Evening star., 1943-05-09
Persistence Is the Foundation of Success
In Promoting Preventive Health Measures

Mrs. E. G. Breeding
Gets Things Done
In Many Efforts
By Lillian Arthur.
Mrs. Earle Grimth Breeding
went to the Episcopal Eye, Ear
and Throat Hospital more than
q year ago as a volunteer worker
for the very simple reason that
she knew there was a shortage
Of workers at the hospital.
There was a lot of work to be
done there and I could give the
kind OF help they needed" is the
way she begins the story, when
she tells of her 16 months Of
service at the hospital.
Mrs. Breeding is the wife Of
DR.. Breeding, chief of staff at the
hospital; but 1t was as Lynne
Breeding and not as the wife Of
the executive of1icer of the hos
pital that she signed up for
training as a volunteer worker.
After Mrs. Breeding reported
for duty, she took q training
course along with % other young
Washington women under Dea-
coness Bateman of the hospital
staff, and along with these wom-
en-, also, she received her cap
with its "V" (volunteer) on the
front and was assigned to the
eye clinic where more than 100
patients are treated daily. Her
training consisted Of 10 hours Of
classroom work and a hours of
practice work on floor duty.
Her white uniform now has one
bar on the pocket Of the gown
below the hospital insignia, show
ing that she has served a full
year at the work.
After spending five to six hours
at the hospital each Tuesday,
Mrs. Breeding goes back to her
home in Westmoreland Hills,
where she works on health prof.
ects in the community. As chair
man of the Health Committee
of the Westbrook School she as
sists the school nurse, Miss Clare
Campbell, in making her weekly
check-up Of the pupils and even
acts as an emergency nurse when
necessary.
In between times, when she is
not at the hospital nor at the
school, she serves on the Be-
thesda Chevy Chase Health Lay
Committee as representative of
the Westbrook School.
With all this work at the hos
pital, in the school and with the
Lay Health Committee, Mrs.
Breeding Is a busy person: and
1t looks now as If she will be a
still buster person next year
for she has just been made a
member of the woman's board
Of the new Suburban Hospital now
being built in Bethesda and has
been appointed vice chairman of
the Montgomery County Tuber-
culosis Seal Sale Campaign.
And. as If all these activities were
not enough to use up all her free
time, she recently volunteered to
serve as senior hostess at the
USO headquarters in Bethesda.
Mrs. Breeding will get all these
things done, however, because she
organizes her time and plans her
work well. Almost before any one
has discovered the need for doing
something she has figured out
how to get 1t done and has set
about doing it.
1nere was the time not long
ago when the Bethesda Chevy
Chase Lay Health Committee
found that they needed extra
milk for the Well Babies Clinic.
AS soon as Mrs. Breeding learned
Of the need she began telephon-
ing around and before long had
organized milk shower" in the
Westbrook School. Each child in
the school was asked to bring a
small can of condensed milk and
in almost no time she had $50
cans Of milk ready for use at the
clinic.
This plan," Mrs. Breeding
says. accomplished two objec-
tives. 1t not only brought in the
needed supply of milk but it also
served to impress upon the minds
of the school children who con-
tributed it the fact that giving Is
a privilege as well as a RESPONSE
bility-and 1t also gave the chill
dren an opportunity to share in
the work that their parents have
been doing for some time"
Mrs. Breedings work in the
hospital and elsewhere centers
around the belief that preventive
health measures are much more
effective and practical than rem
edial measures. She was the one
who saw the need of a first aid
kit at the Westbrook School and
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