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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 28 JULY 23, 1971 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Take Supervisory Course
100 Employes
THIS IS HOW IT WORKS—Di. John Bittikofer, assistant director of the Clinical
Chemistry Laboratory, explains the operation of a gasoline engine to others taking the
Training Center's supervisory course. The session was aimed at helping supervisors
learn more about instructing other employes. Supervisors watching Dr. Bittikofer are,
from left to right, Samuel Hargraves of the Clinical Chemistry Lab, Mary Green of
Dietetics, Vernon Elmore of Clinical Chemistry, and Ozie Alston of Dietetics, (staff
photo)
4 Faculty Promotions Announced
Four new associate professors have
been named at the Medical Center.
Announcement of the promotions
came from University Provost John 0.
Blackburn.
The new associate professors are Dr.
K. V. Rajagopalan in the Department of
Biochemistry-Genetics, Dr. Norman B.
Ratliff Jr., in the Department of
Pathology, Dr. Daniel T. Gianturco in the
Department of Psychiatry, and Dr. John
Jimenez in the Department of Radiology.
Dr. Rajagopalan, a native of India,
earned the B. S., M.Sc., and Ph. D.
degrees from Madras University there. He
joined the Duke staff as a research
associate in biochemistry in 1959 and was
named assistant professor in 1967.
A 1962 Duke School of Medicine
graduate, Dr. Ratliff joined the Duke
staff in 1966 as an associate in pathology
and was promoted to assistant professor
in 1969. He took his postgraduate
training here at the Medical Center.
Dr. Gianturco, also an assistant
professor of community health sciences,
holds a B. A. degree from the University
of Buffalo in New York and earned his
M. D. at the School of Medicine there.
In 1951, Dr. Jimenez earned his degree
from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in
Blacksburg, Va., and earned his M. D.
from the Medical Collge of Virginia in
Richmond in 1955. He came to Duke in
1965 and was named assistant professor
in 1967.
There are more students at the Medical
Center than the ones in medicine,
nursing, and the allied health fields that
everybody hears about.
Many of them are employes who take
their courses in one of two inconspicuous
houses on Erwin Road near the Pickens
Rehabilitation Center.
The place is the Duke Training and
Development Center and the goal is
education for the people who work at
Duke.
About 100 supervisors from
practically every department in the
Medical Center recently took advantage
of a Training Center program designed
specifically for them.
The course, which ran three hours a
day for five days, was aimed at helping
individuals understand more about the
vartous responsibilities of supervision and
how they handle these responsibilities.
The classes concentrated on
supervisory essentials like motivating and
instructing employes, delegating, and
organizing and planning job activities.
Innovative teaching methods
underscored all the classes, making the
course interesting as well as informative
for Duke supervisors.
"We want to set up a real pattern of
development for supervisors," Bill Myers,
training manager and organizer of the
course, explained. "We hope to give them
some models of supervision that will help
them in their jobs."
The next program in the series of
supervisors will be one on employe
relations scheduled to begin within the
next few weeks.
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