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In Memoriam Miss S. Harriette Amey ]\Iiss Harriette Amey, well known employee of the medical center who had participated actively in the medical center’s growth since her arrival in 1947, has passed away, and her death left a gap that will not be filled. Miss Amey first worked at Duke as a pediatric social worker. In tlie beginning she was employed by the State Board of Health and was assigned to Duke by the state to work with the prema ture baby program. (At the time premature babies from across the state were brought to Duke for care until they had reached a certain weight.) After the Social Service Department was dissolved in I960, she was the only formally trained social service worker in the hospital for several j'ears. In 1961 she left the state and became a Duke employee, still in the capacity of a pediatric social worker. The first negro to be appointed to the medical center faculty. Miss Amey became an instructor in pediatric social service in 1960. As a social worker. Miss Amey worked closely with the mothers of premature babies as well as mothers in the pediatric clinics—especially the mothers of retarded children. She devoted much time to the counseling of the mothers with retarded chil dren, in efforts to help them face tlieir problems and also helped the mothers place their children in spe2ial facilities. And, in addition to the nuiny duties involved with casework. Miss Amey would helj) the mothers with any problems that arose while they were at Duke with tlieir children, such as arranging overnight accommodations and transportation to and from the hospital. “She had excellent rapport with her fellow workers, house staft’, upper staff, patients, mothers . . . everybody,” recalled Mrs. Margaret Hazard, long-time employee in the Department of Pediatrics ajid close friend of Miss Amey’s. “She loved children and had a way with them,” continued Mrs. Hazard. “She never talked down to them.” “Harriette was the sounding board for a lot of people,” said Mrs. Inez James, instructor in pediatric nursing and also a close friend. “She knew people . . . really knew them . . . I’ve never known anyone else who knew as much about human nature.” A native of Di;rham, Miss Amey graduated from North Caro lina in 1944. (Her father was at the time business manager of the college.) She lived in Boston, Massachusetts, for two years following graduation from college and did .social work in the city while working on her masters degree. Miss Amey is survived by her mother, Mrs. C. C. Amey, of Durham, and a sister of Long Island, Xew York. KEEPING IN TOUCH (Continued from page 10) Caesar Guajardo announce the birth of a son on June 13. Mrs. Guajardo (Cathy) formerly worked in Psychiatric Inpatient Ser vice and Dr. Guajardo is a fellow in P.syehiatry at the Child Guidance Clinic. • NEW FACES ... Sara Bagley has recently joined the Audiology Clinic as a clinical audiologist and Mrs. Coble Minnis has joined the ENT Clinic as registrar. Mrs. Minnis formerly worked on IXU. Psychi atric Inpatient Service welcomes a new employee, Billie Lee, who replaces Mrs. Cathy Guajardo as Dr. Altrocchi’s secretary. Judy Samuel, R.N., is a new staff member on INU. j\Irs. Chears William son is a new secretary in the office of the Administrative Director. She replaces Mrs. Linda Brown who has gone with her husband, Walt, a fourth year medical student at Duke, to spend six weeks working at the Hospital Gray Memorial in Puerto Cabezas, Nica ragua. Marsha Hybarger is Dr. Talmadge Peele’s new secretary in the Department of Anatomy. Mary Lou Allison luis replaced Mrs. Sue Pitchford as Dean Jacobansky’s secretary. Mrs. Pitch- ford and her husband have moved to Waynesboro, Virginia. Mrs. Phoebe Ahlgren, School of Nursing, has moved to Irving, Texas, where her husband. Dr. E. Warner Ahlgren, will be a resident at Parkland Memorial Hospital there. Betty Blalock began work in May as Dr. W. C. Sealy’s secretary, replacing Mrs. Nancy Baker who is on leave of absence with her new daughter born on May 10. Pamela Crabtree is a new X-ray technician for Dr. Saul Boyarsky. Betty Jones has transferred from SPDC to the office of Dr. Ivan Brown as his secretary and Leo Brooks has transferred from Nurs ing Service to Dr. Donald Silver’s lab. Bobbj' George, darkroom specialist, and Bill Fields, art depart ment, are newcomers in Medical Arts and Illustration. The De partment of Pathology has two new secretaries, Helen Dorobiala and Nancy Hall, and three new lab technicians, Lynda Glenn, Katlu' Green and Hilliary White. Mary Williams is Dr. Whalen’s new secretary in the Cardiovascular Laboratory and Beverly Hughes is Dr. McIntosh’s new secretary in the same lab. Marjorie Shuman, graduate student in psychology, and Tom English, first year medical student, are working for Dr. W. B. Obrist for the summer. Marlene Privette is a new employee in the filing department of Medical Records. Mrs. Sandra Teel is a new secretary in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and Delores Johnson is a new lab technician in that department. Alan Traub is a new research technician in the laboratory of Dr. G. S. Eadie in the Bell Building. New people in Physical Therapy are; Charles Townsend, orderly; Brabara Long, receptionist; and Beekie Clifton, secretary. Mrs. June Perry Hein is Dr. Sieker’s new secretary. Mrs. Nettie Gregory is the new PBX operator in MPDC and Mrs. Jane Reed is in the reception area of MPDC. Her husband. Bill, is an administrative assistant to Mr. L. E. Swanson. Tony Scarborough is also working in MPDC for the summer. Leoria Kohls, R.N., is now working on Long, transferring there from Minot. Mrs. Velma Taylor is a new employee at the front desk of SPDC. The Outpatient Department welcomes the following new people; Patsy Vestal, welfare billing; Connie Wilkins, busine.ss office; Sandra Freeman, medical clinic: Lorraine Clark, employee health office; Margaret Lunney, labora tory ; A. Gretchen Whitman, pediatric clinic; Brenda K. Thompson, welfare billing; Jerri Phillips, part time in laboratory. Mrs. Rita R. Williams is a new clinic receptionist in the private patient area of Ophthalmology. The Medical Records Library has added three new members to its staff’: Barbara Colly and Sandra Johnson, filing department, and Martha Guthrie, microfilm depart ment. Brenda Dickerson and Dale Horton are new secretaries in the Allergy Lab and Kathleen Cates has replaced Flossie Reed as a dishwasher in the Department of Microbiology. Nancy Hall and Helen Dorobiala are new secretaries in the Department of Pathology and Linda Stowe is a new technician in the same department. Sharon Lancaster from High Point is a new technician in the lab oratory of Dr. Bernard Amos in the Department of Immunology. Mrs. Frances Patterson is Dr. Samuel Workman’s new secretary (Department of Psychiatry) replacing Phyllis Carpenter. Mar garet Ann Taylor, R.N., has joined the staff of INU and William K. Jayaraj, R.N., is now in the Recovery Room. Mrs. Joan Rotman is a new secretary in Pediatrics. Betty Aldridge, formerly a nurse in the Emergency Room, has transferred to the ENT Clinic and Mrs. Harriet Frank is Dr. Crenshaw’s new secretary in SPDC. • SOON TO WED . . . Janice Edwards, R.N. on Long, is engaged to Dr. William Ham ilton of Washington, D.C. Fran Vaughan, Department of Psychia try, and James Holt plan to marry in Seiitember. Candace Moss, key punch operator in the Department of Biomathematics, is en gaged to Ollie Bradsher. Gertrude Elliott, Nursing Service, w'ill be married to L. E. Fields in the fall. INTERCOM - n VOL. 13 NO. 6/1966
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