The time has come for the Election of the People’s Clinic Community Health Council. There are eight positions open on the fifteen member Community Council, and all will be filled when this election ends on Dec. 10.
What is the Council? It is a part of the decision-making and guidance structure of the People’s Clinic. Since the Clinic is a community oriented, community/ worker controlled health center, it has always utilized some means of dilogue and communication with community residents who were not direct participants at the Clinic. Unfortunately, many of these processes were not very efficient, some are totally ineffective, and so the decisions of how the Clinic should serve this community were left up to the Clinic workers alone. Our general meetings were unattended. Questionairs were not filled out. We guessed at what people wanted outside of the circle of our acquaintances.
The Council will provide that guidance which only a combination of Clinic workers and community residents can produce. The Council will be composed of the seven Board of Directors members already elected from the Clinic volunteers, and eight members elelcted from community residents and clinic workers. This body will have both decision-making authority and advisory input aspects.
Council decisions will pertain to general policy and direction of the Clinic, and its advisory capacity will pertain to specific programs and practical policy, which the Board of Directors will retain control over. In addition, the Council will deal with discussion or problems brought up by anyone attending the open, monthly Council meetings.
The election of Council members, will take three weeks, ending on December 10 at a Clinic Reception. The Reception will be a chance to get together, see the Clinic, have some refreshments, and drop off any ballots you may still have. More details can be gotten from Clinic offices, phone 721-5577 and posters will be put up later. Please consider stopping by.
Further voting will be conducted at block, church, or neighborhood organization meetings, whereever we can hand out ballots. If you are aware of any meeting we may attend to facilitate voting (a very short procedure), let us know.
Following are a list of the Nominees for the Council. These names have been collected over the past two months, but the information provided about each one is of course very brief. Your personal knowledge of any of these persons would be a much better guide. Along with this article is a “ballot”. If you think you can’t make the December 10 reception, please mail this ballot in or bring it to the Clinic, 6010 Kingsbury.
George Brown: A resident of the 5800 block of Pershing; member Washington Heights Neighbors; an engineer with the city street dept.; and active in area housing rehbilitation.
Anna Busch: resident 57xx Pershing; Wash. Hts. Neighbors Board member; Community worker; Police Community Relations member; Secretary of Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Assoc.
William [Pappa] Bolden: resident 58xx DeGiverville; chairman of two block groups; member local Demo. Businessmen’s Assoc.; member Wash. Hts. Neighbors; Police-Corn. Relations; has worked with the Clinic on the trash-can holder project.
Mary Boyts: area resident; has worked for a total of nine years in both Hamilton Schools; member S.D.C.C.; has volunteered at the Clinic in the past; social worker; would like to see the clinic as a children resource.
Avis Carlson: resident 61xx McPherson; a writer currently doing research on senior citizens; League of Women voters community organizer; member Commission on Mission, Grace United Methodist Church.
David Damick: Clinic worker; one of founders of Clinic, former Board member; Special Projects Director; former Pres. Community Coll. Inc..
Morty Glanz: is an M.D. who has worked with the Clinic for a good while; former Board nominee; active in development of clinic procedure.
Edna Gockel: 60xx McPherson resident; a senior citizen interested in action directed toward area sanitation, crime, and toward better racial ballance.
Susie Roach: resident 61xx Kingsbury; Chairwoman of Art Fair; works on “The Paper”; Residential Com. member; attends PCR meetings; wife of local alderman.
Catherine Sullivan: 61xx McPherson resident; retired 22yrs. in research and Education with Teamsters, estab. their welfare program; has experience with hospital and medical programs; developed 1st VD clinic in area. worked w/workman’s comp.; taught at SLU.
Rose Storey: St. Mary’s Health Center business employee; resident 57xx Waterman; active Wash. Hts. Neighbors; active in St. Roch’s Church.
Howard Thomas: Young Adult Librarian at the Des Peres Branch Library; did grad work in library science at U. of Atlanta; interest in use of media for community and development of a neighborhood directory.
Harold Tuthill: 60xx McPherson resident; lived in neighborhood 32 yrs.; W.U. graduate; retired 1971; member St. Roch’s Church.
Marge Weir: resident 61xx Westminster; editor of “The Paper”; corsp. sec. for Rosedale N. Assoc.; Art Fair committee; active in Neighborhood Assoc.
Maverine Wilson: resident 60xx Washington; President block organization; active in promoting general participation of residents in health care.
Original Ballot
Please vote for up to eight:
George Brown; Anna Busch; William Bolden; Mary Boyts; Avis Carlson; David Damick; Edna Gockel; Susie Roach; Catherine Sullivan; Morty Glanz; Rose Storey; Howard Thomas; Harold Tuthill; Marge Weir; Maverine Wilson.
Write-in spaces and voter name, phone and address fields were provided.
Originally published in The Paper, December 1974.
Read this article in the original newspaper issue.
Original source: SD_Times1974_12.pdf, printed page(s) 3; PDF page(s) 3.
