Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-01-20
SELIN LEAVES
MACRUDER POST
Miss Stoll Also Resigns To
Accept Superintendency In
Upper Sandusky

Resignation of Miss Mabel Selin,
superintendent of Magruder hos
pital since it's opening August %,
1910, was accepted this week by
the Hospitals Board of Trustees,
Harry Stensen, Port Clinton; Dr.
c. j. Yeisley, bakersfield, Cali
fornia, and Erwin Effler, Toledo.
AS had been expected for some
weeks, the resignation of Acting
Superintendent Miss Lillian Stoll
was also received by Trustee
Stensen, Wednesday. Miss Stoll
leaves February l to become su-
perintendent of a new hospital in
Upper Sandusky, position she
accepted last fall.
Mr.. Stensen told the News
Wednesday that the trustees do
not expect to choose a successor
for Miss Selin Immediately.
"Our personnel at Magruder
Memorial Hospital has had lengthy
experience and we have conf
dence that staff members will
continue their excellent effici-
ency," Mr.. Stensen stated. 1t is
possible that member of the
present staff may be selected as
acting superintendent when Miss
Stoll leaves February /.
Miss Selin was placed on pro-
baton for three years Monday in
Federal Court, Toledo, after she
pleaded guilty to two counts Of IL
legally obtaining and using mar
cotics.
Judge Frank l.. kloeb directed
that she be sent to the Y. S. Pub
lie Service Hospital, Lexington,
Kentucky, for treatment, Miss
Selin left here Wednesday after
noon for the Lexington hospital
Morton Neipp, Toledo, attorney
for Miss Selin, told the court that
| Miss Selin suffered a spinal injury
in fall in l943 and was pre-
scribed narcotics. He requested
that the court grant probation and
! permit her to submit voluntarily
to the hospital for treatment.
Miss Selin suffered painful
spinal and leg injuries during
1943 when she slipped on ice at
the back porch of the Magruder
Nurses Home and fell to the con-
crete pavement.
After the fall, Miss Selin was
hospitalized for several months
and the injuries affected her am
bulatory powers. Late last Mo-
vember Miss Selin collapsed while
at work, and local physicians dis
covered the narcotic shortage.
The hospital superintendent was
taken to Cleveland Clinic for
treatment. Report Of the narcotic
shortage was sent to authorities
and federal officials came here to
investigate, with the Federal Court
| appearance TCSultlIlS.
Mr.. Effler, one Of the hospital
trustees. is in Florida on vaea-
ton trip. A successor probably
will not be named until his re-
turn.
Ray Lambert is president Of the
Magruder Hospitals Advisory
Committee. Albert Hozhauer is
vice-president, and George Mohn,
secretary-treasurer. Other mem-
bers are Carl Heckler, Port Clin-
ton, and Charles Wolf, Lakeside
All hospital officials expressed
heartfelt sadness over the hospl-
tai superintendent illness. They
lauded Miss Selin for her efficient
and capable administration and
for building Magruder Hospital to
its present excellence.
There were unashamed tears
glistening the faces of Magruder
Hospitals staff Wednesday when
Miss Selin said her farewells.
Many of the nurses and other per-
sonnel had been working with her
since the day Magruder Hospitals
doors were first opened over nine
years ago.
Miss Selin's countless friends
throughout the area and the gen.
eral public also feel that her
present difficulty is partially due
to her intense devotion to duty at
the hospital where she worked al
most day and night. Often Miss
Selin would arise at night to as
sist in emergency surgery after
she had toiled 12-hour day.
During the war years when sew
eral Magruder nurses left for
Army or Navy service, there
were weeks on end when Miss
Selin was able to snatch only
fragmentary maps. During World
War |, Miss Selin herself had been
an army nurse with front-line