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be converted from a stock company to a non-profit corporation.
At that meeting the stockholders, including five doctors,
local civic clubs, local businesses, and other local citizens
who had bought stock when the hospital was chartered in
1926, voted unanimously to donate their stocks, and they
were made members of the corporation.
The new charter was issued April 30, 1929, and the
corporation members sought aid for the construction of a
new hospital. Mr. George Goodman donated half the land
for the new hospital, and the community raised $62,000,
which was matched by the Duke Endowment Fund, for the
new Lowrance Hospital. The new hospital was planned to
have only three floors, now get this, but Dr. McLelland,
Dr. Taylor, and Dr. Lackey contributed $7,500 to construct
the shell of the fourth floor.
The new hospital was formally opened September 22, 1930,
during the time of the Great Depression. Three thousand
five hundred visitors were on hand to inspect the new
facilities. Since the opening of the hospital,
there have been two additons--one occupied in 1954 and
one occupied in 1973. Nevertheless, all the original
building continued to be used for patient rooms.
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