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Duke Hospital, InterGom Page 5 The Trent Room The Trent Room in the Duke Medi cal School library houses one of the Nation’s outstandinji: medical history collections. The Trent Collection was assembled between 1938-48 by tiie late Dr. Josiah C. Trent and his wife, now’ Mrs. James Semans. Tn 1956, Mrs. Semans fiave a portion of the collection to the Duke Medical Cen ter Library, and tw’o years later, the remainin" materials were transferred to Duke. Accordinfj to Henry Schuman, an tiquarian bookseller of New York and consultant to the Trent Collection, the 4,000 books and 2,000 manuscripts form one of America’s richest medi cal history collections, containinp; es sentially all the classics that stand for ma.ior contributions to medicine. The collection now needs fjreater com- pi-ehensiveness, Schuman said, addin^i: that “Dr. Trent himself was the first to recoprnize that in the brief sjian of his eollectinr career it was not pos sible to do much more than leap from peak to peak.” Recently orp;anized are the A.ssoeia- ates of the Trent Collection in the History of Medicine, composed of Duke Medical School alumni, faculty members and friends of the TTniver- sity. Dr. George J. D’Anfjelo of Erie, Pennsylvania, former Duke sur geon and chairman of the Associates, says their primary task is to make ]K)ssible further develo])ment of the collection by “filliufj in the valleys between the ))eaks.” All persons in terested in the history of medicine are invited to join the Associates of the Trent Collection. lufornuition can be obtained from Miss Judith Parrar, Duke University Medical Center librarian. (I)ukc I’hoto by Sparks) J4ig,klig^ht^ o/ I960 (Continued from page 4) Two well-loved fif?ures said goodbye to the Medical Center on Augu.st 31. MISS MARION BATCIIELDER, supervisor of operating room services, and MISS MILDRED SHERWOOD, j)ediatrics sujiervisor, rounded out 30 years of service each to Duke Hospital. Effective September 1, DU. THOMAS I). KIXNKY became i)rofe.ssor of pathology and chairman of the department of i)atliology. He comes to Duke from Western Reserve Medical School, (’leveland, Ohio. Dr. Kinney succeeds Dr. Wiley I). Korbus, chairnuni of the dejjartment since the school’s opening. Dr. Forbus will remain on the patliology faculty until September 1, 19()3. Employee of the Month Selection of an Employee of the Month has been omitted from this issue. This feature -vvill be resumed in the April issue. First step in the development of a CHILDREX’S CENTHIH canu; when renovation and ex]>ansion of Howland Ward got inuler way. Early November saw GKOUNl) BROKEN for construction of the NEW ADDITION to Duke Medical Center. Due for completion in l!)(i2, the new building will house a Diagnostic and Treatment (’enter, a Geroutologj’ Cen ter, and a Clinical Researcli Center.
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