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Duke University
Medical Center
Intercom
VOL. 24, NO. 46
NOV. 18, 1977
DURHAM, N.C.
Alumni weekend features Dees Symposium
"Adolescence — Is Survival Possible for
Physician or Parent?"
They've been lining up for the answers
to that one since yesterday, if
registration for the 13th annual Duke
Medical Alumni Weekend is any
indication. '
That's the topic of the opening session
today in the Hospital Amphitheater,
where more than 130 physicians from
across the country will be meeting the
rest of this morning for discussions of
teenagers' problems and for a speciaP
afternoon symposium on allergy and
immunology honoring Dr. Susan C. Dees
that will continue tomorrow morning.
At a banquet tonight and at a special
ceremony tomorrow morning, the
medical center and the Medical Alumni
Association will honor a number of
people for their service and achievements
(see separate story on awards).
Medical Alumni Weekend began
yesterday with a luncheon and meeting of
the executive council, followed by the
Dean's Hour at 5 p.m. The speaker was
Dr. Doris A. Howell, chairman of the
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MRS. FRAZER
DR. BLACKBURN
DR. CLUFF
DR. IZLAR
DR. WINDOM
Weekend includes tributes to special people
Seven persons with ties to Duke — five
physicians and two non-physicians —will
receive special honors for their
accomplishments and service during
tonight's banquet meeting of the Medical
Alumni Association.
(See separate story for description of
other Medical Alumni Weekend
activities.)
Tomorrow morning a longtime Duke
research team also will be honored for
their service to Duke and to the field of
medical research.
At tonight's banquet in the Great Hall
of the West Campus Union, the medical
center will present these awards:
Distinguished Service Award
*Mrs. Jeane Embrey Frazer, a strong
supporter of the Duke Comprehensive
Cancer Center and a Greensboro civic
leader whose service has included state
chairmanship of the American Medical
Association Education and Research
Foundation and presidency of the
Guilford County Medical Auxiliary. She
is the wife of Dr. Joe W. Frazer Jr. and the
mother of five children.
Honorary Alumnus Award
‘Former University Chancellor John O.
Blackburn, a professor of economics, will
become the School of Medicine's seventh
honorary alumnus.
Distinguished Alumni Awards
*Dr. Leighton Cluff, former chairman
of medicine at the University of Florida
before becoming vice president of the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation earlier
this year. He trained as an assistant
resident at Chike in 1950.
*Dr. H. LeRoy Izlar Jr., a Durham
private practitioner, chief of the
cardiovascular division at Durham
County General Hospital and a clinical
associate here. He earned both bachelor's
('46) and M.D. ('48) degrees at Duke and
served a residency and cardiovascular
fellowship here.
*Dr. Robert E. Windom, a private
practitioner of internal medicine and
cardiology in Sarasota, Fla., and chief of
staff-elect at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.
He earned his bachelor's and M.D.
degrees here in 1952 and 1956.
Tlie Medical Alumni Association
singled out two veteran Duke medical
faculty members for sp>ecial honors:
Distinguished Teaching Awards
*Dr. John W. Everett, professor of
anatomy who joined the faculty in 1932
and retired in 1976.
*Dr. Guy L. Odom, James B. Duke
Professor of Neurosurgery who joined
the faculty in 1943 and was chief of the
Division of Neurosurgery from 1960
until he stepped down last year.
Beard Research Laboratory
Tomorrow morning at 10:30 during a
special ceremony in the Seeley G. Mudd
Building, a newly renovated block of
laboratories on the first floor of the Bell
Building will be dedicated to the research
team whose work centered in that area
during much of their approximately 35
years at Duke.
The space will be named "The Dorothy
and Joseph W. Beard Surgical Research
Laboratory."
A year after coming to Duke in 1937,
Beard's research group, of which his wife
Dorothy always was a prominent
member, developed the first usable
vaccine for equine encephalomyelitis,
which annually struck down thousands of
horses.
In later research, the Beards isolated
and identified cancer viruses that cause
leukemia in chickens and they were
among the first to report a tangible link
between viruses and human leukemia.
Holiday next week
for Intercom, too
The medical center will observe the
Thanksgiving hbliday next Thursday,
Nov. 24.
Because of the holiday, there will be
no Intercom Friday, Nov. 25.
The next issue of Intercom will be
published Dec. 2.
DR. EVERETT
DR. ODOM
DR. BEARD
Department of Community Medicine at
the University of California in San Diego,
whose topic was "Death Without Agony."
This morning's program on
adolescence includes:
9:05 — "Talking to Teenagers"by W. Samuel
Yancy, assistant clinical professorof pediatrics.
9:40 — "Fad Diets and Obesity" by Dr. Sue
Y.S. Kimm, assistant professor of pediatrics.
10:15 — Break
10:35 — "The Promiscuous Teenager" by
Dr. Daniel T. Gianturco, professor of
psychiatry.
11:10 — "Malice in Blunderland" by Dr.
Harold J. Harris, associate professor of
psychiatry.
At noon the association will have its annual
luncheon meeting in the Union Ballroom.
Dees Symposium
The afternoon session will consist of
the first annual Susan C. Dees
Symposium on Allergy and Immunology,
honoring the nationally known
pediatrician and allergist who continues a
practice begun here in 1939.
The Dees Symposium program includes:
1:35 p.m. — "Immunotherapy in Respiratory
Allergies" by Dr, Phillip S. Norman, professor
of internal medicine at Johns Hopkins.
2:25 — "Allergic Skin Diseases in Children"
by Dr. Carolyn C. Huntley, professor of
pediatrics at Bowman Gray.
3 — Break.
3:20 — "Mechanisms of Actions of
Corticosteroids on Subpopulations of Human
Lymphoid Cells" by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci of
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases.
4:10 — Presentations by current fellows in
allergy and immunology at Duke.
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Program finds
cancer cases
in early stages
By William Erwin
A Duke medical team has found 24
cases of cancer in a large industrial
complex in one of the largest on-the-job
cancer education and detection programs
in U.S. history.
Eighteen of the cancers were picked up
when they were still fairly easy to treat,
according to Dr. Siegfried Heyden, who
■ led the program. Nineteen of the workers
affected are back on the job full-time after
treatment.
The program spanned nearly two years
at the 19 textile plants of the Cannon
Mills Co., with headquarters in
Kannapolis, N.C.
Of Cannon's 20,000 employees, 18,000
attended cancer education sessions and
12,000 agreed to be checked for cancer
and other diseases. Education and
screening took place in the plants on
company time.
Men got exams tor prostate and rectal
cancer; women were checked for breast
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