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THE Chaplain's Corner BEACON BY CHAPLAIN RICHARD TETZLOFF LIGHT From Our Executive Vice President a publication of GENE BAKKE St. Cloud FOR THE PAST SIXTY DAYS , PEOPLE FROM THROUGH- IS, OF COURSE , TO ASSURE BROAD INPUT AND INVOLVE-
Hospital OUT THE ST. CLOUD COMMUNITY HAVE BEEN MEETING MENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE HOSPITAL MEDICAL AND OPERATION OF ST . CLOUD HOSPITAL . WITH THE DIRECT editor ADMINISTRATIVE STAFFS AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD PARTICIPATION OF CONSUMER REPRESENTATIVES FROM THERE IS A SAYING WHICH GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS , OF TRUSTEES TO JOINTLY DISCUSS THE FUTURE ROLE THE COMMUNITY IN PLANNING, THE LIKELIHOOD OF sam wenstrom "TODAY IS THE TOMORROW YOU WORRIED ABOUT YESTERDAY-- AND FUNCTION OF ST. CLOUD HOSPITAL. BASED ON A THOSE PLANS BEING VALID AND .RESPONSIVE TO COMM- NOW WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?" staff REPORT PREPARED BY W . I . CHRISTOPHER AND ASSO- UNITY NEEDS IS SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCED. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? IN OTHER WORDS , CIATES , HOSPITAL CONSULTANTS , THE 120 PEOPLE EVEN AT THIS POINT, THE MEMBERS OF THE TASK al blommer IT' S UP TO YOU , YOUR CHOICE , YOUR DECISION . IT SEEMS SO INVOLVED WILL RECOMMEND WHAT STEPS THE HOSPITAL FORCES HAVE SPENT CONSIDERABLE TI ME AND EFFORT pernina burke SAD THAT SOME PEOPLE DON' T SEE IT AS A CHOICE . THEY SEE OUGHT TO TAKE TO MEET THE PRESENT AND FUTURE AT MEETINGS , AS WELL AS IN STUDY AND RESEARCH LIFE ONLY HAPPENING TO THEM AND NOT BEING CREATED BY THEM . HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE OF ST . CLOUD AND agues claude ATTEMPTING TO COME UP WITH THE BEST RECOMMEN- THEY FEEL INEFFECTUAL IN CHANGING OR IN MODIFYING THEIR SURROUNDING AREA. sister colleen DATIONS POSSIBLE FOR THE FUTURE OPERATION OF THE LIFE STYLES AND MIGHT BE VERY PLEASED IF SOMEONE WOULD THE GROUP OF 120 PEOPLE HAS BEEN DIVIDED INTO HOSPITAL . BY THE TI ME THEY FINISH THEIR WORK, cissi hansen SAY RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THEIR DAY, DO TO LACK OF SIX TASK FORCES , EACH DIRECTING THEIR ATTENTION TASK FORCE MEMBERS WILL HAVE SPENT AS MUCH AS INTEREST TODAY HAS BEEN CANCELLED marie hoppert TO A SPECIFIC AREA OF CONCERN . QUALITY OF PATIENT EIGHTY HOURS ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT PROJECT. PERHAPS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN ARE THE FEEL- CARE , EXTENSION AND EXPANSION OF SERVICES INTER- joanne keck THE DIRECTIONS ST. CLOUD HOSPITAL WILL TAKE INGS JUST WHAT CAN ONE DO ABOUT TODAY? HOW MUCH IS MY AGENCY COLLABORATION , CATHOLICITY-APOSTOLIC INTHEYEARSAHEAD WILL , TO A LARGE , EXTENT , beatrice knuesel LITTLE INSIGNIFICANT VOICE GOING TO BE HEARD IF I CRY OUT EFFECTIVENESS, HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE POOR AND DETERMINE THE KIND OF HEALTH SERVICES THAT WILL tom mclaughlin "STOP THE STUPID WAR ." WHO'S GOING TO LISTEN IF I SHARE MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED , AND PUBLIC ATTITUDE AND BE AVAILABLE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE AREA. THE MY THOUGHTS ON LOVING ONE ANOTHER? IT SEEMS .S0 FUTILE . IMAGE ARE THE BROAD CATEGORIES OF CONCERNS BEING esther merkling TASK FORCES WILL PLAY A MAJOR ROLE IN SETTING WHY TRY? WORKED ON BY EACH TASK FORCE OF ABOUT 20 PEOPLE . THESE DIRECTIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE ENTIRE arlene sauer BUT IF YOU DON' T CHOOSE TO DO ANYTHING WILL ANYBODY THE REASON FOR TAKING THE TASK FORCE APPROACH COMMUNITY. sister man( schneider ELSE ? MAYBE OTHERS ARE WAITING FOR YOU TO SET THE EX- donna strack AMPLE TODAY. RECENTLY I FOUND THIS INSIDE OF A MATCH- BOOK COVER. I PASS THROUGH THIS WORLD BUT ONCE. ANY
marie tronnes GOOD, THEREFORE, THAT I CAN DO OR ANY KINDNESS THAT I CAN
SHOW TO ANY HUMAN BEING, LET ME DO IT NOW. LET ME NOT
DEFER OR NEGLECT IT FOR I SHALL NOT PASS THIS WAY AGAIN . WE WILL ONLY PASS THROUGH TODAY ONCE . CHOOSE TO DO
SOMETHING WITH IT. Our Record of Service
EMERGENCY Comment on the Cover ... ADMISSIONS BIRTHS OPERATIONS X-RAYS LAB.TESTS 01ITPT..VISITS APRIL SISTER CONSILIA NESGES, 0 •S .B. , WHO RETIRED DURING LLNGTH OF SERVICE . OTHERS PICTURED ARE GERTRUDE 1,456 110 530 4,081 THE PAST YEAR AFTER SERVING 43 YEARS AS PATIENT JAEGER , SR . MARGARET MARY PIPINSKI , 0 .S .8 . , AND 1972 23,937 751 LIBRARIAN , STOLE THE SHOW AT THE EMPLOYEE RECOG- MRS. LADDIE KRAY . SR. LOUIS MARIE, RIGHT , IS TO NITION DINNER DURING NATIONAL HOSPITAL WEEK . SHE OBVIOUSLY ENJOYING THE MOMENT. SEE OTHER PIC - APRIL 30 5,554 528 2,078 15,312 92,290 WAS ONE OF SEVEN RETIREES HONORED THAT NIGHT, TURES OF NATIONAL HOSPITAL WEEK ACTIVITIES ON 2,749 ALONG WITH 101 EMPLOYEES WHO RECEIVED AWARDS FOR PAGE 6-7 • St. Cloud Hospital Page 3 Page 2 The Beacon Light New in Surgery... Two Sisters To Make Changes Surgeons Here Do Total Hip Procedure Sr. Bernadine Ballmann, and Sr. Paul Division Director. Revier will leave St. Orthopedic s u r g e o n s at the St. Cloud Orthopedics Associates, with offices in CloudHospitalthis sum- Announcements regarding replacements mer, Hospital report a high incidence of success Doctor's Park. each taking on a will be made later. using a new procedure which totally replaces new challenge in t h e hip joints in older patients. hospital field. Jeanne Huls New At CU Dr. Jerry A. Iverson said the operation Sr. Bernadine, Hospital employees calling at the down- involves r e mo v a 1 of the original ball and Executive Housekeeper town office of the Credit Union will see a "new" socket hip joint, which is then replaced by a here since 1965, will face, still somewhat familiar. Jeanne Huls, plastic socket and a vitallium or stainless go to St. Benedict's formerly employed in the hospital dietary de- steel ball held in place with acrylic cement. Hospital in Ogden, partment, is now a Teller-Bookkeeper in that The surgery takes from two to four hours. Utah, to fill a similar office. Training for six weeks under "Toni" "The doctors at the St. Cloud Hospital position there. The James, who has handled the hospital's Credit have been doing this total hip replacement Ogden hospital is also Union account. Jeanne . will be familiar with procedure for about six months now, " Dr. sponsored by the Sis- SR. BERNADINE our operation by that time. Iverson stated. "And, the general success ters of the Order of St. Benedict. Toni is retiring to spend more time with rate is about 95% f or having a pain-free, Sr. Paul, who h a s been Director of the her family. stable, mobile and durable hip joint. " Nursing Division at St. Cloud Hospital since' Many c ha nges are taking place in our This surgery is often called for in older 1967, will study for a Ma ster's Degree in Credit Union affairs-- changes of personnel, patients (usually not below the age of 60) who H o s pital Administra- bigger dividends, growing membership. suffer from degenerative arthritis. tion at St. Louis Uni- Are YOU a member? And are you re- The procedure has evolved with modern versity during the next membering that immediate members of your DR. JERRY IVERSON , ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON, HOLDS THE two years. technology to its present stage through mul- TWO PARTS TO THE METAL-TO-POLYETHYLENE PROS- family, living at home, are also eligible for tiple trials and errors, Dr. Iverson explained. THESIS USED IN THE TOTAL HIP PROCEDURE . THE FE- Both expressed membership. Dr. John Barton first attempted to mo - MORAL PROSTHESIS IS MADE OF VITALLIUM OR STAIN- mixed emotions about LESS STEEL AND IS HELD INTO PLACE WITH A NEW leaving. bilize a diseased hip in 1826 by creating an ACRYLIC CEMENT WHICH DOES NOT ACTUALLY ADHERE artificial joint in the proximal femur (upper TO THE BONE BUT PROVIDES FIXATION BY BEING PLACED "I'm sad to leave, INTO THE INTERLACING NETWORK OF BONES . THE PLAS- but happy to take on a thigh bone). Since then, tissue interposition, TIC CUP REPLACED THE SOCKET PORTION OF THE ORIGINAL new assignment at gold foil, pig's bladders, glass and metal HIP JOINT. AN ENLARGED PHOTO OF THE TWO PIECES IS AT THE RIGHT. have been introduced into the joint in order Ogden, " Sr. Bernadine to provide a pain-free articulation with Two Grads on HOPE Mission said. "I look forward SR. PAUL to trying something new, especially since I'll motion. Two alumnae of the St. Cloud School of probably be lost in such a small hospital." Then, Drs. Smith and Petersen intro- Nursing were aboard the hospital ship S. S. St. Benedict's Hospital has 180 beds, and duced the cup arthoplasty in 1923, followed HOPE when it sailed from Baltimore bound will begin construction of a new $8-million in 1940 by Drs. Bohlman and Moore who re- for Natal, Brazil, on February 4. facility next year. Sr. Bernadine has worked placed the entire head and neck of the femur Patricia Ann Bi eni ek , class of 1963, in the Housekeeping Department since 1948, with a metal prosthesis, the forerunner of from St. Paul, willserve as a medical- and will leave July 15. the procedure now used at the St. Cloud Hos- surgical nurse aboard the ship. Before join- "I'll find it very difficult to say 'good- pital, he said. ing HOPE she was nurse coordinator at Miller bye' to this pla c e , " Sr. Paul said. "I feel "There is still one major problem that Ho spital , St. Paul. like a member of the old guard because so must be overcome in this procedure, " Dr. A. Ann Lenzmeier, class of 1958, from many chang e s have taken place during my Iverson said. "Unfortunately, infection con- St. Cloud, will serve as nurse anesthetist on , 1 1 career here. But, our Order needs more tinues to plague the surgeon today, just as it the ship's current ten-month mission. She people in Hospital Administration and I look did years ago in Dr. Barton's day. "For received her training in anesthesia at SCH. 'II forward to the life of a student during the next reasons not yet completely clear, surgeons CAPE, CAP AND CANDLE-64 FRESHMEN AT THE HOPE' s mission to Brazil represents the 21 months." She is a graduate (1954) of the SCHOOL OF NURSING, AMONG THEM GAIL PECKSKAMP , have reported the total hip replacement has second leg of a three-year hemispheric com- School of Nursing, receiV e d a Bachelor's DAUGHTER OF MR . AND MRS . ALBERT PECKSKAMP , ST . an attendant risk of infection about ten times mitment. Completion of the first phase oc- CLOUD, RECEIVED CAPE, CAP AND CANDLE DURING TRA- Degree in Nursing from Boston C o 11 eg e in DITIONAL CEREMONIES SUNDAY, APRIL 24 , AT ST . that of the usual orthopedic procedure, " he curred in November, 1971, when the S. S. 1966, and wa s in various supervisory posi- PAUL'S CHURCH . THE 'PROGRAM MARKS THE THIRD stated. HOPE departed after a ten-month mission in QUARTER OF STUDY kOR THE STUDENTS . REV . RICHARD tions here and in Ogden before b ec oming Dr. Iverson is associated with St. Cloud the West Indies. TETZLOFF, PROTESTANT CHAPLAIN IS AT THE LEFT. PRESENTING THE CAPE IS INSTRUCTOR BETTY LEVSTIK Page 4 The Beacon Light St. Cloud Hospital . Page 5 National Hospital Week a II - 1 , Ir W , 411
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tiP A LARGE BANNER ANNOUNCED NATIONAL HOSPITAL WEEK FROM THIS LARGE WINDOW WAS PROVIDED BY FANDEL' S ABOVE THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO ST. CLOUD HOSPITAL. FOR A DISPLAY OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND A TYPICAL OPERATION SCE NE WITH PATIENT , MAYOR AL L 0 E HR ISSUED A SANDY BANKER, CHAIRMAN OF DOCTORS AND NURSES CENTRAL SERVICE AND FORMAL PROCLAMATION DESI G- THE OBSERVANCE FOR THE SURGERY PROVIDED THE DISPLAY EQUIPMENT. NAT I NG MAY 7-13 NATIONAL VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HOSPITAL WEEK , AND CONGRAT- HOSPITAL, MAYOR LOEHR , AND ULATING THE CITY'S HOSPITALS EARL PEDERSON , SCH CHAIR- MAN FOR THEIR HEALTH CARE WORK . ABOVE , LEFT TO RIGHT, ARE
S EDUCATIONAL EXHIBI Ts LI_
FOR RESPIRATORY HEALTH RY HEALTH ASSOCIATION INESOTA RESPI
THE MOBILE RESPIRATORY UNIT PROVIDED r THESE PEOPLE MANNED THE MOBILE X -RAY BREATHING TESTS FOR 200 PERSONS DURING ITS V UNIT WHICH PROVIDED 150 CHEST X -RAYS ON THREE-DAY STAY IN ST . CLOUD DURING HOSPIT- FRIDAY OF HOSPITAL WEEK . THEY ARE DENNIS AL WEEK . PICTURED ABOVE WITH. THE UNIT MURPHY, X-RAY TECHNOLOGIST, MRS. A J . ARE PAUL MUNSON, PROGRAM DIRECTOR FOR LENARZ, MRS. STEVE KR U Z I CH AND MRS. THE MINNESOTA RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOC- WILLIAM JOHNSON . THE UNIT WAS LOCATED AT IATION, NHW CHAIRMAN EARL PEDERSON , AND HEAD TABLE AT THE EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION DINNER WHICH CROSSROADS CENTER. TECHNOLOGIST , F L OR IAN SHU MA . AT THE HONORED 101 EMPLOYEES INCLUDED , LEFT TO RIGHT, MR . AND RIGHT, ONE OF THE TESTS IS UNDERWAY, WITH MRS . GENE BAKKE , BOARD OF TRUSTEE MEMBER SR . LUKE THE PERSON AT THE RIGHT BLOWING INTO A BOARD CHAIRMAN MOTHER HENRITA , CHIEF OF STAFF DR . MACHINE WHICH REGISTERS VITAL CAPACITY. J. W. SMITH , MRS . SMITH , SR . VIRGINIA, AND HOSPITAL WEEK CHAIRMAN EARL PEDERSON .
Page 6 The Beacon Light St. Cloud Hospital Page 7 Promotion Congratulations... DELORES KIRCHNER, Supervisor Trainee in Housekeeping, was promoted to Supervi- sor. Delores works on First Floor. At4AVA, mebetWO .or rewaRafti. NANCY ✓ DeARM4 we), ( 14/411C,4V JIMA ✓ , LIASON KIN IlLE/AISCHAVDT RUTH MUELLER, Inventory Clerk in Pur- chasing was pr omoted to Secretary in the same department, filling the vacancy left by ST. CLOUD SCHOOL OF NURSING Joyce Waldoch. CLASS OR MILDRED POEPPING, Transcriber Trainee 1972 on 3 South, was promoted to Transcriber. JOHN JANSON, Orderly in Physical Therapy COAIN/0 NOLA. was promoted to Chief Orderly. X1111 _ ANN SCHWICKERATH, Physical Therapy Aide KEN KLEINSCHMIDT, NURSING SENIOR FROM ST. CLOUD, was promoted to Sr. Physical Therapy Order- RECEIVED THE SR. ELIZABETH SCHOLARSHIP FOR PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOLASTIC EXCELLENCE , P R E - ly. SENTED BY MRS. LADDIE KRAY, PRESIDENT, SCHOOL JOAN MC DONALD, Physical Therapy Aide OF NURSING ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION AT A RECEPTION 0 was promoted to Sr. Physical Therapy Order- MAY 9 . THE ALUMNAE ALSO GAVE $200 TO THE SCHOOL'S MOS, JOAN AVOCKCE A.An.,400 COeMOVVVW 407,1C.44 0/4000•. LEARNING CENTER . ENTERTAINMENT WAS PROVIDED BY 1 y. THE REVELATION SINGERS . RITA GILL, Housekeeping Aide, was pro- ELLEN VOIGT, Staff Nurse on 3 North was moted to Supervisor Trainee. promoted to Supervisor Trainee in Nursing JUDY BRANNAN, Staff Nurse in Nursing Ser- Service. vice was promoted to Supervisor Trainee. RITA CONDON, Assistant Head Nurse on 4 0 DONNA THEISEN, Jr. Medical Clerk was South was pr o m o t e d to Head Nurse on the MARGARIK nweLNA ANN MAK/I Oe.O• wrrwcm SONG/ promcted to Senior Medical Records Clerk. same floor. From Our Kitchen... Members of the Beacon Light Staff knew that spinach 'i v 0 4.■ C au gratin had to be the recipe of the month after this dishwas VERONICA /oefireve SANDRA MECX44.440,449 4m04 YANAIWO044400:40f LAVINscatv.400044w AMR ew.401.77 0 sAyly 44tarr .wAttave AilLAND &AIRY ANIZYSILLA served in the employee cafeteria one day in March. It was delicious, and resulted in many requests on how to make it. So, below is a dish Popeye wouldn't recognize, but everyone else loved. As they say "try it, you'll like it!"
• 0 0 From The St. Cloud Hospital Kitchens OMNI, STANIVW AAWIrKif NICNOCION ONARON AlfAt/S werleace me-11"w. SPINACH AU GRATIN
2 TPSP . MARGARINE 1 PKG . FROZEN, COOKED SPINACH
2 TPSP . FLOUR 1/4 CUP BUTTERED BREAD CRUMBS
1 CUP MILK 1 /8 TSP . PEPPER
1 /2. CUP CHEESE , SHREDDED 1 /4 TSP . SALT . 0 0 MAX/ li rye/. .4,LVEAWE ANAFIPOON SWAN IONWI/TZ IWOICA Al4WeR
1. MELT MARGARINE OVER LOW HEAT . BLEND IN FLOUR AND SEASONINGS . STIR UNTIL MIXTURE IS SMOOTH.
2. REMOVE FROM HEAT. STIR IN MILK. BRING TO BOILING STIRRING CONSTANTLY. BOIL 1 MINUTE .
3 . ADD CHEESE . STIR UNTIL MELTED .
4. FOLD CHEESE SAUCE INTO COOKED, WELL-DRAINED SPINACH.
0000. ‘0141, 4.41404t. wAtiA4 OCKMIT74 5. PUT INTO CASSEROLE. SPRINKLE WITH BREAD CRUMBS.
6 • BAKE AT 350 DEGREES JUST UNTIL BREAD CRUMBS ARE GOLDEN BROWN .
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Six Win Suggestion Awards Take a Guess... Five cash awards and one merit certi- ficate were awarded in March for ideas sub- mitted to the Employee Suggestion System. KEN GERADS of CENTRAL SERVICE Medical got $15 for his idea to keep a receptable for specimens in the soiled utility room on each Memo floor. THE ST. CLOUD MEDICAL SOCIETY KATHERINE HIBBISON, RN, received BY: DR. H. M. BROKER $15 for her suggestionto provide a table, not IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS, IT HAS BECOME NECES- CIAN MEMBERS OF THIS COMMUNITY APPOINTED TO a cart for use in the C.S. Freight elevator SARY TO FORM A LOCAL ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS. COMMITTEES OF THE STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY. WE room. WHILE THERE ARE FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY MEDICAL HAVE ALSO BEEN MORE ACTIVE IN OUR COUNTY MEDICAL LA VERNE KRAEMER of FOOD SER- SOCIETIES IN EXISTENCE, THEY D 0 NOT SOLVE THE SOCIETY AND HAVE HELPED IN INCORPORATING THAT VICE got a Merit certificate for her proposal MEDICAL PROBLEMS OF OUR COMMUNITY . IT WAS , SOCIETY IN THE PAST YEAR . to provide cocoa packets in the cafeteria for THEREFORE , NECESSARY IN 1970 TO INCORPORATE THE IN OUR INCEPTION , WE HAVE RECEIVED HELP FROM employees and visitors. ST. CLOUD MEDICAL SOCIETY- OTHER MEDICAL SOCIETIES. ALREADY, OUR EXPERIENCE ESTHER MERKLING of EMPLOYMENT THE SOCIETY WAS INCORPORATED AS A BENEVOLENT, HAS BEEN USED TO HELP OTHER MEDICAL COMMUNITIES . won the top prize of the month of $50.70, CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION. IT IS THE IMMEDIATE AND MOST NOTICEABLE AFFECT OF OUR (which is 15% of the estimated first rear's DEDICATED TO GUARD THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC IN SOCIETY IS ON THE PHYSICIANS OF OUR COMMUNITY. savings) for her idea to have the computer THE PHOTO IN LAST MONTH' S BEACON LIGHT FOOLED EVERYONE , BUT YOU ARE INVITED TO TRY AGAIN • ABOVE ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PROFESSION IN GENERAL . THEY HAVE DEVELOPED A NEW AWARENESS OF THE CUR- report vacation hours on paychecks, thereby IS THE BABY PICTURE OF A MAN WHO HAS WORKED HERE IT IS ALSO DESIGNED TO DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN A RENT LOCAL MEDICAL PROBLEMS. A COOPERATIVE EF- relieving Employment employees of this task. FOR FIVE YEARS IN ONE DEPARTMENT, WAS BORN AND FORT TO OBTAIN ANSWERS TO THE COMMUNITY HEALTH DAVE SZAFRANSKI of DATA PROC- RAISED IN THI S AREA , IS MARR IED AND HAS FOUR CHILD- SOCIAL AND FRIENDLY RELATIONSHIP AMONG ITS MEM- REN. HIS HOBBIES ARE FISHING, BASEBALL, AND BERS. WHILE WE WILL GUARD THE PUBLIC INTEREST , CRISIS HAS BEEN THE GOAL OF THE SOCIETY. ESSING received $26.93 for his idea to use HORSESHOE . MOST STAFF MEMBERS SEE HIM DAILY, WE WILL BE SENSITIVE TO THE PROFESSIONAL INTER- WE DO NOT MAINTAIN THAT THE ST • CLOUD MEDICAL a rubber stamp for health service notices on OFTEN THROUGH SQUARE HOLES IN A WALL • IDENTIFY HIM, WRITE YOUR GUESS WITH YOUR NAME ON A SLIP ESTS OF OUR MEMBERS, THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN SOCIETY HAS ALL THE MEDICAL ANSWERS FOR THE COM- pay envelopes when employees must have lab OF PAPER AND SUBMIT IT TO THE PUBLIC RELATIONS GENERAL AND OUR COMMUNITY. MUNITY OF ST . CLOUD . WE DO MAINTAIN THAT WE HAVE and Mantoux work done annually. His award OFFICE BY JUNE 1. YOU MAY WIN A CAFETERIA LUNCHEON SOME VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE MEMBERS WHO WILL DO was also 15% of the estimated first year's sav- TICKET. LAST MONTH'S PHOTO WAS OF TECKLA JAGELSKI DURING THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF ITS EXISTENCE , OF DIETARY WHICH NOBODY GUESSED . OUR SOCIETY HAS A GOOD RECORD OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS . THE BEST JOB POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE THE BEST MEDICAL ings. And, MILDRED VARNER of ICU got $15 THE ST. CLOUD MEDICAL SOCIETY STI MULATED INTEREST CARE FOR THIS COMMUNITY. for suggesting that doctors use the same lab- Intern Takes Green Giant Job IN THE BROAD SCOPE OF MEDICINE WITH ELEVEN PHYSI- oratory report lists at their offices as the Pat Evans, 21, a graduating senior at hospital uses, thereby reducing chances of St. John's University and for the past year error. an intern in Personnel, The awards were presented b y Gene will start June 1 as Remembrance Fund Gifts A s s i s t ant Personnel Bakke, Executive Vice President. Five cash donations were made to the Supervisor for the St. Cloud Hospital Remembrance Fund during Green Giant Company the past month, according to Mrs. Catherine plant in his home town Strack, Volunteer chairman. Contributions of LeSueur. were made by Mrs. Jerome Weber, Mr. and- A psychology ma- Mrs. Donald Strack, Mr. and Mrs. Willard jor, Pat was president Nierengarten, Mr. and Mrs. RudyPelzer, and of the Psychology Club Mrs. Joseph Strack. at SJU, served on the The fund is used to purchase equipment University Building PAT EVANS for the Coffee-Shop Gift Shop which will be Committee, the All-College Board, and was built in the present Medical Records area, student manager of the Varsity Basketball just off the main lobby. LOUIS AND PAT (MEDICAL RECORDS) WALKER AND HANK team for three years. As a student intern at AND SALLY (CONTINUING EDUCATION) GRABUSKI , SPENT Gifts to the Remembrance Fund may be SCH, Pat participated in all aspects of per- A WEEK SNOWMOBILING IN SWITZERLAND ALPS IN in any amount, and should be deposited at the HOT WHEELS FOR PEDS -A MEMBER OF THE FIRST MARCH . THEY ARE PICTURED IN LU Z ER N , WITH THE sonnel administration, and since December, Information Desk. Families of those in whose PRESBYTERIAN CHRUCH PROVIDED 200 I HOT WHEELSI I MOUNTAINS IN THE BACKGROUND. PAT AND SALLY SAID administered the Employee Suggestion Pro- PLAY CAR SETS FOR USE BY THE KIDS ON PEDS . REV. IT WAS VERY WARM IN THE CITY, BUT COOL, PLEASANT name the donations are made are notified of C • F . STEVENS, RIGHT, PRESENTED THEM TO BETTY gram. AND SNOWY IN THE ALPS. the gift, but not the amount of the contribution. BOWMAN ," R .N . THANK YOU' • Page 10 The Beacon Light St. Cloud Hospital Page 11 RETURN REQUESTED ST. CLOUD HOSPITAL Nonprofit Org. U. S. Postage POSTAGE GUARANTEED PAID St. Cloud, Minn. SCH — Permit No. 389 REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOR CENTRAL MINNESOTA
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