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3 Presidential Year 1977 was the year of the presidents at Duke, with no fewer than 12 faculty members assuming the top offices in international, national and state organizations. It may be the largest number of top positions held by Duke people at one time in the medical center's history. Alphabeti cally, beginning at 1 o'clock in the Illustration, the presidents or chairmen and their organizations are: Dr. C. Edward Buckley III, N.C. Lung Association; Dr. E. Harvey Estes, N.C. Medical Society; Dr. Nicholas Georgiade, American Association of Plastic Surgeons; Dr. James F. Glenn, Society for Pediatric Urology; Dr. Frederick R. Hine, Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry; Dr. Samuel L. Katz, Association of . Medical School Pediatric Chairmen; Dr. George Maddox, the Geronto logical Society; Dr. James L. Nash, N.C. Psychoanalytic Society; Dr. Blaine S. Nashold, World Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery; Dr. Wayne M. Rundles, American Cancer Society; Dr. David C. Sabiston, American Surgical Association; and Dr. William W. Shingleton, Association of American Cancer Institutes. (IllustraHon by John Furlow) Professional News Eight researchers here have been awarded grants-in-aid by the North Carolina Heart Association (NCHA). Recipients and fields of study are as follows: Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood Jr., resident in surgery, determination of intraoperative transmural myocardial blood flow using thermal dilution; Dr. Rashid Nassar, research associate in physiology, the relationship between membrane potential and sarcomere motion in cardiac muscle; Dr. Stephen K. Rerych, resident in surgery, hemodynamic effects of exercise in surgical patients; Dr. Theodore D'Eston Fraker Jr, resident in cardiology, time-motion echocardiographic criteria for mitral valve prolapse: two- dimensional echocardiographic and angiographic correlation; Dr. James F. Aiton, research associate in physiology, active transport and myocardial THE CHAMP—During a T-ecent vi»it to Durham, world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad AH taped a public service announcement that will be used to promote the Children's Classic celebrity golf tournament. The champ made the tape at the request of Jerry Neville, the tournament's new executive director. (Pkolo by John Btcton) cell function; Dr. Donny Frank Kirksey, fellow in physiology, electrogenic activity of growth- vesicles in heart; Nina Adams Watterson, graduate student in physiology, electrongenic activity of growth- oriented heart cells; David L. Martel, graduate student in physiology, circulatory distribution of oxygen and its alteration by transient ischemia in cat cerebral cortex in vivo. The board of directors of the NCHA approved support of these and nine other grants-in-aid from October 1977-OctDber 1978. Dr. Ruby L. Wilson and Dr. Robert L. Hill have been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Their five-year terms, and those of 38 other new members, will begin Jan. 1. New members are elected by present active members from among candidates chosen for major contributions to health and medicine, or to such related fields as the social and behavioral sciences, law, administration or engineering. Wilson is professor and dean of nursing and assistant professor of community and family medicine. Hill is lames B. Duke professor and chairman of biiKhemisfrv Celebrity team has new coach The Duke Children's Classic celebrity golf tournament has a new executive director who brings years of marketing experience to the job. He is Gerald W. (Jerry) Neville, who has been ap pointed special events officer in the Medical Cen ter Office of De velopment. The appoint ment was an nounced by Dr. Samuel L. Katz, Department NEVILLE chairman of th« of Pediatrics, and Richard B. Hayes, director of medical center development. As special events officer, Neville will work primarily with the classic and other activities designed to raise funds for treatment and research programs of the Department of Pediatrics. Prior to coming to Duke, Neville was assistant corporate sales manager of the U.S. Safety Service Co. in Kansas City, Mo. He was employed for 18 years by Proctor and Gamble, where he held management level positions in industrial- institutional-retail sales and brand management. The former high school basketball coach is a 1955 graduate of Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa., where he was captain of the basketball team. He earned ■ a master's degree in business administration at Farleigh Dickinson University, East Rutherford, N.J., in 1962. Neville is replacing Fret Hadley who has taken a similar position in the national office of Little League Baseball in Williamsport, Pa.
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