Milford chronicle., 1947-03-14
DAVIDSON MITCHELL
MILFORD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
AUXILIARY NOTES

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Sunday. March 10 Miss Cath
crime Halfen. Mrs. Ruth Halfen.
Monday, March Il Miss Gather
inc Downing.
Tuesday, March 1S-Mrs. Will
lard II. Hall.
Wednesday, March 10 Mrs. Har
ry Mayhem.
Thursday. March o0-Mrs. f. r.
Galloway.
Friday. March Mrs. Vinal
Bennett.
Saturday, March % Mrs. d. b.
Greene Mrs. A. f. Humes
The regular monthly meeting of
the Auxiliary was held last Tues
day. March II, in the Caulk Audi
tOrium with much better attend
ance then usual. Plans for the
Charity Ball. which will be given
Easter Monday, April :, were dis
cussed. Mrs. Blair Myers from Red
Cross Headquarters in Wilmington
was present to give Il talk on Gray
Ladies.
! During the past few weeks Mrs.
Arthur DerricksOn and Mrs. Mar
shall Hugg reported the following
items being made: "a baby dresses.
As baby napkins. T-binders. | pair
ether boots, 47 yards of muslin has
been cut into different ARTICLES
which must be made by some one.
Won't you help? If you have little
extra time, won't you sew for the
hospital?
During the past several years it
has been impossible to get mate
rials which caused a shortage at
the hospital Now that materials
are available these things are dras-
tically needed. Please call Mrs.
Derrickson at 81 or Mrs Hugg at
495 and offer to help.
The membership committee re-
ported six new members the past
week Have you joined. If not. dc
so now. Membership fee. $l00 a
year.
Members of the Auxiliary are
asked to meet at the Grange Hall
on Monday morning. April {, at IL
IL. M and help make sandwiches
for the charity ball.
Are you interested in becoming
Gray Lady? Mrs. Myers of the
Red Cross advised us that the nee
essary training will be given by
the Delaware Chapter Of Red Cros:
to a group of - or over. To be eli
gible to take the course you mus
be: 81 years OF age or over, al
American citizen. and have sens
of responsibility. The course is a
follows: "a hours actual trainin!
and lectures and "a hours proba
ton duty. You must be willing t,
give 80 hours OF service every yea
in your hospital. Service to you
hospital means doing and of
number of things you might b
called on to do, such as clerica
work. if you are talented in tha
line. librarian, receptionist, read t
patients, do errands for them, writ
letters for patients, take patient
: to May and operating rooms. Th
lecture course OF training is diviC
ed into twelve groups which are a
p" follows:
1-Origin. history of national OF
N ganiZatiOn.
0. 2-LOcal chapter OrganiZatiO
/ and object of corps.
IS 3-History of hospital move
"a ment
s. 4-Types of hospitals.
5-HOspital ethics-most impO
It., tant lecture.
es 6-Psychology of sick
IN 1-Nursing services
e. S-SOcial service.
9-CoOperating agencies.
h. 10-Psychiatry and occupation
IN therapy.
s 11-TOur of hospital.
nt 12-HOspital assignments, hou
of service for next n hours trai
no ing in hospital
g The Gray Lady Corps is one
k the most important of the r.
80 Cross services and is an eXcelle
- opportunity to render service
~ where service is drastically nee
- ed Think over this infOrmatiC
and decide to join one of the class
a., being formed If you are intereS
- ed and want further SinfOrmatiC
vi watch the Auxiliary News in t
III, Milford Chronicle or call Mrs. w
hu lard r. Pierce.