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1 CHECKING NEW EQUIPMENT—Mr. R. H. Bell, field manager of technical services for Western Union, listens to Duke Medical Center Amateur Radio Club President Joe Edwards illustrate a point about the new facsimile machines Western Union has donated to station WB4BLK. Dr. E. Croft Long, associate dean for undergraduate medical education, looks on. Radio Station Is Presented New Production Machines The medical center's ties with other nations were strengthened recently when radio station WB4BLK received machines which will aid doctors from countries participating in Duke's Med-Aid Program. The eight units are a gift to the medical center from Western Union. The equipment, called facsimile ma-- chines, will permit physicians in other lands to send graphic diagnostic test results such as x-rays to Duke specialists for consultation. Project Med-Aid, begun in 1966, is designed to open the resources of medical specialists at Duke to doctors in nations which do not have access to large medical centers. These foreign physicians contact Duke through station WB4BLK to get the opinions or recommendations of Duke doctors who are experts in that field. In addition to receiving test results from doctors in other countries, the new equipment will permit medical center personnel to send medical illustrations and photographs back to isolated doctors to aid in treating their patients. Station WB4BLK, with facilities lo cated on the fifth floor of the Gerontol ogy Building, is manned by volunteer members of the Duke Medical Center Amateur Radio Club to carry on project Med-Aid. The station has 1,000-watt transmitting and receiving equipment and operates at a frequency of 14.250 mega cycles. Duke consultants can answer remote inquiries from the nearest telephone. The station has equipment to connect the phone directly with the radio caller for the conversation. Facilities for tape re cording messages for reference files or re-transmission are also available. The station has received inquiries from over a dozen countries in Central and South America and Africa. The project is being supported by the Elida B. Lang ley Charitable Trust of Fayetteville, N.C. and New York. Lectureship Will Honor Mrs. Carter Establishment of a memorial lecture ship in honor of the late Harriet Cook Carter has been announced by a commit tee organized after her death to set up a lasting tribute. It will be named the Harriet Cook Carter Lectureship. Mrs. Carter, wife of Dr. F. Bayard Carter who was the first chairman of the Duke Department of Obstetrics and Gy necology, died Oct. II, 1968. She was one of the founders of the Duke Hospital Women's Auxiliary. The memorial, originally a small, un named lectureship begun by the 1963 graduating class of the School of Nursing, is expected to be instituted at the alum nae banquet of the school scheduled in April. Mrs. Carter was a nurse and an honorary member of the Duke University School of Nursing Alumnae Association. In announcing the memorial, the com mittee stated, "It is the intent of this lectureship to honor and hold in Con stant memory this compassionate and unusually creative lady who endeared herself to Duke University and the Dur ham community through her widespread activities." Contributions for the support of the lectureship are being received from per sons both at Duke and from many other parts of the country. They should be mailed to Mrs. Banks Anderson, Jr., Ill Baker House. Med Students Receive Awards Eight nuedical students have received awards for "special academic excellence" during the past school year. The awards, made annually by the School of Medicine, were checks for the purchase of books of the student's choice. They were presented during the Dean's Hour Dec. 12. The recipients were Jay Cook of Ham mond, Ind., Mrs. Diane Edwards of Wan- tagh, N. Y., and David Valle of Leawood, Kan., seniors; William McGuffin of Green ville, Tenn., Miss Carol Silver of Raleigh, and Miss Nancy Stead of Durham, ju niors; and Bernard Thomas of Silver Spring, Md., and Evan Slater of Riverside, Conn., sophomores.
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