Capital City School of Nursing - Caduceus Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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54 holding their attention beautifully. I talked with her and she told nie Stephanie Zornick was Superintendent of Nurses at the Nursing School at Boston General Hospital. Louise Riddick was a floor supervisor at the same hospital. In Newborn, North Carolina, I visited Grace Hagood. She had married iTop and they had an adorable little boy. In North Africa, I visited Virginia Campbell,- who was a missionary there. She Was doing a. splendid job and seemed to be very happy helping others. In the hills of Kentucky, Millie Wolford and Mary Sliman, were doing Public Health Nursing. Each was working in a different county, but they kept in touch with each other. The people they cared for said they were like Angels of Mercy? At Doctoris Hos- pital, I saw Margaret Onks, who was the receptionist there. She hadnlt changed a bit! She was as pleasant, pretty, and efficient as ever. She told me that she had heard from Ruth Springer and Gwendolyn Stewart Who were airplane hostesses. She also told me that Margaret Dobas was happily married and living in New York. At the Kaiser Shipyards, in California, I found Wilma Burnette in charge of a dispensary. I met Captain Juliet Peets in San Francisco. She had made the Navy her life career. In Montana I chanced to see Eileen Young chasinl her young lun around the corral. She told me that Margaret Cook and Lois Scheller were appearing at the Met. in La Traviata. Passing through Ohio, I found Thelma Smith in charge of a Nursery School. She said that Janice Coffey had earned her Captainis bars in the Anny. The last one any had heard from Bernie Way, she was in Texas, working as a mortician, due to her great affinity for corpsmen. During my whole dream, the only sign of war that I can remember seeing was a little boy dressed in a sailor suit walking down the street with his mother, the former Louise Lane. Louise was '3! - saying, ilWillie, please don,t get that candy all over your face Willie just smiled up at her with his big brown eyes. Then suddenly the alarm went off and I realized that I had been dreaming, but definitely!

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CLASS PROPHECY As I was lying on my bed this evening I wondered if you, my classmates, would be interested in the dream I had. It seemed fantastic, and yet, who knows, it could all happen! My dream was almost like a movie in that I traveled from one place to another in a fleeting moment, visiting all of you. In some little town in South America I visited Selma Adams. She was a missionary and seemed to be really enjoying her work. The natives adored her, but then thatls easily understood! The scene changed and there was Edna Allen, a Public Health Nurse in Teanetall and stately as ever, and just as sincere. I saw Hazel Jones in Honduras. She had married Juan and seemed to be truly happy with him. In South America, I saw Sue Ashby and F lorence Cherone doing Pub- lic Health N ursing-each looking happy and intensely interested in her work. In New York, I saw Mary Ella Berryman, who-had married Cliff. I wish you all could have seen Cliff, Jr. In Paris I found Denise Androulakis in her exclusive dress shop-all dresses embroidered by hand. Rosemarie Bello finally married her Lt. j.g. and they have two little boys. In Ashville, North Caro- lina, I saw Mac Hoover Chapman, Jr. Roberta doesnlt know it but I saw Mac Hoover, Sr. waving at the girls. In Florida, I saw the Fischers on Miami Beach. George, Beverly, Freddy and little lVIiriam with her pretty black hair and warm brown eyes. They were playing the William Tell Overture on the portable victrola. In Peachland, North Carolina, I visited the Clementsonls. Mrs. Clementson was the former Gladys Tucker. 0n the mantel in the living room was little Carolynrs picture. She was smiling and wrinkling her nose as if to say llwhyfw Little Carolyn had won the beauty contest in kindergarten. In my dream, I also visited Gallinger. I saw quite a few familiar faces and names. On the residents schedule Dr. Eleanor Citak was on call for Fe- male Surgery Tuesday night, and Dr. Eunice Miles was on call for F ourth Medicine on Thurs- day night. There was also a list of supervisors for Medicine. They were as follows: Medical Build- ing Supervisor, Martha Jane Laker; first floor, Pauline Duncan; second floor, Ruth Honeycutt; third floor, Vivian Mackey; fourth floor, Jeanie McKee; fifth floor, Alice Rusk; and the Nurses Infirmary, Helen Wood. At the Nurses Home, Jewel Gibson was teaching a class in Drugs and Solutions. Down in the Nursing Arts Department, Wilma Hoffmaster was teaching a class of preliminary students. I dreamed I had the nerve to interrupt Wilma and talk to her. I asked her about Virginia Munn, Fannie Miller, Ruth Woody, Edith Blevins, and Dorothy Burleigh. She said Virginia had married a doctor and had a beautiful home in F lorida. Fannie was Superintend- ent of Nurses at a Nursing School in New York. Ruth and Dorothy were attending Catholic University. Edith had married and moved to Hollywood since her husband was a movie actor. In another classroom, I saw Mary Tucker teaching a class in History of Nursing, and she was 53

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