Inside Duke Medicine
Statue Cleaning
posted September 18th, 2008
It’s cleaning time for the war memorial statues.
Amanda Rankin-Swentor prepares for her annual cleaning and waxing of the 65th General Hospital War Memorial between the Morris Clinic building and the School of Nursing near Duke South. Rankin-Swenton, who is self-employed, says the work takes two days. The life-sized bronze figures (three pictured, one off camera) commemorate the work of the U.S. Army 65th General Hospital, an Army Medical Corps unit staffed by Duke University Medical Center alumni in England during World War II that distinguished itself as a center both for specialized treatment and the immediate care of combat casualties. The 2002 sculpture is by Stephen Smith.