Cone Hospital review [October, 1982]

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THE MOSES H. CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Former Mayor Appointed To Hospital Board      Mrs. Pickel Heads Volunteer Organization
Edwin S. "Jim" Melvin, former Mayor
of Greensboro, has been appointed to the
Board of Trustees of The Moses H. Cone
Memorial Hospital. He will serve the unexpired term of Walter W. King, Jr., who
died this past May. Mr. Melvin is
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
First Home Federal Savings and Loan
Association in Greensboro.
The Greensboro native graduated from
Greensboro Senior (now Grimsley) High
School. He graduated from the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with a
bachelors degree in business
administration and marketing. He also
holds a masters degree in banking from
Rutgers University.
As Mayor Pro Tern, he served on the
Greensboro City Council and was Mayor
of the city from 1971 until 1981. He is a
former member of the Board of Directors
of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
and of the United Way of Greater Green-
boro. He is a past president of both the
North Carolina League of Municipalities
and the Greensboro Junior Chamber of
Commerce. He was the 1968 General
Chairman of the Greensboro United Fund
Campaign.
"Jim brings a great deal of expertise to
our board," Moses Cone Hospital Board
Chairman Charles "Buddy" Weill said.
"His talents are in demand in this community and we are obviously very pleased
that he has accepted the invitation to join
our governing body. We are confident that
this hospital and this community will
benefit from his service."
Mr. Melvin is married to the former
Jean Susan Thomas and they have two
sons, Joseph and James.
49 Entries in Photo Contest — Winners Announced
This photograph of a young day
dreamer won Best in Show for Merry
Black in the first Hospital Photo Contest.
Her photo also won first place in the black
and white category. Priscilla Spoon's
"Broken Ladder" photograph received
second place honors in the black and white
division and also received recognition for
Best Composition. Both Ms. Black and
Ms. Spoon are technicians in the hospital
Laboratory.
Ruth Ann Watson, Nursing Division
5000, won first place in the color division
for   her   slide   of   "Sunrise   at   Myrtle
Beach." Second place color category
winner was Mitch Hayes, Respiratory
Therapy Department. His entry was titled
"Talking to Pooh Bear." Kathy Hayes,
Emergency Department, placed third in
the color division with her photo of a man
and a child, and H. J. "Mac" McDaniel
received honorable mention for his color
photograph of Magnolia Street Baptist
Church.
Selecting winners from 49 good entries
was not easy for judge Eddie Robinette,
Graphics Director for the Greensboro
Daily News and Record.
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OCTOBER, 1982
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Prescription Service 2
for Employees
Volley ball Champs    3
Guidelines for Good Health 4
Mrs. John (Dot) Pickel was elected
President of the hospital Auxiliary at the
organization's annual meeting held
September 27 at the hospital. Mrs.
William (Ann) Snyder is Vice-President,
Mrs. Robert (Mary Cecile) Bridges was
re-elected Secretary and Mrs. Robert B.
(Becky) Taylor, Jr. was re-elected Treasurer. Auxiliary officers are elected for a
two-year term.
Marie Cancemi Receives Nursing Excellence
Award
Marie Cancemi, RN, a staff nurse at
The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital,
was honored by her peers ithis fall when
she was presented the second annual Nursing Excellence Award given by the
hospital's Department of Nursing. Mrs.
Cancemi was also recognized by the hospital in 1981 for her quick action in administering CPR to save the life of a
patient.
She successfully combines the roles of
wife, mother and nurse. She is married to
Joseph Cancemi, a certified public
accountant, and is mother to two teenagers, Mike and Lisa Jolly.
Prior to her ten years at Moses Cone
Hospital, Mrs. Cancemi had served as an
instructor of student nurses at Wesley
Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas, as a
Head Nurse at Hillcrest Hospital in Waco,
Texas, as Assistant Head Nurse in a Philadelphia, Pa. hospital and had worked at
Charlotte Memorial Hospital. She is a
graduate of the Wesley Medical Center in
Wichita.
"I am very pleased that nurses get this
recognition from Moses Cone Hospital,"
she commented. "We have many excellent nurses here and I'm happy to represent
them."
Mr. Haddad Is Laundry Manager
Larry J. Haddad has been named Laundry Manager at Moses Cone Hospital. A
former Account Manager with Crothall-
American, Inc., a firm which provides services to hospitals, his prior experience also
includes restaurant management. Earlier,
he served as a Health Education Specialist
in the Illinois public school system. He is a
graduate of the University of Toledo in
Ohio.
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Carolyn Beard, Editor