VOL. 5, NO. 1
OCTOBER, 1958
DURHAM, N. C.
Charles H. Frenzel
Appointed
Superintendent
The appointment of Charles II.
Frenzel as Superintendent of Duke
Hospital was announced in July by
President Hollis Edens. Mr. Frenzel,
who had been assistant superinten
dent of the Hospital since April,
1956, assumed his new duties upon
announcement of his appointment.
The appointment of Mr. Frenzel
was made upon the recommendation
of Dr. W. C. Davison, dean of the
Medical School, and the Medical Cen
ter’s Committee on Health Affairs.
Dean Davison describes Mr. Frenzel
as “one of the most able men we
could have found to direct the opera
tion of the hospital. We are fortu
nate to have had a man of his compe
tence and experience already on the
staff. He is a graduate of our train
ing program for hospital adminis
trators and is thoroughly familiar
with the operation of the hospital and
Medical Center. We are delighted
that he has agreed to accept this ma
jor position of responsibility.”
Before coming to Duke in 1956, Mr.
Frenzel had served as director of the
North Carolina Hospital Study Com
mittee of the Commission on Financ
ing Hospital Care. In this capacity,
he directed the work of national field
personnel in a pilot project conducted
as part of a study of financing hos
pital care in the United States. He
later became director of a similar
study sponsored by the South Caro
lina Hospital and Medical Associa
tions. Previous hospital administra-
Charles H. Frenzel
tive posts which preceded his 1956
appointment at Duke were at City
Memorial Hospital in Winston-Salem,
where he was assistant director for a
year, and at Bedford County Memo
rial Hospital, Bedford, Virginia,
where he spent two and a half years
as administrator.
Currently an associate professor of
hospital administration at Duke in
addition to his administrative duties,
he is a member of professional groups
that include the American Hospital
Association and American Public
Health Association.
A native of Jamaica, Long Island,
New York, Mr. Frenzel received the
A.B. degree and completed a year of
graduate work at Duke University be
fore entering Duke Hospital’s admin
istrative training program in 1949.
He served four and a half years in
the U.S. Army Signal Corps during
World War II and held the rank of
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New Appointments
Broaden Pediatric
Care
Dr. Galen W. Quinn, appointed
associate professor of orthodontics in
July, is the first orthodontist to serve
on the Duke Staff. Dr. Quinn came
here from the University of Tennessee
College of Dentistry in Memphis
where he was head of the Department
of Pedodontics (children’s dentist
ry)-
Dr. Quinn’s activities at Duke, in
addition to teaching and orthodontics
practice, will include work in con
junction with Duke plastic surgeons
on cleft palate cases and in conjunc
tion with the Surgery Department’s
Division of Medical Speech Pathology
on mouth conditions that cause defec
tive speech. He will also conduct
research in orthodontics.
Born in Tama, South Dakota, Dr.
Quinn holds the D.D.S. degree from
the Creighton University School of
Dentistry and the M.S. degree in
orthodontics from the University of
Tennessee College of Dentistry. He
served on the Tennessee faculty from
1955 until coming to Duke.
The appointment, effective Septem
ber 1, of Dr. Robert S. Stempfel, Jr.
as assistant profes.sor of pediatrics
in charge of pediatric endocrinology
marks a further broadening of pediat
ric care in the Duke Medical Center.
Born in Indianapolis, Dr. Stempfel
took liis premedical education at Wa
bash College, Crawfordsville, Indi
ana; Vanderbilt University, Nash
ville, Tennessee; and the Universite
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