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t8-THE CAROLINA TIMES SAT., APRIL 14, 1979 Fifth Annual Institute For Advanced Research Applications are now being accepted for the fifth annual Archie ves Institute for Advanced Researchers scheduled for May 14-18. "The Use or Records" is he theme for the week long institute. Sessions will be held in the Archives and History State Library Building in Raleigh. The Institute will consist of lectures, work shops and projects involving the use of the records in the state archieves and the land grant office of the Secretary of State. Sessions will be devoted to methodology, cartograp hic records, land records, marriage records, tax records, census records and court records. In addi tion a session will be devoted to "personal ac tions" such as naturalization, divorce, name change and private petitions in state and county records. Staff for the institute will include members of the professional staff of Arch ives and History, a division of the Department of Cul tural Resources. Some ses sions will be conducted by specialists who are not connected with the Arch ives. Time will be available each day for individual re search as well as for work shop periods. Certificates will be awarded to partici pants at the Friday luncheon, which will con clude the week's activities. Institute admission is open to he general public but previous experience in the use of archival resource materials is essential, according to Dr. Thornton Mitchell, state archivist. "The previous institutes have been extremely well received," Dr. Mitchell said, "with participants from all over the United States." Further information and application forms are avail able from: Archives Insti tute for Advanced Research ers, Archieves and Re cords Section, 109 E. Jones St., Raleigh, 27611. 'l ' ' ' ' -- ' ' f y';,' f , fn 1 x v - ? ' 1 jmbui parents DAY VISITORS WELCOMBED Left to riaht: Mrs. Queenie Harris grandmother,-Mr$. Pearl Frizzed, mother, and Miss Sheila Frizzed, daughter and student at Saint Augustine's College from Greenville, North Carolina. Sheila's parents and grand mother were amoung the visitors for the Parents' Day observance April 1. Dr. Wiley M. Davis, vice president for administration welcomes the guests. Central Carolina Dank Holds Shareholders Meeting The Central Carolina Bank held its annual share holders meeting at 2 p.m. today at their headquarters in Durham. CCB Chairman George Watts Hill pre sided over the meeting. CCB Executive Vice- president Edward W. Back, Jr. discussed the bank's 1978 earnings. Earnings before securities transactions were $5,057,877 for the year, compared to $3,992,621 in 1977, a 26,68 increase. Net income was $4,818,549 in 1978, an increase of 20.5 over the 1977 figure of $3,998,682. The earnings expressed on a per share basis were $4.87 per share after securities transactions, both of1 ' which - were compared ? to $3.85 for , 1977. Cash dividendds paid in 1978 increased by 31.2 for $1.22 per share com pared to $.93 pej .share over the previous year. Back said "CCB erned 1.14 on average 1978 - assets after accounting for securities losses, and the bank's ratio of earnings to average assets has exceeded the oal of 1 for seven of the last eight years." Back also reported that CCB's assets on December 31, 1978 reached a record $460,082,211, up 10.1 over year end 1977. Deposits also set a new re cord for year end figures, reaching $397,916,066. Back attributed the banks performance to excellent growth and economic activity in CCB's service area, as well as strong in ternal cost control. CCB President William L. Burns, Jr. discussed the bank's offer to acquire the United Citizens Bank of Winston Salem, North Carolina, for $6,220,000. Burns said that the offer was a cash offer which' would not dilute CCB's earnings or the value of CCB "stock. The offer represents a payment of $20 per share of United Citizens Bank stock. 'H ' who" is in . hurry misses : his wcHlunities. , Albanian Proverb JOHN ROSS-DUGGAN, QUADRAPLEGIC MEDICAL STUDENT RETURNS TO DUKE UNIVERSITY TO GET DEGREE BY PARKER HERRING Medical student John Ross-Dug-gan had everything going for him. Bright, handsome, from an affuent family, he was a third year medical student at Duke Univer sity and had planned to be come an orthopedicWgeon. He was an avid tennis player. He was national champion in the hobie-cat 16' sailing class. He was looking forward to competing in the world sailing championship in Mexico in September 1978. The native Californian surfed, skied and played on the Duke volleyball team. He stayed in shape and could bench press 250 pounds. He also liked fine cars that traveled fast. On a warm sumer night in June, 1978 after completing the national board examinations, Ross-Duggan and a woman friend were driving to Chapel intersection of Interstate 85. The car was cut in half, the back half spinning off into oncoming traffic. The front part remained tucked under the bridge. A Duke surgeon, on his way to Duke Hospital, stopped at the scene of the accident to render assistance. Ross Duggan appeared dead, his head pin ned under the jagged roof of the car. Injuries sustained in the accident left him with all but a few of the muscles in his arms and shoulders paralyzed. The woman who was with him in the accident escaped with less severe injuries. "I remember waking up on the third or fourth day after the accident and looking up at the ceiling," Ross-Duggan said. "1 heard the hum ming of the respirators and people walking around and thought to my self, The hell with this. I'm going to go back to sleep. This is a really bad dream."' When he woke again later he was still in the same place-the neurologic intensive care unit at Duke Medical Center. His neck was immobilized by a halo, a steel ring brace around his head held in place by steel screws se cured in his skull. "I remember wondering what my arm was doing because the halo kept me from looking down," Ross-Duggan said. "I was so weak I couldn't even scratch my nose. 1 had to ask the nurse to do it for me." He stayed on the unit for 10 days. "I was still in the NICU when i first realized I couldn't move. I think it was about seven to 10 days after the accident happened," he said. "There was severe pain . The halo device con stricted my breathing because it was bound to my chest. Everything is fuzzy now." lJurnam Kenaouitauon unit wnere ne stayed from late July until December. Last January he returned to the medi cal center to complete the clinical rotations required to get his medical degree. "The nursing, physical and occupa tional therapy staffs gave me excellent care," Ross-Duggan said. "They've all got to be saints. You have no con ception of how frustrating it is to work with someone in my position. Full rehabilitation is achieved ususally in patients that are tremen dously motivated and only after work ing hard for about 12 months." Ross-Duggan said he set a goal for himself to rehabilitate in six months and managed to work up to his potential in about five and a half. "By far the therapy and he dedi cation to rehabilitate represent the hardest work I've ever had to do," he said. "A major part of my motiva- tin to rehabilitate was to return to medical school and continue my career." His first clinical rotation after the accident was in outpatient psychiatry. Since then he has done clinical rotations in neuroradiology, neurosur gery and neurology. "None of the patients I've come into contact with have even hinted that they are uncomforrtable oecause I was in a wheelchair," he said. "They look right past the wheelchair and accept my help and counsel." Ross-Duggan said a lot of things have to come together for a spinal cord injury patient to be rehabilitated to fullest potential. "You have to have a lot of support from your family and friends," he said. "And having faith helps. 1 "became a Christian on the NSU (neurosurgical unit); It helps to have a future, a goal to strive for. That goal for me was coining back-ite-finish med ical school." If V He is able to wfite rrtore clearly than before with the aid of a splint that fits over his wrist and hand. He drives his own van specially equipped with hand controls and a motorized wheelchair lift. . An apartment on Duke's west cam pus was adapted for his use. The bath and kitchen were remodeled to ac comodate wheelchair passage, the light switches and thermostate were lowered, and a special number-coded lock was installed on the front door. An electric bed allows him to sit up so he can get out of bed into a wheel chair unassisted. ."With the scant muscles I have left I can completely dress myself, blow dry my hair and catherize myself," he said. "I'm now rehabilitated to the point that I can support my own body weight to get through an eight to 10 hour day in a wheelchair." LI II D DBMS m LAKEWOOD SHOPPING CENTER LADIES Largo Selection of BLOUSES 5 S; TENNIS Dresses & Shorts 3"-7 99 NEW SPRING MERCHANDISE ARRIVING DAILY! Shop Our BARGAIN TABLE Many, Many GREAT BUYS! FuS! Stuffed Easter Bunny! Drawing will be held Sat., Apr. 14 at 4 P.M. Monday thru Saturday 10 to 6 P.M. LAKEWOOD SHOPPING CENTER Between Winn-Dixie and Kroger He has learned how to resume one of his favorite sports, weight lifting. He can now curl about 70 pounds. Dr. Frank Clippinger, director of the rehabiliation unit, was one of several Duke doctors who worked with Ross-Duggan after the incident. "Experience will help him develop even more," Clippinger said. "Time and mileage are going to continue to make him better." He said the outlook for spinal cord injury patients has improved in recent years. 'Twenty-five years' ago a person who broke his neck could expect to live about three or four years," he said. "And a .paraplegic could expect to live for eight to 10 years. Now long evit is about normal for both. Clippinger said Duke's rehabilita tion program pushes for early progress and also stresses a positive attitude for patients. "We don't like to give patients a lot of time to lay there and get depress ed," he said. Ironically, the woman who was in the accident with Ross-Duggan was al ready interested in developing adap tive devices for paralyzed patients. A biomedical engineer, she hopes to get a medical degree so she can actively participate in rehabilitative care. "The field of rehabilitative medi cine is in dire need of motivated indi viduals who also have an interest in doing research," Ross-Duggan said. "Every year 10,000 people in this country become paralyzed. The nation is slowly adapting to the need sof the handicapped, but is far from accept ing it." Ross-Duggan plans to train in re habilitative medicine and hopes to eventually run his own unit and carry our research to repair spinal cord injur ies. "None of the patients I've worked with have asked me to explain my handicap," he said. "But I'm not afraid to talk about it. I prefer to think of it as an inconvenience." CAROLINA FRIENDS SCHOOL Ages 3-19 Is now accepting application at all levels for the 1979-80 school year. CFS provides a skill-based program for students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. Limited Tuition assistance is available. For further information, please call 383-6602 or 929-1800 between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. weekdays. ft ' v ' k :immffim T" wwrmnrrfTT" - 5.M Wortwn'i Competition - in. t Huwwr.w.w.w.w.w -.v." v :v.:-. . . . j .... ,j ... Sjjj v v i Athletic I M l Uttto, Sam Brttki. Anthony Griffin 1 Mn'i V Id-fNohr i L t Competition i Gorham, 3rd; Robert Montgomery, 1st; Geora 2nd. 9, . . ; v i $ 1 1 p& '1''. 'i.'-'n Studant Competition (l-r) Jimmy Grww, 3rd; Michael Hill, 1t; Alwin Cooper, 2nd t. ' y imin i. N ? i Fraternity m (-') Anthony McNeil. Rico Chavit and Allen Klrckman THE SICKLE CELL BENEFIT JOG-A-THON held Saturday, March 31 at O'Kelly Field on the campus of North Carolina Central University raised $1,000. It was sponsored by the residents of Annie Day Shepard Dormitory and coordinated by Mrs. Mildred Trent and Ms Loretta McNeal. Photos by William Covington A - V v v V V V V V V V V V V V V V V Announcement The Yahama Social Club Disco Party Has Boon Changed From Sunday, April 15th To FRIDAY, APRIL 13th at R. D's LOUNGE All Tickets Will Be Honored V V V V V V o V V V V V V 0 V
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