Zurich Citizens News, 1965-07-08, Page 3THURSDAY, JULY 8., D65
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Alder -
dice, of Toronto; Allan 1VIac-
ATthur, Waterdown, and Miss
C •a r o 1 Cartwright, Hamilton;
Mr. and Mrs. Moore and fam-
ily.. Stratford, visited with Mr.
and Mrs. Vern Alderdice, Garry
and Lynn over the week -end.
Mrs. Jarvis Horton has re-
turned from Montreal where
she visited her son, Stuart, and
family, and attended her grand-
.. on's wedding on June 26.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Moore,
Janice and David, and Miss
Daisy Gibson, of Waterloo, vis-
ited with Mrs. Harry Caldwell
and Jack over the week -end.
Jack Faber, who has been a
patient in. South Huron Hos-
pital for the past several weeks,
weeks, returned home on Sat -
returned home on Saturday.
Mrs, Chester Lee, who was a
patient in South Huron Hos-
pital, has returned to her home
in Hensall.
Miss Marcia Little, of Blen-
heim, spent the week -end at
her home here.
Mr. and Mrs. Clendon Chris-
tie, Catharine Anne, and Kay
Davis are spending this week
vacationing at Thurston Park,
near Lindsay.
Michael Davis is spending
this week holidaying at Barrow
Bay. on Georgian Bay, with his
,aunt and uncle,. Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Fowler, and family, of
London.
Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Goddard,
John and Joan are on vacation.
Miss Margaret Buchanan was
taken to Clinton hospital Mon -
Shower For
Bride - Elect
Complimenting Miss Karen
Tinney, bride -elect of Saturday,
July 10, Mrs. Lorne Chapman
was hostess at her home when
neighbors gathered to honour
the bride-to-be and to present
icer with a miscellaneous show-
er
hower cf gifts.
Decorations in pink a n d
white motif and early summer
flowers formed attractive dec-
orations. The hostess was as-
sisted by Mrs. Jack Corbett.
Mrs. Ken Pollock and Mrs.
Ed Corbett directed games and
contests. Mrs. Pollock read
the address.
0
Gilbert Reunion
field At Sarnia
The Gilbert reunion was held
.an Sunday, June 27, at Cana
tara Park, Sarnia, with about
50 members of the family at-
tending from Flint, Michigan;
Windsor, London, Hensall and
;Sarnia.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Orr, of
Hensall, were in charge of the
sports, which were as follows:
Children's balloon race: girls'
Sheryl Gilbert, Dianne Eng-
land. Christine Fuller; boys'
race: Darrel Fuller, Mark Mc-
Lachen, Mike McE a c h e n;
clothespin relay, Joyce Bisson's
team: golf ball relay, Irene Mc-
Eachen's team.
Couple with the largest fam-
ily in attendance, Mr. and Mrs.
Basil Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam McEachen, Lady with the
most pennies in her purse, Mrs.
El Dove; man with the thinnest
legs, El Dove, Larry Gilbert;
youngest child present, Wendy
Sue Dove, 10 months.
Convenors for 1966 picnic
are Mr. and Mrs. Russel Gilbert,
Windsor.
MRS. MAUDE REDDEN, Editor
day morning by ambulance with
a fractured hip sustained when
she suffered a fall in her home.
Miss Kathie Henderson is va-
cationing for two weeks with
her sister and brother-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Lindsay,
and family at Willowdale. Mr.
Lindsay, accountant at the Bank
of Montreal in Willowdale, has
been transferred to Hamilton
to a branch there.
Miss Anne Keys was success-
ful in passing her grade 4 in
piano with honors with the
Western Ontario Conservatory
of Music held at Stratford re-
cently. Anne, daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. Harvey Keys, is a pu-
pil •of Mrs. Frank Forrest.
Relatives and friends of Miss
Consitt called at her home on
Tuesday afternoon and evening
to offer her felicitations and
present her with gifts in honor
of her birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Beer and
Mrs. Perce Phillips are vaca-
tioning in the Peninsula.
Mr. and Mrs, Alex Mousseau
and Mrs. Luella Willert left
Monday of this week for a five
weeks' vacation by motor to
the west coast.
Present Gifts
The graduation class of grade
8 of Hensall Public School, at
the conclusion of school Tues-
day afternoon, presented their
teacher, principal Robert Rea -
burn, with a gift of luggage,
the honors going to Kenneth
Jones, who read the address.
Wednesday afternoon the same
class was entertained at the
summer cottage of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Bonthron at Turnbull's
Grove, when a picnic supper
was enjoyed and a recreation
of sports held.
Hensall Native and Husband Serve
Bruce Area Patients By Air
(By E. S. McCannel in the
Kitchener -Waterloo Record)
The doctors with the largest
territory and the most rugged
terrain in southern Ontario
have beefed up their transpor-
tation.
The husband -wife team of
Doctors Mervyn and Norma
Hopkinson, of Lion's Head, for
14 years have covered most of
the Bruce Peninsula by car,
horse, on foot or by a plane
shared with a Wiarton doctor.
Now they have a plane on
order.
Anyone who knows Bruce
Peninsula realizes that trans-
portation can be a problem.
First, there is the distances.
The Hopkinsons are the only
doctors north of Wiarton which
is 21 miles south of Lion's
Head. The tip of the peninsula,
Tobermorq, is 34 miles in the
other direction.
Then there are the roads.
While the main highways are
good, the sideroads still follow
the winding Indian trails. In
winter the never-ending winds
from Lake Huron whip across
the narrow land strip to Georg-
ian Bay and the results are con-
tinuing snowdrifts. A few win-
ters ago the community of
Dyers Bay was snowed in for
two weeks.
Doctors Mervyn Hopkinson
and James Leeson, of Wiarton,
work closely together and a
year ago decided to take flying
instruction and buy a plane.
They got a four -seater Cessna
172,
Dr. Leeson is tall and he
and Dr. Mervyn Hopkinson had
been dubbed Mutt and Jeff by
the peninsula people, who also
applied the name to the plane
and painted a cartoon of the
doctors on its nose.
Dr. Mervyn Hopkinson came
from a flying family although
he did not fly until a year ago.
A brother, Keith Hopkinson,
operator of Sky Harbor airport
at Goderich, was killed in a
crash a year ago last March.
Keith had often urged his
physician brother to fly but the
doctor kept putting it off until
be had the money for a plane
and time for the instruction.
The other half of the Lion's
Head team, Dr. Norma Hopkin-
son, saw her husband get his
private pilot's licence and de-
cided she, too, would fly.
It's hard to find the time
for study and instruction when
you have a full-time medical
practice and three children to
look after, but she hopes to
solo by fall.
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The Hopkinsons ordered a
Beagle aircraft. They have the
department of transport strip
at Wiarton to land on, a priv-
ate strip at Lion's Head and a
farm field at Tobermory.
"When they call a doctor up
here they need one in a hurry,"
Dr. Mervyn said. He feels that
when both he and his wife are
airborne the service to their
patients will be stepped up.
He now makes his calls in a
fire -engine -red Mustang.
The Hopkinsons have an of-
fice at Wiarton as well as the
one in their Lion's Head home.
They alternate days at the of-
fices. The Lion's Head office
is equipped with a radio re-
ceiver on the plane's frequency
and the hope is to get a trans-
mitter at the Wiarton office as
well.
The Hopkinsons are not too
sure why they came to the
Bruce Peninsula 14 years ago
to set up practice. Both were
from small towns, she from
Hensall and he from Tillson-
buug. She was graduated from
Western and he from Queen's.
Dr. Mervyn Hopkinson thinks
his friendship with Dr. Sher -
en
wood Fox may have influenced
the move. Dr, Fox, one-time
University of Western Ontario
president and a native of Col -
pays Bay in the peninsula.
wrote The Bruce Beckons and
other books on the area.
It was a happy selection to
come here, both doctors agree.
They cite several reasons, in-
cluding their children, Joanne,
14; Bruce, 12, and Mary, 8.
This is a better place to raise
children than the city, the doc-
tors believe. Children here be-
come more stable, are more
resourceful.
And then there are the peo
ple of the peninsula themselves
The doctors describe them as
"a loyal group, more philoso-
phical and stoic than city peo-
ple. They have been slower to
adapt to change and life goes
at •a slower pace but with the
increasing influx of tourists
this will change.
"They are so co-operative.
Knowing we are spread thin
over a large area they make
every effort to come to the
office. House calls are rare and
when you get one you know it's
urgent."
And doctors are spread thin
in the peninsula. The two Hop-
kinsons cover the 55. mile -long
area whose winter population
of 3,500 is swelled to 50,000 in
the tourist season.
How has the peninsula ac-
cepted the Hopkinsons?
A Barrow Bay man in his 70s
answered that question with
typical peninsula simplicity:
"They're us now."
This acceptance can be illus-
trated in many ways. For ex-
ample, there was the problem
of how to refer to a man or
wife when both are doctors.
This was solve d. Everyone
calls them Hoppy and Norma.
The Hopkinsons have taken
a deep interest in their com-
munity. She has served on vil-
lage council and school board.
He on the school board and
industrial commission. Both
have been on the hospital
board and they are a part of
the other community projects.
When a new building was to
be erected for the Red Cross
Outpost Hospital here, the Hop-
kinsons donated valuable shore
property as a site even though
the structure cuts off their view
over Georgian Bay.
Backwoods doctoring presents
problems and challenges.
Because there is no drug
store north of Wiarton a com-
plete dispensary must be main-
tained at the Lion's Head of-
fice. More than $15,000 in
drugs is stocked. Lack of fa-
cilities meant they had to buy
their own X-ray machine and
cardiograph.
Their home office is run 'as
an out-patients department and
a small operating room is
available for minor or emerg-
ency surgery. When the new
hospital is completed in late
summer, it will have these fa-
cilities.
Lack of facilities up in the
peninsula also means the doc-
tor must become more versatile.
Most medical problems are
the same, but some differ. For
example, there is a high inci-
dence of water accidents but
life-saving instruction to the
residents through the years has
had rewarding results. Last
s u m me r alone four persons
were revived by mouth-to-
mouth rescusitation.
"With the distances involved
up here if they waited in a
drowning for a doctor to come
the patient would be dead.
The people realize they must
know what to do."
There is also a high inci-
dence of hunting accidents.
Nearly everyone in the pen-
insula has a gun and many
from outside come here for the
abundant game.
The problem peculiar to
this locality is rattlesnake bites.
The two Hopkinsons have prob-
ably administered more anti-
venom than all other doctors
of the province -26 treatments
so far, and no fatalities.
The fear some have of the
Massassaga is over -emphasized,
but all should know that
prompt treatment is required.
Dr. Mervyn Hopkinson said. He
takes a particular interest in
the treatment of rattlesnakes
bites and sends live specimens
to laboratories for research.
He would like to see a spe-
cific serum developed rather
than use the present horse
serum with its "shotgun treat-
ment" of all snake venom. The
rattler is the only poisonous
snake in this area.
The Hopkinsons are the only
husband -wife coroner team in
the British Commonwealth, and
she is one of only two women
coroners in Canada.
Their life is a busy one but
they have time for other activi-
ties. He is also medical direc-
tor for the largest Canadian -
owned drug house.
"This keeps me on niy toes
and abreast of the latest de-
velopments in drugs," he says.
For relaxation she is an ac-
complished pianist. Her hus-
band is building a harpsichord.
"I hope I get it finished be-
fore I'm too old to learn to
play it."
He likes classical music and!
PAGE THREl1
has hundreds of records, 'rut
his off-duty passion is oil paint-
ing. He has recorded much of
Bruce Peninsula's scenery ear
canvas and is now painting ao.
airscape mural at the Goderich.
airport.
Medical practice here is a
rugged life and a demanding
life. but Hoppy and Norma
would not trade it for a:iy
other.
"We'll finish out here," tity
say.
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it's like reaching out
and touching the ones you love,
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