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VOLUME 21, NUMBER 20
MAY 17, 1974
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Prime Minister Trudeau Calls for 'New Ethic
In Spite of Monsoon, Sunday Was Their Day
/T'S D/\D'S
DA /—John Bush
Simpson, a
graduating medical
student, is greeted
by his two
daughters follow
ing the Hippocratic
Oath ceremony
held in Duke
Chapel last
Saturday. Despite
the fact that his
children might not
be aware of the
significance of this
day for their
father, they seem
fascinated by his
cap and gown.
(Photo by Dale
Moses)
10th National Forum on Hospital^ Health
Affairs Studies Contemporary Hospitar
In today's hospital everybody wants a
piece of the action.
Few other enterprises have more
different interest groups—each with a
particular reference point, each with a
specific set of objectives, and all seeking a
voice in the organization's operation.
The problem is to develop a
non-conflicting set of guidelines to help
meet those expectations.
The 10th National Forum on Hospital
and Health Affairs is addressing that
problem in a two-day session that began
here this morning.
The main theme of the forum,
conducted by Duke's Graduate Program
in Health Administration and sponsored
by the Duke Endowment, is "Evaluating
the Contemporary Hospital."
The National Forum was founded by
Ray E. Brown when he was director,
from 1964-67. of what was then known
as the Graduate Program in Hospital
Administration.
Brown, who died of a heart attack at
his home in Chicago two weeks ago, was
to have been the lead-off speaker at
today's opening session. The forum began
this morning with a tribute to Brown's
life and contributions to health
administration and a moment of silence
in his nfiemory.
The morning program, presided over
by Dr. B. Jon Jaeger, chairman of the
Department of Health Administration,
was to include the following:
"The Perspective of Organized Labor"
by Bert Seidman, director of the
Department of Social Security of the
A.F.L.—C.I.O. in Washington; "The
Perspective of Employers" by Stanley L.
King Jr., assistant vice president of
American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
of New York; and "The Perspective of
Government" by Dr. Henry E. Simmons,
deputy assistant secretary for health and
scientific affairs. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, Washington.
Donald S. Smith, assistant professor
and director of graduate studies in the
Department of Health Administration, is
to preside at the afternoon session. The
session will include:
'The Perspective of Third Parties" by
D. Eugene Siberg, executive vice
president of Blue Cross Association in
Chicago; "The Perspective of Professorial
Education" by Dr. Leonard D. Finninger,
director of the Department of Graduate
Medical Education, American Medical
Association, Chicago; "The Perspective of
the Hospital Medical Staff" by Dr. Roy S.
Perkins of San Marino, Calif., and "The
Perspective of the Investment Banker" by
Frank L. Klapperich Jr., vice president
and director of Kidder, Peabody and Co.
of Chicago.
The Saturday morning session will be
presided over by Louis E. Swanson,
associate professor of health
administration and director of medical
center planning. The topics will be:
"The Perspective of the Community"
by J. Joel May, director of the Graduate
Program in Hospital Administration at
the University of Chicago; ‘The
Perspective of the Individual Citizen" by
Jaeger; and "The Perspective of the
Patient" by Holt McPherson, retired
editor of the High Point Enterprise.
All sessions are being held in the Duke
Hospital Amphitheater.
A Certain Few Got Awards Too
Diplomas weren't the only things given
out during last weekend's
Commencement Exercises. The
university's schools of medicine and
nursing also recognized individual
students for their achievements in
scholastics, service to the community and
research.
In the School of Medicine, this year's
C.V. Mosby Award was presented to Paul
Carl Bermanzohn, Arnold Stephan
Grandis, Dale Leroy Kessler Jr. and
Kermit Oscar Simrel Jr.
The Lange Medical Publications Award
went to Thomas Gilman Rainey and
Richard Ira Kopelman.
Thomas Gilman Rainey was also the
recipient of the Roche Award.
Isabelle Richmond Faeder, Daphne
Allister Rosenblitt and Phyllis Carolyn
Leppert were the recipients of the
American Medical Women's Association
Citation.
Those elected to Alpha Omega Alpha
during their junior years were Albert
Compton Broders III, Pamela Bowes
Davis, Daniel Marvin Goodenberger, Dale
Leroy Kessler Jr., Daphne Allister
Rosenblitt, David Hays Troxler and
Robert Sanders Williams.
Elected during their senior years were
Nicholas Theodore Carnevale, Robert
Woodward Downs Jr., Isabelle Richmond
Faeder, Arthur Garson Jr., Robert
Woodrow Gilbert Jr., Arnold Stephan
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A h^avy downpour of spring rain and
a parliamentary crisis in the government
of the graduation speaker weren't enough
to put a damper on the university's
122nd Annual Commencement
Ceremony held in Canneron Indoor
Stadium Sunday.
Nineteen hundred and seventy four
young people who were taking the giant
step from student to graduate heard
Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau of
Canada call for a redirection of mankind's
thinking away from the quantity of
economic gain and toward the quality of
life which he believes is possible for every
man and woman.
"We need not do without," Trudeau
said while speaking of current and
potential world problems, "but we must
be good stewards of what we have. To
ensure nature's continued bounty, we are
not asked to suffer, but we are asked to
be reasonable. We are asked to adjust our
demands to nature's limitations..."
The prime minister also stressed the
need for a broadening of responsibility
from individual needs to a universal
concept which would in effect be a new
ethic for mankind.
Trudeau's address was his first in the
United States in five years. The university
awarded him an honorary doctor of law
degree which was the first such degree he
has accepted outside Canada.
Also receiving honorary degrees were
Associate Justice Susie Sharp of the
North Carolina Supreme Court;
Chancellor Albert N. Whiting of North
Carolina Central University; the late
Senator B. Everett Jordan; his brother,
the late Charles E. Jordan, a former Duke
vice president; and Albert Outler, a
theologian at Southern Methodist
University.
Included among those being graduated
were 84 physicians, 82 new nurses, 24
hospital administrators, 16 physical
therapists and 24 physician's associates,
all of whom received their training at the
medical center.
Graduates in medicine spoke the
traditional Hippocratic Oath in the
annual School of Medicine ceremony held
in the University Chapel on Saturday
nvirning.
During the program, speaker Dr.
Thomas D. Kinney was given a special
copy of the Hippocratic Oath in
recognition of his efforts as director of
medical and allied health education.
Also honored at the ceremony was Dr.
Barnes Woodhall, James B. Duke
Professor of Neurosurgery, who will be
retiring in August.
On Saturday afternoon, also in the
University Chapel, the School of Nursing
held a recognition service for seniors. Dr.
Katherine Schenk, associate professor of
nursing was the featured speaker and
Dean Ruby L. Wilson presided.
Twelve of the new physicians received
the Ph.D. degree as well on Sunday. They
were Gerald Black Ahmann, Nicholas
Theodore Carnevale, Pamela Bowes Davis,
Stephen Andrew Goscin, Arnold Stephan
Grandis, Ronald Wayne Joyner, Dale
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