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VOLUME 22, NUMBER 34
SEPTEMBER 12,1975
DURHAM, NORTH CAROUN A
Class of 79 Begins Work
Toward B.S. in Nursing
A FAMILY AFFAIR — Sisters Maureen, left, and Kathleen Flanagan will be attending
nursing school together this year as Maureen joins the Class of 1979's 91 new nursing
students. (Photo by Margaret Howell)
If Duke freshmen still wore
beanies, Maureen Ann Flanagan
would be wearing one while her sister
Kathleen Louise wears the nursing
cap of the School of Nursing’s junior
class.
The two Camp Hill, Pa., sisters met
last week for their first year of
nursing school together as Maureen
became one of 91 members of the
Class of 1979.
At the same time, Kathleen
Flanagan received her nursing cap,
the traditional symbol of the nursing
junior entering into the clinical phase
of nurse’s training at Duke.
The freshmen from 22 states and
two foreign countries who joined the
44-year-old School of Nursing have
begun studies that mark the
loginning of their four years toward
a B.S. degree in nursing.
Only one male — Robert Griswold
Sigety of Pipersville, Pa. —joined the
new class as they settled into their
dorm rooms amid boxes, suitcases,
books and electric fans to cool the hot
Indian summer days ahead.
Eight students are from North
Carolina. They are Laura Tynes
Gantt, Jessica Elizabeth Shaw and
Margaret Christine Sims of Durham,
Linnet Mar Brophy and Nancy Van
Vleet Dameron of Raleigh; Diane
Page Haynes of Wake Forest;
Barbara Faye Hobbs of Pikeville; and
Tanya Lou Lunsford of Roxboro.
From other countries are Mary
Elizabeth O’Brien from Guadalajara,
Mexico, and Karen Elizabeth Lund
from Surrey, England.
Students from other states are:
CALIFORNIA — Susan Thomas Feldsted
of Santa Barbara and Karen Lee Sctukbs of
Lajolla.
CONNECTICUT — Marcy Ann Garber of
Woodbridge; Alta Jeannette Hill of North
Branford: Karen A. Hutchinson of Westport;
Suzanne Hutchison of West Hartford;
Margaret Ann Jowdy of Danbury; Charlotte
Ellen Katzin of Litchrield; Sharon Lee Meizen
of Avon; and Susan Wainwright Pivirotto of
Greenwich.
FLORIDA — Lee Summers Clay of
Longwood.
ILLINOIS — Elizabeth Ann Whitmore of
Deerfield.
KENTUCKY — Sally Engle Wiley of
Lexington.
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Fulton Street
Closes Monday
Fulton Street will be closed to all
^affic beginning Monday, Sept. 15,
according to engineer Ted Tyren of
the Hospital Project Management
Office.
Tyren said only cars with “HS”
decals will be permitted to park in the
Fulton Street parking lot because the
current “H" lot will be disrupted by
construction of the new hospital.
Entrance to the “HS” lot will be
from the east on Trent Drive.
Most of the current “H” lot on
Fulton will be fenced off, but a
pedestrain walkway will be provided
for people traveling between the
hospital and the Veterans
Administration Hospital or the Eye
Center.
This walkway, Tyren said, is to be
established between the “H” and the
“HS" parking lots on Fulton Street.
Holders of “H” decals whose
parking practices are changed by the
construction can find spaces on the
east side of Wannamaker Drive
across from the tennis courts.
A free bus service is available every
15 minutes from that new parking lot
to a bus stop behind the medical
center post office.
Fourteen Papers and a Panel
Walter L Thomas Symposium Begins Today
More than 100 physicians from as
far away as Canada and California
are expected to attend the fifth
annual Walter L. Thomas
Symposium on gynecologic cancer
which begins this morning in the
amphitheater.
The symjwsium is being held “to
review new and basic science genital
cancer information and to
concentrate on clinical
management,” according to its
director. Dr. William T. Creasman.
An associate professor of Ob-Gyn,
Creasman heads the gynecologic
oncology program at Duke.
Four invited guests and six medical
center faculty members will present
14 papers and a panel discussion
today and tomorrow.
The keynote lecture will be
delivered at 11 a.m. today by Dr.
John L. Lewis, Jr., chief of the
Gynecology Service at Memorial
Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center in
New York. Lewis will speak on “Care
for the Gynecologic Oncology
Patient, Today and Tomorrow."
A 1957 graduate of Harvard
Medical School, he is a director of the
American Board of Obstetrics and
Gynecology and is a past president of
the Society of Gynecologic
Oncologists.
Another invited guest is Dr. Hugh
M. Shingleton, professor and
director of gynecologic oncology at
the University of Alabama in
Birmingham. Shingleton is the
brother of Dr. William W.
Shingleton, professor and director of
the Duke Comprehensive Cancer
Center.
Hugh Shingleton spearheaded a
program offered a pap smear and a
breast examination to every female
patient admitted to University
Hospital in Birmingham. The
program began March 1 and has
been received favorably by patients.
Other guests are Dr. George W.
Morley, professor and director of
gynecologic oncology at the
University of Michigan, and Dr. John
Glover, an Ob-Gyn specialist from
Charlotte.
Papers this morning focus on
trophoblastic disease; those this
afternoon deal with endometriosis;
those tomorrow morning concentrate
on vulvar lesions.
Topics to be covered today are:
8:45 a.m. — “Gestational
Trophoblastic Disease: Historical
Introduction” by Dr. Charles
Hammond, associate professor and
director of the Southeastern Regional
Center for Trophoblastic Disease
here,
8:55 a.m. — “Clinical
Management of Molar Pregnancies”
by Dr. Hugh Shingleton,
9:15 a.m. — “Diagnosis and
Therapy of Gestational
Trophoblastic Disease” by Dr.
Creasman,
9:45 a.m. — “Combined Surgical
and Chemotherapeutic Approach in
the Difficult Patient” by Dr.
Hammoqd,
1 1 a.m. — “Care for the
Gynecologic Oncology Patient,
Today and Tomorrow” by Dr. Lewis,
1:30 p.m. — “Endometriosis:
Etiology and Clinical Manifestations,”
by Dr. Robert Brame, professor of
Ob-Gyn,
2 p.m. — “Infertility and
Endometriosis,” Dr. John A. Rock,
chief resident in the Duke
Department of Ob-Gyn,
2:30 p.m. — “Medical
Management of Endometriosis,” by
Dr. Sezar Aksel, assistant professor of
Ob-Gyn,
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