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m-. 5^*“^ Jfew recruiter, Mr. Paul J. ircQuade, meets with members of the Nursing Service recruitment committee, Barbara Elwell, Inez James, and ilarjorie Hemphill. Recruiter (Continued from page 1) •riven him the opportunity to observe nursing in all areas— from surgery to the hyperbaric eliamber. After this recruitment is well underway, he will then branch out into recruiting for other areas. A native of Glassboro, Xew •Jersey. Mr. McQuade was as sociated with the American National Insurance Companv before coming to Duke. He received an M.A. in School Ad ministration in 19(54 at the Uni versity of North Carolina at ('hapel Hill. His wife, Jane, is employed in the Department of Biochemistry at I'.N.C. The ilcQuades pres ently live in Chapel Hill. PROFESSIONAL NEWS DR. MADISON S. SPA(’H, chief cardiologist in Pediatrics, was elected president of the N.C. Heart Association. • At the 57th an nual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, held in Denver, DR. JOSEPH W. BEARD reported on results of a series of experiments in which chickens were inoculated with a strain of virus called MC-29. These were I the first exi)erimental findings implicating viruses as a cause of cancer of the liver. Dr. Beard is director of the virus-cancer research laboratories and James B. Duke Professor of Surgery and Virology. His findings were reported as he de livered the sixth annual G.H.A. Clowes Memorial J' Lecture, which honors one of the founders of the AACR. His lecture was entitled “Evolution of Viral Neoplasia; From Hens to Men.” • DR. DAVID C. SABISTON, chair man of the Department of Surgery, gave the George Richardson Lecture at Harvard ]VIedical School and was visiting professor of surgery at the ^Massachusetts General Hospital. • It has recently been announced that the Department of Surgery will join a group of other institutions throughout the country in evaluating various new chemotherapeutic drugs in treatment of solid malignant tumors. The program will be under Dt. d. C. Sabiston the direction of DR. WILLIAjM W. SHINGLE- TON, chief of the Division of General Surgery, who has partici pated in similar studies during the jiast five years. • The Piedmont Orthopaedic Society, made up of men trained in orthopaedics at Duke, met in Durham during May before going to Puerto Rico for the annual meeting to present a portrait of DR. LENOX 1). BAKER, chief of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, to the university. The portrait was painted by Rolf Stoll of Lake Worth, Fla. • Professor of nursing, DR. VIRGINIA STONE, is attending the International Congress on Gerontology in Vieniui, Austria. After tlie congress adjourns on July 17, Dr. Stone w'ill visit Prague and, she hopes, will travel into Russia. Her return trip will be via Amsterdam. Through out her trip she plans to study the health pro- Dr. L. D. Baker gams of older peoi)le. Others attending the congress from Duke include Drs. Ewald Busse, Carl Eisdorfer, Walter Obrist, Morton Bogdonoff, Jack Botwinick and Frances C. Jef fers. • DR. ROBERT J. REEVES, professor and former chairman of the Department of Ra diology, was the only Duke faculty member elected this year to membership in Alpha Omega > Alpha honorary medical society. Faculty mem bers are elected when their professional attain ments ten or more years after graduation justify their election. They may also be elected Avhen they liave attained wide recognition in their re spective field of medicine. Fourteen medical Dr. R. J. Reeves students were initiated into membership. • DR. NORBERT B. ENZER, who holds a double appointment in Pediatrics and Psy chiatry, presented a paper on the child guidance approach to the multi])roblem family at the !)3rd Annual Forum of the National ('onference on Social AVelfare, held in Chicago. • At the annual meeting of the American ('ollege of Obstetricians and Gynecolo gists, several members of the Duke Medical ('enter faculty par ticipated: DR. GEORGE WILBANKS, JR., presented a paper; DR. C. D. CHRISTIAN moderated a panel on which DRS. YOUNGER, LONG, HUNEYCUTT, and COPELAND were par ticipating; and DR. F. BAYARD CARTER moderated a panel discussion of the topic “What Can We Do to Up-date our Abor tion Laws?” • DR. WALTER B. CHERNY, associate professor of Obstetrics and gynecology, visited Northwest Tennessee Academy of Medicine to deliver a paper. • GLADYS HART, IDELL PAR RISH and HELEN KAISER reported on a pilot program of physical therapy for mentally retarded in the Durham city and county schools at the American Association for Mental Retarda tion in C'hicago. • A book written by DR. JOHN BUETTNP]R- JANUSCH, associate professor of anatomy and zoology, has been published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. of New York. Entitled Origins of Man, the book is a synthesis of modern physical anthro pology and traces the evolution of man from the time 65 million years ago when the Primate Order si)lit into several families, one of which would eventtially include our own modern image. To date the book has been adopted by a number of universities. • DR. PHILIP HANDLER, chair man of the Department of Biochemistry has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Handler is on sabbatical leave from Duke until September. In ilay Dr. Handler attended the 50th anniversarj- of the Academia Dr. P. Handler INTERCOM - 2
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