The Demise of 111
Admissions Office Has New Quarters
Room 111 has passed away,
but few mourn its demise; for
in its place is a much needed
suite of rooms that will be the
base of operations for the ad
missions committee of the School
of Medicine.
Included in the suite is the
office of the committee’s execu
tive secretary, a conference room
for committee meetings and in
terviews with perspective stu
dents, and a reception area
where the three admissions secre
taries are located.
The committee that will call
this suite “home base” is com
posed of twelve members ap
pointed by the dean of the School
of Medicine and selected from
the medical center staff. It is
chaired by Dr. Suydam Oster-
hout, who was recently appoint
ed assistant dean in charge of
admissions.
Dr. Osterhout, an associate
professor of microbiology and an
assistant professor of medicine,
succeeds Dr. Joseph B. Markee,
former chairman of the Depart
ment of Anatomy, who is at
present on a year’s sabbatical
leave.
A native of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Dr. Osterhout is the holder of
a B.A. from Princeton, an M.D.
from Duke, and a Ph.D. from
the Rockefeller Institute. Ilis
primary research interest is in
virology. In 1959, he was the
M'inner of a $30,000 Markle
Scholarship in iledical Science,
lie has been on the medical cen
ter staff since 1953.
Working closely with Dr. Os
terhout and one of the occupants
of the new suite is ilr. Robert
Thompson, who joined the medi
cal center staff Juh" 1 as execu
tive secretary of the admissions
committee.
Mr. Thompson has been with
the university since 1957 work
ing with student aid. lie super
vised the Angier B. Duke Me
morial Scholarship Program un
til 1963, when he became direc
tor of student aid.
Mr. Thompson is a native of
Ohio. He completed his under
graduate studies at State Col
lege in Florence, Alabama. lie
received his M.A. from Duke in
1958 and is presently a doctoral
candidate in the field of educa
tion.
As executive secretary, Jlr.
Thompson will be responsible for
coordinating the work of the Ad
missions Office. At present the
office is working on a plan to
augment the admissions pro
cedures with the assistance of
computer facilities now in opera
tion in the Research Triangle.
The use of a computer will facil
itate the storing and retrieving
of information and thus provide
a real service for the Admissions
Office in the screening of appli
cants.
The suite of rooms shown above belongs to the Medical School’s new Admis
sions Office, which has replaced the old classroom 111.
IVtr. Robert Thompson, left, executive secretary of the School of Medicine’s
admissions committee, discusses an applicant’s file with Dr. Suydam Osterhout,
assistant dean in charge of admissions and chairman of the committee.
INTERCOM-9
School Books a Part
of Patient Care
The in-hospital teaching pro
gram was instituted at Duke in
1959, largely due to the efforts
of Dr. Susan Dees, professor of
pediatrics, and other interested
persons who had for some time
been i)romoting the need for
such a teaching program in hos
pitals.
Soon after the Duke program
started. Memorial IIosi)ital in
Chapel Hill established a simi
lar one. For six years they were
the only two general hospitals
in the state offering in-hosjiital
teaching as a part of patient
care.
Finally, legislative action was
taken by the 1965 North Caro
lina General Assembly which
provided funds for a statewide
in-hospital teaching program.
Following this action, the state
allotted teachers to the City of
Durham who were to assume
teaching positions within Duke
Hospital.
At the present time there are
three in-hospital teachers at
Duke. Mrs. Emily Ilyatt, who
has been teaching at the hos
pital since 1960, was joined this
fall by two new teachers, Mrs.
Nancy Scott and Mrs. Joann
AIcGee. Mrs. Ilyatt works with
those patients who are in grades
one through seven, and Mrs. Mc
Gee and Mrs. Scott work with
those in grades eight through
twelve.
The three tcachers see most
of the patients who are of school
age and well enough to resume
their studies. They serve pri
marily in a tutorial capacity,
and patients are seen according
to their special needs—not just
for general instruction and/or
supervision.
Mrs. Scott received her B.A.
degree from Duke in 1965, and
had begun work on an M.A. in
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