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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 2
JANUARY 14, 1972
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
DA YS AS STUDENTS ARE OVER—Thirteen men and women make up the 1972
graduating class of the Duke School of. Anesthesia. Posing with the class in the
foreground are Dr. Merel H. Harmel, professor and chairman of the Department of
Anesthesiology, and Mary Campbell, director of the school. The graduates, from left
to right, first row, are Loretta Umbarger, Fran Shuba, Janet Lancaster, Daisy Hope,
Carolyn Fleming, Sarah Jinwright, and Mary Baratier. Second row: Joe Williams, Bert
Davis, Jose Pell, Paul Ward, Tom Diamond, and Ray Moore. Six of the new nurse
anesthetists will remain at Duke, (photo by Lewis Parrish)
Disability Insurance: New Employe Benefit
Effective January 1, the University has
added a long-term disability insurance
plan to its list of fringe benefits for
employes.
Beginning 180 days after an employe
is disabled, the carrier will pay that
employe 50 per cent of the base salary he
was earning just prior to his disability.
These payments will continue until the
employe returns to work, reaches age 65,
or dies, whichever comes first.
All full-time faculty, staff members
and other employes who have completed
three years of continuous service with the
University will be covered by this plan
automatically without any contribution
on the employes' part.
Announcement of the establishment
of this new benefit came as the second
phase of the national wage-price
guidelines eased the restriction on
increasing employe benefits.
Duke Anesthesia
School Graduates
13 From Program
The nurse anesthesia profession added
13 new members earlier this week when
seven women and six men completed
Duke's two-year School of Anesthesia.
The new graduates received their
certificates from Dr. Merel H. Harmel,
professor and chairman of the
Department of Anesthesiology, at special
ceremonies in the amphitheater Tuesday.
Janet Louise Lancaster of Colonial
Heights, Va. and Joe Rue Williams of Mt.
Pleasant, Tex. were selected as winners of
the second annual Sara J. Dent Award for
outstanding achievement. Dr. Dent is a
pKbfessor of anesthesiology and former
chairman of the department. The award is
sponsored by the Medical Gas Products
Division of National Welders Supply Co.,
Inc.
The Rev. P. Wesley Aitken, Medical
Center chaplain, gave the address for the
graduation program. Also on the list of
speakers was Annie Mae Truitt, president
of the Duke School of Anesthesia Alumni
Association, who presented membership
cards to the new graduates.
Duke's 24-month anesthesia
curriculum, open only to graduate
registered nurses, includes both classroom
and clinical work, with special emphasis
on anatomy, physiology, and the
pharmacology of anesthetic drugs.
Students also receive instruction in the
pre- and post-operative care of their
patients. Director of the school is Mary
Campbell, a certified registered nurse
anesthetist.
After completion of the two-year
course, graduates are eligible to take the
qualifying examination for membership
in the American Association for Nurse
Anesthetists.
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