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Six Alumni Collar KudosAwards will be presented to six distinguished alumni tonight as part of the ninth annual Medical Alumni Weekend program.The awards will be presented during a dinner program at 6:30 p.m. at the Governors Inn. They will go to Dr. Angus M. McBryde, Dr. Benjamin N. Milter, Dr. Salih J. Wakil, Dr. Ivan W. Brown Jr., Dr. Margaret Patricia Sullivan and Dr. C.D. Christian.Also during the program, Mrs. James H. Semans will be inducted as an honorary alumna of Duke.Mrs. Semans, a member of Duke's founding family, is a trustee of both the university and the Duke Endowment and is chairman of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Her husband is a professor of urology at Duke.The Semans have long been active as participants and benefactors in the cultural and civic life of Duke, Durham and the state of North Carolina.McBryde, 71, was a professor of pediatrics here until 1972 when he retired to devote full time to his private practice in Durham. McBryde graduated from Davidson College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He completed internship and residencies at Pennsylvania and at Johns Hopkins Hospital before coming to Duke as an instructor in 1931.When perinatology became a subspecialty about 1950, McBryde became a specialist in the care of the newborn. He was director of nurseries at Duke from 1932 to 1966, and an annual symposium on perinatology which he originated was named for him in 1970.Miller, a Columbia, S.C., internist, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the university and the Board of Visitors to the medical center. He received both his * B.S. and M.D. degrees at Duke.Miller has been very active in alumniaffairs and is past president of the Duke Medical School Alumni Association and the General Alumni Association and past chairman of the Duke National Council. From 1967 to 1970 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of South Carolina on the medical aspects of rehabilitation. He also serves as a medical consultant to the state's vocational rehabilitation agency and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Columbia Rehabilitation Workshop Facility.Wakil, a former professor of biochemistry at Duke, has been professor and chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Baylor College ofMedicine since 1971. He is a graduate of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and received his Ph.D. in 1952 from *the University of Washington in Seattle.in 1967 Wakil received the American Chemical Society Award in enzyme chemistry, and in 1968-69 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship as visiting professor at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. His major areas of research are the mechanism and control of fatty acid metabolism and the role of lipids in the structure and functions of membranes. He has published more than 130 scientific articles.Brown, formerly a James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Surgery, is now chairman of the Department of Suraerv at Watson Clinic in Lakeland.
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Durham Intercom
Durham, North Carolina, US
Fri, Nov 16, 1973
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