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Panel Depicting Fox Hospital History

Ready, Telling Of 114-Year Contribution

Fox Auxiliary and history wall committee members, Marge O'Mara, Bev Ballard and Joanne Burdick
A.O. Fox Hospital Auxiliary and history wall committee members are, from left, Marge O'Mara, Bev Ballard and Joanne Burdick

ONEONTA – After 10 years in the making, the pictorial history wall of A.O. Fox Hospital is complete.

The three-panel wall features 4- by 8-foot lighted panels, using a timeline spanning 114 years. The display gives a pictorial history from the laying of the first cornerstone in 1900 through 2014.

The project was originally conceived by auxiliary co-presidents Bev Ballard and Margaret Henry in 2004. A committee was later formed with fellow auxiliary members Joanne Burdick, Marge O’Mara and Lois Herrick.

In 2010, before the work could get started, Henry became ill and passed away. “As a much loved and longtime auxilian, many memorial donations were given to the auxiliary in her name,” says Ballard. Ballard requested that the memorial funds received be used to continue the legacy of the auxiliary, by planning a pictorial history of the first 50 years of the hospital.

It was also decided that the first panel in the display be dedicated to the late Margaret Henry. Last April, the planning committee, lost another member, Lois Herrick.

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