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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, FEB. 3, 1976
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The mention of the word hospital
to most people conjures up images of
clean white halls, a faint smell of
ammonia, and nurses dressed in
white, starched uniforms — on the
whole a very colorless, sterile envi
ronment.
Dr. Claude B. Goswick, director
of the A. P. Beutel Health Center at
Texas A&M University, fights the
stereotyped hospital image with the
use of colors; bright, modern furni
ture; and most important, with living
green plants.
Since his arrival at the facility in
June 1973, Dr. Goswick has stepped
up his previous interest in plants
from a few in his home to spreading
them all over the hospital and his
office.
Dr. Goswick started filling the
health center with plants by first
transferring a couple of ivy plants
from the old hospital. Those original
'ivy plants are still growing and thriv
ing in their new environment. From
there Goswick purchased plants on
sale when a local grocery store held a
grand opening. Groups such as the
Dallas A&M Mothers Club have do
nated money so that Dr. Goswick
could continue “planting the
center.
All of the plants in his office came
from his home or were gifts from stu
dents. He has several philodendron
plants, a pony tail' palm, a parlor
palm, and a huge five-foot dracaena
or corn plant. He has on his desk a
pineapple plant that is green with
long yellow stripes and lined with
sharp teeth.
He also has a plant called queens
tears and a dieffenbachia or dumb
cane plant. Half his desk is covered
with small pi an ts in plain pots with
plastic lids to catch any excess water.
Plants line a spotlighted bench just
behind his chair and the towering
corn plant guards the entrance to his
desk.
The lush jungle is completed on
the other side of the room with only a
space for the door to open and close
and room for two chairs.
“My favorite plant is the Christ
mas palm named for its red fruit. It is
also known as the manila palm,” Dr.
Goswick said. In his white uniform
coat. Dr. Goswick moves around the
room touching a plant’s leaves and
checking for dust and spider mites.
He relaxes and talks about plants
with the same enthusiasm of a hor
ticulture specialist.
“I enjoy my plants, but I do not
talk to them,” Dr. Goswick said.
He cares for each plant in the hos
pital himself.
“I water and fertilize all the plants.
Before, the plants were being
drowned when during each shift, a
nurse watered the same plant before
she went off duty, he said.
The doctor doesn’t go around the
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health center with a silver watering
can, hut with a gallon bottle.
“I sometimes use as much as 19
gallons of water on the plants. I use
distilled water from the hospital’s
own distilling plant, he said.
He waters the plants once a week
and fertilizes them about every four
months.
He sprays insecticide on the plants
to combat spider mites.
“The biggest enemies of our plants
are spiders, dust, and lack of light.
Dr. Goswick said.
The spiders are taken care of by
insecticide spray but it is hard to find
time to dust and mist the plants, he
said. He watches the plants carefully
to see that they get as mucfH
possible. If they grow tooiH , /
one direction the plants artH j
turned or relocated.
Dr. Goswick also makessB
plants are placed where thew
well. For example, he has a 5 A Ur
pine at the entrance to t!it ia |tled
center in front of the glasspigjl to
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Dr. Claude B. Goswick, director of the A.
P. Beutel Health Center, lends a doctor’s
hands to the green plants that live
office and around the center.
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was created.
In 1894, the first steelsailij
the “Dirigo, was launcli
Maine.
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providing a federal income L
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row Wilson died at his f ower a(
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