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VOLUME 24, NUMBER 15
APRIL 15,1977
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Celebrities Will Play on Children's Team
HANK AARON
WHITEY FORD
If you could have the New York
Yankees all-time winningest pitcher
on the mound, and baseball's
all-time home run champ batting
clean-up, how could you lose?
The Children's Classic will have
both these men (Whitey Ford and
Hank Aaron, for the uninitiated) on
its team in May. And, though the
game is golf, everyone will come out
a winner, especially children
everywhere.
Other celebrities from the sports
world will include Joe Garagiola,
Sonny Jurgenson, Billy Kilmer, Chi
Chi Rodriguez and Charlie "Choo
Choo" Justice.
And in case sports isn't your cup
of tees, these figures will be joined
by entertainers such as Buddy
Hackett, Chet Atkins, Dick Martin,
Jack Albertson, Tom Hallick and
Perry Como, honorary chairman of
the classic.
Few Things More Important
All proceeds from Duke's annual
celebrity golf tournament help
support the fight against children's
diseases.
"There are few things in life more
important than the health of our
children," Hall of Famer Ford said.
"That's why I am looking forward to
coming and supporting this
tournament again."
Duke continues to pioneer in the
treatment of children with heart
disease, kidney failure, lung
disorders, immune defects and a
ruimber of other challenging medical
problems.
"Funds are greatly needed to
perpetuate this treatment and
research," according to Dr. Samuel L.
Learning How Clergy Can Help
Families Faced with Cancer
Cler^men will leam some new
ways they can help cancer patients at
a conference here April 18.
"Many clergypeople see their role
with cancer patients as handling the
termination of life, the funeral
service, handling the grief of the
family after the funeral," said the
Rev. Wes Aitken, head chaplain the
medical center.
"We would hope to have clergy see
themselves as members of a team
assisting cancer patients and their
fcmiilies in rehabilitation," he said.
Members of a Team
Aitken is co-chairperson of the
conference with Bev Rosen, director
of rehabilitation at the Duke
Comprehensive Cancer Center. Final
registration begins at 9 a.m. at the
Duke Memori^ United Methodist
Church in Durham, located at the
comer of Chapel Hill and Gregson
Streets.
Sponsors are the Community
Qergy Task Force on Cancer Care,
the Duke Comprehensive Cancer
Center's Cancer Control Program
and the Durham County and Orange
County units of the American Cancer
Society.
Aitken said religious leaders need
to start helping their congregation
members at the first hint of cancer.
"Many people, if they think they
have a sign of cancer, will not seek
care because of their fear," the
chaplain said. "Clergy could help
overcome this fear."
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Katz, W. C. Davison Professor and
chairman of the Department of
Pediatrics.
Present and Future Examples
Examples cited by Katz include the
pediatric department's Develop
mental Evaluation Clinic, the Duke
Poison Control Center and the
Division of Pediatric Oncology, an
integral part of the Comprehensive
Cancer Center.
And there will be more in the
not-too-distant future.
"We are planning to establish a
Children's Center at Duke as a
specialty referral center for the area,"
l6ttz said.
"For example, we are already a
major pediatric cardiovascular
diagnostic center."
Their Very Own Floor
Katz also pointed out that infants,
children and adolescents will have
their own floor in Ehike Hospital
North, scheduled to op>en in 1979.
"It is designed to provide
maximum comfort for the patients
and to make their stay in the hospital
as effective and pleasant as
possible," he explained.
This year's Children's Classic, the
fourth annual event, will be May
29-30.
Each $5 ticket (individual adult
price, good either day; bring your
children for free) not only will give
you a chance to see a host of stars,
but will further the effective
treatment of children's diseases.
Foi: more ticket and patronage
information, contact Claudia Jordon,
Box 2975, medical center, or call
286-1605.
Kilocares
of
Energy
Patient's Father Returns Favor
It was snowing when Jacqueline
Robins, nurse clinician for the
Environmental Safety Project, left the
Area Health Education Centers
meeting in Fayetteville.
She noticed lhat one tire was low.
She stopped at a service station
where a man put more air in the tire,
but as she drove on she rccilized that
the tire was going flat.
She stopped at another service
station and asked one of the two
women there if someone could help
her change the tire. " 'Oh no,' they
told me. They didn't want to get
pneumonia going out in that bad
weather," Robins remembers.
She was trying to leam where she
might find someone to help when a
man came in and offered to change
the tire.
"While he was changing the tire,
he looked at my parking sticker and
said, 'You work at Duke,' " Robins
said.
"When I offered to pay him, he
said Duke had done so much for
him, his fmuly and his child who
had cerebral palsy that he was glad
he could help. He was just as nice as
he could be and he wouldn't take any
money."
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MORE ENERGY THAN THE SL/N—Pausing in front of a display showing that the
Hospital Auxiliary produces more energy than oil, coal or the sun are (left to right) Dr.
Roscoe R. Robinson, chief executive officer of the hospital; Debbie Eikenl>erry,
Dietary Services; Ort Busse, president of the auxiliary; and Florence Spivey, vice
president of the auxiliary. Other pictures from the annual appreciation dinner for the
auxiliary are on page 2. (Photos by Ina Fried)