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openI. nut L----- -- ann'- n commemnoratiOflOf the 2th a -S an versary Of! its birth. The, C enter located at 905 Ridge road, just rorth of Lake avenue. A cordial invitation mn is extended to the publie.,-ne -To write the.history .o! theHeàlth Center it would be nècessary to namne almost ever y woman prom- mrent' in the social, and civic.. affairs of the Village, and it )would be im- possible.. to name, the hundreds o! others who gave1 it. the ir su pport. The U ealth Center has beený !ounded on the personaliti es of these womnen, from the day the y first 'met in November, 1918, to organize the first board, to thé presetit,1 when the Volume and scope o! work car- ried on was not even dream ed of by that small band o! women. 110w- ever, they did have the vision to see the glory of perfect health in the ehid of! that 4ay .who is the young man -or womnan of today. These children profited both phys- ically and 'mentally 'by -the courage, endurance, far-slghtedfle5s and hard work of those women, and children in greater nurnbers have from year to year been helped on the road to health by the men and womnen who have !ollowed in the !ootsteps of that !irst group. Because the men have also played their part in the erowth Of the Health Çenter. "The dà-y before the intenddoe- 980n cuLv ig, we, the commnitteet went to Ourj Mrs. Arms, Mrs. 1 ~w quaters nd -putthemi in suf- ICody were 'present. ;r upilm , R. N., beçamne triv nurs, a a ii mrber 18, C. P. Evains, Mrs. Donald H. Max-. e namned 'well, Mrs. J. C. Carpenter of Keniji- and Mrs, Worth,' Mrs. J. 'J. Siddall, Jr., and Mrs. W. P. Seng becamne members of the, board., . .. Register 62 Babies The first year, there were 62 ba- bies registered, and of these 43 Were "bluie .ribboi!", babies. Mrs. Max- well reported the git of a layette from the "Babies Friendly Socie- ty," as a starter and inspiration for the local. work. ' In'1920,the Chi cago Tubeul osis nsitute o ffered to take over and enlargé the scope of the work. pro- vided the _ local. commîittee cooper- ated in raising the funds :for one- half of the nurse'5s s>alary. The*board .accepted and MissCora Queecn' .' N., took charge. -At this time thé name was changed to " Gross Point Health Çenter." Dr. Gilbert M. Lowe;( ofWinnetka was uppôinted 'assist-, ant to Dr. Hecht in the child wl fare work: The station was receiv- ing support fromn the Gross Point public school board, New Trier township supervisors and St. Jo- seph's parish Catholic church. In 1921 Christm'as Seals were sold through the sehools, a commnitte,- having charge of the campaigfl. Nurse Assisted Schools Beginfling in 1922 the nurse visit- A- , i..:v.A,,4-,iirine c riods idea, she at tnat ut'e euwl dent o! Kenilworth. Under the title "Smail Beginniflgs," slie has sup- plied the followiflg authentiC infor- mation: The story o! the starting of Wil-' mette Health Center is easily told. ýt dates baclc to the Council of Na- tional Defense in 1917-18. ",MY former-Sunday school teach- er, Mrs. Ada Rumsey Campbell,' was at the head of the Woman's faire clinic. Reports of rnat year show 44 pe r cent of svhool childrefl m alnourished. A class in nutrition w as opened at once, the Health Cen- ter nurse cooperating with the Eliz- [abeth McÇormack Memnorial Cen- ter. The work was suppoted by the Wilmette Village b~oard. which con- tributed $25 per mnonth. Twice eachi month the traveling clinic fromn the JChicago Tuberculosis institute visited mothers couia get exper I AISLt.UIIIý ý fo thÇutynre on feeding an account to her husband of our pay one-nalf te saary of a iuii- Seng establsned gymiuril uln arn argfo the tynrwefr. aisapuoes that he prQmptiy time nurse' in titis district, the local es inS. Francis 'scitool, supplyiflg "A coimnittee was !ormed, witb sent' ne a charrning note' and a committee, with Mrs. Hope ThoITp- the equipment and acting as' in- representative:wmnfo Wil- check for $25.00. Hurrah! We were son as chairman, canvassed the structor. mette, Gross :Point. and Kenilworth. now a going concernl, with'a bona township and raised the morfey. ' hi Septemnber of 1925 Miss Gri!- &Mlns were1 made. Adlstiniguished f ide treasurýy*o! twepty-five dollars. In January o! the following year f in,. R. N., came to take the place physiçlan from Evasô gave s "uhwa h einning o! what the locatiOnwas changed'oabul-CnineonPg77 'F