Hospital Press Stories
League Garden Fete Summer 1965.
Another £30 was added to Heatherwood Hospital Ascot Chapel building fund following a garden fete at the home of Mrs Alice Pack on Saturday. A fine afternoon brought the crowds to Delfryn, Devenish road Sunningdale where a variety of Stalls were manned by friends of the hospital. Several nurses from the hospital were released from their ward duties to serve teas.
Treasurer Mr Stanley Marshall urged visitors to try their luck at bottle stall while Miss Tilly and Miss Michael Cory persuaded bargain hunters to gamble in the competition. Mrs Pat Stockman was on the flower stall and the shop stall was run by Mrs Ettridge.
Comment:- The league of friends were in the process of major fund raising for the new chapel to be built in the grounds of the hospital. Mrs Ettridge was instrumental in seeing this project come to fruition. The fund raising venture was just one of many at the time. The chapel of St Luke was presented to the hospital in 1966 at a cost of £7500.
Press Report Summer 1965
Tears in the Matron’s Eyes, A Fond Farewell.
A large basket of pink flowers and a £100 cheque brought tears to the eyes of Miss Doris Howes, Matron of Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot. as she said goodbye to her staff on Friday Miss Howes, a matron for 21 years the last 16 at Heatherwood, is retiring to her country cottage.
She spoke of her exciting years at the hospital, which had grown from a small orthopaedic unit into a general hospital. Miss Howes praised members of her staff for the support they had given during her term in office.
“ My nurses never cease to surprise me with their untiring devotion to duty and are not at all like the general idea of the modern teenager ” she added.
