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Duke Hospital, InterCom Page 7 Summet J^ew^ JSote^,. . School Days At Duke Hospital Contary to the constant griping we hear, most children like school, and really miss it when they’re in the hospital. This summer Mrs. Carol J. Rosenborg (you’ve probably seen her in her blue smock) came to start a pilot, in-teaching program for us. ‘ ‘ School work is a link with home that reduces a child’s insecurity in the unfamiliar setting of a hospital,” says Mrs. Rosenberg. The program is being financed through a United Medical Research Foundation of North Carolina grant. So far it is a whopping success. Mrs. Rosenberg’s ])upils range from first graders to teenagers in high school. Those who are uj) and around are brought together each morning for classroom sessions, while children un able to leave their beds receive an hour of individual tutoring daily, provided doctors and i)arents give their okay. For Bigger and Better Babies A new infant formula laboratory where some 800 baby bottles are pre pared each day inuler sterile condi tions as exacting as those of an oi>erat- ing room oj)ened at Duke Hospital in June. The $45,000 facility, ])lanned by Dr. Angus McBryde, ])rofessor of pediatrics, rei)laces the old formula room and is four time as large. Mrs. A. II. IIam])ton, head nurse in the laboratory, said that the unit jirovides formula for infants in the j)remature and newborn nurseries and for those on medical and surgical wards. As many as 25 different kinds and strengths of formula are made up daily according to doctors’ s])ecifiea- tions. Study to Improve Artificial Noses, Ears Launched Duke’s Departnu'nt of Medical Art and Illustration, with financial sup- l>ort from the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, U. S. Department of Health, Education aiul Welfare, has launched a pilot study aimed at help ing persons disfigured by injury or disease by the production of better artificial noses and other parts of the face. ‘ ‘ The replacement of a missing part of the face with a life-like res toration often enables the patient to overcome the feeling that he could never face his friends again or re turn to his job,” Professor Elou H. Clark, head of the medical art de partment said. He said that com- ])aratively little work has been done in developing suitable materials and techniques for use in nuiking restora tions. This program hopes to de velop better restorations. Clinical Research Facility Receives $765,000 Grant The U. S. Public Health Service has awarded $765,000 to Duke Uni versity to provide half the cost of a new $1,530,000 clinical research facil ity at Duke Medical Center. Duke President Deryl Hart said, “We are greatly pleased to luive tliis grant to accpiire a clinical research facility. We have always been short of such sj)ace, with great overcrowding. As a result it has been necessary to im provise, frequently re(|uiring that a man’s activities be spread over a wide area and thus diminishing his eifec- tiveness. This new facility will (‘or- rect this situation bj^ supplementing the existing research facilities in the Medical School and Hell Medical Re search Building, sonu' of which are not accessible to j)atients. ” Plans call for the clinical research facility to occupy one of three parts of a new building to be erected some 250 feet northwest of the present emergency entrance to Duke Hosi)ital. Z)kU ZJkat New Arrivals Drs. Kichat'd and Joan Meiller, Psychiatry, a new baby. Dr. and Mrs. Pedro Trigaray, Psy chiatry, a new baby. Dr. and Mrs. Seymour Axelrod, Psychiatry, an adopted daughter. Mr. and Mrs. W. (i. Waller, Sur gical PDC, a son Mark AVeldon, July 28. Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Cherny, Sur gical PDC, a son Walter Bruce, Au gust 31. Esther Johnson, Physical Therapy, an ado])ted daughter, Beverly, in Au gust. Wedding Bells Dr. Snydam Osterhout, Associate in Medicine and Instructor in Micro biology, and Dr. Shirley Kirkman of the I)e))artment of Pediatrics were married September 17 in High Point. Peggy Felmet, Medical Records, left in September to be married. She will live in Middlesex. Josc])hine Whitley, Surgical PDC, was married Sej)tember 11 to Gorrell Jiles Askew. The Askews will live in Burlington. Betty McBroom, former secretary to Drs. Sa])p and Ross, received a diamond June 24 from Dick Hollo way, Duke medical student. New Faces and Old Surgical PDC Sue Walker of Hillsboro came in Jidy as Program’s Secretary. Linda Hawley, daughter of Mrs. Frances Hawley, R(>gistrar, is working in the SPD(’ Ijaboratory. Mrs. Joanne Williams is our new Couipensatiou and Ijiability Officer. Medical Records We are glad to have the following new employees in our filing depart nu'nt : Cathy Honeycutt, Mary Kuois, Carolyn Overaker, Edna Sorrell, and Lola Williamson. Aiu)ther newcomer is (Jretchen ilaiildiii who replaces Kay I’erry as department secretary. Kay has re turned to lu“r home in Spokane. Microbiology Monty Ridenhour lias replaced Mrs. R)iby Moore as Dr. Hilda Willett’s technician. Ruby has gone to Cer- many while her husbaiul, Duflie, a pediatric intern l!)5i)-(i0, is serving a three-year tour of duty with the Army. Mrs. Marilyn Loos is Dr. David Smith’s new technician. Hope Smith has taken Mrs. Hazel Hollander’s position as Dr. Conant’s secretary. Hazel had a tliird son in Juiu* and has moved away from Dur ham. Betty McBroom is Dr. Sami)son Gross’ new secretary. Psychiatry Our iu‘w secretaries: Anne Jordan, Peggy Jacokes, Mrs. Susan Peeler
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