone).
He will speak on "A Methodology of the
Care of Old People." An international
authority on diseases of old age and
chronic illness, Anderson has lectured
throughout the world. He is the 1974
recipient of the Edward Henderson
Lecture Award given by the American
Geriatric Society.
Hntcttcom
is published weekly for Duke
University MadiMl Center employees, faculty,
staff, students and friends by the Medical
Center's Office of Public Relations, Joe Sigler,
director; Miss Annie Kittrell, secretary.
Co-Editors
DAVID WILLIAMSON
DALE MOSES
Public Relations Advisory Committee: Sam A.
Agnello, audiovisual education; Dr. Rot)ert
Anderson Jr.. surgery; James L. Bennett Jr.. vice
president's office; Wayne Gooch. personr>el; Dr.
Athos Ottolef>ghi. physiology and pharmacology;
Richard Peck, hospital administration; Miss
Isabelle Webb. RN. nursing service; Dr. Tom C.
VananMn, nwcrobioioqy and immunology.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
An N IH-sponsored study involving
Herpes Labialis (fever blisters), needs
adult volunteers. The study involves the
culturing of virus from blisters, and
unbroken blisters are preferred. If you are
interested in volunteering call Ext. 2129.
The procedures for the study are not
harmful and alt volunteers who wish to
participate will be paid.
MANY THANKS
Eldonia Bass, IV Team nurse was
recently a patient in the hospital and
wrote the following poem to express her
thanks:
To each of you, and all of you, especially
to say
Many thanks for all you've done in such a
thoughtful way.
How very nice you were to me!
My thanks are here for all to see
And I hope you know I appreciate
The fact that you all have been just great!
Though words really can't begin to
express
My thanks for all your thoughtfulness
I hope this note will help convey
The gratitude I send your way.
May God bless you.
GETTING READY FOR THE F>l/ff-Health education specialist Ethel Jackson and
media consultant John Day prepare a display for the Department of Community
Health Sciences' exhibit at the first Durham City-County Health F'air which will open
for two days starting Friday, May 3, on the lawn of Lincoln Hospital in Durham. The
purpose of tfte fair, which has been in the planning stages for more than six months, is
to make local citizens aware of health services available to them and to provide
guidance on receiving those services. Duke's part in the event will be a
multi-audiovisual presentation centering on the Division of Community Health Models'
work with residents in Bragtown. Bahama and Rougemont and surveys of how families
seek and obtain health care. (Photo by David Williamson)