The Morris County chronicle., 1907-01-29
MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL
Resume Of the Beneficent Re
suits Achieved by this
Useful Institution.
OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES.
Memorial Hospital omcers.


Burnham, Admiral Philip H. Cooper,
Henry Cory, Edward L. Dobbins,
Charles W. Ennis, Rev. Albert Erd-
man, d. D., Edward Howell, Rev.
VIM. M. Hughes, S. T. D., Charles A.
Kip, Edward K. Mills, Henry X. Nor
gan, Jr., Henry q. Pitney, Jr., Angus
tus L. Revere, Gordon E. Sherman,
John E. Taylor, John 1. Waterbury.
Officers rs-John e. Taylor, President;
Edward L. Dobbins, yice-president; !;
Edward Howell, secretary; Edward
K. Mills, treasurer. Counsel Fred
erick G. Burnham, Henry G Pitney, Jr.
Officers of Woman's Association.
The annual meeting of the Wo-
mems Association of the Morristown
Memorial Hospital was held last week.
The following officers were elected !.
President, Mrs. X. Twining; vice
presidents, Mrs. Erdman, Mrs. Mer-
rell, Miss S. Augusta Stone, Mrs. II.
W. VanWagenen; secretary, Mrs. f.
Fl. Kellogg, treasurer Mrs. S. II.
Little; executive committee, Mrs.
E. S. Kip, Miss Shaw, Mrs. S. V. Hof-
man, Mrs. G. F. Stone, Mrs. w. e.
Wheelock, Miss Wilde and Mrs. How
ell.
Mrs. f. r. Kellogg presented the
thirteenth annual report as follows:
REPORT OF woNIAN.s .s ASSOCIATION.
In Morristown where there is so
much wealth.. far more than in a
grimy factory town, it is difficult to
realize conditions below that of aver
age comfort; it is hard to think that
while we who always know where
every meal is to come from, who al
ways know the comfort of warmth,
pleasure of cleanliness and beauty
about us for us who have the restful-
ness of home, it is difficult to realize
that there are some people who wake
up in this town in cold, bare room
with nothing except perhaps a news
paper to cover the boards through
which the rain has leaked to great
streaks down the walls, like fantastic
shapes mocking at poverty.
Probably such extreme cases are rare
in Morristown, but many are the
homes in which there is no room to
set apart for sickness. No one to give
the needed care, nor the ability to pro-
vide necessaries. Then there are the
many without homes.
To such households as these and in
such circumstances of sickness and
suffering, the Memorial Hospital has
we'll stood through the past and will
stand through the future, as a mem
orial Of the highest devotion and pur-
est charity, in the loving kindness of
those Immediately instrumental in
the care of the sick and also of those
who support with their interest and
gifts the foundations of the institu-
tion and the administration of it's af-
fairs.
| All the Committees have been faith
fully on duty through the year. Among
those whose efforts give to the Hospi-
tai the atmosphere of cheerfulness and
home are the members of the Delica-
cies and Flowers Committee whose
work is not so apparent perhaps as
that of those who have the arduous
labor of finding worthy nurses and of
gathering funds for the Institutions
maintenance, the most essential duty
of all.
In the quiet work of furnishing the
| pleasure of flowers and delicacieS to
those whose impoverished systems need
cheerful surroundings and tempting
food, the members of this Committee
are materially aiding in the work Of
cure.
In speaking of these Committees
and of the visitors who give to the
Hospital that Invaluable something
which personal contact alone can
being, we must not forget the House
keeping Committee and especially it's
devoted chairman, Miss Robertson,
whose resignation we receive with
such deep regret and such grateful
appreciation of her long faithfuIness
to her difficult task.
Last but not least, there is the
Committee who, not content with car
ing for the bodily wants OF the pa
tients. minister so helpfully to their
spiritual needs, and who all through
the year, have seen to it that each
Sunday nurses and patients should
have the inspiration of simple and
beautiful religious service.
Our greatest regret during the year
was the necessity Of receiving the res
ignation this fall of Miss Lustig, who
had served in the Hospital 50 faith
fully for seven years.
To the suffering to Whom care and
cleanliness and sunshine mean so
much, the Hospital has brought
through the past year, happiness and
blessing such as perhaps we hardly