Duke University School of Medicine - Aesculapian Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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CONTENTS Administration and Faculty .,... Classes . . A Seniors .... Iuniors ,... Sophomores . , . Freshmen .........,. ,..... Research Training Program Organizations .... ,,..,..... 4..,..,... I 0 1 Student Government Association SAMA Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Dames Features . . . Index and Advertising .... fizfe

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Foreword Mr. Iames B. Duke's interest in doing something for medicine may have started with an encounter with a small boy. The youngster saw Mr. Duke watching the power plant being built at Lake Iames fMarion, North Carolinaj and followed him around listening to his questions, his orders, his decisions. Finally, the boy asked his own question. Mister, he asked, can you cure lits?', The engineers thought it was an amusing joke. But Mr. Duke was interested in the child and questioned him. He learned that the boy's father was subject to Hts. There and then Mr. Duke gave orders that medical attention in New York be given to the child's father. Ionathan Daniels published the above story in the News and Observer on I4 Septem- ber 1947, and it was reproduced in papers all over the country. Duke Hospital was Hooded for the next month with the same question: uCan you cure fits? Mr. Duke's realization of the necessity of training doctors to meet the medical needs of the people of North and South Carolina may well have stemmed from this incident. On October 1, 1925, ten days before his death, he added ten million dollars to the Duke Endowment for a medical school, hospital and nurses home at Duke University. To quote Mr. Duke's Indenture: It is to these rural districts that we are to look in large measure for the bone and sinew of our country . . . and education when con- ducted along sane and practical, as opposed to dogmatic and theoretical, lines, is, next to religion, the greatest civilizing influence .... I have selected hospitals as another of the principal objects of this trust because I recognize that they have become indispensable institutions . . . and that if Duke University, in the judgment of the Trustees under this Indenture be not operated to achieve the results intended hereby, the Trustees may withhold support. W. C. DAVISON four

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MEM ORIAM FRANK L. ENGEL, 1913-1963 The story of Dr. Engel's success clearly begins with the DNA of his mother and father. They produced three boys, and each has made his mark in the world. Lewis Engel is a distinguished biochemist at Harvard University. George Engel is Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Medicine at University of Rochester, and Frank was Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Physiology at Duke. Frank was a scholar and a scientist and received international acclaim for his work on the mechanism of action of the hormones produced by ductless glands. He enjoyed the laboratory and was never willing to give up working at the bench with his own hands. He attracted to Emory and Duke many residents, fellows and graduate students. Ten of his disciples have already climbed to professorial rank. Frank was an unusually gifted teacher. He taught effectively at all levels. First- year medical students, third- and fourth-year medical students, interns, residents, fellows and faculty col- leagues all came under his spell. His work in physiology with the first-year students was one of the most effective recruiting devices ever developed by the Department of Medicine. Dr. Engel never ceased to be a physician. He was interested in both the patient and the disturbance caused .fix by the disease. The patients sensed the sincerity of his interest and responded to it. To have him see a patient with you was a most eiective form of graduate instruc- tion. As might be expected, there were many outside de- mands on his talents. Within the medical school, he was chairman of the committee which integrated the activi- ties of the departments of Medicine, Pediatrics and Gynecology into an effective endocrine division. He was chairman of the Policy Committee for the development of the Duke Clinical Center, and was responsible for the planning of the research ward which opened recently. He had a leading role in the development of a new medical school curriculum which is projected for 1965. He was an active member of the Library Committee and the Beaumont Committee. At the national level, he was a leader in the Endocrine Society, and played a large role in the development of its postgraduate assemblies. He served on the editorial board of seven scientific journals. We know that Frank devoted many hours to his work. He was unwilling to narrow his fields of interest. He wished to keep abreast of the fields of general medicine, of physiology, and of biochemistry. What is the significance of man's life? Surely not the number of years he has lived. The years are sig- nificant only as they are filled with worthy deeds-deeds which may have i unlimited beneficent consequences. When a great teacher is also a great physician, he effects eternity to a magnified degree, his influences are pro- jected through his disciples whom he has inspired and also through the useful lives he has prolongedf' By this means, Dr, Engel has attained immortality and will always live with us. Dr. Engel's inHuence on the Medical Center is a classic example of the concept that the effect of the whole may be far greater than the sum of the individual parts. It is this whole which we are going to find irreplaceable. The breadth of scholarship, the depth of his knowledge in many specialized fields, the interest in education at all levels, the ability to perform well in all parts of the Medical Center, the skill to tie together science and prac- tice, the ability to build without destroying, the ability to inspire and not limit the growth of young men: these are the marks of a master.