1 ntcKcom 6ukc uniycusity mcdicM ccnteR VOLUME 20. NUMBER 30 JULY 27, 1973 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA P.A. Students To Participate In Graduation Exercises Forty one members of the 1973 graduating class of physician's associates will participate in graduation exercises on Thursday, Aug. 2, at 8 p.m. in the Paul M. Gross Chemistry Laboratory Auditorium. The guest speaker will be David Flaherty, secretary of human resources for the State of North Carolina, who will address the graduation class on the topic of "Access to Medical Care in North Carolina." Those students who will be receiving certificates represent the seventh class to have completed the 24-month Physician's Associate Program. During the course of their training, the students devoted one academic year to the basic medical sciences and received 15 months of clinical teaching in a variety of clinical settings. As physician's associates, the 1973 graduates have been ti"ained to carry out many traditional physician functions which are under the direction and supervision of a physician and, thereby, extend the physician's reach to a greater RECOGNITION AWARD-QX\\q\ physical therapy aid Esther Johnson has received the Golden Crutch Award from the physical therapy class of 1974. This award has been given each year since 1966 to one member of the physical therapy department who has contributed the most to the physical therapy students. Along with this award, Ms. Johnson received a Golden Crutch Pin from the class and this tradition will be carried on for future Golden Curtch recipients. A native of Hartford, Conn., Ms. Johnson came to Duke in 1948 and has been working ever since in the PT department. According to Marianne Jackson, 1974 class representative, the award was given to Ms. Johnson because she is "an indispensalile part of the department and her consistent devotion to her work and PT fiienils have ho(;n source of ins|)iration to eveiyone." (Photo by Dale Moses) patient population. Those graduates from North Carolina include Walker Boone of Cary; Earl Echard of Granite Falls; William Vaughan of Durham; and James Worley of Crampler. Other students are from: ARIZONA—Ronald Mohn of Tucson. CALIFORNIA—Ralph Looman of San Francisco; and Dale McBride of Citrus Heights. CON N ECTICUT-AI Sinyai of Stamford. FLORIDA —John Crognale of Clearwater; and Harry Newman of Jacksonville. ILLINOIS—Ronald Full of Amboy; and Thomas Jozwiak of Chicago. IOWA—James Blouse of Chariton. I N D I AN A—D o n n a Patton of Indianapolis; and Michael Phillips of Elnora. KENTUCKY—James Cummings of Louisville; and Thomas Nalley of Shelbyville. LOUISIANA—Percy Golson of New Orleans. MAINE —Robert O'Connor of Augusta. MARYLAND—Delbert Seibert of Baltimore. MICHIGAN-Charles Shimer of Bellevue. NEBRASKA—Jerry Smith of Blair. NEW YORK-Mary D'Errico of Jamestown; and Leonard Milcowitz of Staten Island. OHIO—Phyllis Baker of Coshocton; Gwen Jones of Cleveland; Charles Sherer of Dennison; and Cary Zakrzewski of Toledo. OREGON—Bruce Alter of Portland; and Robert Roy of Dallas. PENNSYLVANIA—Roger Young of Beaver Falls. RHODE ISLAND-William Morrell of Providence. SOUTH CAROLINA-Johnny Davis of Darlington; and James Vaughn of Greenville. TENNESSEE —Louis McDaniel of Johnson City. TEXAS—Gary Graham of El Paso; and Billy Gray of Tyler. VERMONT—Joseph Heinrich of Winooski. VI RG I N I A —Thomas Mischen of Norfolk. WI SCON SI N —Kenneth Kozbiel of Milwaukee. WEST VIRGINIA-James Ellis of Man. Id,' ^ A CHECK FOR POISON CONTROL-Dr. Jay Arena, director of Duke's Poison Control Center, receives a $5,000 check from the Prudential Insurance Co. to help support the center's work. Making the presentation is Al DeRogatis, former Duke football star who is now a TV sports telecaster and Prudential's vice president for community affairs. Just visible behind Arena is Phil Warth, Prudential's director of public relations. Arena is the central figure in six public service announcements for TV on child safety that Prudential is sponsoring. The public service films were shown and the check was presented at a reception last week at the home of Dr. and Mrs. William G. Aniyan. (Photo by David Williamson) CEMENTING DOWN THE GROUND FLOOR-J^\s is a ground-floor view of the Seeley G. Mudd Building, the new medical library, now under construction near the Bell Building. The ground floor will house mechanical facilities and loading and receiving areas. It will also contain a lounge foyer and a sloped-floor lecture-theatre which will go in the area shown in the upper right section of this picture. Workmen prepare to lay more of the reinforced concrete floor at the lower right. This picture was taken from the Bell Building looking west toward Research Drive. The five-story l)uilding is named for the late Dr. Mudd, a California physician and medical educator. The Seeley G. Mudd Fund of Los Angeles donated SI.5 million toward the library's S5.3 million cost. The building will contain 91,000 square feet. It will have 10 miles of shelves, suff icent to house 270,000 volumes, and will have space for 500 readers. The second level will include a terrace, administrative offices, an exhibit area, leisure reading room and the medical history collection. The third level, where an access ramp will lead to the lobby, will contain most of the general library services. The fourth and fifth levels will house the library's extensive collection of periodicals and monographs. The libiaiy will be completed in 1975. (Photo by Dale Moses)