Duke University Medical Center, InterGom
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From
The
Auxiliary
VIRGINIA FRAZIER EAGLE
September 21, 1899—May 14, 1963
She is at peace. Those wlio love her
^,111(1 there are many) are comforted
in the thouy:ht that her suffering is at
an end. We share with lier family
the deep sense of loss and recall with
pride and fjratitude the enrichment
she has bron>;ht to this community lor
tiiirty years.
(Jill was f>'raduat('d as an HN from
(!hurch Home Hospital in Baltimore
ill 1920. For ten years she filled the
role of a nurse, the discipline of which
developed for her a jiatterii of just one
way ill which to do a thing—tlie
right way. She had little patience
with excuses and compromise, then or
ever.
In 1980 she married a ])romising
graduate of Johns Hopkins, Dr. Watt
W. Kagle. For more than thirty years
Dr. Eagle has served the Duke Medi
cal Center as Professor and Chief of
the Division of Otolaryngology. Acute
illness greatly curtailed Gin’s activi
ties in January, 1960; but it was
deeply satisfying to her that she lived
to see the happy marriage of her
daughter, Ellen, and to know her little
B'randson, Julian W. Walker, III.
Clin was a member of St. Philip’s
p]piscopal Church. Sh(> served on tlu-
original Board of Directors of Family
Service. She also held Board mem
bership ill the Salvation Army, Girl
Scouts, Red ("ross, Youth Board, and
Edgemoiit Community Center Board.
For twelve years she was chairman of
the Red Cross Nurse’s Aide program,
and during World War 11 taught the
First Aid courses and helped organize
and teach the first Home Nursing
course. She was chairman of the
Calvert School (now Durham Acad
emy) Board for six years. She was
also a member of the Up-to-Date Club.
In 1950 Gill was asked by the Duke
Hospital Administrator to help spon
sor the organization of a hos])ital
auxiliary. For the next ten years
she was its guiding light. Her vision
of what the Auxiliary means to the
hospital and her personal sense of
duty and obligation challenge us to
sustain the effort.
It may truthfully be said that of
all her eommunity interests, the Duke
Hospital Auxiliary was nearest and
dearest to her. At a called meeting of
the Auxiliary Board on May l(i, the
l^oard voted unanimously to create
The Virginia Eagle Fund for Student
Nurses, and initiated this fund with
a gift of $ir)00. Tn addition a few
of those who had worked with her
since 1950 gave, as a memorial to her,
a communion service for the use of
Duke student nurses. Further memo
rials to her continue to come in to
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IntcrCoiii
Published by Duke Tlniversity
Medical Centei- and Duke Ilosjiital
Auxiliary.
Evelyn S. Stead, Editoi’
Pati-icia Wynn, Feature Editor
Com m ittee
Elon H. Clark
Charles H. Frenzel
George B. Kaiitner
Julia Negley
Norman K. Nelson
Nina Waite
Mailing address: Box 2895, Duke
Hospital, Durham, N. C.
Supt i
Cotnex
by Charles II. Frenzel
At. about this time each year the
administration of the Medical Center
completes a very difficult and im
portant function, “budgeting.” At
Duke, the budget process is far more
tlian the allocation of available funds
to the various departments of the
Medical (-enter. Conferences be
tween the administration and each de
partment chainnan review the accom
plishments and problems of the pre
vious year, study trends and develop
ments, and plan the program for tlie
year to come.
The many weeks occupied by these
“budget sessions” are difficult to
“free up” from the daily pressures
of the Medical Center, but are all too
few in which to pi'ovide for a sound,
balanced, and progressive o])eration
for the entire year ahead. In a
dynamic organization it is imperative
that there be understanding of the
objectives of the organization and
each of its de])artments or serious
imbalance or misdirected efforts may
occur.
This year, as in the past several, the
budget must provide for upgrading
salaries for almost all emploj'ees and
the acknowledgement of increasing
activities in many ilepartments. More
pronounced this year than ever before
was the almost constant reference to
the availability of greatly improved
equijmient which makes even recently
acquired eciuipmeiit obsolete. Most
serious of the operational problems,
however, is the increasing shortage of
trained personnel. This nationwide
situation cannot be changed overnight
but if it is to be improved medical
centers, such as Duke, must be the
major intiuences.
On the income side, we are still
seriously att'ected by tiie large dis
crepancy between the cost of patient
care and the amount ])aid by Govern-
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