Keeping in Xouck
• HELLO ...
James W. Laws is a new technician trainee on Rankin Ward,
Mrs. Phyllis Carpenter has joined the Inpatient Psychiatric Ser
vice as secretary-receptionist for Dr. Hine, and Mrs. Marguerite
Stubblefield has returned as receptionist in the Private Psychiatry
Clinic. Linda Daniel, who formerly held this position as recep
tionist, is now secretary to Dr. John M. Rhoads and Dr. John B.
Reckless. Mrs. Kate Anderson, formerly in the Department of
Psychiatry, is now in the Department of Biochemistry as secretary
to Dr. Robert Hill and Dr. Norman Kirshner. Mrs. Betty Sellers
is a new secretary for Dr. Donald Silver and Dr. Delford Stickel.
Dorothy Ann Williams from Hamilton, Canada, is a new tech
nician in the Division of Experimental Surgery.
Nursing Service announces the names of the following new
staif additions: Anna Lois Blair, R.N. in Emergency Room;
Marcia K. Carpenter, technician in Operating Room; Judith
Cassidy, ward clerk on Hanes; Shirley T. Harris, L.P.N. on
Cushing; Horace H. Johnson, orderly; Kathy McKellar, Ward
clerk on Minot; Mary T. Pritchard, aide in Premature Nursery;
Joyce White, ward clerk on Long; Julia Willis, ward clerk on
Matas; Maria Rocha, ward clerk on Rankin.
Susana Berry of Texas has joined the staff of Occupational
Therapy. She was formerly a therapist at the North Carolina
Cerebral Palsy Hospital. Mary Latham has transferred from
Dr. Stempfel’s Lab to the Urology Research Lab, and Mamie
Beamon has transferred from the Housekeeping Department to
the Department of Pediatrics. Clinton Harris is a new orderly
in the Department of Physical Therapy and Doris Carden is a
new laboratory technician in the Division of Neurology.
New employees in the Housekeeping Department are as follow
—Day Shift: Leonard Barbee, porter; John Paschall, porter; Kever
Suitt, Jr., porter; Lucy Williams, housekeeper; Annie Mae Thorpe,
housekeeper; S. Douglas Day, porter; Roosevelt Satterwhite,
porter; Victor Newman, porter; William Newman, porter; and
Night Shift: Harold Johnson, porter; Levester White, porter;
Willie Moss, porter.
Barbara Leonard is a new secretary in the office of Dr. E. C.
Long replacing Janet Webster who is now Dr. William DeMaria’s
secretary. Barbara Kerton is working as a lab technician in Dr.
J. J. Blum’s laboratory and new electronics technicians are Robert
Cowan and Chilton Alter.
• ENGAGEMENTS.. .
Anna Moore, L.P.N. on Holmes, is engaged to Douglas Satter
field. Clara B. Pate, L.P.N. on Long, is engaged to Otis Harris,
orderly. Barbara Tuttle, R.N. on Cabell, is engaged to Jack
Bovender and Nancy McLeod, Division of Neurology, and Maurice
Elwin Tedrick will be married on February 6.
• NEW ARRIVALS ...
Mrs. Frances Winstead, L.P.N. on McDowell, and Mr. Winstead
announce the birth of a son on November 28. Dr. and Mrs. Ramon
V. Canent, Jr., Pediatrics, announce the birth of a daughter on
October 20.
• GOOD-BYE . . .
Mrs. Margaret Parker, Dr. Keitli Grimson’s secretary, resigned
as of January 1. Mrs. Sarah Foss has resigned from the Depart
ment of Psychiatry to accept a position as a social worker with the
Durham County Welfare Department. Mrs. Bobbie P. Patterson,
R.N. in Urology Clinic, has moved to Burlington, N. C., where her
husband will be connected with Memorial Hospital there. He was
formerly in Hospital Administration training here.
Quincey Davis, orderly in Physical Therapy, has resigned to
join the Air Force. Jo Abernathy, staff Physical Therapist, re
signed as of December 31 to join the staff at Stanford University,
Palo Alto, California. Betty O’Neal, bacteriologist in the Urology
Clinic, has left to attend Georgia Southern College and Mrs. Tina
Newmark, R.N. in the Urology Research Lab, has moved to Wash
ington, D. C., where her husband will begin his internship train
ing. Mrs. Mary Nell Crock has resigned as secretary to Dr. Eugene
Renkin to move with her husband to New Orleans where he will
begin his internship.
• NOTE FROM CUPID . . .
Patricia Ellen Hawley, daughter of Mrs. Winfred Palmar
Hawley (Martha of SPDC) and Mr. Hawley, was jnarried to Carl
Joseph Wilson on Saturday, December 4, in Atlanta, Ga. Linda
Simpson, Biochemistry, and Stan Ford were married on December
18 in Greensboro. Eunice H. Robbins, L.P.N. on INU, wa.s married
to Clarence Dunn on November 12 in Hillsborough.
• NICE TO KNOW. ..
Nursing Service held Open House for Duke senior student
nurses on December 2 at the home of Mrs. Verna Sticht on the
Cole Mill Road.
Sophie Vreman, research technician in Physiology, recently
visited her parents in Denmark.
Bernie Blaney, whose wife Etta Lou is a secretary in Nursing
Education, has been named “Pepsi Prep Coach of the Year” in
North Carolina. Coach Blaney, who was a halfback on the Duke
team several years ago, is the head football coach at Durham High
School and his team finished its 1965 season with 12 wins, no losses
and no ties.
• WE EXTEND OUR SYMPATHY . . .
To Mrs. Alice Louise Reaves Hopson, Nurse’s Aide in SPDC,
whose father died November 27.
To Mrs. Mary Alice Eubanks, Hospital Insurance Office, whose
father, Mr. J. M. Duhling, died on December 10.
To Mrs. Linda Ward, secretary in Pediatrics, whose grandfather
died on December 6.
INTERCOM
Vol. 13, No. 1 January, 1966
Published monthly by and for
the staff, faculty, employees and
friends of The Duke University
Medical Center.
Please address all correspondence
for the Intercom to: Office of
Public Relations, Box 3354, Duke
University Medical Center, Dur
ham, North Carolina/27706.
Editor Virginia Swain
Editorial Committee Landon
Euffin, Nina Waite, Ruth Dailey,
Neil Bueklew, Barbara Elwell and
Elon Clark
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina 27706