Faculty Wives Establish
Permanent Scholarship
The Medical School Faculty Wives
Club at Duke University has established
a permanent endowment to provide schol
arships for medical students from its
Nearly New Shoppe.
The group, consisting of about 150
members, voted October 29 to donate
$10,000 to set up the fund, with hopes
that the interest income from it event
ually would provide a full scholarship
each year.
The club founded the Nearly New
Shoppe, a used merchandise mart on
Erwin Road, a year and a half ago to
furnish inexpensive clothing and house
hold items for low-income families. Art
icles are either donated or taken on
consignment with the seller receiving
half the sale price on consigned items.
Profits from the first few months of
business at the shop were given to the
Medical Center last year to sponsor a full
tuition scholarship for a medical student
for each of his four years at Duke. This
is in addition to the new gift.
The new endowment will be known as
the Medical School Faculty Wives of
Duke University Scholarship Fund, and
scholarships from it will be available to
North Carolina students only.
"We want to show the people of
North Carolina that we are concerned
citizens striving to ease the problems of
getting a medical education in these times
of rising costs and expectations," Mrs.
Richard Lester, proposal committee chair
man, said.
The decision to establish the scholar
ship fund was the result of meetings be
tween the four-member proposal com
mittee and everyone from Dr. William G.
Aniyan, vice president for health affairs,
to the medical students themselves.
Mrs. Lester noted that if the club con
tinues the present level of adding to the
fund, enough income to support a full
scholarship could be expected in about
four or five years.
Assisting Mrs. Lester in preparing the
scholarship proposal were Mrs. Philip
Pratt, Mrs. Glen Young, and Mrs. Robert
Hill, with Mrs. Robert Whalen, club
president, as an ex officio member.
EEG Meetings Held in Durham
Durham was the site of four meetings
for health care personnel involved with
electroencephalography the last week in
October.
A two-day review course for electro-
encephalographic technologists from all
over the eastern U. S. was held October
29-30 at the Medical Center. Approx
imately 45 EEG technologists were at
Duke for the postgraduate course.
Also on October 30, Duke hosted the
American Board of Registration for EEG
technologists from throughout the coun
try who were applying for national certi
fication. Three registered Duke tech
nologists and four Duke M. D.'s served
as associate examiners for the session.
A one-day meeting of the Southern
Section of EEG Technologists was held
October 31 at the Durham Hotel. Mrs.
Fay S. Tyner, a registered EEG tech
nologist and chief technologist at the
Medical Center, was convention chairman.
Perry Hope, a registered EEG tech
nologist at Duke, presented a paper on
electrocortiocography and epilepsy.
November 1 and 2 were the dates for
the annual meeting of the Southern
Electroencephalographic Society held in
Durham. Dr. Robert L. Green, Jr.,
associate professor of psychiatry at Duke
and chief of psychiatry at the Veterans
Administration Hospital, was program
chairman for the convention.
Dr. Green, who is now president of the
society. Dr. William P. Wilson, professor
of psychiatry and director of clinical
neurophysiology at the Medical Center,
and seven other Duke faculty members
presented scientific papers at the session.
DIETETICS
SUPER SALAD—Mrs. Lucille Clay
uses long plastic gloves to toss a cottage
cheese salad in the dietetics department's
salad room, (photo by Bill Boyarsky)
DESSERT AND MORE DESSERT—
Mrs. Martha Perry cuts and serves dozens
of pies for Medical Center patients and
employes. (photo by Bill Boyarsky)