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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 39
OCTOBER 15, 1971
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
BICYCLES ANYONE?-
it's good exercise to boot.
-Here's one way to overcome your parking problem. And
Construction To Begin on 3-Story Parking Garage
By no'A,’ almost everyone's heard about
the new three-level parking garage
planned on the site of the present
patient-visitor parking lot.
And, almost everyone's heard all sorts
of rumors about where patients, visitors,
and employes are going to park while the
garage is under construction.
In a series of decisions over the past
few weeks, the Hospital administration
has designed a new parking plan, effective
only during the 10-month construction
period, that will provide additional
close-in parking for patients and visitors
while actually increasing the number of
spaces available to employes.
The garage, which will eventually
provide some 1,200 parking spaces for
both employes and visitors, will be built
half at a time, so that only about 225 of
the present visitor-patient spaces will be
closed at any one time.
To make up for this, part of the Bell
Building parking lot located east of the
Bell Building between the railroad tracks
and the VA Hospital, will be gated and
used as additional pay parking for
patients and visitors.
The employes displaced by this move
will have available an entirely new
200-car lot during the period of
construction at the corner of Yearby and
Anderson streets, diagonally across from
the present Duke parking lot at that
intersection.
The new employe lot, which will be
graveled, lighted, and have a shelter, will
be served by frequent courtesy buses
bringing employes to the Hospital and
taking them back to the parking lot.
The administration feels that employes
will need bus service more often than the
present Medi-Bus schedule can provide, so
at least one other bus will be added.
A courtesy bus will also run from the
Bell Building lot to take patients and
visitors back and forth to the Hospital.
Both bus schedules will be printed in
Intercom as soon as they are available.
Evening and night shift employes will
still be able to park in the temporary
visitor-patient lots under the same
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Dedication Ceremonies Tomorrow
For New WA Allied Health Wing
The new Allied Health Education
Building, the first such facility built by
the Veterans Administration in the
nation, will be dedicated tomorrow at 10
a.m.
Speakers for the ceremony will be
North Carolina Congressman Nick
Galifianakis and Dr. Mark Musser, chief
medical director of the national VA and
former head of the North Carolina
Regional Medical Program. Director of
the Durham VA Stanley B. Morse will
introduce the speakers.
As director of the new building. Dr.
Roger Bulger, who holds appointments at
both Duke and the VA, will also
participate in the dedication.
Representing Duke will be Dr. William
G. Aniyan, vice president for health
affairs, and Dr. Thomas D. Kinney,
director of medical and allied health
education.
Two men who spearheaded the
planning of the building will also be on
hand. They are Dr. \Afendell Musser,
formerly associate professor of pathology
at Duke, and former Durham VA
Hospital Director William Shepherd.
The John F. Kennedy Center Drum
and Bugle Corps from Fort Bragg, N.C.,
will introduce the ceremony with a
concert from 9 :30 to |0.
Durham Mayor Jack Hawkins will
welcome the guests.
The new facility, which is located
adjacent to the VA near Erwin Road,
serves as a training center for students in
the allied health professions. X-ray
technology, medical technology,
inhalation therapy, dietetics,
cytotechnology, physical therapy, nurse
anesthesia and nuclear medicine and
radiation therapy technology are all using
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