I ARRANGING HIS WORK—Robert Blake, medical illustrator at Duke and one of the
state's most popular landscape painters, selects some watercolors for his April show at
the Morehead Planetarium In Chapel Hill. Fifty of his works which depict North
Carolina scenes from the coast to the mountains will be on display for the viewing
pleasure of area residents. (Photo by Lewis Parrish)
Planetarium To Display
50 Bob Blake Paintings
Funds Donated
By Late Senator
Sen. B. Everett Jordan did not liye to
receive public recognition for a $50,000
gift he and Mrs. Jordan made to Duke for
the establishment of medical scholarships.
A story in which President Terry
Sanford announced the gift was mailed
by the Duke News Service on Friday
morning, March 15, for release to
newspapers the following Monday
afternoon.
Later that Friday morning Sen. Jordan
died at his home in Saxapahaw.
The $50,000 gift creates the B. Everett
Jordan Medical Scholarship Endowment
Fund, income from which will be used to
provide scholarships in the School of
Medicine.
In making arrangements for the gift.
Sen. and Mrs. Jordan had said, "It is our
earnest desire that deserving and needy
students may pursue their education and
medical training at Duke through the use '
of the income from this fund."
President Sanford noted that "by
creating this endowment fund for medical
school scholarships, the Jordans have
allowed promising students rewarding
careers in medicine, and have given them
the opportunities to help ease human
suffering."
Sen. Jordan, a 1918 graduate of
Trinity College and a trustee emeritus of
Duke, served in the United States Senate
from 1958-72. He was 77.
The Jordans' gift is part of Duke's
Epoch Campaign, the major goals of
which are to increase the university's
endowment funds for professorships,
student aid and research.
Visitors
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Raymond D. Nasher Co. in Dallas and 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.
—Mrs. Anne R. Somers, associate
professor of community medicine at
Rutgers Medical School.
—Dr. Mitchell W. Spellman, dean of
the Charles R. Drew Postgraduate
Medical School in Los Angeles.
— Richard J. Stull, presiflent of the
American College of Hospital
Administrators in Chicago.
YEARBOOK ORDERS
Anyone interested in ordering a copy
of the 1974 Aesculapian, the medical
student yearbook, please send a check for
$2.50 to Box 2831, Hospital. Checks
should be made payable to the
Aesculapain and must be received by
March 31. Faculty members may show
supp>ort for the yearbook as patrons for
$2 and as boosters for $3. Patrons will be
listed by name, and boosters will be listed
with a phrase or quote along with their
names.
—Even though the disease is rare today,
children still need to be immunized
against polio.
—Obesity experts agree that the best
dieting formula is simply to eat less and
exercise more.
—Missing a meal is likely to have a very
definite effect on your disposition.
Studies show people are the most
considerate and easiest to get along with
just after they've eaten.
One of North Carolina's favorite artists
will be presenting his 11th one-man show
at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel
Hill throughout April.
Robert Blake, medical illustrator at
the medical center, is the creator of
hundreds of watercolor landscapes which
depict subjects ranging from the
candy-striped lighthouse at Cape Hatteras
to the cloud-catching mountains along
the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Fifty of his most recent efforts are to
be displayed in the Planetarium's Art
Gallery for the viewing pleasure of area
residents.
A New Jersey Yankee by birth, Blake
has become a "naturalized" North
Carolinian in the 32 years he has spent in
Durham. Among his favorite subjects are
the weathered tobacco barns which lie
abandoned around the Piedmont.
"I love old buildings," he said. "I try.
to get the age and texture of the wood in
my paintings, and I believe these deserted
buildings have stories to tell."
The artist also likes to paint sand
dunes, sea oats and old fishing vessels for
the same reason, and he said he avoids
modern beach scenes because he finds
them uninteresting.
Blake is no stranger to the
Planetarium. In addition to the
exhibitions he has held there regularly, he
served as staff artist at the facility for
several years.
The panoramas he painted for
Christmas, Easter, space-related and town
programs have been made into slides to
be projected onto the Planetarium's
dome.
By using 12 projectors simultaneously,
technicians are able to give viewers the
impression that they are sitting on top of
the Planetariurn looking out over the
University of North Carolina in Chapel
Hill, standing on the moon before the
astronauts arrived or climbing the hills of
Judea on the night Christ was born.
At the state fair held in Raleigh each
autumn, Blake has won 12 blue ribbons
for his paintings over the years. At the
sidewalk art show held in Durham in the
spring, he garnered first place four years
in succession in the competition for most
popular painting, an award voted on by-
passers-by.
When the show's sponsors
discontinued that particular award
because of his monopoly on the laurels
each time it was offered and then
reinstated it three years later, the artist's
work was again voted most popular.
Blake is one of those people who feel
uncomfortable when they're not doing
something constructive, he reports. His
days are spent making anatomical
drawings for research and educational
purposes either in one of the hospital's 17
operating rooms or at his drawing board
in the Division of Audiovisual Education.
Evenings passed with his family in the
television room at home aren't reason
enough for him to lay aside his brushes
and paints. Before going to bed he usually
has a painting to show for his time.
And the painter's efforts aren't limited
solely to artistic pursuits. As one of the
founders of Scout Troop 412 in 1954 and
a leader of young men for 20 years, he
has helped to produce 39 eagle scouts,
and he's never missed a camping trip.
His troop has always been ranked first
or second in Durham County, and at one
camporee which included more than 240
scouts not long ago, patrols from Blake's
troop were awarded first, second, third
and fifth places in the overall;
competition.
His church. Trinity Avenue
Preisbyterian in Durham, honored him
recently by designating Sunday, March 17
as "Bob Blake Day" for his work in
scouting. It is the same church where he
has taught Sunday School for the 5th and
6th grades for the past 27 years.
- DAVID WILLIAMSON
Bus transportation between Duke and
Chapel Hill will be inaugurated on a
one-month trial basis starting Monday,
April 1.
Frank Bowers, director of operations
in the Physical Plant Department, said the
trial run is being made to see if there are
sufficient passengers to warrant the
service full-time.
If so, he said, "steps will be taken by
the university to put the service into
operation during the 1974-75 school
year."
The buses, operated by Central
Carolina Buslines, will run Monday
through Friday, except holidays, on the
following schedule:
Leaving Duke Chapel Quadrangle:
7:05 a.m., 9:10 a.m., 1:20 p.m. and 2:15
p.m.
Leaving Bus Station, Franklin St.,
Chapel Hill: 7:25 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 12:25
p.m., 1:45 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
The fare will be 60 cents each or $4.50
for a book of 10 commuter tickets.
The trial schedule is a tie-in with the
Two Drs. Named
Faculty Scholja^rsl
Two medical center faculty members
have been named faculty scholars in an
award program sponsored by the Josiah
Macy Jr. Foundation.
They are Drs. William N. Kelley, chief
of the Division of Rheumatic and Genetic
Diseases and an associate professor of
medicine, and Wendell F. Rosse,
professor of medicine.
The two are among 38 medical
scientists chosen from 143 applications to
receive awards amounting to a total of
$700,000.
The award program offers outstanding
faculty members at United States and
Canadian schools of medicine and public
health the opportunity to spend six to 12
months in concentrated research or study
away from their home institutions.
Kelley will study regulation of human
hypoxanthine-guanine
phosphoribosyl-transferase in somatic cell
hybrids at Oxford University's Sir William
Dunn School of Pathology in England. He
will study there for 11 months beginning
in September.
Rosse will study morphological
correlates of immunologic events at the
Institut Pathologie Cellulaire et de
Cancerologie Experimentale in Paris. He
will begin his six-month course of study
in July.
Carolina To Sponsor
Poisoning Workshop
The University of North Carolina
School of Public Health will sponsor a
“workshop on poison control centers at
the Holiday Inn in Chapel Hill
throughout Monday and Tuesday.
Among the discussion leaders are Dr.
Jay M. Arena, director of Duke's Poison
Control Center, and Dr. Shirley K.
Osterhout, clinical director of the center.
The purpose of the workshop is to
gather together poison control personnel
■ and other experts on the subject to
explore ways to increase the effectiveness
of the relationship between the poison
control centers and the federal Poison
Control Program, according to Osterhout
who is co-sponsoring the sessions.
An additional topic will be to consider'
new ways in which local centers might
engage in poison prevention activities.
Registration will begin Sunday evening
at 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn and will also
be held between 8 and 8:30 a.m. on
Monday. A $7.50 registration fee will be
charged at that time as well as $16 per
diem expenses.
bus line's existing schedule between
Durham and Chapel Hill. A continuation
of keeping Duke on the schedule will be
determined by the anx>unt of rider
interest during April, Bowers said.
Bowers conceded that one obvious
shortcoming in the schedule is the
absence of a bus from Duke to Chapel
Hill at the end of the work day. That
would require a special run, he said, but if
sufficient interest is expressed, it might
be arranged.
Persons who are interested in an
after-work schedule to Chapel Hill or who
have any other questions about the
schedule should call Bowers' office at
Ext. 3443.
RAPE COUNSELING
If you have been attacked, raped or
molested or know anyone, else who has
been, the Duke Counseling Center may be
able to help. All conversations are
confidential. The telephone number is
3342 during the day or you may call
Public Safety at 2444 at night.
Duke-UNC Bus Service To Start