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Hospital Auxiliary installs new officers The Grove Hill Memorial Hospital Auxiliary (GHMHA) held the last meeting of the club year in the conference room on Sept. 27. Fifteen people attended the meeting. Mrs. Hazel Etheridge, president, asked a number of committee chairmen to give annual reports. Mrs. Kate Jordan explained that the A.L. Payne Jr. Memorial Scholarship account has provided financial aid to one registered nurse and one student radiographer. Two students who received scholarships are not coming to work in the hospital so they are returning the money to the scholarship account. Mrs. French Downey is elated that the annual profit from the chips and drinks machines is an all-time high. She told that $6,015 was spent for an anodyne machine. It helps to stimulate nerve endings. (Money from the chips and drinks machines is only used to buy equipment.) Mrs. Etheridge discussed equipment that has been bought in part with money in the general GHMHA account: a Pulmonary Function machine ($15,000), a PACS system-a computerized Xray machine ($20,000) and a refrigerator for the lab ($2,275). Mrs. Emily Steadham announced that a golf tournament will be planned for the spring. Doug Sewell, hospital administrator, thanked the group for the cordial welcome it gave to Dr. and Mrs. Brian Bushman when they visited the hospital during the Sept. 15 weekend. Mr. Sewell added, "It looks favorable that they will move to Grove Hill after Dr. Bushman completes his studies in the summer." Another young doctor who finished his studies in the summer seems to be interested in working in the clinic and hospital. Mr. Sewell discussed the malfunctioning freezer in the dietary-department. Attempts to repair the freezer have failed. The auxiliary voted unanimously to buy two smaller freezers for the kitchen. $4,600 will be taken from the chips and drinks account and $4,600 will be paid from the GHMHA general account. The meeting was adjourned after Mr. Sewell installed the following officers. Janee Parden, president; French Downey, vice-president; Cheryl Horton, secretary; Emily Steadham, treasurer; Marion Bumpers, reporter; and Hazel Etheridge, parliamentarian.
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