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DUKE HOSPITAL’S new wing, now under construction, will look like this upon comple
tion. The architect’s conception of the handsome addition to the hospital shows the back
of Baker House at the right. The entrance will be the ambulance drive. Progress to
date indicates that the wing will be opened about March, 1957, according to assistant
superintendent L. E. Swanson.
Public Relations Meet
The Duke Medical School will be
liost to the 1956 Aiiiiual Public Re
lations Conference sponsored by the
^Medical Society of North Carolina.
The meetinf? wi! be held Feb. 23 in
Page Auditorium.
Anniversary Y earbook
To Be Published
The Senior Class of the Jledical
School is compiling a yearbook com
memorating the 25th anniversary of
the School and Duke Hospital.
All persons desiring copies ai’e
asked to contact the editor, Norm
Sliealy, Box 2844, by March 15, so
names may be placed on their copies.
Copies of tlie yearbook, which will
feature photographs and historical in
formation about Duke, will be limited,
so everyone interested is urged to
place his order early.
It’s a sad day for the anatomy
department.
Albert the Alligator is dead,
and, alas, lie died of a broken
heart.
A healthy diet of cockroaches
and rats and loving care in an
aquarium in Mae King’s lab
wasn’t enough to help him over
come tlie loss of his mate, Al
berta, a few months ago.
Albert and Alberta were sent
to Dr. Tahnage Peele by Mrs.
Dave Reynolds’ father after
traveling by air from Florida,
had become acclimated to life
at Duke Hospital—in fact, had
thrived on it until Alberta’s de
mise that is (from a sudden
change of temperature, Ave
understand).
Anyway, Albert pined away—
and if someone wants to make
the anatomy dc])artment happy,
send ’em a new pet.
Mrs. Hobgood
Duke Hospital is losing one of its
favorite people.
Mrs, Burke Hobgood, director of
the outpatient clinic, resigned on Feb.
1, after 25 years of loyal and devoted
service. Her kind and understanding
attention for thousands of patients
with financial problems has made for
her a place of respect and affection at
the hospital and in the community,
and to many, her name has become
synonymous with the best that is
Duke.
“I’m just going to be a lady of
leisure,” Mrs. Hobgood said upon
retiring. “I love to cook and sew and
play bridge and visit my friends.
1 ’m looking forward to working in
my yard with a great deal of pleas
ure, too.”
In addition to keeping house and
growing roses at her home on Ed
wards Street, Mrs. Hobgood is plan
ning several leisurely trips to visit
relatives and friends in North Caro
lina and other states. Her immediate
plans include a trip with son Alton,
Retires Feb. 1
a professor of English at Georgia
Teeli, during his Spring vacation.
Enroute to Atlanta, JMrs. Hobgood
will stop in Western North (Carolina
and later perhaps will visit friends in
Indiana. Her other sons, lJurke III
and his family, and Langhorne make
their home in Durham.
It wasn’t easy for either ]\Irs. Hob
good or Duke employees to say good
bye.
“1 left with mixed feelings,” she
explained. ‘ ‘ 1 will cherish and love
the memories of these 25 wonderful
years at Duke. It’s been a most re
warding experience for me.
“And people have been so lovely
to me. 1 ’ve .just appreciated all the
things that were said and done for
me by the patients, the welfare
workers, the doctors and employees,
just everyone.”
Duke’s affection for Mrs. Hobgood
is shared by literally thousands of
people who’ve known her as associates
and as patients.