• WE’RE SORRY TO LOSE . . . (Continued)
Ob-Gyn, who retired. . . . Mrs. Lola Burgess, secretary to Dr.
George Wilbanks, who moved to Houston, Tex., with her husband.
. . . In the Division of Audiovisual Education, David McCullers
who resigned to devote more time to his combo. . . . Betty Lively,
formerly with the Private Medical Lab, w'ho was married March 15
and is now -working at the VA Hospital. . . . Mrs. Joyce Trout,
secretary to Dr. Herbert Saltzman, who moved to New York in
March where her husband is working with Marriott-Hot Shoppes.
We’ll miss the following in the Allergy and Chest Division:
Ronella Hornsby, technician-nurse, who moved to Knoxville, Tenn.,
where her husband, Dr. R. P. Hornsby, w'ill be in private practice;
Judy Jackson, nurse-technician, who moved back home to New'
Jersey; Betty Ryan, also a nurse-technician, who left to begin work
at IT.N.C. in Chapel Hill; and Dr. Jon Tipton, a fellow, who left
to begin private practice in Knoxville, Tenn. We are sorry to lose
Betty Sue Hensley, a dietitian, who left before her March 25
marriage to Ronald Peyton in Houston, Tex. Mrs. Barbara Hayes,
RK in the Operating Room who is now’ employed at the VA
Hospital, will be missed ... as will “Boots” Ashbrook, registrar
of the School of Medical Technology at the University of Tennessee
in Memphis. Mrs. Carol Smith will be missed as secretary to Dr.
Rundles; she left to start school at U.N.C. in Chapel Hill.
Dietetics will miss Barbara Tabron, an employee in the kitchen.
Joy Perkins will be missed in the Medical Art Section of Audio
visual Education. Joy, a medical artist at the Medical Center for
almost eight years, left several weeks before her May 13 marriage
to Tom Murdough of Greenville, N. C. Mrs. Kathy Burke, a tech
nician in Urology, left in January to be with her husband in
Madrid, Spain, where he is doing research for his dissertation.
Sarah Emerson, formerly secretary to Dr. Donald E. McCollum,
left in April and is now working as a research secretary at Beaunit
Fibers in the Research Triangle Park. Also, Frances Atkins, secre
tary in the Plospital Personnel Office for five years, has recenth'
transferred as a secretary to the office of George B. Kantner in the
University’s Business Division. Joyce McClure has left her position
as receptionist in Physical Therapy and has moved from Durham.
Harry Miles, formerly an orderly in Ophthalmology, has left to
return to school.
• NOTES OF INTEREST
Judy Griffin and Marty Clendenin, physical therapists, left on
April 15 for a two month tour of Europe. Upon their return they
will continue their studies. Sharon Beeker, Clinical Research Unit,
went on a five day jaunt to Jamaica and returned the first of
March bearing gifts for all. We are happy to report that Dr. J.
Lamar Callaway, chief of the Division of Dermatology, is now re
cuperating from his recent illness. Nursing Service personnel at
tending the Southeastern Surgical Congress in Bal Harbour, Fla.,
included: Mrs. Bonnie Hensley and Mrs. Clara Wright, supervisors;
Mrs. Marjorie Hemphill, head nurse; and Sandra McDaniel, stalf
nurse. They returned the week of March 20. Mrs. Rosa Lee Russell,
secretary in Physiology and Pharmacologj", started off the new
year by vacationing in Jamaica.
We are liappy to report that Mrs. Donna Shumaker, secretary
in Pathology, is back at w'ork after being a patient here in Decem
ber. Mrs. Eva Reese, head nurse in the Eye Clinic, went to Houston,
Texas, to see her new granddaughter, Eva Caroline, born January
28. While away, Mrs. Reese attended the Contact Lens Seminar
March 17-19 in Sarasota, Fla. The Duke Medical Center bowling
team, the Highballers, won the team championship at the Durham-
Orange Counties Bowling Association Tournament held in March.
Members of the team are: Doris Goodwin and Yvonne Ausley
(captain), employees in the Hospital Business Office; Mary Lou
Pate, assistant director of Dietetics; Margaret Stinnet, secretary to
Dr. Eugene Day in Immunology; and Polly Jordan, an employee
in the Maintenance Department.
Sandi Craven and Betty O’Neal sought the sun in Xassau from
March 5-15 and reported a marvelous time. Betty is a lab technician,
and Sandi is an X-ray technician in Dr. Everett Anderson’s Lab.
Mrs. Marie Lawson returned to w'ork in the Urology Clinic in
January, and we are delighted that she has done so well since her
accident. Over 400 people paid a visit to the April 15 open house
held by Physical Therapy. Most of this number were high school
students from Durham and neighboring counties. Those present
w'ere shown facilities in the Department and were told about the
P. T. educational programs at Duke. Congratulations on the obvious
success of the open house are extended to the Physical Therapy
staff. Brenda Dickerson, secretary in the Allergy Lab, is engaged
to Tommy Woodruff and will be married February of next year.
Manager Honored
Congratulations are in order for
Warren E. Wagner, manager of the
Hospital Storeroom for the past nine
years and an employee of the Univer
sity for eighteen years.
Mr. Wagner has been named to the
executive board of the newly formed
North Carolina Asociation of Hospital
Purchasing Agents. The Association
was organized at a meeting held April
19 in Roanoke, Va., at which time new
officers were elected and bylaws were
approved. There are 35 charter mem
bers of the Association.
Hot Shots Are League Champs
The Hot Shots are the team champions of the Duke Medical
Center Bowling League, which has completed play for the sea
son. The League consists of eight teams. Team and individual
awards were presented at a banqiiet at Hartman’s Steak House
April 25. Members of the Hot Shots team are; Virginia Meacham,
food service supervisor in Dietetics; Rachel Gay, secretary in
the American Literature program; Lynda How'crton, medical
technologist in the Clinical Chemistry Lab in Biochemistry; De
laine Melton, secretary to Dr. J. Graham Smith, Jr., in Der
matology; and Jonelle Gordon, Dr. John C. LeMay’s secretary
in Veterinary Medicine.
Polly Jordan, payroll clerk in Maintenance, had the highest
set (563). Doris Goodwin, who is employed in the bookkeeping
department of the Hospital Business Office, had the highest
game (238). Marge Stinnett, secretary to Dr. Eugene Day in
Immunology, had the highest League average (103). Mary Ann
Dotson, medical technologist in the Private Medical Lab, was
chosen the most improved bowler; and June Perry, secretary to
Dr. Herbert 0. Sieker, was recipient of the sportsmanship
award.
• CONDOLENCES
We woi;ld like to extend our condolences to Carolyn Van Sant,
interviewer in the Persoiniel Office, whose father died January 6.
Condolences are also extended to Mrs. Alice Medlyn, LPN on Matas,
and Frances Henry, advisor LPN on Ilanes, ui)on the death of
their fathers. Sympathy is extended to Mrs. Carol Marger, RN in
the Emergency Room, whose grandmother died ... to Margaret
Messick, head nurse in the private Pediatric Clinic, who lost her
father ... to Mrs. Margaret Hazard, secretary to Dr. J. S. Harris
in Pediatrics, whose mother died on December 14 ... to Mrs. Katie
Burns, employee in the Hospital kitchen, who had a death in her
family also ... to Mrs. Lecie Daves, ward secretary on Nott, whose
mother died ... to Lucille Cufee, LPN on ITalsted, who lost her
brother . . . and to Mrs. Elizabeth Trent Hendricks, chief admitting
officer at the Hospital for a number of years, who lost her mother,
Mrs. Mary Trent, in January.
INTERCOM - 15
VOL. 14 NO. 1/1967