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A Century of Service

In 2008, Methodist Hospital ofIndianapolis celebrated having delivered 100years of medical service to Indiana and thenation. On April 25, 2009, Daniel F. Evans, Jr.,the CEO of Clarian Health Partners, will guidethose attending the 14th annual meeting of theIndiana United Methodist Historical Society in aretrospective review of the full expanse of thehospital's century of service. Evans'presentation will open the day's sessions at10:30 a. m., following registration and ahospitality half hour starting at 10:00 a.m. in theConference Center of Methodist Hospital.

Daniel Evans' presentation will befollowed by an exceedingly important businessmeeting at 1130 a.ill. At this meeting, societymembers will be called upon to approve arevision of IUMHS's by-laws so that they relate

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the society to a single statewide conference.Lunch will follow the business meeting.

In the afternoon session beginning at1:00 p.m., Dr. Richard Stowe, a member of theArchives Committee of Muncie's High StreetUMC and a producer of historical DVDs onchurch history, will review the careers ofMatthew Simpson and E. R. Ames, two bishopselected to the episcopacy from the IndianaConference in 1852. Dr. Stowe, a retiredprofessor from Ball State University, has teasedhis subject well by writing:

Both men were... products of their age as wellas its shapers, and some of their actions stilloffend our sensibilities. Beyond doubt, Simp­son and Ames were brilliant, complex, pious,shrewd, ambitious, humble, gregarious, inde­fatigable, opportunistic, visionary, andsingle-mindedly devoted to duty as they sawit. They were towering preachers and orators,unabashed Unionists, saavy politicians andtender family men. But despite thei'r manysimilarities, they were as opposite as two mencould be. In short, they were flawed butfascinating human beings.

These are men worth hearing about'

Attendance at the annual meeting willcost $12 for members of IUMHS and $15 fornon-members. The registration fee covers bothregistration and lunch. (Registration forms andmembership renewal forms are at the end of thisnewsletter. )

Parking will be available off the SenateBoulevard entrance by taking a left turn from theentry drive to the North Garage or ParkingGarage Number 2 (detail given on the map at theend of this newsletter) or on Capitol Avenue tothe east side of the hospital. A floor plan ofMethodist Hospital will be mailed to thoseregistering before the printed deadline of April15.

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Plaque in Methodist Jfi~~ilal reads: In memory of theReverend Charles C. !Asby. who in /899 made thesuggestion that aMethodist hospital be founded in the City ofIndianapolis

Our Young People Started It

Rev. Charles Crowther Lasby

Some teenagers started MethodistHospital. The seed money toward the start of thebuilding fund for the hospital was an overflow ofmoney raised for an international meeting of theEpworth League, a forerunner of the UnitedMethodist Youth Fellowship. The League wasthe official youth organization of the MethodistEpiscopal Church.

Individual churches were urged to startJunior Leagues of boys and girls between theages of 13 and 18. In 1899, there were 42Indianapolis Methodist churches; each had itsown Epworth League.

For four days, from Thursday, July 20,to Sunday, July 23, 1899, Indianapolis hosted thefourth International Convention of the EpworthLeague of the Methodist Episcopal Church, thelargest convention of the year in Indianapolis,with 10,000 delegates, many from overseas.

Roberts Park MEC was selected as theheadquarters for the convention as well as the400-room Dennison Hotel. Additionally, a largenumber of conventioneers were housed in 3,000private residences. The Commercial Clubpurchased a tent seating thousands of attendeesthat was erected on the grounds of the MarionCounty Courthouse.

Then they were further escorted to their hotels,boarding houses, or private homes. Earlyarrivals could tour a city of 169,164 citizens,known as both a manufacturing and railroadingcenter.

The hosts set an example for opennessuneommon-for a time when there were separatebicycle races for white and "colored" cyclists.When questioned where 1,200 to 1,500 youngblack men and women were to be seated, EdwardL. Gilliam, vice president of arrangements,struck an early blow for civil rights when hewrote in a letter to The Indianapolis News,"There was no plan to segregate the blacksattending the convention and the Negro delegateswill come and go as they please and sit wherethey please, just as the other delegates will."

The fourth International Convention ofthe Epworth League proved to be a huge success.The young people who attended hearddiscussions on such subjects as "Epworth Housesand Work in the Cities" and "How to HelpRevivals." Speakers lectured on "AbrahamLincoln" and "The Last Days of theConfederacy." Virtually all of the city'sProtestant churches were used for the variousmeetings and services in addition to the 5,000­seat Tomlinson Hall and the big tent on thecourthouse lawn.

Wearing white caps, Indiana Leaguersescorted the visitors from Union Station throughbunting-draped streets to the Indiana StateHouse, where the delegates were registered.

(This article contimJes onpage 3.)

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('Our Young People Started It .. continues.)

Meeting at Roberts Park lvlEC a fewdays after the convention, the committee incharge agreed the convention had been a successin all respects. The attendance exceededexpectations; Indianapolis had been open heartedand generous; and programs had been wellreceived. Additionally, the convention had beena financial success. After the payment of allbills $4 750 of the convention fund remainedPos~ible' Christian uses for the surplus werediscussed. Finally, Rev. Charles Lasby, pastorof Central Avenue lvlEC, suggested donating themoney toward the start of a building fund for theconstruction of a Methodist hospital inIndianapolis, a suggestion prompted perhaps byRev. Lasby's previous association with the firstMethodist hospital in the U.S., in Brooklyn, N. Y

The proposal of Rev. Lasby and thecommittee required the approval of the IndianaConference of the Methodist Episcopal Church;and Rev. Edward B. Rawls, presiding elder ofthe Indianapolis District, was appointed toprepare a resolution for the annual meeting of the .conference to be held in Greencastle onSeptember 13, 1899. Separately andfortuitously, other members of the conferencehad suggested that a Methodist hospital beestablished in Indiana. As a result, a committeehad been named to conduct a feasibility study.The committee report was favorable and Articlesof Association were drawn up and adopted.However, no action had been taken towardfundraising or construction.

Opposition was not absent. Rev. Rawlsarose at the Greencastle meeting and read hisresolution. An immediate respon;e came fromDr. B. F. Rollins, who boomed out, "Brethren,we have all we can carry on our Church. Nowyou have come to put upon it one million dollars.Great God, men, where are we going to stop? Iam opposed to this hospital proposition"

A young preacher, the Rev. George M.Smith, who had never before addressed theconference, responded. "Men," he said, "in replyto this brother's question as to where we aregoing to stop, if I. understand our MethodistEpiscopal Church, it is not looking for a place tostop The Church does not dare stop until itencompasses all the interests of Jesus Christ and

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our Church can never encompass all His interestsand leave out sick people."

Rev. Smith's response turned the tide.Adoption of the Articles of Association wasvoted by the conference, and the new institutionwas named the Methodist Episcopal Hospital andDeaconess Home of the State of Indiana. Itsstated objective was "to establish and maintain ahospital or hospitals for the treatment of the sick,wounded and injured persons, to dispense charityto the poor, and to establish and maintain aDeaconess Home or other kindred institutions"The resolution was subsequently adopted by theother Indiana conferences of the MethodistEpiscopal Church. The Greencastle gathering,specifically, also voted to continue its supp~rt ofChrist Hospital in Cincinnati and JeffersonvIlle'sDeaconess Hospital (now, Clark CountyHospital) until "the Indiana hospital could bemade ready for operation."

The dedication of Methodist Hospital inIndianapolis took place on Sunday, April 26,1908. An Epworth League rally was held atRoberts Park lvlEC on the same day, at whichmany would recall the beginnings of an ideawhose time had arrived.

The Epworth League continued itssupport of the hospital, especially in regard toindigent patients. The board of the hospital haddecided, "The poor who are unable to pay will becared for free of charge to the extent of ourability." The Indianapolis District EpworthLeague paid for the building and equipping ofHospital Room 105 as a "free room" for thosewho could not pay for their treatment and raised$400 to maintain the room for the district year1908-1909.

Badgefor 1899 Epworth League Convenlion

ISpring 2009 Page 4 ILady of the Lighthouse

1857, the Methodist Hospital beacon, first lit in1933, was a gift of Mary Hanson Carey

The Lighthouse under Construction

A lighthouse on a building? On ahospital? Yes. The Lighthouse of HealthBeacon was formally dedicated "to the servantsof religion, who would serve the sick; to theservants of medical science, who would servehumanity; and to the servants of philanthropy,who would live for others." Patterned after thelighthouse atop the Royal Hospital of StBartholomew, London, which has burned since

In the same year, Mrs. Carey saw thededication of a second donation, one she hadplanned as a memorial to her parents, Julius A.and Belle M. Hanson: the Mary Hanson CareyMemorial Chapel. Designed for use byProtestant, Jewish, and Catholic faiths, thechapel incorporated the symbols of each religion,collectively representing Methodism's principleof promoting cooperation and betterunderstanding among different religions.

Other gifts of Mrs. Carey were$500,000, with the stipulation $300,000 of the$500,000 be used for the building fund, and$200,000 (a personal gift) to the hospitallaboratory as an endowment fund for research.

An oft-repeated story was that Mrs.Carey. would sit in the windew-o her apartmentat the Marott Hotel (a distance of twelve cityblocks) and focus her binoculars on thelighthouse to check that it was fully lighted andthat the beacon was rotating properly Ifmalfi.mctions were noted, Mrs Carey telephonedMethodist Hospital and demanded that correctiveaction be taken immediately.

The Mary Hanson Carey Memorial Chapel, Methodist Hospital

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Methodist Hospital Had a Farm

The Associated Press has repeatedlycalled 2008 the worst economic year since theGreat Depression. 2009 may well prove worse.How hard were the Hard Times of 1929 into1933? A partial answer is supplied hyobservations on the use of barter

Farmers could exchange sacks of grainfor tickets to the Indiana State Fair, and medicalinstitutions were also accepting payment of billsthrough the use of barter Superintendent JohnG Benson, M.D., spoke of Methodist Hospital's"hospital farm," which accepted hogs, chickens,and farm produce as payment on hospital billsDr Benson remarked on what might have beenan unusual "in kind" payment: "[W]e took16,000 strawberry plants in payment for a bill"

Memories of the time were rarelypleasurable. Emma Beaver, R.N., rememberedthe hospital policy of accepting payment "inkind" One farmer paid his account by supplyingMethodist Hospital with pears. "They had themalmost every day in the cafeteria," said Be~.,

"and even today [speaking in 1935] I can hardlylook a pear in the face."

Dr Benson and his staff negotiated anew contract with the electric company, and thehospital sank its own well for water - all to cutMethodist Hospital's operating costs. At thesame time, Methodist Hospital handled threetimes as many charity cases as before the GreatDepression, according to Arthur v. Brown,president of the Board of Trustees, writing in theMay 2, 1935, edition of The Christian Advocate.

"As strange as it may seem," saidBrown, who was also the president of IndianaNational Bank, Indianapolis, "our hospitals havedemonstrated remarkable business managementto the end that they have accomplished duringthe depression what they had neveraccomplished in the days of easy prosperity;namely, balancing an operating budget."

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Other Indiana Methodist Hospitals

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PARKVIEWHEALTH

Parkview Memorial Hospital

Some things begin in barest forms. FortWayne City Hospital of 1878, forerunner ofParkview Memorial Hospital, had no trainednurses, no electric power, and no telephone. Itdid have outside plumbing, gaslights, and 18crowded beds in patient rooms that doubled asthe sites for surgery. In 1891, under the nameHope Hospital, the physical building wasextended with additions. In 1897, a trainingschool for nurses was estabiished.Indebtedness forced sale of the property to theYM.C.A. in 1916, and its operations weremoved to the Ways Sanitorium.

In 1918, the Methodist Hospital andDeaconess Home Association of Indianapurchased the Ways Sanitorium and two nearbyhomes. The two homes served as nurses'quarters. Hope Methodist Hospital had becomeMethodist Hospital of Fort Wayne. Financialproblems remained with the hospital anotherscore of years.

A new hospital organization, legallyindependent of the Methodist Church, wasformed in 1941. It was now free of all debts andwas renamed Fort Wayne Methodist Hospital.Ground was broken for a new ParkviewMemorial Hospital in 1951. With its doorsopened under the facility's new name two yearslater, Parkview has remained open. Parkviewcontinues as a United Methodist affiliatedinstitution and, in the single year of 1997,provided $73, 591,000 in uncompensated care

The faint outline of Fort Wayne CityHospital had filled out with a nllfilled purpose.

Methodist Hospital - Gary

Pitching in for a community concern, in1911 twenty physicians each contributed $100toward the purchase of hospital equipment for anewly organized hospital named Gary GeneralHospital The growth of the city ofGary quicklyoutpaced the facility's ability to extend medicaltreatment. In the same year (1911), the hospitalcame under the control of the Methodist HospitalDeaconess Home in Indianapolis. Ground wasbroken for a new facility in 1919, which waslater dedicated as the Methodist EpiscopalHospital and Deaconess Home of Gary in 1923.

The hospital's first full year, 1924, saw299 births, 2,087 in-patients, and 1,115operations. In 1941, construction of a new wingand an addition to the nurses' home wereapproved, as was the hospital's request tobecome an independent institution to be knownas The Methodist Hospital of Gary, Inc.

A satellite hospital facility, Southlake,opened as Broadway Methodist Hospital in1975. Today, Methodist Hospitals Northlake,Southlake and the newest campus, Mldlake,remain affiliated with The United MethodistChurch and continue to meet the changing needsof the people ofNorthwest Indiana.

Articles on this page adapted from "United MethodistHospitals," Historical Bulletin Insert No. 46,prepared for the South Indiana Conference UnitedMethodist Bicentennial Coordinating Committee andthe Indiana United Methodist Bicentennial, 2000­2001, by John R. Riggs, Archives Researcher,Archives of DePauw University and Indiana UnitedMethodism.

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• developing skills among local historians;

• developing and sustaining interest inUnited Methodist history;

• holding an annual event;

• locating, encouraging, and remaining activein the work of preserving sites ofhistorical interest;

• promoting research, writing, and thepublication of resources;

• collecting, preserving, and encouragingthe use of resources and recordspertaining to United Methodism and itsantecedents in Indiana;

Even with the transition processunderway, there will be some things that willremain the same. The work of IUMHS, inconjunction with the Commission on Archivesand History and in cooperation with the Archivesof Indiana Methodism and DePauw University,continues in:

That Which Passes Forwardthe shores of Lake Michigan This year of 2009is one for transitioning, of creating new districtswithin a new church structure. I hope that theConference's transition will be as smooth as theHistorical Society's, making the connection ,homthe past to the present and to the future.

Rev. Douglas Davies,President of IUMHS

A wonderful handcrafted walnut gavelhas come into my hands. Bill Barlelt, theHistorical Society's first president, crafted thegavel from a timber from the RobertsonMeetinghouse. The gavel has passed frompresident to president until coming into mypossession. For me, the gavel represents ourconnection with Robe11son Meetinghouse andearly Hoosier Methodists. The gavel has cometo be a connection to our past, our present, andour future.

John Baughman, another formerpresident of the Historical Society, crafted amotion at the Tenth Annual Meeting on April 30,2005, to change the name of the South IndianaConference United Methodist Historical Society(SICUMHS) to the Indiana United MethodistHistorical Society (IUMHS) imd to extend itsborders to the whole state. By the slimmest ofmargins, the resolution passed the two-thirdsmajority required. Having made that step, theSociety is still interested in making theconnection from the past to the present and intothe future.

Being foresighted, as we proved to be,the Conference has now caught up with us. TheConference now extends from the Ohio River to

• promoting observance of Heritage Sunday,historical anniversaries, and otherevents.

In making the connection from the past tothe present and into the future, I invite you toattend our annual meeting, participate in theHistorical Society, and pray for the new IndianaConference.

Continuing in Christ's service,

President of IUMHS

TI ~Pfleiat ~fletion providing f:{flW5 ItflID5 and 'Rfltfla5~ froID thflTIrehivflS of Indiana Unitfld Mflthodi5ID. ®flpauw Univflrnity. Eirflflnea5tlfl. Indiana

I Roy O. West Library, DePauw University

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Laura P. Beswick 1871

Invitation card, approx. 4" x 2 V2", tothe home of Laura Beswick. Beswick was thefirst woman graduate of Indiana Asbury,graduating on June 22, 1871. She married thatsame evening to Rev. R. N. McKaig.[D009.047]

Percy Lavon Julian '20 Business Papers

Business papers of Percy Lavon Julian,including JLI patent data, Ciba Collaborativefiles, PLI Chemistry data, and Smith Kline andFrench Labs contracts and research data.

Julian is one of DePauw's best knownalumni. Julian synthesized physostigmine fortreatment of glaucoma and cortisone for thetreatment of rheumatoid arthritis. He worked atcolleges and in industrial laboratories, and heformed his own chemical company and theJulian Research Institute. He died in 1975.[D009.009]

Percy Lavon Julian (above)

J. Philip Klinger

Transcript of a speech by ] PhilipKlinger given at the Indiana Area UnitingConference, October 4,2008 Remembrances ofthe North Indiana Conference.

Klinger has been a member of the NorthIndiana Conference since 1962. He retired in2001.

He is also the father of GeoffreyKlinger, DePauw University Associate Professorof Communication and Theatre [M009.0 12]

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("Recent Acquisitions" continues.)

J. Philip Klinger (above)

Plainfield (Hendricks Co.) UMC

Plainfield United Methodist Churchrecords, including secretary minutes, 1949-2003;Fellowship Class history notebook; past'- classhistory notebook, 1936-58; pictures and history;Secretary reports, 1937-45; history reports,1985-97; Fellowship Class reports, 1962-70;picture album, 1948-86; Fellowship Classofficers listings, 1972-97.

Plainfield UMC was first organized in1836 and is still active today. [M009009]

Plainfield UMC, Hendricks County (above)

Paul Turner '36 Class Sweater

Paul Turner's '36 black wool classsweater.

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Turner was a member of Phi BetaKappa and a Rector Scholar. He received hismasters from Indiana University in 1940.

He taught accounting at EarlhamCollege and served on the staff of the AmericanFriends Service Committee in Philadelphia. Hedied in January 2001. [D009.027]

Union Chapel (Putnam Co.) UMC

Union Chapel UMC scrapbook, 1896­1966; 1992 pictorial history; 2005 pictorialhistory; and a history of Morton Circuit andUnion Chapel Church.

The church was founded in 1836 and isstill active today. [M009011]

Union Chapel UMC, Putnam County (above)

Uir-ecti()ns t() the 200') Annual Meetint! ()f IUMIi§·

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Follow the dashed (or broken) andarrowed line to Garage Number 2.

After parking in Garage #2-

Go to the elevators at the south sideof the garage. They are immediatelyto your right after passing through thedoors leading to the Professional Center.

(If you enter the lobby of the ProfessionalCenter on its first floorr you have gone toofar south. Turn around; go back to theelevators. )

Take the elevator to floor G (the ground floor).

Signs will be posted giving directions to the Conference Center.

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