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Anesthesiology oroond the hospital
Faydene Watson transferred to
anesthesiology in the blood gas lab
from pediatrics recently
Audiovisual Education
Susan Cushwa is new in patient
photography
Biochemistry
Donna Rich is a new research
technician I! in Dr. Henry Kamin's
lab ... . Martin Bryant and Robert
Williams are part-time student
technicians .... Sharon Shanklin is
helping in the glassware washing
area during the summer ....
Frances Wheeler, technician for Dr.
Kamin, resigned June 12 .... Dr.
Donald Calbreath has concluded his
postdoctoral work in Dr. Philip
Handler's lab and will take a
position as director of the clinical
chemistry laboratory at Watts
Hospital in Durham
Business Office
Ron and Joyce Whitten are the
proud parents of twins, a boy and a
girl, born June 15 ... . Mrs. Judy
Woods is now employed in the
insurance office .... new in
bookkeeping is Mrs. Edna (Van)
Kearney .... Mrs. Mary Wright in
bookkeeping has retired .... Steve
Prye transferred to the hospital
admitting office from the
emergency room
Cabell Ward
Denise Macklin, R.N., has
resigned to move from Durham
with her husband .... Jean
Shepard, R.N., resigned from the
Respiratory Care Unit .... new
ward clerk is Anna Burgess
Cardiology
Isaac Bess is a new patient care
technician in the cardiac
catheterization lab ... . Mrs. Ellen
Bivins has transferred to the
Department of Community Health
Sciences to work for Dr. E. Harvey
Estes
Central Supply
Mrs. Catherine Rogers has been
ill for the past several weeks ....
Mrs. Cellie Peel spent her vacation
in Clearwater, Florida
General Surgical Unit
Sharon Brooks and Rita
Solomon are new R.N.'s on Cushing
ward .... R.N. Kathleen Shields is
now working on Reed ward ....
Joanne Grauerholz, R.N., has begun
work on McDowell .... Mary
Colclough, advanced L.P.N., and
L.P.N.'s Viola Mitchell and Delma
Slade are now working on
McDowell ward .... new ward
clerks for the summer include Juliet
E. Crennel, Wanda G. Hall, Deborah
L. Nowack, Karen H. Swanson, and
Margaret Rhoads .... Louis Smith
has been promoted to housekeeping
supervisor on the fourth floor ....
Emma Shephard has transferred to
unit services from housekeeping . . .
. Suzzanne Marchand, L.P.N. on
Cushing, resigned and is now living
in Greenwich, Connecticut . . . .
Brenda Saintsing, R.N. on Reed,
resigned to move to Winston-Salem
. ... Ida Beth Lawton, R.N. on
McDowell, has left Durham and is
now living in California .... R.N.
Kay Hall of Cushing ward resigned
to take a position as nursing
supervisor at a nursing home in
Chapel Hill .... Rosemarie Tindall,
R.N. on Halsted, resigned to get
married and has moved to
Massachusetts
Hospital Hostesses
Mrs. Anita Price from
Bordenton, New Jersey, has joined
the hostess staff. She is a graduate
of Virginia State College at
Petersburg. Her husband is
employed as a senior staff assistant
in education with IBJVl in Research
Triangle Park .... Mrs. Judith
Holland, coordinator of the hostess
program for the past four years,
resigned to take a position with
Information Services Corporation.
Mrs. Jane M. Pate, at Duke since
1 965, has taken over the
coordinator post
Immunology
Bobbie Hardaker, Starra Parrish,
and David Shimm are summer
laboratory helpers in the
department .... Lois Davis,
technician, has resigned to arrange
final plans for her wedding
Long Ward
Mrs. Queen Graves and her
husband spent their vacation in
Hawaii this summer .... Mrs.
Brenda Curley is a relief secretary
for the summer .... Wayne Sasser
and Gray Tuttle are new medical
technicians .... Dana Holton and
Chris Leeper are now working as
PCA's on the ward .... Mrs. Gloria
Daye has resigned to move to New
Jersey with her husband .... Miss
Maxine Massey and Miss larian
Gordan are participating in the PCA
III program
Medical Center Library
New faces in the library include
Constance Swain, James McLarty,
and William Neal .... Mrs. Peggy
Gratz of the nursing library and
Donald Baskette of the main library
have resigned
Medical PDC
Linda Pender, receptionist at
window 5, resigned June 26 ... .
Helen Merriweather, switch-board
operator, transferred to radiation
therapy .... insurance office
employes sponsored a picnic at the
home of Miss Debbie Wheeler
recently to honor three expectant
mothers in the office .... deepest
sympathy is extended to Ann
Smith, clinic receptionist, whose
mother, Mrs. Alma Laxton, died
suddenly June 16 in Miami, Florida
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