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"Mre. Miner, Trustees, honored guests, and friends of the hospital: Thank you for

coming to dedicate this hospital for service to the people of this commnity.

: "I Gamnot pass this milestone without a word to you. May I extend sincere thanks to
my family and to the friends who have so wonderfully helped over the years, to you, our
neighbors and staunch supporters, and to the hospital group - physicians, nurses, and all
others who join forces to care for the sick. It is a high privilege to work in 4 hospital,
it is warming to the heart, with always the challenge to do better. There is nothing on "I
earth so rewarding as the gratitude of a patient.

"Something over one hundred years ago, Indian tribes battled over this slope. Each
generation since has left something with the ‘river of the Flints' and its surrounding acres,

and
First those pioneers who removed timber from the land, then farming / small industries, next

 

came the great motor industry placing Flint in an enviable position in the markets of the

Sat "Right along with these years of progress there has grown, a little mors slowly but

‘surely, the services of health, recreation, education, and sociology.”
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"This hospital is the result of combined effort of so many people over 50 many years
that it is impossible to name everyone who had a part. There were those who envisioned it,

those who for thirty-two years met financial crises, uncertainties, and obstacles of one

 

sort and another, and dealt with them successfully. Finally, the thousands with great and
generous hearts who contributed the money for your new building. A mew era will come for
the Board of Trustees, administrators, Medical Steff, nurses, technicians, and great army

of other workers who will in ten years time create what will be know as the service of

 

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service, kindly and skillfully, realizing always that the sick person needs above all else. |—

understanding, sympathetic care. The building ia beautiful, we are proud of it, and

 

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grateful for its space and conveniences,

Minis is your building, please be loyal and helpful to those who will work within ites

walls, to make your sick ye. aes wae e comforted, your sick-at-heart encouraged.

 

 
 

 

CARD IIIT - Mise McLaren
INTRODUCTIONS : “de are delighted that Miss Girard, the nurse who with Dr. Lucy M. Elliott
founded the hospital in 1917, is here today. May I introduce Miss Lillian Girard.*
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The Medical Staff is the heart of the hospital. Education, progress, leadership, and
direction in the care and management of the sick depend upon the calibre, capacity, and
+ loyalty of the staff. We are happy in Flint to have 250 doctors, Their chief of staff
in this hospital is Dr. Edwin FP. Vary. It is an honor and a privilege for me to introduce
the Chai Re Oe of = ay Staff of this hospital: Dr. Edwin FP. Vary.
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"You have oe hice seeing and hearing of the accomplishments of the hospital Auxiliary
May I now present the president, Mra. Russell W. Durler.”
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oh “Three years ago we ‘started searching over the United States for someone to succeed me,
as the years are catching up. We found her, a woman of experience, a great heart, sound

education, a worker, and very ambitious, After eighteen months of working together, we are

| sure the appointment will be successful. May I present Miss Marjorie Sanders. “
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(See following card for Dr. MacEachers
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_ (DR. MACEACEERN)

"A preat era in development of medical education and hospitals began early in this
century. Leaders emerged and the fruit of their efforts is to be seen in every hospital on
the continent, and the influence of this great movement has gone out to many other countries
of the world.

"Today we are honored that a man has come to speak to us who has exerted more effort

os improve all hospitels than has anyone elee in this eountry. He ia a doctor, an educator,

author, has more academic honors, has filled more active and honorary appointments, held
more offices, has been awarded more citations, and held more memberships in scientific
organizations than anyone we have ever heard of. He is a leader in the hospital world,

‘ respected and honored in medicine, and beloved by thousands ‘ty whom he ia affectionately

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"Mey I now present Dr. Malcolm T, MacEachern, Director of Professional Relations (in

American Hospital Association; Director Pmeritus of the American College of Surgeons;

Professor of Hospital Administration and director of ita program at Northwestern University ;
Chicago." - - - -"Dr. MacHachern:"