[Awards from the North Carolina Medical Society Auxiliary]

              AWARDS
COMMUNICATIONS, COOPERATION AND EDUCATION...a grand theme for a grand 1974-75 Auxiliary year. The
following awards show how it was done.
THE PRESIDENT'S SILVER BOWL was awarded for the third consecutive year to Guilford-Greensboro [201
members] auxiliary whose activities included a 16 hour VD workshop for 57 junior high teachers; a~GEMS baby
sitting course for 200 teenagers, "Arts in the Park" that earned $500 for AMA-ERF along with $1980 from Christmas
cards and the offering of two full nursing scholarship at UNC-G. This is North Carolina's most active auxiliary who
must do a bit of everything to qualify for this award.
THE RAINBOW OF SERVICE TROPHY, a silver mounted urn was awarded to District Viii, the district with the most
enviable all round record and is led by giants Greensboro, High Point and Forsyth Stokes. Surry-Yadkin and Wilkes
are as active as their numbers allow and this year new Rockingham was organized.
THE PRESIDENT'S CERTIFICATE OF AWARD went to four-time winner Gaston County for the best use of the
year's theme in programs. An elegant newsletter was begun along with organization of a county wide "Child Abuse
Task Force".    Increase & AMA-ERF contributions 55%.
HEALTH MANPOWER...the beautiful carved wooden fruit bowl from the NC mountains was awarded to
Lenior-Greene-Jones [41 members] for "the Fruits of their labors". This auxiliary distributed a newsletters to high
school health clubs in the three counties, participated in detection programs for sight, hearing, hypertension,
pap-smear and oral detection. They held a health careers fair for grades 8-12 with 40 exhibits, Provided Careers
programs and workshop plus hospital tours and transportation to the congress in Raleigh.
COMMUNITY HEALTH, Mrs. Robert L. Means, Winston-Salem, chairman
The $100 revolving fund award [to be used one year and then passed on] was received oy Halifax Northampton for
the best participation in all community health services. This 30 member auxiliary conducted 2 six week GEMS
courses, sponsores and active Health Careers Club and are currently drumming up interest in "talking books" for
the blind, an outgrowth of their kindergarten eye screening project.
AMA-ERF,  Mrs.   William  Corpen-
ing, Granite Falls, chairman
The largest per capita contribution
of $105 per person was made by
Bladen County. Lenior-Greene-
Jones had the greatest percentage of
increase going from 0 to $687.95 and
Guilford Greensboro topped the
totals with $3045.37 from this single
auxiliary. At mid year, total
AMA-ERF gifts from NC ($16,735.
had already surpassed 1973-74.
HEALTH EDUCATION* Mrs. Robert L. Summerlin of Dublin,
chairman,
Certificates were awarded to
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dent's bowl) and Forsyth Stokes who
sponsored 22 students in a Summer
Experience program at Forsyth
Memorial hospital and awarded
$1925 to eight students working for
associate nursing degrees along with
VD education in various student
groups and announcement on health
education areas for closed circuit TV
in schools.
FAMILY HEALTH* Mrs. Hal J.
Rollins, Jr., Greensboro, chairman.
aw^rHalsowith Buncombe second.
This auxiliary provided guided tours
for schools for Asheville's Health
Education Museum.
Seconds went to New Hanover-Brunswick-Pender for a Fifth Grade
Health Fair (1700 attending!) at New
Hanover Memorial hospital along
with presentation in schools of a
bicycle safety program (grades 1-4)
and a film "VD, a New Focus".
Rocky Mount- Nash conducted
screening for sight and hearing in
grades 3-6 involving 2000 (!)
children!
COMMUNITY HEALTH
Top Certificate went to Mecklenburg
for the continuing project, the
Charlottle Nature Museum Hall of
Health. Three of the five permanent
teachers are auxiliary members as
are 80 volunteers serving as
docent-guides.
Tar Heel Tanden
THE STUDENT LOAN FUND award
was given to the county with the
highest per capita donation; This
year Johnston County gave $5.79
permember. Mrs. Beverly W.
Armstrong of Charlotte is chairman.
MENTAL HEALTH award was given
to Wayne County for their work with
"Reach for Recovery" a cancer
control project involving also the
making of kits and temporary
prothesis for mastectomy patients.
THE YEAR BOOK award were made
to, according to county size, Bladen,
Pitt and Gaston. Receiving
honorable mention were Halifax-
Northampton, Cumberland and
Forsyth-Stokes. Chairman is Mrs.
R. E. Frazier of Roanoke Rapids.
DOCTOR'S   DAY,   Mrs.   Robert
Andrews, Wilmington, chairman
Small county first place (and the $10
Carol Hayman Award of Merit) was
given to Sampson (21 members) for
research and publicity honoring
oldest physician and a poster contest
in schools on the role of physicians.
Honorable mention to Union,
(research honoring retired physicians), Columbus (research honoring
deceased physicians, Burke and
Bladen (both of whom have
completed histories).
Rowan-Davie received first place
for middle-sized counties (54
members) for their physical fittness
program for doctors in which 48 of
their 52 physicians had their annual
physical!
ON THE TECHNIQUES OF CHOOSING AWARDS Sometimes it is hard
to pinpoint why a certain auxiliary or district is worth of an award... and I'm
sure that judges are fallible in choosing. They tend to favor projects they are
interested in but DO try to be objective!
"I make check lists and the best way to express it is that the winners
receive more checks! Lu Russell, 74-75 president
REPORTS are the key to awards success. Other auxiliaries may have
done more than the winners but if it is not reported, who is to know!
Newspaper clippings, snapshots and other pertient date should be saved
ATthe time of the project...not hasitly gathered together.
The program bank is geared to greatly facilitate report making... which
ran to a devstating 37 pages from the state to national this year. Less of
this for county presidents and program chairman as well as state level
officers in the coming year.
Summer 1975