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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 45
DECEMBER 3, 1971
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
UPGRADED—Sixteen employes are now PCA Ill's after successfully taking an
intensive five-week training program. RN's Cynthia McCaskill and Inez James taught
the classroom section of the program, while clinical preceptors on the employes' units
gave them practical instruction. The employes were given certificates at an awards
ceremony and reception Nov. 12. From left to right, first row, are Frances Pickett,
Myrtle Spears, Castoria Patterson, Gladys Williams, Hazel Parker, Rosa Bass, Alice
Barbee, and J ames Hart. Second row : Velvet V'ebb, Christine Strudwick, Beverly
Stroud, Catherine Hannah, Gloria Minor, Barbara Fletcher, Villiam Parker, and
William Perry, (photo byPhyllisCole)
Lindsay Fills Allied Health Post
Duke Medical Center
has named a new associate
director of medical and
allied health education.
He is Dr. Dale R.
Lindsay, associate
commissioner for science
with the federal Food and
Drug Administration. In
that position, which he has
held since 1969, Dr.
Lindsay is the principal scientist advisor
to the commissioner of the FDA.
His appointment was effective this
week. Dr. Lindsay will be responsible to
Dr. Thomas D. K inney, director of
medical and allied health education.
Dr. Lindsay will assume, among other
duties, the allied health functions which
have been the responsibility of Dr. Roger
J. Bulger. Dr. Bulger will become the
executive officer of the new Institute of
Medicine of the National Academy of
Sciences. Dr. Bulger will serve as deputy
to the president of the llO-member
institute, which is an advisory group to
the general public on major health care
issues.
Dr. Lindsay, a native of Bunker Hill,
K an., received his A. B. degree in 1937
from the University of K ansas and his M.
A. there the following year. In 1943 he
earned his doctorate in entomology at
Iowa State College.
From 1943-53 Dr. Lindsay was a
medical entomologist for the U. S. Public
Health Service. During that period he was
in charge of the Communicable Disease
Center activities in Pharr, Tex., and
Thomasville, Ga.
For the next 10 years, he worked in
the National Institute of Health's Division,
of Research Grants and rose to chief of
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Paul Vick Thanks
U.F. Contributors
"V\fe want to thank the many, many
Medical Center employes who helped us
with the United Fund drive this year,"
Paul Vick, Duke coordinator of special
events and chairman of the 1971 UF
drive,told Intercom.
Medical Center employes contributed
$31,230.78 toward Durham's goal of
$670,000. The city actually collected
some $694,000.
Mr. Vick singled out James L. Bennett,
J r., executive assistant to the
vice-president for health affairs, for his
help coordinating the Medical Center's
portion of the 1971 United Fund
campaign.
He also expressed thanks to Drs.
George Brumley, Norman Conant, and
V\illiam Peete for their help in contacting
all members of the Medical Center faculty
and staff.
"There are many other people who
helped us reach bi-weekly employes in
each department," he added, "and we
want to thank them for it publicly."
Mr. Vick said that three Medical
Center departments contributed about
twice their expected goal. They were the
bi-weekly employes on the General
Surgical Unit, the bi-weekly employes in
the Print Shop, and both staff and
bi-weekly employes in the Pharmacy.
Other Medical Center departments
surpassing their goal for contributions
included the following:
/4/73fo/77K-monthly and bi-weekly em
ployes; Microbiology—monXh\\ employes;
Biochemistry—monthly and bi-weekly em
ployes; f*ec//afr/cs—monthly and bi-weekly
employes; Pathology—monthly employes;
Anesthesiology-month\y and bi-weekly
employes; Sur^er/-bi-weekly employes;
Medicine—b\-week\y employes; Ob-Gyn-
bi-weekly employes; Ophthalmology-
monthly and bi-weekly employes; Under
graduate Medical Education—monthly em
ployes; Community Health Sciences-
monthly and bi-weekly employes; Clinical
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