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VOLUME 24, NUMBER 24
JUNE 17,1977
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
On-Location Movie Scenes To Be Filmed Here
Lights, Camera, Action...Duke
Duke Hospital, Duke West on
Erwin Road and Duke Chapel will
provide the scenes for some
on-location filming for a movie
during parts of the coming two
weeks.
A motion picture company from
Taiwan will be shooting scenes here
for a movie about a North Carolina
State University student from Hong
Kong who died of cancer at Duke in
1974.
Sometime during the following
week the crew will move on to
Raleigh to film on the N.C. State
campus.
Award-Winning Director
The movie, "The Lasting Love," is
being directed by David Ting who
has won three Asian Film Festival
awards for best director in 1974, best
director and screenplay in 1975 and
director of the best film in 1976.
Ting has made two previous visits
to Duke and to N.C. State making
preliminary arrangements for the
on-location camera work. Ting, who
has offices on Taiwan and in Hong
Kong, will bring a film crew of about
20 people from Taiwan and from this
country.
The film will center on the life of
Fred Chan, who was bom in Hong
Kong in 1949, son of a
Seminar Being
Conducted By
Leaders in Field
An English couple who are
considered pioneers in their field
will conduct a seminar this weekend
sponsored by the hospital and the
E)epartment of Physical Therapy.
The "Adult Hemiplegia Seminar"
which began this morning in the
Hospital Amphitheater is expected
to draw some 200 health
professioncds' from. North Carolina
and other states.
The program will offer physical
therapists, occupational therapists,
nurses and physical therapy
assistants a clear presentation of the
rationale for, and demonstration of,
the Bobath method of treating adult
hemiplegic patients. Hemiplegia is
paralysis of one side of the body.
Have Changed Focus
Dr. Karel Bobath and Berta Bobath,
his wife, will give lectures and
demonstrations of the therapy
technique they have developed
during their professional careers
which span more than 50 years.
Robert C. Bartlett, professor and
chairman of physical therapy,
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newspaperman. In the fall of 1969,
Chan entered N.C. State to study
electrical engineering. He received
his B.S. degree in 1972 and entered
graduate school with the aim of
earning a doctorate.
But early in his student career, in
April of 1970, he entered Duke
Hospital where he was diagnosed as
having a malignant tumor of the
thymus gland.
Continued Studies
Over almost the next four years,
while continuing his studies at State,
Chan underwent surgery, radiation
therapy and other treatment during
four more admissions to Duke
Hospital.
He entered Duke the last time on
Feb. 8, 1974, and died the following
day.
Chan's father subsequently wrote
a book about his son, in which he
told of his son's courage in
continuing his studies while facing
terminal cancer. He also wrote of the
support and encouragement his son
received at N.C. State and the
kindness and care he received as a
patient at Duke.
Director Ting read Chan's book
and began making arrangements last
year to make it into a movie. A
spokesman for Ting's group said he
believes this is the first time a
company from Taiwan will have
done on-location filming in the
United States.
On Location
Beginning about Tuesday here and
continuing into the first of the
following week, they will be filming
interiors and exteriors of the
hospital, including surgery,
radiation therapy, a patient room
and other areas, some of which will
be shot at the Duke West unit in the
Durham Rehabilitation Center.
They also will spend a day
shooting a scene that takes place in
Duke University Chapel. ^
The crew would expect to move on
to Raleigh to film at N.C. State the
last week of June and in early July.
When Ting was in North Carolina
earlier this spring he said the movie
would be primarily for
Chinese-speaking audiences but he
had not ruled out the possibility of
its being released in the United
States with subtitles or dubbed
language.
First Dean of Medicine, Allied Health Dies
Dr. Thomas DeArman Kinney,
Duke's first dean of the combined
medical and allied health education
programs and 15-year chairman of
the Etepartment of Pathology, died
early Sunday morning (June 12) at
his home here.
He was 68 and had been in
declining health for several months
with cancer.
Persons wishing to make
memorial gifts in Dr. Kirmey's name
may do so to the Duke Medical
Student Loarrand Scholarship Fund,
Box 3701, School of Medicine.
A memorial service was conducted
Wednesday in Duke University
Chapel.
Since reaching mandatory
retirement age and relinquishing his
administrative positions in 1975, Dr.
Kinney had retained his faculty
appointment as R.J. Reynolds
Professor of Medical Education.
iNTtKNATIONALLY IC/VOW/V—This portrait of Dr. Thomas D. Kinney hangs in the
Hospital Amphitheater. Duke's first dean of the combined medical and alli^ health
education programs, he had an international reputation as a pathologist.
Survivors include his wife. Dr.
Eleanor R. Kinney of Durham, a
former assistant professor of musing
at the University of North Carolina
in Chapel Hill; a son, Tom, an
assistant professor of pediatrics at
the University of Pennsylvarua; three
daughters, Qeanor, an attorney in
Cleveland, Hannah, a physician at
Children's Hospital in Philadelphia,
and .Janet, a second-year medical
student at Duke; and a grandson,
Tom, of Philadelphia.
International Reputation
While acknowledging Dr.
Kinney's international reputation as
a pathologist. Dr. William G. Anlyan,
vice president for health affairs,
called special attention to his
contributions to medical education
at Duke.
"Dr. Kinney was a pioneer,"
Anlyan said, "in developing and
implementing our new curriculum in
medical education, and he was the
first head of the new combined
M.D.-Ph.D. program to produce
medical scientists for the future."
Beyond that, Anlyan said, "Dr.
Kinney at all times was able to
perceive the student point of view,
and he stood as their strong
advocate."
Distinguished Teaching
He noted that in recognition of
this relationship, the medical
students this year, entirely on their
own, established the Thomas D.
Kinney Award for teaching
excellence to be awarded annually to
a faculty member, as it was this year
to surgery chairman Dr. David
Sabiston.
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