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VOLUME 20, NUMBER 46
NOVEMBER 16,1973
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Duke Docs Invade Campus This Weekend
About 200 doctors and their wives
are in town for four days of scientific
meetings, social activities and football at
the ninth annual Duke University Medical
Center Alumni Weekend.
Members of the faculty and members
of this year's special reunion classes are
presenting scientific papers in the hospital
Amphitheater all day today.
The major social event of the
weekend will be a dinner and dance
tonight at the Governors Inn in the
Research Triangle Park. During the dinner
six Distinguished Alumni Awards will be
presented and an honorary alumna
inducted.
Tomorrow's program will include
conducted tours of the new Eye Center,
class reunions and the Duke-N.C. State
football game at Wallace Wade Stadium.
In conjunction with the Alumni
Weekend, the Department of Psychiatry
this week held a dinner and a one-day
scientific program in honor of Dr. Ewald
W. Busse, chairman of the department for
the past 20 years.
The guest speaker at the dinner
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Building by Medical Artist Bob Blake are being offered for sale at $10 each by the medical center administration. Blake is widely
known for. his watercolors, and reproductions of his paintings of Duke Chapel and the Davison Building are among his most
popular. The Davison Building painting has been reproduced in full-size, MVi inches by 2OV2 inches, and has been printed on
high-quality material suitable for framing. Prints at $10 each (plus 4% tax for North Carolina residents) may be purchased by
writing to: Davison Water Color, Box 3701.
Busse Portrait Unveiled
Psychiatry Head Honored
Wednesday night was Dr. Francis J.
Braceland, editor of the American
Journal of Psychiatry. This was followed
by a day-long psychiatry seminar
Thursday in the Amphitheater which
featured presentations by seven leading
psychiatrists from across the nation and
one from Norway.
At the end of the session, a portrait
of Busse was presented to the medical
center.
The editor of the New England
Journal of Medicine, Dr. Franz
Ingelfinger, spoke at the Director's Hour
Lecture in the Amphitheater Thursday
afternoon.
This morning the alumni had an
opportunity to have breakfast and make
rounds with chairman and staff members
of the departments of surgery, medicine,
psychiatry, pediatrics,
obstetrics-gynecology, ophthalmology,
radiology, pathology, anesthesiology and
community health sciences.
The scientific program this morning
was moderated by Dr. William W.
Shingleton, professor and chief of the
Division of General Surgery and director
of Duke's Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr. D. Bernard Amos, James B. Duke
Professor of Immunology and professor
of experimental surgery, spoke on
"Mechanism of Tumor Cell Destruction."
Dr. Darrell D. Bigner, assistant professor
of pathology, microbiology and
immunology and experimental surgery
discussed "What Is the Evidence for Virus
in Human Tumor?" And Dr. Harold R.
Silberman, associate professor of
hematology, spoke on "After 20 Years,
Why Do We Still Use Chenrotherapy?"
After the morning program the
annual luncheon meeting of the Medical
Alumni Association was to be held in the
Union Ballroom.
This afternoon, four Duke alumni are
presenting papers.
Dr. Richard B. Boren III, a 1953
graduate, is speaking on
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The chairman of the Department of
Psychiatry here for the past 20 years. Dr.
Ewald W. Busse, was honored this week
at a dinner and scientific program.
The guest speaker at the dinner
Wednesday night was Dr. Francis J,
Braceland, editor of the American
Journal of Psychiatry. Thursday a
scientific program that included talks by
eight leading psychiatrists from the
United States and Norway was held in the
Amphitheater.
The session was climaxed by the
presentation of a portrait of Busse to the
medical center. The portrait was accepted
by Dr. William G. Aniyan, vice president
for health affairs.
The prograrp in honor of Busse is
part of Medical Alumni Weekend at
Duke. The university has decided to
honor its outstanding leaders while they
are still at the peak of their activity rather
than waiting for their retirement, and
Busse is one of the first individuals to be
so honored.
Busse's leadership is credited with
developing the department here into one
of the world's outstanding departments
of psychiatry. His leadership ability has
been recognized by his selection as
president of the American Psychiatric
Association and other professional
organizations and his appointment as the
first J.P. Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry
at Duke.
The Center for the Study of Aging
and Human Development, initiated and
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PSYCH I A TRY
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HONORED-Dr.
Ewald W. Busse,
chairman of the
Department of
Psychiatry here for
the past 20 years,
was honored this
week at a dinner
Wednesday night
and a day-long
scientific program
Thursday. The
activities in honor of
Busse were part of
Medical Alumni
Weekend program
and were climaxed
by presentation of a
portrait of Busse to
the medical center.