Name/Title
Boulder City Hospital AuxiliaryEntry/Object ID
MS.144Scope and Content
Boulder City Hospital Auxiliary
MS 144
Boulder City Hospital Auxiliary scrapbooks
In 1954 when the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation announced it was going to close the money-losing Boulder City Hospital, Boulder citizens conducted a door-to-door fundraising campaign that produced more than $15,000 in less than a month. The government turned the hospital over to the city of Boulder City which has operated it ever since.
What the hospital lacked was a stable fund-raising arm, as recommended by the American Hospital Association, of which the Boulder City Hospital was a member. At the March 1955 hospital board meeting Gayle Havrilla presented an outline for setting up a women’s auxiliary associated with the hospital to raise money for its operation. Out of Gayle’s plan grew the Women’s Auxiliary of the Boulder City Hospital, whose first organizational meeting took place in the dining room of the Boulder Dam Hotel on July 28, 1955. The auxiliary received its charter on January 26, 1956.
Among the many fund-raising endeavors established by the hospital auxiliary, none has been more successful than the annual Art-in-the-Park festival, first held in 1963. Art-in-the-Park has become one of the Southwest’s premier arts and crafts events whose proceeds are donated entirely to the Boulder City Hospital, Inc.
This collection includes the Auxiliary’s organizational scrapbooks covering the period 1954 - 2002. All original photographs from the scrapbooks have been replaced by copies, while the originals now are stored as photograph collection no. 0196 [Boulder City Hospital Auxiliary Collection].
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MS 144
container list
Boulder City Hospital Auxiliary
[005.115]
[15 boxes]
Box 1 of 15
scrapbook 1 of 18 [1954 - 1957]
Box 2 of 15
scrapbooks 2 of 18 [1955 - 1958] and 3 of 18 [1957 - 1960]]
Box 3 of 15
scrapbooks 4 of 18 [[1960 - 1962] and 6 of 18 [1970 - 1976]
Box 4 of 15
scrapbook 5 of 18 [1963 - 1975]
Box 5 of 15
scrapbook 7 of 18 [1975 - 1985]
Box 6 of 15
scrapbook 8 of 18 [1977] and 1981 [envelope]
Box 7 of 15
scrapbooks 9 of 18 [1977 - 1979] and 10 of 18 [1980 - 1983]
Box 8 of 15
scrapbook 11 of 18 [1976 - 1983]
Box 9 of 15
scrapbook 12 of 18 [1983 - 1985]
Box 10 of 15
scrapbook 13 of 18 [1983 - 1986]
Box 11 of 15
scrapbook 14 of 18 [1984 - 1985
Box 12 of 15
scrapbook 15 of 18 [1986 - 1992]
Box 13 of 15
scrapbook 16 of 18 [1986 - 1992]
Box 14 of 15
scrapbook 17 of 18 [1989 - 1991]
Box 15 of 15
scrapbook 18 of 18 [1997 - 2002]
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May 20, 2006Updated By
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September 8, 2025