Sunday, July 28, 1963
Letter From India
I have just gotten up after re
turning from a trip wherein I
was involved in an eye operation
again this summer only this
time it was from the other side.
I was helping operate on some
one else, not vice-versa. And
believe me, I loved it, which I
certainly didn’t when I was the
“victim.”
Seriously, I left Tuesday after
noon with 14 other people and
a trailer of equipment tall jam
med in a Chevrolet “town wag
on” truck) to travel forty miles
south of here for a village eye
camp. When we arrived, there
were over 100 patients waiting,
and from 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 we
examined eyes tmy job was writ
ing in diagnosis and treatment for
each patient), until we finally
had over sixty cataract opera
tions lined up for the next day.
Then we all went over to a
small house (near the concrete
government office building where
we set up our “hospital”) and
seated ourselves on the floor for
a delicious meal of chicken cur
ry and mangoes—served on leaf
plates—l ate, as usual, until I
was nearly uncomfortable, and
then went back with the rest to
sleep. The head doctor for the
camp was a woman. Dr. Thom
as, and the only other experien
ced doctor was a young girl, Mrs.
(Dr.) Fernando, who finished her
internship here at C.M.C. just a
year ago. Also along with a boy
and girl about my age who have
both just finished their internship
as of last week and who had just
been posted to the Schell Eye
Hospital (branch of C.M.C.) for
their residency training of one
year. The boy, “Zack” as I
know him, slept with me in one
end of what waS to be the op
erating room the next day. The
rest of the room was full of In
dian men and women who had
come for treatment. Also the
five or six men (including one
male nurse and three whom I
might term “orderlies” and one
who had come three days early
to organize the camp and let the
people nearby know about it)
who also were on the staff were
in there too. At 5:30 the people
wandering in and out were too
much for us, so Zack and I wash
ed up and went outside to help
the “organizer” line up the op
eration cases, give them cards,
fill out the cards from their
slips of night before, and general
ly get things going. At 6:45 we
joined the ladies (Dr. Thomas,
Pramilla Fernado, Anita, the girl
in Zack’s class, and the “Sister”
or nurse) for a breakfast of jelly
and bread, hot coffee, fried egg,
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and mangoes. Then we wait
back and washed up, scrubbed is
a better term for the day's
work. By 7:30 the male
nurse, “brother,” and the
sister had the operating steriliza
tion set-up going, and the five
of us, Zack, Dr. Thomas, Pram
illa, and Anita, were in surgical
caps, gowns, and masks, along
with two of the other men who
were to assist as I was. The
regular production line type of
set-up ran all day long, each
patient getting his local anesthe
sia from one man on a bench at
the door, then being seated on
the floor behind our two operat
ing tables to wait his turn. I
held a flashlight with one hand
and did whatever little I could
w.ith the other while Dr. Thomas
dr Pramilla did the surgery, as
sisted by Zack and Anita. Until
lunch at 2:00, Zack and I were
together on one of the tables,
Anita and one of the other men
on the other, and Dr. Thomas
and Pramilla alternated back
and forth Pramilla doing the
first part of the cataract opera
tion usually, Dr. Thomas doing
the delicate business of getting
the aspirin-sized cataracts out,
and then Zack and Anita doing
the sutures.
However, there was no strict
pattern at all, and the whole day
just a blurred memory of
cataract after cataract being pop
ped out. I really enjoyed every
minute of it, though I was bone
tired when I finished, for we
stood over those tables for nearly
twelve hours, save only for a
morning and afternoon coffee
break of five minutes each, and
a half hour for lunch. All in all
“we” took out 63 cataracts and
I saw at least 40 of them at very
close range. I feel like I could .
even do one blindfolded, though
I’m sure it's more difficult than
it looks—but I know I surely „was
itching to try my hand at one!.
All in all it was a great ex
perience with the ■ remarkable
Christian fellowship that seems
to exist in every department here
at Christian Medical College.
Even when I tumbled into bed
here at home at 12:00 last night,
I was very, very happy.
BILL GRAHAM
Vellore, South India
Graduate Women’s
Housing Needed
The University is in critical
need of off-campus facilities for
graduate women students.
UNC Dean of Women Kather
ine Carmichael said that Kenan
Dormitory would be the only dorm
itory open to graduate women
students during the coming fall
semester, and that Kenan had
been filled beyond capacity.
Dean Carmichael’s list of towns
people who rent rooms to gradu
ate women students has been ex
hausted. Requests for housing
from graduate women continue to
come to Dean Carmichael’s office.
"Anyone who has a room or
rooms which may be rented to
a graduate woman student should
write to our office, 202 South
Building, giving the name of the
person who has the room for rent,
the address, and the telephone
number,” Dean Carmichael said.
She called her sphere of the
student housing situation “quite
critical.”
H. G. Hulon Joins
Wilmington Faculty
Harold G. Hulon, principal of
the Chapel Hill Junior High School
for the past four years, will join
the faculty of Wilmington College
in Wilmington this fall.
Mr. Hulon will be head of Wil
mington's Department of Educa
tion and Psychology.
Mr. Hulon came to Chapel Hill
four years ago as the Junior High
principal and has been working
on his doctoral requirements
since then. He has now been
awarded his Ph D., with a major
in education and a minor in politi
cal science.
Before coming to Chapel Hill,
Mr. Hulon had ten year's teach
ing and administrative experience,
two years in Durham, two years
in Richmond County, and six years
as a high schol principal in Robe
son County.
He is a native of Hope Mills.
The ‘Sneak’ Operation Is Out
The following is the fourth in a series of five
articles on a book entitled “Managing Personnel”
by University Professor of Business Administra
tion Richard P. Calhoon.
By NANCY VON LAZAR
Sneakers don’t do any good in a business or
ganization, and by “sneakers,” we don’t mean
tennis shoes. We do mean a silent way of chang
ing operating methods.
‘The old, obscurantist school believed that the
way to engineer change was to keep any move
under wraps, in as great secrecy as possible, and
then suddenly spring it as a fait accompli (ac
complished move),” says Richard P. Calhoon,
University professor of business administration
and author of a new book, “Managing Personnel,”
just published by Harper & Row.
Prof. Calhoon points out that “the secrecy
method builds distrust, fans rumors, and causes
resentment based on frustration.”
Change is a. continuing process and utilizing
manpoW(er Jfiaoiit?Wa:.effectively through adminis
tration of change is a crucial supervisory respon
sibility in the management of personnel, accord
ing to Prof. Calhoon.
WRY SENIOR WORKERS ARE
1 treated with tlc
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‘Today’s polices recognize that the longer an
employee is with an organization, the greater
should be his security,” states Prof. Calhoon, ex
plaining th*f Bibst -senior workers do have the
advantage of TLC, or tender loving care.
Prof. Calhoon points out that both employee
and public relations can be adversely affected by
W-INNkR Company Cham
pions received trophies from tlie
North Carolina Motor Carriers
Association, Inc., at the N. C.
State Truck Roedeo held at the
Pla-Mor Center in Statesville.
Forty-six professional truck driv
ers competed here July 24-26 in
the semi-finals of the safety
skill driving contest. Shown here
is Charles L. Sparrow of Chapel
Hill, representing Hennis Freight
Lines, Inc., Durham, in the tan
dem-axle class.
Binkley’s Sermon
Topic Announced
“The Ingredients of Love” will
be the topic of the sermon at
the Binkley Memorial Baptist
Church Sunday at 11:00 a.m. in
Gerrard Hall on the University
campus. Guest minister today is
Dr. k°hert McCan, former pastor
of the First Baptist Church of \
Danville, Va. Dr. Seymour, the
pastor, is on vacation.
The church maintains a nurs
ery at 507 East Franklin Street.
Church School commences at
9:45. Classes for adults and stu
dents will be held in Gerrard
Hall. All children’s groups meet
at the Franklin St. address.
A student fellowship supper
will be served at the Church
House, 507 E. Franklin St„ at
5:45. Fifty cents per person will
be charged.
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THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
Art In North Carolina
By OLA MAIE FOUSHEE
“Where are the gargoyles?”
Ask this question of most any
student standing near them on
the University campus at Chapel
Hill and the chances are your
reply will be a look of bewilder
ment. Or, in some cases, a hi
larious question in return. One
student, for instance, asked me
in all sincerity: “What are they;
some kind of bird?”
Barely visible through an op
ening cut for them in the heavy
layer of ivy that covers old Per
son Hall, the excitement created
by their arrival in Chapel Hill
has long since faded, and the
charming little garden they guard
is seldom seen by the students
scurrying by.
A gift from the late and beau
tiful Mrs. Katherine Pendleton
Arrington, of Warrenton, the two
gargoyles and the statue of
Stephen Langton thirteenth
century English cardinal and
Archbishop of Canterbury who
died in 1288 came from the
Westminster clock tower in
London.
Mrs. Arrington, a great bene
factress end patron of the arts
in North Carolina, visited Lon
don in the summer of 1983, at
which time she was presented at
the Court of St. James. Legend
has it that she and a cousin-in
law, Lord Hutchinson of Mont
rose, were passing in front of
Big Ben when the famous gar
goyles were being removed. See
ing the mass of stone lying on
the pavement, she asked Lord
Hutchinson just what was hap
pening to Big Ben.
“Why, it seems that after
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seemingly callous actiorH~affecting long-service
employees. He says that “despite some handi
caps to management, the concept of prerogatives
for longer-service employees is coming to include
preferences as to shift, location of job, machine
or desk, choice of vacation time where vacations
are staggered, and even temporary transfers (the
new employees having to take the more unpleas
ant or lower-rated temporary jobs).”
The fairest and most flexible type of seniority
policy is company-wide seniority, according to
Prof. Calhoon.
WHEN EMPLOYEES LEAVE JOBS
If employees are going to leave their jobs there
can be said to be three reasons for their do
ing so: “(1) what they tell their supervisor; (2)
whflt they tell the personnel department; (3) the
real reason.”
When an employee plans to leave a job, the sep
aration interview must be carefully conducted.
The interviewer should preferaby be someone oth
er than the employee’s immediate supervisor; he
must have' the manner and point of view of a
counselor and must want to help the employee;
he must carefully plan the interview by advance
investigation of the employee’s past performance;
and he must conduct the interview in a relaxed
manner.
Prof. Calhoon points out that employees are
hesitant to reveal the truth at the time of sepa
ration and may be more willing to do so about
three to six months after they have left the
organization.
WEDNESDAY: How prejudice operates in the
management of personnel.
eighty years the bad London
weather is beginning to tell on
them,” he is reported to have
replied.
“Well, I think I'll try to pur
chase them,” Mrs. Arrington
said. “I'd like to send them to
•Frank Graham at Chapel Hill.”
A major general of World
War I, a member of the King s
council, and a member of Par
liament, Lord Hutchinson in true
knighthood manner arranged for
Mrs. Arrington to get the gar
goyles by paying only for the
stone from which to carve new
ones for Big Ben, as well as
the bishop in his niche.
An amusing story of their ar
rival in Chapel Hill purports that
the Express Company called Dr.
Graham at some odd hour to
notify him that they had de
posited a large crate in front of
the locked door of Person Hall,
newly renovated as ail art gal
lery. They suggested that the
crate should be taken in out of
the weather immediately.
Busy at the time, but suspect
ing a gift of some archaeolqgi
cal significance. Dr. Graham en
listed the help of Dr. W. E. Cald
well, an authority on archaeolo
gy and ancient history, who hur
ried over and midst much ado
got the crates inside, only to
learn upon opening them that
they had spent many a year in
the foggy weather of London.'
Hie subject of other news stor
ies. Life Magazine printed a pic
ture in 1941 showing the damage
done to Big Ben by a German
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air raid. In prominent view was
one of the gargoyles which re
placed -the original sent to Chap
el Hill. A writer for the Daily
Tar Heel once wrote these glow
ing and emotional words about
the gargoyles:
“Their unseeing stone eyes
have watched a century of world
history being made. They have
seen Peel, Gladstone, and Dis
raeli hurry past to plan the fate
of the British Empire . . . They
, have seen the heart of Britain
beat.”
It may be added that they also
have silently watched the thous
ands of students who pass them
by, but it is rare that one lingers
to meditate before their weather
beaten forms as Mrs. Arrington
had dreamed they would.
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BILLY ARTHUR
Our family took a trip up to
Richmond last weekend.
It was my first visit there in
some 20 years, and some of the
chqnges -amazed me. For in
stance, the breakfast menu did
not—repeat, did not—list ham,
and we were not served grits.
Has something happened to
Virginia ham, or did truth win
out?
When I went to Onslow Coun
ty in 1940 and bought a news
paper, I promised' the citizens
if they would support me in that
venture I'd be their publicity
agent for Onslow County hams.
They were delicious. They
were known all over Eastern
North Carolina, and there was
no reason their fame and avail
ability should not be extended.
Our target was to take the
market of the Smithfield ham. I
mean the Smithfidld, Virginia
ham.
We by-passed the Smithfield,
North Carolina, product. Maybe
I should say Johnston County
ham. A good one and still is, it
was too much akin in texture,
curing and flavor to the Onslow
ham.
On the other hand, the Smith
field, Virginia, ham was an oily
dry morsel that when fried side
by side with an Onslow ham
cooked out tough, stringy and
dry.
We got together some good
Onslow farmers and agreed on
as near a standard curing process
as possible. That meant copying
Mr. E. H. Walton's or Nick Bur
ton’s recipe. And we were go
ing to package them in a color
ful wrapper.
That was the spring of 1940.
That winter on December
15, to be exact when it should
have been hog killing time, the
Army broke ground for Camp
Davis at Holly Ridge. Three
million dollars was to be spent in
about four months.
A standing joke was that eve
ry farmer in Onslow County be
came a finished carpenter
he said he was finished with
farming and was going to work
at Camp Davis.
It seemed like they did. They
planted fewer tobacco beds that
winter than ever before, and in
stead of killing and curing the
hogs, they sold them on foot.
Camp Davis was followed by
Camp Lejeune. The economy of
the county and the area chang
ed. It took too much time to
“SO, WHAT MAKES YOU SO SPECIAL? ANYONE CAN BUY
A PLANE.”
“I MADE MINE!”
“DID NOT.”
“DID TOO. MY DAI) QOUGHT ME THE NEW MODEL
PLANE KIT AT BILLY ARTHUR'S. AND WE PUT IT TO
GETHER.. SHE’S GOT A GAS ENGINE, AND CAN FLY
LIKE ANYTHING.”
“OH ... SO, THAT’S WHY YOU DON’T WANT TO PLAY
BALL. CAN I WATCH YOU FLY IT?”
Let everyone watch. Come in and see our line of model airplanes,
with and without engines. There are many other items you will
be interested in, also, to give yourself a creative hobby for your
leisure time activity. Stop by soon.
BILLY M
ARTHUR ft
Eastgatc Shopping Center “ “
cure a ham to make an extra
buck.
There now are a few farmers
in Onslow County curing hams
the good old way, but it would
prdbably require the FBI to
find them.
This is a lengthy way of say
ing that I had to ask for a slab
of ham in Virginia last weekend.
Do you know what kind I got?
Not Smithfield ham. No sir. It
was packing house ham, pal. And
no better, if as good, as a Pied
mont ham from Hillsboro.
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Os all the high-ranking Revolu
tionary and Civil War officers
whose names are displayed on
historical markers and buildings
in Virginia, General Merchan
dise seems to have been the
most prominent.
VISITING PROF
Dr. David B. Stafford Jr., pro
fessor of sociology at Guilford
College, Greensboro, is a visiting
professor in the University of
North Carolina's Department of
Sociology and Anthropology dur
ing the second summer session,
July 22-August 30.
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