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Department of Medicine
Promotes 3 to Professor
The Department of Medicine at the
medical center has promoted three men
to the rank of full professor. Announce
ment of the promotions was made by
University Provost Marcus Hobbs.
Dr. John B. Pfeiffer, Dr. Roscoe R.
Robinson and Dr. Herbert A. Saltzman,
all formerly associate professors, will as
sume their new positions April I.
Pfeiffer, a native of New York, re
ceived a B. S. degree from St. Peter's
College in 1934. He earned his M. D.
degree at Cornell University Medical Col
lege in 1942 and served as an intern and
resident at New York Hospital.
A former ward surgeon in internal
medicine with the Army Medical Corps,
Pfeiffer came to Duke in 1949 and has
been associate professor of neurology
since 1958. He is also a consultant in
neurology at Watts Hospital in Durham.
Robinson, who came to Duke as an
associate in medicine in I960, earned his
B. S. degree from Central State College in
Oklahoma in 1949 and his M. D. degree
from the University of Oklahoma School
of Medicine in 1954.
He was named associate professor of
medicine in 1965 and is presently also
chief of the division of nephrology.
A native of Philadelphia, Saltzman
attended Ursinus College in Collegeville,
Pa., and received his M. D. degree from
Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia
in 1952. He served his internship and
residency in both his native city and at
Lackland Air Force Hospital.
He came to Duke in 1958 and was
chief of pulmonary diseases at the Dur
ham Veterans' Hospital until 1963. He is
presently director of the hyperbaric unit.
More Than 100 Hours Each
Given By Auxiliary Volunteers
Fifty-five members of the Duke Hos
pital Auxiliary donned their pink smocks
to give more than 100 hours of service
each to the hospital last year.
Two of the members reached the
thousand mark in volunteer hours.
Auxiliary members worked on the
pediatrics wards, as guides and hostesses,
as receptionists in the outpatient clinic,
as shop cart and library personnel and as
volunteers in the auxiliary's two snack
bars and the Pink Smock Gift Shop.
Members contributing more than 1,000
hours included Mrs. Glenn Nelgey, 1,400,
and Mrs. Audrey Silberman, 1,000.
Mrs. A. K. Manchester gave 400 vol
unteer hours while Mrs. Raymond V.
Lee served 331.
Other members giving 200 hours or
more included Miss Etheral Black, Mrs.
Franklin Bowers, Mrs. Cary Cole, Mrs.
Robert Colver, Mrs. Brainerd Currie, Mrs.
Henry Emerson, Mrs. C. R. Hauser, Mrs.
Mamie McClees, Mrs. E. L. Persons, Miss
A/lary Robinson, Mrs. Julian Ruffin, and
Miss Elizabeth Tinsley.
The 39 women who donated 100 or
more of their time to the hospital in
cluded Mrs. D. K. Adams, Mrs. J. R.
Alden, Mrs. Mildred Baldwin, Mrs. Sue
Bryant, Mrs. P. Budd, Jr., Mrs. H. B.
Burrack, Mrs. A. G. Carr, Mrs. L. B.
Christian, Mrs. W. C. Clay, Mrs. Mildred
Durden, Mrs. J. W. Everett, Mrs. Sher
wood Githens, Mrs. L. L. Gobbel, Mrs.
Edwin C. Hamblen, Mrs. Chris C. Hamlet,
Mrs. E. S. Harrar, Mrs. W. R. Hudson,
Mrs. O. W. Jones, Mrs. Arthur Kale,
Mrs. J. D. Kimrey, Mrs. Richard Leach,
Mrs. T. W. Minah, Mrs. B. S. Nashold,
Mrs. H. S. Perry, Mrs. Ritz Ray, Mrs.
Kelsey Regen, Mrs. Verl Reichenbach,
Mrs. Harvey Ross, Mrs. Herbert Sieker,
Mrs. H. Shelton Smith, Mrs. Haywood
Taylor, Mrs. Arlin Turner, Mrs. Clement
Vollmer, Mrs. C. E. Ward, Mrs. V. K.
Warrick, Mrs. Finley White, Mrs. Samuel
Wiley, Mrs. Roland Wilkins and Mrs.
James Wyngaarden.
DR. STEAD
Dr. Stead
Presented
ACP Award
Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr., professor of
medicine and former chairman of the
department, has received the first Distin
guished Teacher Award from the Amer
ican College of Physicians.
The ACP announcement of the award
said the organization is "recognizing the
enobling qualities of a great teacher who
has achieved leadership in the field of
medical education."
The award will be presented at the
college's 50th annual session April 20-25
in Chicago.
Also at the meeting. Dr. W. C. Davi
son, first dean of the Duke School of
Medicine, will be the recipient of a mas
tership in the organization.
Dr. Stead received both his B. S. and
M. D. degrees from Emory University in
Atlanta. He was formerly an instructor
in medicine at Harvard University School
of Medicine and served as dean of the
Emory School of Medicine from 1945 to
1946. He has been at Duke since 1947.
In addition to his teaching work with
residents, interns and medical students.
Dr. Stead was instrumental in the devel
opment of the physicians' assistant pro
gram.