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Intercom
Duke University Medical Center
VOLUME 24, NUMBER 39
SEPTEMBER 30,1977
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Valued Friends Med Center Weekend Guests
Members of the Davison Club will
receive an "Update on Medical
Progress" during the annual Davison
Qub Weekend today and tomorrow.
The agenda also includes a
business meeting, luncheon with
President Terry Sanford and the
Duke-Navy football game.
"This is an opportunity for these
valued friends to return to campus
and to be brought up to date on the
medical center, and for us to say
thank you to them," said R.C.
(Bucky) Waters, assistant to the vice
New Publication To Focus
On Medical Center People
When you think of the medical
center, do you think just of buildings
and equipment or do you think of
people? Especially the people you
work with every day?
Those people will be the focus of a
new biweekly newsletter for medical
center employees that will begin
publication on Wednesday, Oct. 12.
The newsletter, which will be
distributed throughout the medical
center every other Wednesday, will
feature photographs and stories
about medical center people, events,
goals, policies and benefits.
In the first issue employees will be
asked to help choose a name for their
newsletter. Other opportunities will
be provided for employees to
participate through suggesting or
writing articles and questions for
discussion in the publication.
Intercom, which has won several
awards this year, will continue to go
to all university faculty and to
community leaders as well as being
distributed each Friday in the
medical center.
"Intercom has been so well
received by people outside the
medical center that we want to
refocus it to serve that function
better," said Dr. William G. Anlyan,
vice president for health affairs. It
will emphasize the academic and
professional side of the medical
center.
Ina Fried, editor of Intercom for the
past year, will become editor of the
new publication. John Becton, public
relations assistant since September
1976, will become editor of Intercom
beginning with next week's issue.
Research Begins
On Cancer Risk
By William Erwin
Researchers at the Comprehensive
Cancer Center have begun a
three-year study to leam who is most
likely to get multiple myeloma.
The study could suggest ways to
prevent the disease, said Dr.
Seymour Grufferman, who has won
an $89,000 grant from the National
Cancer Institute for the project.
It also could help explain why
Wake and Orange counties have
higher multiple myeloma death rates
than the nation as a whole. Although
the number of deaths is still small.
Orange has three times the national
death rate for the disease. Wake's
rate is twice the national figure.
Multiple myeloma attacks the
bone marrow. It also weakens
patients to the point that an infection
such as pneumonia can be fatal.
Rarely striking before age 30, the
disease peaks in the elderly,
Grufferman said. Patients often
complain of fatigue or frequent
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president for health affairs and
executive director of the Davison
Club.
Digits and Disease
The medical talks will be given
tomorrow morning in a session
moderated by Dr. Eugene A. Stead
Jr., Florence McAlister Professor of
Medicine.
Dr. James Urbaniak, professor of
orthopaedic surgery, will speak on
"Replantation of Fingers and
Hands," and a talk entitled "Is
Human Cancer Transmissable?: The
Saga of Hodgkin's Disease," will be
given by Comprehensive Cancer
Center faculty member Dr. Seymour
Grufferman, assistant professor of
community and family medicine and
pediatrics.
The Davison Club, a donor
organization whose members each
pledge at least $1,000 annually to the
School of Medicine, was founded in
1%9 to honor the late Dr. Wilburt C.
Davison, Duke's first dean of
medicine.
Growth of Club
Waters said the membership has
doubled during the past four years
and that the club contributed
$172,000 this past year, compared
with $19,500 during its first year of
existence. The total contributed since
1%9 is $729,990.
Currently there are more than 200
members representing 23 states and
the District of Columbia.
"About 60 per cent are alumni of
the medical school," Waters said.
"Twenty per cent are former house
staff officers, and 20 j>er cent are
friends, grateful patients and others
who wish to see continued
excellence in private medical
education and health care."
Med. Center Members
Waters’ noted that 17 medical
center faculty and administrators are
active members.
"We are especially grateful for this
because it means so much to the
expansion of this vital group as we
reach out to our alumni and friends
across the country," he said.
Davison Club members are listed
on plaques at the entrance to the
yellow zone from the hospital lobby,
near the hospital chapel.
Dr. Emile L. Gebel (M.D. '62) of
Shelby is the current president. Dr.
G.B. Hodge of Spartanburg, S.C., is
vice president and Dr. Hugo L.
Deaton of Hickory is
secretary-treasurer.
This weekend's activities begin
tonight with a reception at the home
of Dr. and Mrs. William G. Anlyan.
President and Mrs. Sanford will host
the group in their home tomorrow
evening prior to a dinner in the
Union Ballroom.
Approximately 175 club members,
spouses and guests are expected.
IHt WINNER —
Joan Lunsford won
first prize in
Intercom's vacation
■contest. Her vaca
tion story is printed
on page four, along
with an article an
nouncing all the
contest's winners.
(Ptioto by /ohn Bec
ton)