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VOLUME 20, NUMBER 27
JULY 6. 1973
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Cancer Institute Awards Duke $4.25 Million
The final major construction grant
that planners of the regional
Comprehensive Cancer Center here had
been waiting for came through last week.
Dr. William W. Shingleton, who will be
director of the center, received word of
the grant's approval from the National
Cancer Institute and said, "This final
construction grant coupled with funds we
received earlier, will provide funds for
meeting space needs for all phases of our
comprehensive cancer program."
The grant v)as $4,243,331 and will go
toward construction of a clinical cancer
research building. The total project cost
for the building is estimated at about
$6.6 million, which means that the
remaining $2.4 million must be raised by
the medical center.
Announcement of the grant came just
one week after the National Cancer
DR. SHINGLETON
Mr. D. E. Taylor
Dies in Florida
The man who thought enough of his
North Carolina hometown to construct a
hospital to provide for the medical needs
of its citizens after he had made a fortune
in the shipping business up north is dead
at the age of 67.
D. E. Taylor of West Palm Beach, Fla.,
died of a heart attack in his Florida home
last Wednesday, June 27. The hospital he
built for the people of Sea Level, N.C., in
1953 became a part of the medical center
in the spring of 1969.
Mr. Taylor died just one week before
he was to attend groundbreaking
ceremonies in Sea Level for Sailor's Snug
Harbor, a home for retired and disabled
merchant seamen which is moving to the
coastal community after 140 years in
New York City.
Sea Level Hospital will provide health
care services for the home which will
occupy a site made available by Taylor
and his family.
Mr. Taylor was buried in West Palm
Beach after funeral services were held at 1
p.m., on Friday, June 29.
Institute had named Duke as the location
for one of the national centers that will
concentrate research and clinical
application of research developments
toward the cure and treatment of cancer.
A year ago the federal government
made its initial grant to Duke—a 35.4
million grant to aid in construction of a
basic cancer research building and
isolation laboratory. Duke also must raise
$2.2 million to match that grant. A SI
million gift to help meet the matching
requirements has been made by the
family and business of the late Edwin L.
Jones of Charlotte.
With word of the final grant on his
desk, Shingleton said that the $10 million
in funding for the establishment of a
Comprehensive Cancer Center here marks
"... one of the most significant and
far-reaching developments for Duke and
the Durham community in the past
half-century."
But it also will go far beyond that, he
added quickly.
"The full scope of this center at Duke
will allow us to provide a statewide and
regional service that has been unavailable
in the past," he said.
The center will be a training ground,
not only for Duke physicians but also for
others throughout the region; it will be a
point for dissemination of cancer
information to the medical professionals
and the public; and it will serve as the
hub for a sweeping cancer screening
program, a cancer surveillance system, a
rehabilitation program and others. Some
of the projects are expected to be
anrrounced by this fall.
"This will truly be a regional center, as
Comprehensive Cancer Centers were
envisioned to be when Congress
established them in the National Cancer
Act of 1971," Shingleton said.
Here are descriptions of the two major
construction projects under the center
grant:
CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT
The Clinical Cancer Research Building
will be constructed adjacent to and
connecting to Clinical Research II, at the
end of the wing that extends out toward
the north.
The five-level building will contain
89,100 gross square feet, with a net
square footage of 45,700.
In the sub-basement will be
mechanical space, the storeroom and
radiation therapy.
The ground floor, will house medical
oncology, and the first floor will contain
space for surgical oncology. Oncology is
the study of tumors.
The second floor will contain 20 beds
for cancer patients and will be an
extension of Rankin Ward, a research unit
with 21 beds for various types of patients
on the second floor of CR II.
The third floor will house clinical
oncology, educational and
communications programs, administrative
space, research labs and shared space.
The building will be of Duke stone and
pre-cast concrete to blend in with existing
structures. The start of construction has
not been determined, but construction
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CANCER BUILDINGS WILL GO HERE-The arrow near the top of the picture
indicates the location for the Edwin L. Jones Basic Cancer Research Building,
construction of which is expected to begin later this year on Research Drive. The other
arrow indicates location of the Clinical Cancer Research Building which will adjoin the
north end of the main medical center complex. The starting time for construction has
not been set.
Dr. Cleaveland Announces
Appointments, Promotion
One promotion and five academic
appointments have been announced at
the medical center by University Provost
Frederic N. Cleaveland.
Dr. Maurice B. Landers has been
promoted to associate professor in the
Department of Ophthalmology.
The following have been appointed to
assistant professorships in the
departments indicated:
Dr. John M. Harrelson, orthopaedic
surgery; Dr. Ralph Gary Kirk, physiology;
Dr. Nelson L. Levy, microbiology and
immunology; Dr. Leo Potts, psychiatry;
and Dr. John F. Rampone, obstetrics and
gynecology.
Landers received his undergraduate
degree from Princeton and his M.D. from
the University of Michigan Medical
School. He served an internship at the
University of Michigan and a residency at
the Jules Stein Eye Institute in Los
Angeles, Calif.
Prior to assuming an assistant
professorship at Duke in 1969, he was
director of the U.S. Army Laser Medical
Research Laboratory at the Frankford
Arsenal in Philadelphia, Pa. Landers is
also chief of the Retina Service at Duke
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