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- _ , the Good Samaritan hospital. Miss
I     Gehring was the first superintend-
‘ · — ent of the hospital under that
  ‘ i name. The first staff was com-
` L "     posed of: The late Dr. H. M.
· Skillman, the late Dr. David Bar-
4 row, Dr. J. C. Carrick, Dr.- F. H.
  · , Clarke, the late Dr. B. L. Coleman, A
  """""*“" Dr. VV. O. Bullock, Jr.; Dr. John
  ‘ Success of Affair at Good w. scott, pt. w. B. Mociure, the 
· S .   C M late Dr. G. D. Kelly, Jr.; the late 
  · amarltan I ause ed' Dr. J. A. Stucky, the late Dr. 
.1 ting to Be Madg Annual Charles VV. Norris and the late
. ` E Dr. John Y. Oldham. Five of the  V
· . vent members of the original staff now 
..;..... are on the present staff of the hos- ‘
-         pital. 'The late Dr. Thomas Stone
. ‘ ·· . Lewis became the first interne on
I, -—-— January 1. 1899.
V _·Miss Lake Johnson, superintend- Thr; mst ciass Og nurses wagl ’
ent of the Good Samaritan hospital, mgantzcd in 1891, and Miss Sarah
; yesterday announced `that annual B. Rowland was the first graduate
J · reunions of nurses, internes and in 1893. Miss Rowland now is
- doctors of the hospital will be held Mrs. Mock. Dr. Redxnon described 
Y hereafter, so successful was the the growth Ot thg hospital fg its
_ 1 first reunion held at the hospita1.present size with 22 graduate nurse`
’ - Wednesday night.   lsupervisors; 75 pupil nurses, a staff .
_. ` DI; L_ C_ Rgdmgn, whg became of 69 doctors and a total hospital 
` the first lnterne of the Good Sa- staff of 174, and 242 beds in a hos-
‘·ma_rista_n hospital when gt was pital valued at approximately $1,-
moved to its present location on 500,000.  1
·- South Limestone street, reviewedl Members of the nurses’ classes 
- -.the history of the hospital from itslof 1893, 1895, 1897 and 1899 were 
` founding by the ¥Vomen’s Guild of presented at the reunion. Between 
l the Episcopal church in 1888. Th€1105 and 110 graduate nurses at-
hospital was founded in a, building tended, and nine former internes.
· on’West Short street just east of In his address, Dr. Redmon paid V
  Deweese street, and at that time high tribute to the late Henry L. C V.
' was staffed by a superintendent Ott, president of the board, whose . ·
` i and four pupil nurses. Miss Frantz generosity contributed largely to W, Scott, member Vof thc. original
` was the iirst superintendent. the rapid growth of the hospital. staff, and now chairmani of the
._ ;· The hospital was operated to and to the late Alfred Combs, presi· medical board; Dr. W. _G. Phillips,
` *1S99¤ as the Protestant infirmary. dent emeritus of the hospital.- I-Ie of Maysville, Dr. Clarke and others
·.Then ladies of all Protestant and'also complimented Miss Johnson, were introduced. . _ I
 `*'LTewish churches took over the ilriwho has been superintendent for Supperwas served on the ifronis
·. e stitution and it became known as the past seven years. Dr. John lawn of the hospital, _