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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 19
MAY 19, 1972
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
SHE'S A (PRETTY) GOOD ARTIST—The young woman getting the full attention
of Hospital Director Dr. Stuart Sessoms is Leigh Ann Freeman, a 10th grader at
Durham's Hillside High School who won first place in the N.C. Hospital Association's
Health Careers Poster contest. Leigh Ann and her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Freeman,
came out to the Hospital where Dr. Sessoms presented her with a $50 check from the
Hospital Association and a special certificate of congratulations, which she is holding,
from Duke Hospital.
Duke Wins National PR Award
The Medical Center's Office of Public
Relations has been chosen to receive a
national award in honors competition
conducted by the American College
Public Relations Association (ACPRA).
It will be a $500 IBM Incentive Award
to the institution. Joe Sigler, director of
public relations, will accept the award for
Duke at the national ACPRA awards
banquet in Minneapolis in July.
Duke's entry was in the Public
Relations Program Management category
of competition, and was a detailed,
documented description of the Medical
Center's public relations program over the
past year.
In other categories of judging, the
offices of University Editor Betty
McGuire and Duke News Bureau Director
Don Seaver were chosen to receive
ACPRA Certificates of Special Merit.
Certificates will be awarded to the
University Editor for five publications
that office prepared, including the
coloring book, "Jay and Johnny at Duke
Hospital," which was prepared in
cooperation with the Department of
Pediatrics.
The certificate to the News Bureau
will be for a cooperative effort with the
Durham Herald in developing a series of
stories on drug abuse, which included
several interviews with Medical Center
physicians.
Business Section
Of AAMC Meets
Here Next Week
Business officers representing 30
medical schools in 15 states will meet
here next Tuesday and Wednesday for a
detailed look at various aspects of the
Medical Center's operation.
The meeting will be of the Business
Officers Section (Southern Region) of the
Association of American Medical
Colleges. It will represent the first time
the section has met on a college or
university campus.
In addition to those attending from 15
southern states, the meeting also will
attract national officers of the Business
Officers Section, representatives of the
AAMC in Washington and visitors from
regional sections in other parts of the
country.
A Wednesday speaker will be Dr.
Thomas G. Bowery, director of the
Division of Research Resources of the
Department of Health, Education and
Welfare. All other presentations during
the two-day conference will be by Duke
people. All sessions will be in the Hospital
Amphitheater.
Floyd L. Hagan, comptroller and
assistant treasurer of the Medical
University of South Carolina, is chairman
of the Southern Section. James L. (Pete)
Bennett, executive assistant to the vice
president for health affairs, is vice
chairman.
LEAVING DUKE?
If you are, take Intercom with you.
The Public Relations Office will mail
Intercom free of charge anywhere in
the United States. Contact us at ext.
4148 or send a note to Box 3354,
Hospital Mail.