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VOLUME 16, NUMBER 6
JUNE, 1969
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
76 in 38th Class
Students Receive M.D. Degrees
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Four years of study and training came to an end
June 2 for the 76 men and women of the School of
Medicine's thirty-eighth graduating class.
The class participated in the traditional Hippo
cratic Oath ceremony June I and then received their
diplomas at University commencement exercises June
2.
Dr. William G. Aniyan, associate provost for medi
cal affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, pre
sided at the Hippocratic Oath program held in Duke
Chapel. Speaker was David Lee Valle, a member of
the Class of 1969.
Following the ceremony, a reception and luncheon
were held for the medical graduates and their families.
Guest of honor at the luncheon was Dr. Julio de
Leon, dean of the faculty of medical sciences. Uni
versity of San Carlos, Guatemala. Dr. de Leon is a
general surgeon.
Actual graduation exercises were held June 2 at
the Indoor Stadium. The Honorable Angier Biddle
Duke, United States ambassador to Belgium gave the
commencement address. Following the 10 a.m. Uni
versity graduation. Dr. Aniyan presented each grad
uate with his diploma.
Outstanding Med Grads
Recognized at Luncheon
Outstanding members of the 1969 gra
duating medical class were honored at
a luncheon following the Hippocratic
Oath Ceremony June 1.
The Smith Kline and French Award
for medical writing went to Maynard
Ramsey, III. The prize is a $100 check.
Recognized as recipient of the Davison
Scholarship was Dale Nolan Lawrence.
Eddie Lee Hoover, president of the
Davison Society for the past year, and
Jay David Cook, president of the Duke
chapter of the Student American Medical
Association in 1967-68, were named as
winners of the Duke University School of
Medicine Award.
Named recipient of the Borden Under
graduate Research Award in Medicine for
a paper titled "Release of Complementary
RNA from DNA Transcribed In Vitro"
was James Hobart Jenkins.
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Receiving M.D. degrees were
Alabama
Benton Bains Levie
California
James Wesley Fox, and Richard Al
bert Henderson, III
Connecticut
Richard Wriston Whitfield
Florida
E. Duane Carmalt, Donald Marger,
Maynard Ramsey, III, and Randal
James Williams
Georgia
Robert Wayne Alexander, Allen Easley
Cato, Jr., Thomas L. English, Harlan
Raymond Giles, and Richard Bacon
Morawetz
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