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VOLUME 16, NUMBER 10
NOVEMBER, 1969
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Assistant to Dr, Kinney
Howard Lee to Direct P. E. P.
Howard Lee is tackling a new job at
Duke.
In his role as assistant to Dr. Thomas
D. Kinney, director of medical education
--a job he has held since earlier this fall--
Lee is heading up a new employee pro
gram at the Medical Center called PEP.
PEP means Paths for Employee Pro
gress.
It is founded on the idea that the
purpose of an educational institution
isn't only to educate from the inside out,
but also from the inside in.
Duke doesn't want any employee who
has the personal incentive and the ability
to advance to another job to be held back
because there is no path for him to
follow to get there.
Lee, former director of employee re
lations who also is mayor of Chapel
Hill, made these observations in his pro
posal for the program:
"The overall purpose and objective of
this program is to provide a central
office to help employees learn about and
take advantage of any and alt educational
programs in the allied health field, which
are now a part of the Duke University
health education program.
"Also," Lee said, "this program is
designed to make sure that any employee
who has the desire and interest is given
every opportunity to advance himself or
herself educationally as well as to increase
the possibilities of greater upward mo
bility in the health field for employees
at Duke University."
Since assuming duties as assistant to
Dr. Kinney, Lee has been working pri
marily in medical school recruitment,
particularly among minority groups and
the disadvantaged.
Lee said the PEP program would be
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MR. LEE
New Assistant Administrators on Duty
hi
Kenneth Holt, Richard
Peck Join Duke Staff
Two new assistant directors of the
hospital have been named by hospital
administration.
They are Kenneth M. Holt of Durham
and Richard H. Peck of South Euclid,
Ohio. Both began work November 17.
They join S. Douglas Smith and Oscar
R. Ay lor as assistant directors of Duke
Hospital.
Mr. Holt, 37, has been assistant di
rector of Watts Hospital in Durham since
November 1966. Prior to that appoint
ment, he was assistant administrator of
Petersburg General Hospital in Petersburg,
Va.
MR. PECK
MR. HOLT
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