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Duke University Medical Center, InterCom
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ACCOLADE
to the Janitor Service, Housekeeping Department
Photo by R. McKee
lIousekeei)ing at Duke Medical (’enter is a gigantic job. Its resi>onsi-
bilities range from caring for vast floor areas to the care of clinics and
patients’ rooms. The Housekeeping Department services cover the Hos
pital, Baker House, Bell Building, Diagnostic and Treatment Center,
Clinical Research Unit and portions of the Medical School. Of the 135
employees in this department, 61 are janitors, each working an 8-hour day,
and a 44-hour week. A large percentage of the janitors are scheduled for
the hospital when a seven-day, 24-hour coverage is needed.
Raleigh Price, a member of the janitor group is shown at work in the
()ut])atient Department.
The men’s duties include floor maintenance, window and wall washing,
handling soiled linen, delivery of clean linens, removal of rubbish, moving
furniture and transporting equipment. The magnitude of the job can best
be illustrated by these figures. In the Medical Center there are about nine
miles of hallway, over 1000 office spaces and patient rooms, and approxi
mately 1300 windows to wash. The trash pickup is about 5 tons each day.
To this group of loyal, hard-working people who “keep the House
clean,” we say thanks for doing a hard job so well.
( Laboratories cont. from page 5)
In this lab, as well as in the others
recently renovated, physical comfort
was also considered to be an im
portant factor in efficiency of opera
tion.
Hard laboratory chairs have been
replaced by chairs which have been
cushioned for comfort and made mo
bile with casters.
In addition to the comfortable
chairs, air conditioning units have
been added to counteract the uncom
fortably warm months of sj)ring and
the hot days of summer.
All these improvements in efficien-
c.y, convenience and comfort have
come about over a ])eriod of several
years, but they have been worth wait
ing for.
WEDDING BELLS
Rose Thornton, secretary of the de
partment of dietetics, and Charles
Driscoll, graduate student in chemis
try, were married December 7 in the
Blessed Sacrament Church in Bur
lington.
(/ongratulations to Nita Tew who
has resigned and gone to Florida
where she plans to be married.
Weatherwise she certainly picked a
lovely time to go.
NEW FACES AND OLD
Dietetics
Mrs. Patricia Jennings has re
turned to the staff of dietitians.
New members in the office include
Mrs. Thressa Ai-thurs and Mrs. Lu
cille Darroch.
Medicine
Joan Boyer has transferred from
surgery to work as Dr. Ruffin’s tech
nician. C'arolyn Joyce Brown also
transferred from surgery to lie a
secretarial intern in MOPC.
Lise Marie Knox is working as a
clerk-typist for Dr. McIntosh.
I31izabeth M. Kroe is Dr. Rundles’
new technician.
Microbiology
Carol O’Neal is a new technician
in the bacteriology lab.
Occupational Therapy
We welcome two new staff mem
bers. They are Miss Dorothy ililner
from Sands Point, Long Island, who
is a recent graduate of Columbia Uni
versity and Mrs. Carol Fryer from
Lawrence, Massachusetts, who is a
recent graduate of the University of
New Hampshire.
Outpatient Department
Miss Joanne Emory has recently
joined the staff as a clinic reception
ist, replacing Mrs. Christie Powell,
who transferred to the office of Dr.
Amos.
^Irs. Dottie Pike is rejilacing ]\lrs.
Kdna Tliomas who is on maternity
leave. Dottie was previously em-
CContiiiued on page 7)