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VOLUME 17, NUMBER 10
SEPTEMBER 18, 1970
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Provost Lists 11
Professors
Duke University Provost Dr.
John 0. Blackburn has announced
promotion of eleven Medical Center
faculty members to full
professorships effective this
academic year.
Four of the promotions came in
the Department of Medicine, two
each in the School of Nursing and
the Department of Pathology, and
one each in the departments of
b i ochemistry-genetics, psychiatry,
and radiology.
Named professor of medicine
were Dr. Joseph C. Greenfield, Jr.,
Dr. Kaye H. Kilburn, Dr. John
Laszio, and Dr. Ernst Peschel. All
were formerly associate professors.
Dr. Greenfield, originally of
Atlanta, earned both his A. B.
degree in history and his M. D.
from Emory University there. He
served his internship and residency
at Duke.
Dr. Greenfield retains his title as
assistant professor of physiology
and will continue as director of the
Duke Heart Station.
Dr. Kilburn received his B.A.
degree from the University of Utah
in 1951 and his M. D. from the
same university in 1954. He took a
research fellowship in medicine at
Duke and a U. S. Public Health
Service fellowship in the cardiac
department of Brompton Hospital
in London.
He will continue as assistant
professor of anatomy.
A native of Cologne, Germany,
Dr. Laszio earned his A. B. degree
at Columbia University and his
M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
He interned at the University of
Chicago before coming to Duke in
I960 as an associate in medicine.
Dr. Peschel, originally from
Dessau, Germany, received his
medical training at the University
of Berlin and completed an
internship there. He spent several
years in private practice in Berlin
before coming to Duke.
In the School of Nursing, Miss
Gwendolyn Fortune and Miss
Wilma Minniear were named full
professors.
Miss Fortune was associated
with the Frances Payne Bolton
School of Nursing at Case Western
Reserve University in Cleveland
before being appointed to the Duke
staff in 1964.
She earned her B. S. in nursing
there in 1943 and her M. A. in
education from Case Western in
1949. She has also done graduate
work at the Teachers College of
Columbia University.
Miss Minniear, who began duties
as director of nursing service at
Duke Hospital in July, was also
formerly on the faculty of the
School of Nursing at Case
Western Reserve.
She earned her diploma from
Ball Memorial Hospital School of
Nursing in Muncie, Indiana, and
then completed requirements for a
B. S. degree at Ball State
University. She earned her M. S. in
nursing service administration at
Case Western in 1952.
Dr. Joachim R. Sommer, at
Duke since 1958, and Dr. Benjamin
Wittels, here since 1961, were
promoted from associate professors
to professors in the Department of
Pathology.
Dr. Sommer graduated from the
University of Munich Medical
School in Germany in 1950 and did
his postgraduate training in
Washington, D. C., and Norfolk. He
recently completed a post-doctoral
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PROMOTED TO PCA ///—Seven patient care assistants recently
completed a two-month course to qualify for promotions to the PCA III
level. From right to left, front row, are Lawrence Davis, Rosa Meadows,
Marian Gordon, Dorothy Moore, and William Nichols. Second row; Eula
Coleman, instructor with Patient Care Education, Sally Davis, Maxine
Massey, and Donna Aita, also an instructor, (photo by Dave Hooks)