Annual Meeting Kicks Off
United Fund Giving Drive
After a ceremonial “kick-off”
meeting in the Courtyard Cafeteria
last Wednesday, Sept. 24, Duke’s
1975 United Fund Drive is off and
running.
The total university goal this year,
according to Herbert Aikens,
associate director of personnel and
co-chairman of the medical center
campaign, is $92,500, up $3,000
from last year.
At the meeting, held each year to
launch the drive and to acquaint
payroll clerks and other area
representatives with the goals and
procedures of United Fund giving.
Dr. William G. Anlyan, vice president
for health affairs, spoke of the
“responsibility all of us have for those
who are less fortunate than
ourselves.” He also stressed the
importance of giving at the
community level where local citizens
can establish their own priorities
without the direction of the federal
bureaucracy.
Also speaking before the group, in
addition to Aikens and Anlyan, were
Victor Bubas, vice president for
community relations, Larry Rogers,
executive director of the 1975 United
Fund campaign and Sam Sloan,
Durham campaign'chairman.
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A FEW WORDS FROM THE COACH—farmer Duke basketball
now/ vice president for community relations, addressed a group
administrators last week at a meeting which launched the
Campaign at the university. (Photo by David Williamson)
coach Victor Bubas,
of payroll clerks and
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VOLUME 22, NUMBER 37
OCTOBERS, 1975
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Through Common Language of Health Care
Anlyan Offers Peace Proposal
(Dr. William G. Anlyan, vice president
for health affairs and the current
president of the Association of Academic
Health Centers, spoke this morning in
Puerto Rico. His presidential address,
delivered at the opening session of the
meeting today, was “Lessons Learned
Abroad — Common Problems Shared
With U.S. and Potential Solutions.” A
news story on his address, released today, is
printed below.)
DORADO BEACH, PUERTO
SPIRITED VISITORS—Members of the Duke cheerleading squad stopped by the
pediatric wards last week to visit with the children. Sue Hodges, director of
recreation therapy in pediatrics, said the squad has volunteered to escort young-
outpatients who are on the road to recovery to home football and basketball games
this year. The children and their families will be the guests of the cheerleaders, and
their tickets will be free. On the day of the visit, Dave Delugaf of Atlanta and Liana
Silsby of Miami paused a few moments on Howland Ward to discuss Duke football
with a fan. Ms. Hodges is at right. (Photo by David Williamson)
RICO —A solid foundation on which
to build world peace exists today in
the “common problems and common
language of health care” worldwide,
the president of the Association of
Academic Health Centers (AAHC)
said here this morning.
The speaker was Dr. William G.
Anlyan, vice president for health
affairs at Duke University. The
AAHC is made up of persons who
are the chief executive officers for
academic health centers in the
United States.
“It is inconceivable to me,” Anlyan
said in his presidential address, “that
countries that have so much in
common in the provision of health
care and the language thereof could
be so far apart in the political arena
and, at times, resort to unnecessary
killing and bloodshed.
“If ever there were to be a
successful ecumenical movement to
provide the foundations for world
peace,” he said, “I would build it
around the common problems and
common language of health care.”
Anlyan’s talk was based primarily
on personal observations made
during visits to health centers and
medical schools in Europe,
Scandinavia, the Middle East, Great
Britain and the Far East. He will go to
China later this month.
While countries’ health care
problems may vary in degree, Anlyan
said he believes most countries have
the same major problems as the
United States — access to primary
health care, poor distribution of
medical specialists and poor
distribution of physicians
geographically.
He used numerous examples to
illustrate these problem similarities.
The questions of primary care and
geographical rtialdistribution center
in part on the situation Anlyan
described as, “How are you going to
keep them down on the farm after
they’ve seen the farm.”
In San Salvador, he said,
fourth-year medical students have
been required to spend their entire
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Robert Ball
To Speak On
Social Security
Robert M. Ball, who served as
commissioner of Social Security from
1962 to 1973, will be a guest speaker
here at the Center for the Study of
Aging and Human Development
next Thursday.
His talk, “The Future of Social
Security in the United States,” will be
given in the Amphitheater at 4 p.m.
The public is invited.
Ball is currently senior
scholar-in-residence at the National
Academy of Sciences’ Institute of
Medicine in Washington, D.C. His
tenure as Social Security
commissioner was marked by rapid
expansion and improvement in the
Social Security cash benefit program.
In his talk, he is expected to predict
a substantial increase in Social
Security taxes over the next two
decades as this country approaches
zero population growth and the
proportion of retired persons
increases in relation to wage earners.
Before being appointed to the top
Social Security post by President
Kennedy, Ball served for 10 years as
the chief administrator in the
old-age, survivors and disability
insurance program.
In 1965, he was in charge of the
inauguration of the Medicare
program.
Duke Workers
SKow Sympathy
Early Monday morning, Sept. 22, a
fire destroyed the Durham home of
Richard Conover and his family.
. Included among the possessions lost
by the family were medications
belonging to four-year-old John
Conover, a victim of bone cancer who
had been treated here recently.
Employees at the medical center
laundry were “so deeply touched by
the misfortunes that had struck the
Conover home,”^ according to K.C.
Utley, assistant laundry manager,
they took up a collection of money,
foodstuffs and clothing to aid
members of the family in their hour
of need.
Utley said Rosa Carpenter and
Geraldine Riley were responsible for
the collection which netted over $50
in cash and a large amount of food,
clothing and bedding.
Over 90 per cent of the laundry
staff, including members of central
supply, helped with contributions.
A grateful Mrs. Conover picked up
the money and supplies last Tuesday.