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House Organ Writing Contest VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HOUHOUwww.mc.vanderbilt.edu/houseorgan SSEE OORRGGAAFeNNbruary 2010 Pets 2010 Gilda the Great Dane, pet therapy star watching the wheels Same as the HOU SE ORGAN www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/houseorgan February 2010 old Boss COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY JOE HOWELL BY WAYNE WOOD come here to praise Bruce Pets of the Springsteen, but first: there are Medical Center 2010 I several things about his song - Every year we ask for your favorite pic - writing that annoy me: specifically I tures of your dogs, cats, and other dislike his overreliance on a few assorted beasts. We get several hundred. familiar phrases and concepts, And then we select some of the best to among them: feature. Go to the House Organ Web site • “Little girl,” usually not meant to at http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/houseor - mean “female child,” but instead gan/ to vote for your favorites in the Dog, “girlfriend or person I would like to Cat, and Group or Duo categories, and also see a lot more photos of pets that we be my girlfriend.” When you start Dingle. Erin Dietrich, Human Resources. paying attention to this, it takes on didn’t have room for in the print edition. the quality of a weird verbal tic. This phrase is used more than 100 Gilda the Great times in his songs. Great Dane, that is. Gilda is a pet therapy dog who comes to the • “Night.” Think of just some of his Pediatric Rehabilitation area at song titles: “Spirit in the Night,” Vanderbilt Health One Hundred “Prove it All Night,” “Because the Oaks, and doesn’t mind when Night,” “Drive All Night,” “Open children rub her, lie against her or All Night,” “Rosalita (Come Out even paint her toenails. Tonight),“ “Something in the Night,” “Restless Nights,” and, uh, what was that song on side one of Writing Contest, 2010: Born to Run ? Oh, yeah: “Night.” Call for Entries Some of these are great songs, but Are you a poet or writer walking around still. That’s an awful lot of night. disguised as a regular person? Enter the House Organ Writing Contest and come • “Day.” Possibly for equal time rea - one day this summer you can be forward - sons, he has also written “Glory ing the link to your story or poem around Days,” “Better Days,” “Indepen - to all your envious friends. dence Day,” “Lonesome Day,” “Light of Day,” “Kingdom of Days,” “Waitin’ on a Sunny Day,” and “My Lucky Day.” On Facebook? • “Rivers.” They may be muddy, Become a fan of VUMC House Organ black, clear or cold, but he stocks his and post comments about the pet issue. songs liberally with them. Lots and Connect at the House Organ Web site at lots of rivers being crossed, flowing http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/houseorgan by, being used as a meeting place, On Twitter? and generally filling in lyrical holes in songs. Comment on the issue or the pet poll using the hashtag #vandypets • And, as my colleague and fellow Springsteenophile Kathy Whitney noted when I got off on this rant © 2010 Vanderbi lt Un iv ersi ty Me di ca lC enter one day with her: “Roads.” Here’s House Organ is the magazine for the staff, faculty, volunteers, and students of Vanderbilt University Medical Kathy’s list: “Backstreets,” “Does Center. It is published monthly, with a combined December/January issue, by the Office of News and Public Affairs of VMC. News stories, ideas, and suggestions are welcome, and should be sent to House Organ, CCC- This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?” 3312 Medical Center North, Nashville, Tenn., 37232-2390. E-mail: [email protected]. “Further On (Up The Road),” The paper used to print House Organ is recycled and recyclable. “Highway 29,” ”Highway Patrol - Vanderbilt University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action university. man,” “Incident On 57th Street,” Editor and Ex. Director of New Media and Electronic Publications: Wayne Wood ”Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” The E Director of Publications: Nancy Humphrey Staff Writer: Carole Bartoo continued on page 12 Photographer: Joe Howell Designer: Keith Wood, Vanderbilt University Creative Services 2 HOUSE ORGAN ices Serv trition linical Nu udy Arena, C Hope. J Pets of the Medical Center 2010 Vote online for the Medical Center Dog, Cat, and Group or Duo of the Year Ten things about the Pets of the Medical Center 2010. • More than 500 entries poured in after the contest was • Those attempting to circumvent the voting process by auto - announced in September. matic votes or other means will be disqualified. • One of the best ways to describe the overall effect is “A • The categories and pets in the poll are the same as those in bonanza of cuteness.” the print version—10 dogs, 10 cats, and 10 groups or duos. • For budget reasons, fewer pages of pets are included in the • Voting begins at 10 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 5, and concludes at print version than in previous years; to make up for this, 10 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18. many more pets are featured on the House Organ Web site, • Top vote getters in each category will be announced on the http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/houseorgan/ House Organ site, and will also be featured in the March • The pets in the print version represent 10 dogs, 10 cats, and 2010 issue, which will be posted online Friday, March 5. 10 groups or duos of friends. • Those who missed the deadline for entry for this pet con - • Also at the House Organ site, there is a link to the 2010 test should look for the call for entries in the September House Organ Pet Poll, which allows readers to vote on 2010 issue of House Organ . favorites, one vote per computer per category. February 2010 3 rite for your favo DOG Lucy. Lauren Ferzoco, NICU. Nic k. Vicki Gann, Liver Transplant. Bella Grac e. Evie Carr oll, Periopera tive Services. Bitsy. D ebbie Arno w, Nursing Education. Mocha. Sandy Yoder, Vaccine Center. “A friend gave her the snazzy black party dress and I put it on her to model it.” 4 HOUSE ORGAN Zeus. Shelley Sadler, Clinical Staffing Resource Center. nter. Riley. Vicki Scala, Bill Wilkerson Ce esources. ner, Human R las. Misty Sum Buster Doug ic Surgery. illiams, Pediatr Macy. Laura W Vote online at u/houseorgan www.mc.vanderbilt.ed Hanna. Annette Ehrhart, Center for Health Services.“Every morning she has to go get the newspaper from the end of the driveway. Neither February 2010 5 rain, thunderstorms, nor snow keeps her from her duty.” orite ur fav for yo Lilly Belle. Kathleen Mandato, VMG Training. CAT th, Perioperative Oreo. Tom Fairclo cs and Computing. f Research. Informati ale, Office o a De Pasqu Jake. Donn macy. io, Phar . DiPers David M Barney. Porgy. Dolores Goold, Pediatric Echo Lab. ORGAN 6 HOUSE Poppey. Michel e Stratton, Radiology. M r. Hea d. Loui untou se Warr chable, en, 11 N malnour orth M ished str yelosup ay [is] n ression. ow a fa "Our on t, sassy ce lap cat." Maggie, Ginger Ketschke, Social Work (Orthopaedics & Urology)."Maggie was a failure to thrive kitten, adopted from the Williamson County Animal Shelter. She currently weighs in at 21 pounds." Sydney. Sally Lindsey, Rehabilitation Services. Vote onli ne at Sm www. uckers. mc.vand Debbie P erbilt.e ounder du/hous s, Insura eorgan nce Man agement. Febr uary 2010 7 al Nutrition Services. Morgan and Tess. Judy Arena, Clinic orite ur fav for yo GROUP OR DUO n.” Presto ndson, ng gra rotecti nic. lldog p are Cli lish Bu mary C e Eng ric Pri onel th Pediat “Col eyer, Wehm Kathy Hank and Molly. Diane Kolb, Biostatistics. “Hank and Molly were cast offs from other families and ended up in rescue. Though not sister and brother, you cannot separate the two of them.” acology. Brown.” Ronald Emeson, Pharm “Midnight, Sydney & Charlie RGAN 8 HOUSE O , VMG Coding and hawn Scarbrough Stella and Tess. S Charge Entry. Smalls and Minnie. Bryana Andrews, VMG Clinic Pharmacy. “They sleep like this every night and follow each other around like they are stuck at the hip.” Gypsy, Kess and Mocha Bits. Mary C. Stevenson, Pediatric Endocrinology. Bella (miniature Vie tnamese potbe Clinical Staffin llied pig) and g Resource Cent Bo. Lisa Sisk, their firs er. "I just happen t meeting nose to ed to snap this p nose as they exp ic of lored each other." Sylvester and Rascal. Beth Bras well, Neurosurgery. Vote online at www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/houseorgan Preston and my daughter, Cameron. Timothy Cox, Systems Support. February 2010 9 Friend Gilda the Great Dane provides a gentle A presence for children at Pediatric Rehab BY CARGOLE BARTOO REAT ilda the Great Dane is getting dressed to visit the chil - animals. Sometimes children are more confident with a hand on dren in the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital Pedi - the big dog than they might be holding an adult’s hand. The atric Rehabilitation Services at Vanderbilt Health. She children and the adults are doing serious work here and Gilda puts on a T-shirt— covered in signatures from her many plays her part with great patience and trust. She is a natural. L L fans— and a pink tutu. Rizhaupt says she could see Gilda was special right from E W O H She trots down the hallway at Vanderbilt Health One the start. A few years ago, after losing her first beloved Great E O Hundred Oaks, and is stopped by an employee who Dane to bone cancer, she went looking for another.
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