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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 23
JUNE 16, 1972
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Provost Names The Duke Garden Fish Live Again
With Help From Tolley and Lloyd
6 Appointments
To Med Faculty
Two associate professors and four
assistant professors have been named at
Duke Medical Center. Announcement of
the academic appointments came from
Dr. Frederic N. Cleaveland, provost of the
University.
Named to associate professorships
were Dr. Duilio Giannitrapani in the
School of Medicine and Mrs. Joanne E.
Hall in the School of Nursing.
Dr. Giannitrapani, appointed associate
professor of medical psychology, received
both his masters and doctorate in
psychology at Clark University in
Worcester, Mass. He comes to Duke from
Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, III.,
where he was director of the Human
Psychophysiology, Psychosomatic and
Psychiatric Institute for Research and
Training.
Mrs. Hall earned a B.S. degree in
nursing at Arizona State University in
Tempe in 1 962 and an M.S. in
psychietric-mental health nursing at Ohio
State University School of Nursing in
1970. Prior to,coming to Duke, she was
on the faculty at Ohio State.
New assistant professors in the School
of Medicine are Drs. James N. Davis,
James M. Eaton Jr., Paul G. Killenberg
and Charles G. Oakes.
Dr. Davis, a 1965 graduate of Cornell
University Medical College in New York
City, was appointed assistant professor of
neurology. Following postgraduate
training at Bellevue and Cornell-New
York Hospitals in New York and at Duke,
he was named chief resident in neurology
at New York's Cornell-North Shore
Hospital.
Dr. Eaton, appointed assistant
professor of urology in the Department
of Surgery, is a 1961 graduate of Emory
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(Richard (Rick) Tolley, a rising Duke
junior with a keen interest in pollution,
discovered several months ago that
pollution feeding into the Sarah P. Duke
Gardens was killing the goldfish, tadpoles
and other aquatic life.
As it turned out, Duke Hospital,
unwittingly, was the culprit. But with
immediate cooperation from the
hospital, the problem was solved, and
now the fish live again.
Duke News Bureau writer Jack Childs
wrote how it happened:)
At the time of the autumn fish kill,
the pollutant was seen discharging from a
storm sewer that drained a large section
of an area next to the gardens. This was
where Tolley started his investigation.
With help, the student began mapping out
a good portion of the storm sewers in the
area. This took a month.
"The most likely problem was a storm
sewer connection to the Duke Hospital,"
he recalled. "So I directed my efforts
toward a program of random checking
and sampling, with special attention
directed toward the hospital connection."
About a week later, organic solids
were found in the hospital line. "It was a
horrible smelling blackish sludge," Tolley
related, "with some white chunks that
were later identified as grease. This gave
valuable information on what section of
the storm sewer was the problem, but did
not help much in determining its source."
As Tolley began making chemical tests
of the sludge, his project attracted the
interest of Abbott Lloyd, general building
superintendent for the Medical Center.
What Lloyd learned concerned him.
"We had an idea there was some
pollution from the hospital, but we didn't
think it was this bad," he recalled.
Lloyd immediately plunged into the
investigation. He soon found a major
problem in another section of the storm
POLLUTION NO /WO/?E-Student
Rick Tolley (left) and Duke's Abbott
Lloyd inspect a section of a Duke garden
stream, now clear of hospital pollutants
that were threatening aquatic life, (photo
by Jim Wallace)
sewer, one "I had not really worked on
yet," said Tolley.
Lloyd's discovery was that the major
portion of the area under the hospital's
main garbage compacters drained into the
storm sewers.
"You can imagine what goes out of a
compacter—especially at a hospital," said
Lloyd. Every time the area was washed
down or rained on, large quantities of
garbage and "garbage juices" from the
compacter was washed into the stream.
Lloyd quickly devised a method of
diverting this area's drain to the sanitary
sewer. A settling tank was incorporated
into the system to remove materials that
could clod pipes in the sanitary sewer.
However, still to be found was the
pollution source inside the hospital.
The key clue came one day when a
batch of solid materials was found in the
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