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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 34
SEPTEMBER 3, 1971
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Change in Hospital Administration
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RICHARD PECK NEW ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Richard H. Peck, an assistant director
of Duke Hospital since Nov. 17, 1969,
has been promoted to associate director.
The appointment was announced by
Dr. Stuart M. Sessoms, hospital director,
following confirmation by the University
Board of Trustees.
Mr. Peck succeeds C. Edward
McCauley, who assumed duties Sept. 1 as
director of Watts Hospital, where he was
assistant director from 1963-66. Mr.
McCauley had been at Duke since 1967
and had been associate director since Feb.
I, 1969.
Mr. Peck, who was 30 last Monday,
I was born at Fort McClellan, Ala., where
his father was in service during World War
II.
Mr. Peck's father was, and is, a city
manager, and that meant several moves
for the Peck family. Mr. Peck started to
school in Raleigh, spent the third through
seventh grades at Mooresville, the eighth
and ninth grades in Sanford and then
finished high school at Washington, N.C.,
in 1959.
He entered the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in
1963 with an A.B. degree in economics
with a minor in political science.
Between his junior and senior years at
UNC, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert H.
Peck, moved to Chapel Hill, where his
father has been town manager ever since.
For a year after finishing college, Mr.
Peck got his first taste of hospital work at
N.C. Memorial in Chapel Hill, where he
was employed in the outpatient
department.
The next year he entered Duke's
Graduate Program in Hospital
Administration, receiving his master's
degree in 1966. While in the graduate
orogram, he served administration
Residencies with the Duke Endowment, at
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NO HOPE FOR THE DESK—Jhe work load on Richard
Peck's desk won't go down any as he takes over duties as the
hospital's new associate director.
Symposium Will Honor Dr. Thomas
The Medical Center will pay special
honor to the late Dr. Walter L. Thomas at
a symposium dedicated to his memory
here Sept. 12-14,
The meeting, to become an annual
one, will be known as the Walter L.
Thomas Symposium and will deal with
gynecologic diseases, with special
emphasis on gynecologic malignancies.
Dr. Thomas, a professor of obstetrics
and gynecology, was a member of the
Duke Medical faculty from 1937 until his
death April 18, 1970.
The symposium is sponsored by the
Walter L. Thomas Educational Fund,>^
Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, and a grant from the
Regional Medical Program. The
symposium will draw on the Duke faculty
for scientific presentations and in
addition will have the following guest
faculty:
Dr. Felix Rutledge,
gynecologist-in-chief, M.D. Anderson
Hospital and Tumor Institute in Houston,
Tex.
Dr. Lester A. Wilson Jr., professor of
Ob-Gyn, University of Virginia School of
Medicine.
Dr. Leonard Palumbo, professor of
Ob-Gyn at the University of North
Carolina School of Medicine.
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