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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 14 APRIL 16, 1971 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
For Duke Auxiliary^ Giving Is a Habit
Members Donate Time, ^ " w
Profits to the Hospital
Vou have to sell a lot of cups of coffee
to make $12,500.
But the dedicated members of the
Duke Hospital Auxiliary, with the money
they made from their two coffee bars, a
shop cart, and the Pink Smock Gift Shop,
have donated gifts worth more than that
amount to the Hospital during the year.
The largest Auxiliary project was the
purchase of about $5,100 worth of
auditory testing equipment for the
audiology section of the Division of
Otolaryngology.
The equipment included a $3,000
hearing evaluation console which is being
used in the Duke ENT Clinic to perform a
variety of diagnostic tests on patients
with hearing problems.
Audiology also received another large
testing unit and two portable audiometers
from the Auxiliary.
Duke's Edgemont Clinic, a community
medical facility staffed by medical,
nursing, and allied health students from
Duke and the University of North
Carolina, received $2,500 from the
volunteers for renovation of the clinic
building.
Some $2,100 was contributed to the
Lelia Clark Scholarship Fund, a fund
which provides tuition and fees for a
student at the Duke School of Nursing.
The scholarship, established in 1970,
honors Miss Lelia Clark, a professor of
nursing service administration.
One of the other major gifts the
Auxiliary purchased went to Duke's
Intensive Care Nursery.There three Air
Shields-temperature control monitors
were installed for babies whose
temperatures have to be checked
continuously. The monitors are
connected to warming lights which flip
on when the child's temperature gets too
low.
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CONSTANT /4 yyf/vr/O/V—Little Margie Grant, a patient from McAdenville, N. C.,
shows off some of the new equipment the Hospital Auxiliary has purchased for Duke's
Intensive Care Nursery. Mounted atop the table is one of the three temperature
control monitors now available in the nursery. Margie's baby seat and mobile, along
with the vibrator in the foreground, were purchased from the monthly funds the
Auxiliary gives the nursery. Watching our young model are Mrs. Lela Colver of the
Auxiliary, left, and Mrs. Barbara Barham, a staff RN on the unit, (photo by Lewis
Parrish)
On Meyer Ward, Duke's closed
psychiatric unit, the Auxiliary has
provided a new console stereo-radio
combination and a pool table for the
unit's recreation program.
More than $1,000 was spent on
television sets for patient use in the
Department of Medicine, the
Neurosurgical Unit, and the Division of
Nuclear Medicine.
In addition to these special projects
each year, the Duke Auxiliary sets aside
monthly alotments for supplies in the
Intensive Care Nursery and the Acoustical
Nursery and contributes regularly to the
Chaplains Fund for Compassion.
The Auxiliary, with nearly 200 active
members, is made up of women from the
community who volunteer their time for
projects at the Hospital. About 80 spon
soring members do not give their time but
make donations to the Auxiliary.
In addition to running the snack bars
and gift shop, the volunteers staff a
Iibrary-on-wheels for patients, assist
Duke's recreation therapist on the
pediatrics wards, provide guide and
reception service in the Outpatient
Department, and handle a roving shop
cart where patients can purchase
magazines and sundries.
(continued on page two)