Dateline - v.4 no.9 Jan. 12, 1979

University of North Texas Health Science Center
UNTHSC Scholarly Repository
Dateline
Special Collections
1-12-1979
Dateline - v.4 no.9 Jan. 12, 1979
Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.hsc.unt.edu/dl
Part of the Osteopathic Medicine and Osteopathy Commons
Recommended Citation
"Dateline - v.4 no.9 Jan. 12, 1979" (1979). Dateline. Paper 66.
http://digitalcommons.hsc.unt.edu/dl/66
This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections at UNTHSC Scholarly Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion
in Dateline by an authorized administrator of UNTHSC Scholarly Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected].
Publi shed fortnightly for t he
.--
NTSU/TCOMcomm uni ty
Januar y 12. 1979
Vo l. 4/No. 9
Grant for Dr. Gracy
A grant of $92 ,356 has been awarded
by the National Institute on Aging of
the National Institutes of Health to
Robert W. Gracy , Ph.D. , professor and
chairman of the department of biochemistry , for a study of "The Effects
of Aging on Lymphocyte Activation . "
The three-year study, which went
into effect January I , will seek
to explore the basic biochemical
problems which account for the decl ine
in the immune system in the elderly .
Fourth-year student-doctor Trygve
TollefGb cl of Houston is working with
Dr. Gracy on the project as part of
a research rotation .
Dean's Scholarship winners
Judy Slagle , director of financial aid,
has announced the recipients of Dean's
Scholarships for 1977-78 and 1978-79 .
These full-tuition scholarships are
awarded on recommendation of the
Scholarship Committee and confirmation
of the dean. Recipients are chosen
on the basis of financial need , academic qualifications and promis~ as
primary care physicians .
Receiving the scholarships for 197778 are Michael Adamo , Jeffrey Alpern,
Dale Brancel, Jon Copeland, Sam
Copeland, Carol Gilmore, Fernando
Gonzalez, Harold Nicolette, Thomas
Perkins, Gary Po Lk , Larry Price,
Randall Rodgers, Christian Roenn,
Daniel Rouch, Gary Samberg, Willi am
Schindler, Courtney Scott, Jens
Peter Skarbovig , Richard Turner and
Jay Wright.
Those receiving 1978-79 scholarships are Jeffrey Alpern, Ira Azneer,
Dale Brancel, Chester Burks, Eva
Carrizales, Jon Copeland, Sam Copeland,
Fernando Gonzalez, Harold Nicolette,
Thomas Perkins, Larry Price , Randall
Rogers , Christian Roenn , Peter Saber,
Gary Samberg, William Schindler,
J ens Peter Skarbovig, Mackie Snebold,
Ri chard Turner and Jay Wr i gh t.
ni Scholarships
One
first- ~
s~ ent
and three second- year
~e been named winners of
the 1rst annual Alumni Association
Scholarships, association president
Dr. Ron Sherbert of Grand Saline has
announced .
Rec eiving $500 scholarships from
the TCOM Alumni Association are
Michael Buben , J on Copeland and Ne i l
Gibson , all from the Class of 1981 ,
and Jeannie Wooten , Class of 1982.
The four, selected by the
executive committee of the association's board of directors , were
presented their scholarship checks
Monday, January 8 , by alumni administrative officer Ray Stokes .
Brown-bag it with Dr. Virginia
Dr . Virginia Ellis , director of
special clinics, will inaugurate a
new series of employee briefing .
sessions on Thursday, January 25 .
Employees are invited to bring a
brown-bag lunch to a noon-time
meeting to hear Dr. Vir~inia's
thoughts on "--And so it s still
Januaryl" The meeting will be held
in Medical Educatiofi Building Room
540. C~ll t,e Office of News and
Information to reserve a spot, ~nd
corne prepared to share lunches and
ideas I
Nine named to Who's Who
Nine NTSU/TCOM students have been
selected for inclusion in the 197879 edition of Who's Who ~oig Students in American-unIVers t es-and
~ges.
--
Selected for the honor were
Elizabeth Ann Connelly, Christopher
K. Hull, Paul F . Mills, Courtney
Denny Scott and H. Gerhart Smith,
Class of 1979; Larry Dean Price,
Class of 1980 ; and Edward A. Luke,
Harold R. Nicolette and Michael A.
O'Neal , Class of 1981 .
Bank to co-sponsor
Cowtown Marathon
Fort Worth National Bank has joined
with NTSU/TCOM's Institutefor Human
Fitness to co-sponsor Fort Worth's
first marathon, according to an
announcement made in December bv
Joseph M. Grant, president of Fort
Worth National and Jay E. Sandelin,
vice president. Sandelin also is
chairman of the NTSU/TCOM Advisory
Council to the Dean.
The historic North Side Coliseum
will be both starting and finish
point for the first annual Cowtown
Marathon. The 26 .2 mile race is
scheduled to begin at 9 a.m . Saturday, February 17, with trophies to
all who finish the marathon and Tshirts to all entrants .
The course will take in several
areas of Fort Worth and will be as
fast as possible . Aid stations
offering first aid and liquid refreshment will be manned by NTSU/
TCOM students and faculty, and the
course will be carefull y patrolled
and marked . Course certification has
been applied for from the Amateur
Athletic Union .
The six-mile mini-marathon will
begin at 9 :30 a.m . February 17,
with T-shirts to all entrants ,
trophies to the first three finish ers, male and female.
The races will be preceded by a
seminar, "Running : Medical Aspects"
scheduled for 11 a.m . Friday, February 16 . Featured on the faculty will
be Dr . Allan J. Ryan, editor-inchief of The Physician and Storts
Medicine. Other speakers wil include NTSU/TCOM faculty and guest
lecturers. A $12 registration fee
for the seminar includes lunch .
Details on the races and registration forms are available from Dr .
Robert Kaman, acting director of the
institute, 338-1175. For information
on the seminar, call Nancy Smith,
coordinator of continuing medical
education, 735-2539 .
Mini workshops set
Three separate mini workshops will be
offered Saturday , January 20, by the
Office of Student Affairs in the
Student Center of Med Ed. I. From
9-11 :30 a.m. Coleen Shannon, Ph.D.,
will present a program on "Relaxation
and Self Hypnosis"; from 12:30-2:30 p.m.
Hanno Weisbrod, Ph .D., will discuss
"Movement and Stress"; and from 3-5:30
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D ., will offer a
session on "Love and Illusion."
More information is available by calling 735-2505 or 735-2209. Preregistration is requested by January 16.
Faculty Women to meet
The newly organized group, Faculty
Women of NTSU/TCOM, will hold its
~econd meeting Monday, January 22,
at 7 :30 pi m. in t1edical E.ducation
Building I, Roow 640 . Dr. Judy
Alter is in charge of the program entitled "Another club? Ho, huml," and
Mrs. Charles Ogilvie and Dr. Virginia
Ellis will take part in the discussion
about why a faculty women's group
exists.
Faculty women are urged to corne
share their ideas about the purpose
of the new group . Refreshments will
be served. For more information, call
Dr. Alter, 924-8557, or Karlene
Cantrell, 293-7188.
Dr. Korr's book available
The Neurobiologic Mechanisms in Manipulative Therapy, edited by Irvin M.
Korr, Ph.D., professor of medical
education, is available from Plenum
Press in New York and through most
bookstores .
The proceedings of a workshop held
at the Kellogg Center for Continuing
Education at Michigan State University
in October 1977, the book emphasizes
the impact of autonomic function and
soma to-autonomic interrelations and
is organized around two major themes-impulse-based and nonimpulse-based
mechanisms.
The individual chapters represent
contributions by clinicians who describe recently reported findings on
mechanisms of sensory input and on
sornato-autonomic pathways.
.on
I
p.m .
:30
a
11-
nd
~a
'on
"Y" membership offered
once again
The downt own YMCA is offering its
Adult Physical Membership to TCOM
faculty, staff and students at a cost
of $25 per semester. Regular cost
of this membership, which includes
access to lockers, showers, gym,
handball/racquetball courts, indoor
track, weight lifting facilities,
indoor pool and sundeck, is $120
per year.
Included in the offer is the privilege of bringing one guest, but
it must not be the same guest each
night. Friday night is family
night at the "Y" and members may
bring their whole family from 69 p .m.
To join the "Y" Fitness Center,
give Laurie Wayman, Med Ed I. 110,
a check payable to TCOM no later
January 31. For more information,
call Laurie at 735-2209 .
People, places and things
11
i-
d
it y
d
L.L. BUNNELL, D.O., chairman of the
department of general and family practice, has been elected to a one-year
term as a member of the scholarship
committee for the American College of
General Practitioners . .. IRVIN M.
KORR, Ph.D., professor of medical education, attended the December meeting
of a special AOA task force called to
examine current research activities in
the osteopathic profession and make
recommendations regarding research
programs and policies, Dr . Korr said
that these first effor~s of the task
force may well represent a turning
point in the history of research under
osteopathic auspices.
**1<
DEAN RALPH L. WILLARD attended a
two-day meeting of the Committee on
Colleges of American Osteopathic
Association in Chicago in December,
and JAY E . SANDEL IN , chairman of the
Dean's Advisory Council, attended'
meetings of the Bureau of Professional Education at the AOA. Sandelin
serves as the public member of the
bureau.
***
THOMAS YORIO, Ph.D ., assistant
professor of pharmacology, recently,
co-authored with Dr. P. Bentley two
papers entitled "The Properties of
'Active' Cl Transport Across the
Cornea of the Toad Bufo Marinus"
appearing in C
.-BIQchern .
PhrsiOl., Vol.
A, 1978 and "Stimu ation of the Short-Circuit
Current (Sodium Transport) Across
the Sk i.n of the Frog (Rana Pipiens)
by Corticosteroids: Structure
Activity Relationships" appearing in
J . Endocrinology, Vol. 79, 1978.
61P
-
***
Over 600 people were tested at
the blood pressure screening sponsored
by the Undergraduate Academy of
Osteopathy December 16 at RidgBar Mall .
Taking blood pressures were WELDON
GLIDDEN, JU1 FROELICH, PETE DAVIDSON,
HJROLD NICOLETTE, RALPH NUSSBAUM,
LARRY BAUMGARDNER, DARRYL COHEN, RANDY
ROGERS, IRA AZNEER AND GEORGE COWAN
DR . HALTER BRAKE, director of personnel, has been elected president
of the North Texas chapter of the
College and University Personnel
Association. Dr . Brake recently
completed a one-year term as secretary of the organization which includes all junior and senior colleges
and universities in the northern half
of the state.
Second-year student MIC~~L O'NEAL
and ROBERT MCFAUL represented the
college at Azle High School's career
day December 13 .. . Before Christmas,
the staff of the Print Shop and
LATRICE KLEIN, who ran the switchboard at River Plaza received '
special gifts from the Class of
1980 . The group presented a plaque
to the Print Shop in recognition of
service to the class and some perfume
to Latrice for her assistance.
***
Congratulations to the following
additions to the NTSU/TCOM family:
BRITAN SHEAN CARTER, 8 lbs. 13 oz.,
arrived December 13, son of BOBBY and
MARSHA ANN CA~TER.
(Dad is director
of library services .)
HECTOR URIEL LOPEZ, 6 lbs. 7 oz .,
arrived December 5, son of HECTOR
and LETITIA LOPEZ . (Dad is secondyear student.)
MICHAEL GABRIEL STOEPPLER, 7 Ibs.
15 oz ., arrived December 21, son of
BABE and MARY ANN STOEPPLER. (Mom
is third-year student) .
JOSEPH SIMON RAVEN, 8 lbs. 4 ~ oz.,
arrived December 17, son of DR .
PETER and NANCY RAVEN. (Dad is
associate professor of physiology.)
***
SCOTT TAYLOR. D.O
.. assistant professor of general and family practice,
will speak to the Undergraduate Academy of Osteop~thy Wednesday, January
17. from 4:30-5 :30 p.m. in Room.506
of Med Ed I. All student-doctors
working with the medical task force
for the Cowtown Marathon should
attend.
***
The River Plaza Campus Center is open
from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays only.
Persons in the building without authorization at other times will be asked
to leave. Anyone needing to use
facilities in River Plaza during other
hours should notify the Campus Police
Department at least 24 hours in advance.
North Texas State University Health Sciences Center I
Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Camp Bowie at Montgomery
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
DATELINE is published regularly for members
of the North Texas State University Health.
Sciences Center/Texas College of Osteopath1c
Medicine Community; Janice Odom, executive
editor; Judy Alter, managing edito~. In~or­
mation is collected, edited and wr1tten 1n
the Office of News and Information Services,
735-2550.