The Louisiana Heart Association has organized a statewide speakers' bureau to tell the public what is being done with dollars they have given to the Heart Fund.
Friday night, some of the 150 volunteers heard how the bureau will function from Dr. Harold P. Chastant of Lafayette, president of the LHA. They met in the Roosevelt hotel.
"We want the public in Louisiana to know what we're trying to do The public generally doesn't know our functions... they will have available sound movies, slides, pamphlets and such exhibits as model hearts which have hinged openings and also a plastic, transparent figure which shows "blood" circulating through glass arteries and veins."
Dr. Chastant said the speakers' bureau will be a year-round project. The Heart Fund drive | is conducted in February.
He referred to it as an *'accounting to the public. For example, one half of the total contribution goes for medical research within Louisiana. Last year this was $140,000." PHOTO:
EXAMINING A PLASTIC HEART which opens to show the
four chambers are (from left) Solomon S. Snyder, Bastrop, chairman of the board, Louisiana Heart Association; Judge Ward L. Tilly, New Iberia, chairman of a new speakers' bureau, and Dr. Harold P. Chastant, Lafayette, LHA president. The men met with others in the Roosevelt hotel Friday night to plan the speakers bureau.
