The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

New Worker Joins
Staff of
Council On Aging
Mrs. Mary Snyder, one of the State's
leading authorities in the field of geron-
tology, has been added to the staff of
the North Carolina Governor's Cooordinating
Council on Aging, Eddie Brown,
Executive Director, announced.
Mrs. Snyder comes to the Raleigh job
from the UNC School of Nursing at
Chapel Hill where she had been an in-
structor and program coordinator in
projects to aid older citizens. Before
that, she was Assistant Director of
Nursing Services, S. E. Area, for the
American National Red Cross in Atlan-
ta, Ga. She holds a Master's Degree in
Public Health from the School of Pub-
lic Health in Chapel Hill.
According ot Brown, Mrs. Snyder will
serve as a Program Specialist for the
Council on Aging. She will work with
State agencies, schools, and other or-
ganizations across the State to further
the Council's program of bringing a
richer life to the State's older citizens.
New Health Manpower Program
HEW and Labor Department officials
are busy putting the finishing touches
to a major new health manpower pro-
gram. Purpose of the project, to be
announced soon, is to attract former
Gl's into the civilian health field. About
65,000 servicemen who learned health
care skills in the service are discharged
every year. Most go into other fields.
As the serviceman is processed
through a military separation center, on
his way back to civilian life, he will be
asked to fill out a card listing his home
address and his specialized training.
Cards indicating health skills will be
turned over to hometown employment
offices. Within three or four days, em-
ployment counselors will call on the
veterans, to explain local opportunities
for work in the health field. HEW be-
lieves that these ex-servicemen can fill
a variety of jobs in hospital emergency
rooms, on rescue squads, and in doc-
tors' offices. HEW has asked the Ameri-
can Hospital Association to enlist the
cooperation of its members in providing
lists of jobs and training programs
to employment offices. AMA has been
asked to help spread the word through
medical societies.
MEMBERS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
Lenox D. Baker, M.D., President Durham
James S. Raper, M.D.. Vice-President Ashevllle
Ben W. Dawsey, D.V.M.
Gastonia
Samuel G. Koonce, Ph.G. Chadbourn
Oscar S. Goodwin, M.D. Apex
A. P. Cline, Sr., D.D.S. Canton
Joseph S. Hiatt, Jr., M.D. Southern Pines
J. M. Lackey Rt. 2, Hiddenite
Howard Paul Steiger, M.D. Charlotte
EXECUTIVE STAFF
Jacob Koomen, M.D., M.P.H. State Health Director
W. Burns Jones, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant State Health Director
J. M. Jarrett, B.S. Director, Sanitary Engineering Division
Martin P. Hines, D.V.M., M.P.H. Director, Epidemiology Division
J. W. R. Norton, M.D., M.P.H. Director, Local Health Division
E. A. Pearson, Jr., D.D.S., M.P.H. Director, Dental Health Division
Lynn G. Maddry, Ph.D., M.S.P.H. Director, Laboratory Division
Ben Eaton, Jr., A.B., LL.B. Director, Administrative Services Division
Theodore D. Scurletis, M.D. Director, Personal Health Division
14 THE HEALTH BULLETIN September, 1967