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Inlercom Inlroduclion This “introduction” to Inter com is not only for those who are reading the publication for the first time, but also for those readers who are familiar with Intercom. Starting with tliis issue, Inter com will be published monthly. There will be eleven issues pub lished each year, with the Inter com for the months of July and Auf^ust being a combined issue to allow vacation time for the staif. In the past, Intercom was published five times annually. This issue also marks the be ginning of anotlier major change; for Intercom will now be a Medical Center newsletter, rather than the Hospital organ it has been since its first printing in February, 1954. How News Is Collected Information forms requesting information are sent each month to 55 divisional and depart mental “reporters”; these peo- I>le, in turn, collect the news and return the completed forms to the Intercom editor. An editing body composed of eight people makes the final selection of news items and as sumes responsibility for other duties preparatory to the actual printing of Intercom. Serving on this committee are: Virginia Swain, editor of Intercom and Public Relations Assistant; Mr. Elon Clark, Director of the Division of Medical Art and Illustration; Mr. Wes Lefler, Medical Center Information Of ficer; Mrs. Ruth Dailey, PDC Registrar; Mr. Neil Bucklew, Director of Personnel; Nina Waite, Hospital Business Office; Mrs. Barbara Elwell, Inservice Nursing Education; and Mrs. Landon Ruffin, representative for the Women’s Auxiliary. Distribution Approximately 3500 Inter coms will be distributed each month to Duke Medical (Jenter staff, faculty, students, employ ees and friends. At the present time, major distribution points within the Medical Center are: HOSPITAL first floor cafeteria, third floor cafeteria and post of fice ; DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT BUILDING on ground floor at tunnel; and BELL BUILDING just inside front entrance. INTERCOM - 2 Bucklew Bucklew and McClees Chosen to Fill Top Personnel Positions Neil S. Bucklew, newly ap pointed personnel director, was moved to the Medical Center’s top personnel po.st from his posi tion as assistant director. lie re- I)laces George B. Kantner who moved to the University lousi ness Office. I\Ir. Bucklew joined the Duke iledieal Center Staff in 1964 after lie received the A.B. degree from the University of Missouri. He is a native of Morgantown, West Virginia. Cecil C. ilcClees has been named assistant personnel direc tor. A native of Durham, Mr. ]\IcClees came to Duke I\Iedical (Center from the North Carolina Employment Security Commis sion in Durham. Mr. MeClees at tended Duke University for three years prior to joining the S. Army early in 1942. McClees PROFESSIONAL NEWS DR. BAYARD CARTER, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chairman Emeritus of the Department, was appointed Director of the Southern Obstetric and Gynecologic Semiiuir, held in Ashe ville, N. C. in July. DR. A. C. (-IIRISTAKOS, Director of Infertil ity Clinic, presented two paj)ers at the seminar: “Chromosomal Anomalies and Sexual Malfornuitions” and “Familial Down’s Syndrome.” DR. ROY T. PARKIER, Chairman of the Dei)artment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, particijjated in the Post-Graduate Medical As sembly of South Texas, held in Houston, Texas July 12-14. In addition to i)articipating as a panelist. Dr. Parker presented three j)apers: “Fetal Wastage and Breech Delivery”; “Pregnant Dia betic”; and “Genital Infections”. DR. A. C. CHRISTAKOS, of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, participated in a Post-Graduate Obstetric and Pediatric Seminar, which was sponsored by the Bureau of ilaternal and Child Health, Florida State Board of Health, and held in Cocoa Beach, Florida in August. He presented two papers. DR. PATRICK I). KENAN, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, l)articipated in a symposium on “Pathology of Audio Vestibular Apparatus” September 9-10 in Washington, 1). C’. DR. W. R. HUDSON, Chief of the Division of Otolaryngology, participated in the Post-Graduate Convention in Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology at Myrtle Beach, S. C. Sei)tember 18-14. DR. J. LEONARD GOLDNER, Chief of the Amputee-Orthopaedic Clinic and Profe.ssor of Ortlioi)aedie Surgery, returned September 7 from Melbourne, Australia, where he served for two weeks as Visiting Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at The Royal Children’s Hospital. Enroute to Australia, Dr. Goldner delivered addresses and participated in orthopaedic conferences in London, Copen hagen, Utrecht, Hong Kong, aiul Tokyo. MR. RAY E. BROWN, Director of the Graduate Program in Hos pital Administration, chaired the (Jeneral Assembly of the annual meeting of the American Hosj)ital Association, held in San Francisco, (California August 27-September 2. Others from Duke Medical Center in attendance were: Mr. (’. II. Frenzel, Mr, C. C. Boone, and Mr. I). S. Smith. DR. RALPH THIERS, Director of the Clinical Chemistry Lab oratory, was a guest lecturer at the IBil (’ustomer Executive Program on “Automation of Clinical Laboratories” held June 15-17 at the IBM World Trade European lilducation Center in Blaricum, Holland. Also invited to attend was Mr. Ralph E. Jennings, As sistant Administrative Director of Duke Hospital. DR. FRANCES DUNHAJI and DR. CHARLES (SILVER, of the School of Nursing, were co-ordinators and group leaders at an Interpersonal Relations Institute held at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro August 20-23. Others from the School of Nursing participating in the program were OLLI?] DAVENPORT and ROBERTA PHILLIPS. DR. JAjMES F. GLENN, Cliief of the Division of Urologic Surgery, participated in the First International Symposium on Renal Neoplasia which was held in Brasilia, Brazil, September 12-15. The paper he presented was “Speculation on Genesis, Therapeusis, and Prognosis of Neplirocarcinoma”. Also in South America to partic ipate in the symposium were DR. PATRICK CAVANAUGH, Di- re:;tor of the Radiation Therapy Division, and DR. D. BERNARD AMOS. Both j)resented papers. The symposium was sponsored by The Alfred Juerzykowski Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council. DR. WILLIAM P. WILSON, of the Department of Psychiatry, has edited a hard bound professional publication entitled Applications of Electroencephalography in Psychiatry. The book was j)rinted by Duke University Press (1965). (Continued, page 4)
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