Computer classes
programmed
If you have put off taking one of those
free computer courses until summer, it's
'that time now.
The Computation Center is offering
six courses in June and July. TTie first
three are designed for beginners. No
programming experience is necessary.
TTie courses taught in July will require
knowledge of programming language.
Classes will meet on weekdays from 4-
. 5 p.m. Anyone from the Duke community
is eligible.
If fewer than five people enroll in a
course, it will be cancelled. To enroll, call
Mara Simmerman at 684-4217.
The course schedule is as follows:
Introduction, June 12-14, Zener Aud.,
Soc/Psych; Beginning PL/I, June 15-30,
127 Soc/Psych; Beginning FORTRAN,
June 15-30,129 Soc/Psych; JCL, July 5-14,
127 Soc/Psych; Statistical Packages, July
5-14, 129 Soc/Psych; TSO, July 5-10, 227
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SCHIFf AWARD WINNER—Dr. Lewis Rubin and wife Deborah are all smiles after Rubin was
voted by fellow medical house staff members to be the recipient of the Haskel Schiff Award. Dr.
Haskel Schiff was a former resident in internal medicine at Duke who was killed in a car accident
in 1967. Friends of Schiff established the award as a memorial to him in 1968. The plaque and a
$100 check were presented to Rubin by Dr. James B. Wyngaarden, professor and chairman of
medicine, in a June 2 ceremony. IPhoto by Parker Herring)
Language Bank
still taking deposits
Anyone with the ability to
communicate in sign language or who
speaks a foreign language or dialect is
encouraged to volunteer for the
Language Bank (see Intercom, 5/12/78).
Language Bank volunteers may be
called on to help communicate with
patients or visitors who speak little or
no English.
Contact John Hyre at 684-2432 or
Box 3708.
Professional news
Dr. Frank H. Bassett III, professor of
orthopaedic surgery, was a member of the
faculty for a postgraduate course dealing with
athletic injuries to the knee, sponsored by the
Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons on Hilton
Head Island, S.C., June 1-6.
Bassett and Dr. Frank W. Clippinger,
professor of orthopaedic surgery, attended a
meeting of the Piedmont Orthopaedic
Association in Bermuda, May 10-14.
june sings many tunes
With only 12 months each year and
many times, that number of causes
worthy of having a month designated
either for or against them, each month is
subject to a number of designations.
Some of those for June you might have
missed are 'Tight the Filthy Fly Month,"
"National Cheeseburger Month,"
"National Ragweed Control Month,"
"National Adopt a Cat Month," "National
Rose Month" and "Philatelic Writers
Month."
F*hilately, to refresh your memory, is
the collection and study of postage
stamps. Which causes one to wonder
about the coincidence of the raising of
postal rates on the eve of this occasion.
Intercom
is published weekly by the Office of Public
Relations, Duke University Medical
Center, Box 3354, Durham, N.C. 27710.
Joe Sigler
Director
John Becton
Editor
Primary contributors: William Erwin,
Comprehensive Cancer Center medical
writer; Ina Fried, staff writer; Parker
Herring, public relations assistant; Edith
Roberts, staff writer; David Williamson,
medical writer.
Circulation: Ann Kittrell.
Dr. James F.
Glenn, professor
and chief of the Di
vision of Urologic
Surgery, presided
over the meeting of
the Society for Pe
diatric Urology (see
Intercom, 6/10/77)
during the annual
meeting of the
American Urologi
cal Association in
Washington May 20-21.
DR. GLENN
G.S. Terence Cavanagh, professor of
medical literature and curator of the Trent
Collection, taught a seminar on "The Anatomy
of Medical Books" May 10 as part of a program
of "Seminars on Humanism in Medicine"
presented by the University of Kansas College
of Health Sciences and Hospital. Cavanagh
attended the Association for the History of
Medicine meeting in Kansas City, Mo., May
11-13.
Dr. Shirley K. Osterhout, assistant
professor of pediatrics, led a discussion on
"Environmental Chemical Emergencies" at a
workshop May 23 sponsored by the Charlotte
Area Health Education Center.
Dr. Eugene. D. Day, professor of
immunology and experimental surgery,
presented a seminar to the Neuroscience
Group at Northwestern Medical Center in
Chicago on May 4.
Day spoke on "Affinity, a Pivotal Element in
the Biological Activity of Antibodies to
Neuroantigens."
Dr. Ervin M.
Thompson, associ
ate in psychiatry,
attended the Amer
ican Psychiatric As
sociation annual
meetings in Atlanta,
May 8-12.
He is co-author of
a chapter on "ECT
in Schizophrenia"
in a book entitled
"Controversy in
Psychiatry," scheduled for publication later
this year.
DR. THOMPSON
Dr. Ugo Goetzl, a resident in neurology,
taught a course on "Genetics of Affective
Disorders" at the American Psychiatric
Association (APA) annual meeting May 8-12 in
Atlanta. He was co-author of a paper entitled
"Spouse Involvement in Residency Training"
which also was presented jt the APA
convention.
Dr. W. Banks Anderson Jr., professor of
ophthalmology, and Dr. Arthur C. Chandler
jr., associate professor of ophthalmology,
presented papers at a Postgraduate Course in
Military Ophthalmology held at the Walter
Reed Institute of Research, April 10-13.
Anderson spoke at the American
Ophthalmological Society meeting May 29-31.
He was elected recently to a four-year term on
the Advisory Council for Ophthalmic Surgery
of the American College of Surgeons.
Constance B. Margolin, clinical associate in
the Division of Psychiatric Social Work,
attended a meeting of the National Federation
of Societies for Clinical Social Work, in
Chicago June 2-3.
Margolin is secretary of the organization
and editor of its news publication. She also is
news editor of the Clinical Social Work Journal.
Dr. Selman I. Welt, assistant professor of
obstetrics and gynecology, is spending June 5-
23 at Yale University learning the new
technique of fetoscopy.
Dr. Ruby L. Wilson, professor and dean of
the School of Nursing, participated in a
Chicago meeting of the Restructure
Committee of the American Association of
Colleges of Nursing, May 15-17. In July, she
will attend the organization's Deans' Seminar
to be held in St. Louis.
Six new med center faculty members appointed
Provost Frederic N. Cleaveland has
announced six appointments to the
faculty at the School of Medicine.
Named assistant professors are Drs.
Stephen H. Ladwig, radiology; Edmund
C. Blach, anesthesiology; Gary N. Foulks,
opthalmology; Edward Ganz, surgery;
Cynthia M. Kuhn, pharmacology; and
Helen H. Wang, community and family
medicine.
Ladwig received a bachelor of medical
sciences degree in 1970 and an M.D. in
1972 from Northwestern University. He
served his internship at Evanston (111.)
Hospital and will complete his residency
in radiology at the Mayo Clinic in
September.
A native of South Africa, Bloch earned
his medical degree at the University of
Capetown in 1946 and interned at Port
Elizabeth Provincial Hospital. In 1962, he
began a residency in anesthesiology at
Sefton General Hospital and Alder Hey
Children's Hospital in Liverpool,
England, and since 1965, he has been a
practicing anesthesiologist in Port
Elizabeth, South Africa.
Foulks received his A.B. in 1966 from
Columbia University and his M.D. also
from Columbia, in 1970. He was a
resident in ophthalmology at Duke from
1973-76, and before being named to the
faculty, was a clinical research fellow in
ophthalmology at Harvard Medical
School.
After completing his undergraduate
education at Swarthmore College, Ganz
went on to earn an M.D. at the University
of Chicago in 1967. He began a surgical
internship at Chicago the same year and
finished his residency there in 1974 when
he was named assistant professor of
surgery.
Kuhn earned a B.A. at Stanford
University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in
Pharmacology at Duke in 1976. She will
complete a United States Public Health
Service postdoctoral research fellowship
at Duke in June.
A 1975 graduate of the National
Taiwan University, Medical College,
Wang received a master of public health
degree at the Harvard University School
of Public Health in 1976. She is currently
at Harvard finishing work on a doctorate
in epidemiology and biostatistics.