Milford chronicle., 1946-11-08
Workers Begin
Campaign For
Hospital Funds

Memorial Hospital shall be eX-
sick and injured Of the community
it serves, more than 200 voluntary
workers representing almost every
community in South Delaware as
sembled last night in the Milford
Community Building Auditorium
for the Kickoff" dinner of the
campaign.
Let us remember" said Cam
paign Chairman Irwin G. Burton in
an inspiring talk to the workers,
that we are doing this job for
ourselves, our families and neigh
bors. The hospital is not here for
the board nor the doctors. 1t is
here for the people. 1t is owned
by the people and operated by
their representatives No member
of the board sought the task. Board
membership means work, respOn-
Sibility and sacrifice. Nor is the
hospital for the doctors any more
than the fire house is for the fire
men.
| mo institution in our cOmmun-
! ity is as important to our happiness
! day after day. AS a routine service
/ the hospital preserves the happi-
ness of South Delaware families by
returning fathers and mothers and
children to families which with
out it would be fatherless, mother
/ less or grief-stricken over the loss
of child.
without the maternity service
of the hospital, hundreds of Della
ware mothers would die in child
! birth. The Rockefeller Foundation
tells us that the wife and child of
a pauper born in a hospital has a
better chance of life and health
than the wife or child of Il million
aire born at home.
"As we write our subscriptions,
| Net us remember that within the
next ten years almost every one
of us will require the services OF
the hospital. Whether or not it
can serve us we'll depends on the
kind of giving and the kind of So
Letting we do"
After Mr.. Burton'S talk and in
structiOns by the campaign direc-
tor. DR.. Charles A. Haney, work
ers selected the cards of the pros
poets they can see. An analysis OF
five similar campaigns in other
comparable communities as well as
the original Milford Hospital build
ing campaign demonstrated the
type of giving that will be neces'
sary if the present project is tC
succeed. On the basis of their eX'
perience. it is estimated that tC
succeed, the campaign must re
ceive:
About five gifts of $1000O-$50.
600 each, totaling $4,000.
About six gifts of $5,O00-$9,99!
each, ototaling 100000.
About fifty gifts of $1,O0O-$4.99!
each, tOtalin@ $4,000.
About thirty-five gifts of $500
5000 each. totaling $4,000.
About 100 gifts of $100-$49
each. totaling $25,000.
ADOul PA,ObV SIltS vi ltSS llld
$100. tOtaling $4,000.
Subscribers were urged. wher
ever means will permit, to max
their gifts i'll the form of memOr
ials to those who have passed ava,
or hOnorariums to the living. |
was pointed out that from the be
ginning the Milford Memorial Hos
: pital has been the repository O
the sacred memories of people i
whose name its ministry of servic
is rendered.
Subscriptions to the campaig
! may be paid in twelve quarterl
/ payments covering period {
three years and are deductible o
: income tax returns.
Heading the two Milford women
divisions as majors are Mrs. Wi
e lard r. Pierce and Mrs. John !
I Baker while majors for the men
. divisions are Edmund f. Steine
). and Nj. Nelson Wright.
Mrs. Laurence l.. Fitchett. Mi
: ford team captain, reported thu
t members of her team include Mis-
: Sarah Barcus, Mrs. Wallace Nc
e Faul, Mrs. George Sheaffer. Mr.
: Jack NAPLES, Mrs. William Burk
= Substitutes are Mrs. Frank r. GriC
and Mrs. James f. HumeS.