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February 09, 2004 Volume 13 No. 3

Building on Traditions
School of Medicine's New Orientation Urges Employees to Carry on "Traditions" of Excellence

"Traditions," the new School of Medicine employee orientation program, begins with a reading from a 1927 News & Observer story.

"The word 'Service' will be carved on the corner stone of Duke University's...medical school, Dr. Wilbert C. Davison, its dean, told North Carolina physicians attending the seventy-fourth annual Medical Society session," the article reads. In a Searle Center conference room 77 years later, orientation leader...

This 1929 photo (above) showing the construction of the Davison Building, which houses the School of Medicine.

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