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Page 6, PHOENIX, May 9, 1974 iiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmiiiigiiiiiii:i t H i i i i i i i i a i i i i i i u i u N i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i m i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i n i i i i g i i i i i i H i i i M i i i i i i u u i i N i i i B i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i m i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i L i i i i i i i i i i i i i H i i i i i i i i i i u i i i i i i i y i i i i i B i illlllllllllllHZita FearonFern inis t,Activist-HumanisBY KIPZEGERSI%u2019ll be out some night puttingleaflets on lamposts. Theleaflets will be announcing ameeting on the state of healthcare at Methodist Hospital.And someone will come up tome and say %u201c Hey, you%u2019re notsupposed to be doing that!%u201dThen I show him what the flyersays, and he changes his tune.He starts talking to me and, letme tell you, there%u2019s a tremendous disaffection with the stateof health care in the community.%u201dThe speaker is Zita (Fitzqibbon) Fearon, chairperson of theAmbulatory Care Services Advisory Committee at MethodistHospital of Brooklyn, an example of an important breed ofBrooklyn citizen.Let her continue: 1 %u2018So there Iam with my leaflets, but it%u2019sslow going because, when itcomes to health care, everybody has a story to tell you.%u201d Itis also typical that Zita Fearondoes her work with the Advisory Committee in her spare time.She has a full time job as CreditManager with Internationalpublishers.But she likes her avocation.%u201c I feel like I%u2019m doing somethingreal,%u201d she says, %u201c somethingthat has an immediate effect onpeople%u2019s lives. It%u2019s true that itis hard to get people totranslate their concerns withhealth care into action, but theyare concerned. Everyoneknows they could be in thathospital tomorrow and theyworry.%u201dZ ita Fearon acknowledgesthat people are also characterized by a great fatalism. Theysee the need for improvedhealth care, and yet they feelthose changes to be impossibleto achieve. How justified is thatfatalism?In the summer of 1971, Rev.Mel Williams, then chairpersonof the newly organized Ambulatory Care Services AdvisoryCommittee, invited Zita Fearon-among others- to attend somemeetings of his committee. Itwas mandated by the GhettoMedicine Act of 1968, whichmade funds available to participating voluntary hospitals tomeet one-half the deficits oftheir clinics and emergencyrooms.But to receive those fundshospitals had to establish anadvisory board. That boardwould then oversee the implementation of the hospital%u2019scontract with the Board ofHealth. And so this committeequickly became a tool forworking towards some of thechanges in health care, particularly walk-in and clinic care,that had seemed so hard toachieve. So Zita Fearon, alongw ith others, attended thosemeetings. She got swept up inthe controversies that boiledaround the proposed expansionof Methodist Hospital and, by1972, was chairing the committeeZita had come to New Yorkfrom St. Cloud, Minnesota,some thirteen years previously,and had been living in ParkSlope for many years. She hadinterests as a sculptor, hadbeen involved in a feministorganization of that time, Halfof Brooklyn, and been active,among other projects, in Women%u2019s Strike for Peace. Now itwas health.In the four years of itsexistence the Ambulatory CareServices Advisory Committee(as of July the CommunityBoard for Ambulatory Care) hasworked on key health issuessuch as obtaining a Director forAm bulatory Care. Oue topressure brought by the committee, Dr. Stanley Neiman washired just in time to keepGhetto Medicine money cominginto Methodist Hospital.The committee has worked tocut waiting time in the emergency room, and to get anappointment system for clinicpatients. It has obtained anevening clinic, now being runby Dr. June Feiner. It hasgotten added pediatric clinics,and a new policy under whichall women using the out patientdepartments will receive yearlypap tests and pelvic examinations. And it has worked, so farunsuccessfully, to get interpreters into the clinics and abilingual patient advocate intothe emergency room.%u201c What I%u2019ve learned is there%u2019sno easy way to do these things.You stick with an organizationand you can accomplish something. I%u2019ve done this because Ihappen to be a Marxist, and it%u2019srepaid my confidence in ordinary working people. We canorganize and act in our ownbenaif.%u201dThe speaker is Zita Fearon.Active citizen; keeper of sixcats; trustee of the Park SlopeCivic Council; chairperson ofthe Consumers Council to theCommissioner of Health; andlover of life in New York City -%u201c Everything is here.%u201dKip Zegers, a poet andpart-time mail-room clerk, lives in Park Slope.EL FARO RESTAURANTSouth American & Cuban Cuisine145 Atlantic Ave 9a.m.-10p.m.; Closed WedBREAKttST, luncH,dinnerto' & C O C K T A IL S ^^ C orner of Atlantic & third____ %u25bc TEL 625 0863 OR. 625 0 < ?& - RESTAURANT ^ 7^ aweek5 3 0 a* T o MidWiq h tntriyi 115NurserySchedulesCarnivalThe Brooklyn Heights Community Nursery School will hold a Children%u2019s Carnival on Saturday, May 11th at the Alfred T. White Community Center on Willow Place, marking the school%u2019s 15th year of service to the Heights-Hill community.From 10 to 4, there%u2019ll be plenty to see, to do, to eat and drink, to make and buy. Smashing hand-made summer clothes, books, do-ityourself kits, lunch (hot dogs, soda, beer, popcorn, sweets), and helium balloons wil be on sale. There will also be booths for face-painting, gingerbread-decorating, applebobbing, spin-art, bean-bag tossing and candle-soaking.Cartoons will be shown at 11 and at 2; a mime show will go on at 1 o%u2019clock; and winning raffle tickets will be chosen at 3, for prizes donated by well-known local merchants. Proceeds from the Carnival will be allocated to the Nursery%u2019s scholarship fund.The cooperative nursery opened in two rooms at the First Unitarian Church on October 5, 1959, with all its planning, hiring, certification and basic building done by the parents themselves. Parents are still deeply involved, along with teachers and director, in all aspects of the school.Under the guidance of three different directors, the school has grown over the years. In 1962, it moved to much-needed larger quarters in its present home, the Alfred T. 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