Information Sheet
R1262
Phelps County Regional Medical Center Auxiliary.
Records, 1950-2001.
Thirty-two volumes.
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These are
minutes of meetings, printed newsletters, and scrapbooks of the Phelps County
Regional Medical Center Auxiliary at Rolla, Missouri. Organized in 1950 as a women’s auxiliary to
the Phelps County Memorial Hospital, the Auxiliary grew to coordinate a number
of programs including volunteer services, fundraising, programs for youths, and
nursing scholarships.
Formation of a
women’s auxiliary began as the Phelps County Memorial Hospital was under
construction at Rolla. On 13 December
1949 a group including the heads of all women’s organizations in Phelps County
met at the home of Mrs. H. H. Davis to discuss formation of a hospital
auxiliary. As a result of that
preliminary meeting, seventy-eight women became charter members of the Women’s
Auxiliary to the Phelps County Memorial Hospital, formally organized 13
February 1950 at the Uptown Theatre in Rolla.
Mrs. G. A. Mullenburg was elected president of
the group, which hosted its first meeting at the new hospital on 2 March 1951,
and hosted an open house in the days before the institution opened 11 March
1951. The Auxiliary changed its name
when men began volunteering at the hospital, and again in December 1980 when
the hospital was renamed the Phelps County Regional Medical Center.
In the beginning,
the Auxiliary helped furnish patient rooms and made draperies, robes and
towels. By various fundraisers, income
from a gift shop and gift cart, memorial contributions, and other means, the volunteer
group has raised thousands of dollars to benefit the hospital, helping to
purchase everything from operating tables to orthopedic drills. In addition, the Auxiliary coordinates the
scheduling and activities of volunteers in a wide range of programs such as
Senior Companion and the transportation service, hosts receptions for the
hospital, helps with health fairs and school tours, sponsors programs for young
volunteers, and offers scholarships to nursing schools.
The records of
the Auxiliary consist of minutes of general and board meetings, newsletters,
and scrapbooks. They begin with organization
in 1950 and continue through 2001. A
brief history of the organization to 1969 by Emma Jenson, updated to 1985 by
Louise Britton, appears in volume 1. Volumes
2-11 include minutes of general meetings and board meetings, 1950-2000, and a
series of printed newsletters, 1974-2001.
There are no minutes for 1980-1981.
Volumes 12-32 are scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, printed
material, photographs and miscellaneous items pertaining to the Auxiliary’s
various activities and some of its most noteworthy volunteers. The scrapbook for 1990 is missing. Volume 31 (marked “Teens” on the cover) is
devoted to teenage volunteers at the hospital.
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