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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 16
APRIL 28, 1972
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
In Medicine, Psychiatry
Five Promoted To Full Professor
Five faculty members at the Medical
Center have been promoted to full
professors, according to Provost Frederic
N. Cleaveland.
Four of the academic changes are in
the Department of Medicine, while the
fifth is in the Department of Psychiatry.
Those named to professorships in
medicine were Drs. James R. Clapp,
Johannes A. Kylstra, Harry T. McPherson
and Wendell F. Rosse.
Dr. Clapp, a 1957 graduate of the
University of North Carolina School of
Medicine, took his postgraduate training
at the Southwestern Medical School in
Dallas, Tex. He came to Duke in 1963 as
an associate in medicine and rose to
assistant professor in 1965 and associate
professor in 1968. He retains his title as
associate professor of physiology.
Dr. Kylstra received both his M.D. and
Ph.D. in physiology at the University of
Leiden in the Netherlands. Following
postdoctoral training in Albany, N.Y., he
was on the faculty at the University of
Leiden and the State University of New
York in Buffalo. He came to Duke as
assistant professor of medicine and
physiology in 1965 and was promoted to
associate professor of medicine the
following year. He retains his title as
associate professor of physiology.
An associate professor of medicine
since 1959, Dr. McPherson received both
his medical degree and postgraduate
training at Duke University. He was
appointed associate in the department of
medicine in 1955 and assistant professor
in 1958.
Dr. Rosse earned an M.S. in
physiology at the University of Nebraska
and a medical degree at the University of
Chicago. He took his postdoctoral
training at Duke. In 1968 he was named
an associate professor of medicine at Duke
and in the same year won the “Golden
Apple" Award for outstanding medical
teaching. In 1970 he was appointed
associate professor of immunology, a post
which he retains.
Dr. Rosse is also presently chief of the
i m m u n o-hematology section and
co-director of the Blood Bank at Duke.
Promoted to full professor in the
department of psychiatry was Dr.
Erdman B. Palmore. Dr. Palmore came to
Duke in 1967 as associate professor of
both medical sociology and sociology.
Previously he had faculty appointments
at Finch College and Yale University. He
received his master’s in sociology at the
University of Chicago in 1954 and his
doctorate at Columbia University in
1959.
Dr. Wolfgang Joklik Appointed
To James B. Duke Professorship
A Medical Center faculty member has
been named to a James B. Duke
Professorship, the University's top
academic honor.
Appointed to the distinguished chair
was Dr. Wolfgang K. Joklik, professor and
chairman of the Department of
Microbiology and Immunology. The
appointment, effective July 1, was
announced by Duke Provost Frederic N.
Cleaveland.
Also named J. B. Duke Professors were
Dr. Juanita M. Kreps, professor of
economics; Dr. Aubrey W. Naylor,
professor of botany; and F. Hodge
O'Neal, professor of law. All were
honored at a dinner April 19.
Dr. Joklik, noted for his research in
the field of cell biology and virology, has
been chairman of the Department of
Microbiology and Immunology since he
came to the University in 1968. Prior to
that, he was Siegfried Ullman Professor of
Cell Biology at Albert Einstein College of
Medicine in New York City.
He received his bachelor and masters
degrees in biochemistry from the
University of Sydney, Australia, and his
doctorate in virology from Oxford
University, England.
Dr. Joklik holds a number of
distinguished appointments including
membership on the Research Career
Award Committee of the National
Institute of General Medical Sciences;
editor of the publication Virology;
associate editor of the Journal of
Biological Chemistry; and president of
the virology division of the American
Society for Microbiology.
Elevator No. 5 by Howland Ward,
scheduled for completion May 1, will
be out of use for an indefinite period.
The Otis Elevator Company notified
the Medical Center that their Installers
have gone on strike. The Planning
Office regrets this added period of
inconvenience to staff, patients and
visitors.