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VOLUME 21, NUMBER 36
SEPTEMBER 27,1974
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Seven Digit Dialing for Town and Campus Calls
Oct. 26 Will Ring in New Telephone System
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NEW COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING—The university's TeiCom Building,
located between the hospital and the School of Engineering (adjacent to the
Divinity School parking lot) contains most of the equipment for Duke's new
telephone system. The system is scheduled to go into operation after midnight on
Oct. 26 and will change current dialing procedures. (Photo by David Williamson)
At 12:01 a.m. October 26, the
university will switch to its new
telephone system.
From that time forward, anyone
using a Duke telephone will have to
dial seven digits instead of the current
four, regardless of whether the calls
are directed on or off campus.
According to W.K. Howard, the
university 's chief engineer and director
of special utilities. "We've outgrown
the present system, and the space
which holds the equipment for the
present system is inadequate."
The new system, which will end the
necessity for dialing ''9' to reach an
outside line, is computerized and
electronically controlled. It will be
housed in the recently completed
TelCom Building located on Science
Drive between the hospital and the
School of Engineering.
Duke, Davison Clubbers Arrive
More than 100 major donors to Duke
will congregate here today for a day
and two nights of science and
socializing.
Bringing them together is the annual
Washington Duke and Davison Club
Weekend — the university’s way of
saying thanks to a group of people who
contribute at least $1,000'each every
year to Duke programs.
The weekend begins with a business
meeting and social hour this evening at
the home of Dr. William G. Aniyan, vice
president for health affairs.
Reports by two medical center
scientists are on tap for tomorrow
morning. Or. Pat Prinz, research
assistant professor in physiology and
pharmacology, will focus on sleep.
"We spend a third of our lives
sleeping and we dont have much to
show for it,’’ Dr. Prinz said. “It's possible
that, during sleep, the brain is carrying
out functions vital for memory and
learning."
She also expects to discuss why
older people need less sleep than
children or young adults.
Then Dr. George Maddox, professor
of medical sociology and director of
the Center for the Study of Aging and
Human Developnftent. will speak on
"The Immortality Factor — Biomedical
and Sociological.”
Following thd, lectures wilt tw a
buffet luncheon in the University
Ballroom and the Ouke-Virginia game.
Next, the Washington Duke and
Davison Club members are invited to
President Terry Sanford's home for
cocktails. Finally, a banquet in the
Union Ballroom will cap the weekend.
The .Washington Duke Club was
established in 1947. Its nearly 200
members have given an estimated
three to four million dollars since then
for educational programs at the
university outside the medical center.
The Davison Club got started in
1968, in honor of the first dean of the
School of Medicine, Dr. Witburt C.
Davison. Its 128 memljers support
medical center programs.
Howard said that the old
electro-mechanical telephone system
had a capacity of 3,150 lines, and the
new one will more than double that
capacity to 6.500 lines. In addition, it
will have the potential to be expanded
to 10,000 lines when the need arises in
the future.
In most cases, offices, labs and
dormitories will keep their present four
digits and merely prefix those four
numbers with Duke's "684 " exchange.
Some numbers will be changed,
however, and the university's new
telephone directory which includes the
changes will be distributed prior to Oct.
26.
Howard cautioned that the new
equipment will allow for “direct
distance dialing" for out-of-town calls.
Each department will then be
responsible for any calls made from its
lines and will have to exercise control
over its telephones to prevent
unauthorized long distance calls.
Alt of the old equipment now located
in the hospital will be sold since it is still
in good condition, he said. Its removal
will free needed floor space for
medical purposes.
Eventually, every individual
dormitory room and laboratory will
have conduits so that the occupants
will have the option of having a
telephone installed.
"In putting in the new system, Duke
has chosen to plan for the future,"
Howard added. "The TelCom Building,
which also contains administrative
offices and space for technicians and
operators, includes all the features
which the telephone industry now
offers. And it should serve the campus
and the medical center for many years
to come."
Nursing School Holds Seventh
Distributive Nursing Workshop
The seventh in a two-year-long
series of nine distributive nursing
workshops, "Work, Society and
Health," was held recently at the
School of Nursing.
The focus of the workshop,
according to Dr. Carol Hogue, assistant
professor of nursing and this
workshop's director, was the "study of
new approaches to education in
occupational health." The program
included the identification of
educational content in programs
designed to prepare nurses for
distributive care in occupational health
at tx>th the t>accalaureate and graduate
levels.
Or. Hogue described distributive
nursing care in occupational health as
a “24-hour affair." She noted that "we
have long t>een concerned about the
health of working people, but we need
to be concerned about their total
health, 24 hours a day, not just their
health at work.
"The 80 million working people in
the U.S. undergo various experiences
in their careers," she stated, "including
identification of vocation, mid-career
shifts and retirement. We are trying,"
she said, "to bring to bear the
knowledge of behavioral science,
nursing and other medical sciences to
assist workers and their families in
coping with these experiences."
Another objective of the woi'kshop.^s
included a study of the implicationsQf
federal law on the health of working
people and strategies for establi^hg
priorities in health care by identifying
workers , at risk because of sofc^l,;,;;:
psychological and physical hazard^;
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present jand future distributive
modelsm occupational health. - f
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WORKSHOP^aculty memtjers forviHe Sctidbl of Nursing’s “Work, Society and
Health " Workshop include, first row. left to right; Or. Carol C. Hogue. School of
Nursing; Siara P. Wagner. Exxon Corporation; Josephine A. Cipolla, New York
Telephone Company and Jeanne T. Healey, Western Electric Company. Second
row. left to right, faculty members include: Beverly Dye. U.S. Air Force; Marjorie
J1 Keller, Medipal CoHege of Vifginia School of Nursjng; Frances Martin, N.C.
.bepartment of •Human R0otHt:es; Gertrude R. Neff. National Institute for
..S^^pational Safetyiaod Health;£I|t,,Anthony J. MbMichael. University of North
for Occupational Safety and Health.
Jane Ufefe'j^ati^ai'w
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