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Page 4-VVinsJow Hail. Wtaelow. Ar'nooa. Thursday, December 2, 1W6 Personol/fy Of Tfce Week.Mrs. Etheline CraigHie cook foreman at the Winslow Public Health Service Hr*pifyt. Mrs. Ethelinc Craig, cftmbiow home duties wto activities and cateer with excellent results. In rclt;lt;^r«tion of her aceornpllslurtwus, Ihe Wirslow BPW has named Mr? Craig their Woman ol die Year.A widow, Mrs Craig Is the mother of rind children; three are still al home and two ere in col-thas been an employee of the Public Health Service for 22 year* and has worked in (lie Fort Apache and Window hospital? She's a certified food service supervisor for the Indian tfeall.\ Service, after attending school at Santo Fc. N.M.A Kiowa Indian, Mrs Craig was torn li I-awlon, Okld and went through liigh sch««l there. SJh-married soon alter graduation.Her first husband was in the service and their life was Or.e air kwse after inc*)icr,‘' she related. ThelOiplc spenl several years in Gerr■many belore they were divorced.Mrs. Craig thci v/enl toKon Apache to stay with her sister for a while andaccepted a position as head 'ook of ihe hospital, filling n for the regular employee who was on sick leave. ”Fhoy asked me if 1 knew «iiyiliing about lieta and cooking, and I told then I inew a little, she said. She was given a short term appointment to the position which was extended first to » days and thee became .jemvanent.Mrs. Craig has been deeply involved in tlic planning work to: the new Winslow Indian Hospital. ■The working conditions *w arc not Uie Vest, she sawt. She noted that if the Staff had proper facilities. ;he ufltlrnf.caro ir. Winslow could be greatly enlarged and improved.Tbday many of the pa-be«s who are brought to the hospital ore transported out at Winslow to other facilities.’the average daily patient toad at the Winslow facility is between J.V20. At its peak, the hospital staff ta red Id nearly 75 patients a day. Ive be*) there long enough lo see Hie tremendous change, Mrs. Craig said.Mnt uf the special diets prepared tn the hospital fci (diet i? are diabetic or tow fat, she noted, rhk», she believes, may be partly dueto the pour dietary habits -allMrs. Craig tries to get. cut on Ihe floor cf Ihe hospital nl least once a day to vigil the paliens, Her menus are set up cm a four week cycle so tiai there aren’t too many repeated racals. Tiailitiottt! foods, mutton or la mb. ,'ry bread w tortillas are included in (hemem) about three times a week Mrs. Craig keeps up with important developments in tood service fields by attending workshops on nutrition and dietetics conferences about once a month. She belongs to both the national and slate or-ganiz3t:ons of Htspital Institutional and KoueauonalFooc Service* Socict es,At home, Mrs. Craig’s Uirue children, Dartene, sixth grade, David, eighth grade, and Frankie, a senior in high school, help to keep dungs ruining smoothly, and humming with family activities.Mrs. Craig and her Jate husband. Robert. met while he was working with the BIA at Fort Apache. Who# she was iransfen-ed U Wnslow. he transferred lu tin Indian Dormitory, as an instructional aide supervisor. He retired seven year* ago and died nf a heart attack about iv» years later.•“Hi instilled in the children the moaning of an education, Mrs. Craig said He was a North Carolina Cherokee, was one o’ theolder children in the family•fmand helped his mc.lhrr witthe ycunger family mem-bcra.''She recalled, “Who we would have small problems with our young children, ho might send them w theirrooms, explaining. 'We dlsciolinecan't control with extravagance'.Thjir oldest dauRTter, Dapten Montoya, is a me -dical technician anil worksBrl lime al the Santa Fc inic here in Winslow. Daphxe's husband, Atvm. is a medical technic un si Die Public Health Service HcspJal. Mrs Craig's son, Rcbeil. graduated rotn ASU dixl ‘.lien went on lo Oxford as a Rhode's Scholar. He's now head cwich and loaches history a; the AiUiciKicpe Indian Sclw-ul.Mrs. Craig'S daughter, Ardith Gutierrez has recently opened her own beauty shop.Ancther son, lister Short wont to Ptocnix College and recently Joined the Winslow Police Department. ITer son, Hanley Sheet is a student at Oklahoma University; anc her son, Robert Jr.. is a freshman at Glendale Common-ily College.She recalls that at one time the had three in college *1 the same lima--no easy ‘ask, for any mother.which still prevail on the reservation. Although, the reservation Indians ha ve improved their diets a great deal over Ihe past tow^ycars.” she romment-While she is very much a part 1 the current sceue, Mrs. Craig is justifiably uruuc of her Indian heri iage. Her grandfather.Tnhknemiih (Morning Star) who changed his name «n i-Sec-0 (P'enfy Fires) was a Kiowa Srout. bom in k80. who served with he U.S. Army is the latclWO's. Ho retired Iron) the army in l»l3 but returned lo army life tc live at Fort Sill, Okla., whsra lie died in 1927. The umy recrgMiaed his service and named a massive building, (the I-SetHD Building.1 for him in the post at Port St U.MOVES TO TEXASCurfine Lane, a resident ol Window for many years, is tn»vii:g lo Manst.dd, Texas Whore her daughter, Mia. livesMRS ETItEl.lN Ki ontlljtlfr. forMrs. Craig is a Ihree-ycar member of the Bud new and Piolesaiwial Wo men's Club. Slie served as ivlicKpOading secretary imd i; cumxilly the chib's recording secretary. Two y'eatj ago she attended the ixganizatioo’s )iatij:i»l convention. It givte one a feeling ol being more in-vO*ved, ar.d d seeing bow tlie entire vigunlzatlon works she suidEnriched FI ShorteningDAIRYYogurt*,..? Margarine Cream ChesMrs. V luttermil
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