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Dr. T. L. Peele lirasileiro de Cieneias in Rio de Janeiro as the official representa tive of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences and presented to the academy’s president a scroll (made at Duke by R. Van Kluyve) in addition to "iving two talks. O I5BULAII M. ASIIBROOK, teaching supervisor of the School of Medical Technology, was installed as president of the X.C. Society of Medical Technologists at the society’s spring convention. • Recent winners of the Golden A})ple awards, were DR. TATj]\IAGE PEELE, l)rofessor of anatomy, DR. HARVEY ESTES, ))rofessor of medicine, and DR. EARL ilETZ, chief resident in the Department of Medicine. Pre sented annually at the SAilA-sponsored (Duke chapter) student- faculty night, the awards are made in recognition of the contri- , bution made by the selected teachers to medical education. • Two staff members have been elected officers of the X.C. chapter of the Health Physics Society. They are DR. AAROX P. SAXDERS, associate professor of radiology, the new presi- y dent-elect, and COXRAD ]\I. KX’IGHT, radio- logical safety officer, who has been named secre- ®^ tary-treasurer. Tlie society is devoted to the protection of man and his environment from unwarranted radiation exposure. • At a meeting Dr. E. H. Estes American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons in Chicago recently, several Duke faculty members par ticipated in the j)rogram. Papers were presented by DRS. JAMES P. GLEXX, E. EVERETT AXDERSOX, WIL LIAM II. ATWILL, ROBERT D. EXSOR, and SAUL BOYARSKY. An exhibit was presented by DR. PAUL E. IIEXSOX, resident and in structor in urologic surgery. Also in attendance were Dr. Richard C. Estes, resident, and Harvey Ruskin, fellow. • DR. RUBIX BRESSLER, associate professor of medicine, has been elected to membership in the American Society of Bio- logical Chemists. Dr. Bressler was also named a councillor in the American Federation for Clini cal Research, the largest clinical research organization of physicians in the world. • Development of a drug found to be successful in the treatment of gout was described by DR. WAYXE RUXDLES, director of tlie hematology and chemotherapy service, at the inter national symposium on the disease, held recently in London. The drug, allopurinol was first used successfully for relief of the pain ful symptoms of gout on patients at Duke by Dr. Rundles. Tliough not yet released here by the Federal Food and Drug Administration, allopurinol has been made available for general prescription use in Great Britain. • KATHRYX" BARCLAY, assistant professor in psychiatric social work and chief social worker in the Divi sion of Child Psychiatry, was one of the institute leaders at the Southern Regional Conference of the Child Welfare League of America, held in Asheville, X.C. She spoke on the role of social work in the treatment of the emotionally dis turbed child in liis own home, a prevention de scription. • DR. EWALD W. BUSSE, chairman Dr. E. w. Busse Department of Psychiatry, has been elected vice president of the American Psychiatric Association. He as sumed his neAV post at tlie end of the association’s annual meeting held in Atlantic City, X’^.J. The association has about 15,000 mem bers. • Lectures in Sweden, Denmark and France, and side trips to Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Holland and Austria, comprise this summer’s itinerary for DR. D. C. TOSTESOX", chairman of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. Dr. Tosteson will deliver lectures on a subject in which he has done much re search—the role of sodium and potassium ions in regulating the volume of cells and their composition. • A Good Year in Review Dr. R. Bressler The non-academic employee of Duke University Medical Center has recently witnessed some major changes in the per sonnel policies and pay levels. The past year has been full of special letters, new handbooks, special increases, and many ru mors. ilany employees have un answered questions that might be answered by a short review of the special events making up the non-academic personnel changes during the past year. Although the actual clianges in this program started July, 1965, they were preceded by cer tain events. Obviously the uni versity has had a continued con cern for improvement of salary levels and fringe benefit pro grams. An expression of this concern was the reqiiest by the University Personnel Policy Connnittee asking the Personnel Offices to carry out a thorougli salary survey in the Research Triangle area. This survey was conducted in December, 1964, and the results were received by the University Personnel Policy Committee in the s]iring of 1965. The committee adopted several short term goals for im provement that were aimed at improving the salary levels of certain positions that were found to be a significant distance from the community average. These goals were implemented July 1, 1965. The committee also de veloped a long range improve ment program that is aimed at creating and maintaining Duke University as a leading employ er in the Research Triangle area. This plan was adopted by the University Board of Trustees and announced to non-academic employees in November, 1965, by President Douglas Knight. In this letter from Dr. Knight and a supplementary one from Business Manager John Dozier, the particular improvement items and their effective dates were announced. A summary of the changes effecting non-academic employ ees follows: Standard work week of 40 hours (1/1/66) Pay for authorized overtime work (1/1/66) Across the board 5% increase for all non-academic employ ees (1/1/66) All employees became eligible for Group Life Insurance—a pro gram to which the university contributes (7/1/66) Improved Hospitalization Insur ance with the university con tributing i>art of the premium (7/1/66) Institution of a merit evaluation system with salary increases ranging up to three scale steps (approximately 15%) (7/1/ 66) Improved vacation schedule with the minimum vacation time earned raised to two work weeks per year (7/1/66). Xew Personnel Ilandhools, available for distribution to all noii-acadciiiic uni versity personnel, contain several items that represent major clianges in pre viously existing personnel policies. Discussing the changes are Mr. Neil Hucklevv, director of medical center personnel, and Jlr. Cecil jrcClees, assistant personnel director. (See article above.) INTERCOM - 3 MAY-JUNE 1966
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