Millard Fillmore Hospital School of Nursing - Arcanum Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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cmcm DQrJwten DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN! You first came in training and you were embarrassed to tears at the first physical . We started training with 86 students. We were almost campused because someone needed mouth- wash. You went to U.B., had some wonderful times, became an expert at slipping out of classes and had such insight as to know exactly whose classes you could skip. Someone found a dead fish in their pillow. Tulips and Heather on the NFT. You had anatomy lab with Miss Popa. Norton and the pinochle games. We went swimming April twenty-first before our Micro class. Nursing Arts lab on Sat. morning and we gave each other bed baths - remember why Hess had to empty and sterilize the bed pan. The water fights on the second floor. When Medinger was afraid of the bogey man. The Capping Prom at the Hotel Statler. The first day we worked with our newly acquired caps. Our picnic at Pillar ' s, remember Miss Peck and Miss Galantowicz playing baseball. We first started working full time - and thought it was fun - and just couldn ' t wait for relief. Our practical exam, Haun had to do Post Mortem Care. Our first hypos, it hurt us more than it did the patient. Someone put the catheter in the wrong place in Mrs. B. and she had uterine tidal drainage. We knocked over the whole table of solutions for cleaning surgery in Dr. Kenwell ' s surgery. Someone tried to fit two D.K. trucks in the old elevator and spent one half hour trying to get out. We pureed the cherry pits. Horton was handed an amputated leg and she took it up to Pathology on the elevator. We roller skated down ttie hall at 636. The three CVA ' s in 136. Working nights on I Old. Everybody had Infectious Mononucleosis. 42

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No one sleeping in class. Mrs. Woods not saying tickets please. Three Main without Mrs. Hurlbert. Tony without his harmonica. C. H. without medical students. Norton without a window to climb out of. U. B. Basics with twenty patients. Sunday night without cold cuts, potato salad, and peaches. Getting a V.N. A. uniform that fits. The Phi Chi House without beer. Mrs. McKnight sitting still. That our three years have finally come to an end. T - ' -v 41

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Kotmaler scrubbed infor Dr. Zolland after several unsuccess- ful attempts at threading a suture, he said turn the spotlight on her, she needs it more than we do . Our half-way party at McGrath ' s, we sure felt half way the next day. Maier plagued the plumbers at Gowanda until they found her ring. Luwrie wheeled the cart and patient through the window. Graham ' s room - all the conveniences of home I Reed plugged up the sink at C . H. with you know what. The parties down at Sweda ' s - who stole the camisole from 27. Our Black Band Dance at the Lamm Post on May 7th. The Lamm Post really lit up that night. All our Bake Sales - well at least we ' ll make good cooks. Partiss gave a patient in Gowanda alcohol instead of mouth wash - umm good I Our Junior-Senior Banquet and the Bunny Hop at the Hotel Lenox. The Gowanda Hayride is one M. J. Clair will never forget. The big black man at 5 Gates. Mysterious disappearance of so many burned waste paper baskets. Trying to get dates for the Alumnae Dance - oh those Phi Chi men] Rose Chertoff, R.N., dancing at the Alumnae Banquet. Fran Barton and Marge Richter being the first to receive the Mary Lytle Award for Perseverance. Our Jr.-Sr. Banquet at Pete ' s. September 9th, 1954 in the Mary Seton Room. 43