BETTY BROOKS

When you walk into Medical Records here at LVIM you walk into a well- oiled machine that hums with the quiet activity of several of the 12 volunteers who give their time there. Betty Brooks, who set it up and manages the department, worked in medical records in the hospitals in Chicago, Lake Worth and Lakeland, and retired twice, in 1978 and again in 1997.

Betty was a woman Marine from 1944 to 1946 and if you make the mistake of telling her she "used to be a Marine" Betty will tell you, "Once a Marine always a Marine." She is spry and active for her years and still works with the Young Marines organization here in central Florida.

Betty Brooks is LVIM's first 2,000-hour volunteer. The only time she has taken time off from LVIM was for five weeks when she broke her arm. But now she's back and we couldn't run the clinic without her and her co-workers in Medical Records. Betty, we salute you!

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