Atrium Fall 2003 - Yale-New Haven Hospital

(l-r): Gloria
Schoolfield and
Marion Russell
(President) of
the Auxiliary
help bring some
Toy Closets
items to the new
Auxiliary office
which is in
Children’s
Hospital near
the pediatric
admitting area.
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The Auxiliary office is
moving to a new location
The Auxiliary office is moving to a new location in the
West Pavilion (Children’s Hospital), first floor, next to
the admitting waiting room. For the past 10 years, the
Auxiliary office was located in the South Pavilion on the first
floor next door to the mobile lithotripsy dock.
Because the Auxiliary office was within the Emergency
Department (ED) perimeter, it required security access for
people to come and go. However, the adult ED needed to
expand. An additional internal observation unit is being
added in the ED, which allows intoxicated patients a place to
recover and be isolated from other patients and families.
The Auxiliary’s Toy Closets storage room has already been
moved to the Clinic Building, which provides a central
receiving area and greater storage area.
“We are very excited about the move to the new Auxiliary office,” said Marion Russell, Auxiliary President. “This
office will provide greater accessibility and more visibility, plus we are thrilled to have more storage space for our
Toy Closets program.”
Auxiliary will miss
Janice Ronkowitz
In August, the Auxiliary
bid farewell to its
administrative assistant
Janice Ronkowitz, who
moved with her family
to Florida. Janice has
served the Auxiliary,
its membership and
its programs with
enthusiasm and
dedication since
1997.
Health education lectures
continue to inform
Suchitra Krishnan Sarin
(left), professor of Psychology
at Yale, and Gloria
Schoolfield, Vice President of
the Auxiliary, are shown
discussing issues related to
alcohol and tobacco after the
conference on “Significant
Issues in Health Care.” The
lecture was on “Addiction to
Alcohol and Tobacco: A
Women’s Issue” and was
sponsored by the Auxiliary.
BETHANY HIPPLE NAMED ARCHIVIST
In l997, the
Hospital
Archives
Project was
started and
the Auxiliary
donated
$66,000 as
seed money.
Today,
part-time
archivist
Bethany Hipple
Archivist Bethany Hipple at the
entrance to the archive repository.
solicits, catalogs and preserves material to add to the collection.
She reports that the history of the Auxiliary is the most complete
in the archives. (Patient, staff and financial records are not in the
archives, but stored elsewhere.) There is an extensive collection
of photographs dating back to the 19th century.
A visit to Bethany’s climate-controlled office in the basement
of the Clinic Building finds material stored in acid-free cardboard
boxes with no metal paper clips or staples and no rubber bands.
Bethany’s interest in medical history began when she was a
young girl. Born in Illinois, Bethany attended high school in
Oklahoma and moved to Massachusetts in her senior year. She
received a B.A. in Medical Anthropology from the University of
Massachusetts and a Master’s in Public Health from Columbia,
specializing in the history of medicine and public health. Fluent
in German, Bethany also did field work in Germany.
Bethany is married to an engineer and they live in Milford.
When she has some free time, Bethany likes to read and bike
ride. She says she likes YNHH with its many services and very
helpful and friendly people.