Seven Digits After 12:01 A.M.
New Telephone System Begins Tomorrow
University technicians will begin
switching telephone lines at one miViute
after midnight tonight as part of Duke's
conversion to its new seven digit dialing
system.
"We anticipate that all lines will be in
operation by noon on Saturday. ” said
W. K. Howard, chief engineer and
director of special utilities. “The first
lines to be transferred will be in critical
areas such as the Emergency Room.
Public Safety and clinical services.' he
said, "and other offices and
laboratories will follow shortly
afterwards."
The new telephone directory for the
university which has already been
distributed will go into effect with the
switch-over, and some numbers listed
in it will be different from those now
being used.
Faculty, staff and employees are
reminded that they will no longer have
to dial '9' to reach an outside line and
that calls within the university must be
prefixed by Duke’s "684" exchange.
Howard again cautioned that the new
equipment will allow for "direct
distance dialing' for out-of-town calls
from many telephones. 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.
The new telephone system will
increase the university’s number of
lines from 3.150 to more than 6.500
lines with a potential for being
expanded to 10.000 lines when the need
arises.
All operators and electronic
equipment, as wel.1 as telephone-related
offices, will be housed in the new
TelCom BIdg., located t>etween the
hospital and the School of Engineering
and adjacent to the Divinity School
parking' lot.
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VOLUME 22, NUMBER 1
JANUARY 3,1975
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Provost Announces New
Assistant Professorships
HOSPITALS ARE IN THE FAMILY—Duke Hospital has been the career center for
Hildur and Bob Blake for almost all of their married life. And that undoubtedly had
an influence on their children. Kenn (standing left) works at Watts Hospital. Janis is
a Duke nurse and Robin is a physician in western North Carolina.
Five promotions and nine
appointments to assistant
professorships were announced
recently by Frederic N. Cleaveland.
university provost.
Those awarded promotions include
Dr. Arthur F. Kriner and Dr. Raymond L.
Osborne, radiology; Dr. Charles F.
Sydnor and Dr. Bill W. Yamanashi.
ophthalmology; and Dr. Linda Christine
Wyrick, psychiatry.
Appointments to assistant professors
were granted by Dr. Robert J. Sullivan
Jr. and Dr. H. Dennis Tolley, community
health sciences; Dr. Sezar Aksel.
obstetrics and gynecology; Dr. Peter H.
Anderson, pathology; Jean Scott Barr,
physical therapy; Dr. William H.
Fletcher, anatomy; Barbara G. Lynds,
nursing; Dr. Olaf T. von Ramm.
medicine and biomedical engineering;
and Dr. Andrew S. Wechsler. surgery.
With an undergraduate degree in
chemistry from Gettysburg College.
Kriner received his M.D. from
Hahneman Medical College in 1969. He
served both his internship and
residency at Geisinger Medical Center
in Danville. Pa.
Kriner is a native of Pottsville. Pa.,
and did research in the field of steroid
chemistry in 1965.
Osborne is a native of New York City.
He received his undergraduate degree
from the Univerity of Pennsylvania in
1961 and his M.D. from McGee
University School of Medicine in
Montreal in 1966.
After completing his internship at
Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal.
Osborne served his residency at Duke
from 1967-68. He also completed
residencies in orthopaedics at
Campbell Clinic in Memphis. Tenn. and
in radiology at Yale University Medical
School.
A native of Richmond. Va.. Sydnor
was graduated from Hampden-Sydney
College in 1964. He received an M.S.
degree from the University of Virginia
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
and an M.D. degree from the Universivy
of Virginia School of Medicine in 1969.
After serving an ophthalmology
residency at Duke from 1970-73. Sydnor
was granted a fellowship in
neuro-ophthalmology at the University
of Michigan.
Yamanashi, a native of Tokyo,
received his undergraduate education
at Michigan’s Andrews University and
his Ph.D. in chemical physics at M.I.T. in
Cambridge. Mass. in 1969.
Yamanashi was a research associate
at the Georgia Institute of Technology
before coming to Duke as a
postdoctoral trainee in 1972.
Wyrick. a native of Detroit, Mich.,
came to Duke in 1971 from the Tucson,
Arizona V.A. Hospital, where she served
a clinical psychology internship. She
has been a clinical psychologist and
instructor in medical psychology since
coming to Duke.
Wyrick received her undergraduate
education at Michigan State University
and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
at the University of Arizona.
A native of San Diego. Calif.. Sullivan
received his undergraduate training at
Colgate University and his M.D. degree
from Cornell University in 1966. He
obtained a M.S. degree in public health
(Continued on page 3)
Five in Bob Blake Family Pursue Hospital Careers
The whole Bob Blake family is in the
hospital business. In a manner of
speaking.
And it's not surprising, considering
that Bob and Hildur Blake have spent
most of their married lives and
professional careers at Duke Hospital.
Their children grew up in a medical and
hospital atmosphere.
Bob is Duke's medical illustrator. He
came here in 1942 and has t>een on the
faculty since 1949. For many years he
was Elon Clark s assistant in medical
illustration and now he is coordinator of
medical art in the Division of
Audiovisual Education.
Mrs. Blake is a registered nurse and
has been nursing at Duke since 1943.
Successively she has worked on Meyer
Ward, the old Drake Ward, in the
Recovery Room and the old INU. For the
past six years she has been'on Welch
Ward.
Their daughter Janis. who is married
to Aram Aghjayan. also is a registered
nurse and has been at Duke Hospital for
six years. She is head nurse on
Strudwick Ward.
One son is a physician. Dr. Robin
Blake has been practicing family
medicine for the past two and a half
years in the rural community of Hot
Springs in the North Carolina
mountains, an area that previously was
medically deprived. He has three clinics
scattered over the western part of
Madison County which are staffed by
nurse practitioners.
The final Blake to join the 'hospital
family' is Kenn. who is working in
central supply at Watts Hospital.
-JOE SIGLER