Club meetings are open to anyone interested in gardening. The exhibit will focus on the role played by PHS in the medical inspection of arriving immigrants at Ellis Island from the time it opened in 1892 until more restrictive laws greatly slowed the flow of immigrants to the United States in 1924. It will also discuss the care provided on the island to those immigrants who required hospitalization. Prof. Alan Kraut of American University, an expert on immigration history, served as consultant. The National Museum of Health and Medicine is located at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Georgia Ave.
Admission is free.
All are welcome. Call Katie or Karen for more details, 496-6061. It will deal with issues of importance to survivors and the professionals who care for them. This is an exciting time in research on brain disease and I have enjoyed enormously working with the many talented people at NIH in advancing the cause of research on the brain. The jolly elf held court in the CC lobby for a while with employees and youngsters, before venturing to the second floor cafeteria and the pediatric patient care unit, where he distributed candy canes and other seasonal tokens.