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VOL. 25, NO. 45
WELCOME
ALUMNI
Duke University
Medical Center
Intercom
NOV. 10, 1978
DURHAM, N.C.
Symposium looks to '80s
Alumni of the School of Medicine are
here this weekend to discuss advances in
medical science, to honor four physicians
for their contributions to the field and to
dedicate a new center established to help
health professionals keep up with future
advances in medical care.
Duke's Fourteenth Annual Medical
Alumni Weekend began yesterday with a
luncheon meeting of the Medical Alumni
Executive Council and dedication of the
Searle Center for Continuing Education
in the Health Sciences.
During the 4 p.m. dedication ceremony,
Dan C. Searle, chief executive officer of
C.D. Searle & Co., presented the facility
to the university. The company
contributed $1 million for establishment
of the center.
Yesterday's activities also included the
Dean's Hour Lecture, given by Dr. E.
Harvey Estes, professor and chairman of
the Department of Community and
Family Medicine, and an ice-breaker
reception hosted by Dr. and Mrs. William
G. Anlyan.
Today's schedule
The Searle Center is the setting for
today's symposium on "Advances in
Medical Science — Preparing for the
1980s in Medical Care" and for activities
continuing through Saturday.
This evening the Medical Alumni
Awards Banquet will be held there (see
separate story below).
This morning's program includes:
?:05 — "The Department of Medicine. Its
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Four distinguished physicians to be honored tonight
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The medical center's Distinguished
Alumni Awards and the Medical Alumni
Association's Distinguished Teaching
Awards will be presented tonight at a
banquet in the Searle Center for
Continuing Education in the Health
Sciences.
Recipients of the alumni awards will be
Dr. Robert H. Purcell of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, Md., and
Dr. A. Jack Tannenbaum, a Greensboro
physician.
The teaching awards will go to Dr. J.
Lamar Callaway, professor of
dermatology at Duke, and Dr. Clarence E.
Gardner Jr., emeritus professor of
surgery.
Internationally known
Purcell graduated from Duke's medical
school in 1962, having previously
received bachelor's and master's degrees
from Oklahoma State and Baylor
universities, respectively.
He currently is head of the Hepatitis
Virus Section of the NIAID Laboratory of
Infectious Diseases. During his 14 years
at the NIAID/ Purcell's scientific research
and leadership have resulted in a number
of major advances in the field of viral
hepatitis and his achievements have made
him an internationally known expert on
ne of the country's major public health
roblems.
Active community,
university involvement
Duke awarded Tannenbaum an A.B.
degree in 1931 and an M.D. in 1935.
Following internship and residency
training, he served with the U.S. Army
Medical Corps throughout World War II
as a ward officer, assistant chief and chief
of medicine.
After the war, he established a private
practice in internal medicine in
Greensboro.
Tannenbaum, who holds clinical
faculty appointments at both the
University of North Carolina and the
Bowman Gray schools of medicine, is
active in community and philanthropic
organizations. He is a charter member of
the Davison Club and since 1977 has
served on the University Board of
Trustees.
Professorship established
Callaway has been a member of Duke's
medical faculty since 1937. He was chief
of the Division of Dermatology from
1946-1975.
A 1932 graduate of the School of
Medicine, Callaway has been president or
chairman of several regional and national
professional groups and last month was
elected president of the Masters
Dermatological Association. In 1972, he
received the Gold Award of the American
Academy of Dermatology.
Recently, the medical center
established the J. Lamar Callaway
Professorship in Dermatology to
recognize his service to the medical
profession and to the university.
Came here with Dean Davison
Gardner was one of the original staff
members of the medical center and served
on its faculty from 1930 until his
retirement in 1968.
He was chairman of the Department of
Surgery from 1960-64. A lectureship in
the history of surgery was inaugurated in
his name in 1964, and in 1968 the newly
constructed Surgical Outpatient Clinic
was named in his honor.
Gardner received his A.B. degree in
1924 from Wittenberg University and his
M.D. in 1928 from The Johns Hoplcins
University School of Medicine.
He then served two years as an
associate and instructor in surgery at
Johns Hopkins before joining Dr. Wilburt
C. Davison, Duke's first dean of medicine,
in a move to Durham's new medical
complex.
DR. CALLAWAY DR. GARDNER
DR. PURCELL DR. TANNENBAUM
Davison Club contributions pass $1 million mark
The Davison Club has contributed its first $1 million, and the
plans are for that to be the first of many.
The club is a donor organization founded in 1968 in honor of
the late Dr. Wilburt C. Davison, the first dean of medicine at
Duke. Members pledge at least $1,000 annually to the School of
Medicine.
R. C. (Bucky) Waters, executive director, said projections
show that the second million-dollar mark can be reached within
five years.
"Our goal is four years," he said. "And then we plan to
decrease the number of years designated for raising each
subsequent $1 million until the Davison Club is providing $1
million a year in unrestricted funds to continue Duke's
excellence in the 21st century."
Contributions continue to increase
During the organization's inaugural year, Davison Club
members contributed $19,500. The yearly amount had grown to
$201,868 by the end of fiscal year 1977-78 which brought the
overall total to $931,858.13.
Contributions during the first quarter of this fiscal year were
up 78 percent over the same period last year. Waters reported.
Recently, Dr. Robert Machemer became the 277th Davison
Club member, and his contribution was the one that sent the
total past the $1 million mark.
Machemer joined the medical center faculty Sept. 1 as
professor and chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology.
"It's extremely gratifying to have Dr. Machemer join the
Davison Club after having been with us such a short time,"
Waters commented.
'Family' members
Twenty-six members of the organization represent the
medical center faculty and staff and 62 percent are Duke medical
alumni. Waters noted.
"The Davison Club continues to play an important role in
Duke's efforts to assure excellence in private medical education
and health care," Dr. William G. Anlyan, vice president for
health affairs, said.
"The participation in the club by members of the medical
center 'family' — our alumni, faculty members and staff — says
a great deal about our commitment to excellence to those we ask
to help support our efforts."
Duke North will have plaque
Members' names are engraved on a plaque near the hospital
chapel in the yellow zone. When Duke Hospital North opens, a
duplicate plaque will hang there.
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