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^Old Crads^ in Largest Turnout? School of Medicine Welcomes Back Alumni The 11th Annual Medical Alumni Weekend, which began Thursday and continues through Saturday, has attracted what is probably the largest turnout in the history of the Duke Medical Alumni Association. Highlighting today’s program will be the symposium, “Genetics-Envifonment-Management, Diabetes and Hypertension,” to be held in the Medical Center Amphitheater beginning at 9 a.m. There will be morning and afternoon sessions. A day-long program, beginning at 9:30 a.m., also b scheduled at the School of Nursing entitled, ‘Trends and Advances in Gerontological Nursing.” This afternoon at 4:45 a ceremony will be held in the Amphitheater for the presentation of a portrait of Dr. Thomas D. Kinney, and tonight at 6:30 the Awards Banquet will be held at Governors Inn. (See stories elsewhere in this issue for these events.) On Saturday morning, alumni will have an opportunity to visit with chairmen and staff members of the following departments: surgery, medicine, psychiatry, pediatrics, obstetrics-gynecology, ophthalmology, radiology, pathology, anesthesiology, and community health sciences (family practice). Following an informal continental breakfast, alumni will be invited to accompany staff members on rounds. Also on Saturday morning, at 9 o’clock, there will be a tour of the new Seeley G. Mudd building, the new Medical Center Library and Communications Center. Alumni will attend'the Duke-Carplina football game Saturday afternoon. Special class reunions are set for 6:30 p.m. Saturday at various locations for the classes of 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965 and 1970. ntcttcom 6ukc uniucusiiy mc6icM ccnteR VOLUME 22, NUMBER 44 NOVEMBER 21,1975 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA Seven Awards To Highlight Annual Medical Weekend Three Distinguished Teaching Awards and four Distinguished Alumni Awards will be presented tonight as part of Medical Alumni Weekend. The presentations will take place at the alumni Awards Banquet at the Governors Inn. Distinguished Teaching Awards are presented by the Medical Alumni Association, and one of them, honoring Dr. Elijah Eugene Menefee Jr., will be presented posthumously. Dr. Menefee, who received his M.D. at Duke in 1936, was considered one of the country’s leading authorities on tuberculosis and respiratory diseases. He also was one of the first to link smoking with lung diseases. Dr. Menefee had been in declining health since his retirement in 1971, and he died in Arizona on May 23. He was 65. Other Distinguished Teaching Awards go to Dr. Thomas D. Kinney and Dr. EdWard S. Orgain. Dr. Kinney (see separate story in this issue on presentation to the medical center of a portrait of Kinney) received bis M.D. at Duke in 1935. He returned to Duke from Western Reserve University in 1960 as professor and chairman of pathology. He stepped down last year as associate provost of Duke University and director of medical and allied health education. Dr. Oi"gain is a 1930 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He came to Duke in 1934 as an instructor in medicine and physiology. He now is professor of medicine and director of the cardiovascular disease service here. The Distinguished Alumni Awards are presented by the.medical center. I'he recipients are: * Dr. Rubin Bressler, a 1957 graduate of the Duke School of Medicine. He was on the Duke faculty until four years ago when he went to the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona where he is pf ofessor and chairman of pharmacology, professor of medicine and chief of the division of clinical pharmacology. * Dr. Nathan Kaufman, a professor of pathology at Duke from 1960-67. A native of Canada, Kaufman earned his M.D. at McGill University in Montreal. He left Duke to assume his present position as chairman of pathology at Queen’s College in Kingston, Canada. Three of Dr. Kaufman’s five children are in the Durham area. Miriam is a senior in the Duke School of Nursing, Judith is a senior at the Carolina P'riend’s School and Naomi, who worked in clinical chemistry (Continued on page 2) DR. E. E. MENEFEE JR. DR. EDWARD S. ORGAIN RIBBON TRIMMING—On Monday morning, Mary D.B.T. Semans representing the university's Board of Trustees cut a bright ribbon irKthe doorway to the Seeley C. Mudd Building and thereby officially opened the new Medical Center Library which will serve the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing and a number of health-related scientific departments. Helping Mrs. Semans with the ceremonial incision was Dr. William C. Anlyan, vice president for health affairs. From left to right, around the pair were: Dr. Ruby Wilson, dean of the School of Nursing, Dwight Robertson, the first medical student to enter the library, Warren Bird, library director, Dr. Ewald Busse, director of medical and allied health education, Irene Crabtree, the new facility's first nursing student, and Dr. Jaines H. Semans, professor of urology. (Photo by David Williamson)
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