DOING THE
HONORS —
Brenda Sykes,
secretary to Bucky
Waters, was elect
ed by her fellow
honorees to cut
the cake at a birth-
day party for
employees In the
Medical Center Ad
ministration Office
recently. The party
recognized ever
yone working there
who had birthdays
in May including
Dr. Jane Elchlepp,
Jesse Ferrell, Jean-
nie Hawkins.
Marilou Morgan,
John Robinette
(standing at left)
and Ms. Sykes.
(Photo by David
Williamson)
Robinson Takes Alabama Post
Dr. Arvin E. Robinson, director of
the Division of Diagnostic Radiology
since 1972, will join the University of
South Alabama Medical Center in
Mobile as professor and chairman of
the Radiology Department on June 1.
The former Mobile General Hospital,
which has been owned by the
Alabama university for the last two
and one-half years, only recently
underwent the name change. A
300-bed general teaching hospital, the
institution is constructing 100
additional beds and plans for a $4
million upgrading of its radiology
department also have been
announced.
Robinson, whose position will
encompass both teaching and
administrative functions, will be
heading work in nuclear medicine,
radiation therapy and diagnostic
radiology at the university hospital.
A graduate of the University of
DR. ARVIN E
Hintcttcom
is pubtished weekly lor Duke
University Medical Center employees,
faculty, staff, students and friends by the
Medical Center s Office of Public Relations.
Joe Sigler, director. William Erwin, medical
writer; Miss Annie Kittrell. secretary
Editor
David Williamson
Associate Editor
Margaret Howell
Public Relations Advisory Committee: Sam
A. Agnello. audiovisual education; Dr. Rotiert
Anderson Jr.. surgery; James L. Bennett Jr..
vice president's office; Wayne Gooch,
personnel; Dr. Athos Ottolenghi. physiology
and pharmacology; Michael Schwartz;
hospital administratton; Miss Isabelle Webb.
RN. nursing service; Dr. Tom C. Vanarr«n.
micrptMologyand immurvslogy.
Pennsylvania, he received an M.D.
degree from the Medical College of
Virginia in 1964. Robinson served his
internship at Albert Einstein Medical
Center in Philadelphia and came to
Duke in 1965 for his residency in
radiology. He is a Richmond, Va.,
native.
AWARD FOR GETTING INVOLVED — Last week, Dwight
Rot>ertson, a senior medical student and president of the
Davison Society, presented a complete set of the Frank
Netter Collection of Illustrated Medical Books to MD-Ph.D.
candidate John Scott (at right), this year’s recipient of
the CIBA Award for Community Service. Scott earned the
honor for his efforts as chairman of the Davison Society’s
Sex Education Committee, a group of medical students and
future nurses who teach sex education to Duke
undergraduates and to Durham school children. Scott was
also recognized for his work as chairman of the Edgemont
Community Health Clinic, a volunteer clinic for indigent
citizens staffed by medical and nursing students, Duke
physicians and pharmacists. (Photo by David Williamson)
_ , _ , Planning Class
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Questions from readers are encouraged. If you have a question, send it to:
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PICKETS, PROTESTS AND DEIMONSTRATIONS
The university set forth a policy on pickets, protests and demonstrations in
1968 to establish firm rules applicable to employees. The policy, in part, states:
“Duke University respects the right of all members of the academic community to
explore and to discuss questions which interest them, to express opinions publicly
and privately, and to join together to demonstrate their concern by orderly means.
“It is the policy of the university to protect the right of voluntary assembly, to
make its facilities available for peaceful assembly, to welcome guest speakers, and
to protect the exercise of these rights from disruption or interference.
"The university also respects the right of each member of the academic
community to be free from coerckxi and harassment. . . The substitution of rmise
for speech and force for reason is a rejection and not an application of academic
freedom. A determination to discourage conduct wfiich is disruptive and disorderly
does not threaten academic freedom; it is, rather a necessary condition of its very
existence."
Q. According to university policy, are any pickets, protests or demonstrations
allowed on university property or at any university authorized function?
A. Yes, pickets, protests and demonstrations are allowed as long as they are
not disruptive. Disruptive picketing, protesting or demonstrating on university
property or at any place in use for an authorized university purpose is
prohibited.
Q. How is “disruptive" defined in this pelicy?
A. Disruptive picketing, protesting, or demonstrating consists of any conduct
which directly interferes with tfie orderly operation of tfie university or with the
lawful pursuits of any member of the university community or any person
otherwise on university premises with the express or implied permission of the
university.
Q. What "disruptive” actions are specifically prohibited?
A. (1) Unauthorized occupancy of university facilities or buildings, (2)
interference with the rights of students, faculty or staff and persons who are
guests of the university to gain access to any university facility for the purpose
of attending classes, participating in interviews, conferences or any other
proper purpose, (3) Interference with the orderly operations of the university, by
breach of the peace, physical obstruction or coercion, or by noise, tumult or
other forms of disturbance, and (4) Interference with university traffic, be this
traffic pedestrian or vehicular.
Q. What is the result of implementation of violations of these policies?
A. Violations of these rules will lead to appropriate disciplinary action. Lack
of prompt response to a cease and desist order by a university official will
constitute an aggravation of the offense. Procedures of hearing and appeal for
employees will t>e as provided in the grievance procedure of the personnel
policy manual.
On June 5. at 5:45 p.m. the
university’s Pre-Retirement Planning
Program will hold its graduation
exercise at a banquet in the University
Union. Certificates will be given to
those who are eligible. A participant is
judged eligible if he has attended five
or more of the nine sessions. This
year there was a total of 60
participants with thirty-eight being
eligible for certificates.
Those receiving certificates will be:
Teresa Arena. Pearlie Bass. Katie Bell.
William Bell. Carl M. Bishop, Fannie &
George Carver, Virginia Chamblee,
Helen & Gifford Davis, Mary Favors,
Bertha Ginyard, Lewis D. Glenn,
Louise Hall, Elsie & Herbert
Harrington, and Harvey E. Johnson,
Beatrice Jones and Louise & Henry
Keir.
Also, Lucille Kluttz, Harry Lawrence,
John W. Maddox, Jr., Loucille & Lee
Murray, Mildred Postell, Josie Powell,
Jeannette Pratt, Bessie Raper, Honora
Rose, Louise Self, Marion & Preston
Smith, Nina Waite, Coy 0. Watson,
Polly & William A. Williams and Harry
Woods.
Dr. Menefee
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including Alpha Omega Alpha, the
medical scholastic honorary, the
American Medical Association, the
N.C. Medical Society and the National
Tuberculosis Association. He served
as president of the N.C. Trudeau
Society from 1952-54.
Surviving are his wife, Eleanor, of
Green Valley, Ariz.; three daughters,
Mrs. L. M. Gant of Columbia S.C..
Mrs. James A. Hill Jr. of Greenville,
S.C.. and Mrs. Steven P. Pendergraft
of Chapel Hill; and fbur grandchildren.
Memorial services are tentatively
planned to be held in Duke University
Chapel on Sunday, June 1, following
the regular worship service. Private
burial was to be in Greenwood
Cemetery in Durham.