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VOLUME 17, NUMBER 15
OCTOBER 23, 1970
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
PEP Program Grads Enthusiastic
Two Complete DTI
11-Week Curriculum
PEP usually means enthusiasm.
And enthusiasm is just what Duke's
PEP (Paths for Employe Progress) grad
uates have.
PEP was organized last winter to pro
vide a means for employes to move up
the job ladder through education. This
fall PEP is counseling and financially as
sisting nearly 60 Duke employes enrolled
in health professions programs and train
ing classes.
The first two PEP students, both of
whom have already completed Durham
Technical Institute's 11-week Nurses' As
sistant Course through the program,
shared a bit of their enthusiasm with
Intercom.
"I really enjoyed the course at D. T. I.,
and what I learned has been a great help
in my job since I came back," Mrs.
Vesteria Spoone said. Mrs. Spoone, a
Patient Care Assistant I on Carter Suite
for about a year before beginning the nur
sing course, has now been promoted to
PCA II because of her additional training.
"I have more responsibility now, like
taking vital signs of patients," she added.
"I love the contact with the patients. You
feel so much more like you're helping
someone."
Alfornia Holt got into the PEP Pro
gram from the Medical Center's House
keeping Department. "I heard someone
talking about it, and I wanted a better job
so I went to talk with the PEP people,"
he explained. He had been working in
housekeeping for about six months when
he got into PEP. Now he is a PCA II
working on several different wards during
the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift. .
"I really liked the D. T. I. class," he
said. "I even got my mother-in-law in
terested and now she's taking it!"
Mrs. Spoone and Mr. Holt both say
they plan to continue moving up. Both
want to begin practical nurse training
through PEP next summer.
The PEP Office, directed by Howard
Lee and co-ordinated by Kenneth Line-
berger, acts as a clearing house for infor
mation on more than a dozen training
programs in the health professions. PEP
counselors Linda Darsie and Judy McKoy
can advise an employe about the require-
(continued on page three)
Four Elected to Board of Visitors
Four new members have been named
to the Medical Center's Board of Visitors.
The 16-member advisory body, which
meets at Duke each spring, provides an
objective study of on-going programs at
the Medical Center and makes re
commendations to the administration.
Representation includes the fields of
private industry and finance, as well as
medicine, nursing, and education.
The new members are James R. Felts,
Jr., executive director of the Hospital and
Child Care Section of the Duke En
dowment in Charlotte; Dr. Frank W.
Putnam, professor of molecular biology
in the Department of Zoology at Indiana
University in Bloomington; Dr. June S.
Rothberg, dean of the Adelphi University
School of Nursing in Garden City, N. Y.,
and Dr. Mitchell W. Spellman, dean of the
Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical
School in Los Angeles.
Other members of the board include
Dr. Kenneth R. Crispell, dean of the
University of Virginia School of Medicine
in Charlottesville; Dr. Martin M.
Cummings, director of the National
Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Md.; Dr.
Ruth B. Freeman, professor of public
(continued on page three)
NEW DUTIES—Mrs. Vesteria Spoone
makes a patient bed on Carter Suite in
her new role as a patient care assistant II.
She was one of the first PEP Program
graduates, (staff photo)
CHECKING THE LPN BROCHURE-
Alfornia Holt and PEP Counselor Linda
Darsie look over a booklet about Durham
Technical Institute's Licensed Practical
Nurse program. Mr. Holt recently com
pleted PCA II training through the PEP
Program, (staff photo)