Doctors' wives in New Orleans are performing a major operation for the Southern Medical auxiliary's 39th convention here—Operation Carnation.
"We're making around 2,000 little red paper flowers for Operation Carnation," says Mrs. Monte Meyer, local auxiliary president.
"Operat i o n Carnation" is. really for the doctors, she adds. They're the doctor's flowers and they're all going to the Doctor's Day luncheon, Wednesday noon, Nov. 20, at the Sheraton-Charles Hotel—a red letter day on the convention agenda
Lots of local doctors' wives are working on different committees with Mrs. Charles Far-ris Jr., convention chairman and Mrs. Hewitte A. Thian, her co-chairman. But "Operation Carnation" is such a big deal all are joining forces for the floral operation with Mrs. Anthony Failla, decorations chairman and "chief surgeon."
Mrs. Farris has an attic full of red carnations, she says. The auxiliary women are getting the material from Mrs. Failla and taking it home to operate on They bring
