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Thursday, July 11,1996
House Brimming Over
With Comfort, Support
BY EMILY ADCOCK
STAFF WRITER
A young mother sits in the pediatric
intensive care unit of the hospital and stares
at her child. Thoughts of life and death run
through her head, and the least of her
worries is how she can afford staying in a
hotel 100 miles away from her home.
Through a hospital referral she is told of
a place where others in her situation can
stay and be comforted and call home. This
place is the Ronald McDonald House, a
nonprofit organization that specializes in
aiding families who need a place to stay
during a family member’s hospitalization.
The pleasantness of the House is imme
diately evident. From the pale blue couches
to the huge living area on the left, it would
be impossible not to feel right at home
here. The large areas encourage residents
to sit down, relax and talk for awhile.
The Ronald McDonald House is a place
of love and understanding. Since many of
the people visiting it are undergoing many
of the same experiences, the House helps
them to deal with their emotions by talking
with each other. The families say they truly
enjoyed their stay at the Ronald McDonald
House. They say they felt that through
talking with each other about their experi
ences, they were more able to get through
the hard times.
The volunteers also help a great deal,
both emotionally and physically.
There are more than 100 volunteers at
the Ronald McDonald House in Chapel
Hill alone.
They provide various services for the
organization, ranging from clerical work
to nursery care and kitchen duty. Volun
teers also are permitted to work one-on
one with the families who are visiting.
Kelly Longacre, a UNC graduate stu
dent and Ronald McDonald House volun
teer, said, “Volunteers can work pretty
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“Some people come in for a couple of
hours and work the kitchen or do whatever
needs to be done,” she said. “Usually the
volunteers work three hour shifts, begin
ning at 9 am.”
The volunteers also help with parties
that the Ronald McDonald House holds
for its occupants.
“We have parties on holidays, birth
days and any time we just feel like it,” said
Dee Wood, a full-time employee at the
House. “A couple of weeks ago we had a
‘Lion King’ party for no special reason at
all.”
The parties are just a few of the things
that the Ronald McDonald House does to
keep up the spirits of its tenants.
Families are permitted to stay at the
House for 28-day periods. After that a
family must reapply before returning.
It provides accommodations at a very
reasonable price: $8 a night. In fact, the
nonprofit organization is willing to waive
the fee if a family cannot afford it, although
40 percent of the families are able.
The House also focuses on comfort.
The 14,273-square foot facility features 20
bedrooms that can each accommodate up
to 3 people, living and dining areas, a
kitchen, a library and a playroom and
playground for the children.
All areas are filled with things to keep
residents busy. Nintendos and VCRs are
also available to occupy time.
The Ronald McDonald House is an
organization that receives most of its funds
from donations.
Since only lOpercentofitsbudgetcomes
from the fees guests pay, it relies on support
from individuals, organizations and busi
nesses to continue providing services to
families of seriously ill children.
“It’s great that people from the commu
nity donate the money, because it’s people
from outside the community that benefit, ’’
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The Ronald McDonald House playground provides a place where a families'
younger children can amuse themselves after a day of visiting the hospital.
Longacre said.
The people who are guests of the Ronald
McDonald House must be from outside a
50 mile radius.
Since its opening on April 15,1988, the
Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill
has comforted more than 8,200 families
with sick children.
Hear It
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featuring pianist Deniz Gelenbe and the
Arman Ensemble will be held at the Griffith
Theater on the campus of Duke University
on July 11 at 8 p.m. Call 684-4444 formore
information.
■ The Triangle Brass Band will be per
forming symphonic and light classical
music in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens on the
campus of Duke University at 6 p.m. on
Sunday, July 14.
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■ A reception celebrating the opening
of artist Gail Henderson Weinerth’s new
water media paintings exhibit will be held
Friday, July 12 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the
NEWS
It welcomes 1,100 families annually and
is open 365 days a year with staff on the
premises 24 hours a day.
There are hundreds of Ronald
McDonald Houses across the nation, four
of which are located in Chapel Hill,
Durham, Winston-Salemand Greensboro.
There are even some in Europe.
Brown Gallery at the Bryan Center on the
campus of Duke University.
■ Pulitzer Prize winnerE. Annie Prouk
will discuss her new book “Accordion
Crimes” on Sunday, July 14 at 3 p.m. at
Mclntyre’s Fine Books and Bookends in
Pittsboro. Call the bookstore for more in
formation.
For the Record
In the July 3 graphic 'Summer Students'
Fees Evaporate,' Julie Gasperini should have
been identified as Student Body Treasurer.
Also, the July 3 graphic 'Proposed Polling
Precincts Might Ease Student Voting,"
misidentified Chase Hall.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the errors.
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$1 Million Donation From
1990 Hafl-of-Famer Park
■ The sorely-needed library
will be located in the school’s
new home in 1998.
BY JOHN SWEENEY
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Thanks to a $1 million donation, the
School of Journalism and Mass Commu
nications will not only enjoy anew loca
tion beginning in 1998,butanewlibraiyas
well.
The donation came from the Ithaca,
N.Y.-based Park Foundation, which was
established by the late Roy Park, a North
Carolina native who owned several com
munications properties in the state before
his death in 1993.
The money from the donation will be
used to create a 5,000-square foot multi
media reference center in Carroll Hall, the
new home of the journalism school begin
ning in 1998. The library will include new
computer technology, books, magazines
and periodicals.
The journalism school will be moving
into the new building after it is vacated by
Kenan-Flagler Business School. The busi
ness school will move to anew building
near the Smith Center on South Campus.
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Richard Cole, dean of the journalism
school, said the new library would be the
“heart of the school.”
“There will be no more prominent place
in our new home,” Cole stated in a press
release. “The Park Library will be a show
place throughout journalism-mass com
munication education in the United
States.”
Trish Richardson, a graduate student in
the journalism school, said the library
would be a significant improvement over
the school’s current situation.
“The current library is extremely over
crowded,” Richardson said. “There is no
more room for new books.”
Richardson also said the current library
was lacking in computer technology. Only
six computers were available in the Howell
library, and the other computer labs in the
building were often difficult to get into
because they were used for classes,
Richardson said.
“The new library is probably one of the
best uses to which that money can be put, ”
Richardson said.
During his lifetime, Park served on the
UNC Board ofVisitors and as a member of
the UNC Foundation Board from 1989-
93.
Park was inducted into the North Caro
lina Journalism Hall of Fame in 1990.
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BOOTH-POWELL
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ployees that we have ever given,” he said.
Those whom Booth-Powell touched
described her as a warm-hearted person
whose caring nature extended to all those
she met. In the case of one town official,
that relationship continued for a lifetime.
Carrboro Alderman Hilliard Caldwell
knew Booth-Powell since elementary
school. The two met when he was in third
grade and she was in fourth, and they
continued to be friends,
“Barbara Booth-Powell was dedicated,
caring and concerned,” Caldwellsaid. “She
always wanted to do what was right for
people.”
Chapel Hill council member Pat Evans
said Booth-Powell always acted like a lady.
“She was always dignified and yet was
very approachable. I’ll miss that,” Evans
said. “She said things in a very kind way.
She treated everyone with respect and it
was returned.”
Friends said Booth-Powell would be
greatly missed and not easily forgotten.
Council member Lee Pavao said Booth-
Powell’s character was the thing he would
miss the most with her death.
“There’s a lot I’ll remember her for; her
quiet strength and demeanor while she
was on the council, her concern for the
individual,” he said. “She had a strong
sense of responsibility for the community. ”
Booth-Powell’s death leaves a vacancy
on the council that will be filled in the fail
when council meetings are resumed. How
ever, Caldwell said the gap left by Booth-
Powell would not disappear.
“There will be a void in Chapel Hill
government until we can get used to not
having her here,” he said.
Pavao said he would most miss conver
sations he had with Booth-Powell about a
shared interest owl collections.
“She collected and was interested in
owls,” Pavao said. “I have a small collec
tion at town hall and we used to sit down
and talk about our collections.”
Pavao said he also doubted that the full
effect of the town’s loss would be immedi
ately felt. “We’re going to miss her,” he
said. “People didn’t realize at the time how
much she contributed to the community
and the council.”
Booth-Powell is survived by husband
GeorgeM. Powell, mother Nonie Burnette,
daughters Melody Little and Sandra Joy
Muiphy, sons Thomas Joseph Booth IV
and Barry Booth and brother Clyde
Burnette.
She is also survived by a daughter-in
law, a son-in-law, 10 grandchildren, one
sister-in-law, two aunts and many nieces,
nephews and cousins.
Family members ask that in lieu of flow
ers, donations be made to the Orange
County Unit ofthe American Cancer Soci
ety, 3500 Westgate Drive, Durham, N.C.
27707 and/or the Barbara Booth-Powell
Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 543, Durham,
N.C. 27707.