Duke Hospital, InterGom
Page 5
From
The
Auxiliary
The Auxiliary is sorry to announce
that coffee will be ten cents a cup
wlien the volunteers re-open on
Sept. 5.
Mrs. Eagle and her Coffee Service
have tried hard to avoid the step, but
the latest of many increases in coffee
prices to us forces the Auxiliary to
adjust its own price to the customers.
p]veryone was wonderful about our
having to go up to seven cents, and
we hope that you will be as under
standing about this latest increase.
A plea to Auxiliary members from
Mrs. Ruffin: Don’t forget to save
clothing for our rummage sale in the
Fall.
And don’t forget the Auxiliary
when you plant your Fall bulbs. Mrs.
June Hackney and her committee are
planning to ask Auxiliary members
to donate cut flowers in the Spring
to sell (as so many volunteers have
offered in the past), so why not plant
a few extra bulbs and earmark the
blooms for the Auxiliary.
The Auxiliary will reopen Sept. 5
without one of its most faithful sum
mer workers: Eric Porter, who saved
us many a trip for supplies and ran
hundreds of needed errands. A sin
cere thanks from all of us to Eric
who will be returning to school in the
Fall.
Does anyone have any 1954 copies
of TnterCom? Mrs. Ruffin is trying
to collect several comjjlete sets for the
files and any old copies would be
apj)reciated.
See you in September!
This ’n’ That
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daughter on July 2. Lillie Mae will
be back with us again soon.—Drucilla
Horton.
Medical Record Library
New employees for some of our long
vacant jobs have been filled success
fully through industrious efforts on
the ])art of hospital Personnel Office.
We apj)reciate those efforts and wel
come our new people.
Carolyn Howard, Counter informa
tion; Gloria Faye Collins, Telephone
information; Joyce Llolton, Admission
unit; Carol Brogdan, Discharge unit;
Ethel Cash, Molly Ann Morris, Marie
Griles, Beverley Jolly, and Betty Cole,
Microfilm unit; Edna Bourgeois, Fil
ing supervisor; Loretta Lamb, Detec
tive on misplaced records. (People
shouldn’t be so careless in leaving rec
ords all over the hospital!! Don’t
they know there’s gold in them thar
volumes!!!); and Edna Thompson,
Filer.
Codifier, Dorothy Rhew is on vaca
tion. Dorothy is codifier in the nation
wide ])ilot study on International
Statistical Classification of Diseases.
Duke was chosen one of the 14 hos
pitals in U. S. to prove or disprove
I.S.C. as a guide to indexing diseases
and operations.
The hew Medical Terminology Class
starts September 18.
Ob and Gyn
New faces on the Ob-Gyn Service
belong to: Dr. Liam Haim, Dr. Harry
Johnson, Dr. Harry Whitaker, Dr.
Harold Cranford, Dr. Anthony
Cecutti, and Dr. Basil T. Harter who
was our visiting doctor from Boston
Lying-In Hospital for the month of
July.
Welcome back to the Ob-Gyn de
partment, Dr. Charles and Candy
Peete.
Dr. James H. Austin has returned
from a restfxd vacation. Mrs. Mary
Haddon, Dr. Hamblen’s secretary also
enjoyed a two-week vacation.
By-the-way, did you see Jay Bird
and Betsy at the Duke Picnic? They
really had fun.—Jo Thompson.
Dean’s Office
Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Davison are in
Copenhagen, Denmark attending the
International Congress of Pediatrics.
Miss Judy Vann left July 31 to go
to Mary Baldwin College, as secretary
to the dean there. It’s been a real
pleasure having Julj' and we hate to
see her leave.
Mrs. Mona Morgan spent two W'ceks
at Windy Hill Beach, S. C. w’ith her
family AND a week at the fabulous
Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.
Mona was a delegate to the Pilot In
ternational Convention held at Miami.
Miss Mattie Holloway has returned
to Durham from Memphis, Tenn., and
has again joined the hospital secre
tarial staff. She formerly worked in
X-ray Department, and is replacing
Judy Vann in the Dean’s Office.—
Helen Thomas.
Supt’s Corner
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We welcome Norman to the family
and know that we will enjoy working
with him. He has been a member of
the Bureau Staff' since 1949 and is
already familiar with many of our
jiroblems and is well-known to many
of the staff. He is a Duke alumnus
and holds a Duke Master’s Degree as
well.
Through the assistance of the Ford
Foundation, plans are nearing com-
])letion for the renovation and division
of Prevo.st into sej)arate wards for
Obstetrics and Gynecology. These
changes will go far toward meeting
a problem which has concerned us
greatly for a long time. We antici
pate that standards of patient care
and of teaching will be tremendously
improved in this area. Certainly no
more worthy purpose could be served
in using Ford Foundation funds “for
the imj)rovement of ])atient services
to the Community.”
WINS PRIZE
Pete Cebe, son of Mrs. Bess Cebe
in the Department of Medicine, won
third prize in the North Carolina
Division of an annual, national con
test for boys sponsored by the Fisher
Body Craftsmen’s Guild.
Pete had to design and execute a
model car starting with a 6 x G x 14
solid block of wood. Pete used poplar
and his model was comi>lete even to
headlights and tail lights fashioned
from old toothpaste tubes.
Congratulations, Pete!