After Tough Entrance Competition
Medical Frosh Begin Learning 'Healing Arts'
“Less than one chance in 37."
That’s what the odds makers would
say faced college graduates who
applied last winter for admission into
the university’s School of Medicine.
Of the 4,242 young men and women
seeking to learn the healing arts of
the physician here, only 114 were
eventually accepted for
matriculation;
Rigorous training has just begun
for that select group, which Dr.
Suydam Osterhout, associate director
of admissions, called “a truly
outstanding cross section of
American youth.”
Because of limited openings,
Osterhout said Duke had to turn
away at least 1,500 students who he
termed “fully acceptable to the
School of Medicine.”
Applications, he continued, have
increased two and a half times the
1970 figure and have exceeded last
year’s totals by more than twice the
number of available positions. While
the interests of the group are varied,
the admissions officer said there
seems to be an encouraging trend
toward family practice.
Osterhout added that the class
represents 28 states and 48 colleges
and universities in this country.
Thirty-two of the students are North
Carolinians.
There are 34 women, the largest
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VOLUME 22, NUMBER 35
SEPTEMBER 19,1975
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Cleaveland Announces Eight Appointments
Eight appointments to faculty
positions at the medical center have
been announced by University
Provost Frederic Cleaveland.
They are;
—Teresa Graedon, assistant
professor of anthropology in the
School of Nursing. A Ph.D. candidate
at the University of Michigan, Ms.
Graedon earned undergraduate
degrees there and at Bryn Mawr.
Since 1972 she has held a fellowship
in the Institute for Environnjental
Quality at the University of Michigan.
—Dr. Jeffrey L, Houpt, assistant
professor of psychiatry. A graduate
of Wheaton (III.) College with an
M.D. from Baylor, Houpt has been
staff psychiatrist at Presbyterian
Hospital of the Pacific Medical
Center and an adjunct faculty
member at the University of the
Pacific.
—Dr. Frank R. Lecocq, associate
professor of medicine. Lecocq has
been an associate professor of
medicine at the University of Texas
Medical School in San Antonio. He
holds B.S. and M.D. degrees from the
University of Illinois.
—Mariann Lavacca, assistant
professor of nursing. An assistant
professor of nursing at Radford (Va.)
College for the past year, Ms. Lavacca
received a B.S. in nursing at Hunter
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number ever admitted in medicine at
Duke, and there are 24 individuals
who completed their undergraduate
educations at Duke. Seven students
attended Harvard University, while
14 studied at the University of North
Carolina.
Also included in this year’s class are
nine participants in the school’s
Medical Scientist Training Program,
a course of study that enables a
person to earn both an M.D. and a
Ph.D. in one of the basic sciences in
six or seven years.
Two members of the Class of 1979
are from foreign countries, the
Dominican Republic and the
Philippines.
Eleven of the students are from Durham.
They are:
Claude S. Burton III, David F. Colvard,
Timothy R.S. Harward, Howard A. Lipton,
Jon V. Martell, David Mold, Thomas L.
Novick, Reuben N. Rivers, Eric P. Smith,
Christiane Stahl, and Ronald L. Vereen.
Other students from North Carolina are:
Stuart R. Adler of Statesville, Charles S.
Baker lU of Havelock, George T. Bartels of
Chapel Hill, Edwin P. Bounous Jr. of
Morganton, Betty Bradley and William F.
Cappleman III of Carrboro, Ray Dawkins Jr.
of Fayetteville, Michael Dresser of Davidson,
John G. Fitz of Hickory, Jerry M. Foster of
Newton and David C. Jones of Mebane.
Edgar M. Kahn of Franklin, William N. Lane
Jr. of Winston-Salem, Philip N. Lister of
Brevard, Samuel S. McCachren of Concord,
Henry G. Marrow of Tabroro, Wayne K. Ruth
of Raleigh, Richard K. Slate of Clemmons.
Edward S. Stanton of Plymouth, William G.
Ward of Lincolnton and Stephen C. Worsley of
Greenville.
Other students and their home towns are:
ALABAMA — David J. Browning of
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TREES COME DOWN FOR NEW HOSPITAL—This aerial photograph, taken on
Tuesday, Sept. 9, shows the first efforts of the men who will construct "Duke North."
Bell Building and the Mudd Building which will house the new library lie in the
center of the photo. Below them are two lines of autotnobiles and then a large
clearing in a wooded area, the future site of the new hospital. The facility, which is
tentatively scheduled for completion in the spring of 1979, will contain 616 beds, and
it will extend to within 50 feet of the Bell Building and 50 feet of the Eye Center lying
on the opposite side of the small woods. (Photo by David Williamson, David Levy,