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Duke Hospital, InterGom
Private Medical Laboratory
We are glad to welcome into the
laboratory a new technician trainee,
Mrs. Joyce JBrow'ning, who came on
Sept. 10.
Mrs. Martha Lambert has resigned
as a technician in the laboratory to
return to her home in Athens, Ga.—
Preston TF. Smith.
Medicine
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Engel have re
turned from a trip to South America.
J)r. Engel presented a number of lec
tures in various countries there and
they did quite a bit of sightseeing.
Their small daughter accompanied
them and all three members of the
family consider it a most enjoyable,
worthwhile trip.
J\Iiss Eleanor Addison is new secre
tary for Dr. llickam and Dr. Warren.
She replaced Mrs. Virginia Rives.
The Department of Medicine wel
comed on September 1, Dr. and Mrs.
James Wyngaarden. Dr. Wyngaar-
den is an Associate Professor of Medi
cine. They have moved here from
Washington, D. C.
Dr. John Eagan and Dr. John Lord,
former interns on the medical service,
have returned as assistant residents
following their tour of duty in the
armed services. Their old friends are
glad to see them again. Those people
who remember Dr. Jim Bacos will be
hapi)y to know, we are sure, that he
will be back with us as a research
fellow in November. Jim has been in
the Air Force.—Bess Cehe.
Physical Therapy
Vacation-time has found many of
the members of the Duke P.T staff
travelling in various directions.
Helen Kaiser spent her vacation at
Emerald Isle, N. C., and Cleveland,
Ohio; Jenell Smith journeyed South
to Jacksonville, Florida; Connie
Peake and husband, Bob, travelled
North to Cambridge, Mass., New York,
and Washington; Ellie Flanagan
visited friends and relatives in Wash
ington, New York, and New England;
Kae Litaker and Mrs. L. spent most of
their vacation at Wrightsville Beach;
Rosemary Lane is spending several
months in England and will return
to Duke in November; Grace Horton
vacationed in New Jersey; and Helen
Tilghman and her husband enjoyed
two weeks at Nags Head.
Betty Lou Kelly has accepted a
l>osition on the physical therapy staff
at the new Baptist Memorial Hospital
in Jacksonville, Fla. Betty Lou has
also announced her engagement to
Dr. Lee Sterling, formerly of Duke,
who is now serving his internship
with the Navy in Jacksonville. The
wedding date is Oct. 13. Jenell Smith
will be an attendant in the wedding.
Mildred Wood completed work for
lier M.A. in Anatomy in September
and attended the World Confedera
tion for Physical Therapists in New
York. Then in August, Captain
Wood went on a two-week tour of
duty at Fort Benning, Ga. with the
382d Station Hospital.
Helen Tilghman was a counselor at
a summer camp for crij>pled children
held in Washington, N. C. and spon
sored by the N. ('. State Health De
partment.
Grace Horton spent two weeks in
New' York earlier in the summer par
ticipating in a training course in
“Upper Extremity Prosthetics,”
sponsored by the New York Univer
sity Post-Graduate Medical School.
Rae Litaker j)articipated in a train
ing course in “Above-Knee Prosthet
ics for Physical Therapists,” spon
sored by the New York University
Post-Graduate Medical School.
Ellen Flanagan is now spending
most of her time in the physiology
lab and research building where she
is doing graduate work toward her
^l.A. in Physiology.
An old friend and alumna, Jane
Poisal, returned briefly during July
to visit Ellie Flanagan in Chapel Hill.
Staff members and students w'ho
attended the 2nd World Congress for
Physical Therapists in New York dur
ing June: Helen Kaiser, Mildred
Wood, Rosemary Lane, R. M. Litaker;
Holly Strong, Janice Smetana, Mar
jorie Melchiskey, Nannette Starling,
Unni Kjosnes, and George Wolf.
Several Durham high school girls,
who were interested in physical thera
py, assisted in the P.T. department
during the summer. They were
Betty Ellington, Mary Anne Crowder,
Gail Boothroyd, Faye Blanchard,
Sandra Pendergraft, Jeanette Mort-
land, Barbara Simmons, and Becky
Sigley.
The Physical Therapy Department
has just received a teaching grant of
$8/750.00 from the Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare.—
li. M. Litaker.
From
The
Auxiliary
From Sept. 17 to 20 there were big
doings in Chicago—the 58th conven
tion of the American Hospital Associ
ation and with it the Ninth Aiuiual
Conference of the AHA Auxiliaries.
The Duke Hosj)ital Women’s Auxili
ary was represented by Mrs. S. W.
Myatt, our finance committee chair
man. Also attending, but in her ca
pacity as a member of the National
("(mimittee, was Mrs. H. Shelton
Smith, our chairman of volunteers.
Present, too, was our most active “ex
officio” Auxiliary member—Mr. Ross
Porter!
For the Auxiliary conference the
theme was “Planning for the Fu
ture.” A combination of Round-
Table Sessions (one conducted by
Mrs. Smith) and more formal “talks”
(e. g., Mr. Porter on Building Auxili-
ary-Hospital Relations) covered such
general topics as The Changing Hos
pital World, the Project Parade of
Services, and The Forward Look for
Auxiliaries. In closing the meeting
the Reverend Granger Westberg, Di
rector of Chaplaincy Services, Univer
sity of Chicago, spoke of “The Love
that Surpasseth.” He brought the
volunteer close to the patient and to
the full realization that in service
comes true satisfaction. A gratify
ing change of status occurred when