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KEEPING
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Physical Therapy
Kitty Forgerson will be married to
John Randolph in December .... Kay
Adams and William Smith were wed in
July Betty Busch married Ben
ny Maniscalce; they are living in Atlan
ta, Georgia .... new physical thera
pists are Jean Nelson and Marge Wood
ard .... Thomas Simmons is a new
orderly .... Esther Johnson has
completed 20 years in the physical thera
py department at Duke .... Myra Co
hen vacationed in Puerto Rico this sum
mer
Plastic Surgery
New resident secretary in the depart
ment is Mrs. Fran Perkins
Unit Administration
Dal Davis married Joyce Gilcrist on
August 31 .... new ward clerks are
Carolyn Pearson, Ann Harrington and
Esther Amos .... new R.N.'s in the
department include Adeline Gracey, Ma
ry Crocuer, Catherine Gentry, Barbara
Reed, Susan Poe, Betty Reynolds and
Avis Wilkinson .... Linda Ashworth
is a new special LPN .... Johnny
Zimmerman and Quinton McDuffie are
now employed in PCA .... Annie
Powell, Roberta Watkins and Rosalie
Brooks are new in unit services
Employes
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Medical Center will have five represen
tatives while the maintenance department
will have two and the rest of the univ
ersity five.
Polling places will be located in Room
3031 of the Medical Center and in Room
OIA of the Union Building on the West
Campus and in the hallway of the East
Duke Building on the East Campus. Polls
will be open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on
Tuesday, October 15. Nonacademic em
ployes will be released from work to vote
during regular working hours.
Nomination petitions of nonacademic
employes seeking election as represen
tatives on the council were due Sept
ember 20. A list of eligible candidates
for the election will be circulated next
week.
Those candidates receiving the highest
number of votes shall be declared elected,
provided they have received a simple
majority of the votes cast. Remaining
seats in each voting unit for which no
candidate has a majority will be decided
by a run-off election October 22.
No more than one person from any
department may be elected regardless of
the candidate's vote total. However, any
department which has 25 per cent or
more of the eligible voters in its voting
unit may have two persons elected and
any department with 50 per cent or more
of the eligible voters may have three
representatives.
Employes selected for the council will
hold meetings during regular working
hours. The first meeting will convene as
Public Relations Office
Box 3354
Duke University Medical Center
Durhann, North Carolina
27706
soon as possible after the run-off election
ballots are counted.
The purposes of the council, as de
fined in a memorandum from the Univ
ersity administration to nonacademic em
ployes, include the following:
1. to afford nonacademic regular full
time employes (other than supervisory
employes) the opportunity, through e-
lected representatives, to provide an open
forum for employe discussion and re
commendations
2. to receive individual employe sug
gestions for review and debate, with
resultant recommendations
3. to select faculty members to sit as
members of the Duke University Em
ploye Relations Advisory Committee and
to propose a list of five additional fac
ulty members from which the admin
istration will select one to sit as a mem
ber of DUERAC
4. to appoint, from time to time, such
study groups as it feels appropriate
5. to express themselves as groups on
matters relating to their working con
ditions
DUERAC has been established as a
mediation committee for matters where
the administration and the Employes'
Council have failed to reach agreement.
The committee will review issues and
make recommendations if necessary. The
recommendations will become effective
unless vetoed by the president of the
university within 30 days.
DUERAC will consist of five mem
bers, two chosen by the Employes' Coun
cil, two by the University administration
and one by mutual consent. A perma
nent DUERAC will be selected as soon
as the Employes' Council convenes.
Urology
Dr. and Mrs. James H. Herlong are the
parents of a girl, Elizabeth Barrett, born
in July .... Mrs. Carolyn Thornton is
the new house staff secretary ....
Mrs. Annie Laurie Morris is now registrar
and secretary in the urology clinic . . . .
new part-time R.N. in the urology clinic
is Mrs. Lou Scott
Veterinary Medicine
Mrs. R. A. Castellanos, technician, has
resigned to accept a position in New
York