She's a Champion with Shotgun (From a report by Carolyn Bradley, Reporter, Outpatient Department.) There's a champion in the Pediatric Outpatient Clinic. Anita James, staff nurse, has won ladies' championships at. five of the seven state competition^ she has entered this summer. And^a 12-gauge shotgun helped her win. James is a champion trapshooter, who has competed, along with her husband, for the past four years. Clay Targets In trapshooting, she explains, five people stand side by side facing a little house, or trap. Each person takes a turn trying to shoot clay targets thrown up from the trap. Trapshooters never know in which direction the targets will go iri contrast to skeetshooting where the Intercom Calendar August 26-September 2,1977 We would like to list lectures, symposia and other activities at the medical center in the Intercom Calendar. Notices can be accepted for the calendar no later than one week prior to publication. Notices may be sent to Box 3354, Hospital. If last minute scheduling makes it impossible to send a written notice in time, please call 684-4148. Friday, August 26 1 p.m. Network for Continuing Medical Education (NCME). Programs on "Chronic Hemodialysis: Maximizing the Potentials," "Assessing the Child with Acute Abdominal Pain" and "The Undergrown Infanti An American Problem." View in Rrns M-405, M-410, 2031 and Medical Student Lounge (Channel 7 or 9) at Duke and Rms A3002 (by appointment only), C9013, D3008, CCU and cicissrooms and media learning lab of Allied Health Bldg. at VA Hospital. Tuesday, August 30 4 p.m. Anatomy Seminar. Dr. Richard Gordon, National Institutes of Health, will speak on "The Shaping of Tissues in Embryos," Rm 273, Sands Bldg. Coffee and cookies at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, August 31 • 1 p.m. NCME. See Fri., Aug. 26 for program listings and viewing areas. Available on request in Medical Center Library after this showing. Ditch for Steam Line To Affect Traffic Traffic congestion at the entrances to the parking garage and Hospital Drive (service entrance to the Emergency Room) will be even worse for about four weeks beginning Aug. 30, according to Harry Gentry, manager of medical center traffic and parking. In order to complete a steam line from the West Campus heating plant to East Campus, the contractor will be digging a ditch across both streets. The work will bfe done under the entrance to the parking garage between midnight and 6 a.m. For the nights that the ditch is open, a security guard will be on duty to direct cars through the exit ramp into the garage. For the remaining time steel plates will cover the ditches, and traffic flow will be as usual. The ditch will then be cut through Hospital Drive-Emergency Drive, and a steel bridge will be placed over it to allow a continuous traffic flow using one lane. Upon completion of testing of the line, the ditch will be filled and the pavement, walks and curbs will be replaced. targets always go straight across in front of the shooters. James became interested in the sport when a friend of her husband's let them try their skill with his small handtrap. "I had never shot a gun before," she remembers, "and my husband hadn't been interested ^cause he enjoys hunting." Ranked 50th Now they are both enthusiastic trapshooters, and she is ranked 50th in the Amateur Trapshooting Association's list of the top 200 women shooters in the U.S. Traveling to competitions and meeting people from cill over the country is an added attraction, she said. In July they attended the Ohio State Shoot in Vandalia, Ohio, the largest state shoot in the country with over 2,000 shooters. James' score of 94 out of 100 in the Ohio Handicap event tied her with a woman from Michigan. James won the shoot-off' for the Non-Resident High Ladies' Trophy. Her score at the Grand American Shoot in Vandalia in August was even better, 96 out of 100, but she missed winning rx trophy. The man who scored the highest out of 3,500 shooters made 98. Seven others scored 97. Office of Public Relations P.O.Box3354 Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina 27710 RMDV, AIM—Anita James, staff nurse in the Pediatric Outpa tient Clinic, fires her shotgun with such accuracy that she won five state trapshooting cham pionships this sum mer. She scored on ly two points less than the winner, at the Grand American Shoot in August. Medibuses, Van Aid Transportation Here (Continued from page 1) other problems can get assistance from Public Safety in five or 10 minutes," Gentry said. "We asked people to try parking at 751 and then call and let us know what they thought," the parking manager said. "Eight out of 10 people have been pleased with parking there because they do not get involved in any of the traffic around the medical center on Erwin Road. Even people living in Raleigh have said they get home 15 or 20 minutes quicker from there. "One of our main bottlenecks is FOR QUICl( HftP—Marion Wilson, supervisor of claims processing In the Medical Private Diagnostic Clinic Insurance Office, tests the emergen^ telephone at the parking garage's exit. Another phone has been Installed at the '‘H" lot at Science Drive and Highway 751. The yellow and red signs will soon indicate phones at other medical center parking lots. They are connected directly to the Public Safety Office. Erwin Road," he added, "and we expect traffic to triple in 12 months. We are working with the city and state to widen Erwin to four lanes. That would help move traffic around the medical center. . Cooperation Needed "We will need cooperation from all medical center employees for the next 12 months," he said. The new garage scheduled for completion in July 1978, will have 1,5()0 spaces, with 500 available for monthly parkers. An additional 1,3(X) spaces may be added at some later date. "We in the parking office and the medical center administration . will do what we can to make parking convenient during the crunch period, but the day of doorstep parking at the medical center is at an end." Gentry does not foresee the addition of any more surface parking lots, although if the houses between the two sections of the Yearby Street lot are vacated, paving that area could provide up to ICX) more spaces. Bus "Service "We're going to do our dead level best to give excellent bus service," Gentry said. "If we need to start earlier or provide more buses, we'll do it/' Currently three Medibuses are in service. One begins at 5:45 a.m. from the Graduate Center lot and goes to the main entrance of the hospital and the Yearby Street lot. After 9 a.m. it stops at Pickens Building and goes to the Personnel Office on Campus Drive every hour on the hour. Another bus begins at 6:45 a.m. from the 751 lot and goes straight up Science Drive to the back of the hospital. Between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. it adds stops at the Dialysis Center #nd Duke West. The third bus begins at 6:45 a.m. at LaSalle St., stops at Research Drive and goes to the back entrance of the hospital. Between 9:05 a.m. and 3:50 p.m. it also stops at the Eye Center, the VA Hospital and the front of the hospital. Medibus schedules are available in the Traffic and Parking Office, Room 314, Bell Building. Since the 751 lot provides more convenient and a larger number of parking spaces, the medical center no longer uses the Stadium lot. Van Available Besides the bus service to the parking lots, the Traffic and Parking Office provides a radio-dispatched van from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays to transport people and small packages from building to building on campus. "In the past people had to use their personal vehicles to conduct Duke business," he said. Once a car was moved, the person had difficulty' finding a parking place and added to the traffic congestion in the medical center. Outside certain scheduled runs, the van can be siunmoned by calling 684-5773. From 4:30-11 p.m. the van is available by calling the Public Safety Office, 684-2444. It will transport people to their cars after the Medibuses stop running at 6:05 p.m. The van will pick up a person, take him or her to the parking lot and stay until the car is cranked and underway. The longest a person would have to wait after calling the van would be 20 or 30 minutes. Gentry said. Calling about 15 minutes before the person wants to leave would cut that waiting time. “How can I relax when I think of how he’s messing up my files!"

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