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VOLUME 20, NUMBER 13
March 30, 1973
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
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Board of Visitors Meets
For Progress Reports
THE SEELEY G. MUDD BUILDING—Jhh is the artist's concept of the Seeley G.
Mudd Building, the medical center's new medical library and communications center,
now under construction. A ceremony to unveil the building's cornerstone will be held
adjacent to the construction site at 5:15 p.m. today.
Set For 5:15 Today
Cornerstone Ceremonies
Mark Library Construction
A ceremony to unveil the cornerstone
of the Seeley G. Mudd Building, the
medical center's new library and
communications center now under
construction, will be held at 5:15 p.m.
today adjacent to the construction site.
The building site is marked by the tall
skeleton of a construction crane on the
west side of the Bell Building. The
cornerstone ceremony will be conducted
on a portion of what used to be the
ravine parking lot directly behind Bell
Building.
A representative of The Seeley G.
Mudd Fund of Los Angeles, which gave
$1.5 million toward the library's
construction, will be here and will speak
briefly at the ceremony. He is Robert D.
Fisher, chairman of the fund.
Others scheduled to take part in the
ceremony are Dr. William G. Aniyan, vice
president for health affairs; Duke
Hospital Chaplain J. White Iddings; Duke
President Terry Sanford; and Mrs. Mary
Semans, representing the University
Board of Trustees.
Also attending will be the medical
center's 17-member Board of Visitors,
which is meeting here in its annual session
today. (See story at right.)
At the time of its grant to Duke last
fall. The Seeley G. Mudd Fund has
provided grants totaling $12,150,000 for
eight college and university buildings.
The late Dr. Seeley G. Mudd of San
Marino, Calif., created the foundation in
his will. The fund is to be expended
during the decade of the 70s for buildings
at privately endowed colleges and
universities throughout the country. It is
estimated that more than $40 million will
be disbursed in that time.
Dr. Mudd was graduated with honors
from Harvard Medical School in 1924.
For 17 years he was engaged in research
in radiation and X-ray therapy at Caltech
and also served as dean of the School of
Medicine at the University of Southern
California. He died in 1968.
The medical library to be named for
Dr. Mudd will cost $5.3 million. It will be
a five-story building containing 91,000
gross square feet. Its 10 miles of shelves
will be sufficient to store 270,000
volumes, and it will have seating space for
500 readers, compared with space for 90
in the existing library facilities in the
basement of the Davison Building.
Construction time is two years.
The medical center's Board of Visitors
is meeting in its annual session here today
to hear reports of progress in a variety of
areas including medical, nursing and allied
health education, cancer research and
future expansion of the medical center.
The board also will attend cornerstone
ceremonies for the Seeley G. Mudd
Building, the new medical library and
communications center, at 5:15 p.m.
today. (See story and picture at left.)
The Board of Visitors is a 17-member
body appointed by Duke to provide an
annual review of programs and
developments here and to supply
guidance for future improvement. The
membership is wide-ranging, representing
not only medicine, nursing and other
health professions but also other
academic disciplines, private foundations
and industry.
In an executive session before the
general meeting this morning. Dr. William
G. Aniyan, vice president for health
affairs, will provide a summary of
progress made on recommendations by
the 1972 Board of Visitors.
The general session, in the medical
Center Board Room, will begin with a
progress report on the School of Nursing
by Dean Ruby Wilson and a review of
educational programs by Dr. Thomas D.
Kinney, director of medical and allied
health education.
Later in the morning reviews of
programs under their administration will
be provided by Dr. Jon Jaeger, chairman
of the Department of Health
Administration; Dr. Robert L. Hill,
chairman of the Department of
Biochemistry; and Dr. James B.
Wyngaarden, chairman of the Department
of Medicine.
Dr. Wolfgang K. Joklik, chairman of
the Department of Microbiology and
A SKEPTIC LOOKS AT DONALD—That's a suspicious look little William (Chris)
Holland is casting at Donald Duck from the safety of his mother's lap. His mother is
Mrs. Janet Holland of Raleigh. Donald Duck, Snow White and Pluto, stars of "Disney
on Parade," which was performing in Greensboro, visited with children on the
pediatrics wards here last week. (Photo by Dale Moses}
Immunology, will tell the board about
new cancer programs at the medical
center at noon.
In the afternoon Dr. Jane Elchlepp,
assistant vice president of health affairs
for planning, and Dr. Stuart Sessoms,
director of Duke Hospital, will report on
a study by American Health Facilities on
future growth and expansion of the
medical center.
The afternoon session will conclude
with a report on financial management
and the hospital information systems by
Jeff Steinert, assistant vice president of
health affairs for business and finance.
The board will meet again in executive
session tomorrow morning.
Six new members of the board have
been appointed during the past year.
They are:
—Edward H. Benenson, president of
the Benenson Management Co., Inc., of
New York City.
—Dr. John A.D. Cooper, president of
the Association of American Medical
Colleges in Washington.
-Dr. Harry Eagle, associate dean of
the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
Yeshiva University, Bronx, N.Y.
-Dr. Loretta Ford, dean of the School
of Nursing at the University of Rochester.
—Dr. Alexander Leaf, chairman of the
Department of Medicine at Harvard
Medical School in Boston.
— Mrs. Anne R. Somers, associate
professor of community medicine at the
Rutgers Medical School in Piscataway,
N.J.
Chairman of the Board of Visitors is
Henry E. Rauch of Greensboro, who also
is vice-chairman of the Duke University
Board of Trustees.
Other members of the Board of
Visitors are:
— Dr. Kenneth R. Crispell, vice
president for health affairs at the
University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
—James R. Felts, Jr., executive
director of the Hospital and Child Care
Sections of the Duke Endowment in
Charlotte.
—Dr. John H. Knowles, president of
the Rockefeller Foundation in New York
City.
—Dr. Ben Miller of Columbia, S.C., a
university trustee.
-Raymond D. Nasher of the
Raymond D. Nasher Co. in Dallas, Tex., a
university trustee.
—Dr. William R. Pitts of Charlotte, a
university trustee.
—Dr. Frank W. Putnam, professor of
molecular biology in the Department of
Zoology at Indiana University in
Bloomington.
—Dr. June S. Rothberg, dean of the
Adelphi University School of Nursing in
Garden City, N.Y.
—Dr. Mitchell W. Spellman, dean of
the Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical
School in Los Angeles.
— Richard J. Stull, executive vice
president of th\e American College of
Hospital Administrators in Chicago.