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YORK COUNTY HOSPITAL The volunteers play an important role If you have been a patient i Hospital chances are youve been poked at or tested with a gadget purchased in a manner of speaking with candy bars magazine But the fact that its available to treat the sick is a tribute to the in- of the women and teenage girls who comprise the hospitals volunteer auxiliary an unpaid exercise in The exercise does however pay off for the hospital Last year the auxiliary turned over for the purchase special equipment The money represented the profit for the year from the little and candy- shop in the main lobby For a tiny operation like that volunteers coordinator Leach its a tremendous amount of when The candystripers they gel their name from the pattern of their pinafores work only one shift from Quite a number sing Leach en introduced a cap- j for them When a striper has completed a year of work she gets a certificate after the second year a cap She pin by the auxiliary after the third Hospilal volunteers have a profound impact on patients Many women who have been its come back at some later time to join the auxiliary says Mrs Leach We get wives coming and saying my husband was a patient in here and he wants to know why I dont get in mere and do my lauguratcd prof together with all the other We get them as young as nursery to the hospital to have their tonsils removed or a broken leg set they arent terrified Mrs Leach says The exercise is both educational and reassuring and it must work because Business and Wo Club is embarked on organizing a circulating library of books and magazines for the patients At the same time Winnifred Leach would like to attract more younger women to the cause of working from two to hours a day for the principle old candy stripers other hospitals have them and shed like to see some volunteer to work at York County Mrs Leach a widow for the past moved to Newmarket four s ago from Toronto when she ran flower shop on St at to adult evening classes Son Richard is a musician and teacher at RJ Lang junior high school Daughter Nancy is also a musician who leaches at Don Mills Collegiate Her oldest son John is a painter who teaches at the Sheridan College School of Design Leach describes being coordinator of volunteers as a very absorbing sort of job which she applied for and got last January after her predecessor Mrs Jennie Arundel was forced by ill health to give up her responsibilities in the Trinity United Church choir which I will probably go on doing until I get sick of hearing myself singing The shop is open from am to and from pm lo In the women from the Womens carts around to the patients Members of these organizations arent members of the hospital auxiliary but they come to pitch in since ihe auxiliary has added a beauty salon introduced an admitting which guarantees that tlies check in until the re in bed The more seriously ill or injured arrivals are handled by paramedical personnel An auxiliary member is the custodian of a patients records when the latter is being moved from one pari of the hospital to another If a patient has to be taken to a lab for tests or to xray a volunteer does that as well Olher volunteers deliver the mail or readdress it if the patient has swit ched rooms or gone home They sell stamps and postcards They read letters to patients too sick to do it themselves They run a pediatries department playroom and keep it stocked with toys and books Three days a week patients to the hairdresser and stay with theyre finished And if that wasnt enough they even make the smocks and pinafores fur the women volunteers and the candy stripers the teenage girls whose growing ranks already total These distribute trays at mealtimes run errands fetch newspapers from the lobby newsstand deliver messages and AND ON 50th STERLING DRUG LTD AURORA