Summary Information
Manitowoc Memorial Hospital Auxiliary Records
1948-1991
- Manitowoc Memorial Hospital Auxiliary (Manitowoc, Wis.)
Green Bay Mss 132; Green Bay Micro 54; PH Green Bay Mss 132; Micro 2046
2.8 c.f. (6 archives boxes and 1 card box), 2 reels of microfilm (35mm), and 58 photographs
UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records of a non-profit women's volunteer organization in Manitowoc, Wis., formed in 1953 to support the Manitowoc Memorial Hospital. Included are by-laws, minutes of the board of trustees, audits and financial reports, membership records, newsletters, microfilmed clipping scrapbooks, photographs, records of fundraising activities, and information on Candy Stripers and other volunteer programs. About Manitowoc Memorial Hospital there are incomplete files of correspondence, audits, board minutes, administrator's reports, brochures, and additional microfilmed clippings. Several manuals issued by the Wisconsin Hospital Association Auxiliaries are also included. The photographs mainly concern fundraising activities, the Candy Stripers program, and staff at work. The organization dissolved in 1991 when the hospital merged with Holy Family Hospital to become Holy Family Memorial Medical Center.
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Biography/History
The Manitowoc Memorial Hospital Auxiliary was formed on August 27, 1953 to promote the welfare of a non-sectarian hospital constructed in Manitowoc in that same year by means of citizen contributions. Because the early records of the organization are missing, the events that led to the formation of the auxiliary can only be gleaned from secondary sources. It is thought that the auxiliary began when Rudolph Schwartz, president of the hospital, requested that Mrs. Charles Bouril and Dorothy Fischl conduct tours at the hospital dedication. Sufficient interest in volunteer support of the hospital was demonstrated that 252 women assembled to sign the charter for the auxiliary. Mrs. Paul Rohr was elected as the first president.
The purposes of the auxiliary remained essentially constant during the next 37 years: service within the hospital, fundraising, and directing public relations for the hospital. The range of volunteer service expanded greatly, however, from operation of the hospital gift shop to work as nurses' aides. In addition, the auxiliary mended linens, provided toys for children, and performed clerical and reception functions. Early in its history, the auxiliary launched a highly regarded junior organization. This group was first known as Teen-Age Group Service but it later became affiliated with the Candy Stripers program.
The auxiliary's chief fundraising activities--a country festival and auction, a pie and ice cream social, and a card party--also remained popular throughout the organization's existence. During its first four years alone, the organization raised almost 25,000 dollars. By 1968 the organization claimed over 600 members, and it annually raised over 70,000 dollars for equipment and scholarships.
In 1987 Manitowoc Memorial Hospital affiliated with Two Rivers Community Hospital to form Lakeshore Health Corporation of Manitowoc County. The auxiliary ceased operation in 1991 when the hospital merged with Holy Family Hospital to become Holy Family Memorial Medical Center, which based its volunteer activities on the volunteer coordinator model rather than the auxiliary model of operation.
Scope and Content Note
The records provide relatively complete documentation about the activities of the hospital auxiliary from its inception in 1953 to its dissolution in 1991. Unfortunately, basic records documenting the formation and early years of the organization are missing, although these activities are represented in the microfilmed scrapbooks and in the organizational newsletter. The records are organized as Background Material, Administrative Records, Activity Records, and Publicity.
The BACKGROUND MATERIAL relates to Manitowoc Memorial Hospital and to the Wisconsin Hospital Association Auxiliaries rather than to the Manitowoc auxiliary itself. Although the information about the hospital is far from complete, it suggests some of the main themes in the institution's history. The most comprehensive coverage is offered by the microfilmed hospital scrapbooks, which extend from the first public mention of Memorial's creation in 1948 through 1988. Generally, the scrapbooks include news stories about hospital governance, staff, construction, and special outreach programs. Also useful, although dating only from the period 1979 to 1985 are copies of the Memorial Messenger (Vol. 8-16), a hospital publication which contained news of the hospital and the auxiliary, and several illustrated brochures. Minutes of the hospital board are even less complete, although during the 1960s, they are supplemented by monthly reports of Alan Case, the hospital administrator. For the limited period they cover, the reports include statistics on medical services and occupancy as well as financial and narrative information about operations and occasional information about the auxiliary. Several reports issued by administrators to the medical staff are also included. This section also includes miscellaneous hospital publications and several documents relating to long-range planning.
The small correspondence file is of unknown origin. Although miscellaneous and fragmentary in character, it contains some important letters from hospital administrators about the organization of the medical staff and preparation of the by-laws, cost-saving measures implemented in 1954, on-going competition with Holy Family Hospital, and management opposition to the organization of a union of hospital employees in 1965.
About the Wisconsin Hospital Association Auxiliaries, the collection contains manuals designed to guide activities of local organizations. Minutes of one WHAA meeting included here contains a mention of Mrs. Harold A. Kugler who served as an unpaid volunteer coordinator with Manitowoc Memorial Hospital for many years and who also served a four-year term as head of WHAA.
ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS relate to the internal activities of the auxiliary, and they consist chiefly of by-laws, minutes, and financial and membership records of the auxiliary. The minutes do not begin until 1958, but they are virtually complete for the remainder of the organization's history. Interspersed with minutes of the board are occasional records of general membership, executive board, and financial and other committee meetings. The minutes of the final meetings suggest something of the controversy which surrounded the closing of Memorial Hospital. The financial reports consist of monthly and annual reports, audits, and reports of the gift shop, as well as occasional reports on special fundraising activities. Membership records consist of annual lists of members and officers and, for the period not covered by printed lists, record cards. The way in which volunteers were oriented is documented by several policy manuals and descriptive tours of the hospital.
Only a portion of the auxiliary's many programs are represented in the ACTIVITY RECORDS; most extensive are the files on the Candy Striper volunteer program and records of the card party, Country Festival, and Pie and Ice Cream fundraisers. The Candy Striper program is represented by several years of applications which detail the work experience and career plans of these teenage volunteers, training and policy manuals (some from other hospitals), and miscellaneous correspondence. The three major fundraisers are all represented by similar material: remarkably detailed subcommittee reports and press material. (Additional information about each of these events is included in the microfilmed scrapbooks described below.) The auxiliary also raised money in order to provide scholarships for young people in the community interested in careers in medicine. The scholarship files include lists of recipients and award amounts, blank application forms, and correspondence.
The Publicity Records include a complete run of the Memorial Volunteer, a newsletter published three times per year; photographs; and microfilmed scrapbooks. The scrapbooks are divided into a general chronological series, and special volumes that cover the Candy Striper program from 1965 to 1990 and the Country Festival from 1953 to 1961.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Presented by the Auxiliary via Mary Manis, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1991-1993. Accession Number: M91-199, M93-39
Processed by Carolyn J. Mattern, 1995.
Contents List
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Green Bay Mss 132
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Series: Background Material
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Memorial Hospital
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Box
1
Folder
1
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Audits, financial statements, and budgets, 1961-1965
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Box
1
Folder
2
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Brochures, 1953-1960, undated
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Box
1
Folder
3
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By-laws, 1960-1963
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Box
1
Folder
4
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Correspondence, 1950-1991
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Box
1
Folder
5
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Medical staff memoranda, 1960-1963
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Box
1
Folder
6
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Memorial Messenger, 1979-1985
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Box
1
Folder
7
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Planning documents, 1963-1981
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Box
1
Folder
8-10
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Reports and minutes of the Board, 1962-1966, 1980-1981, 1989
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Green Bay Micro 54/Micro 2046
Reel
1
Frame
1
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Scrapbooks, 1948, 1953, 1961-1964, 1970-1988
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Green Bay Mss 132
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Wisconsin Hospital Association Auxiliaries
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Box
1
Folder
11
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Financial guidelines, by-laws, miscellany, 1977, 1980-1989
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Box
1
Folder
12
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Leadership and job description manual, undated
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Box
2
Folder
1-2
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Leadership manual, undated
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Series: Administrative Records
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Box
2
Folder
3
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By-laws, 1967-1984, undated
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Minutes
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Box
2
Folder
4-9
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1958-1977
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Box
3
Folder
1-5
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1978-1991
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Financial records
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Box
3
Folder
6
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Annual reports and budgets, 1954-1979
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Box
3
Folder
7
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Audits, 1958-1989
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Box
3
Folder
8-9
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Corridor Store reports, 1972-1991
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Box
3
Folder
10
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Financial miscellany
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Financial statements
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Box
3
Folder
11-12
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1968-1977
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Box
4
Folder
1-2
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1980-1991
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Box
4
Folder
3
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Tax exempt status
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Membership records
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Box
4
Folder
4
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Lists, 1953-1990
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Box
7
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Index cards, 1950s-1970s
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Box
4
Folder
5
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Officer lists, 1967-1990
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Box
4
Folder
5a
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Miscellany
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Box
4
Folder
6
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Orientation materials and handbooks, 1957, undated
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Series: Activity Records
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Box
4
Folder
6
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Handbooks and orientation materials, undated
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Candy Stripers
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Box
4
Folder
7-8
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Applications, 1967-1971, 1987-1988
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Box
4
Folder
9
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General information and correspondence, 1966-1968, 1988-1990, undated
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Box
4
Folder
10
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Orientation materials, 1972-1990, undated
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Box
5
Folder
1
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Card parties, 1978-1990
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Box
5
Folder
2
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Corridor store, undated
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Box
5
Folder
3-7
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Country Festival, 1956, 1972-1990
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Box
5
Folder
8
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Love Light Tree, 1987-1990
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Box
5
Folder
9
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Miscellaneous committees, 1982-1990, undated
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Box
5
Folder
10
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Patient Services, 1986-1991
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Box
5
Folder
11-14
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Pie and Ice Cream Social, 1978-1990
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Box
5
Folder
15
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Scholarship Committee (and Spring Luncheon), 1973-1990
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Series: Publicity
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Box
6
Folder
1-5
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Memorial Volunteer, 1954-1991
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Photographs
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Box
6
Folder
6
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Xeroxed copies
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PH Green Bay Mss 132
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Original prints
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Green Bay Micro 54/Micro 2046
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Scrapbooks
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General
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Reel
1
Frame
462
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1954-1989
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Reel
2
Frame
1
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1990-1991
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Reel
2
Frame
15
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Candy Stripers, 1965-1990
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Reel
2
Frame
170
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Country Festival, 1953-1961
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