MEMORIAL — Dr. William G. Aniyan, vice president for health affairs, Geft) expresses the
medical center's gratitude to Paul W. Dodson, who with his mother, Myrtle Lee Dodson, gave the
Paul H, Dodson Library/Conference Room in memory of their father and husband. The late Mr.
Dodson, whose portrait hangs in the conference room, had been a patient at Duke for a number of
years. His son selected the panelling, carpet and draperies for the Dodson Library/Conference
Room, which is in the Department of Psychiatry (fourth floor, white zone). The Dodson family
also has initiated a post-doctoral award in the Center for the Study of Aging and Human
Development. In the photo at right,, the first winners, Drs. James Blumenthal and Elizabeth
Mutran, are shown with Paul W. Dodson and Dr. George L. Maddox, director of the aging center.
(Photos hy Parker Herring and John BectonI
NCME programs
Network for Continuing Medical
Education (NCME) programs on
"Elective Induction of Labor: Is It
Justifiable?" "Diagnosing Jaundice:
Applications of Direct Diagnostic
Tools" and “Transient Ischennic
Attack: Etiology and Diagnosis" will be
shown today at 1 p.m. in Room M406
(green zone, fourth floor).
The programs also will be shown
Wednesday at 1 p.m. in Room M409.
Previous NCME programs have
been catalogued in the Medical Center
Library and are available for viewing
there.
University programs receive $1,325,000
Trustees of the Duke Endowment
have appropriated $1,325,000 to Duke
for a number of projects and programs.
The grants, recommended by the
endowment's committee on educational
institutions, range from $10,000 to
$200,000.
One grant of $200,000 is to develop
facilities for the handicapped to comply
with requirements of the Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare.
Among the items to be provided are
additional wheelchair ramps, a visual
warning system for the deaf and a panic
support system for the blind. Visual
warnings would include traffic signals.
Panic support would involve personnel to
help the blind in emergency situations.
A grant of $200,000 was made to a
continuing program to enable the
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BERT R. TITUS, who came to Duke 31 years ago, died Sunday, Dec. 17, in Duke Hospital. The
director of the Brace and Limb Shop had become interested in orthotics and prosthetics during
World War II. Injured during training maneuvers while still in the United States, the former math
and industrial arts instructor spent nine months recuperating in the hospital. His doctor told him
that if that hospital had a limb and brace shop, Titus would be able to get out of his heavy body
cast. With his movements limited by the injury, he made his own brace and established a shop to
help others returning crippled from the war zone. (File photo)
university to strengthen its faculty in the
arts and sciences.
A $125,000 grant was made to the
Perkins Library to further its connections
with SOLINET, a computerized library
network that joins the facilities of
libraries throughout the Southeast.
The endowment awarded $100,000 for
Duke's international programs. This
grant will enable the establishment of a
coordination project to study research
and graduate training programs and to
further develop an undergraduate
program in international studies.
The development of program
prerequisites, the use of visiting
professors, preferably from abroad, and
possibilities for Duke student studies
abroad are among areas that will be
explored. A biennial symposium or
conference to give visibility to the
program is envisioned.
Undergraduate scholarships
A total of $100,000 was set side to
further the development of an
undergraduate scholarship fund with an
ultimate goal of providing all
undergraduate scholarships from
endowment funds rather than from
operating income.
A data processing program aimed at
coordinating and sharing data and
computational services on the campus for
undergraduate students in social
sciences, sciences and engineering
received $100,000.
Another major grant of $140,000 was
allotted to help pay for air-conditioning
Page Auditorium.
Endowed professorships
Other sums given were: Addition to
the James B. Duke endowed
professorship fund, $65,000; expendable
income, James B. Duke professorship
fund, $35,000; William R. and Thomas L.
Perkins endowed professorship of law,
$75,000; non-tenured faculty research
and leave fund, $20,000; graduate
fellowship matching endowment fund,
$20,000; faculty teaching program,
$10,000; faculty publication and
dissertation awards, $10,000.
Also, admission development program,
$15,000; undergraduate advising
restructuring, $15,000; women's
intercollegiate athletics and club sports
program, $20,000; library collection
analysis program, $25,000; and academic
equipment "catch-up"'fund, $25,000.
The Duke Endowment is headquar
tered in New York. It helps support a
number of educational institutions and
medical facilities in the two Carolinas.
Holiday gastric disasters
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only four or five minutes can mean the
difference between life and death.
The technique involves standing
behind the victim and placing both arms
around his waist. Let his head, arms and
upper body hang forward.
"Grasp you fist with your other hand
and place it against the victim's stomach,
slightly above the navel," McLeod said.
"Press your fist up rapidly against his
stomach, repeating several times until the
food or other object pops out."
Tissue damage
A drinker who has passed out can vomit
and aspirate food into his lungs, he added,
producing a severe pneumonia as bacteria
and stomach acid damage the delicate
airway tissues.
And since alcohol can shut down the
liver's ability to produce sugar, still
another hazard of excessive drinking is
hypoglycemia. This low blood sugar
condition sometimes occurs when a
drinker neglects to eat for many hours.
Symptoms can range from weakness.
sweating and anxiety to bizarre behavior,
convulsions and coma.
Hangovers are best treated by taking
fluids such as fruit juices—without
alcohol—that restore the natural balance
of sodium and potassium in the body, he
said.
Avoid aspirin on alcohol
"One thing I should mention is tha
aspirin should not be used for headaches
after heavy drinking," the physician said.
"If the stomach lining has already been
injured by too much alcohol, aspirin can
produce stomach tissue changes that lead
to ulcers. Use an aspirin substitute
instead."
McLeod concluded by saying that
yawning and stretching are brought on by
very subtle changes in the amount of
oxygen and carbon dioxide dissolved in
the blood, indicating the need for a deeper
breath.
"Pandiculation," as yawning and
stretching are also called, is probably an
appropriate signal for saying "good
night."
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