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EMMETT KELIY JR. REVISITS DUKE
If you want a recipe for instant fascination, take
one clown, one balloon and one little girl named
Fredia Price, and mix them gently. When Emmett Kelly
Jr. made a return visit to Duke Hospital last month,
he spent several hours giving autographs, inflating
balloons, talking in his silent manner and trans
ferring red paint from his nose to the noses of nur
ses and secretaries. But it was the little people
in pediatrics, who still have the imagination to
believe in clowns and Santa Claus, with whom Kelly
made his biggest impression. And that's why he came.
DUKE IN CANCER NURSING PROJECT
On January 22, 1968, at the M.D. Anderson Hospital
and Tumor Institute, University of Texas Medical Cen
ter, a select group of twenty nurses will re-convene
for the Cancer Nursing Project. The project has been
developed as a demonstration project for faculty mem
bers from baccalaureate schools of nursing and admin
istrative personnel from nursing services. Duke Univ
ersity has been represented by the only team selected
from North Carolina - Miss Sue Norville, Assistant
Professor of Nursing, Junior Medical-Surgical Nursing,
and Miss Evelyn Morgan, Head Nurse on Minot Ward.
The primary focus of the group is to improve the
quality of nursing care given to cancer patients by
developing key resource people throughout the south
eastern U.S. The group is comprised of twenty nurses
from 10 different states and ultimately will function
as a team to coordinate the many facets of care so
vital to these patients with a long-term illness such
as cancer. The project is co-sponsored by the South
ern Region Education Board and the American Cancer
Society. The prx)ject began in March 1967 and will
continue in an on-going phase through 1969. INTERCOM
will be reporting from time to time on the many can
cer research projects now underway, with special em
phasis on the implications for nursing care at Duke.
NEW ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM APPOINTED
The growth of Duke University Hospital and the Med
ical Center, particularly in the areas of increasing
administrative and clinical demands, has resulted in
the realignment of responsibilities of several top
positions. Charles H. Frenzel, administrative direc
tor of the Medical Center since 1964 and superintend
ent of Duke Hospital for six years prior to that, has
assimied broader-based responsibilities in administra
tion, coordination of management efforts at the Med
ical Center's multiple facilities, and will be invol
ved In the program of real estate acquisition and
building development,, Mr. Frenzel is professor of
hospital administration, and in addition to his other
duties he has assumed the directorship of the Program
of Hospital Administration, taking a larger role in
the training of future administrators.
Dr. Robert E. Whalen, associate professor of medi
cine, has been named director of the Duke Hospital and
assistant dean for clinical services. He will be res
ponsible for the operational activities of the patient
care areas of the Medical Center. Under Dr, Whalen
will be an associate director for administration, yet
to be named, and an associate director for nursing
service, who will also report to Dean Brown, dean of
the School of Nursing and director of patient care.
Dr. Whalen, whose specialty is cardiology, has been
director for the past year of a large planning grant
for a new 200-bed cardiovascular center, and has head
ed the committee coordinating efforts for kidney and
eye centers. Dean Anlyan said the appointment of Dr.
Whalen as director of Duke Hospital Is similar to
practices at other leading academic medical centers
where "research, education and patient care are so
intimately interwoven."
Mr. C.E, McCauley has been appointed Assistant Dir
ector of the Hospital, and will be responsible for dir
ecting the Diagnostic and Treatment Service Departments.
In addition to his newly appointed duties, Mr. McCauley
will continue as Administrative Coordinator for Cardio
vascular Planning, a job which he has had since coming
to Duke last August. Prior to joining Duke, Mr. Mc
Cauley was with the American Hospital Association's Div
ision of Association Services, and was formerly Assist
ant Director of Watts Hospital from 1963-1966. A native
of Charlottesville, Mr. McCauley is a Duke-trained Reg
istered Physical Therapist and received his training in
hospital administration at the Medical College of Va,
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