’Tis the season
. . . to be safe
You may want to brighten your corner
of the medical center with holiday
decorations. Just be sure they conform to
fire code regulations prohibiting the use
of flammable materials,
Marshall C. Fowler, fire and safety
coordinator, said live trees and greenery
are not permitted and that all decorations
must be flame retardant or flame proof.
Additional regulations include the
following:
—Electrical decorations must have a
U.L. approved label.
—No exit doors or corridor smoke
doors may be locked, covered or
obstructed in any manner.
—Lights may be used on artifical trees,
but must be the miniature non-heat
producing type (and must have the U.L.
label).
— Electrical decorations are not
permitted in areas where flammable
liquids or gases (including oxygen) are in
use or are stored.
Fowler said that Medical Center Safety
Office personnel will be checking
decorations throughout the medical
center to assure compliance. Any
questions concerning this policy may be
referred to the safety office, t>84-5&P7.
... to win turkey
You can follow the numbers to draw
and color your own Christmas party
poster and have a chance to win a family-
si/e turkey.
Medical center personnel may pick up
posters at the information desk in the
main lobby of the hospital.
Completed posters, with the artist's
name and phone number on the back.
should be returned to the lobby before
noon, Monday, Dec. 18.
The artist responsible for the best
completed poster will receive a turkey.
The winning poster will be displayed in
the Courtyard Cafeteria, and the
winner's picture will be published in
f-lt’iirllifiil.
The party is Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1:30-
4:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.-midnight.
to give gifts
Looking fora great idea fora Christmas
gift?
The Children's Classic Cookbook
contains a scrumptious selection of
recipes from the kitchens of Roselle (Mrs.
Perry) Como, Chet .Atkins and other
celebrities and friends of the medical
center.
The cookbook is a particularly
appropriate way to say Merry Christmas,
since all proceeds go to help Duke's
Department of Pediatrics heal children.
Copies are available for $5.^*5 in the
pediatrics department office, Room 228,
Baker House, and in the Hospital
Auxiliary Gift Shop.
Ft)r mail orders, write Box 2*575,
Medical Center. The $o.05 price includes
postage and handling.
Library hotline
Users of Perkins Library and its
branches may find out hours of
operation by calling 684-3009 any
time, day or night.
A recorded message provides the
schedule, including special hours for
the upcoming holiday season.
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WLL SPEED AHEAD
.Ml IHt W.IY LUOOCHOO Charles IChmi CHih)) Justice, who gained national fame during
his football-playing career in the late 1*3408 at UNC, was at Duke recently for coronary by-pass
surgery. He said he was feeling fine after the surgery and was grateful to the physicians who took
care of him, cardiologist Dr. Robert Whalen and surgeon Dr. Newland Oldham. Here Justice
displays a get well card made especially for him by a fan in Chapel Hill. After the "Choo Choo" put
down the football, he picked up a golf club, and has participated in the Children's Classic celebrity
golf tournament. (P/ioM hu Parker Hcrriii^l
Four in medicine among eight faculty members promoted
Eight medical center faculty members
have been promoted. Dr. Frederic N.
Cleaveland, university provost, has
announced.
Four were promoted from assistant
professor to associate professor in the
Department of Medicine. They are Drs.
Vincent W. Dennis, George J. Ellis 111,
John T. Garbutt Jr. and Peter F. Pepe.
Also promoted from assistant
professor to associate professor were
Drs. Richard F. Kay and John D.
Shelburne, in the departments of
anatomy and pathology, respectively.
New assistant professors are Dr.
Carole S. (Tracy) Orleans, promoted
from associate in medical psychology, and
Sally Ann Schafer, promoted from
instructor in the School of Nursing.
Dennis, who earned his undergraduate
and medical degrees from Georgetown
University in 1962and 1966, respectively,
was an intern in medicine, 1966-67, and a
research fellow in nephrology, 1967-69,
both at Duke. He returned to Duke in
Intercom
is published weekly by the Office of Public
Relations, Duke University Medical
Center, Box 3354, Durham, N.C. 27710.
Joe Sigler
Director
John Becton
Editor
Primary contributors: William Erwin,
Comprehensive Cancer Center medical
writer; Ina Fried, staff writer; Parker
Herring, public relations assistant; Edith
Roberts, staff writer; David Williamson,
medical writer.
Circulation: Ann Alston
1972 as a medical resident and was
appointed to the faculty as an associate in
nephrology the following year.
Ellis fulfilled internship and residency
requirements at Duke, 1963-68. He was
appointed to the faculty as an associate in
endocrinology in 1970. Since 1971 he has
been medical director of the Carolinas'
Camp for Children with Diabetes. Ellis is
a 1959 graduate of Centre College of
Kentucky and earned his M.D. degree in
1963 from Harvard Medical School.
Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Conn., granted a bachelor's degree to
Garbutt in 1958, and he was awarded an
M.D. degree in 1962 by Temple
University School of Medicine. He came
to Duke as a resident in medicine in 1967
and was appointed to the faculty in 1971.
A 1966 Temple medical graduate, Pepe
was appointed to the Duke faculty in 1972
as an assistant professor in the Division
of Rheumatic and Genetic Diseases. He
earned his B.S. degree in 1962 from
Albright College, Reading, Pa.
Kay holds master's and Ph.D. degrees
in vertebrate paleontology from Yale
University, granted in 1971 and 1973,
respectively. He was a teaching assistant
at Yale before being appointed to the
Duke faculty in 1973 as an associate in
anatomy.
A 1966 graduate of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Shelburne
completed requirements for a Ph.D. in
1971 and an M.D. in 1972, both at Duke.
He was appointed assistant professor of
pathology here in 1973.
Orleans earned a Ph.D. in clinical
psychology at the University of Maryland
in 1977. During her graduate studies, she
served a one-year internship in medical
psychology at Duke, 1975-76. A 1970
graduate of Wellesley College, she was
appointed to the Duke faculty in 1977.
Schafer earned a bachelor's degree in
nursing in 1968 from Capital University
in Columbus, Ohio, and an M.S.N. in
1974 from the Frances Payne Bolton
School of Nursing at Case Western
Reserve University. She was appointed to
the School of Nursing faculty in 1975.
Retirees can study globetrotting
The Institute for Learning in
Retirement is taking applications now for
enrollment in a variety of courses next
semester.
Among the 17 classes offered
beginning Jan. 15 will be Conversational
French, Art History, Chemistry and
Societal Problems, TV Production,
Globetrotting, Dublin: The Early Abbey
Theater, Swimming and Current Events.
Begun in 1977 with a grant from the
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, the
institute now has 100 members who
attend credit-free courses, and share the
university libraries, dining halls, pools
and other facilities with Duke students.
The cost of the program is $104 per
year and entitles participants to take as
many institute classes as they wish, to
have the Duke audit privilege and to
obtain some student discounts.
There are no prerequisites for
enrollment in the Institute for Learning
in Retirement. Members come from
careers in education, business, industry,
homemaking, law and medicine. They
range in educational background from
Ph.D.s to those who ,did not complete
high school. All have in common a sense
of curiosity and the desire to share
knowledge and experience.
For information about the institute or
for an application for membership, call
Leah Lefstein at 684-6259 or write to the
Office of Continuing Education, 107
Bivins Building, East Campus, by Dec. 14.