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Duke Hospital, InterGom Page 5 From The Auxiliary By Dorothy Sieker It is my great pleasure to announce to you all—another dream come triie. As vve “go to press,” the new chil dren’s playroom off. Howland Ward will be open and buzzing -with ac tivity. Pour years ago Mrs. K. L. Tuthill organized the Children’s Service as a part of the Woman’s Auxiliary. This service has grown steadily' until it now includes seven regular auxiliary members and thirty East (Jampus volunteers. The service is covered cach week day afternoon, and it is lioped that eventually it can be covered on a full-day basis. The playroom, painted a sunny yel low with delightful Walt Disney char acters on the walls, now occupies part of the space once used in the old Pe diatric Clinic. In consultation with Dr. Jerome Harris and Miss Mildred Sherwood, Mrs. Tuthill and tier com mittee arrived at a set of working plans. At this point the Auxiliary’s Ways and Means Committee, headed by Mrs. Bayard Carter entered in to accumulate funds for tlie project. This group has sponsored many spe cial events such as the annual Thanks giving bake sales and, this year, the Country Fair and Carnival. Each time from the proceeds a certain amount was earmarked “Playroom Money. ’ ’ The over-all plan is a duplicate of the playroom in the Lenox Hill Hos pital, New York City. The room can accommodate a dozen children at one play ])eriod. For little girls there is a doll house corner—the rooms of the doll house are permanent cubicles built in the wall slielves, :Kacli “room” will be completely furnished with the latest doll house furniture. In this same corner will be dolls and doll clothes. The boys’ corner will have building blocks, wooden trains and little cars. For creative play there will be crayons, paints and peg boards. One of. the three record players purchased for the Children’s Service will be installed witli an abun dant supply of non-breakable cliil- dren’s records. For the future—a TV set. All the furniture has been built especially for this room and is scaled to a cluld’s height. Work space, topped with formica, lines two walls with shelves above. The lower set of these shelves holds toys to be played witli; the upper set holds sup plies. A kindergarten-type table with matching chairs occupies the center of the room for (juiet play, books, puzzles and the like. It is ho])ed, also, that as the Service grows in volunteers, children will be able to eat some of their meals in this eheerfid room. A viewing window' is built in the wall be tween the Playroom and the Parents’ Room so the staff can observe the chil dren at play without disturbing them. It is easy to see that this room will help many a pediatric patient to feel his hospital stay was “not so bad after all.” Next time you are on duty, take time to drop by and see for yourself another Auxiliary dream cojiie true. * ^ ^ The first General Meeting for the 1958-09 season was held October 29 at 8 P.M. in the new Ambulatory Din ing Room off Reed Ward. Dr. Doris A. Howell, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, s[)oke “with us” (not “to us”) on The Challenge of Children. The annual Thanksgiving Bake Sale held November 25 netted $177.00. This is my last visit with you this year—a year, 1 think, filled with suc cess and achievement. Such achieve ment means the Auxiliary has your siipport and will continue to see dreams come true. : Holiday greetings to you all—see you next year! (Duke Photo hy Sparks) “Daddy” Ross Portrait of Ross Presented Dr. Robert Alexander Ross, distin guished Tarheel obstetrician and gynecologist, was honored at the Duke Pniversity Medical Center on October by the “Nick” Carter Travel ('lub. The club, composed of present and former Duke obstetricians and gyne cologists from eleven states, presented an oil portait of Dr. Ross to Duke Tniversity. Recently named president-elect of the American Association of Obstet rics and (lynecology. Dr. lioss has been chairnuui of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the rniversity of North Carolina School of Medicine since 1952. A native of Morganton and an alumnus of the Univei-sity of North Carolina and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Dr. Ross came to Duke in 1930 and served as acting chairman of the Dvike obstetries-gynecology de])art- ment during its first years of ex istence. Known affectioiuitely as “Daddy” Ross, he made many contri butions to the progress of the depart ment during his 22 years at Duke.
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