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Duke Hospital, InterCom Page 3 ZJkU TJkat Biochemistry Members of the Biochemistry De partment had a delif^htful time at tlieir annual picnic, lield in Umstead Park May C. Except for a few bruised knuckles [the result of playing volley ball with a soccer ball] and an un scheduled tour of Umstead Park be cause of a wrong turn on the map, all went as planned. The delicious food was prepared by Drs. Rosett and Kamin. Franz Duell is recuperating from an appendectomy. Beverly Konicek has just returned from a trip to Chicago and Sumner, Iowa. Jack and Gurda Klingman, Irwin and Mollie Fridovich, and Ted and Peggy Rosett enjoyed a week end at IMyrtle Beach, S. C. recently. We are happy to have our janitor, Wesley Jackson, back at work after a lengthy stay in the hospital. —Claire Ping Pathology Jeanette Beach left the Tumor Clinic on ]\Iay 24. 8he aiul husband Bob are moving to the University of Florida medical school. Mrs. (krley Looney has become the senior secre tary in the clinic. Miss Janie Harrison resigned on June 1, to become a bride in Jack sonville, Fla.—Jean Blackstone Pediatrics Dr. and Mrs. Vann Parker have a new son, Jerome Walton. We are glad to have Dr. ]\Iadison Spach back from ('harity llos])ital, New Orleans. Dr. Rip Yount has left to spend two months at Charity and then set up practice in Florida. Dr. Frank Anderson will also bo leaving us in June. He will be on the staff at the University of Georgia in Augusta. Drs. Robert Chambers and Gerard ^larden are in ])ractice together in Gastonia. Rufus Bynum leaves us in June for a Pediatrics residency at the Uni versity of Rochester Hospital. Buck Ruffin leaves in June for North Carolina Memorial Ifospital in Chapel Hill for a residency in l)sychiatry. Council Dudley, Don Silver, Joe James, and Harold Crowder leave for a tour of duty with the armed forces. We welcome to tlie Pediatric family Andy Horne and Charlie Dorsey. —Mrs. Charles Neal Surgery Carolyn ilcCall will leave the surgical PDC lab on July 1st to go to Jacksonville, Fla., with husband Ben. Doctor Robert Trumbo and Robert Gowdy each have a new son born in April. Dr. Trumbo and Dr. Gowdy are on the Surgical Resident staff'. —Pat Waller Physical Therapy Congratulations are in order for Jim and Martha Brewer. Llartha is now the mother of a fine baby boy, Gordon Freeman Brewer. Jenell Smith has recently visited friends at the Woodrow Wilson Re habilitation Center in Fisherville, Va, Rosemary Lane, our English thera pist and instructor, has been asked to remain on the Duke staff' for another year. This she i)lans to do, provided it is possible to have her visa ex tended. , Recent visitors to our de]>artment were Mrs. Vidler from St. Thomas’s Hosj)ital, London, and Miss Stewart from Kings College Hospital, London. Both are touring the United States and making a survey of the physical therapy schools in this country. Quite a number of our staff' mem bers are planning to attend the World Confederation for Physical Therapy, 2nd Congress, in New York in June. Rosemary Lane will spend three mouths this sunnner with the home folks in Surrey, England. —B. M. Litakcr Department of Medicine Mrs. Estelle Steele, secretary in Neurology Division, transferred to a position in the School of Nursing on June 1. JoAnn Garrett, secretary to Dr. Ruffin, left us on May 81. Sarah Elizabeth Moore takes over lier job. Margaret Riddle, secretary to Dr. Kunkle, enjoyed a few days’ holiday in Washington, 1). C., early in May. Dr. and Mrs. Jlenefee and their family have returned from a lengthy trip, during which they drove to California and back. They had a taste of almost every kiiul of weather, in cluding snowstorms, dust storms and near-tornadoes. Dr. and Mrs. Jim Warren drove to Pittsburgh the last weekend in ilay to visit Dr. and i\Irs. Jack Myers. The Dermatology house staff' sur- Iirised Dr. J. Lamar Callaway with a birthday party in his honor on A])ri] 4. This was a very happy and pleas ant occasion. Attending the aff'air at the Castle restaurant, along with Dr. and Mrs. Callaway, were: Dr. and Mrs. Sid Olansky, Dr. and Mrs. Barney Wansker, Dr. and Mrs. Gra ham Smith, Dr. and Mrs. Allen Smith, Dr. and Mrs. Bronson Alex- aiuler, Dr. Gene Evans, Mrs. Bertha Kent, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Far- quliar.—Bess Cehe Social Service On April 2.'5, Miss Audrey Wall of Raleigh, joined the social Service De- partnu*nt as a substit\ite worker for Mrs. j\lary Hennessee Brown who is on a leave of abseiu^e. Miss Wail re ceived lier Master’s degree in Social Work from Howard University and has worked in the University of Michigan Hos])ita] and in St. Louis Ilosi)ital. On May !), Alary gave birth to a 4 lb. () oz. baby girl, Paula Brown. Mary plans to return to the de])art- ment Sept. 1. Doljjh Hess was elec'ted vice presi dent of Durham’s recently formed Temporary Counnittee on Mental Health. Madge Aycock was awarded a traineeship grant from the National Heart Institute for a six-nu)nth p(>r- iod. The first social worker ever to be awarded such a grant, Miss Aycock will spend this time to study at Duke Hosi)ital diagnostic and treatment methods of cardiovascular diseases, and in the State and County Welfare Departments the problems that such patients present to the Welfare Workers. Purj)ose of the study is to ])repare Jliss Aycock to direct a ]iro- ])osed program of institutes with wel fare workers on the medical-social problems of clients with cardiovas cular diseases.
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