Tenth Physician's Associate Class Graduates
Thirty-nine new physician's
associates (PAs) received certificates
Sunday night at ceremonies held in
the West Campus Union.
The class of 1977 is the 10th class to
graduate from Duke's program, the
first PA program in the country.
This year's Richard J. Scheele
Award, given to the graduating
student considered to have achieved
the most outstanding academic and
clinical performance, was presented
to John Edward Hill of Greenacres,
Wash.
Two of the graduates are from
Durham. They are Mark Scott and
Deborah Seigler. Others from North
Carolina are William Davis of
Cramerton, Patrick Hawley of
Lumberton, Shelby Todd of Ahoskie,
Michael Witaszek of Charlotte and
Mike Eddinger of Thomasville.
Graduates
Also receiving certificates were:
John Benton, Amburg, Va.; Allen
Blackmon, Hopewell, Va.; Robert Branch,
Lebanon, Va.; Darrel Clabaugh, Lakota,
Iowa; Timothy Cobb, Pinellas Park, Fla.;
Thomas Coulson, Cocoa, Ha.; Norman
Finnance, Silver Springs, Md.; Robert
Fuller, Takoma Park, Md.; and Anne
Getty, Evansville, Md.
Katherine Halpern, New Haven,
Conn.; Rebecca Harmon, Huron, S.D.;
Robert Hayes, Waynesville, Ohio; Daniel
Jenack, Potsdam, N.Y.; Gregory Kelly,
Elgin, 111.; Carol Kuhn, Bound Brook, N.J.;
Jo Marie Leslie, Bristol, Tenn.; and
Brooke Martin, Boulder, Colo.
Steven Meltzer, Seaford, N.Y.; Sandra
Parapatis, Buffalo, N.Y., Robert Peoples,
MOST OUTSTANDING—John Edward Hill shows his wite Teri Ann the plaque he
received during the physician's asso iate awards « eremonv Sundav evening. Hilt was
the recipient ol the Richard). S heele Award. (Photo bvlolin Becton)
Trading Post
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Call 493-1265.
FOR SALE—Agfa N 16 16 mm splicer;
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FOR SALE—New glass canister liberty
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Intercom
is published weekly for Duke Uni
versity Medical Center employees,
faculty, staff, students and friends by
the medical center's Office of Public
Relations, Joe Sigler, director; David
Williamson,: medical writer; William
Erwin, Comprehensive Cancer Center
medical writer; Miss Annie Kittrell,
secretary.
Editor
Mrs. Ina Fried
Public Relations Assistant
John Becton
Johnson City, Tenn.; Roger Pittman,
Hugoton, Kansas; James Quick, Colorado
Springs, Colo.; Mary Quinn, Boston,
Mass.; John Salimbeni, Canton Ohio;
and David Schnell, Parma, Ohio.
Randall Stevens, Terre Haute, Ind.;
Wayne Temmen, Middletown, Ohio;
Peter Titus, Denver, Colo.; Edward
Walker, McKean, Pa.; Thomas Wildes,
Groton, Conn.; and Susan Edgman, Ann
Arbor, Mich.
Future in Health Care
The ceremony featured an address
on "Your Future in Health Care," by
Dr. William G. Anlyan, vice
president for health affairs.
Introductory remarks were given
by Dr. Michael A. Hamilton, PA
program director, and Dr. E. Harvey
Estes, professor and chairman of the
Department of Community and
Family Medicine.
Since its inception, Duke's PA
program has graduated 278 PAs who
are now employed in 37 states, four
foreign countries and the Virgin
Islands.
Defined by the National Academy
of Sciences as the type A physician's
assistant, the Duke graduate is
prepared to assume many of the
diagnostic, therapeutic and
administrative responsibilities
traditionally performed only by the
physician.
The P. A. is distinguished by his or
her ability to integrate and interpret
fundings on the basis of general
medical knowledge and to exercise a
degree of independent judgment.
The Duke curriculum is 24
consecutive months in duration, and
includes an academic year devoted to
the basic medical sciences and 15
months of clinical training in a
variety of settings.
Because of the national attention
afforded the Duke program,
applications for the 40 seats available
in each year's starting class have
numbered over 500 in recent years.
RECEIVES TROPHY—VJben Daniel Leake,
Operating Room attendant, graduated
from Durham High School this spring he
received an award for being the Best
Co-Op Student. He worked in the OR
during his senior year and now plans to
go to Durham Technical Institute
beginning in January for training as an
OR Technician. Leake has two sisters
working in the medical center, Paulette
Giles, a secretary in the Heart Station,
and Joyce McKeithen, A DTO. (Photo by
Ina Fried)
Savings Bond Drive
Kick-off Planned
The kickoff for the Duke
University Annual U.S. Savings
Bond Drive will be Wednesday at
9:30 a.m. in the Courtyard Cafeteria.
Drive chairman Herb Aikens,
associate director of personnel and
employee relations director, has
requested that "every effort be made
to have the payroll clerk or a
representative from each department
present."
U.S. Treasury Department
representative John Cox and
members of the university payroll
office and accounting department
will discuss the savings bond
program and answer questions.
Information packets will be
available, arranged in order of pay
points foe easy pickup.
The meeting will last one hour,
and refreshments will be served.
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wagon, automatic transmission, air
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good condition. Call 682-4702.
FOR SALE —1911 sewing machine,
excellent condition, $40; Empire card
table, mahogany, $45; indoor/outdoor
carpet, new, green, 9' x 14', $35; Nesco
turkey roaster, $25; Sears Coldsp>ol deep
freeze, as new, large, upright, $245; as
new large GE auto, washer and dryer,
$400 the pair; sundry other items. Call
489-5477, 4-6 p.m., weekdays.
FOR SALE —50 gal. aquarium,
including rocks, two heaters,
thermometer, large filter & pump,
artificial plants, cover with lights; in
excellent condition; reason for selling:
moving. Call 383-2934.
FOR SALE —$785 buys one owner,
very clean, good running. Nova 6 spKJrts
coupe; AT, R & H, new exhaust system,
excellent tires, very dependable and
economical to operate. To see and drive,
call 682-7802.
FOR SALE OR TRADE-Like new
1975 Plymouth Duster coupe;
six-cylinder, green exterior with
matching interior; AC, PS, PB, AT, R &
H, new tires, great on gas. Call 682-7802.
CAR POOL —Riders wanted to form
car pool to and from Burlington,
Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Contact Jack
Wray, Box 3112, or call 277-7892.
FOR SALE — Portable sewing machine
with case; Kenmore; zig-zag, stretch
blind hem, mending and straight
stitches, buttonholer; excellent condition,
$150. Call 471 -2303, nights.
■ FOR SALE-1974 Gremlin X, blue,
Levi interior, PS, three-speed, six
cylinder, sport wheels, AM/FM stereo,
33,000 miles, excellent condition. Call
383-2741, evenings and weekends.
Fighting Children's Diseases
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"I don't think there is any way one
can put a dollar value on the
incredible organizational and
volunteer work the Liggett people
have performed for the tournament,"
the pediatrician said. "We are deeply
grateful."
"Health care, like education, is one
of the critical issues of our time, and
a very costly one requiring support
from the private sector," said
Raymond J. Mulligan, president of
Liggett Group.
"As a principal employer in the
Triangle Area, we are proud to
contribute to the important
long-range medical development
program at Duke University," He
said.
A bronze plaque recognizing the
corporation's employees will be
placed at the entrance of the
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit on the
fifth floor of Duke Hospital North,
Katz said.
Professional News
Dr. William W. Johnston, director of
the Division of Cytopathology and a
Comprehensive Cancer Center member,
spoke on "The Cytopathology of Lung
Cancer" at two workshops this spring.
The professor of pathology addressed a
workshop sponsored by the Louisiana
Pathology Society, April 15-16, in Baton
Rouge. Then he traveled to Wichita,
Kan., May 13-15, to speak at the Sixth
Annual West Central Cytology
Workshop.
Dr. M. Bruce Shields, assistant
professor of ophthalmology, lectured on
"Optic Nervehead, Cataracts and
Glaucoma" and "Medical Therapy of
Glaucoma" at the Postgraduate
Glaucoma Course at Wills Eye Hospital,
Philadelphia, Pa., in April. The
proceedings of the sympcftium will be
published in a book entitled Cataracts
and Glaucoma.
The Outpatient E)epartment has been
represented at several workshof>s this
spring.
Judy Cailson, Urology Clinic head
nurse, attended the American Urological
Eighth Annual ConfererKse in Chicago,
April 27-30.
Rosa Steele, head muse at Drake
Pavilion, attended the "Performance
Evaluation and Appraisal of Health Care
Personnel," a conference held in Skokie,
m.. May 2-5.
Pam Falls, orthopaedics dinic head
nurse, took p>art in the Orthopaedic
Nursing Congress Workshop in Bal
Harbor, Ha., May 9-12.
"A College Course for Nurses on the
Utilization of Library Resources," by
Katiiui Walser, senior assistant librarian,
and Kathy Kruse, associate librarian, was
published in the April issue of the
Bulletin of the Medical Library Association.