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Sometimes patients make their mark at the hospital and are remembered by old-time employes long after they are gone. Here is one, well known and long remembered, who has been resting peacefully in the hospital's cemetery since November 1950. Paul Tenzinger, who had been admitted to Kankakee State Hospital in 1920, was one of Manteno State Hospital's first 100 patients who arrived from Kankakee State on December 27, 1930. Tenzinger lived at an open ward and worked for the hospital's plumbers and steamfitters and at the Power House during his 20 years at MSH.

Rene Senesac, First Employe at MSH. (Clipping from Manteno State Hospital News.)

Here's how the nursing office at Manteno State Hospital looked between 1931 and 1934 when it was located at Pinel basement. James Phalen, chief nurse, is at left. With him are Ezra Kibler, standing, and Clifford Ping, both nursing supervisors at the time. (Photo courtesy of Mrs. Ruth Phalen, still employed at MSH.)

Chief engineer Harry Potter throws the switch on one of the new electrical panels. There are two banks of 10 each. Old panels are located on the other side of the power house.

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