Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 71, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 25, 1959 Page: 22 of 50
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on Its Newly Added Wing
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Its Accomodations
You Are Invited to Attend
X-Ray Equipment
the Open House Sunday
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To the individuals and organizations whose
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untiring efforts have made the new wing at
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To the Board of Directors,
Staff and Medical Profession
on the dedication of the new
wing of Flow Memorial
Hospital
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We Urge You, The Citizens of Denton and Denton County To Attend The
Opening Of The New Wing Today 1:00 to 5:00 P.M.
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WE ALSO EXPRESS OUR BEST WISHES TO
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STAFF MEMBERS
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The facilities offered by the
new Flow Hospital stand as a
tribute to these individuals
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the medical progress of Denton.
On Feb. 14, 1940, Homer
E. Flow sold 11 tracts of land
to the city of Denton and to
Denton County for 910.
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Draw drapes cover the wide win-
dows in each room. A curtain can
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it werta wffl be one of the
: equipped radiological centers
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patients with a greater <
efficiency than has been
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ed his home and other property to
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each room.
room. The huge X-ray machine-
mounted from the celling on a
sliding rail system—is in another.
Again, there were enough dials,
switches and gauges exposed to
make you scratch your head. Be-
fore installation was complete op-
en panels exposed enough tubes,
fuses, condensors, wires and rehos-
into to make the room look like
SO electronic junk yard.
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many hours of volunteer service at
the hospital, after school, on Sat-
urdays and during holidays. Each
girl, after orientation, is assigned
certain duties under qualified su-
pervision in limited areas of the
hospital. Af the end of the year,
the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Den-
ton County Medical Society pre-
sents pins to the members who
have attended at least 75 per cent
of the meetings and who have tak-
en an active interest in the pro-
jects of the group. The girls fur-
nish their own uniforms and re-
ceive no pay for their services.
Their reward? Being useful to
others.
The dub, now in its fifth year,
has approximately 35 members.
It was an outgrowth of a nurse
recruitment project of the modi-
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Sunday Evening
FOR A TOUR OF ITS NEWLY
X-ray equipment costing $21,950
is the heart of Flow Memorial
Hospital’s new radiology section.
Complete equipment lor taking
X-rays of patients and giving X,
ray treatments to Included in the
three rooms set aside for the ra-
diology section.
A complete up-to-date darkroom
to included to process th Vray
YOU CAN SEE NEW WING AT
OPEN HOUSE THIS AFTERNOON
If you want to take a look at the new wing of Denton’s Flow Me-
morial Hospital—and you are welcome to do so—an open house
will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. today
The Denton County Medical Assn. Auxiliary will sponsor the
open house. Members of the Denton High School Future Nurses
I Club will be guides.
The tourney will form outside the hospital in front of the main
entrance. From there guides will take the visitors through a side
door and Into the basement—where the tour will start.
The visitors will be guided just through the newer part of the
hospital, said Mrs. Scott Haggard, president of the auxiliary.
The main entrance will be used as an exit.
proven they were worth untold
amounts of money. Because the
city and county sold the land, then
used the money from the tales to
22 buy a knoll on Denton’s west side
known as Scripture Hill
mm Thirteen years and 344 days la-
2228 ter—Oct. 25, 1959—-citizens of Den-
■ ton and Dentop County will be in-
mim vited to an open house on top of
E that hill.
E What they will see will be one
E of the best memorials ever erect-
E ed to a family anywhere—Flow
E Memorial Hospital, operated joint-
m ly by the city and the county. Ito
Hil size has just been doubled with the
HI completion of the Ada M Raley
I Memorial Wing.
E The open house will give you
■ a chance to see the new wing" of
E the hospital atop Scripture hill. The
E wing, built at a cost of over $816,-
E 000, increases the patient capa-
puts Flow Memorial Hospital
among the top hospitals in the
South
be reserved for medical patients
and the third floor will be for surgi-
cal patients. Included in the new
hospital features win be a recov
ery room for surgical ptiopto,
ATTRACTIVE
The rooms in the new Flew wing
will rival any hospital rooms any-
where. Being la a hospital ian’t a
very cheery thought to begin with,
but designers of the new wing
have done all in their power to
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people of Denton and Denton Coun-
ty donated an additional $50,000 to
buy some noodod hospital equip-
ment.
On Sept. 1, 1950 the Brat patient
—Mrs. Maxie Johnston of 3003
Bristow — was admitttd for sur-
gery.
When Mrs. Raley died in 1953,
she left almost in,000 to the hos-
pital. Another $330 0000 bond to-
sue was approved and, again, the
federal government made a grant,
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BOARD HAS
7 MEMBERS
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governed by a board, of seven
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managers that was set up
when Homer E. Flew donated
land for hospital use.
The present seven board
members are R. M. Berns,
R. B. Newman, Mark Han-
nah, Jack Bonds, all of Den-
ton, John D. Faught of Jus-
tin, J. L. Hufthines of Lewis-
ville and Jeff Pedigo of Pilot
Point.
Barns is chairman of the
board of managers.
FUTURE NURSES—These three wil be among the""
Future Nurses who will conduct tours through the new
hospital today. They are Margaret Wyss, Diane Ober-
meyer and Jan Gardner, all juniors at Denton High
School Miss Wyss is president of the group.
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THE DENTON RECORD . CH RONICLE
ground .floor as it is called at
€rtlr the hospital—will be turned over
to obstetrics. The second floor will
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Miami University at Oxford,
Ohio, is the founding place of
the following fraternities: Bota
Theta Pi. Phi Delta Theta. Sigma
IChi, Phi Kappa Tau, Delta Zelta
and Delta Sigma Epsilon.
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a public corridor to the labor and
delivery rooms. Now the mater-
patients will be housed on the
floor and they will travel down
oa the spot.
The control room for the radio-
logical center looked Mho on el-
tronic Jigsaw puzne whoa t__
men were installing the equlpment
• last week.
________ - For instance: Maternity patients
citizens of Dentoa and, have been taken care of on the
0. "_____ “ “ 7 third floor.When a woman begins
her labor she must be taken down
_____ ) beds
I give a little pri-
vacy even in a double room.
Each room has Its own thermo-
stat for individual control of the of
to encourage high school a______
to investigate nursing as a career,
group into the hospital and to var-
lous points of interest throughout
the now wing.
If your particular guide happens
to be wearing the "official" FNC
pin, you can be sure that service
to nothing new to her. She earned
that pin by endeavoring to carry
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Many of ths girls find their wort
in the dub a great help in making
the important choice of a career,
whether it to nursing, medical tech-
nology, physical therapy, dietetics,
or some other related field. Of
equal importance to the fact that
many girls realize that what they
thought was a major interest is
actually not what they want as
a career.
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enough dials, switches and guages boot
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from to beds to 120 beds. Aad it the
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HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR R. B. NEALE
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PROPERTY BOLD
The property deeded for the hos-
pital was valued at $150,000. Eight
months after it was signed over,
a $300,000 county-city bond issue
If the nurse is needed immediate-
. ly. The emergency cord reach-
es to the floor and can be turned
off only by flipping a switch in
the root room. The regular sys-
to cultivate qualities essential I
a good nurse; to give service to
their school and community; and
to foster the developmennt of stu-
dent leadership.
The group meets on the first
and third Thursday evenings «
each month. Past programs have
been devoted to film on opportu-
nities in paramedical careers:
speakers from various medical
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If you will just follow the "girl in ■
blue" you won’t get lost and wan- ■
der down the wrong corridor this ■
afternoon when Flow Memorial ■
Hospital holds its open home for ■
the new wing. 2
These “girls in blue” are mem- r
bers of the Future Nurse Club at I
Denton High School and are spon- |
sored by the Woman’s Auxiliary to *
the Denton County Medical Sod- : •
ety. You may recognize the guides
by their blue-pinafore aprons over >
white shirts.
The medical auxiliary will act
as hostesses for the Open House L
and will be assisted by the Future I
Nurses Club in organizing groups I
who wish to view the new wing of to
the hospital. A station will be set •
up by auxiliary members in front
of the hospital where groups may
form, and a member of the Fu-
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Kirkland, Tom. Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 71, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 25, 1959, newspaper, October 25, 1959; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1468035/m1/22/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.