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By C . J, Zecha The blessing and dedication of the new $8,500,000 Penrose Hospital, Colorado Springs, on Tuesday. Sept. 15, by Archbishop Urban J. Vehr climaxes more than 67 years of works of mercy and charity performed in Colorado Springs by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati at the hospital. The beautiful hospital, which is one of the largest single Catholic building projeeta in the history of the state, is dignified in its design and embraces simplicity. It is situated at the north end of the city and faces Cascade Ave nue. in the 2200 Mock, between Madison and Jackson Streets. Formerly known is the Glockner Penrose Hospital, it has been staffed by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati since April 1, 1892. The new hospital replaces an older structure, part of which is the original tuberculosis sanatorium founded in 1889 as a private institution without any religious affiliation by Marie Wynne Utockner Crotty, who launched the InstituUon at the request of her husband, Albert Glockner, who died of tuber culosis as a young man. 12‘Story, 325~Bed Instilufion The addition of the name Penrose was made in 1947 as a tribute to the beneficence of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Penrose, founders of the El Pomar Foundation. The new structure, known simply as Penrose Hospital, is a 12-story, 325-bed institution. (A penthouse seclion occupies what would be a 13lh floor.) It was designed by Fisher, Fisher, and Davis of Denver. Lembke. Clough & King of Albuquerque, N. Mex., and Colorado Springs were the construction con tractors. The cost of more than ^,500,000 includes construction and complete furnishings. The ultra-modern building embraces completeness and flexibility, and has been constructed to provide the most mod ern scientific advances in medical and nursing facilities. The new hospital has a dark red brick base, white stone facing, aluminum windows, and horizontal brick spandrels between floors. It harmonizes with the existing Cancer Pavilion, formerly known as the Penrose Cancer Clinic, and the Margery Reed Memorial Nurses' Home, which adjoin it. The painting of the rooms on individual floors has been given precise care with colors emphasizing a tight and “cheerful look." Mouittoxns Provide Bacirground Pike’s Peak and a mountain range provide a thrilling back ground for the hospital. The Corpus Christi Parish plant, on the opposite side of Cascade Avenue, adds to the beauty of the area. Entering the front doors of the Penrose Hospital through an impressive archway, one is immediately struck by the beauty of the foyer abd main lobby. The traditional "Institution look" cannot be found at Penrose. The only so-called decorations in the entire hospital are found in the main lobby. They are the striking liturgical screens, hand made by Edgar Britton of Colorado Springs, who also' b responsible for the beautiful crucifix that adorns an outside wall of the hospital. They are Beiutlful crucifix dominates southwest facade of Penrose Hospital. called the “faith and hope” screens, showing the outstanding implements of the Passion of Christ. "Faith" signifies the faith of the patient when he enters the hospital and “hope" expresses the hope of recovery. Two pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Penrose’ in the lobby are the only wall decorations in the hospital. Besides the lobby, the first floor of the new building in cludes reception desk, gift shop, public waiting rooms, admission offices, four interviewing rooms, complete administrative and business offices, private office of Sister Cyril, administrator of the hospital; the medical staff room, dietary unit, emergency room, cafeteria, a complete kitchen, and the education wing (with rooms for resident doctors extending to the second floor —four apartments for married doctors and 11 single unit doctw rooms); a library and a reading room. This last section for the doctors occupies the south wing. Complete Out-Potient rociiities Below the first floor, on the ground level, are complete out patient facilities (neurological division, dental clinic, eye, ear, nose and throat section), examining rooms, a pharmacy, physio therapy and hydrotherapy departments, a chest-unit X-ray, and a minimal laboratory setup: also, sisters' dining room, chap lain’s dining room, and chaplain's quarters. A swit^board. on the ground level, services the entire hos pital. and from the board doctors can be signalled by what is known as the “silent system" a special signal light unit, as well as by a "call" or audio unit A sub-basement, below the ground level, includes lockera for 400 persons. All direct patient services are gathered together and well related, one to the other, on the second floor. From this floor all patient areas are served. A complete central service unit lakes care of the whole hospital, including rooms for surgery, laboratories, diagnostic X-ray and operating rooms, labor and delivery rooms, including central sterilizing, and laboratory pathology service. Most Modern Equipment Some of the latest and most modern equipment can be found on the second floor, including an Ultrasonic Instrument Lounge, Nurses' Home, Penrose Hospital. (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) PAGE FOUR— Section Two THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER Thursday, Sept. 10, 1959 RITES, OPEN HOUSE TO MARK HOSPITAL DEDICATION The beautiful new Penrose liam J. Kelly of St. Mary's guests at the dedication will from 6 to 9 p.m. Sisters of Providence, Ot Hospital in Colorado Springs, Parish, master of ceremonies. be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Honored guests who will at tumwa, la.; Mother General tend the dedication ceremony built at a total cost of more Clergy, nuns, and members A "family day” for the em Mary, Mt. St. Vincent-on-lhe of institutions throughout include council officers of than $8,500,000. will be dedi ployes and those connected Hudson, New ‘ York; Sister the Colorado and Wyoming with the hospital will be held the Sisters of Charity of Cin Loretto Bernard, St. Vin cated Tuesday. Sept. 15, at area will attend. Dignitaries on Wednesday, Sept. 16. cinnati: Mother General cent's Hospital, New York 5 p.m. . from other states also will be with open house from 9 to Mary Omer, Sister Frances City; Sister Edward Mary, St. Archbishop Urban J. Vehr present. 11 a.m., 2 to 4 p.m., and 7 to Maria, Sister Agnes Therese, Vincent's Hospital, Staten Is of Denver will dedicate the The Saturday before the 9 p.m. Sister Rosahta, Sister .Mary land, N.Y.; also Mother Mary hospital and be the celebrant dedication. Sept. 12, a spe On Thursday' and Friday. Janet, and Sister Elise. Regina, Mother Mary Romana, at outdoor Benediction. The cial day for religious of the Sept. 17 and 18, open house Sisters invited from the Sister Mary Anselm, Sister Rev. Robert Nevans, Penrose area will be held, beginning for the general public will be East who will attend include Marie Charles, and Sister Ma Hospital rhaplain, will be with a luncheon at 11:30 held from 2 to 5 p.m. and the Iklother General of the ria Corona. deacon: the Rev. Anthony a.m. followed by a tour of EIzi, pastor of Corpus Chrisii the hospital from 1 to 5 p.m. Parish, subdeacon; and the On the, dedication day. Very Rev. Monsignor Wil Sept. 15, a lour for the
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STORY o r FIWflKCIAL HARDSHIP, INNOVATION, AND EXPANSION New Hospital Replaces 70-Year-Old Structure^ Established as Memorial to Albert Glockner By ROBEAT SiBVERS 70-year-oId building it has over pacity) tuberculosis sanatorium After leaving Colorado making a more functional hos Seventy years at Madison Ave shadowed for the past year. established in 1889 by Mrs. Springs Mrs. Crotty never re pital. nue and Cascade Street in Colo This older structure is sched Marie Gwynne Glockner Crotty visited the institution that she Sister Mary Regina, who suc rado Springs is tbe span of one uled to be razed to increase the as a memorial to her husband, started because of the unpleas ceeded Sister Mary in August, hospit^. The life of another is capacity of the present parking Albert Glockner of Pittsburgh, ant memories associated with 1925, guided the destinies of the beginning. facilities and to permit the com Pa., who had come West some the untimely death of her first sanatorium until 1928, when she When the new $8,500,000 Pen pletion of landscaping work. years earlier in quest of health husband. Still friendly with the was elected to the house council rose Hospital is placed in serv The magnificent beginnings and whose death occurred In Sisters of Charity, however, she of the mother-house. She was ice in mid-September, the 12- of the newer institution set in Colorado Spring. occasionally corresponds with the mother general of tbe com story structure will replace a bold relief the tiny (25-bed ca Mrs. Glockner and her hus them and receives nuns from munity when the hospital ob band both came from wealthy Colorado Springs when they served its SOth jubilee. families. When she established visit Columbus. From 1928 until 1933 the su the sanatorium, she requested Financial perior was Sister Henrietta W e Are Pleased to Take This Opp9rtunity that it be for the treatment of Marie. In 1933 Sister Mary was persons of moderate means. Sis Problems assigned the office for a sec To Extend Our Warmest Congratulations ter Cyril, present administrator The Sisters from the Cincin ond time, and was in charge un of the hospital, says that when nati religious rommunily took til her death .in Aug^t, 1938. To the Sisters of Charity on the Occasion Mr. Glockner asked his wife to charge of the sanatorium on The next superior, Sister Ann found the institution he felt April 1,1893. Sister BasiRa, the Hermine, was present for a his Of the Dedication of Penrose Hospital. that the rich were adequately first superior, and her suc torical landmark—the golden taken care of. the poor were eli cessors soon found that the care jubUee. gible for treatment In charit of the plant was not an easy In 50 years, under eight su able institutions, but the middle task financially. Sister Fidelia periors, the sanatorium cared class was left without a sana replaced Sister Basilia in 1895, for 43,000 patients and dis torium where they could be and she, in turn, was relieved pensed nearly $1,000,000 in COLORADO SPRINGS’ OLDEST treated at low cost. by Sister Ann Xavier lo 1897. free service—quite approach Tbe low rates charged by the Faced with a debt of $12,(XX), ing the dream of the founder! Glockner Sanatorium, however, the sisters decided to sell the To mark this passage of time The LOWELL-MESERVEY were inadequate to meet ex institution. Sister Rose Alexius and service the then Bishop Ur penses. Mrs. Glockner realizing was sent to the sanatorium as ban J. Vehr celebrated a Sol HARDWARE CO. that it could be operated more superior to complete the sale. emn Pontifical Mass in St. economically by an unpaid re Meeting vigorous protests from Mary’s Church, Colorado ligious congregation asked Bishop Nicholas C. Matz of Den Springs, on Sept. 24. a Sunday. RETAIL - WHOLESALE Bishop Nicholas C. Mats of Den ver, however, the sisters did not The Mass also featured the ver to ask the Sisters of Charity sell. graduation of 19 nurses .from of Cincinnati to take over the Sister Rose remained as the tbe Seton school of nursing. A 230 So. Sierra Madre ME. 5-2597 institution. superior and was largely re dinner followed for 20 clergy About the same time—four sponsible for the progress and and 80 sisters. A public recep At W. Vermijo years after the death of Mr. financial ability attained by the tion was held in the sanatorium Glockner—Mrs. Glockner mar hospital in its early days. She that afternoon. ried Dr. Andre Crotty, a promi accomplished seemingly impos Colorado Springs nent thyroid- surgeon. The* sible feats at great sacrifice and Penrose couple settled in Columbus, O., against great odds. In 1919 she Institute Colorado where Dr. Crotty died the past turned over her duties to Sister The occasion was more sig year. The 95-year-old founder Mary, whose splendid admini nificant in that it followed the is still a resident of the city. strative ability aided greatly in (TurntoPope 7 — Columns^ 'O
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DENVER. COLORADO 'BUY IT IN THIS MARKET" ^Thursday, Sept. 10, 1959 THE OENYfR OATHQUC EEGISTER Section Tt»o— PAGE^EVEN New Penrose Hospital Replaces 70-Year-Old Structure (Continued From Page 6) ily of Cincinnati and a former dent of St. Thomas' Seminary, announcement of the proposed superior of the sanatorium: and Denver, deacons of honor; the Dedication on Sept. 15 building of the Penrose Tumor Sbter Maria Corona, dean of Rev. Joseph Higgins, pastor of ^Continued From Page 3) Institute. Known also as the the College of Mt. St. Joseph-on- St. Patrick’s. Pueblo, deacon of Penrose Pavilion and the Pen Ihe-Obio, near Cincinnati. the Mass; the Rev. George P- Cleaner, the latest device in the cleaning of surgical instru rose Cancer Hospital in early Flanagan, M.M., chaplain of ments: the X-Omat. an automatic X-ray film processor that com Priesto who assisted at that news releases, the institution hbtoric Mass were these: The Glockner. subdeacon: and the pletely processes in six minutes (an operation that formerly was to be heavily endowed, with Very Rev. William Kipp, pastor Rev. William Kelly of St. required 75 minutes); and the Sebonander Rapid Film Changer, rumor placing the figure be of St. Mary’s. assbUnt priest: Mary's and the Rev. Bernard which makes possible the taking of six X-ray exposures per tween $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. the Very Rev. Robert M Kelly. Cullen. AssUtant Chancellor of second. Among the guests were S.J.. president of Regis College, Ihe Denver Diocese, masters of The third floor, called the “post-portum section," is to be Mother Regina Russell, mother Denver, and Ihe Very Rev. ceremonies. used by women after delivery. Approximately 40 maternity general of the Sbters of Char Thomas D. Coyne. C.M.. presi (Turn to Page 9 — Column 1) beds and 40 bassinets will be in operation at the opening of the hospital. With this service, the sisters of the hospital * A- feel that a quota of 40 beds justifies the desirable matter of separating (he delivery service team from the new-born and mother nursing service. Attention is here called to the splitting of the full term infant's nurseries. The proximity of the babies to the mothers is noteworthy. Too, a formula preparation service is included. Ampl^ nursing facilities are abo included on the thitd floor. Modern Pediatrics Section I The modem, fully equipped pediatrics section is on the fourth floor. Special provbions here have been made for ambula tory patienb in both the playroom and dining areas. The fifth floor of Penrose Hospital, dedicated to the mem ory of Albert Glockner, b devoted to the nursing of tubercu losis cases exclusively, and has 80 beds. The special activities’ room (for occupational therapy) can be used for dining, tele- Tuion. and other activity for the arrested and recuperating cases. Especially noteworthy on this floor b the decentralized dish- washing-disb-steriliring unit, which means that dbhes will not leave this floor to intermingle with the other hospital dishes in central dishwashing. We Are Privileged and Proud Floors six through 11 are provbions for general acute medical and surgical beds (sixth, seventh, and eighth lloors are T o Have Supplied the for surgical patients' rooms and the ninth, 10th, and llth floors are for medical patienb' rooms). Complete China, Glass and The 12th floor U constructed for use in the final steps in the Progressive Care Program. Included are private rooms complete with lavatory faciUties, dining area, and a lounge with Silver Services. fireplace. An outstanding feature on this floor is the balcony and promenade that runs the length of the front section of the hospital. The hospital U introducing a unique Progressive Care Program, which follows four phases: (a) Intensive therapy; (b) (Turn to Page 20, Col. 4)
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The school op credited by the league in April the United Slates, Sister Cyril, Sister Cyril then entered erating in connection with the To Improve of the Sisters of Charity of Cin training at the Good Samari three hospitals—Glockner-Pen- School cinnati, administrator of the tan Hospital School of Nursing rose in Colorado Springs, Mt. During the 40s the hard work Penrose Hospital, Colorado in Cincinnati. Remaining at San Rafael in Trinidad, and St. ing director strived to improve Springs, has had a truly re Good Samaritan Hospital Sister Mary's in Pueblo—was organized and expand the Seton school markable career. Cyril gained valuable experience as an autonomous institution and to better the position of Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. in many of the various branches free from hospital control. nursing in general throu^out Mahrt of Oakwood, 0., Sister of nursing and rose to become In 1934 Sister Cyril was ap the nation; She served as a Cyril attended Mt. St. Joseph director of the nursing school member of the board of direc College in Cincinnati and the pointed a member of the Colo and superintendent of nurses. rado State Board of Nurse Ex tors of the Colorado State Cincinnati College of Pharmacy. The school is one of the larg aminers and a year later became Nurses’ Association. An affilia She then tok additional work est in the nation. in hospital and school manage president of the board. tion was arranged with Loretto Named Heights College and the nursing ment at Columbia University, The National League of N\trs- program at the Seton School. New York. Director ing Education chose the Seton Sister Cyril continued her Returning from Columbia Sis Arriving in Colorado in late school of nursing as one of the 1931 with the school nursing work for the National Catho ter Cyril felt called to the re 51.nursing schools in the United lic Charities Assn., and gave Do-Jf'Y’ourself'Sf^le . . • her services as a member of the board of the Conference of Catholic Schools of Nursing. By October of 1950, Sister Cyril had Served for 15 years as a member of the Colorado Board of Nurse Examiners and had served as presid«nt of that Sister Cyril board for 14 of the 15 years. of 1940. A statement regarding And before the month of Oc this distinction said: “Since tober, 1950, had ended Sister 1932 the Seton school, with Siis- Cyril was chosen by Mother ter Cyril as director, has given General Mary Zoe of the Sis its student nurses the advantage ters of Charity of Cincinnati as of study and clinical experi supervisor of all hospitals and ence in three institutions, whose nursing schools of the entire work is widely varied. In the community. At that time there past year (1939-1940) experi were some 1,300 members of ence has been broadened to in the Sisters of Charity. Their clude an affiliation at the Colo work encompasses general edu rado Psychopathic Hospital and cation, collegiate education, or the Ave Maria Clinic, both in phanage operation, and social Denver.” service, as well as the manage ment of hospitals and nursing So impressed was the Na schools. Sister Cyril's new posi tional League of Nursing Edu tion placed her as administra cation with the job Sister Cyril tive supervisor of six nursing has done, and was doing as re schools and 10 hospitals, located vealed by its investigation, that in Michigan, Ohio. New Mexico, they elected the nun to a po and Colorado. The schools in sition on its six-member national cluded two collegiate schools, accrediting board. The energetic which Sister Cyril had origin little director was the only re ally organized, and four hospi ligious serving with the group. tal schools, two of which she The league is similar in opera organized and two to which she tion to the various school ac gave advice and assistance dur crediting agencies. Its purpose ing their organization. is to provide high standards Self-care unit, 12th floor, Penrose Hospital, View from balcony shows In 1951 Sister Cyril was ap of nursing education in all the pointed administrator of Good Cheyenne Mountain in background. hospitals throughout the coun Samaritan Hospital in Dayton, try. Characteristically, immedi 0. She served in that capacity ately after accepting the ap for six years and during that pointment Sister Cyril made a period became a member of the twOTOOntb field trip surveying national Governing Board of the schools of nursing ail through Sisters of Charity. In 1957 Sis the U.S. ter Cyril was named adminis It was during this period of trator of the Glockner Penrose her career that Sister Cyril was Hospital. The new modem struc named by the National Confer ture brings to fruition a dream ence of Catholic Charities as that this exceptional sister has chairman of its health commit long cherished and labored to tee. 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^Continued From Page 7) rado Springs’ multi-millionaire. tial basement. It. loo (like the operating a fracture decoration of the building util On April 20. 1041, Bishop Equipped, the unit cost $300,000. nurses' home), is of red pressed room, and rooms. izes a combination of colors, Vchr dedicated the $250,000 The new “operating unit” was brick set off by while trim. The Also on this floor will be the which results in its being more nurses’ home, a gift of Mrs. built on the site of the old main entrance is on the west, physiotherapy, the superficial attractive than is usual in a Vemer Z. Reed of Denver in nurses' home, razed in 1940, with the ambulance entrance therapy, and the deep therapy structure of this kind. and the elevator on the east. memory of her daughter, Marg and connected to the main hos rooms, the last of which will be In the basement are storage ery Reed Mayo. The completely pital building. The following de The large waiting room is equipped by a large specially rooms and rooms for the filing furnished home cost about $400, scription of the addition was dominated by a portrait of Mr. built machine bought for the or of records and films. 000. Also completed and dedi made in 1941. Repeatedly, it is Penrose and a Chinese painted iginally planned clinic. Lead This cancer treatment divi cated at this time was a new referred to as an operating screen, the gift of Mrs. Penrose, sheeting in the walls and ceil "operating unit," erected at a building, although today its can both of which are set into the sion, founded in 1940, was or ings will give special protection iginally called the Penrose Tu cost of $134,000. This project cer activities are emphasized. wall. On the first floor will be to all rooms. was a gift of the El Pomar Harmonmng in color with the an office for the doctors, rooms mor Clinic, the Penrose Cancer The waiting rooms have spe Hospital, and the Penrose Pa foundation, established by the main hospital building, it is for radium treatments, a com cial acoustical treatment in the late Spencer Penrose, Colo two stories high and has a par plete X-ray unit, an emergency vilion. It is now commonly ceilings and terrazzo floors. In called the Penrose Cancer laid linoleum is used in the Clinic. In 1945 the El Pomar other rooms. Foundation made a gift of $200,- On the second floor are four 000 for an addition to the pa operating rooms having tile vilion. floors and walls and provided with (he most modern lighting Cobalt Unit equipment. The floors are spec Dedicated ially grounded to prevent static The foundation has made nu electricity. Equipment rooms, a merous donations of equipment laboratory, washrooms, a doc to the cancer clinic, among tors' lounge, a nurses' lounge, them a teletherapy cobalt unit and rest rooms complete the worth $75,000. Archbishop Vehr second floor. dedicated the dnit May 31,1955, All the case work and cabi and on June 1 of that year the nets are built in the walls, and Atomic Energy Commission every known device was used to men of Oak Ridge, Tenn., insure cleanliness. The interior (Turn to Page 10 — Column
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(Continued From Page 9) Hundreds who were treated “prepared parents” course was paign was announced with a Ackerman was treasurer. The placed radioactive cobalt io the soon found relief from the symp so successful that the U. S. goal of $5,394,620 to finance the largest single donation from a unit. The clinic is a division of toms of the disease: Headache, Army and other branches of the erection of a modern fireproof ^irm in the Pikes Peak region the Penrose Hospital and is not distress from light, fatigue, nau service sent officers from time building to replace the inade i|ame through W. E. Mueller, « separate institution. sea, dizziness, etc. to time to Colorado Springs to quate hospital. Being replaced 'resident of the Colorado Inter- The institution bad gradually A new pediatrics ward in- (he study the plan and, in particu is the old hospital building, part tale Gas Company. The sum become a general hospital hospital was another of the pro lar. the method used in inter of which is 70 years old. Also as $37,500. Another outstand: ralh^ than a tuberculosis sana jects made possible by the El esting future fathers in the located on the two-block site :g gift was the $237,100 from torium, though it continued io Pomar Foundation. It was es course. Special diplomas were area are other modern build Ke Donner Foundation. The lat tablished in 1947 in memory of awarded to graduates of the ings that will remain. These in ter organization made the gift be known as the Glockner Sana clude the Penrose Cancer Clinic, torium uhtii the 1940s. Mrs. Penrose's son by her first course, including some grand i!n memory of William H. Don- marriage. Jimmy McMillan, who mothers who were dispelling the Margery Reed Nursing her, founder of the foundation. In 1947,'in recognition of the died in 1902 at the age of nine. the idea that the older genera Home, and the power plant. many large -gifts made to the Mrs. Penrose's first husband tion scorns present-day methods On Oct. I one of the larg hospital by the late Spencer The announcement was made est lump sum gifts in the his died several years before her of infant care and holds to the jointly by Robert Le Grange, Penrose and hk wife. Julie, the marriage to Spencer Penrose in tory of the U. S. “skyrocketed theory that "grandma knows president of, the Glockner-Pen- the campaign over the top," name was changed to the Glock- 1906. best.” The Sisters of Charity in ner-Penrose HospKal. rose advisory board, and Sister when Mrs. Penrose announced Parents-to-Be conducting these courses empha Marie Charles, administrator of the contribution of an impos An eye institute, an anisei size that they are a comrounit; the hospital. Kenneth R. Card, konia clinic, was established in Offered Course ing $3,200,000 by the El Po service and there is no obliga former city manager of Colo mar Foundation. 1941. Then, it was the only one A public service feature that tion to the hospital. rado Springs, was to serve as of its kind between Kansas City attracted wide attention was in Sister Cyril estimates that troduced at the Glockner-Pen- general chairman of the cam and the Pacific coast and one Fund Drive paign committee. gifts from the foundation to the of the few in the U. S. The rose Hospital In July. 1952. The Launched hospital totaled at least $2,000.- clinic was to treat eye disorder program was a course for fa As preparations for the drive 000 up to 1055, when the new resulting from unequal vision. thers and roothers-to-be. The In June of 1955 a fund cam- progressed, it was pointed out gift was announced. More than that 80 per cent of the patients $600,000 was given in the fam- To Heal the Sick . . . are non-Catholic. Aug. 16 was paign. The total—about $4,000.- scheduled for the opening date 000—made it necessary for the of the drive. More than 400 Sisters of Charity to borrow in the women's organization alone volunteered to assist in money to pay for the entire pro what was the greatest public ject. For between the time the campaign was completed and solicitations organization ever contracts were let there was an assembled in El Paso County. increase of $2,000,000 in con James D. Russell was the associ struction, labor, and material ate chairman, and division lead ers included Hugh F. Gray, costs. George D. Hutchinson. Henry Bids on the project . were E. Heyser, Dr. Carl S. Gydesen, opened Oct. 31. 1956. The gen- and Mrs. I. B. Bruce. Jasper D. fTum to Page 25. Column 5)
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CROWN JEWEL OF GENEROSITIES Single, Unprecedented Donation Largest Ever Made in the Nation
By R o b e r t R a m s e y campaign to raise money for golden era of the boom days of With the dedication of the the now S5,394,620 building. 1891 that form the heart and new Penrose Hospital in Colo Mrs. Penrose pledged to match history of Colorado. rado Springs Tuesday. Sept. 15, dollar for dollar the Tirst $1,500- the crown jewel in a coronet of 000 raised by the public in the Nicknamed generosities of the late Mr. and drive. Later, shortly before her •Spec' Mrs Spencer Penrose will be death in January. 1056. Mrs. Spencer Penrose, his close realized. Penrose gave $3,200,000 to the associates called him “Spec," Of the many institutions campaign in what is believed to came to the Centennial State in throughout the state of Colo be the largest single contribu the late 80s. Four years prior rado that benefitted from the tion of its kind ever made in to that he was graduated from Penrose reser\'oir of financial the nation. Harv'ard University with a de donations, none can equal that It could be truthfully said of gree in mining engineering. which >vas given to the Penrose Spencer Penrose that he bought He opened a real estate office Hospital. a mountain and built an empire. in Colorado Springs with an u- In the initial stages of the He was a part of that fabulous sociate. Charles L. Tutt. When Bob Womack discovered gold in Poverty Gult^ at Cripple Creek in 1891. the two men expanded their real estate business to that territory. They were not opposed to the idea of indulging in a little pros pecting themselves, and so they purchased the C.O.D.—Cash on Delivery — claim that was judged "worthless” by their more expert prospector friends- Much to everyone's astonish ment. a few years later Penrose and Tutt sold the "worthless" claim for $300,000. From this'point on. Spencer the swashbuckling figure recog nized as fearing no one and able to cope with any, began to amass the fortune, which, at hb death, was unofficially esti mated at $16,000,000. In 1894 "Spec” and Tutt and Spencer Penrose two other men went into the smelting business and soon con trolled nearly all the fills of ...... (he area. From the smelting venture they invested in copper Sincere Best Wishes ...... " mines and from copper to gold. When he was 41 years old in T o -..X 1906. Penrose married Mrs. Julie Villiers McMillan of De The Sisters of Charity troit in London, England. Mrs. Penrose had previously been Serving married to James H. McMillan, son of a Michigan senator. Two PENROSE HOSPITAL children were born of the union, James McMillan, who died as a child, and Gladys, who became the Countess Cornet de Ways ^I Denver Oxygen Co. I ^ Ruart of Brussels, Belgium. Mr. McMillan died in 1902. ^ 210 W. Vermijo Ave. Colorado Springs, Colo. ^ In 1918 Spencer Penrose built the Broadmoor Hotel, a 250- room building of Italian Ren aissance architecture that con tained every comfort and luxury known in the business. This was the center, the mecca of the Penrose empire chat spread out WE WELCOME THE OPPORTUNITY over 3,000 acres southeast of Colorado Springs. Later It was TO EXTEND OUR Mrs. Spencer Penrose (Turn to Page 13 — Column i ) CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SISTERS OF CHARITY ROBINSON GRAIN CO. COLORADO SPRINGS 218 W Colofodo ME 2-3551
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^ p k a l patient’s room (doublei. in ihe new Penrose Hospital, on the ei|h(b floor. | , , , ...... I Thursday, Sept. 10, 1959 THE DEN VCR CA1HOLIC REOISTEK Action lw»— PAGE THIRTEEN The Contributions of the Penroses to the Church Seemed Endless (Continued From Pag* 1$) Mrs. Penrose as “a loyal and the El Pomar Foundation. Three in the six beneficiaries of that cer Penrose whose generous re to include i golf course, like, staunch wife, mother, and friend Catholic groups, Glockner-Pen investment. membrances will be forever en ice palace, polo field, and resi to many persons In all walks of rose Hospital, the Sisters of And so with the dedication of shrined in the history of the dential area. life. Her charm and humble Charity of Cincinnati, and the the new Penrose Hospital an state they both loved: so dearly, ness. coupled with unselfishness Pauline Chapel at Broadmoor, other milestone wUI be reached and in the hearts of those who Attracted marked her as a truly great and were designated to be included by the late Mr. and Mrs. Spen perpetuate their memory. Tourists remarkable woman.” It was said of Penrose that Mrs. Penrose was a convert he di(^more than any other man to the Catholic Church and it to make the area the tourist at was said that her faith was "ob traction it is today. He built an viously the most precious thing automobile highway to the top in her life.” Spencer Penrose of Pikes Peak and he bought was not a Catholic. Cheyenne Mountain and devel Mrs. Penrose's contributions oped on its slope the largest to the Church were endless. private zoo in the world. Among the more outstanding 'Will Rogers ntas a close were the Pauline Chapel in friend of Penrose. Before the the Broadmoor area, the $250,- famed humorist died Spencer 000 Pauline Memorial School began a shrine in bis honor on erected in the same locality, the Cheyenne Mountain. The cost deeding of her mansion home, of this huge undertaking was El Pomar, to the Sisters of never revealed. Both Mr. and Charity to be used for a retreat Mrs. Penrose are buried in home for women, the $250,000 crypts located at the base of the Penrose Cancer Clinic, recog shrine. nized as one of the finest in Spencer Penrose never found the world, that is a part of it difficult to execute the role Glockner-Penrose Hospital, and of a benefactor. Although his a $300,000 donation to St. Mary's life was filled with big business, Parish in Colorado Springs that world travel, and personal re provided the parish with a new sponsibilities, he was never too grade school, auditorium-gym, busy to think of the other fel and the means to have the high low. He established the El school renovated. And there Pomar Foundation for “such re were many other gifts. Other ligious. charitable, scientific or than her donationa to the Glock educational uses as will most ef ner-Penrose Hospital, her do fectively assist, encourage, and nations to the Church in the promote the general wellbeing Colorado Spring area amounted of mankind within the limits of to about $650,000. the stste of Colorado. The colorful career of “Spec" Her generosity did not go un Penrose drew to a close on Dec. heeded for in December, 1942, 7. 1930, when the empire build she was presented the Papal I er died a victim of throat can cross Pro Ecclesio el Ponti/ice cer. His beloved wife, Julie, be and seven years later she re came head of the El Pomar ceived the Bishop Joseph P. Founda.ion, and continued the Machebeuf Medal award^ for tradition her husband had be her outstanding service to the gun to financially assist higher Church in the West. education and medical research Even in death Mrs. Penrose in the state of Colorado. continued the generosity that was as much a part of her life Religion as breathing, for her last will Precious and testament directed that A reporter once described more than $6,000,000 be left to
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21 S. Nevada Ave. ME 5-3585 Colorado Springs PAGE FOURTEEN— Section Two THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER Thurtdoy, Sept. 10, 1959 ST. MARY-CORWIN HOSPITAL BLESSED IN 1957 Another gigantic new hospital blessed the new St. Mary-Corwln ^ction of the hospital on July as high as $7,000,000. and a pneumatic tube system facility conducted in Colorado Hospital Saturday, June 8, 1857. 3, 1957. The coat of the new Opened in 1881 for messages between depart by the Sisters of Charity of Archbishop Urban J. Vehr structure, which wu erected ments. Cincinnati is the St. Hary Cor- presided and Bishop Wiliging above and around the old build The hospital was first opened in 1881 by the Colorado Fuel The old St. Mary's Hospital win Hckspital in Pueblo. gave the address. ings while the old parts were structure wu put up for sale. Bishop Joseph C. WlUging Patients began using the new still being used, has Imn placed and Iron Corporation in a six- room frame bouse and Dr. Richard W. Corwin became its first administrator. The following year a newer Delegate Tells 30-bed hospital, known as ‘‘Casa Verde," was built. Additional construction fol lowed in 1890, 1895, 1897, and Of 1st Hospital 1901, when the bed capacity Hospitals arc of Christian ori became 95. A school of nursing gin, Cardinal Amlelo G. Cicog- was established in 1699. nani, former Apostolic Delegate The rapid expansion was cli to the United Stales, declared on maxed in 1903 with the open the occasion of a hospital dedi ing of the new Minnequa Hos cation. pital. which contained more Archbishop Amleto Giovanni modern and unique features Cicognanl noted that 'in clas than any other hospital in the sical pagan antiquity there were world at the time. no hospitals and very few ex For 46 years the institution amples of places for the treat New St. Mary-Corwin Hospital, Paebio. served the steelworkers, their ment of the sick." families, and the community of “Under the warmth of the Pueblo. ' love inspired by Christ the idea In 1948. the Colorado Fuel of a hospital was born," he said, and Iron Corporation«desiring “and u soon as the Church to discontinue its direct activi achieved her freedom in the ties in the health and welfare fourth century the idea became field, announced that it would a reality." give the hospital to the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, who Story of Fabiola operated St. Mary's Hospital in The Archbishop recalled the Pueblo, and on April 1, 1950, story of Fabiola. a noble matron the nuns accepted its complete of high Roman society, who operation, opened what might have been In the seven years that the the first Christian hospital. sisters were in charge, up to “Disillusioned by earthly van- the time of dedication of the . ities,” the Archbishop said, '‘sbe new building, more than 400,000 decided to dedicate herself to patients were given totally free religion and charity, and sbe or part-free care at the cost of could find nothing better to do $225,000. It requires more than than to open a hospital in Rome, 400 lay employes to assist the probably the first institute of nuns in their work. its kind. Features o f Building Roman Senator Are Most Modern Fed the Poor Among the features of the “In that same period another newly built hospital, which has noble Roman, Senator Pam- a bed capacity of 425, are eight maebius, desiring to show his major and three minor operat love for Christ and for his ing rooms, provisions for dicta neighbor, gathered the poor of tion by doctors over any tele the city near the Basilica of St. phone in the building, three de Peter, fed them, distributed part livery rooms equipped with of his possessions among them combination delivery and oper and used the remainder to build, ating tables: together with Fabiola, a hos Oxygen piped to all rooms, pice for pilgrims al the mouth pip^ vacuum to all surgery, of the Tiber. The service unit of the cafeteria, Penrose Hospital. delivery, and recovery raoms; “The hospital is. therefore, of a complete out-patient depart Christian origin." ment; superficial and deep ther Observing that '‘the lesson of apy machines, miniature chest the great value of human life" m^icine, and radioactive iso is “one important lesson that is topes; separate reco\ery rooms continually taught in every hos for general surgery; tonsillec pital,” the Apostolic Delegate tomy, and delivery department; warned; Separate chronic, contagious, “At all times man possesses W e Extend psychiatric, and pediatric nurs the rights given to him by God ing units; eye magnet and metal and nature, and at no time is it Sincere Congratulations particle locator in emergency permissible to suppress human room; nurse-patient intercom life or deliberately to huten its To the Sisters of Charity system at all nursing stations; end." Of Cincinnati on the FOR Dedication of the New Penrose Hospital PENROSE HOSPITAL
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Chicago, Illinois PAGE ^IXTIEN — S«eHon Two THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER Thursdoy, Sepr. 10, 1959 Hospitals Increasingly More Concerned With Preventing Illnesses
The hospitals which serve the estimated that one out of every The modern Catbobc hospital anesthesia, and other results of and mentally ill, while in Rome, sick are increasingly more con eight persons annually is a pa traces its history to the begin modem invention and scientific the Patrician convert Fabiola is cerned with the prevention of tient in a hospital somewhere In nings of Christianity and its discovery, are but the answer to credited with the first h<»pita} illness and restoration of the the United States. But the story purposes to the mandates of the praym of the saints in the West, an institution for patient into his own society. is not told in statistics, unless Christ Himself. The magnificent through the ages who gave their the sick, as distinguished from a There are impressive statistics those statistics can be Inter institutions, where everyday lives in . the eternal battle refuge for the homeless. to show the growth of the hos preted into acts of charity and “miraculous” cures are made against sickness and death. pital in modern society. It is corporal works of mercy. possible through drugs, surgery, Through the ages, the Cath Hospitals Grow olic hospital has been a dynamic With Christianity institution. The early Chris As Christianity spread, so did tians, eager to serve Christ and the hospital movement in keep to follow His direction, grasppd ing with its time; the Knights the hand of the leper, made a Hospitaller accompanied the place for the stranger, and Crusaders to the Holy Land to MUCKLE PROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT CO. cared for those found sick and bind up the wounds and care dying on the streets. The early for those stricken with famine Bishops opened their doors to and pestilence; Religious Or the stranded, hungry and sick, ders of Women dedicated to the in (hose early days of Christian care of the sick were in evi Physical Therapy Hydro-therapy ity—to meet the need of that dence in such early hospitals time. as Hotel Dieu in Paris and In the third and fourth cen Santo Spirito in Rome, and evi 1224 Speer Blvd. TAbor 5-7439 turies are evidences of the dence of hospital personnel is changing needs and the aware found in the accounts of the ex ness of those needs in the estab plorers to the New World. The lishment of such famous insti evidence still stands, like St. tutions as the BasUas outside John's Hospital in Jerusalem, Denver, Colorado f the gates of Caesaria, which built by the Crusaders, and a modern hospital in Mexico City, PAUL A. MUCKLE, Owner boasted isolation for the leper and other communicable dis endowed by the ruthless ex eases, and special quarters and plorer, Cortez, on bis deathbed, care for the physically crippled and dedicated then as now to the care of the sick in honor of the Mother of God. The flrst hospital in Canada, the Hotel Dieu de Quebec, was established in 1639 end staffed by the Hospitallers of Saint Au gustine, whose constitution as a nursing order of nuns dates to 1155; while Hotel Dieu de Mon treal was set up as part of the Montreal Colony by Jeanne Mance, the Angel of the Mon treal Company and North Amer ica's first lay nurse. sincerest , St. Vincent de Paul Brought Revolution To meet the ever-changing times, St. Vincent de Paul recognized the danger of spor congratulations adic, unorganized charity and the limitations of the Sisters bound by the rules of the clois on the dedication of the ter, and organized the Daugh ters of Charity, whose white cornettes still symbolize the ever-changing activity and re sponsibility of the hospital and the constancy of the motivation Penrose and dedication to principles of true charity, defined by St Paul, as that which fills the basic need. hospital from Under the same rule which permitted the sisters to go out of their convents to serve the sick and the needy, the Grey Nuns (Sisters of Charity) founded by Madame D'YouvUle as the first native Canadian Order in 1637, met the needs of a lusty frontier culture and continue to meet the changing demands upon hospitals today. In the United States, the Sisters of Charity, founded in 1810 by Mother Elizabeth Se- ton, established Sisters Hos pital in SL Louis in 1828, the first hospital to be owned and operated by a Religions Ch^r, and which has been succeeded first by IKullanphy Hospital and now, (he modem and expanding DePatd, op erated by the Daughters of gb the plagues and emer^DCies of tbe past in the United States as well as in Eur ope, Religious Orders followed the immigrants to bring care and medical knowledge wher ever it was needed, until today more than 200 Orders are en gaged in tbe hospital field. Ten Sisters of Mercy were in the For goodness’ sake, get Golden Crimea with Florence Nightin gale, whose birtb date is ob Flake . . . for your picnic, served during National Hospital Week; and President Abr^am patio or party! TheyVe so Lincoln himself paid tribute to the “angels of the baltlefield' — superior in flavor, Sisters of severs', religious or ders during the Civil War. Until the middle of the eigh you can actually taste the difference. teenth century, hospitals re mained little more than institu tions which provided care and (Turn to Page 17, Col. i) Thursday, Sept. 10, TW? THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER Section Tw»—PAGE SEVENTEEN
ONE o r FIRST TO BE APPROVED SCHOOL OF NURSING MAINTAINS HIGH STANDARDS By Ken Peters cinnati, 0., with their reputa laundry services during a Accompanying aprons, in the hazardous, pioneering venture A source of well-deserved tion preceding them, established "three-month probationary pe same style, hung three inches in the days of primitive facil pride for any hospital is its the school in 1903. riod.” For the next three years from the floor. The ensemble ities and in an era when public school of nursing, where it Superior Education of (heir training, the girls re was complete with waist band, sentiment relegated a young trains the young and energetic ceived an allowance — $7 a collars, ^ fs . and bibs. woman to the family fireside. In to carry on its perpetual charge Required month, plus board, lodging, and The uniform, however, was spite of obstacles, however, the of dispensing the works of At that time prospective laundry. not the only thing that tried sisters went ahead with the mercy. This is especially true nursing students for the three- Students were required to the steadfastness of purpose of same intrepid spirit that has for the Penrose Hospital, year program were advised, as have a watch with i>-eecond the young women. Because of since characterized the activ whose nurses’ training pro a brochure issued by the hos hand, two uniforms, eight the exigencies of the time, stu ities of the progressive daugh gram has always maintained the pital put it, that “applicants aprons, a wrapper that could dents also acted as assistants In ters of Mother Seton. highest standards of excellence. must have a thorough English be washed, two bags for soiled the various departments and Seton School Attesting to this truth is the education,” and be preferably clothes, a napkin ring, two pairs were expected to perform any fact that the Colorado Springs "women of superior education of black shoes with low rubber and all duties assigned to them. Of Nursing school was one of the first in and ' culture.” An additional heels, and a supply of under Study was on a "catch as catch Since that pioneer venture in stitutions of its kind in the na note warned them to come “pro clothes. can" basis. Unless emergency 1903, the school of nursing has tion to be surveyed for national vided with sufficient funds to The attire of the nurses, as demanded, the girls might have run the cycle of service in the accreditation, a distinction it enable them to return home in well as that of the students, was one or two hours each day for Pikes Peak city, through a received in 1941. case they are not suited to the once aptly described as tenllike. study, rest, or recreation, plus period of absorption by Loretto The tradition of excellence, work.” It consisted of eight pieces and a free afternoon once weekly Heights College, Denver, and however, actually goes back Eight young women com was made of blue denim, with and at least three hours off on back again to a reactivated pro long before to the time when prised the ori^nat class. They a plain white shirt waist and a Sundays. gram at its original site in Colo the Sisters of Charity of Cin received board, lodging, and onc-piece, five-gored skirt that For the sbters, the hospital rado Springs. hung two inches from the floor. and school of nursing was a (Turn to Page 20, Col. 1} U.S., Canada Hospitals When It's Time to E a t... Mark Great Expansion ^Continued From Page 16) care would be worthy of Christ shelter for the critically ill and Himself. though nursing had progressed, The growth of the Catholic there was little that medicine hospital movement in the could do until (he age of great United Stales and Canada since discovery. the Catholic Hospital Associa Great Advances in tion was organiud is easily Hospital Techniques evident in figures reported by The discovery of anesthesia, M. R. Kneifl. in the 1955 Direc antiseptic technique and asepsis, tory of Catholic Hospitals, and the great work of such which show that the numter of scientists as Pasteur in bacteri Catholic hospitals more than ology, changed the nature of doubled from 1918 to 1955 in hospitals and found those insti the United States and was tutions eager to convert their nearly tripled in Canada. Bed institutions from nursing homes capacity in the United States in to workshops for the physician creased from 60389 in 1918 to and institutions to restore the 150,658 In 1955; and in Canada, patient to health and prevent from 10399 in 1918 to 67397 future illness. in 1»S. The Catholic Hospital Associ Perhaps more significant of ation was born of the needs of a growth, however, and of the pre-World War I United States, Catholic hospitals’ dedication to when progress in medicine was meeting the needs of the pres going forward at a rate too ent era and to making available rapid for the individual hospital the benefits of modern scien to cope with. The late Father tific discovery and methods is Charles Moulinier and five Sis the increase in the number of ters of St. Joseph felt much of patients served, particularly in the answer to the rapidly-de the last 10 years. Although bed veloping problems was in organ capacity of Catholic hospitals ization and in co-operation and and allied agencies from 1045 to A portion of the cafeteria, Penrose Hospital interchange of ideas among 1055 in the United States in Catholic hospitals, dedicated as creased only from 104,019 to they were (and arc) to provid 150,658. the number of patients ing the best possible care and served in a year increased by to providing the best in per one and one-half million peo sonnel and equipment on the ple. with 6,642.040 patients premise that the only standard served in 1945 and 6,093,660 last for care is whelhir or not that year.
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PA^T *TWERTY^-Sectieii Two THE DENVER CATHOLtC REGISTER T h u rs d a y . S«t>t. ID , 1959 SCHOOL OF NURSING MAINTAINS HIGH STANDARDS (Continutd From Page XI) ing at Lmtio Heights College. Training Program training they will receive full gained the respect and support Zn 1032 the old Glockner Denver, and was then called the college credit for the work of the community. One evidence Training School for Nonea, as Seton Unit of that institution. Returns to Springs taken at the hospital. of that support is the present it was then called, became the In 1053, the Colorado Springs Another phase of the history In commenting on the change, nurses home. buQt in 2941 as a Seton School of Nursing, along hospital celebrated the golden of the school began,this year Sister Cyril, affiiinistrator, said: gift of Mrs. Mary Reed, widow with its sister schools conducted jubilee of Its nurses’ training with the return of classes to “It wu the thinking of our of millionaire Vemer Z. Reed, by the Sisters of Charity, program and looked back on the Colorado Springs. The past staff that the school should be In memory of their daughter, namely. St. Mary's School in achievements of the more than June the Penrose Hospital re revived in an effort to obtain Mrs. Margery Reed Mayo. She Pueblo and the Mt. San Rafael 600 young women who went sumed its undergraduate train at least a few local girls for the was One of the first Colorado School at Trinidad. The Colo into the profession equipped ing program, and opened with nursing profession, girls who women, after World War I rado State Board of Nurse with the science and skills 21 students in the college-ap would remain here as nurses broke out, to take a Red Cross Examiners accredited the new necessary to fulfill the Florence proved three-year program. Lab after completing the course." first aid course at Glockner. school, and the same year it Nightingale pledge. oratory classes and other af Twelve out of the present after which she devoted herself became affiliated with th^ With the affiliation at Loretto filiated college level work are class of 21 are from Colorado to war work. The home, known Catholic University of America Heights, the Penrose Hospital given at Colorado College. If, Springs or the Pikes Peak as the Margery Reed Memorial in Washington. D. C. moved into a four-year nurses' on the completion of the three- re^on. Included also is one Home for Nurses, has single In 1043, the school was trans training program, and its grad year Seton training, graduates man, an airman of the dispen room accommodations for 125 ferred to the Division of Nurs uates received college degrees. wish to continue their academic sary staff at the Air Force nurses and cost more than $250.- Academy. 000. plus furnishings, for a total Respect, Support of about $400,000. Of Community At is a far cry from the origi The nursing school at Penrose nal nurses home residence pur Hospital has come a long way chased from Colorado College in Lei tliere be ligbi . - in the past 9^ years and has 1013 for $250. New Penrose Hospital The Sturgeon Electric Company salutes Tribufe to Charity Nuns (Continued From Page 7) intermediate care: (e) continual care: knd (d) final self care The Sisters of Charity (for which the 12tta floor will be used). Execuione Audio-Visual System of Cincinnati As an aid to improved patient care the hospital has installed the Executone Audio-Visual NuTse Call System on all patient floors. The Executone combines the most advanced type of elec on the opening and dedication tronic intercom with all the familiar benefits of visual bedside signalling. It offers instant, natural voice communication be tween patient and nurse—at the touch of a button. This device relieves the nurse of non-professional duties, and patient needs Penrose Hospital are known and met sooner. The quick response to a question or request adds to the patient's peace of mind. Simply by pressing a button, the nurse can check any or all patients' rooms, pick up sounds of movement, irregular breathing, or the slightest whisper. Complete up-to-date air conditioolng is provided throughout He are proud to have .served in our part of a great the bospita]. with emphasis on the patients' rooms. Each room is equipped with- a manual temperature control. Each room also has built-in oxygen and suction units. The rooms include up-to- enterprise, now happily brought to a snceessfnl con- date drawer and closet space, as well as individual medicine cabinets and lavatory facilities. Television sets are installed in elusion, and we w ish the Sisters ever>' gocad fortune in- all patient rooms, equipped with remote control units. At some date, shortly after the dedication rites, all patients la the 70-ycar-oId structure adjoining the new building will be their w orks. transferred- I Transfer in 24-Hour Period “We are planning to make the transfer from the old to the new building in a 24-hour period or less and in such manner that it win not be necessary to have operating stalls on duty in both the pld and new buildings." said Sister Cyril. Razin| id the old building will begin immediately after it S ¥ u r q e o n ______J C l E C T D Il has been vacated, thus leaving a parking space area for at least ELECTRIC >^COMPANY 200 autonobiles. 500 Vallejo Street SH 4-2484 Denver, Colorado Plans already are in progress for the new ground-level, 200- seat chapel, which is to be built next to the ambulance entrance (accessible Irom Tejon Street) of the new structure. The chapel will connect with the hospital's first and secopd floors. The altar will be set up on the east side, and there will'be three entrances. (Turn to Pape 22, Col. 3J L a r y e s i Totol Pertienis in 1958 Hospital Work Progressed With Dispatch fContinned From Pape 10) era] contract was signed Nov. 2, and the ground-breaking cere mony took place at 4 p.m. the next day, Nov. 3. On May 3, 1056, the corner stone laying ceremony was held. The hospital was 85 per cent complete by October. 1958, and (he exterior was finished. During 1958, the hospital cared for 37.285 patients, the largest figure of any hospital in the Archdiocese of Denver. The total of in-patients was 6,383, ranking fifth among archdioce san institutions. It trained 25 in the school of practical nurses. 46 resident nursing students, and 25 in the Seton unit of Loretto Heights College. Den ver The hospital is staffed by '24 full-tiUe' ^bht...... Th«|ii By JosN O'Hayre finest hour of all will come nuns in Colorado began In by early Spanish settlers In On one occasion she was In The 89-year history of the Tuesday, Sept 15, when their 1870, when two sisters arrived honor of the Holy Trinity—was strumental in killing the lynch Sisters of Giarity of Cincinnati new $8,500,000 Penose Hospital in IMnidad from Santa Fe to a small settlement of rude man law by marching with the sher in the Archdiocese of Denver is will be dedicated in Colorado establish the first public school ners and risque reputation. It iff and a known killer to a vic filled with innumerable great Springs. in the Territory of Colorado. was populated hy a few Ameri tim's bedside to beg forgiveness and glittering hours, but the The history of the Charity At the time Trinidad—named can families and a smattering for the outlaw. of Spanish sbeepberders and On another occasion, she Penrose HospilaJ During Construction . . • ranchers. fearlessly faced up to the notor Life there was not easy or ious Billy the Kid and demanded pleasant for the nuns. To sus safety for the town's physicians, tain themselves and th eir whose lives he bad threatened. school, they were forced to beg In 1882, the Charity Sisters food and funds from the rough, came to Denver at the request often crude laborers in the of Colorado's legendary Bishop camps scattered on the country Joseph P. Machebeuf. In Sep side around the town. tember, 1882, they opened Sa Although their poverty was cred Heart School, and they penetrating and their safety have taught there continually constantly in doubt, the sisters for the past 67 years. The same were heroic in their courage year, seven additional nuns and boundless in their charity. journeyed from Cincinnati to Brave Sister Blandina Pueblo, where they established St. Mary’s Hospital. Killed Lynch Law Their hospital was a small Much of the romantic color rented house which today would that surrounded Trinidad in barely pass for a house. But in these early days is woven about those days Pueblo's greatest the nuns who labored there and need was for a hospital, and the much of it centers on Sister “small house” served the town Blandina Seagle. fTum to Page 22, Column 1) MS “Compliments to the staff of the beautiful new Penrose Hospital, an inspiration to our community” Typewriters Adding Machines Desks NORTON OFFICE SUPPLIES Piles JOHN 3. NORTON. Owner Service Soles Rentals 12S E. Bijou MElrose 2-7673 Colorado Springs Steel framework shown in course of construction of Penrose Hospital. will Congratulations Roofing, Insulotioir Mechanical Sheet Metal Work by ii HEYSE SHEET METAL & ROOFING, INC 802 South Wohsotch Colorado Springs PA£E TWIKTY-TWO—S«c«on XwA THE DENVER pSTHOL^C REGISTER T t in r id o y , Nuns Expand Work Through Sfafe New Penrose Hospital (Continued From Page 21) had opened in Trinidad. They sive year" for the sisters. In admirably well. Seven years refused and gave up the school. Denver they took over the ad later, the Sisten of Charity ex They did. however, retain poa- ministration and teaching at Tribute to Charity Nuns panded tbeir charity by open session of the academy they had Cathedral High School, and in (Continued From Page 20) ing another hospital, Ra conducted along with the public Pueblo they took charge of St. Construction .on the chapel will have to wait until the razing fael's. in Trinidad. school, and they turned it into Patrick's School. In the latter of the old building. In 1892 they received official a parochial school. city thay also conduct Corwin notice that, unless they aban HospitaT Pueblo Catholic High, An accommodating innovation on the patient floors (three doned their religious garb, they Take Over St. Francis Xavier’s, and St. to 11) is a nuraes' station, glass enclosed, with an opening for could no longer staff Colorado's Cathedral School Theresa's Schools. racks on which nurses' charts can be placed from the outside. The year 1691 was an "expaiv CTuni to Page 24. Col. I) The doctor can select the chart from inside the room with ease. first public school which they Each floor has a teaching room and a treatment section. Pathway to Care . . . W O O jm Gift Dedication of the new building will be tbe highlight in a C building program that was first announced in June, 19S9. An outright ^ t —one of the largest gifts ever given iif the U.S. by ah individual—^ $3,200,000 from the El Pomar Foundation, founded by the late Mr. and Urs. Spencer Penrose, who had made many Urge gifU to tbe hospital in the past, was made on Saturday, Oct 1, 165S. At that time Mrs. Penrosg personally overlooked tbe preliminary plans and told the fund raising com mittee that her dreams "will come true only when the campaign dollart raised are converted into tbe handsome new hospital.” She died Jan. 23, 1956. Another generous donor was the Donner Foundation of PhiUdelphia. which gave $237,100. Tbe campaign resulted in gifts and subscriptions totaling $S,394J120, the Urgest amount ever raised in Colorado Springs by public subscription. Started 1956 Hie campaign was rated an outstanding success, but between the time the campaign-was completed and contracUTwere let for the imposing structure there was an increaa^of more than $3,000,000 in construction, Ubor, material ctats, and needed furnishings. Archbishop Urban J. Vehr broke ground for the bosplUI on Nov. 3, 1M>6. in- the presence of a dozen priests of the Pike’s Peak Region and about 400 friends of tbe institution. Cornerstone laying ceremonies were held at Penrose Hos pital May 3, 1958, aloog with the blessing of the large outside crucifix that marks the southwest comer of the new building. The Very Rev. WiUiw J. Kelly of St. Mary's Church officiated. Functional ^^iures Penrose Hospital is ooe of the finest in the United States. 'The public will be pleasantly surprised when they inspect the building," said Robert LaGrange, president of the hospital's The main entrance. Penrose Hospltsl- Lay Advisory Council. “The structure is very beautiful, but most important, we believe the people will be most impressed by the functional features, built into this Impressive <^ice.” Tbe hospital, one of tbe first Catholic hospitals in Colorado, is a lasting memorial to the Penroses. The imposing building, to be dedicated in this Centennial Year of Colorado, stands as a tribute to the work and aacrifice of the Sisters of Charity and to EXCELLENCE tbe institutions' many donors and friends. Combined Efforts OF PRODUCT The people in tbe Pike’s Peak region can rightfully call It “their hospital,’’ knowing well that it will serve them in the MEANS BETTER FACILITIES utmost capacity. They gratefully acknowledge tbe fact that its existence is not due to those in one particular location, but to tbe effort and generosity of "many bands and hearts in ail areas.” Through the service of the Sisters of Charity Penrose Hospital will aid tbe weak and infirm in the spirit in which the hospital has been dedicated for these many past years. The Register Is proud to present this special dedication issue to the Penrose Hospital and to tbe devoted work of the Sisters of Charity. WE EXTEND OUR SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SISTERS OF CHARITY ON THE R E l OCCASION OF THE DEDICA'HON OF NEW PENROSE HOSPITAL Nolan Funeral Home “SINCERE PERSONAL SERVICE” COLORADO SPRINGS ONLY CATHOLIC OWNED & OPERATED FUNERAL HOME HOSPITAL CASEWORK and LABORATORY FURNITURE . . . in Stainless Steel or Enameled Furniture Steel CONGRATULATIONS from in Square Corner or Cove Corner Construction. Congratulations to oil those who aided in the planning and completion of the mognificent Penrose Hospital. Remco con m m s mmmsm siders it on honor to have been selected to manufacture ond install the hospital Case Work ond Loborotory Furniture in this outstor>ding new building. For complete information of Remco Products from highways to driveways . . . unite for Catalog 590. we pave them all DESIGNED. MANUFACTURED, AND SOLD BY COLORADO SPRINGS MEIrose 2-4M S 101 New Laredo Highwaj » Sao AocoAi*. Tcxu r r r .v.*‘n 'TTTrrrf r rTrTnM ^^irrr f f rn T ^ m r r r r rrrr Thursday, Sept. 10, 1959 THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER Section Two— PAGE TWENTY-THRE NEW PENROSE HOSPITAL HAS ...fabulous floors by R o b b in s BEAUTY... Robbins Vinyl Tile provides The ulTimote in flooring beouTy for the new Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs. A wide range of scientifically selected modern colors as sures a sporkling floor for ony interior, whether commer cial, institutional or troditional. The luxurious satin- molded finish stoys beautiful with minimum care. At the Penrose you will see Robbins Vinyl Tile grocing entron- ces, corridors, operoting suites ond other areas. COMFORT and DURABILITY... The super-resiliency of Robbins Vinyl wos o big foctor in its selection for Penrose Hospitol floors. Where there's wolking to be done, Robbins Vinyl is the ideal floor ing. Its quiet comfort underfoot greotly relieves fatigue. Made of the highest grade raw mater ials, this toughest of all floorcpverirtgs will withstand years -of heavy foot troffic. Oils, greases, fats, and alkalies will not damoge it, and the beautiful colors ore locked in— will not lose their / brightrwss even offer yMrs of wear. ■ 1 SAFETY! To combat the significant hozord presented by static electricity in the modern hospital operoting rooms, the architects specified Robbins Stotic-Proof Vinyl Tile'for the operating suites of Penrose Hospital. This omozing new tile collects dongerous charges df electricity orKi harmlessly dissipates them through its unique con struction, providing moximum sofety f^surgicol ond ob- stetricol pofients. Robbins Vinyf floors were in stalled in the Penrose Hospital A N O T H E R by: O F T H E AMERICAN FLOORING COMPANY 200 KALAMATH STREET DENVER, COLORADO Go by American Flooring Com pany today ond see the wide selection of fobulous floors ovoiloble in Robbins Vinyl, Rubber and Cork Tile. Robbim /touring prodarl* orr iitiribuird in Ihit o r fo b y : DEALER SUPPLY COMPANY R o b b in ,s 18 .\ZEK M.LKKKT Rebbint Vinyl Stdlc-breof Til* prevM*« a u f e and atlractiva fiber fer bb*rstin« twlfbt. DENVKR, COLOR.ADO PRODUCTS. INC PAGE TWENTY-FOUR— Section Two THE DENyER CATHOLIC REGISTER Thursdoy,< Sept.i 10,' ?959 SISTERS RETRIEVE DEDICATED IN 1941 Penrose Cancer Pavilion Wages War f in a n c ia l b a la n c e (Continued From Page 22) Heart and Cathedral Schools in On Killer With Four-Pronged Attack In 1803 Glockner-Penrosc Denver today, they also have Hospital in Colorado Springs charge of Margery Reed Mayo By Edward T. Smith Juan A. del Regato. the Pen nated $300,000 for the project was in bad financial shape. But Day Nursery and Annunciation. One of the medical profes rose Cancer Hospital conducts a in bis memory. The clinic was the sisters took over its opera Ix>yola, and St. Rose of Lima’s sion's most advanced outposts four-pronged a ttack on the built on the grounds of the tion. and the efficiencr of their Schools. In Colorado Springs, in the war against cancer, -the dread killer. It is equipped with then Glockner-Penrose Hospital administration Is in “blazing evi in addition to the Penrose Hos Cancer Pavilion, is located in the most modern medical wea and was blessed by Archbishop dence” today aa the new hospi pital, they conduct Divine Re- Colorado Springs and is oper pons for cancer detection, for (then Bishop) Urban J. Vehr tal nears comptetion and dedi ^emer and Pauline Memorial ated in connection with the the treatment of patients suf in June, 1941. cation. Schools and the El Pomar Re new Penrose Hospital. fering from the disease, for re In 1945, tbe El Pomar Foun Besides teaching at Sacred treat House for Women. Under the direction of Dr. search designed to destroy the dation. an organization set up scourge, and for the education by Mrs. Penrose to handle her of young physicians and the philanthropies, announced public to carry on the battle. plans for (be eapansion of fa The history of Penrose Can- cilities at the cancer clinic. / Thurtdoy, Sept 10, 1959 THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER Sc The new $8,500,000 hospital Mrs. Glockner carried out the laundry and boiler room were pital was purchased, at a cost ties. The chapel was dedicated erected by the Sisters of Char plans of her husband and the completed. of $6,000. in looa ity in the 2200 block of N. Cas flrst building was completed in The fame of the institution 3-Wing Addition The hospital’s record has con cade Avenue will be officially 1889 and incorporated as the spread to the point where pa A three-wing addition to the tinued unabated since the first named “The Penrose Hospital.'' Albert Glockner Memorial San tients and waiting-patients were hospital, at a cost of $150,000 pioneering days. It contains one The name ofjhe “old Glock- atorium. The Institution was de housed in tents in the area. To was the next step, two wings of the finest cancer cUnieshos- ner Hospital," however, will be scribed as for the care and treat provide space for these patients for patients, the third for the pJtals in the world. Its facilities perpetuated In the "new" 12- ment of persons suffering from a city block north of the hos chapel and kitchen-dining facili (Turn to Page 26, Col. 5) story structure. Sister Cyril, ad lung and throat discasea. Appro ministrator of the 70-year-old priately, tb« fifth floor of the Kitchen Facilities. institution, announced that the new, multimillion dollar insti fifth floor of the new hospital tution will be devoted to the will be dedicated as the Glock- care and treatment of tubercu ner floor. lar patients. "The Penrose Hospital" desig In its first year some 223 pa nation was given the new struc tients were admitted, as com ture as a tribute to the late Mr. pared to the 6,650 patients ad and Mrs. Spencer Penrose who mitted by the institution last were outstanding' iynefaclors in year. assisting the Sisten of Charity First baby bom at the hos in accomplishing the gigantic pital on Oct. 5, 1882, was the project. present Mrs. Robert Caldwell Dedication ceremonies for the who resides at 1321 E. Willam new building will be at 5 p.m. ette Street. Mrs. Caldwell last on Tuesday. Sept. 16. Catholic week expressed great pleasure dignitaries from throughout the on the completion and dedica region will join with laymen in tion of the new building and the* dedication ceremonies. said she wishes the Sisters of Hie name for the new hos Charity the greatest success'in pital is in conformity with the the new venture. wishes of the founders df the The financial struggles of the original institution. Sister Cyril new hospital were such that explained. Mrs. Andre Crotti, Mrs. Glockner approached the formerly Mrs. Albert Glockner. Sisters of Charity as a possible was invited to attend the meet means of continuing the hu ing in 1955 at which plans were manitarian institution. Annual made for the financial cam deficits bad been absorbed by paign to construct the newly Mrs. Glockner to the point completed hospital. Mrs. Crotti, where she felt it incumbent to a resident of Columbus, O., was seek aid of the Sisters in con unable to attend but forwarded tinuing the hospital's service to a message of support in the new the still young community. undertaking. On April 1, 1892. the Sisters In her message. Mrs. Crotti of Charity assumed control of stated the Sisters of Charity had the hospital and Sister Basilia taken an institution of humble Applegate waa elected president beginnings and made it into* an of the board of directors. Sis A view of the kitchen, Penrose tloapUal. institution of national and in ter Basilia became the first su ternational repute. She added perior of Glockner. that whatever success the hos Ibe early years were marked pital may have enjoyed was at by hardship as the Sisters con tributable to the work and per- ducted all the nursing duties, Congratulations . . . servance of the Sisters and that and of 225 patients admitted all credit for the new structure in one year, 125 were listed as should be given to the Sisters “friends,” or non-paying pati and their benefactors. ents. To The birth of the original hos Financial difficulties reached pital was the outgrowth of the the point where, in 1900, a di desires of Albert Glockner. a rective from the mother-house Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati Pennsylvanian, who moved to of the Sisters of Charity in Cin this fledgling city and recog- cinnati pointed toward the sale piled the need for an institution of the hospital. Sister Rose Alex devoted to the care and treat ius. however, directed a com ment of the ill. Mr. Glockner munity-wide campaign which planned the original institution resulted in payments of the out T o w n but died before his plans were standing debts. From 1900 to at the stage of construction. 1919 Sister Rose served is Mp- erintendent of the hospital. In 1902 a $40,000 “wing” was started and completed the fol T a l k lowing year. In 1905 a steam Congratulations SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS, N A TIO N A L TO THE SISTERS OF CHARITY ON THE OCCASION OF THE COMMISSION DEDICATION OF THE MAGNIFICENT NEW PENROSE HOS PITAL. WE ARE EXTREMELY PROUD TO HAVE HAD A CO. INC. PART IN ITS CONSTRUCTION. POULTRY CUSTOM WINDOWS AND ARCHITECTURAL ALUMINUM FISH - EGGS by 109 So. Coscode> ME. 3-1719 FENTRON METAL INDUSTRIES INCORPORATED Colorodo Springs, 2232 O N EID A S T R E E T FR . 7-2019 COLORADO DENVER, COLORADO ...... m iiin m i tiiitnn.iit.iifim.tiiii.* I PAGE TWENTY-SIX— Section Two THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER jrhuriday, Sept. 10, 1959 Hospital Floor To Perpetuate Founder Name (Continued From Page 25) have been so prominent in at tracting, patients that in 1955 a campaign to replace the TO- year-old hospital was started. Head of the hospital, as ad ministrator. as it goes into its monumental new building and 71st year of service is Sister Cyril. The sister, one of the top hospital administrators in the nation, has served many years at the local hospital. On behalf of the Sisters of Charity, the present administra tor said: “The new hospital is a memorial to the many friends, the many benefactors in the Pikes Peak region." Sister Cy ril said she hoped the institu tion will continue to serve the needs of a community which it Lobby, Showing "Faith" ond "Hope" Screens, in Penrose Hospitol has served for 70 years. CATHOLIC HOSPITAL METHODS SAVED LIVES OF BABIES WHO MAY HAVE DIED UNDER GENERAL INSTITUTIONS' RULE Is the Catholic hospital a of obstetrics in the Catholic hos jority would do better than the know that not a few instances some pressure that has stimu haven of medieval medical prac pital—the area of so much un norm. Bach Catholic hospital of five, six, and even seven Cae lated great improvements in the tice? Does it place crippling founded but bitter and emo should make this comparison sarean kcetions are on record science of obstetrics, and re- restrictions on the medical and tional criticism. What are the for itself. in our institutions. sultod in bringing to light of surgical practice of its staff facts? Does a Catholic mother Hospitals Compared In other words, the adher day hundreds of infants who in members? ever have ter sacrifice her life To pose another question; ence to basic Christian princi other circumstances might not The sensational writings of for her child? Catholic ob How does the percentage of live ples of respecting the life of the have been bom. And In accom several notorious religious big stetricians tell us this never babies to the number of con unborn and the determination to plishing this we have not sacri ots are bent upon giving the happens. [She would not be al finements in a CalhoUe hospital save the life of the foetus if at ficed the life of any mother. . . . world this impression. Many ill- lowed to have the child deliber- compare with that of non-Cath- all possible has been a whole (The Linacre Quarterlg) informed people of good will alcly killed. Yet here is testi ollc institutions? Again, this is have been led to believe that mony she today docs not have a question Catholic hospitals to face such an issue ] these charges are true. Even should answer for themselves. • ••••9 StM 9099999SOiir Sincere Best Wishes some less-informed Catholics But perhaps it is proof that is We know this: There arc many, have been shaken by the emo- wanted, not the allegations of babies hogn in a Catholic hos lionaT raiitings of those who Calhotic physicians — the proof pital who might have been sacri attack Catholic hospitals and of irrefutable statistics. By all ficed by “therapeutic" abortion medicine. . . . means, let us examine maternal in other institutions. HENDRIE & BOLTHOFF CO. Catholic hospitals and Cath and infant death rates; let us Some non-Catholic obstetri olic medical men have been on compare the figures for Catho cians have held that sterilization the defensive too long and have lic hospitals with the national of the mother after the second Colorado Springs, Colorado failed to tell the story of the norms, or even state and re or third Caesarean section is Catholic hospital and practice gional norms. Few if any Cath mandatory. Do not our statistics of medicine by Catholics. olic inslilulion.s would not make disprove this unscientific inter "Your Source of Supply” Let us consider the practi’e a favorable showing—the ma ference with motherhood? We 211 East Colorado Avenue ME. 2-2876 F- 0— OOOOOOtOOOOMM f Congratulations ind Best Wishes On the Occasion of the Opening CONGRATULATIONS And Dedication of the New Penrose Hospital GULDMAN LINEN CO. AMERICAN SANITARY PRODUCTS 1254 Broadway DENVER 3. COLORADO AND . GERALD A. GUTMAN AMERICAN SCHOOL SUPPLY Representative DENVER, COLORADO Best Wishes to the Staff COLORADO SPRINGS of Peraose- Hospital REPRESENTATIVE INDUSTRIAL CLEANING JOHN ELLIOTT SERVICE 514 WEST S.\N RAPHAEL J17 EAST BOULDER STREET (Rear) 3IE. 2-6038 j TELEPHONE ME. 3-2013 Complete SenxVe . . . Bonded and Insured . . . Commercial end Restdenlioi COLORADO SPRINGS. COLORADO Thurtdoy, Se^t. tO, 19Sf THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER S«cHon Two— PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN Nurses' Home, Penrose Hospitai. Gift of Mrs. Vemer Z. Reed in 1940 as memorial to SPRINGS SEVEN-UP her daughter, .Margery Reed Mayo. APPOIMTED IN 1949 BOTTLING COMPANY Inc. Dr. del Reqato Directs Fight Against Cancer ^ 1716 Mt. Washington By M a s t is Mokan Hospitals in the U.S., has gained cases presented. Although of field, and the wish of Mr. Pen The Penrose Cancer Hospital an international reputation as a only one day's «.uration. It is rose that the clinic would be Colorsdo Springs, Col«. is dedicated to the plural task radiotherapy training center for actually the culmination of a come the nucleus oi a nationally of diagnosis, treatment, educa young physicians interested in year of preparation by Dr. del important medical center has tion. and research in the fight specializing in the field of can Regato and hi.s staff. been fulfilled. Plwne .ME 9-9551 against one of mankind's dead cer treatment. Ph3'$icians who The first Heminar In 1949 liest enemies. Co-ordinating this have trained under Dr. del Re had an attendance of approxi KELLER REFRIGERATION SERVICE effort is Dr. Juan A. del Regato gato are now in charge of radio mately 100; the attendance in who, in February of 1949. ac therapy departments through 1958 exceeded 450. cepted the appointment to suc- out the country. ■ A further contribution in the New Source Studied effort to combat cancer is the In Cancer Treatment annual Cancer Seminar' origi At present. Dr. del Regato nated by Dr. del Regato and and his staff are devoting their sponsored by the El Pomar attention to radiobiological stu 530 SO. TEJON Foundation It brings together dies and the exploitation of the MEIrose 4-7631 COLORADO SPRINGS pathologists, radiologists, and medical possibilities of this new surgeons from all over the U.S. source in the treatment of can It is conducted as one huge con cer. sultation with (he cancer experts Dr. del Regalo's dedication to > I expressing their opinions on the the plural (ask in the problem of cancer has earned him an in Sisters Operate ternational reputation in his .SALES and SERVICE Nine Hospitals The Sisters of Charity of Ctn cinnati operate eight hospital . . . oMr sincere best wishes . . . in addition to Penrose Hospital Colorado Springs. The institutions are; Good Samaritan Hospital, Day ton, 0. St. Joseph's Hospital, Mt Dr. Juan A. del Regato Clemens, Mich. San Antonio Hospital, Ken dnland. Jjw.&jtsuL J-oodiu, drve. ceed Dr. Henri Coutard as di ton, O. rector. Dr. Coutard headed the Good Samaritan Hospital, Cin clinic from its inception in 1941 cinnati, 0. until his retirement in 1949. His SL Hary's-Corwin Hospital contributions to radiotherapy in Pueblo, Colo. - V -, the treatmen. of cancer made St. Vincent's Hospital, Santa him world-famons. Fe. N. Mex. St. Joseph's Hospital. AIbu Everett DtJire Dr. del Regato, a fellow of the querque, N. Mex. MEIrose 2-5326 American College of Radiology, Mt. San Rafael Hospital, Trin received his training in radio idad, Colo. therapy at the Curie Institute in Paris where ue was a colleugue of Dr. Coutard. In accepting the position as head of the Penrose Canrer Hospital, Dr. del Regato ended his lone association. 1943 to 1949. with the Ellis Fischel State Cancer Hospital in Co Compliments of lumbia. Mo. Previously he had been a member of the clinical staff of the National Cancer In stitute. Cancer Research Wins National Recognition His research in the treatment of cancer won him a grant from the ‘National Advisory Cancer Council. In 19S5. at the request of the President of Cuba. Dr. del Regato was awarded the Carlos J. Finlay National Order of Merit The Cuban honor was Heide, Lubell & Co., Inc presented at a convocation of the American College of Radio logy by the Cuban Ambassador. !t honors the name of the Cu , INSURANCE BROKERS ban physician who discovered the transmission of yellow fever 60 John Street by the mosquito. Dr. del Regato. a native of Cuba, was bom in Camaguey. the birthplace of Dr. New York 38. N. Y. Finley. Under Dr. del Regato’.s direc tion the Penrose Cancer Hos pital. one of 11 approved cancer PAGf TWENTY-EIGHT— $e«tion.Two TIfE DEHVER c a t h o l i c RGGISTE^ Th«r»^oY..^KlO, 1959 SISTERS OF CHARITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDER Moffier Elizabeth Ann Sefon May" Become First United States Native-Born Beata Sy David Millon . A Protestant by birth and Elizabeth Ann Bayley was larly adverse to her religious added td her lot, for she had to Mother Elizabeth Seton, early training, the mother of born Aug. 28,1774, in New York conversion. When she continued support her own children, her founder of the Sisters of Charity five children, widowed at an City. Both her father, an emin to practice her new religion si^er-hetpers, and the numerous of Cincinnati, may become the early age. may seem a remark ent doctor and a descendant of against their counsel, they be poor that flocked to her. Hrst native-born U.S. citizen to able candidate to be raised to a noble English family, and her came so embittered that she was There were ikany hardships. be beatified. Pope John XXIII the altars of the Church. But mother Vere stanch Protestants. ostracized and turned away from Often the little communily was endorsed the continuation of her the life of Mother Elizabeth Ann Her mother died when Elizabeth their household. without sufficient food, but they beatincation cause at the first Seton is indeed a remarkable Ann was three years old and The Filicchi family came to went hungry with cheerful, public consistory called by the example of heroic faith and afterwards her father devoted the aid of the young widow and prayerftd hearts. new Pontiff. courage. much time to the education and her five children. They financed development of his daughter. the education of the two boys at Privofians of Life He saw to it that she attended Georgetown College. Exacted HeovyToH good schools, and he supervised At the invitation of the Rev. Wealthy benefactors aided and presided over her studies. them with generous donations, William V. Duhourg, S.S., and in and Mother Seton and her sis Under his discipline she made order to support her three girls great progress in learning, cul and to provide them with a ters redoubled their efforts. ture, and in the love of God and But t^e privations of their “the new Penrose Hospital, an Catholic Vacation, she arranged of her neighbor. She read the to open a private school for girts life, and' their strenuous efforts other valuable community as Bible and the Imitation of Christ in Baltimore. in nursing the sick, feeding the poor, and teaching had exacted set serving the preventive and and tried to regulate her life The work prospered from the a heavy toll. The two sisters of according to them. Having a fer beginning, and as more and curative health needs of the vent character, whiie still quite William ,Seton were the first to more pupils came under her succumb; then the two oldest of people! To you Sister Cyril and young she studied how to regu care, other dedicated young late it with reason and with the Mother Seton's own daughters, the Sisters of Charity of Cin women were inspired by Eliza who had grown up and joined help of pious reading. beth Seton's example to give up \ cinnati, our sin ce r e best her in Her work, weaken^ and Children Regarded the material pleasures of the died. jvishes/’’ As Gifts From God world and devote themselves to a life of self-sacrifice and serv Motha* Seton's life was indeed In 1794, at the age of 20, she ice. Among them were two sis one of sorrow, yet through married William M. Seton. the ters of William SetobT'^hose it all her faith and courage son of a wealthy New York mer family had so strenuously op grew. She opened orphanages, chant. It was one ol^ the notable posed her religious conversion established hospitals; and when affairs of the season. Many of in New York. the dread yellow fever broke the socially prominent people of out, her Sisters of Charity were Elizabeth and her associates, New York City attended and the there to nurse and care for the young couple were showered during their school hours, wore sick poor. a costume resembling the garb \ with gifts and good wishes. As the years passed, full of “Tlie rredil Center of the of religious orders. They lived The couple had five children, devout and dedicated lives and work ai^ hardship, she always Pikes Peak Region” two boys and three girls. And longed for the convent way of had time for prayer and time to the young mother regarded her life and a religious rule. guide the footsteps of. her re children as gifts with which God maining, three children, and the bad entrusted her, and she New Community destiny of her growing commu CREDIT BUREAU OF studied how best to educate Founded in 1809 nity. them toward leading good and With the help of Archbishop In 1819 the toils and trials of COLORADO SPRINGS, INC. useful lives. John Carroll, Father Duhourg, her dedicated life began to tell When it was necessary for her and many others, in 1809 Eliza in a growing weakness. She was husband, on the advice of his beth Seton founded a new reli then only 45 years old. but her CREDITORS’ COLLECTION doctors, to take a sea voyage to gious order, modeled afteA- the work on earth was already Bn- Italy to regain his failing health, Daughters of Charity of St. Vin ished—Her children were estab BUREAU she accompanied him to Leg cent de Paul. The new commu lished in life, the community horn and Pisa. But William Se nity obtained the rule of these that she founded was thriving ton died in Pisa a few days after Vincentian Sisters of Charity in and prosperous — and her CREDIT SERVICE CO.. INC. they arrived, Dec. 27, 1803. France, and in 1812 the new In thoughts were ready to turn to The young husband had for stitute was approved by Arch eternity. And though her health some time, through his business bishop Carroll. slowly ebbed away, her courage interests, a close friendship with Elizabeth Seton soon found and faith did not. Antonio Filicchi, by whom both herself the mother of a growing Mother Seton's last illness lin he and Mrs. Seton were wel relii^ous community. More andi gered UQtil 1921. She died Jan. 3 comed as guests while in Pisa more burdens and cares were of that year. and Leghorn. Elizabeth, after the death of her husband, stayed "serving (he economic needs of with the Filicebis for some months. She found that this fam the professional and business ily led an exemplary Catholic people of the region with credit life — in deeds rather than words. reports, collection and precol Gradually she became im lection services are the Credit pressed with the charm of the Bureau, Creditors' Collection Catholic religion. After much study, praj’er. and Bureau and the Credit Service fasting, .she made a difficult de Co., Inc," cision—and was received into the Catholic Church on March 14, 1805. It was for her the hap piest day of her life, but the storm of protest from her Prot estant friends and relatives would certainly have shaken a less determined soul. The Seton family was particu (^om fA jcdtidcdivnA . p W J f L MOTORS. INC COLORADO SPRINGS Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton I h S t T i d i y . Sepr. TO, 1959 THE DEh/VElt'c'ATifOLy^ l^EGistER SecHoif T Transit* M ix Concrete Company 444 EAST COSTILLA MElrose 2-3556 COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO PAGE THIRTY— SecHqn Two THE, DENVER ,9/k-^Hp!l,IC REG|$TER Thurido S f j.1 10, ?ys9 ■ I ______^ ■ — L W ill Be^arking Area . . • The Rev. Robert ^nOpiDin V, Nevans. above, is chaplain at Penrose Hospital. A native of Denver, Father Nevans was ordained by Arch Pictured above is old Glockner-Penrose Hospital in 1947 because of Ihe benefactions of the late Mr. bishop Urban J. Vehr on June 4, To Be Razed structure. Colorado Springs, viewed from and Mrs. Spencer Penrose. As soon as patients are transferred 1049. Prior to his appointment at Penrose Hospital he served Madison Street, with the section at left front pointing toward to the new boepital, the structure above will be razed to make as assistant at St. Francis de the corner of Madison and Cascade Avenue. Founded ia 1888 way for parking space that will accommodate approximately Sales' Parish. Denver. as the Glockiier Sanatorium, it waa changed to Glockner-Penrose 200 automobiles. lUSTITIES EXISTENCE OF CATHOLIC HOSPITALS Nursing Sisters Must Be Motivated by a Deep Love for Christ Catholic hospitals have jus “I speak to you today." Arch "Let me say in the very be surpass us in the field of the justified and demanded, the im tified their existence not only bishop Spellman said, “not only ginning, that I consider that purely material—in buildings mense outlay in material re because of their interest in the in Ihe fulfillment of a duty Im the justificalion and the effici and in equipment—but the ex sources. intellectual endow- bodily welfare of patients but posed by the gracious invitation ency of our Catholic hospitals istence of Catholic hospitals is fTum to Page 30, Col. 1) also because of the interest of of your committee, but also to are in direct ratio teb-the per the nursing Sisterhoods in their avail myself of an opportunity sonal sanctification of the Sis spiritual and eternal welfare in to indicate my reverent ap ters who constitute their per CONGR A TULA TIONS- the words of Cardinal Francis praisal of the great and contin sonnel. This is the only possible J. Spellman. Archbishop of uous contribution that you—the Catholic viewpoint. 1 do not New YoA He discussed “The Nursing Sisterhoods—make to deny that other hospitals, by PersonaYMncUfication of the the cause of Christ and His Holy reason of greater financial re Sister aa a National Service.” Church. sources and endowments, may TO For Relaxation THE SISTERS OF CHARITY ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEDICATION OF THE MAGNIFICENT NEW PENROSE HOSPITAL I (!!unada Dry Bottling (^ . 3105 No. Stone Ave. Crib Diaper Service 1000 So. Tejon SL 5 1* red O. I larrison 1216 No,. Custer Ave. Typical lonnge. on the south end of the 11th floor. Penrose Hospital. Henley’s Key Service BEST WISHES To The SISTERS At PENROSE HOSPITAL WHOLESALE — RETAIL 117 E. Boulder ‘ MATTRESS I lome Mercantile Co, ond BOX SPRINGS — ALL TYPES & SIZES 611 W. Vermijo Ave. Mattress & Pillow Renovoting—Sterilizing—Manufacturing—Rebuilding — MATTRESSES SURFACE CLEANED — A CAPITAL MATTRESS CO. "YOUR RELIABLE & FRIENDLY DEALER THRU THE YEARS " Yadon Electric* M otor Co. •'THE REST or THE ROCKIES" TERM PAYMENTS AVAILABLE FOR ESTABLISHED CREDIT RATINGS 22 So. Chestnut Shop & 0 //iV r lAK-aled at Phone MEIrose 3-6833 2421 W. Cucherros if No Answer to Above Call MEIrose S-4S57 L 'fhursddf. Sept. 10, 1959 TH f DEHVER CATrfbLI^ feEGISTER Sectipn Two-l-PAGE YHIR t V -6 n E Mope lor Cancer Victims OFFICIAL CITY GARBAGE CONTRACTOR ME 3 - 5 S 6 8 U V Our LAND FILL DUMP East on yegot St, Cancer Pavilion, Penrose Hospital. Is open 7 Doys a Week 7 A.M. to 5 P.M., Love for Christ Must Motivate Nursing Sisters DISPOSAL SERVICE (Continued From Page 30) spiritual motivation for its vides a reservoir of inspirations own life. With Christ as her COMPANY ments and spiritual sacrifices is highest achievement. Moreover, of virtues, a spirit of helpful model and the service of Christ the personal sanctity of the in justified and made necessary, ness and exemplification of through devoted ministration to 110 W. FOUNTAIN not alone because of your in dividual sister influences those high-minded endeavor that is es< the children of Christ her pro- terest in the bodily welfare of to whom she ministers, and in a fTum to Page 32, Col. 1) man, but also because of your chaotic, war-tom^ hate-saturated, sential to the nation's interest interest in bis spiritual and morally-parched world, this and to the nation's welfare. The eternal welfare. constitutes a truly essential and . Catholic Nursing Sister, there patriotic national service. fore, while exerting every ef Spiritual Welfare “Every nation to be success fort to meet the exacting de "The causality of existence of ful in any veritable Christian mands for better hospitals and Sincere LAUREN BURT, INC. Catholic hospitals lies deeper sense must have resources not for better hospital service, will and extends beyond the restor alone of material things, but never permit herself to forg^ OF COLORADO ation of bodily health and looks also and more so. resources of that the motive for her service curnnnr;^fii- iiyiQ iu to and beyond the allevialion,«f moral strength. These resources to her fellow mam is, her love CONTRACTORS human suffering, It concerns of moral strength have their for Christ. Love of God makes the welfare of man's spiritual fonts in those persons who have her also love to serve God's ACOUSTICAL being and the alleviation of that the vision of a higher and children, whether they be lations divine thirst of the Son of God fuller life, who have a practical worthy or unworthy, believers or CONSULTANTS for the salvation of souls. idealism which keeps the na unbelievers, all those that the ''Thus must the individual tional attitude on a^ higher Providence of God brings within DISTRIBUTORS sister whose life is absorbed in level than the naturalistic, who (he scope of her ministrations. From - manifold engrossing and tech have consecrated, their lives to But before she can bring Chriri nical duties of hospital service ■he all-engrossing service and into the lives of others, sho 3254 Walnut Street CH. 44548 constantly center her innermost the welfare of other:. must first make Christ a vi P.O. Box No. 1783 Denver 1, Colo. thoughts on the upbuilding of Truly -Natibnal brant. vivifying force in her her own spiritual life. • She must realize that if her own Service spiritual life is not nourished, “As applied to the Sister the inevitable result will be hoods, this complete dedication 8 lesjwning in her own effici of self to the service of the sick, ency of service; for even ma to the service of the nation, and terialistic efficiency require? a to the service of humanity pro A Salute to Weapon Against Cancer . THE NEW PENROSE HOSPITAL AND TO THE SISTERS OF CHARITY OF CINCINNATI FOR THEIR UNTIRING DEVOTION TO THE WELL BEING OF ALL. HOSPITAL T.V. RENTALS, INC. 500 E. 17TH AVE. DENVER, COLORADO 240 N. FRANKLIN COLORADO SPRINGS COLO. Telelberapy robalt unit, installed in 1955 at cost of $73,000, ^ for treatment of cancer. -I-L PAGE THIRTY TWO— Section Two THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER Thursdoy, Sept. 10, 1959 LOVE FOR CHRIST MUST MOTIVATE NURSING SISTERS {Continued From Page 31) oi^mould. She will also be the bodies of men u Christ did, and f i c 1 a 1 life exemplified by for love of huntanity, for love sram, her service is truly a na animate embodiment, of one of helping to heal the wounds in Christ, faithfully following the of country — totalitarianism in Christ's Apostles. She will be tional service, and it is also a their souls and giving testimony vocation to which Christ has divine service, the idealism of Catholic service, and the more the m y stica l extension of by her every action of the con called her—of loving and of the Good Samaritan, and the Catholic it is, the more patrio Christ's own life upon earth, secration of her entire life to mercifully ministering to her sublime personification of the tic it will also be. helping to heal the wounded Christ, living the sublime sacri- neighbor for the love of God. Catholic service.” Of Heroic Mould G a tew a y to Hope "The Catholic sister who lives up to the ideal of her re ligious life, and strives for hi-’her perfection in her human scn’ice, must be a person of ber- c O FROM :^ A IN T SUPPLY CO. McMURTRY -PAINTS 113-115 E. Bijou ME.2-6635 View of the front, showing lettering “Penrose Hospital”. Entrance to Cancer Pavilion at left. C ongratulations o n the memoroble occasion of the dedication of Penrose Hospital. We wish to extend our best wishes to the Sisters of Charity. CORREDO TERRAZZO AND TILE CO. 419 Central Ave., N.W Albuquerque. New Mexico U hiM i I i ,. J f : ’ ' j( U • 1 >. • ;•« /1 > ' • **;,'• Thursday, Sept. 10, 1959 THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER Section Two— PAGE THIRTY-THREE t < ' - t . View of new Penrose Hospital, Colorado Springs, againsi background of famed Pikes Peak. 'REGISTER' EXPRESSES APPRECIATION FOR CO-OPERATION The publication of this special Penrose Hospital who gener Assunta, and Sister Salome, and St. Mary's Parish, Colorado this edition were taken espe issue honoring the new Penrosd ously gave their time and ef also to Father Robert V. Nevans, Springs; and Mrs. J. McCabe, cially for the Repisler by C. G. Hospital, Colorado Springs, re fort in helping toward the pub hospital chaplain; the Very Rev. secretary to Sister Cyril. Coil of Stewart's Photographs, lication, among some of whom Monsignor William J. Kelly of Many of the photographs in Colorado Springs. quired the co-operation and are Sister Cyril, administrator; services of ntany persons. Sister Marie Carmel, director The Register is especially of purchasing; Sister Clara, grateful to the Sisters of Char X-ray; Sister Mary Florence, di ily of Cincinnati on the staff of rector of nursing service; Sister Congratulations and Best Wjshes from COLORADO SPRINGS CO. w e ore most hoppy to hove this opportunity to extend our warmest J ’l a k i L . ------wholesale distributors Congrotulotions to the Sisters of Charity on the Dedication of the new of cigars, cigarettes^tobaccos, candy and sundries Penrose Hospital. 19 W. Cucharras ME. 4-5564 >♦♦♦♦♦< All Printing Needs by Congratulations to Penrose Hospital f ^ RlAL e q o T ^ M . L . F 0 S S SiniONfil! CO. Aluminum • Brass - Copper • Steel "Complete Equipment and Supplies for the Maintenance Shop” 3110 N. Stone Si., CoIomhIo Springs, Colorado ,,.fA<*E.THIRi;Y-.POUR—SeeHon Two TflE DENVER ^ATHOUC RE(|I$TER »> Big Growth in (Catholic Hospitals DIRECTORY The total of 1^1 Catholic the 40 years from 1015 to 1955. pitals, Including Catholic insti hospitals and allied agencies In In the U.S. in 1955 there were tutions, increased slightly leas the U.S. and Canada mari(| an 1.141 Catholic hospitals and than one third, from si23 to OF ADVERTISERS increase of some 200 per cent in agencies, and in Canada there 6,840, and that bed facilities PAGE were 360 simitar institutions. were increased from 612251 to Aldridge MercanUie Co...... — ...... 17 These figures, revealed In a 1,573,014, a growth of some 150 American Flooring Co. .. — 23 report for the annual directory per. cent in the U.S,. alone. The number of Hospital Progreu, decade of greatest development American Sanitary Products Co.______- 26 magazine of the CatboDc Hos was from 1929 to 1939, when pital Association of the United nursing homes, convalescent Baker's Service Co. ______— - ^ States and Canada, were com homes, and rest homes were BarneU Office Equipment C o. ______------55 piled by M. R. Kneifl, executive classified as agencies of hos Berbert, George. & Sons______i- ..- - 20 secretary of the organization. pitals. Burghard Floral Go. ______- 54 BEST When the first directory of Patients Number the CHA was compiled in 1918, Canada Dry Bottling C o...... 30 Catholic hospitals and agencies Nearly 5^)00,000 WISHES in the U.S. totaled 551 and Can Capital Mattress Co______SO to ada’s total was 101. The current Some 4,^,190 In-patients Carman Co...... 24 1.141 institutions in the U.S. were served In 783 U.S. Cath olic hospitals on the basis of in Carson's Inc.______7 The Sisters have 147,577 beds and 23,121 Colorado Blue Cross-Blue Shield______l______9 bassinets. Canada's 360 institu complete 1954 figures. Out-pa of tions have 66,018 beds and 5,894 tients treated in clinics of these Corredo Terrazzo and Tile Co- - -______32 bassinets. hospitals totaled 3,668,408. Ah Credit Bureau of Colorado Springs. Inc...... - 28 Charity additional 129^95 patients (re The trend among U.S. hospi ceived care in 313 special hos Crib Diaper Service...... 30 tals in the past five years, the pitals under Catfaolm auspices. ^ of report says, has been to expand Daniels Motor, Inc.______28 facilities rather than to con In Canadian Catholic hospitals Debs Hospital Supply...... — ____ l...... 15 Penrose In 1954, some 1,500,000 persons struct new buildings. Forty new Denver Oxygen Co.______J...... 12 hospitals were erected in the were served. Hospital U.S. and Canada since statistics Disposal Service C o.______s ...... 31 were compiled in 1950. In this period the bed capacity was in Electronic Network, Inc ...... 14 Joslyn Fruit Co. creased by 21,749 units and the Spiritual El Paso County Lumber Co______13 Exchange National Bank ...... 8 125 So. Cascade bassfnets by 2.457. In the 36 years between 1918 Motivation Executone Company of Denver, Inc...... j . . ___ 10 ME. 4-9011 and 1954, U.S. Catholic hospi tals more than doubled in num Colorado Springs Necessary F 4 L Food Products, Inc...... 16 ber and nearly tripled in vol Fentron Metal Industries, Inc., ______, ...... 85 ume. In Canada, the number of hospitals more than tripled, and The necessity of spiritual mo Flaks-Colorado Springs Co. .I f—...... - ...... S3 the total beds and bassinets in- tivation in t h e Catholic hos Foss, M. L„ Inc...... S3 . creased by seven times. pital's care of the sick is para wiuRHiniinmn^^ Mr. Kneifl points out that in mount. ' Giddlngs, Ralph, Interiors...... -...... 11 the same period all U.S. hos The service of the* sick and Guldman Linen Co...... -______26 the poor must be given in the name and in the spirit of Christ/' Hallack 4 Howard Lumber Co...... 4 BEST WISHES FROM to merit the term Catholic. Hos pital care sponsored and super Harrison, Fred O ______—______30 vised by the government can not reproduce this sort of serv Hendric 4 BoUhoIf Co...... 1...... 28 Husser’s ice. Henley's Key Service------30 Heyse Sheet Metal 4 Roofing Cii . —4______21 TELEPHONE 3178 WEST COLORADO AVENUE 3fust Increase ME 48837 COLORADO SPRINGS Catholic Spirit ^ Hollywood Creamery ___i ...... -______- 10 AND The primary value oi the spir Home Mercantile...... L______30 itual approach has been ex Hospital T. V. Rentals, Inc.______31 *THE BURGHARD pressed by Bishop Rosario Broe- Kusser The Florist ...... —...... 34 deur of Alexandria, Ont., Epis FLORAL copal chairman of Canada's Industrial Cleaning Service...... -...... 26 Catholic Hospital council, who Inland Frosted Fopds, Inc------— 27 324 E- FONTANERO said that “leadership and ef ficiency are poasible only if our Joslyn Fruit Co...... —...... 34 ME. 3-3861 COLORADO SPRINGS hospitals maintain and increase their Catholic spirit." Keller Refrigeration Service ...... 27 Lauren, Burt, Inc...... -...... 31 Lembke ConstrueUon C o.____ ...... ______36 Congratulations Lowell-Meservey Hardware Co. ______i_____ 6 May-D 4 F ...... - . 1 3 McKesson-4 Robbins, Inc...... ______35 Morey Mercantile ...... 10 to The Sisters of Charity; Muckle Professional Equipment - ______16 NaUoral Commiaaion Co., Inc ^______25 to Fisher, Fisher & Davis, Architects: and Nolan Funeral Home...... 4 ...... 22 Norton Office Supplies ...... 21 to Lembke Construction Co., General Contractor, Olson Plumbing 4 Heating Co., Inc...... 7 Paint Supply Co. -- ...... 32 Phelps Refrigeration Service...... 29 on Construction of the Reeves-Ryan 4 Co, ...... 34 Reid, Byron 0...... 17 Reliance Engineering 4 Manufacturing Co...... 22 Rocky Mountain Paving. Inc. ______. - -...... 22 PENROSE HOSPITAL! Rogers. Ray ...... ------...... 12 Robinson Gram Co.______-...... 12 ■ r . ' Rose Printing. Inc...... - -...... 33 Reeves-Ryan is proud to have been selected to install Schriber Decorating Co...... 24 Seton School of Nursing...... 18-19 sixty thousand square feet of Ceramic Floor & Wall Tile. Seven-Up Bottling Co. of Colorado Springs ...... 27 Southwest Plumbing 4 HeWing...... Spray Coffee 4 Spice Co...... 4 -___ Sturgeon Electric Co., Inc...... 20 Sweeney, H. Patrick, Co...... 14 Thomas Boys ...... 4 Town Talk Bakers 25 Transit Mix Concrete Co. .. 29 Vet^to, J. 0. _____ . - 17 Western Office Equipment Co...... 13 Woehrmyer Printing Co...... 6 701 So. Logan St., Denver. Phone SH. 4-2476 Yadon Electnc Motor Co. 30 Zeeba 4 Adams Conoco Serivee ...... —...... • ) Thursday', 10, 1959 ¥ h E > B M V E I( 'C A t H O L lt RE<11STER SectiM TwO^AGE THlRTY-^iVE New $6,500,000 Institution .. . t. p. Architect’s sketch of magniffceDt new Penrose IlospUjd, Cotorsdo Sprines IN CATHOLIC HOSPITALS Special 'Qualify of Dedication' Sincere Best Wishes Characterizes Care Given by Nuns BARNETT A special ''quality of dedica every case, has risen in response late Cardinal Samuel Strilch has tion" makes the care given by to the need of a local com declared, cannot be solved sim OFFICE EQUIPMENT CO. sisters in Cathoiic hospitais munity.” ply by condemning re^menta- "close to the hearts of Ameri Dr. Scheele called attention ti W e have been honored by having the opportunity to construct the beautiful riew < Penrose Hospital. , OUR HUMBLE THANKS TO SISTER CYRIL AND HER STAFF LEMBKE CONSTRUCTION CO., Inc. Qeneral Contractors 3100 NORTH EL PASO COLORADO SPRINGS. COLO.