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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 12
APRIL2, 1971
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
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AFTER-DINNER CONVER
SATION—Alma Smith, left, and Mrs.
Julia Negley talk with Assistant Hospital
Director Kenneth M. Holt following the
annual Auxiliary "thank-you" dinner
March 16. (staffphoto)
Hospital Tells
Duke Auxiliary
'Many Thanks’
Nearly 100 members of the Duke
Hospital Auxiliary were on hand for the
Hospital's annual dinner in honor of the
volunteers March 16 in the main
cafeteria.
Dr. Stuart M. Sessoms, director of the
Hospital, presided as master of
ceremonies.
Following the dinner, B. G. McCall
and Ashley Gale, both with the Duke
Endowment staff in Charlotte, presented
a slide-tape program on the history of the
Endowment's charitable work in North
and South Carolina.
During the year 1970, the Duke
auxiliary volunteers, along with the
teen-aged candystripers, gave nearly
24,000 hours of service to the Hospital.
Provost Announces Nine Changes
For School of Medicine Faculty
Duke University Provost Dr. John 0.
Blackburn has announced promotion of
four Medical Center faculty members to
the post of full professor.
Two new associate professors and.
three assistant professors were also
named.
The new professors are Dr. Stanley
Appel and Dr. Harold E. Lebovitz, both
in the Department of Medicine, Dr. Philip
C. Pratt in the Department of Pathology,
and Dr. George G. Somjen in the
Department of Physiology and
Pharmacology.
Dr. Appel, chief of the division of
neurology since 1969, is a graduate of
Harvard University and earned his M.D.
from New York's Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons in
1960.
He came to Duke in 1967 from a post
with the University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Dr.
Appel, who also holds the position of
associate professor of biochemistry at
Duke, won the Golden Apple Award for
excellence in teaching here in 1970.
Dr. Lebovitz came to Duke in 1959 as
a clinical fellow in endocrinology and
metabolism and has been associate
professor and director of the division of
endocrinology since 1965. He was named
assistant professor of physiology in 1969.
Dr. Lebovitz is a graduate of the
University of Pittsburgh and received his
M.D. from the medical school there in
1956. Since 1963, he has been a research
career development awardee of the
National Institute of Arthritis and
Metabolic Diseases.
Formerly associate professor of
pathology at the Ohio State Medical
School in Columbus, Dr. Pratt came to
Duke as an associate professor in 1966.
Last fall he was named chief of
laboratory services at the Durham
Veterans Administration Hospital.
Dr. Pratt is a 1941 graduate of
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., and
completed his medical training in 1944 at
the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in
Baltimore. He was affiliated with Saranac
Laboratory at Saranac Lake, N.Y., for
nearly 10 years before joining the Ohio
State faculty in 1955.
Dr. Somjen, a native of Hungary,
received his medical training at the
University of Amsterdam Faculty of
Medicine in Holland. He received his
research doctorate from the University of
New Zealand in 1961.
He was appointed to the Duke faculty
as an assistant professor of physiology in
1963 and was promoted to associate
professor in 1966. Dr. Somjen also holds
the3osition of lecturer in psychology.
(continued on page three)
BOTTLES TO 5/4GS—Assistant
Hospital Director Richard Peck holds in
his right hand a plastic bag filled with
intravenous (IV) solution. The bag-type
packaging replaces the glass container
which he holds in his other hand. In
citing their adv antages, Mr. Peck said the
plastic containers are unbreakable and
they reduce the chance of contamination
because fluid flows from them by
atmospheric pressure on the outside of
the bag. Room air must be used to
maintain flow from the bottles, (photo
by Jim Wallace)