For a place that has usually been quiet in the summer, the Clinic has been unusually busy this summer!
A group of young workers under the Summer Youth Program has completely painted the apartment at 6008-a Kingsbury, which the Clinic has taken for expansion office space, and which was the Youth Program’s office for the summer. In addition to a thorough cleaning job, they have stripped wallpaper, puttied, plastered, and painted the whole place (over and about Henry Hall’s desk, with Henry often in situ!!) This is the same crew that painted the Aquarian Center and the Community Council’s offices. With their supervisor, Sue Sante, they have done an artistic and workmanlike job — and were fun to have about, to boot!
On June 30, 1975, the Clinic and the community got the first benefits of Womanpower —under the Manpower program. The Clinic now has six young women as medical office assistant trainees under a contract with the St. Louis Manpower Program. Their work in the Clinic during clinic sessions has speeded patient flow, and their behindthe-scenes cleaning, organizing and labelling has made the Clinic a more efficient and pleasant place to be, as worker or patient. Because of this added Womanpower (each class will be with us six months), the Clinic has been able to launch its PECOS program of blood pressure monitoring with various adult groups in the area.
Originally published in The Paper, September 1975.
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Original source: SD_Times1975_09.pdf, printed page(s) 3; PDF page(s) 3.
