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
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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!"