Roscoe R. (Ike) Robinson
Doctor Accepts Hospital Reins
DR. ROSCX>E R. ROBINSON
By Ina Fried
“One of the worst things is
dreaming that you’re ready to go on
and you don’t know your lines. You
wake up in a sweat. That 1 think is a
very common occurrence among
actors.”
Donna Shumaker has learned a
great deal about actors and acting
since 1974 when she appeared in her
first play since high school. Since
then the secretary to Dr. Jay M.
Arena in the Medical Alumni Office
has been an active member of the
Duke Players and Summer Theater.
Next weekend she’ll play three
roles in “Dylan,” a humorous, yet
deeply moving play about the
American visit of the Welsh poet,
Dylan Thomas. The play runs June
11-13 and 19-20 in the East Duke
Music Room.
Blue Hair
Ms. Shumaker will appear as a
reporter, a clubwoman “with blue
hair and a big, flowered hat,” and the
65-year-old writer, Katherine Ann
Porter.
“I love those character parts,” Ms.
' Shumaker exclaimed. “1 guess
everybody calls me a comedian — a
clown —a nut.
“At my age, 1 doubt that I’ll ever
get a part as a female romantic lead so
1 don’t try out for them,” she said.
“The closest I got to that was as Mrs.
Gibbs in ‘Our Town,’ when my
‘husband,’ played by Bud DeWinter
(from Perkins Library Reader
Services), and I stood on the front
porch and smelled the heliotropes.”
Every Role Different
Ms. Shumaker doesn’t have a
favorite role. “Each one was so
different from the others,” she said.
Her first role was as Ropeen, an old,
retired prostitute in the Irish play,
“The Hostage.” She also has played
Eunice in “Streetcar Named D>esire,”
several characters, including Pat
Nixon, in “Where Has Tommy
Dr. Roscoe R. (Ike) Robinson has
assumed duties as associate vice
president at the university and Chief
Executive Officer of Duke Hospital, a
title replacing that of Director of
Duke Hospital.
Robinson’s appointment was
announced jointly by President Terry
Sanford and Dr. William G. Anlyan,
vice president for health affairs.
Robinson, 46, is a professor of
medicine and director of the Division
of Nephrology, appointments that he
still retains.
Anlyan said that Robinson will
serve alongside him and Dr. Ewald
W. Busse, associate provost and
director of medical and allied health
education, as administrative officers
responsible for the overall
Flowers Gone?” and 68-year-old
Millie in “Hot L Baltimore.”
‘The first time I went in and found
out you do your own makeup, 1
didn’t know a thing about it,” Ms.
Shumaker recalled. ‘They do have
coordination of the educational,
research and service activities of the
medical center, and with Dean Ruby
Wilson for the educational and
service relationships between the
School of Nursing and the hospital.
Robinson will be responsible “not
only for the overall operation of
Duke Hospital, including the new
Eye Center and services at Duke
West, but also for administration and
coordination of their interface with
all clinical services, and the other
activities of the medical center,”
Anlyan said.
Reporting to Robinson will be the
hospital’s administrative director,
controller, the directors of nursing
services, personnel and planning,
and the heads of many hospital-based
people who help you. They show you
what shade you should use and how
to make the lines to make yourself
look older.”
Sprays are used to change
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services, Anlyan said.
The position of associate vice
president also is a new one. its
creation recognizes the broadened
responsibilities that have been
assigned to Robinson, with special
emphasis on plans for clinical service
programs of the future, Anlyan
noted.
Robinson is a native of Oklahoma
City. He graduated from Central
State University in Edmond, Okla.,
and earned his M.D. degree at the
University of Oklahoma in 1954.
He served an internship and
residency in internal medicine at
Duke and spent one year in research
training at the Columbia-
Presbyterian Medical Center in New
York City. Robinson was in the
medical corps of the Air Forc6 from
1958-60 as Chief of Nephrology,
Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center,
Lackland AFB.
Returning to the Duke faculty in
1%0, he was appointed director of
the Division of Nephrology two years
later. Robinson was promoted to
professorof medicine in 1969. '
Since 1970, he has been the
national consultant in nephrology to
the surgeon general of the Air Force.
He is editor of Kidney International,
official publication of the
International Society of Nephrology,
and also is a member of the editorial
boards of other professional
publications.
He has held offices and positions
with numerous organizations
including the American Heart
Association, the National Heart and
Lung Institute, the National Institute
of Arthritis, Metabolism and
Digestive Diseases, the National
Kidney Foundation, the
International Society of Nephrology,
and the American Board of Internal
Medicine.
Robinson is a member of 18 state,
national and international
professional and honorary societies,
including the American College of
Physicians, American Physiological
Society, American Society for Clinical
Investigation, American Society of
Nephrology and the Association of
American Physicians. He is the
author or co-author of more than 100
scientific publications, mainly in the
area of kidney disease.
Stars and Pros
To Fight Cancer
With Golf Play
Which participant in the Duke
Celebrity Pro Am Golf Invitational
has won over 300 awards for pistol
shooting, scores in the low 80’s in golf
and has published two books?
Which one swept floors in a
Pennsylvania mining town barber
shop as His first job and then owned
his own barbering business?
And who among the participants
began his career at age two?
If you answered Buddy Hackett,
Perry Como and Mickey Rooney in
that order, you’d be correct. You
didn’t win anything, by the way, but
then again you didn’t lose anything
either.
On Sunday and Monday, these
three well-known entertainers will
join with Lome Greene of Bonanza
fame, guitarist Chet Atkins, Whitey
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'PUT Mt DOWN, DYLAN THOMAS. YOU'RE DRUNK.'—Donm Shumaker, as
Katherine Ann Porter, demands to be put down in this scene from "Dylan," a Summer
Theater production which runs June 11-13 and 19-20 in the East Duke Musk Room.
Appearing as the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, is Waily Smith, who teaches
mathematical statistics at the University of .North Caroliru at Chapel Hill.
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VOLUME 23, NUMBER 22 JUNE 4,1976 DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA
Theater Gives Shumaker a Double Life:
Secretary by Day, a 'Character' at Night