Contains programs and booklets describing the Order of Exercises for graduation ceremonies at Duke University School of Medicine. Materials date from 2001 to 2012.
Elec Emile Leclercq was an endocrinology resident at Duke in 1957 and 1958. The series contains caricatures drawn by Leclercq for the 1958 book "Scalps!" and two copies of "Scalps!" Materials are undated.
On July 11, 1961, Dean Barnes Woodhall commissioned the Fallout Preparedness Committee to study the issue of fallout protection for the Duke Medical Center in case of a future nuclear attack. The committee was created as a response to the escalating tensions with the Soviet Union in Berlin and the construction of the Berlin Wall. In September 1961, Deryl Hart, President of Duke University, expanded the committee and tasked it with planning a fallout shelter program for the Duke University Community.. Types of materials include correspondence, reports, minutes, budgets, meeting agendas, newsletters, articles, evaluations, floorplans, and notes. Materials range in date from 1961 to 1963.