Friday, October 25.1974
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Public to view Watkins' operation
Watkins Memorial Hospital, the KU student health center, will have the first open house in its new building from 10 a.m. tomorrow during Homecoming.
Students and visitors are invited to the open house, Martin Woolminton director of students at St. Mary's College.
Hospital staff members and KU students will conduct 20-minute tours of the building, which is southeast of Robinson Gymnasium. Students will be near the hospital will be open for guests.
Outpatient facilities are on the first floor of the hospital and include the admissions office, emergency department, office immunization and allergy emergency room, X-ray department, electroencephalograph, laboratory, food service department, business office and pharmacy.
Wolmann said students should plan routine medical visits for another time. But, he said, emergency care will be available during the open house.
Inpatient facilities on the second floor include 15 private and 10 semiprivate rooms, the nurses' station, a patient-vister lounge and the Ralph L. Canuteson Memorial Library, named for KU's firstultimate student health director.
Also on the second floor are the mental health clinic and physical therapy depart-
The tours will conclude with refreshments n the food services department.
The health center, which has 62,000
cost, cost more than $4 million to
aid the hospital.
"The new hospital was designed to meet the present and future needs of KU students and to comply with present health standards." Wollmann said. "It is one of the finest student health centers in the country."
Watkins Hospital has 12 physicians, a psychiatrist and other professional per-
More than 20,000 KU students are served in the hospital, and there are more than 100,000 KU students.
Sorority to aid prison library
Delta Sigma Theta, a public service sorority, is aiding the Black Awareness Program at the Kansas State Pentitentiary to help the prison improve its library system.
Gail Coleman, president of Delta Sigma Theta, said recently that a goal of the sorority was to collect books that would improve the library system at the prison.
"We are interested in collecting wholesome books, since books of a radical nature wouldn't be allowed at the prison," she said. "We're dealing in books dealing with black awareness."
Coleman said a table would be set up in
10, 16 from Nov. 16 to Nov. 18 to
collece books.
Howard Carney, an innate and coordinator of the Black Awareness Program, said the program was mainly a self-help program gears toward helping black inmates adjust. The library improvement project is just one phase of the program.
director, did a great deal of work to make the new hospital building a reality.
"Students are taking great pride and interest in the hospital, and they should," he said. "It is primarily supported by student funds. No tax or University funds are used."
Wollmann said Raymond Schweigler, staff physician and former health service
The old hospital, which was a gift of Mrs. J. B. (Ebizabeth Miller) Watkins in 1931, has been renamed Esther Twente Hall and now houses the School of Social Welfare.
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