Professional 37 Physician’s Associates Graduate
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Chairs Sessions
Dr. Jacquelyne Johnson
Jackson, associate professor of
medical sociology, chaired two
sessions and served on several
committees at the American
Sociological Association's
annual meeting in New
Orleans, La., August
28-September 1.
Dr. Jackson also participated in a panel
discussion on Black Women at the annual
meeting of the American Psychological
Association in Honolulu, Hawaii, September
1-8. The paper that she presented focused upon
'■Relationships between Black Women and
Black Men."
25th ANNIVERSARY
A dinner celebrating the 25th
anniversary of the Durham Child
Guidance Clinic will be held Friday, Oct.
6, at 7 p.nfi. in the Ballroom of the Union
Building.
The speaker will be Dr. George
Gardner, emeritus professor of psychiatry
at Harvard and retired director of the
Judge Baker Children's Psychiatric Clinic
in Boston. His subject will be "Children's
Needs, Our Opportunity."
Tickets are $7.50 per person and
reservations may be made with the clinic.
CHANGES OF ADDRESS
Mrs. Cooke at the reception desk in
the main lobby asks all secretaries who
know of changes of address in the
Medical Center to please notify her so
that visitors and incoming calls can be
properly routed. Thank you.
INTERCOM is published weekly for
Duke University Medical Center employes,
faculty, staff, students, and friends by the
Medical Center Public Relations Office. Joe
H. Sigler, director, and Vance B. Whitfield,
assistant director.
Editor
DAVID WILLIAMSON
Assistant Editor
MRS. DALE MOSES
Public Relations Advisory Committee:
Sam A. Agnello, director of the division of
audiovisual education; James L. Bennett,
Jr., executive assistant to the vice president
for health affairs; C. C. Cobb, employe
relations assistant in the Medical Center
Personnel Office; Kenneth M. Holt, assistant
director of the Hospital; and Julia Taylor,
RN, head nurse on Strudwick Ward.
The Medical Center graduated 37 new
Physician's Associates at ceremonies in
the Gross Chemical Building on Aug. 31.
This will bring the total graduates
from the Duke program, which was the
first of its kind in the country when it
started in 1965, to 108. Both the
first-year class now in training and the
class that will be enrolled this fall have 40
students.
Twenty-five of the graduates are from
North Carolina.
Those from Durham are:
Gloria Clemens, Sandra Farrington,
Eloise Judah, Ken Vanous, Arthur Smith,
William Signorini, John Schumacher,
Alan Sams, Ken Ryther, Carroll Poppen,
Charles Mutch, Patricia McNabb, Joseph
Judah, John Gerstbrein, Roger Gabriel
and Michael E. Colaneri.
Graduates from elsewhere in North
Carolina are:
David Creswell and Donald McCaskill
of Shelby, Brian Lenoci of Waynesville,
Emmett Noll of Spruce Pine, Ann Porter
of Hendersonville, Cecelia Wesoiy of Lake
Lure and Henri Isabella, Samuel Herring
and Adrian Boone of Morganton.
Graduates from other states include:
Richard Davidson, Fred Speers and
Valgene Valgora of Galax, Va.; Gerald
Gowitt of Worcester, Mass.; David Lee of
Lehigh Acres, Fla.; Dennis O'Dell of
Honolulu, Hawaii; Walter Pugh of
Wrightsville, Ga.; William Putnam of
Manhasset, N.Y.; Gary Rexroat of
Gainesville, Fla.; Richard Turner of
Whitesburg, Ky.; Wayne Wright of
Muskegon, Mich.; and Neal Wilson of
Seattle, Wash.
Dr. D. Robert Howard, assistant
professor of community health sciences
and director of the Physician's Associate
Program, resigned effective Sept. 1 to
become an associate professor of
medicine at the University of Florida in
Gainesville.
David E. Lewis, associate director of
the P.A. program will succeed Dr.
Howard until November when a new
director is named. Mr. Lewis will then
also travel to Gainesville to become
associate director of the University of
Florida's Family Practice Residency
Program.
At the graduation ceremonies awards
and honorary Physician's Associate
degrees were presented to Dr. Howard
and Dr. Lewis for their service to Duke
and to the concept of the Physician
Associate on a national level.
STEPPING DOI/i/N-Dr. D. Robert
Howard, former director of the
Physician's Associate Program, received
an award from the American Association
of Physician's Associates for his service to
Duke and the nation. Dr. Howard gave a
graduation address entitled, "Where
Tomorrow?" dealing with satisfaction
through professional productivity and
happiness through giving priority to one's
family, (staffphoto)
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