Mary Alverta Poston graduated from Duke University with a master's degree in 1939. She was a member of the original faculty as an instructor in bacteriology and later an associate in microbiology within the Dept. of Microbiology (1930-1961). She...
F. Bayard Carter plays catcher during a ballgame at the Duke Hospital staff picnic. Francis Bayard Carter was chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1931 to 1964.
Group photograph of the Executive Committee of the School of Medicine, taken in Dr. Wiley Forbus' office. The administration of the Duke University Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Services, and Duke Hospital was performed, subject to the...
Faculty and students play ball during the hospital picnic. At bat is Stan Lordeaux (M.D., Duke, 1940). Playing catcher is Dr. Bayard Carter (chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1931 to 1964).
James H. Semans, professor of urology in the Dept. of Surgery, served on the Duke faculty for 28 years. In the 1960s Semans, along with his wife Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, helped to establish the North Carolina School of the Arts in...
D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. "This $18,000 electron microscope which takes pictures of tiny viruses and magnifies them as much as 100,000 times their actual size, has just...