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m ANNOUNCED laboratory and more space e Medical Record L.i- dietetics and the Cen- iply Room, ter employee facUi* luding lockers and :es, a larger cafeteria, moTe space for business and administrative offices plus new classrooms and other teaching facilities for the Medical School will be availa ble. Architects are now mak ing final drawings of the wing, which will be built with the same native stone used in the Qothic architecture through out West Campus. Completion of the build ing may take about two |[ years. The new addition has been under consid eration for several years. President Edens explained. As early as 1946, the Duke Endow ment made available a sum of one million dol lars toward the cost. The remaining cost will be met by contributions from a number of pri vate sources to the medical and hospital building fund, Dr. Edens added. The wing will be one of many alterations in the original Hospital and Medical School wing Building. When the ( contM on page 3) I f of a century tablished in 1968, Intercom once got on a regular publication le under Sue Childs and Jent editors," he said. More news, more often asing activities around the medical ;enerated more and more news, so sr the new few years Intercom grew monthly to a semi-monthly, to a ize weekly and finally, to a tabloid- ekly, ig to a larger format enabled us to •re news into Intercom," former 3avid Williamson said. "We also to become more representative of people who work here, and the ormat helped make this possible." ‘•nson, now medical writer in the Relations, was Intercom 76. ided him as editor, after of months as public '. She became editor of I when it began publication this tober. Other editors others who have been Intercom since the Office of Public is was established are Cheryl who held the position briefly in and Dale Moses, who was Son's co-editor, 1972-74. urrent editor is John Becton, who > the medical center in 1975 and the public relations staff the ig year. cr Herring, public relations ‘t, contributes to Intercom and •n its production. Ann Kittrell, ®lations secretary, is in charge of ion. of P, roi ried, s as! P^W^R( !d^Bd as^P^n. Intercom's 4,500 weekly and 3,200 monthly circulation makes it larger than many commercial weekly newspapers, Sigler noted. Modern times Yet the production time is significantly shorter than when Intercom was a bi monthly. The copy is typeset by the university composition shop on Monday and Tuesday, the layout is planned and pasted up in the Intercom office on Wednesday, the printer picks up the paste-up on Thursday and the finished product is delivered less than 24 hours later. But not everything has changed since Evelyn Stead resigned as editor. We still rarely get turned down for interviews, and we still show people rough drafts of articles about them. Award-winning newspaper During the past few years. Intercom has won a number of awards. This past year, it won an award for excellence in both state and international competitions sponsored by the Society for Technical Communications, and it won the top award in its category in contests sponsored by the Group on Public Relations of the Association of American Medical Colleges and by the International Association of Business Communicators. "Our weekly goal is to produce a journahstically professional newspaper that informs the medical center community of the activities going on in their world here that make Duke the institution of high reputation it has become," Sigler said. CORNERED — Helen Kaiser, former director of physical therapy, was "cornered by the camera," May 3, 1974. (Note the older Intercom format.) She named Intercom in 1954. * / More photos on page 4. REPORTERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IMPORTANT to the success of Intercom. This photo, published Dec. 17, 1971, was taken at a reporters' reception held that fall. Being served by Sue Childs, who was editor at that time, were (I-r) Therlan Thompson of Central Supply, Cinderella Lennon of the Hospital Laundry and Amelia Harper, ALPN, of Meyer Ward. All three are still reporters for Intercom, and now Heartbeat, and will be among those honored at a reception Monday at 3 p.m. in the Board Room. ■lllili A THOUSAND WORDS — This photo by David Williamson appeared in Intercom Dec. 20, 1974.
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