School of Medicine Names
Two Assistant Professors
NEW MISS DURHAM—Faye Bass,
a 19-year-old employe in the admitting
office, was named Miss Durham in the
Miss USA pageant in March. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Welton W. Bass
of Fayetteville. In addition to a $300
wardrobe and gifts from merchants who
sponsored the contest, she won the right
to compete in the Miss North Carolina
pageant later this month in Raleigh.
Administration
Honors Auxiliary
On April 22, the hospital adminis
trative staff will again honor members of
the Duke Hospital Auxiliary at their
annual dinner.
The occasion serves to express the hos
pital's appreciation for auxiliary mem
bers who have given their time as volun
teers at the medical center. During the
past year, the auxiliary membership (in
cluding summer Candystriper volunteers)
contributed nearly 20,000 hours in vari
ous auxiliary projects.
Dr. Stuart M. Sessoms, hospital direc
tor, will present an after-dinner message
on the current status of the hospital.
A question-and-answer period will fol
low.
Gets National Award
A staff radiologic technologist has
won the second highest award given by
the American Society of Radiologic
Technologists for scientific papers.
Miss Cindi Campbell, a 1968 graduate
of the Duke RT school and a staff
technologist in the neuroradiology div
ision, received a cash award of $150
from the National Electrical Manufact
urers Association for her paper "Value
of Autotomography in the Demonstra
tion of Brain Tumors Affecting the Mid
line Ventricular System."
Miss Campbell will present her paper
at the national ASRT convention in
Atlanta June 28 to July 3.
University Provost Marcus E. Hobbs
has announced two promotions in the
School of Medicine.
Dr. Raymond Massengill, Jr., formerly
associate in medical speech pathology,
has been named assistant professor of
medical speech pathology in the division
of plastic and maxillofacial surgery. He
retains his title of director of medical
speech pathology.
Dr. Robert H. Wilkinson, Jr., was pro
moted from associate in radiology to
assistant professor in the same depart
ment.
Both men have assumed their new
positions.
Massengill, who is a native of Bristol,
Va., received his B. S. degree from the
University of Tennessee in 1958 and his
master's from the same institution in
1959. He earned his Ed. D. degree from
the University of Virginia in 1965.
A member of the Duke faculty since
1964, Massengill has also taught at the
University of North Carolina in Chapel
Hill.
A 1954 graduate of the College of
William and Mary, Wilkinson received his
M. D. degree from Washington University
in St. Louis in 1958. He served Jiis intern
ship at Jewish Hospital in St. Louis and a
three-year residency at the Medical Col
lege of Virginia in Richmond.
Wilkinson came to Duke as an associ
ate in the division of nuclear medicine in
1967.
New Scholarship Founded
In Hospital Administration
The Graduate Program in Hospital
Administration will receive the earnings
on a $55,000 gift for establishment of
scholarships.
The gift honors Mr. and Mrs. Marshall
I. Pickens of Charlotte, and the fund is to
be known as The Marshall I. and Sarah W.
Pickens Scholarship Fund. Mr. Pickens
is vice chairman of the board of trustees
of the Duke Endowment.
The fund was established by Mr. Pic
kens' sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary G. Pickens
of Charlotte, whose late husband, Stan
ton W. Pickens, was a Coca Cola Co.
executive.
In making the gift, Mrs. Pickens noted
that her brother-in-law, through his long
association with the Duke Endowment,
"has given unselfishly of his time and
talents to and has been an outstanding
influence for advancement in the field
of hospital administration."
The principal of the fund is not to be
expended in whole or in part, and only
the earnings used to establish one or more
scholarships in hospital administration.
Mrs. Pickens did not establish definite
guidelines for selection of recipients ex
cept that "they must be deserving, out
standing persons."
In acknowledgement, Charles H. Fren-
zel, director of the Duke University Hos
pital Administration program, said the
fund "will enable us to seek out out
standing young individuals for study in
hospital administration and for careers in
this demanding field."
Marshall Pickens, Mr. Frenzel said,
"has long been identified with excellence
in hospital administration and has been a
very special friend of the program in hos
pital administration at Duke University."
Manager Elected
The manager of the hospital storeroom
has been elected president of the North
Carolina Association of Hospital Pur
chasing Agents.
Representatives of 18 state hospitals
named Warren Wagner to the post at
a meeting here recently.
Wagner will preside at the association's
annual meeting at Wake County Memorial
Hospital in Raleigh May 16.