The Brussels Post, 1979-05-30, Page 15NEW RNAs — Nineteen area girls graduated
May 18 from the Wingham and District.
Hospital registered nursing assistant training
program Front row,* ' from left: Susanne..
Remington, Darlene Chowen, Cindy Curran,
Nadine Foulds, Fay Keffer and Joan Robinson.
*Second row: Mary ,Rapson, Brenda Warner,
Joyce Boshart, Donna Hackett, Susan DeGroof
and. Sandra Cowan. Back Row: Anna Haugh,
Carolyn Aubin, Corrine Nesbitt, Jean
Siertsema, Elizabeth Groot, Susan Youngblut
and Wilma Quiker. (Wingham A-T Photo)
New Brussels RNA's
graduate in Wingham
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(From the Wingham
Advance Times)
Nineteen. young ladies
pledged to remember the
Wingham and District Hospt*
ital motto 'Service Above
Self' during the registered
nursing assistants' gradu-
ation ceremony held May 18
at the RNA training centre.
New RNAs from Wingham
and area, Goderich, Brussels
Clinton, Holyrood, Kincar-
dine, Ztirich, Ethel, Lucknow
Atwdod, Blyth and Millbank
received diplomas and pins.
Jean Siertsema, valedic-
torian and class president,
told the new graduates noto
give up in their search for
jobs in health care.
"Don't give up waiting for
an opportunity to work," she
said.
She reminded the RNAs of
some experiences they
shared since they started the
RNA course in Wingham last
September "and read a poem
she had written for the
occasion.
Graduating from the local
RNA course were: Carolyn
Aubin, Goderich; Joyce
Boshart, R.R. 1, Millbank;
Darlene Chowen, Clinton;
Sandra Cowan, Brussels;
Cindy Curran, R.R. 2 Wing-
ham; Susan DeGroof, R.R. 3,
Clinton; Wilma Duiker, R.R.
1, Holyrood; Nadine Foulds,
R.R. 1 Kincardine; Eliza-ti
Groot, R.R. 1, Zurich;
Donna Hackett, R.R. 7, Luck-
now; Anna Haugh, R.R. 1,
Wingham; Fay Keffer, R.R.
1 Ethel; Corrine Nesbitt,
Wingham; Mary Rapson;
R.R. 4, Brussels; Susanne
Remington, Kincardine;
Joan Robinson, Atwood;
Jean Siertsema, R.R. 3,
Blyth; Brenda Warner,
Goderich and Susan Young-
blut, R.R. 2, Goderich.
Ross Hahn, president elect
of the Ontario Hospital
Association, was guest
speaker at the graduation
ceremonies and told the
RNAs there will be big
changes in health care in
coming years.
The average age of Cana-
dians is steadily increasing
and by 1985, just six years
away, 28 per cent of medical
services required will be for
people over 65 years old and
46 per cent of hospital bed
days will be for senior
citizens, he reported.
Awareness of diet, physical
fitness and overall health is
probably increasing, with
many people taking up jog-
ging, swimming, skiing,
tennis and other sports.
When enough people
become aware that their diet
and physical fitness contri-
bute to good health there
may be pressure to penalize
people who smoke, drink or
take drugs excessively or
who weigh too much, Mr.
Hahn said.
Day surgery is already
becoming more widely
accepted, with patients
entering hospital in the
morning and leaving by night
There will also be day hosp-
itals for people who need
medication, therapy or treat-
ment, but who don't have to
be hospitalized.
With that kind of treat-
ment the average length of a
patient's stay will decrease,
with -much of the treatment
being give to outpatients.
"It means the patient
you're looking after will be a
sicker patient," Mr. Hahn
told the RNA graduates.
The wholistic care idea is a
good one, he said. Wholistic
A men's Breakfast was
held at St. John's Church on
Sunday when twenty-seven
men, including parish
members from Belgrave,
Auburn and Blyth, enjoyed
sausages and eggs prepared
by Gerry Dillow and
assistants Clarence
McCutcheon, Fred
Stephenson and Jack
McCutcheon.
After the breakfast, Harry
Dykstra of Goderich spoke
about the Brotherhood of
Anglican Churchmen. Mr.
Dykstra is Vice-President of
the B.A.C. in the Diocese.
On the previous Sunday, it
was a privilege to hear a
sermon by Bishop Chiu of
Singapore. He told of the
great revival going on in the
care will help people main-
tain better mental health and
will help them be more
healthy physically as well.
Jack Hodgins, chairman of
the hospital board of gover-
nors, told the RNAs the
hospital and the town is
proud of them. Graduates of
the local RNA program have
a good reputation in the
health care field and have
given the Wingham hospital
a good reputation as well, he
said.
church in and around his
diocese, and the
manifestation of the Holy
Spirit in healings and
miracle.
Bishop Chiu was attending
the Anglican Consultative
Council in London, along
with other members from
around the world.
Pictures of Jamaica, its
sugar plantations and farms
highlighted the May meeting
of the Brussels Horticultural
Society.
Mrs. Geo. Wheeler, 1st
vice president chaired the
meeting, held in the public
library Monday May 19th.
A letter about a lily show
in the Royal Botanical Gar-
dens, Hamilton was read and
it was decided to take a bus
there on July 14th. Those
wishing to go contact Mrs. E.
Cudmore or Mrs. I McLarty
as soon as possible. The fare
is to be $5.00.
The Ontario Convention
will be held in London from
.June 13-15. Mrs. Ila McLarty
and Mrs. Carl Hemingway
are delegates. Mrs. McLarty
has offered to drive and
would be able to take more.
The Bulb books were
handed out. Anyone not at
the meeting can get a book
from the secretary Mrs. Cud-
more. Mrs. I. McLarty, Mrs.
C. Hemingway gave the
report on the Tara District
Convention. Mrs. S. Alex-
ander then showed pictures
of Jamaica which were very
informative and much en-
joyed.
The Society had a silent
auction plant sale which net-
ted $19.80. The Committee
for the Rose & Craft show in
June to be Mrs. McLarty, P.
Cudmore and Mrs. Geo.
Wheeler in charge of flowers
and Mrs. C. Hemingway and
Mr. A. Knight in charge of
crafts. The door prize was
won by Mrs. Cudmore.
Lunch was served by Mrs.
Geo. Wheeler, Mrs. W.
Richard, Mrs. E. Cudmore
and Mrs. McLarty.
THE BRUSSELS POST, MAY 30, 1079, 15
Horticulturaiists
see photos of
Jamaica
Anglicans host
men's breakfast