Duke Hospital, InterCom
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Spriiifj Holidays!!!... and away
we go! Marfjaret Mitchell plans to
tour the West Coast. Margaret Ann
Jackson will visit Kentucky. Mr. and
Mrs. Max Weaver will visit relatives
and friends in Indiana. Emily Camp
bell will combine business with pleas
ure, attending a National Defense
meeting in Houston after a brief visit
with her parents in Atlantic City.
Ijorene Bates plans to spend some
time in Miami with former classmates
and then a few days on the West
Coast to make the trip complete.
Nancy McKelvey will spend the holi
days getting caught-up on “thank-
you” notes and putting away some of
the wedding gifts. Said they had a
wonderful trip to Bermuda. Faith
Campbell and Helen Boyles say fare
well to Duke and “Hello, Mexico!”
Edith Moore Nichols now has a full
time job with her new' son, Paul III!
Mary Davidson is also leaving to
assume a full-time position as mother I
Always nice to welcome new people
to Duke ... Mrs. Keba Critclier is not
a newcomer to Durham, but she is to
Duke. Paula Le Koi is our new grad
uate in the O.R. who hails from Chi
cago. Another Plyler? Yes, we now
have a Kuby Plyler from Washington,
1). C. who will be staffing on Mc-
Dow’ell.
Congratulations! A multi-disci-
plinary research grant to Dr. Doven-
nniehle. Dr. Parsons, and Miss Faye
Spring was approved by the Nat’l
Institute of ]\Iental Health. Objec
tive of this research pi-oject is to for
mulate criteria for effective psychia
tric nursing therapy.
;\liss Lelia Clark recently returned
from a Nursing Service Institute
sponsored by AHA to discuss staffing
problems.
This sounds like a lot of traveling
... but wait until the next issue! Chi
cago, Rome .. .you name it, and we’ll
jjo!! —By Jjorene Bates
Pediatrics
The Pediatrics Department has one
more potential patient; Dr. Spach has
a daughter, born Feb. 20.
Two of our resident staff are sei'v-
ing on affiliated services at the pres
ent time: Dr. Virginia Sanford is at
Charity Hospital in New Oryeans
and Dr. Pete McKay is at Watts in
Durham.
Dr. Ben Ardrey and Dr. Dave
Jones w'ent to Williamsburg in March
to attend the Virginia Pediatrics
]\Ieeting. —By Lottie Mae Oldham
Surgery
Miss Patricia Brinkley, dental as
sistant to Dr. Baxter Sapp, was mar
ried Saturday, March 23, to Bernard
Harris, who is in the Dental School at
the University of North Carolina.
—By Pat Waller
Anatomy
Dr. Geoffrey W. Harris, Fitzniary
Professor of Physiology, Institute of
Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, Lon
don, was a recent visitor in the De
partment of Anatomy and special
guest of Dr. John W. Everett.
Dr. J. E. Markee attended the
“First Motion Picture Workshop” of
The Calvin (’ompany held in Kansas
City, on the (ith of February. He was
pleased to see that two of his former
]\Iedical Artists, Robert Beach, from
the University of Florida, and George
Lynch, from the Bowman Gray
School of Medicine were also in at
tendance.
On ilarch 14-16, Dr. Everett at
tended the international Symposium
on the Reticular Formation of the
Brain, held under the auspices of the
Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
Also in attendance were Dr. Fred
Becker and Ed ICing.
Dr. Eduard Gitch, Assistant in the
II Frauenklinik (the W’^ertheim clin
ic) of the University of Vienna, ar
rived Feb. n, to do research in collab
oration with Dr. Everett for several
months. He will be in this country
for one year luider the auspices of
Lederle Laboratories.
Following the death of Pedrita, Dr.
Hetherington was given another para
keet, which he promptly named Sir
Toby Belch (due to regurgitation of
seeds).
From
The
Auxiliary
By Evelyn Stead
Let us introduce our new Executive
Secretary, Mrs. Howard C. Craven
(Nancy), who started w'ork February
18. We are delighted to have her w'ith
us. She has been visiting the various
services and learning the office rou
tine, so she is already beginning to
know what makes the Auxiliary tick.
If you haven’t met her, do stop by
the office and say “hello.”
How many of you know what our
Guide Service really does? We asked
Mrs. Ronald Stephen, Chairman of
the Service, to tell us what kinds of
jobs they do. Here is w'hat she says.
“Although guides are i)rimarily in
the hospital to direct patients from
the O.P.C. Department to their
clinics, we have found there are many
otlier ways in which we can be helpful.
Our pink smocks, a smile, and a
friendly word here and there can do
much to create a more pleasant at
mosphere.
“Many of the patients have never
been in a hosj)ital before; many have
never been in as large a building. The
])atients aiid their relatives are tense,
iip])reliensive, and often find direc
tions confusing. Sometimes a few
words of friendly conversation helps
to reassure them as we walk along to
tlieir clinics.
“Frequently we off'er to help keep
an eye out for a relative or friend who
is in another part of the hospital, or
is ])arking the car. If we can bring
these ])eople together, they have one
less thing to worry about. There are
so many little things that can be done
—bringing lunch to a patient—find
ing lost articles—handing someone a
magazine. One guide brings her own
magazines with her for the O.P.C’.
waiting room and the medical clinic.
If W'e have time from our routine
guiding, we may phone and check a