Medical Faculty Wives
Establish Scholarship
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DR. DENT
Dr. Sara Dent
Named to Head
Anesthesiology
Personnel promotions are common,
but Duke has just promoted a division
to a department.
Anesthesiology, formerly a division of
the department of surgery, is now a
separate hospital department, and Dr.
Sara Dent is its new chairman. Since
September, 1966, she had been acting
chief of the division.
Separation of anesthesiology into sep
arate departments has come in the rel
atively recent past. Dr. Dent said, ex
plaining that anesthesiology itself is a
comparatively young specialty.
Chloroform was only discovered early
in the last century, and it was 1846 before
the first public demonstration of the use
of ether for surgery. The greatest ad
vances, she said, have come since World
War II with the use of muscle relaxants
such as curare and the development of
non-explosive anesthetics such as halo-
thane, by far the most common general
anesthetic today.
Dr. Dent, a native of Lockhart, S. C.,
received her M. D. at the Medical College
of South Carolina in 1945. After intern
ing at Greenville (S. C.) General Hospi
tal, she was in private practice in Union,
S. C., for seven years before coming to
Duke for a residency in anesthesiology.
After completing her residency, she join
ed the faculty here and has been a pro
fessor of anesthesiology since 1963.
A freshman medical student will have
an easier time financially next fall be
cause of a new scholarship being estab
lished by the Medical School Faculty
Wives Club.
The organization, formed earlier thPs
year, is donating $4,000 to provide a
student with $1,000 for each of his four
years in medical school.
The club also plans to donate $1,500
toward furnishing the proposed medical
student lounge now being set up on the
sixth floor of the Davison Building.
The women raised money for the gifts
through proceeds from the Nearly New
The new chairman of the Medical
Center's Board of Visitors is a man whose
name is familiar around Duke--Henry E.
Rauch.
Mr. Rauch, who is chairman of the
executive-finance committee of Burling
ton Industries, is a member of the Univer
sity Board of Trustees. As chairman of
the Board of Visitors, he succeeds Mr.
Marshall Pickens, vice chairman of trus
tees, Duke Endowment.
The Board of Visitors, more common
ly called the visiting committee, is a tof>
level group of men and women from
Shoppe, a used merchandise mart on
Erwin Road. Items for the shop are
donated or consigned with the owner
receiving half the sale price.
The shop, open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sat
urday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on.
Friday, was organized in April. All
workers are volunteers.
The scholarship, to be administered
through the Medical School Admissions
Office, will give preference to a North
Carolina student. The recipient will be
called the Medical Faculty Wives Scholar.
around the country who annually visit
the medical center to study its overall
operation and make suggestions aimed at
improvement of services. The board's
next visit will be April 24-26.
Mr. Rauch came to the medical center
a couple of weeks ago to meet with some
top administrators for an in-depth orien
tation on fiscal matters.
Those in the meeting included Medical
Dean William G. Aniyan, Nursing Dean
Myrtle Irene Brown and Mr. Charles B.
Heustis, the University's vice president
for business and finance.
ORIENTATION SESSION—From left. Dean Brown, Mr. Rauch, Mr. Heustis and
Dean Aniyan.
Henry Rauch New Head
Of Visiting Committee