Judge Sirka Among Honorary Degree Recipients
Students Become Graduates Next Sunday
More than 1,800 men and women
will receive their degrees at the
university’s 124th graduation
exercises May 9 in Wallace Wade
Stadium.
Duke President Terry Sanford will
deliver the commencement address.
The 3 p.m. program will be in
Cameron Indoor Stadium in case of
rain.
The university will award eight
honorary degrees during the
exercises, two of them to foreign
dignitaries. Recipients will be;
—U.S. District JudgeJohnJ. Sirica,
Doctor of Laws. He presided over the
Watergate trials and was credited
with doing much to break open the
scandal. His son Jack will be among
the graduating seniors.
—Hon. Amitore Fanfani, Doctor of
Humanities. He is leader of the
Christian Democratic party in Italy
and a former president of that
country.
—Octavio Paz, Doctor of
Literature. He is a Mexican poet,
essayist and man of letters who
teaches at Harvard. He has served as
Mexico’s ambassador to India.
—Dr. Lewis . Thomas, Doctor of
Humane Letters. He is president of
Memorial Sloan-Ketteririg Cancer
Center in New York City and author
of the highly acclaimed, “Lives of a
Cell.”
—Joseph L. Kirkland, Doctor of
Laws. He is secretary-treasurer of the
AFL-CIO. He has been described as
one of the nation’s ablest union
administrators.
—Dr. John F. Enders, Doctor of
Humane Letters. He is a virologist at
Harvard University and a Nobel
laureate. He is also chief of the virus
research unit at Children’s Hospital
Medical Center in Boston.
—Dr. James R. Scales, Doctor of
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Laws. He is president of Wake Forest
University in Winston-Salem.
—Dr. Hildegard E. Peplaii, DKtor
of Science. She is director of the
graduate program in psychiatric
nursing at Rutgers University.
Commencement Weekend
activities will begin at 9 a.m. May 8
with a meeting of the Duke Board of
Trustees.
Other activities that day will
include the baccalaureate service for
advanced degree candidates at 3 p.m.
in Duke Chapel, and an informal
reception on the East Duke Lawn for
the graduating classes. The reception
will begin at 4 p.m.
Hoof ‘n’ Horn will present its
production of “My Fair Lady” in Page
Auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
On graduation Sunday, there will
be baccalaureate services at 9 a.m.
and 11 a.m. for candidates receiving
bachelors degrees. Dr. Donald
Shriver, president of Union
Theological Seminary in New York
City, will deliver the sermons in Duke
Chapel.
Auxiliary Announces Gifts
To Education and Mamas
LEST WE FORGET—you haven't been to the main entrance of the hospital recently,
or even if you have, you may not have noticed the shiny new blue and white sign on
the quadrangle. (Photo by David Williamson)
Members of the Hospital Auxiliary
are at it again.
Not content solely to dispense fresh
hot coffee, doughnuts, ham biscuits
and the like in the snack bars, or to
make magazines, gifts, toiletries and
paperback books available on the
wards and in the Pink Smock and to
spread their personal warmth
throughout the hospital, the
volunteei's have also been making
their presence increasingly fell in the
School of Medicine and the Division
of Perinatal Medicine.
Last week, projects chairman
Catherine Callaway announced that
the auxiliary would make gifts of
$12,000 to the Division of Medical
and Allied Health. Education and
almost $7,000 to the Division of
Perinatal Medicine
The first gift will add $10,000 to
the Medical Student Loan Fund
which gives financial aid to needy
medical students and $2,000 to an
emergency loan fund for medical and
allied health students, according to
Dr. Ewald W. Busse, associate
provost and director of medical and
allied health education.
The second ^ift of $6,985 will be
used by perinatal medicine to
purchase a machine known as a fetal
monitor. The device, according to
Dr. Carlyle Crenshaw, co-director of
the division, “helps us to determine
Service Awards Banquet Planned
Employees with a combined total of
more than 30 centuries of effort on
behalf of the medical center will be
honored on Friday, May 14, at the
annual Service Awards Banquet.
The banquet, which will feature a
Bicentennial theme for 1976, will be
held at the Downtowner Motor Inn
in Durham. A reception will be held
at 6:30 p.m., and the dinner will
follow at 7.
“We sponsor this annual affair so
that we can recognize our long-time
employees and express our
appreciation to them tor their loyalty
and dedication,” said Herbert
Aikens, director of Employee
Relations. “We’re trying to make this
year's banquet the finest one we’ve
ever had.”
Two hundred and fifty invitations
were sent to employees, faculty and
staff, he said, and so far, 210 people
have indicated that they are planning
to attend.
Traditionally, the event recognizes
those individuals who have reached
their 10th, 20th, 30th and 40th years
of continuous service during the
previous 11 months. ■ It also
recognizes employees who have
retired during the same period.
Each employee will receive a
jewelled pin and a certificate bearing
his or her name and years of service.
Dr. William G. Anlyan, vice president
for health affairs, will present awards
to retirees and 30-year veterans, and
Wilma Minniear, director of nursing
services, will do the same for
employees who have been at Duke
for 10 and 20 years.
Aikens said there are no 40-yea>'
pins to be presented for 1976.
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the health of the fetus in high risk
obstetrical patients.”
“The federally-funded U.S. Health
Professions Loan Program is
currendy in the first year of a
three-year phase out,” Busse said.
“The School of Medicine has been
receiving approximately $100,000 a
year from this source for student aid,
but for the academic year 1976-77
there will be no funds from it for
freshmen or sophomores or for
first-time junior and senior
borrowers.”
Busse said that while the phasing
out of the government loan program
would not hurt the School of
Medicine financially, in the future it
could tend to limit nationwide
medical enrollment to wealthier
students.
“The generosity of the Hospital
Auxiliary is particularly helpful and
timely,” Busse said. “We don't want
to see students we have admitted tell
us they can't come to Duke because
they don't have enough money, and
we don’t have sufficient financial
aid."
Crenshaw said the auxiliary gave
the hospital its first fetal monitor in
1971 and that the device is the best
and most recent method of watching
over the health of babies before they
are born, a task which is always
difficult.
“It helps us to determine if the
fetus is getting enough oxygen, and it
helps us decide whether to proceed
with Caesarean section or to allow a
mother to continue with labor and
vaginal delivery.”
“We are grateful to the members of
the auxiliary for their gift and for
their work on our behalf through the
years," the obstetrician said. “They
are very generous and very kind."
He added that last year, the
volunteers also supplied the division
with its first maternal monitor.
Mrs. Callaway explained the
philosophy that the auxiliary s
executive committee direct toward
gift decisions:
“Patient care is our number one
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