Auxiliary Schedules Babysitter Training

              Auxiliary schedules
babysitter training
By SALLY REESE
Times Medical Writer
The babysitcr training course of the
Shreveport Medical Society Auxiliary is
scheduled for Nov. 14 at Willis-
Knighton Medcal Center, the co-spon-sor
this year.
The course is called GEMS, for Good
Emergency Mather Substitutes, and is
for for boys aid girls aged 12 and older.
They can ngister with the Willis-
Knighton community relations depart-ment,
telephone 227-4727 or 227-4850.
They will te taught infant and child
care, ethics and responsibilities,
pediatric emergencies, safety in the
home, personal safety, basic
cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
creative playand fire safety.
Instruction will be given by an emer-gency
medical technician from the
Shreveport Fire Department; Susan
Richardson, lead nurse of the newborn
nursery at Hghland Hospital; Sgt. Sher-rie
Carter o!the Caddo Parish Sheriff's
Department; Mary Cureington,
pediatric nurse at Wlllis-Knighton; Jo
Ann Reddei, kindergarten teacher at
First Bapist Church School; and
Katherine Lusk and Marguerite Allen of
the medical auxiliary.
Aging conference
Charles Ravenna of Shreveport and
Raymond Doss and Joe Sheppard of
Ruston will be delegates to the 1981
White House Conference on Aging Nov.
29-Dec. 3 in Washington.
Ravenia and Sheppard are assistant
state directors of the National Retired
Teachers' Association. Doss is vice
chairmain of the state legislative com-mittee
of the NRTA and American
Association of Retired Persons.
Black, nurses
The monthly meeting of the
Shreveport, Black Nurses Association
will be heliat 4:30 p.m. Nov. 14 at the
YMCA's Alendale Branch, 700 Pierre
St.
Group hypnosis
Another group hypnosis program —
to help stop smoking and lose weight —
will be presented here by the American
Lung Association of Louisiana Inc.
It is scheduled for Nov. 13 at Chez
Vous Motor Inn, the smoking session at
7 p.m. and the weight session at 9 p.m.
The fee is $35 for each.
Sessions will be conducted by Sue
Weingarden, a certified clinical hypno-tist
with the Self Psych Clinic in South-field,
Mich. According to W. Findley
Raymond, executive director of the
Louisiana Lung Association, she con-ducts
such sessions for lung associations
across the United States.
Recertification
Dr. David T. Henry of Shreveport has
been recertified as a diplomate of the
American Board of Family Practice.
medical
beat
ABFO diplomates must be recertified
every six years to continue to show
proof of competency in the primary
care specialty of family practice. No
other medical specialty requires
diplomates to prove competence on a
continuing basis, says the academy.
Volunteers
Volunteers gave 47,692 hours of ser-vice
to LSU Medical Center here be-tween
Sept. 1, 1980 and Aug. 31, 1981.
LSUMC thanked its volunteers at a
banquet last month.
Certificates were presented to Betty An-derson,
Rhonda Anderson, Kathrvn
Armstrong, the Rev. Earl Beoulleu, Ann
Belcher, Evelyn Bell, Hazel Bothel, Ethel
Brewer, Sue Colhoun, Nancy Cleorkin,
Cherry Conover, Merle Conway, Bobby J.
Cooper, Vicki Crow;
Ann Cunningham, Wendy Cunningham.
Louise Diana, Lou Dunlap, Alyne Evns, De-wey
Evans, Moriorie Fields, Pat Forrar, Pat
Finlev, Henley Foreman, Peg Gaffney,
Mildred Glassed, Tom Godwin;
Betty Goldman, Charles Harris,' the Rev.
Earl Harris, Meredith Haynes, Midge Hen-derson,
Norma Hock, Richard Hosier,
Cathey Ivey, Annie M. Jacobs, Myrtls
Jenkins, Kitty Johnson, Carolyn Jones, Ray-mond
H. Jones, Marguerite Kutschbach;
Rosemary Lassiter, Mary Lewis, Thelma
Lee, Sarah Little, Viola Lewis, Mickey Liv-ingston,
Andrew M. Lowe, David McCaleb,
Betty McConathy, Martha McDonald, Elinor
Monroe, Jane A. Martin, Charlotte Meeks,
Christine Mlddleton, Faye Miller;
Vergia L. Mills, Pairlee Mims, Pat Mon-tague,
Laura Murphy, Flora Murray, Berte
Muslow, Claudia Nelson, Elise Nix, Glynn
Nell Noble, Peggy Norris, Nancy O'Brien,
Bill Osborn, Betty Parker, Denise Parrlsh,
Lucy Perm, Ruth Pickett, Richard Pierson,
Julie Ratliff;
Keith Reed, Margaret Reeves, Pernella
Richardson, Mike Robinson, Connie Rob-inson,
Shirley M. Roberson, Linda Rohr,
Kathy Sachs, Jean Sartor, Lt. Col. Raymond
Sounders, Marguerite Sounders, Edward
Schorr, Margaret Schafer, Harriet Simmons,
Everly Smotlwood, Harriet Smith;
Metanle Springmeyer, Ruth Stutl, Frank
Taylor, Era Tidweil, Joe Townsend, Rhonda
Townsend, Polly Waldren, Edith Thompson,
Dorothy Tucker, Kathv Elklns, Gerry Wray,
Frances Warren, Carol Wedeberg, Margie
Wiggins, James Williams, Robert L. Wilson,
Ruby Wilson, Sandra Wyatt, Betty Young,
Mark Steele, Danny Hess, Marshall Rowlins;
Nanci Davidson, Howard Thomas, Hattie
Allen, Portia Anderson, Betty Berg, Lyn
Brown, Mary Burroughs, Naomi Carr, Bitlie
Carroll, Holly Cooke, Irene Cooke, Myrtis
Jenkins, Ruth Tanquary, Michael O'Brien,
Eshter Crlner, Dan Derryberry, Lois Finch,
Anne Ganley, Betty Gardner, Jimmie L.
Giska, Jeff Glover;
Jenny Hebert, June Herold, Bernlce
Howell, B.L. Jordan, Susan Lake, Hershal
McConathy, Sara Olson, Amanda Stroud,
Dodie Van Ness, Betty Taylor, Ginger
Bailistrelia, Mae Brooks, Susan James, Neil
Johnson, Juanita Odom, Helen Plttmon and
Mildred Wilson.
Special awards were presented to Henley
Foreman (5,174 hours), David McCaleb, Tom
Godwin, Haxel Bothel, Thelma Lee, Robert L.
Wilson, Ruby Wilson, Pat Farrar, Ethel
Brewer, Margie Wiggins, Pairlee Mims,
Charlotte Meeks, Raymond Sounders, Annie
M. Jacobs, Betty Young, Margaret Reeves,
Marguerite Kutschbach and Cathey Ivey.