Health Fair
Opens Today
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It’s About Feelin* Good
Durham’s second annual health fair opened today under the theme, “the
feelin' good fair.”
Sponsored this year by the North Carolina Regional Medical Program, the fair
is being held at the Durham Civic Center, corner of Morgan and Foster streets,
from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. today and tomorrow.
The gala, which will feature a composite of activities and entertainment by
Durham's health care community, is free and open to the public.
The fair will feature a number of informational booths and exhibits, including
free health checks for blood pressure, diabetes, glaucoma and breast cancer.
It will present a variety of demonstrations and performances by area groups
concerned about health care, as well as games, movies and slide shows about
’feelin’ good.”
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VOLUME 22, NUMBER 21
MAY 30, 1975
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
HIGH ON A PIPE—Ted Tyren, engineer
in the hospital's Project Management
Office, was dwarfed by the size of the
28-foot hole in the parking lot beside
Fulton Street last week. Construction
workers are currently installing storm
drains and sewer lines there in
preparation for the new Duke North
Hospital. (Photo by David Williamson)
Wadsworth Will Head
Ophthalmology Group
Dr. Joseph A. C. Wadsworth Jr.,
chairman of the Department of
Ophthalmology, will be named
president of the American
Ophthalmological Society tomorrow.
The ceremonies will take place at
the group’s annual meeting in Hot
Springs, Ark. Founded 110 years ago,
the society is the oldest medical
specialty body in America.
Wadsworth has been a professor
and chairman of ophthalmology since
1965. He is the only person to have
held the latter position here.
Drug Firm To
Support Fuchs
The Burroughs Wellcome Co., a
British pharmaceutical manufacturer
with U.S. home offices in North
Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, has
announced that it will provide full
salary and research support to a Duke
scientist who is studying
cardiovascular disease.
Dr. James C. A. Fuchs, assistant
professor in the Department of Surgery
and associate in clinical pharmacology,
will remain on the Duke faculty as part
of the Burroughs Wellcome support of
clinical pharmacology at the medical
center. His appointment was effective
May 1.
Fuch’s chief research interest lies in
atherosclerosis, a common arterial
disorder which has been implicated in
heart attacks and strokes. He is
currently establishing an active
program at Duke to evaluate the role of
surgery and drug therapy in preventing
or arresting vascular deterioration.
More specifically, Fuchs and his
associates are looking at surgical
grafts which bypass diseased
segments of arteries. These grafts,
usually veins taken from another part
of the patient’s body will t)e studied to
determine the factors involved in their
long term function.
The scientist received his M.D.
degree from the Johns Hopkins School
of Medicine in 1964 and is a 1973
graduate of Duke’s surgical residency
program. He was named assistant
professor of surgery here in 1974.
He has been associated with the
Medical Department of Burroughs
Wellcome since January, 1974, and will
continue to work with their
cardiovascular division.
He gave up a New York City
ophthalmology practice to return to
Duke, where he had earned his M.D.
degree 26 years earlier. One of the
dreams Wadsworth brought with him
from New York was a mental picture
of the Duke Eye^ Center. His idea
excited others — including the Board
of Trustees — and the center opened
in November, 1973.
The professor was born in
Charlotte. He received his B.A. degree
at Davidson College in 1935. His
research interests have been eye
pathology and eye cancer surgery.
Other national posts Wadsworth has
held include:
'the chairmanship of the American
Board of Ophthalmology, and
'the chairmanship of the American
Ophthalmological Society’s executive
committee.
DR. JOSEPH A. WADSWORTH
Respiratory Disease Expert
Menefee Dies in Arizona
Dr. E. E. “Lige” Menefee Jr., 65,
former professor of medicine here,
died in Green Valley, Ariz., Friday
morning (May 23).
He had been in declining health
since his early retirement in October
of 1971.
DR. E. E. MENEFEE
Menefee joined the Duke faculty in
1940 following his residency at
Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston and Bellevue Hospital in New
York City. He earned his M.D. degree
at Duke in 1936.
A native of Lynchburg, Va., the
physician and researcher was
considered one of the country’s
leading authorities on tuberculosis
and other respiratory diseases. He was
among the first physicians to call
attention to a link between smoking
and lung diseases.
He also was among the first to alert
the public to what he considered the
dangers of smoking, saying more than
20 years ago that smokers must
choose between their habit and
breathing.
This spring Dr. Menefee received
the Distinguished Teaching Award
from the university’s Alumni Council.
"You couldn’t be his patient without
t)eing endeared to him, ” said Dr. Jay
Arena, a pediatrician and long-time
associate at Duke. '“Lige’ was a quiet
and gentle man of great skill. His
talents as physTcian, scientist and
teacher were equalled only by his
qualities as a human being. Few
doctors have all these characteristics.
He was one of them.”
Dr. Menefee was a member of
numerous professional 'organizations
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