PEP — Training for a New Future
Nursing Service
Gives 51 Awards
Ten-year pins and certificates were
presented to 51 employes of nursing
service at a coffee hour April 23.
Mrs. Verna Sticht, acting director for
nursing service, handed out the
certificates.
Honored were the following;
Edith Ashe, Medical OPC; Katie Bell,
Recovery Room; Arlenia Cobb, Prevost
Ward; Gladys Davis, Strudwick ward;
Lecie J. Daves, McDowell ward; Jo Ann
Douglas, Osier ward; Sadie Evans, Halsted
ward; Janet Je Frans, Matas ward; Betty
S. Freeman, supervisor; Maedell R. Gattis,
PRN; Ejia L. Goss, Third East ward;
Mildred Gray, Long ward; Recie H. Gray,
Meyer ward; Mary H. Gunter, Third East*
ward; Dorothy B. Hall, Third East ward;
Levea R. Hansley, Meyer ward; Zenobia
H. Harden, Howland ward; Norma L
Harris, clinical specialist, renal
transplantation; Barbara L. Hines, Long
ward; Joncey B. Hinton, Hanes ward;
Althea Inghram, NSU; Levi Johnson,
Medical OPC; Earnestine Joy, Third West
ward; Ruth W. Keener, Howland ward;
Hattie Lane, Halsted ward; Dorothy
Lawrence, Third East ward; Louise Long,
Welch ward; Rosa B. Meadows, Third
East ward; Alice McNeil, Hanes ward;
Cora A. Miller, Strudwick ward; Evelyn
D. Morgan, Rankin ward; Ada Morton,
Medical OPC; Catherine Page, Long ward;
Lola R. Page, Medical OPC; Pamela
Parker, McDowell ward; Frances N.
Pickett, Meyer ward; Nannie Proctor,
Medical OPC; Gladys Richardson, Hanes
ward; Louise Sims; Emergency Room;
Irene M. Smith, Strudwick ward; Bernice
Suggs, Medical OPC; Ettie Tart, Howland
.ward; Celestine Tate, CCU; Sadie
Thompson, Hanes ward; Beatrice Uzzell,
Minot ward; Roy Edward Warren, Meyer
ward; Geneva F. Watkins, Medical OPC;
Nannie Lou Watson, Strudwick ward;
Evelyn E. Wilbourne, Osier ward; Gladys
W. Williams, ICN; Bernice S. Womble,
Howland ward.
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American Medical Colleges. Dr. William
G. Aniyan, vice-president for health
affairs, was formerly head of the group’s
Council of Deans and will assume the
chairmanship of the AAMC later this
year.
PEP can make a difference. In your
job. In your future. In your outlook on
life.
PEP means Paths for Employe
Progress, a Medical Center program
designed to give employes a chance to
move up the job ladder through
education.
The program acts as a clearing house
for information on more than a dozen
health-related training programs in the
area. Counselors with PEP can advise and
aid employes about requirements and
application procedures for these health
programs.
But, more importantly, the PEP
Program is able to provide financial aid to
employes who participate in PEP as they
continue their education.
Most often, employes helped by PEP
keep their regular job' part-time and
receive a stipend while they are in school.
Since the PEP Program was established
last November, Director Howard Lee and
his staff have responded to more than
200 inquiries about educational
opportunities from Duke employes.
"We want to help each employe
interested in advancing himself work out
the best educational plan," Kenneth P.
Lineberger, Jr., PEP coordinator, said.
PEP's first student-employes began
courses in March. Presently one Duke
employe is in licensed practical nurse
training, two are working on bachelor's
degrees in nursing at North Carolina
Central University, and another is taking
a correspondence course.
When schools open in September, PEP
hopes to have several dozen more
employees enrolled in a variety of
training programs.
Some L.P.N.'s and P.C.A.'s have
applied to the Duke Physician's Assistant
Program, and more than a dozen P.C.A.'s
ward clerks, secretaries, and dietetics
employes plan to begin practical nurse
training.
A catalogue containing more
information about PEP and the health
programs coordinated through it will be
available to employes within the next few
months.
"We are delighted with the response to
the program so far," Mr. Lineberger said.
"Supervisors are enthusiastic about
prospects for employes to get more'
education and learn new skills."
Mr. Lineberger added that any Medical
Center employe interested in moving up’
into some area of the health professions
should come to the PEP Office and talk
with the staff (no appointment
necessary).
The office is temporarily located on
the first floor of the hospital near the
main lobby. Telephone extension is 6343.
10-YEAR AWARDS—employes in the Department of Dietetics talk with
Medical Center Personnel Director Robert Tuthill at a reception in their honor last
month. All five were presented certificates and pins for their 10 years' service to Duke.
From left are Mr. Tuthill, Bertha J. McRae, Lucious Daye, Mable Wilson, Queen E.
Williams, and Nancy K. Curtis, (photo by Dave Hooks)