BROOKE BLUEBONNET BROADCAST VOL 1, NO. 9 AUGUST 24 1944 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION gy e 1m ■ mF hi $ aw|n m fey jQL fl Imm B ■ Mr 8 B I AN ARMY SERVICE FORCES INSTALLATION FORT SAM HOUSTON. TEXAS BROOKE BLUEBONNET BROADCAST PROTESTANT SERVICES BROOKE Sunday School, Chapel 9:00 a.m. Morning Worship, Chapel 10:00 a.m. BLUEBONNET Sunday Vespers, Chapel ..... 7:30 p.m. Morning Worship, Recreation Room, BROADCAST Recreation Room, Old Hospital 8:46 a.m. Evening Worship, Recreation Room, AUTHORIZED BY Old Hospital 8.45 p.m. BRIGADIER GENERAL GEO. C. BEACH Wednesday Vespers, Chapel 7:30 p.m. COMMANDING Rible Study Class, BROOKE GENERAL HOSPITAL Chapel, Wednesday 8:15 p.m. Recreation Room, Old Hospital, Volume I, No. 9 APN-8-21-M Wednesday 5:30 p.m. Religious services are also held every EDITOR Sunday morning at the Medical Department Helen McCoy Enlisted Technicians’ School, in the Assem- Public Relations Representative bly Hall, 11:00 A.M. ASSOCIATE EDITORS Mrs. Lucy Maurer Doris Simmons THAT SOUL OF YOURS SPECIAL FEATURE BY: The most important possession anyone Colonel Martin Lalor Crimmins, has is the Soul that resides within the U. S. Army, retired body. Just what the Soul is and where it is located neither scientists nor theolo- PHOTOGRAPHY gians know definitely. But, even the most U. S. Army Signal Corps unlearned man in this world realizes that Fort Sam Houston there is something within him that is more than human—that is Divine. REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS With all of this before man though, Colonel Howard L. Landers, many times he does not properly evaluate U. S. Army, retired it. Have you ever tried to consider and 1st Lt. Mary E. Hansen, ANC weigh the value of your Soul? Perhaps 2nd Lt. Margaret Huth, ANC no one can do this due to the limitations 1st Lt. Fern Green, P. T. of the flesh, but there are some things Sgt. J. Gottlieb that we can know about the Soul; first Pvt. Carroll H. Curry that the Soul is eternal. I mean by this Mrs. Mildred Jacobs that the Soul of a man will live as long as and since God is SPORTS God, Himself, eternal, the Soul will live forever. T/Sgt. Thomas I. Burkett The Bible speaks of eternal life ana Pvt. R. C. Guthrie eternal death. The Greek word for eternal Pvt. Carroll H. Curry means the same as the English word The Brooke Bluebonnet Broadcast, compiled eternal: forever and ever. In the second and edited In the Public Relations Office, is pub- place, the Soul can suffer. It often does lished expressly for the patients, military and in this world and the Bible abounds with civilian personnel of Brooke General Hospital. illustrations that predict some will suffer Printed material, photos and cartoons from in world to this publication may be reproduced provided the come. proper credit is given and specific prior permis- Again, the Soul is from God; for God sion has been granted. breathed and man became a living Soul. Therefore, we know that the Soul can not be annihilated. It can be saved or lost; that is, a Soul can be prepared for what God’s book calls Heaven, or it can be pre- THE pared for perdition. The destiny of one’s Soul is in his own hands. CHAPEL Through a special provision of Almighty God, a plan has been made whereby the individual can save his Soul. Through a neglect of God’s provision, the Soul will RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES naturally be lost. Since man has his own Soul to save or lose, it is highly important CATHOLIC MASS that this decision—made with reference to the Soul—be made carefully, prayerfully, Sunday, Chapel -8:00 a.m. Each week day except Wednesday 6:00 p.m. and thoughtfully. Confessions — Saturday (Also before each Mass) - 7:00 p.m Continued on Page 10 BROOKE BLUEBONNET BROADCAST /i'lUfadie.'i Qenelal G. Reach, fl>i. COMMANDING BROOKE GENERAL HOSPITAL (Story on Page 4) BROOKE BLUEBONNET BROADCAST How Does a Hospital Operate? answer to many questions tive Officers; the Adjutant; the Chap- EjogW asked about Brooke General lain; the Commanding Officer Detachment jrjswj Hospital and the functions it Medical Department; the Commanding Of- performs, it was thought ad- ficer Detachment of Patients; the Field jgEip? visable that a “breakdown” of Director, American Red Cross; the Hos- the organization under which pital Inspector; the Intelligence Officer; the come the various services would aid in Medical Supply Officer; the Mess Officer; orienting those not familiar with the per- the Post Police Officer; Public Relations formance of a general hospital to visual- Officer; Quartermaster; Registrar; Special ize, so to speak, the vast scope and the Service Officer; Post Training Officer and important work done here for the sake of Post Personnel Officer. humanity. All administrative and professional ser- Under the Professional Services come the vices come under the jurisdiction of the Medical Service; (See story on the Medical Commanding General of the hospital. Service in this issue) the Surgical Service; * * * the Dental Service; the Clinical Laboratory Service; the Roentgenological Service; the BRIG. GEN. GEORGE C. BEACH Out Patient Service and the Nursing Ser- (Picture on Page 3) vice. Brigadier General Geo. C. Beach was born Attached to Brooke General Hospital are in Topeka, Kansas, 28 October 1888, the son the Eighth Service Command’s Central of George Corwin and Laura (Rosseau) Beach. Dental Laboratory and the Eighth Service He received his Doctor of Medicine degree at Command’s Clinical Laboratory both locat- Kansas City University Medical College in ed in the “old” hospital area. 1911, and served his internship at University Hospital from 1911 to 1912. The Commanding General of Brooke is General Beach was assistant Surgeon at the also Commandant of the Medical Depart- Soldiers' Home, Hampton, Virginia from 1912 ment Enlisted Technicians School, a sub- to 1914 and was commissioned a First Lieut- sidiary of the hospital at which are trained enant in the Medical Corps, United States technicians for and general hos- Army in 1914. He graduated from the Army this other Medical School in 1917 and was promoted pitals and for overseas assignments. through grades, receiving his promotion to section added the hos- Brigadier General in 1943. An important to General Beach was awarded the Distinguish- pital the past year, is the Reconditioning ed Service Medal in World War I. He is a Unit, the purpose of which is to return to Fellow of the American College of Physicians, duty, service personnel recovered from member of the American Medical Association, injuries sickness in the best pos- Diplomate American Board Internal Medicine; wounds, or member of the Association of Military Surgeons, sible physical and mental condition through Phi Beta Pi, and honorary member of the Texas the use of planned physical conditioning, Internists Society. and the constructive use of leisure time in * * * educational pursuits designed to effect a The administrative service of Brooke in- greater realization of personal importance cludes the Executive and assistant execu- and to produce a more informed soldier. INVEST NOW IN YOUR FUTURE . BUY MORE WAR SAVINGS BONDS! BROOKE BLUEBONNET BROADCAST —Photo by U. S. Army Signal Corps. Calami j)alt*i G. Waadlattd CHIEF OF MEDICAL SERVICE BROOKE GENERAL HOSPITAL (Story on Page 6) BROOKE BLUEBONNET BROADCAST The MEDICAL SERVICE BROOKE GENERAL HOSPITAL HE Medical Service of Brooke conditions, in order to restore the soldier General Hospital has for its to good health as speedily as possible. To chief—Colonel John C. Wood- aid the Medical Staff in this work, the hos- pital not only has a group of outstanding Colonel Woodland was born physicians gathered from the various sec- 6 August 1890 at Crisfield, tions of the nation, highly skilled in their Maryland, the son of A. W. and Sarah particular specialty, but it is equipped with Ellen (Knapp) Woodland. He was educat- the very latest scientific and laboratory ed at the University of Maryland, receiv- instruments and apparatus used in detect- ing his Doctor of Pharmacy degree in ing the more obscure diseases. 1911 and Doctor of Medicine in 1915. Incorporated in the Medical Service are Colonel Woodland has been a member of the following sections: Officers’; Women’s, the Medical Corps, United States Army for General Medical, Infectious and Contagious 27 years, having spent 22 years of his army Diseases, Neuropsychiatric, Electrocardio- service on the staff of general hospitals. graphic and Basal Metabolic, Venereal Colonel Woodland began his army career as Diseases, Dermatologic and Pedriatic. a First Lieutenant in 1917, serving in Divi- sion Medical Installation in France and Ger- Under Colonel Woodland’s supervision are many through 1918. He was stationed at 9 chiefs of the various medical Sections the Base Hospital at Coblenz, Germany, for and their assistants. The Assistant Chief two years. Then upon his return to the Unit- of Medical Service is Lieut. Colonel Fred ed States he was stationed at Fitzsimons R. Sloan. The Chief and Assistant Chief General Hospital in Denver, for of the Medical Service, as well as the Chiefs Colorado with three years doing work in tuberculosis. The of Sections are occupied many adminis- following four years were spent at Gorgas trative duties in addition to professional work. This includes the Hospital in Panama, where much of his responsibility super- work was devoted to the treatment of vision of the proper maintenance and clean- tropical diseases. Upon his return to the liness of the wards the proper feeding and United States, he was stationed at the Army clothing of the patients, recreational and and Navy General Hospital at Hot Springs, occupational activities and discipline of the Arkansas for 5 years; 2 years of this time, patients entrusted to their care.