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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 28
JULY 13, 1973
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
For Duke Hospitals Sister-by-fhe-Sea
Fish Fry, Groundbreaking Highlight July 4th
July 4 was a doubly special day for the
residents of Sea Level, N.C., this year.
Independence Day was celebrated with
the annual "Down East Fish Fry," and
grounfl was broken for Sailor's Snug
Harbor, a home for retired merchant
seamen.
GROUNDBREAKING
The groundbreaking ceremonies were
held at 11:30 a.m. on a site just north of
Sea Level Hospital, a division of the
medical center and Duke Hospital's
sister-by-the-sea.
Sailor's Snug Harbor, New York City's
oldest charitable trust, was established in
1833 under terms of the will of Captain
Robert Richard Randall as a home for
"aged, decrepit, and worn-out mariners."
In recent years, because of rising air and
water pollution and increased costs of
operation in the New York area, the
Board of Trustees of Sailor's Snug Harbor
felt a move to a less congested, more
healthful location would be in the best
interests of the home's residents.
Construction of the new $4 million
facility is scheduled to be completed in
September of 1974. In that month 120
retired seamen will pack their bags and
journey southward from their Staten
Island, N.Y., home to North Carolina in a
move which will mean much to the town
of Sea Level and its hospital.
When the mariners arrive, they will
find the hospital is committed to furnish
them with the best possible medical,
nursing aid ancillary care. Within a year
and a half, 40 additional health
professionals and supportive people will
be added to the present staff of 100 at
the hospital.
Those who spoke at the event included
Monroe Gaskill, chairman of the Board of
Advisors of Sea Level Hospital; Dr. J. T.
■ Best, chief of staff at the hospital; Ken
Newsom, vice chairman of the Carteret
County Board of Commissioners; Dr.
Stuart M. Sessoms, director of Duke
Hospital; and Captain Leo Kraszeski,
director of Sailor's Snug Harbor.
Wilbur E. Dow, chairman of the Board
of Trustees of Sailor's Snug Harbor, who
was also a platform speaker, was given the
honor of turning over the first spadeful of
earth. Jack Johnson, administrator of Sea
Level Hospital, was the master of
ceremonies, and Mrs. Gladys Noyes
represented the D. E. Taylor family of
West Palm Beach, Fla. which provided the
land for the new facility.
THE "DOWN EAST FISH FRY"
Over 1,500 coastal Carolinians and
their guests gathered at Sea Level again
this year to celebrate Independence Day
and to enjoy the fruits of the commercial
fishing harvest. All proceeds from the
event known as the "Down East Fish
Fry" go toward the purchase of new
hospital equipment.
Beginning at noon fried mullet,
shrimp, clam fritters, hush puppies,
coleslaw, fresh tomatoes and cucumbers,
pies, cakes, lemonade and other soft
drinks by the truckload disappeared at a
rapid rate as the sunshine and festivities
’ stimulated thirsts and appetites.
It was an old fashioned Fourth of July
seaside picnic complete with a band
playing patriotic and country music,
dieters forgetting their diets, children
playing games in the grass and dogs
begging tidbits under the tables.
Faces reddened as the sun beat down,
a North Carolina girl sang songs about a
love gone bad, water skiiers on Nelson
Bay behind the hospital kicked up salt
spray with their antics.
Old men guffawed with each other,
"young'uns" screamed with delight or
dismay depending on the degree they
were regulated, by their parents, girls in
their early teens giggled about the boy at
the next table, and many picnickers
merely attacked the seafood with a
voracity that was a credit to the cooks.
As usual, a fine time was had by all.
SEA LEVEL AND ITS HOSPITAL
Sea Level Hospital was a gift to the
university from the late D.E. Taylor and
his family of West Palm Beach, Fla., in
the summer of 1969. Taylor, a native of
Sea Level who went north to Norfolk and
became highly successful in the shipping
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SERVING THE HUNGRY WO/?DfS—Friends of the hospital manned their posts to
dispense a wide variety of seafood at Sea Level's annual Independence Day "Down
East Fish Fry."
BREAKING THE GROUND—WxVour E. Dow Jr. turns the first shovelful of earth at
the groundbreaking in Sea Level, N.C., July 4 for Sailor's Snug Harbor, a retirement
home for aged merchant seamen. Sea Level Hospital, a division of the medical center,
will furnish health care services for the facility which was, before its move to North
Carolina, New York City's oldest charitable trust. Dow is president of the "Harbor's"
Board of Trustees. (For more photos, see inside)
ACOG Presents Awards
To Two Duke Physicians
An associate professor and an assistant
professor in the Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology have won awards from
The American College of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists.
Or. William T. Creasman, associate
professor, has received the second place
Purdue Frederick Award from the ACOG
for a research paper which he presented
’ last fall at the ACOG District IV meeting.
The prize-winning paper was entitled
"The Efficacy of Cryosurgery in the
Treatment of Severe Cervical
Intraepithelia Neoplasia."
The award was presented to Creasman
by Dr. Sprague H. Gardiner, president df
ACOG.
Coauthors of the paper were Drs. John
C. Weed Jr., Stephen L. Curry and Roy T.
Parker of Ob-Gyn and Dr. William W.
Johnston, director of the cytopathology
laboratory.
An assistant professor. Dr. Daniel H.
Riddick, was awarded one of two
one-year academic training fellowships
offered by the ACOG in cooperation with
Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.
The fellowship is designed to provide
opportunities for two specially qualified
physicians to spend an extra year doing
work which will help train them for
academic positions in their field.
During the year, the fellowship
winners are expected to carry out an
investigative project leading to a
publication, either in basic research or in
broader aspects of the discipline, such as
teaching and delivery of health care.
Riddick', a native of Lynchburg, Va.,
will carry out research in the Division of
Reproductive Endocrinology at Duke
under the program director, Dr. Charles
B. Hammond. DR. DANIEL H. RIDDICK
DR. WILLIAM T. CREASMAN