Auxiliary Hears
Dr. Woodhall
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Mrs. F. Bayard Carter,
Auxiliary Founder, Dies
By Mrs. James B. Wyngaarden
Mrs. Bayard Carter (Harriet) died at
Dule Hospital on Friday, October II,
1968. Each one who has known Mrs.
Carter feels her loss and misses her
spirit.
Mrs. Carter was the wife of Dr. Bayard
Carter, the first chairman and professor,
of the Department of Obstetrics-Gyn-
ecology at Duke University School of
Medicine. She is survived by Dr. Carter,
her daughter, Mrs. Ann Hamilton Wears
of Farmington, Conn., two grandchil
dren, Peter Bayard Wears and Jenny
Wears, and a sister, Mrs. J. Philip Lane
of Boston.
Mrs. Carter was a gifted and gracious
lady, a person with rare qualities of
leadership. Her unfailing interest, enthus
iasm, tact and understanding catalyzed
numerous undertakings, and led to the
successful accomplishment of many ob
jectives. She was aristocratic and stately,
yet warm and comfortable, accepting
people just as they were. She was a
pleasure to be with, and a charismatic
person who lent charm and color to even
menial tasks. Unforgettable characteris
tics of Mrs. Carter were her remarkable
friendliness, kindliness, and sincere con
cern for the welfare of those around her.
If her ambition was to make the Durham
community and Duke Hospital a better
place, she truly succeeded.
A generation of medical students and
residgnts found Mrs. C, as they called her,
a confidante, adviser, and friend. They
also recognized the important role she
played in helping Dr. Carter become one
of the outstanding figures in American
medical affairs.
Mrs. Carter served in many civic en
deavors: Salvation Army Board, Sal
vation Home and Hospital, the Durham
Housing Commission, U.S.O., and Pines-
wood Garden Club. She was a member
of St. Philip's Episcopal Church.
Her civic interests never overshadowed
her devotion to Duke Hospital, and a
major demonstration of this was the
organization, in 1950, of the Duke Hospi-
MRS. CARTER
tal Auxiliary by Mrs. Carter and Mrs.
Watt Eagle. The accomplishments and
the organizational abilities of these two
outstanding women caused hospital auxil
iaries to be formed in many areas throu
ghout North Carolina. Mrs. Carter soon
became the N. C. advisory councilor for
the American Hospital Association.
Mrs. Carter was a woman with a sense
of the future. She believed in people,
and she was able to bring out the best in
them. She felt that a hospital auxiliary
should play three important roles; I) to
help the hospital meet its naeds, 2) to
interpret the hospital and its functions
to the community, and 3) to assist in
fund-raising projects.
Mrs. Bayard Carter's passing reminds
each of us that a life interlaced with work
and fun lives on in the minds and
thoughts of all those whose lives she
touched.
House staff and other employes who
work at night have been getting hungry
a bit sooner lately.
The personnel cafeteria near the main
lobby began serving night lunch an hour
earlier, from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m., Oct. 7.
The cafeteria previously featured a
luncheon menu from 10:30 tp 11:30 p.m.
Automation in hospitals and screening
clinics . . . heavy federal support of
medical education and nursing home care
. . . the fiscal failure of many private
universities . . . the beginnings of the
control of the privilege of death.
Dr. Barnes Woodhall, associate provost
for medical affairs, shared those pre
dictions with members of the Duke Hos
pital Auxiliary in a speech, "Medicine in
the Year 2000," during a recent auxiliary
membership meeting.
Dr. Woodhall, who said that three-
fourths of the people alive today will be
around 32 years from now to test his
predictions, believes the time has come to
begin applying more of today's advanced
technology in direct patient care.
New technology, he said, will provide
"automatic screening clinics, computers
programmed to receive and print out
patient histories, and satellites beamed
to teach around the globe modern patient
care methods and techniques."
Because of the financial strain on pri
vate colleges and universities. Dr. Wood
hall predicted, without naming them,
that "only seven such institutions will
survive the year 2000."
As the progress of medicine and other
sciences extends the life span of man, an
additional strain will be placed on the
already-overburdened elderly-care facili
ties. More doctors and other health
personnel also will be needed to meet the
health demands of a mounting popula
tion.
On a philosophical point, the former
dean of medicine said that "we have
reached the point where we can ethically
control the privilege of life" with birth
control pills and other means.
By the year 2000, he said, "I predict
that we shall as well, after thoughtful
debate, begin to control the privilege of
death in people who are irreparably in
jured by chronic disease and have no
hope of returning to normal health."
for staff working late at the hospital.
The change was made because public
transportation facilities which the cafe
teria employes use do not stop on cam
pus after 11:15 p.m.
The new schedule was established on a
trial basis until reaction to the change is
evaluated.
New Schedule For Night Lunch-