7'he EVERGREENE"WS A Heigh!Jorhood .Newspaper Sponsored 6y Vol/intine -Evergreen Community Action A ssoci'ation Doetor In The House by Rick Thomas James W. Bryant, James R. Feild, Walter H. Henley , Robert L. Richardson and James T. Robertson. 1949 Jackson is the home of Dr. John G . McCarter, a general practitioner. Another doctor of note is W . W. Walker, Jr. who, besides serving on the staff at the U. T. Med­ ical Units, has priva t e psychiatric practices in both Memphis and Jackson, Tennessee. And special mention should be made of the neighborhood's woman doctor, Jeanne Horan , a pediatrician who resides on Dickinson. Backing up the activities of the physicians is usu­ ally found a nurse, and the V/ E community has no short­ age of these either. One of note is Mrs. Louis Priddy who manages the Southwestern University Infirmary and another is Mrs. W. W . Walker who backs up her hus­ band as a p s ychiatric nurse. Mrs . Walker has s everal journal articles to her credit and is a former Director of Student Nurses at U. T. Other neighborhood nurses are Mrs. R.L . Phillips of 735 Hawthorne and Jan Richardson, ·. .., wife of Dr. Richard son mentioned above. I Dentists and Others \.... In addition to these doctors and nurses, the commu­ nity can boast of a dozen dentists. Just to mention a few , there is Robert K. Armstrong of 1936 Tutwiler, John T. Phipps, Jr. of 904 N. Avalon and C. N. Williams of 1966 Mignon. One neighborhood dentist even follows the tradition of maintaining his office in his home. He J is W. Franklin Pearson of 1852 Tutwiler. The medical profession has come to depend more and It has often been pointed out that the Yollintine¥ more on auxiliary medical personnel to assist overbur­ Evergreen community has its share of residents who have dened physicians, and this is another group the commu­ dedicated themselves to serving others, but none in nity has in abundance . Some of these are Ro se mar y greater number than the men and women in the field of Hulshof of 856 Belvedere, an anesthetist, Helen Good­ health. Resident medicine-men and women are found man· of 1796 Mignon, a medical technologist, and Jim e.mployed all up and down the spectrum of medical oc­ Simpkins of 740 Maury, an inhalation therapist at Ten­ cupations. They range from some of the city's most nessee Chest Hospital. Other supportive p e rson n e 1 prominent physicians ·to less-applauded, but neverthe ­ include Jane Roper, a secretary in the U. T. College of less ess ential, medical· secretaries and other suppor­ Dentistry, Carla Ryan, a secretary in the U. T. De part­ tive personnel. In .addition to the scores of residents ment of Anatomy, and Ann Sayle, an electroencephalo­ directly involved with patient care is an impressive graphy technician at Tennessee Psychiatric Hospital. contingent of professionals involved in government health Mrs. Sayle's husband is also active in the medicalfield, agencies, medical education and ancillary services such operating an EEG laboratory housed at Le Bonheur Hos­ as medical laboratories . pital. Doctors and Nurses More Professionals Looking at the medical practitioner most familiar to In addition to these basic categories , the neighbor­ us, the physician , we find over a score of them domi­ hood can claim sever a 1 miscellaneous practitioners. ciled within the boundaries of our community. Besides These include Tommy Crawford,a pharmacist and owner the general practitioner, we can boast of specialists of the Southwestern Pharmacy a nd two optometrists, ranging from orthopedics to neurosurgery. Although many Jack Hoffman and David Chambers . Dr . Chambers is of these doctors grew up in the neighborhood, many of presently doing research at U. T. on the affects of var­ them discovered it while well along in thE>ir practice . ious plastics on living tissue and is now completing a An interesting phenomenon is the large number clustere:i textbook in a specialized area of optometry. The neigh­ in Hein Park . No less than twelve physicians were i­ borhood can also claim a chiropractor, Dr. Ralph Rafferty, dentified as living in this section of the neighborhood . who lives and practices at 784 Maury . The person with They include Bud Weir · (internal medicine), Joseph H. Miller (neurosurgery), Gwin Robbins (thoracic surgery), The next VECAA meeting will take place Emmett Bell (pediatric cardiology) , Bob Allen (pediatric Monday, February 21, 8:00p.m., Fellow­ ~ thoracic surgery) and Wiley Hutchins (orthopedics). ship HalL McLean Baptist Church. Pro­ Others found in Hein Park are Drs. R. Leon Bourland, gram will include reports from the vari­ ' -~-,~~ - Memphis, Te nnessee 3 February 197:? ous committees . Everyone is cordially (!;c ' . ' invited. Volume II, No. 2 Circulation: 5500 DOCTOR continued HAPPENINGS continued the most unusual occupation, however, is probably Robin 9-----Black History Program to be held at Northside High Thomas of 1917 Snowden. His job is supervising the School during morning assembly. A guest speaker will delicate operation of implanting electric pacemakers in give the talk. the· hearts of heart disease victims . Also included in 9-----Baron Hirsch Ladies Auxiliary to meet at 1 p.m. in this group would be Evergreen News editor, George the main sanctuary. The theme will be "BJ;"otherhood" Bradfute who is an engineer working in clinical elec­ and Mayor Wyeth Chandler will be the _speaker. tronics for the Baptist Hospital. 18-----Dr. Jim Spicer, noted psychotherapist, to speak Administrators and Researchers at Evergreen Presbyterian at 6:30. The author of I'm O.K., Your O.K. will talk about communicating. - Many more neighborhood residents are involved in 24-----Springdale Church XYZ Club (senior citizens) to medical administration and research. Administrators in hold monthly meeting at ll a.m. medical education include Dr. Fred Hatch of the U. T. 29-----Baron Hirsch Concert Series to continue with the Department of Nephrology and Lee Holder, the first dean presentation of soprano Maris a Galvani. Showtime is of the new U. T. College of Community and Allied Health 8:30p.m. and tickets are $4. Sciences. Mr. Holder is also a new neighbor, moving 29-----Sunday discussions at Little Flower Catholic to Hein Park in January from North Carolina. Along with Church on Bishop Dozier's Peace Letter. Groups will them we find Dr. W. H. Jolley of 1701 N. Parkway, the meet in the school after the 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. associate dean in the College of Dentistry at U. T. masses. Other health administrators are Lockwood Ensminger of 29-----0ccupational guidance continues at Northside with 1792 Autumn, director of the Wesley House neighborhood students hearing representatives speak on health, civil health clinic and Rev. and Mrs. Barry Boggs of 1701 N. service, union apprenticeship and sales career oppor­ Parkway who run Memphis House, a center for handling tunities. problems dealing with drug abuse. Mr. Ensminger is a former administrator of the Memphis Medicenter facility. Those involved directly in medical research include Enamel and Other Treats Dr. Bruce Sells and Dr. Arnold Fridman, both exploring An invitational Enamel Exhibition will open February the field of biochemistry at St. Jude H o s pit a 1. Dr. 6 at the Memphis Academy of Arts. Nine American ar­ Fridman is a new neighbor from Canada. Dr. Sells is tists, established rna sters and recognized leaders in chairman of the VECAA Education Committee. Joining the art, are showing their works in the exhibition which them this past year was Dr. Charles Warren, biology will be on view at the Academy until February 29. professor at Southwestern, who spent his sabbatical do­ Also on February 6, an exhibition of works by facul­ ing research at St. Jude. ty members of the Memphis Academy ofArts will open at Health Agencies the Brooks Art Gallery. This exhibition is the eleventh Working in health care at a different level are thos·e biennial show by Academy instructors a t Brooks Gallery. em p 1 o y e d by government organizations and voluntary health agencies. Within this group the neighborhood Have a Heart can claim Irving Metz, Director of Voluntary Health A­ gencies fcir the Mid-South Medical Center Councif and February is Heart Month and Mrs. Charles Sullivan Mose Pleasure, Jr. and Lecie Elmore, both of the Health (276-5115) is helping the Memphis Heart Association in and Welfare Planning Council. Mr . Pleasure of 1093 N. a most unusual way. The garage of her home at 2104 Evergreen is director for c ommunity relations and Miss University Circle has been converted into a shop called Elmore of the University Cabanas is a research assis­ "Queen's Court" which will be used to sell donated tant. One other agency, the Memphis Regional Medical items for the benefit of heart research and education . Program, can call six neighborhood residents its own. The shop will be open the month of February from 10 a.m. These include Dr. Lewis N. Am is (medical economist) , to 2 p . m., Monday through Saturday. Kathryn Taylor (medical social worker), Margaret Martin (secretary), Jackie Jernigan (nurse specialist), Mrs. VECAA News Albert McLean (chairman of Smoking and Health Com­ mittee) and this reporter, who is a medical sociologist. Several tasks that will require attention in the com­ In addition, the director of the National As sociation for ing weeks confront the Real Estate Committee as a new the Blind in Memphis is· J. T. Headden of 15 94 Galloway . year begins . This is only a partial list of those V/ E r e s ide n t s The brochure that was designed last summer, promo­ serving in the field of health. There are many others, ting the neighborhood as a "nice place to live", will be among them numerous medical and dental students who made a vailable for distribution in the very near future. live in the Cabanas. It is indeed no exaggeration when The need for a Real Estate Referral Service grows . we claim to have a doctor in the house. Recently, as many as nine prospective buyers and ren­ ters contacted VECAA members for help in locating hous­ ing in the neighborhood. The committee has rendered February Happenings assistance when possible and .will continue to do so. 6-----Missionary talk at Open Door Bible Church by Jack However, it is hoped licensed active real estate brokers Largent, an administrator with the Overseas Missions a spiring to VECAA' s goals and purposes can be recruited Fellowship during the morning service. to handle this service in a professional manner, under ?-----Evergreen Men of the Church to meet for dinner at our complete endorsement and receive normal compen­ 6:15. The guest speaker will be MayorWyeth"Chandler. sations. Reservations are required. The continued cooperation of a 11 of the community

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Disperse the evening's dews and damp, Roll back the night from round my camp . Modeane Thompson believes she has lived a "pretty ordinary" life . Born and raised in North Memphis, she Leap, flame, leap! married an insurance executive and gave birth to five Be gone black forms before I sleep! children; for six years, t he family lived in Montgomery, Alabama; in Ei 64, they returned to Memphis and bought Like our Indian men are prancing their p!'esent home at 193 6 Edward . The oldest child , Like the fire - shapes they are dancing. Andrea, is a freshman at Fontbonne College in St. Louis; Anthony, Allison and Alicia go to Catholic High; and Warm , flame , warm. Arnold, the youngest, attends Little Flower School. Foment the fear , prevent my harm. Husband Harry A., also a native North Memphian, is now a supervisor with Universal Life Insurance Co. and Your brother Sun , who makes the day, a member of the Little Flower school board. Comes now to the woods wherein I lay. Mrs. Thompson's life, of course, has been far from ordinary. In addition to raising a handsome family, she Sing, flame, sing! took a grea t interest in what was happening outside the Was it I who made this thing? confines of her home, and now, with her children in the teens, is taking an active hand in community affairs. Welcome She is a member of the board of Fa mily Service. She also works for this agency as a part-time field worker, In August CHARLES and JO NOYES moved from Little at present assisting with adjustment problems in the Rock to the duplex at 1838 Brown. Mr . Noyes is em­ Kansas Street urban renewal project. She is a member ployed by Film Transit. They have one daughter, Charli. of the Panel of American Women, a national interracial PERRY and BOBBIE BLANKLEY recently moved to 8 72 and interreligious organization that holds panel discus­ N. Barksdale. Mr. Blankley was transferred here from sions -- by invitation -- on prejudice in our soci ety. Knoxville by Levi Strauss and Co. and will be working In the municipal elections last falL Mrs. Thompson in the Automation Department. Their son Bob is a senior actively supported Walter Bailey and George Brown, as at Tech High. she supports all community causes she believes in. She Meet Your legislators is one of the few blacks active in the Vollintine/Ever­ green Community Action Association, where she serves The 1972 session of the Tennessee General Assembly on the Steering Committee. When VECAA takes an ap­ opens this month in Nashville. Many vital issues will parently controversial stand, it is Modeane Thompson be decided by this body. The V/E neighborhood is re ­ many black residents call on for an explanation. presented by Russell X. Thompson in the House and by Her c laim to fame , however, Modeane insists, is Edgar H. Gillock (precincts 40-2, 41-2, 52 -1) and Wil­ not her work in the community but in the kitchen. Mr. liam R. Bruce (precincts 36-l, 36-2, 36-3)inthe Senate . Thompson, who travels extensively, is reluctant to call Representative Thompson is an attorney who lives his wife a gourmet cook. He concedes , though, that in the V/E neighborhood in the Woodmont Towers· His her "soul food" and dishes such as lobster thermidor, office is Suite 1003, 1st American Bank Building (525- canard al'orange and especially herblackbeansin wine 1732). Senator Gillock's office is Suite 1904,100 North sauce top anything he has eaten anywhere. Main (525-65ll) and Senator Bruce's office is suite 1921, On the other hand, I suspect , more than the praise 100 North Main (526- 5961). of her cooking, Modeane treasures a citation for "active Give these elected representatives the benefit of community interest", given to her recently by the Uni­ your opinion on the issues by writing them at their ad­ versity Lane Improvement Club. The members of this dresses here or in care of the State Capitol Building, club live on Modeane' s street, and they ought to know. Nashv ille, Tennessee e BORG PHARMACY e - ..... STAFF: editors: john bruhwiler, george .~w PICK UP YOUR FREE -.re bradfute , rick thomas/copy: nancy FILL YOUR lowe, golden shumaket;/cover picture: ~ REXALL ~ lawrence anthony;1:yping: cathe barnes, WITH judy johnson, sallee bruhwiler/busi­ ~ COUPON BOOK ~ ness: tom hines/circulation: cornelia LOVELINESS morri~printing: wayne bean, courtesy southwestern at memphis. ~ 35 COUPONS U~ z BEAUTY Address correspondence to George Bradfute, 5 13 Stonewall, Memphis , ~ ~ Tenn. 381 12. ~ SAVINGS UP TO $29.05 (") 1\J THROUGH FEBRUARY 29 0 Classified Ads - 50¢ - call272-2668. ~ t::: e BORG PHARMACY e ************