G A Wheable Secondary School - Memoriae Yearbook (London Ontario, Canada)

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FAMILIAR SCENES

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When Wheable opened in 1957, Miss Jean McKenzie, R. N. , B. ScN. was appointed nurse. During the following years, she established a close rapport with hundreds of students and staff. So it was with shock and sadness that we learned of her sudden death on May 19. Miss McKenzie was so quietly competent in perfor ming her duties that few people realized what a full, at times exciting, and rewarding life she lived. As a high school student in Kincardine, she excelled in sports - in fact, for several years she pitched for the Kincardine Macs - a baseball team of renown in the Bruce Peninsula. This career ended when she came to London to study nursing at Victoria Hospital. Later she graduated from Western with her B. ScN. degree. Sports always remained her chief hobby - she was a low-handicap golfer, a bowler and a curler. At bridge, she competed keenly and skillfully. When the war broke out in 1939, Miss McKenzie enlisted in London ' s 10 medical unit. She was one of the first two nursing sisters to set foot in Normandy following D Day. The immediate goal was to set up a hospital unit to care for the casualties that were part of the price of that historic invasion. Later she served in Holland with Canada ' s liberation forces. Wheable has been fortunate indeed to have had Miss McKenzie during these years. She shared her vast medical knowledge without stint. We shall miss her. Mrs. McCormick Printed by Inter-Collegiate Press of Canada (1971) Ltd.