PROFESSIONAL NEWS
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Two members of the Department of Biochemistry were present at
the National Academy of Sciences Fall Meeting: UR. PHILIP
HANDLER, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry and Chair
man of the Department, and DR. SALIII J. WAKIL, Associate
Professor of Biochemistry. The meeting was held in Seattle, Wash
ington, October 11-13. Following the president’s dinner. Dr.
Handler delivered an address on “Science and Government—-
Opportunities and Conflicts.” Dr. Wakil presented a paper during
the three-day meeting on “The Mechanism of Fatty Acid Bio
synthesis. ’ ’
Dr. Wakil also presented this paper earlier in October at the
American Diabetes Association Research Symposium, held in St.
Louis, Missouri.
DR. J. L. KOSTYO, Associate Professor of Physiology, traveled
to Mexico City October 10-15 to participate in the Sixth Pan
American Congress of Endocrinology. As a participant, Dr. Kostyo
delivered a paper on “ Relationshi]) of Protein Synthesis to the
Action of Adrenal Steroid Hormones on Amino Acid Transport
by Muscle.”
DR. PHILIP HANDLER, Chairman of the Department of Bio
chemistry, participated in two seminars during the month of Oc
tober. At Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, he
participated in a Seminar to the Biology Department and to first
year medical students October 25-26. During the seminar Dr.
Handler presented a paper on “Protein Structure and Biological
Evolution.”
Two days later. Dr. Handler was in Washington, I). C., to
speak on “Science and Public Policy” at the Seminar on Science
and Public Policy, which was sponsored by the National Institutes
of Health.
New evidence that all life may be descended from one primeval
ancestor was described by Dr. Handler during the 16th Annual
Session of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, held in Atlantic City,
New Jersey, in September.
JANET CAMPBELL, Assistant Professor of Nursing participated
in a meeting on “Public Health Sciences and Educational TV”
held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill October
7-8. The meeting, which was sponsored by the Southern Regional
Education Board Committee, offered participants the opportunity
to confer with consultants in several specialty areas for which TV
tapes will later be developed.
Tlie “Nick” Carter Travel Club’s animal meeting, held last year
in Durham, w'as held this year at The Inn, Ponte Vedra Beach,
Florida, September 30-0ctober 2. Those in attendance from the
Duke Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology were: DR. BAY
ARD CARTER, DR. CHARLES PEETE, JR.,“ DR. WALTER B.
CHERNY, and DR. C. D. CHRISTIAN. Dr. Peete is president of
the club, and Dr. Cherny is secretary-treasurer. Dr. Christian pre
sented a paper on “Premature Ovarian Failure.”
DR. JOHN B. RECKLESS, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry,
participated in the 5th Charlotte Postgraduate Seminar, which was
held in Charlotte September 29-30 under the si)onsorship of the
]\Iecklenburg County Chapter of the North Carolina Academy of
General Practice. Dr. Reckless presented a paper on “Depression
—Drug Therapy by the Non-psychiatric Physician.”
DR. SEUK KY KIM, Assistant Professor of Radiology, spoke be
fore the 11th International Congress of Radiology in Rome, Italy,
September 23-28. Dr. Kim addressed the congress on new X-ray
methods now being used that are helping doctors discover the No.
1 cancer-killer among men.
DR. WILLIAM P. WILSON, Professor of Psychiatry, has edited
a new book. Applications of Electroencephalography in Psychiatry,
which w'ill be printed by Duke University Press.
Duke was well rei^resented at the Annual Meeting of tlie American
Society of Anesthesiologists, held October 23-28 in Denver, Colo
rado. As general chairman, DR. C. R. STEPHEN, Professor of
Anesthesiology and Chief of the Division of Anesthesiology, chaired
the annual meeting. Also participating in the meeting w'ere three
other members of the Duke faculty. DR. JOSEPH E. ilARKEE,
James B. Duke Professor of Anatomy and Chairman of the De
partment, presented a film and commentary on “The Autonomic
Nervous System.” DR. VALDIR C. MEDRADO, a fellow in the
Division of Anesthesia, presented the results of some of the investi
gative work he has been doing here at Duke. (Dr. IMedrado is here
on leave from his post as professor of anesthesia at the University
of Bahia in Brazil.)
The other Duke faculty member participating in the meeting was
DR. JAMES II. HARP, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, w’ho
delivered the residents’ prize essay which won in national competi
tion several months ago. Dr. Harp was a resident w'hen the essay
was written. (Co-author with Dr. Harp is Dr. Brett B. Gutsche, a
resident with Dr. Harp, and Dr. Stephen.) Dr. Harp also reported
on hyperbaric research results performed jointly with Dr. Gutsche
and Dr. Stephen.
Gardner Fills New Position
Mr. Harry B. Gardner joined
the Duke Medical Center admin
istrative staff September 1 as
Director of Building Mainte
nance. Prior to assuming his
new position at Duke, Mr. Gard
ner was an assistant administra
tor at the Cape Pear Valley
Hospital at Fayetteville, N. C.
Mr. Gardner, a Lieutenant
Colonel, retired from the Army
in 1961 after 25 years of active
duty service. At the time of re
tirement he was an armored
engineer and lield a position as a
logistician.
In addition to his engineering
experience in the service, Mr.
Gardner attended Ohio State
University, in Columbus, for
three years with a major in engi
neering before the war cut his
college days short.
Mr. and ilrs. Gardner reside
at 2505 Cornwallis Road, here
in Durham. They have two
daughters, Gail and Carol Ann.
Gail is married and lives in
Gainesville, Florida. Carol Ann
is a freshman pharmacy student
at the University of North Cai'o-
lina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. D. T. Smith
(Continued
suspected in his thinking and
proved in his laboratory a po
tentially dangerous change in
the biology of this organism.
I must confess at this i)oint
that I really don’t know what I
am talking about. Dr. Smith has
patiently attempted to exj)lain
but I simply don’t understand.
Others do, however, including
the Surgeon General of the
United States Navy, and it is in
teresting to know' that the health
of our sailors in confined nuclear
vessels—in some part at least—
is the responsibility of your
lionored guest who sits here this
evening.
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For all these reasons, so brief
ly described, we consider Dr.
Snuth to be the modern proto-
type of the classical university
scholar-teacher, and I nnist add
albeit a very gay and happy
scholar.
Duke University has recog
nized this, as well, for a long
time; because Dr. Smith has
been, and is, a James B. Duke
distinguished Professor.
For all these reasons, Dr.
Anlyan, I am proud to accept
this portrait for the Medical
Center; and I promise you that
it will be hung in a place of
high honor.
Thank you.”
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