University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Srcotid Back to ate: AVES. HYDER. ANTHIS. LANDER. WALDEN. KELLER. WILSON. VAN HORN. TRAINER. ACKERNU . HI IISOV KIM:. CRAVES. BONNER. ALLEN. FARMER. KINSOLVING. SWIFT. GIBSON. BRAl ' NER. A.I -SricleL Gloria Ackerman Mary Elizabeth Alford Maybelle Allen Barbara Jane Anthis Priscilla Gertrude Aves Elizabeth Anne Bonner Grace Brauner Helen Kathryn Buckley Lydia Ann Eisenhauer Helen Elizabeth Farmer Joanne French Bettv Jo Gibson Peggy Jean Graves Lucy Gray Clara Louise Harris Nancy Louise Hill Florence Scott Hudson Patricia Martha Hyder Colleen Ingram Althea Leonore Keller Adelaide Carlisle King Carey Leigh Kinsolving Betsey Rae Lander Dorothy Marian Lieberman Mildred Nebenzahl Charlotte Elizabeth Russell Margaret Claire Shirley Cathryn Elizabeth Swausch Joan Swift Ella Elizabeth TWnsend Sibyl Mae Trainer Dorothy Jane Van Horn Bettye Lois Walden Bettv Katherine Wilson

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ur Ae J Nurse ' s Aide, termed by the Red Cross as one of its most important volunteer services, is served in Austin by over one hundred University women. Before these girls became nurse ' s aides, they passed a physical examination, took thirty hours of a lecture course, and forty-five hours of practical training. After these preliminary steps, the trainees were capped, given their pins and certificates. The Red Cross then asked each nurse ' s aide to give one hundred and fifty hours a year to her job in exchange for her training. Up until the middle of this year, the activities of the group were confined to civilian purposes, but the army hospitals, short-staffed and in need of competent helpers, called on the Red Cross to lend a helping hand. This call was heard in Austin. Every day ten nurse ' s aides, many of whom are University students, ride out to Camp Swift in a Red Cross ambulance to spend nine hours helping to relieve the nurse shortage and improve morale at the camp. During final examinations, when University students were concentrating on studying, the nurse ' s aides of the University took a recess to study. A physician said he heard Brackenridge hospital was suffering because of the University finals . . . University nurse ' s aides usually work in three-hour shifts at all of the local hospitals on seven days a week. The hospitals served are Brackenridge, St. David ' s, and Seton. After receiving her cap and completing her initial training, a nurse ' s aide is eligible to work in any hospital. Therefore, many students who leave the University with the nurse ' s aide training can step into their local hospitals and aid the war effort by helping relieve the sick and trying to keep the healthy well. Nurse ' s Aide, a service without glory, is one way these University women show some tangible patriotism. m m VN HANSARD, RUTH ANNKTTE NKKL. J ACQUEI.Y.NN HOLLAND.

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Cadet H LORRAINE SOKKNSKN Eva Jo Ainsworth Dorothy Brahm Geraldine Clardy Helen Allen Audrey Bathe Evalena Blowey Billie Brookshire Pilar Camancho Charlene Coop Beulah Dowdy Dortha Nell Ennis Dovie Raye Gilmore Juanita Gondran Imogene Hamer Bernice Hiebner SENIOR CADETS Velma Handley Jenoise Hunt Jane Hoehn Muriel Luedtke PRE-CADETS Dorothy Holloway RosieWdiTKrobat Mildred Liesman Elsie Littau Annie Rosie Marek Lucy Mendoza Elizabeth Morris Betty Jane Munhison Eileen Nelson Myrtle Ada Parker Joyce Pinter Eleanor Mills LillieSiebel Le Ella White Thelma Rape Faylene Roman Alice Schultr Mary Elizabeth Shepherd Dorothy Simank Eleanor Smith Lorraine Sorensen Nathalene Southard Katherine Stein Gaty Stump Anne Florine Swank Virginia Wales Katherim- Louise Wolf Playing a vital role in the University ' s war effort this year have been the United States Student Cadet Nurses. Fifty-seven young women, ranging in age from 17 to 35, and representing every section of the United States, have received training at the University on a govern- ment program. The cadet nurse ' s course lasts three years, but at the end of two and one-half years a girl can go into the armed forces, or she may prefer to stay in the school for three years. Each girl enrolls for a total of thirty-six hours while at the University. She must take such subjects as chemistry, physiology, microbiology, six hours of nutrition, sociology, psychology, and pharmacology. Besides her school work, she must serve on the floors at Brackenridge Hospital and take nursing arts instruction there. In other words, she takes a full course like University students do, plus one-half days work at the hospital. The student nurses are housed in the Brackenridge Nursing Home while cadets. Good personality and excellent health are requisites to being accepted as a cadet nurse. Each girl must have been in the upper quarter of her high school graduating class. Director of Nursing at Brackenridge Hospital for the cadet nurses is Miss Iva Gary, R.N., B.A., M.A., a graduate of the University. Front Third row: SWANK, GILMORE. HOLLOWAY, SHEPHERD. JO HNSON, WOLF, STUMP. SOUTHARD. PARKER. Fourth row: KROBAT, MENDOZA, COMANCHO. BARNHOUSE, HAMER. BROOKSHIRE. RAPE. LEISMAN, BLOWEY. MAREK. Fifth row: ROMAN, MURCHISON. SORENSEN, SIMANK, WALES, COOP, SCHULTE, LITTAU, PINTER, ENNIS.