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Volunteers Make the Difference The scope and extent of services offered in behalf of patients by Auxiliary volunteers continues to grow Nearly 15,000 hours last year were provided through the many services -- some are within the hospital and some are through efforts to provide imaginative articles for sale at the annual Holiday Hospitality Day, While^JdflJjday Hospitality Day is the biggest fund- raising fvent -- $25,000 last year -- Auxiliary members raise funds in a numberof other ways. The Auxiliary is the largest single contributor to the recent building expan­ sion program at Memorial Hospital - ( A new pledge of $50,000 will help improve the Gift Shop and Snack Bar -- improvement badly needed to serve the growing number of persons desiring this service. New responsibilities accepted by the Auxiliary include: • Family surgical waiting area -- five daysa week, 7:30 a m, to 2 p.m. Volunteers will assist families of patients having surgery, serving as a source of information and assistance. • Senior Telephone reassurance line -- calling elderly people from the home of volunteers as requested. Patients returning home from the hospital and others who want security offered by a friendly, personal contact are welcome to call Kathy Klein at Memorial Hospital (338-2500) to arrange for this service. • Lobby receptionist when the lobby remodeling is completed -- greeting visitors, helping them find their way around the hospital, helping families with patients in the hospital, and serving as a source of information to all. Familiar services include: • Gift and Thrift Shop, 208 North Benton, Woodstock -- homemade items and specialty gifts, Christmas Shop and "Nearly New" articles of clothing. Open the year- around. • Snack Bar and Gift Shop in hospital -- food service and a wide assortment of timely gifts and cards for visitors, patients and families of patients. • Courtesy cart in the hospital --daily tripsaround the hospital to patients to provide a convenient source of toiletries, reading material, cards and stationery and small gifts. • Emergency room, five days a week, 9a.m. to 3p.m. -- assisting hospital staff members with patients and their families at the emergency ^Wvices department, helping transport patients to other departments "for care such as X-ray, and serving as a communication' link for those in the emergency waiting room foXtffformation about a patient. <© The many groups that prepare articles for Holiday Hospitality Day organize in January to launch their specialized programs. Each group makes over 500 articles for sale -- distinctive items ranging from Christmas articles to imaginative weed displays. Men assist as members of the Auxiliary and they have a Edith Bernat, an Auxilliary volunteer, works at the surgical department reception desk, assisting families with patients in surgery. This is a new service of the Auxiliary for patients and their families. Jenny Lucich, outpatient secretary, is with Edith. special tradition on Holiday Hospitality Day They park autos at the tour homes. From its first gift of $86 70 in 1946 for a gift cart to its $150,000 pledge to the hospital building fund, the Auxiliary is a valuable contributor to Memorial Hospital's ability to serve patients with love and care. The Auxiliary was organized in 1945and works closely with the hospital Board to advance the interests of the hospital and its patients. Membership is open to both men and women, and the current total is 442 members, including six men. Volunteers are truly volunteers for they offer services seven days a week. Since 1974 teenage volunteers -- both girls and boys -- have assisted in pediatrics, taken wheelchair patients for care, delivered mail and flowers, and worked in the Snack Bar. Today's Candystriper may be tomorrow's doctor or nurse! Since 195*1 the Auxiliary has funded a nurses' scholar­ ship program, an effort to encourage young people to