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From
The
Auxiliary
“ Flacli venture is a new be^innin"”
(T. S. Eliot)
At the November membership meet
ing of the Duke Hospital Auxiliary,
an affirmative vote approved a pro
posal for a Gift Shop to be located
off the lobby in the new connecting
win" between the hospital and the
CRU-Gerontology building. This ven
ture will mean temporary curtail
ment of other new Auxiliary projects
in the hospital (except perhaps some
small requests), but we hope this
limitation will not be for long. We
wish to be like the person in Edgar
(luest’s poem “It C’ouldu’t Be Done
Somel)ody said tliat it couldn’t be
done,
l>nt he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he
would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d
tried.
The new undertaking is a challenge
to the Auxiliary membership. “The
only limit to our realization of tomor
row will be our doubts of today. Let
us move forward with strong and
active faith.” {V. D. Roosevelt)
The Gift Shop should be a success be
cause the newly elected officers who
will be working towards the fullfill-
ment of this venture do have faith in
the outcome. Mrs. Glenn Negley,
President; Mrs. Richard Leach, Vice-
i’resident; Mrs. N. F. Conant, Re
cording Secretary; Mrs. H. L. Monk,
Corresponding Secretary; Miss Eloise
Sherman, Treasurer; and Mrs. H.
Emerson, Historian, will guide the
Auxiliary through the coming year
and are depending on each one of us
to continue as loyal members. We
congratulate the new officers and fore
see a most successful year.
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Thanks to all the good friends who
contributed food for the Thanks
giving bake sale. The sale netted
.+450 plus to help make Christmas gay
on the pediatric wards.
The Doctor
and
The Cat
by Norman K. Nelson
If ever you walk by the hospital and
see a milk carton being lowered slowly
on the end of a string from a window,
don’t be alarmed.
They’re just feeding the cat.
The feline in question has consumed
an estimated 1,100 cans of dog food,
500 quarts of milk and an undeter
mined quantity of frozen tish since she
took up residence six years ago luuler
an office window in Duke Hospital.
The office—and the hand at the up
per end of the string—belong to Dr.
Watt Eagle, who has taken time out
of his busy hos])itaI life to befriend the
stray animal.
The cat has been busy, too. Dr.
Eagle estimates that during her years
at Duke, she’s given birth to nearly a
hundred kittens.
This accomplishment has been
topped, however, by Dr. Eagle’s suc
cess in finding homes for all tliese
numerous offsprings.
A goodly number of Dr. Eagle’s
patients have left the hospital with
kittens in their arms. Since the
window overlooks a bus stop, both
hospital employees and visitors have
gotten acquainted with the eat and her
various families—and ended u]> tak
ing home a kitten or two.
The cat has given Dr. Eagle some
anxious moments over the years.
On one occasion, she clind)ed four
stories up an ivy-covered wall of Duke
Hospital and appeared mewing in a
window of the obstetrics ward.
Another time. Dr. Eagle decided the
cat would be happier in non-hospital
surroundings and so presented her to
friends who live ten miles from Dur
ham. She was back in a week, look
ing hungrily up at the doctor’s win
dow.
The animal has wrought some mild
ly cataclysmic changes in Dr. Eagle’s
life. He has to arrive at the liospital
early enough to lower provisions be
fore going into the operating room at
8 A.M. Sundays and holidays re-
(piii’o s])ecial feeding trips to tlie hos-
I)ital.
Miss Dorothy Douglas, Dr. Eagle’s
secretary, helps look after the cat and
find homes for the kittens. Her com
ment between litters is always the
same: “I liope it won’t be so soon
next time.”
DR. EAGLE AND FRIEND
(Duke Plioto by Sparks)