Milford chronicle., 1960-12-09

capacity audience of well-wishers
from many parts of Sussex County.
The two-story building that will
provide housing facilities for some
forty-eight student nurses and a
large classroom, is the first COM
pleted unit in the S850,000 expans-
ion and modernization program of
the Lewes institution. The new
nurses home was officially named
The Jean Ellen DUPONT Mcconnell
Nursing Home in honor of Mrs. ].
H. Tyler Mcconnell, in recognition
of her outstanding service to the
Beebe Hospital
Before an audience that filled
every available space in the build
ing, the dedicatory address was
given by Dr. Lemuel G. MeGee,
president of the Medical Society of
Delaware and medical director of
the Hercules Powder Company. He
was presented by DR.. James Beebe.
Jr., Vice-President of the Beebe
Hospital Board of Directors, son
of DR.. James Beebe, ST., co-foun-
der Of the hospital with his late
brother, DR.. Richard G. Beebe, in
1915. The senior DR.. Beebe dedica-
ted the new sign in front of the
nurses home at the corner of Mar
ket ST., and Vickers Avenue, in-
scribed with the name honoring
Mrs. Mcconnell. He also made a
few dedicatory remarks preceding
DR.. McGee's address. Mrs. McCon-
nell expressed her appreciation of
the honor after receiving a picture
of the new building.
DR.. McGee spoke of his many
years of work with health and well
fare organizations of the state and
praised the local people for their
fine program arranged for the de-
| dication of the building and the ex-
cellent turnout for the occasion"
The address of welcome was
given by Frank L. Larsen, Beebe
Hospital administrator, followed by
the invocation by Father F. P.
Cornely of st. Edmond's R. c..
Church of Rehoboth.
Formal presentation of the KEYS
to the building was made by the
Wilmington firm of Whiteside-
Moekel-Carbonnell, architects, Mr..
Larsen thanked the many people
| who contributed their services for
the new home, including the gen.
eral contractors, the Rupert Con-
struction Company of Wilmington,
the town of Lewes for providing
parking facilities and the public
address system, and a new piano
donated by the Beebe Alumnae AS
sOciatiOn which was played for the
first time by Mrs. Sara Albertson
OF Lewes prior to the ceremony.
The building is set in beauti-
fully laEdscaped area of evergreens
and grass. A guided tour of the
facilities of the home was conduct
ed by nurses of the hospital and
the freshmen student class of 21.
the largest in it's history, Miss
Marion Wright, a student nurse
sang BLESS This House..
Miss Elizabeth Abrams, director
OF the School of Nursing, was in
| ~O0NNN NY bAlC uOODlIdI dQI0ln1S-
traitor. and large floral tribute
was presented by Miss Yvonne Nc
Mullen, president of the Student
Government, Refreshments were
served to the throng by the hos
p1tal dietary department under the
supervision of the dietitian, Mrs.
Ruth Dickerson, and her assistant
Mrs. Frank Tharp.
Mr.. Larsen reported that the pro-
posed three-story addition to the
hospital, the major feature of the
expansion program, will be started
around the first of the year. The
Rev. William H. Hudson, pastor of
Lewes' Bethel and Groome Metho-
dist churches, pronounced the
benediction concluding the dedica-
tory ceremony.