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Doorbells In Traverse City and
surrounding areas will start. ring-.
ing Tuesday morning, signal of the,
start of the public phase of the!
Munson hospital completion fund

|| campaign.

Volunteer workers will get last.
minute prepping at a “Kick-off Din-
ner” at 6330 tonight at the Central
high school gymnasium. They also”
will select cards of the prospects.
they desire to call upon. _

No check,on the progress of the=
600 volunteers will be possible, Ll
however, until the first report.
meeting Thursday night. ;

Courtland E. Chandlee, hospital
consultant, said, “We set no mini-
mum gift and will welcome every
subscription. Perhaps the most
generous gift of all will be a very
modest one from someone who had
to sacrifice to make it.”

The $300,000 campaign is off to a
good start as the result of contribu-
tions made by the staff doctors to-
talling more than $70,000 and a re-
port of an additional total of $100,-
000 from the special gifts commit-
tee. Thus, the general phase of the

‘| drive will open tonight with better

than half of the goal realized.

Campaign officials said the drive
can be completed within 10 days
but that a maximum effort from all
workers would be necessary to
keep within the time schedule. »

Meanwhile, the campaign leaders
stressed again the first rule of the
drive: “Do not solicit a prospect
unless a pledge card in his name
is available and in the hands of the
solicitor,”

In both phases of si campaign—
special gifts and the general drive
—the emphasis i is on the desirnated
gift by which means persons may
establish a memorial or an honor-
arium, dedicating to a loved one a
piece of equipment, a room, a de-
partment, or some other part. of
the hospital. Small plaques also are
available. Such plaques, three by
five inches, will be placed in the
lobby of the new wing and may be
inscribed as the contributor de-
sires. ;

Oificials said tonight’s “kick-off” |

| would be brief with emphasis on |

selection of pledge cards,