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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 33
AUGUST 27, 1971
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Eight 40-Year Employes
14 Honored at Service Awards Dinner
Eight men and women, several of
whom began work at the Medical Center
before it opened, were recognized as
Duke's first 40-year employes at the
annual Service Awards Program Aug. 17.
Six other persons, also honored at the
dinner held at the Angus Barn, joined the
59 member group of employes who have
worked at the Medical Center at least 30
years.
The 14 new members of the Duke's
Thirty and Forty Year Club have
accumulated more than 500 man-years of
service.
The 40-year employes received a cer
tificate and a diamond pin engraved
with a replica of the Medical Center. The
30-year award recipients were presented a
certificate and a Medical Center pin with
two sapphires.
Speaker for the program was Dr.
William G. Aniyan, Duke vice-president
for health affairs, while Dr. Barnes
Woodhall, James B. Duke Professor of
Neurosurgery, presented the awards.
Hospital Director Dr. Stuart M. Sessoms
welcomed the guests.
The Duke Medical Center Chorus, a 30
member group of employes, entertained
the honorees and their guests.
Among the 40-year award recipients
was the Medical Center's longest term
employe, Donald Love, who began work
at Duke several weeks before the Hospital
opened. He helped out in a number of
areas during the first 15 years of his stay
at Duke, but has spent about 25 years
with the Department of Pathology where
he is now a medical technician.
Mr. Love says he can remember
watching the workmen put the finishing
touches on the first Hospital buildings
and remembers helping furnish the
patient rooms and ready the bed linens.
The other 40-year honorees included
Drs. Frederick and Mary Bernheim, both
FOUR DECADES OF SERVICE—Dr. Barnes Woodhall, third from right, talks with
five of the eight persons recognized as Duke Medical Center's first 40-year employes.
From left to right are Preston Smith, supervisor of the private medical laboratory;
Donald Love, Duke's longest-term employe now with the Department of Pathology;
Sam Sellers, an employe of the medical center storeroom until his retirement recently
just after his 40th employment anniversary; Dr. Woodhall; Hoyle Craig, supervisor of
the Duke serology laboratory; and Carl Bishop, technical associate in the Department
of Pathology. Other 40-year honorees not present were Dr. Frederick Bernheim, James
B. Duke Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology; Dr. Mary L. C. Bernheim,
professor of Biochemistry; and Lillian Trevathan, hospital receptionist who retired
earlier this month, (photo by Mike Wayda) For additional photos, see page four.
on the faculty of the School of Medicine.
Dr. Frederick Bernheim is presently
James B. Duke Professor of Physiology
and Pharmacology and his wife is a
professor of biochemistry.
Two technical associates in the
Department of Microbiology and
Immunology were also recognized for 40
years' service. They are Hoyle Craig,
supervisor of the serology laboratory, and
Preston Smith, supervisor of the private
medical laboratory.
Sam Sellers, an employe of the
biochemistry storeroom, also received the
40-year pin. Mr. Sellers retired earlier this
summer just after completing his 40th
year at Duke.
Carl. Bishop, photographer for the
Department of Pathology and also a
technical associate in the department, and
Lillian Trevathan, Hospital receptionist
who retired earlier this month, also were
honored at the dinner for 40 years of
service to Duke.
Thirty-year honorees include Dr.
Susan Dees, professor of pediatrics; Dr.
Kenneth Duke, associate professor of
anatomy; Twila Gardner, head nurse in
the Medical Private Diagnostic Clinic;
Roscoe Graham, an employe of the
Department of Dietetics; Dr. E.E.
Menefee, Jr., professor of medicine; and
Elenora Torrence, head nurse on Matas
Ward,