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PUBLICATION OFFICE
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Phone 1.2422

 

Fdttar
AL. Preceer, MP.

Maraging Paditor
E. 0. Scuremen, M.D,

Alssacitie Fdifers
E. J. KaLera, M.D.
FE. E. Reewer, M0,
Bh. J, Jenssran M.D
Ty. Tt, Beasie, M0.
&. L. Osnen, M.D,
H, V. Sparks, SLD
RK. M. Beanery, M0.
4. CH. Anaws, MLD,
I. 2. One, ACD,

Austmess Af aaa
C.D. Frencr
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Eeetuhive Secretary
Saka Ml. W anken
WE) Eepole Street Flint 4, Michivan
Plone 8-378

 

Margaret McLaren
A Biographical Sketch

Wherever you go to make VOUr
life, you must take yourself along.
lt little mateers where you are or
what vou do, but much depends up
on what you are. This I learned
from Margaret McLaren.

hlargaret was born on-a Farm in
the Province of Ontario, Canada,
the first of a family of eight chikdren,
She comes of sound Scotch stock
thar has always adhered te the simple
life: ok only one pride, the pride of
good works. Her mother brought
with her to this new country the
high ideals of honesty, respectahilicy
and christianity which she imparted
to her children,

The life of the McLaren family
though simple and confined within
the narrow horizons of an isolated
farm, was lar from commonplace.
\n appreciation for the hiner thitgrs
mn lie demanded living beyond ane
above the ordinary wily ok the pic
nece. A well disciplined family life
enriched hy aoc] hooks, SOT TWLWwsic
andl strong religious Faith was sul

heen
doctor and the minister was im
measurable. “These two omen were
looked upon as apart from ordinary
men ane respected! accordingly,
When she was sixteen vears old,
Margaret lett school te cemain on
the farm to help her mother, For the
next twelve years, under the tute lage
of her mother, she lea rriescl cocking,
sewing and cenera | heres fraser
ment, Not until the youngest of
eight children was well started in
school was her task done. She was
then twenty-cight years old. The
time for the greatest decision in her
life had come. With the parting ac-
monition from her mother, “It's now
oF ever, Wlargaret,” she Jeft her
home to enter the Nurse's ‘Training
School of Grace Hospital in Detroit

Margaret McLaren began formal
training: tor her bife's work in roars,
and graduated in gaa. At the gradu:
Aton exercises, as.a total surprise to
her, Dr. Babcock, superintendent of
Grace Hospital, presented her with a
special diploma of prohciency as an
award for outstanding achievement,
as the highest class honor.

She left Grace Hospital with the
impact af the preat personalities of
the wtall of doctors nel teachers on
her mind. She feels a respect and
reverent admiration for those doc-
tors that is like a fealty. After gradu-
ation she did private duty nursing
in Detroit for two years, refusing
several hospital jobs because she felt
that she needed the experience of
general duty.

In 1922, a letter from Miss Schill,
superintendent at Hurley Hospital,
brought an ofber of the position of
surgical supervisor, which Miss Mc
Laren accepted, and hes protessional
career in’ Flint, Michigan, hegan.
During the next two years her work
at Hurley Hospital met sii well with
the approval of the doctors and other
hospital personnel that she was rec
ommended far the pusition if creer
eral superintendent af the Women's
Hospital. She went to Women's in
igag. Another milestone in hee
CAPE Was passed,

During the trying hard times of
the great depression she guided the
Women's Hospital through ia $19c,
eeo debt and constructed the north
wing. The hospital progressed and

Page 19

The influence of the family

 

Mancaner McLanen

prospered. Miss McLaren constancls
siuight and worked far approval Fur
her hospital from othe American
Medical Asseciation and the Ameri
can Callege of Surgeons. Through
the contacts she mache with preat
hospital and medical authorities; as
she puts it, “A nanentity trom Fline
gets an inspiration,” The Women's
Hospital, through this inspiration,
aitined full approval in 1925, ‘Today
that ugly duckling has undergone a
metimorplosis inte the magnificent
new Mclaren General Haspital,

Margaret MeLaren has earned
same leisure —leisure from the ex
acting cletails of hospital mena oe
ment. [he philostphy ak her own
life dictates that nursing is, alter
all. a substitute for morherhood and
Jrcornne: making. One's kate is decided
by the circumstances under which
it is guided! and developed, ane one
submits to fate, She is looking for
ware fo Trcre regclima: Tiupsie®, ler:

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tures, club and church work. She
loves her home surroundings with
some cooking and sewing and 4
lithe social life,—"juse enougly br
spice.” She feels that the orand new
building 1s after all, only Hi building,
The important thing is education,
She knows tliint good mecical ane
Nursing SCIVLCES CHiN only le: built
amd maintained by years. of com-
hined oclort of many people, el
accepts the new name for the Me
Laren General because it pleases
Neverthe
ane
rejects individual brillianey. “A self.

those whe bespowedl ie,

less, she holds For teamwork,

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Margaret McLaren
(Continued from page 19)
governed organization working as a
unit produces the permanent re-

sults.”

As a parting salutation to Mar-
garet McLaren, we can think of
none more fitting than the cry that
came from the crowd as Queen Vic-
toria’s coach passed on the occasion
of her diamond jubilee, “Go it, old
girl, you’ve done it well!”—A.C.P.

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New Hospital Has Latest
Equipment

(Continued from page 21)

Ethical
Prescription
Service

er convenience and speed. In the
laundry, soiled linens and_ clothes
will not be touched by hand from
the time they enter the washers until
they emerge ready for sorting, iron-
ing, and distribution. Meals for pa-
tients will be conveyed to each floor
from the central kitchen by a novel
system which also allows easy return
of dishes to the dishwasher.

 
    
  
    

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The doctors’ comfort an
medical activities have not be
looked. Conference rooms ai
brary with an adjoining reco
complete with dictation box
available. Locker rooms for be
and female surgeons are
ously arranged with a neig
lounge sumptuously appoin
plete with piped-in oxygen. }
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Local doctor’s names appe
recent medical literature
M. C. Kozonis, R. F. Wige
H. M. Golden as authoring
ticle entitled “Primary Lipo
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tember, 1951, issue of An
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(This class is for women
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