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HOSPITAL DUKE December, 1954 Durham, N. C. Holiday Events Set Christmas is coming! This is the time of year when everyone tries to bring a true spirit of helpfulness and service and genuine goodwill into every part of the Hospital’s life. Bright decorations, informal parties on many wards, the stx'ains of carols echoing from the halls are wonderful treats for the holidays, but the real spirit of Christmas shines in the cheer ful greetings we have for friends and strangers alike and the eft'orts to make the Hospital a happier place for em ployees, for patients and for visitors. Christma.s trees will go up in every Iiall during Christmas week, to be decorated according to individual preference. Again this year, the decorations on the wards will be judged. A special party for white subsidiary woi’kers will be held on Dec. 22, in the practical nurses stiident classroom. Employees will drop in for refrc'sli- ments between 2 and 4 o’clock. A Cliristmas party for colored em- j)loyees will be held on Dec. 28 in tlie Hos])ital amphitheater. Mrs. Martha Scoggins will assist the pers(mnel office in planning the party, which will feature entertainment progranis at 2 and o’clock. One of the most popular events of the Christmas season, the Out-Patient Clinic carol sing will be held again this year. ]\lrs. llobgood tells us that it will be held probably on ^louday of Cliristnuis week. Dr. James Cleland will be speaker for the student nurses annual choral connnunion, planiu'd during the holi days, Groujis of student nurses will also continue their delightful custom of in formal caroling in the wards. Patients who must be here at Christ mas won’t be forgotten, either, when it comes to food trays. Mrs. Martin and her dietetics stalf are planning special menus and tray decorations and plans are also being made for the special buffet su])per which is so popu lar with doctors and nurses each year. While official holidays for the Hos pital are Christmas and Xew Years days, the vast wheels of tlie Hospital can’t be suspended completely. All employees who can’t be spared on the two holidays M'ill of course receive days off to make up for their holiday duty. The AVoman’s Auxiliarj', although suspending the Christmas Shop this year, will again bring Christmas joy to patients of the children’s wards. Proceeds from the Thanksgiving sale will be u.sed to provide a gift and filled stockings for each child on Zlatas and Howland and permanent toys for both wards. The children’s committee, headed by Mrs. Kichard Tuthill, will fill the stockings, being made for the Auxiliary by Mrs. Carrie Sykes, and nurses on tlie children’s wards will choose gifts and arrange a sj)eeial Christnuis Day pai'ty. Auxiliary members will close all services from Suiulay, Dec. 1!) to ]\Ion- day, Jan. 2. Wliile these are some of the special events now planned at the Hospital, other formal and informal get-to gethers will be held to mark the Christmas season. Prom all of us at InterConi, to all of you, best wishes for a Merry Christ mas and a Happy New Year! Dec, Salary Checks Tn the past the University has been able to issue December checks the week before Christmas. Due to the procedures necessary with the IBM payroll system, this will no longer be possible. Town Hall Goes to TV Duke Hospital’s Medical Town Hall makes its TV debut on Sunday, Dec. 1!). The program w'ill be viewed from 2::50 to o p.m. over WTVD, f'hannel n. Subject of the first TV program will be “Holiday Accidents in the Home” with Dr. Jay Arena and Dr. George Ferguson as speakers. Dr. George Baylin, creator of the program, will be moderator. Half Millionth Patient Duke Hospital’s half-millionth pa tient arrived here for medical exami nation late in November. He was Emmett Wood of Lynch burg, Va., whose case history became number .■)()(),()()(), when he came to Duke for a three-day health check, as part (if a program of ])reventive medi cine at Duke’s Private Diagnostic Clinic for key ])ersounel from large and .small companies. i\lr. Wood is a stipervisor of the Lynchburg Foundry (’o. Dui-ing the hosijital’s 24-year his tory, patients have come from throughout the South, every corner of the Nation and many foreign coun tries. Last year, 17,475 patients, largest in the Hos])ital’s histoi'y, came to Duke. This doesn’t include a rec ord nnn)ber of 168,558 out-patient visits to ])ublic and private clinics. Checks nornuilly received on the 25tli of each month will be issued prior to the 25th. Checks normally received on the tirst of each month will be issued December 111. Wage payrolls will be paid cm December 15 and December 18 as u.sual.
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