Bigger and better
Little could Mabel McLaughlin have envisioned the new gift shop about to be unveiled at DeGraff Memorial Hospital when she established the hospital’s auxiliary in 1946.
The original “gift shop” started by McLaughlin and the auxiliary was actually a coffee shop located off the main entrance on Tremont Street in North Tonawanda.
Manned by auxiliary volunteers, the shop expanded its offerings to include ice cream and items handmade by the auxiliary and doctors’ wives, a far cry from today.
On Tuesday at 10 a.m., a new gift shop will be opened in the former waiting room at the Tremont Street entrance. Glass walls have been installed and the framed picture of LeGrand DeGraff, the hospital’s founder, has been moved to another location.
“The portrait was there for 88 years,” Phyllis Gentner, cochairman of the gift shop for the auxiliary, said. “But we’ve found a better place for his portrait.”
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