SURGEONS MEET AT DUKE—One of the nation's most exclusive professional
organizations, the Society for Clinical Surgery, met at the medical center in mid-
November for its annual session. Following a luncheon, the physicians and their wives
stopped for this group picture in front of Duke Chapel. The society's active member
ship is limited to 50. Nearly all are professors of surgery and the majority are chair
men of departments of surgery.
Jennings Resigns Position,
No Successor Yet Named
The associate director for adminis
tration at the hospital has resigned to
take a position in Asheville.
Ralph E. Jennings, who came to Duke
in 1961, has been appointed executive
director of The Memorial Mission Hos
pital of Western North Carolina in Ashe
ville. The appointment is effective Jan. I.
In his new position, Jennings will
supervise all phases of patient service and
administration at Memorial Mission, a
380-bed non-profit community hospital.
A member of the American College of
Hospital Administrators and the Amer
ican Hospital Association, Jennings has
served as assistant superintendent, assist
ant administrative director, and associate
director for administration at Duke.
A native of Kingsport, Tenn., Jennings
received both B. A. and B. S. degrees
with honors from East Tennessee State
University. He completed the program
in hospital administration at Duke in
1956.
The retiring administrator served in
the Air Force Medical Service Corps from
1956-59 and was assistant administrator
at Memorial Hospital, Inc. in Johnson
City, Tenn., from 1959-61.
An instructor in hospital administra
tion at Duke, he served as a guest lecturer
in public health at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill during
1967-68. In 1965 he was an institute
instructor for the American Hospital As
sociation.
Jennings is married to the former
Patricia Ann Swogger of Lansing, Mich.
They have three children-Steven, 10, Lis-
anne, 8, and Jeffrey, 4. The family are
members of Trinity United Methodist
Church.
In Asheville, Jennings will succeed
W. W. Lawrance as executive director.
Duke has not announced a successor to
Jennings.
Dr. Aniyan'
Selected
By AAMC
Dean William G. Aniyan of the School
of Medicine has been elected chairman of
the Council of Deans of the Association
of American Medical Colleges.
The AAMC is the nation's major orga
nization representing the administrative
and educational framework of medical
schools and teaching hospitals. The
Council of Deans is one of the three
councils which make up the group.
Another faculty member. Dr. Daniel
C. Tosteson, chairman of the department
of physiology and pharmacology, was
named chairman-elect of the association's
Council of Academic Societies. As chair-
man-elect, he will assume direction of the
council next year.
The outgoing chairman of the Council
of Academic Societies is also a Duke
faculty member. Dr. Thomas Kinney,
professor of pathology and medical ed
ucation. Dr. Kinney will continue as a
member of the association's council.
Dr. Aniyan, named Duke's third med
ical dean in 1964, received his M.D. degree
from Yale University.
Busse Given
New Award
The Gerontological Society of the
United States presented its first annual
Kleemeier Award to Dr. Ewald W. Busse,
chairman of the Department of Psychi
atry, at the society's convention in Den
ver last month.
Dr. Busse received the award for his
outstanding contributions to research in
the field of aging. At the presentation
ceremonies. Dr. Busse delivered an invi
tational lecture entitled "A Temporal
Odyssey," and received an engraved Steu
ben star crystal.
The selection of the psychiatry chair
man was made by the Research Commit
tee of the society. The award is named
for the late Dr. Robert W. Kleemeier, a
past president of the Gerontological Soci
ety and significant contributor to basic
research in the aging process.
Dr. Busse is James B. Duke Professor
of Psychiatry and director of the Center
for the Study of Aging.