Trustees Give Green Light to ^^Duke North”
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THE VIEW, FOUR YEARS FROM WOWMn 1979, if you’re standing in what’s now the
parking lot near the corner of Fulton Road and Erwin Road and look across Fulton
Road, this is what you'll see—the $96.3 million Duke Hospital North. This is a model
of the new hospital prepared by the architects, Hellmuth, OtMta and Kassabaum of
St. Louis. The University Board of Trustees last week gave approval to go ahead
with the project.
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VOLUME 22, NUMBER 19
MAY 16,1975
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Historic Meeting Ends Long Delay
Caused By Inflation, Interest Rates
By Joe Sigler
The hands on the grandfather clock
in the second floor lobby of the Allen
Building inched toward 1 p.m. last
Friday.
The Board of Trustees, meeting In
their room down the hallway, were to
adjourn at 1, but representatives of the
press had been waiting in the lobby
since mid-morning in case a decision
was announced earlier.
Dr. John Knowles, president of the
Rockefeller Foundation and a trustee,
who had to meet a speaking
commitment to 1,500 people in Boston
later in the .day, left the meeting in the
late morning.
President Sanford, stepping out of
the meeting a couple of times to check
with his office, joked with the press as
he passed through the lobby.
The Durham Sun reporter, who had
been calling her office periodically
through the morning to report, "Not
yet,” watched the clock closely as it
approached 1 o’clock and then went
beyond. When it passed 1:15, it also
passed her final deadline, but she
Sunny Skies Highlight Commencement
You couldn’t have asked for a nicer
day.
There was hardly a cloud in the sky,
temperatures hovered around the
mid-70's and despite concerns about a
sluggish national economy, the many
thousands of people who crowded into
the stands in Wallace Wade Stadium
last Sunday shared a common
excitement.
It was the university’s 123rd
Commencement Ceremony and the first
to be held outside since 1937. Two
thousand individuals, mostly young,
took the giant step from being Duke
students to Duke alumni.
G. Alexander Heard, chancellor of
Vanderbilt University, spoke before the
assembled graduates, their families and
friends. The Duke faculty, dressed in
robes bearing the colors of dozens of
American colleges in addition to Duke,
were also on hand.
Heard spoke of federal tax reform
proposals which might threaten private
institutions of higher learning by
stemming the flow of private
contributions.
If contributions which are now tax
deductible are greatly reduced as a
result of unfavorable legislation, the
strain on private colleges and
universities would be overwhelming, he
said.
"The government will have to pay for
them if someone else does not, ” he
explained. "The government needs to
encourage, not discourage, private
initiative in meeting our common
needs. ”
Recipients of honorary degrees were
Gay Wilson Allen, an authority on poet
Walt Whitman; George Evelyn
Hutchinson, a 'v'ale University zoologist;
Henry E. Rauch, a retired Burlington
Industries executive; Agnes de Mille, a
dancer and choreographer; Benjamin
Elijah Mays, one of the architects of the
black movement; Elmer Boyd Staa^s.
U.S. Comptroller general; Lewis
Thomas, a Yale University pathologist
and researcher; and speaker Heard.
Included among the graduates were
87 physicians, 80 nurses, 27 health
administrators, 16 physical therapists
and 31 physician’s associates, all of
whom received training at the medical
center. Job prospects for them, unlike
many of the liberal arts graduates, still
appear very good, according to national
employment statistics.
On Saturday morning before
Commencement, the School of
Medicine held its traditional
Hippocratic Oath Ceremony in Duke
Chapel. Dr. Ewald W. Busse, who is
serving his first year as director of
medical and allied health education,
administered the oath and spoke before
the new Duke physicians.
That afternoon, graduating seniors in
the School of Nursing attended a
Recognition Service, also held in the
Chapel. Alice Deitz. assistant professor
of nursing addressed the nurses, and
Dean Ruby Wilson presided.
Eight of the new physicians also
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stayed on.
Then, at 1:20 the meeting broke up
and the decision was announced.
The trustees had given final approval
to construction of the $96.3 million
Duke Hospital North.
The wait, of course, didn't have the
drama of watching for the white smoke
that signals the election of a Pope. Nor
even, perhaps, the tension of a father
waiting word on the birth of a child.
But for the hundreds of people at the
medical center who had been the most
closely'involved in the new hospital
project over the past four years, the
trustee meeting and the wait that
accompanied it had a measure of both
drama and tension.
No one reflected greater happiness
and relief over the decision than Dr.
William G. Aniyan. vice president for
health affairs. Aniyan and Chancellor
John Blackburn met with the press
immediately to provide details. Then
Aniyan walked back to the medical
center.
The vice president's walking pace is
normally fast and business-like, but on
Friday afternoon it was an unusually
relaxed and leisurely one.
Once back at his office in the Davison
Building, he met with his staff and other
well-wishers for about an hour, and
then went home early—something else
unusual for Aniyan—prior to attending
several pre-commencement events that
night.
Here are some of the details of the
new hospital project:
Work at the site already has begun
with the closing this week of Fulton
Street to allow for relocation of power
and sewer lines. Major site preparation
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