Sacred Heart Hospital School of Nursing - Carmen Sylva Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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T SHED ,nvfa Peg Meyers originated from Mahanoy City. YVe congratulate the town on producing such an addition. We received her in September 1926. All the humor, mirth and fun possible made Peg . One joke never failed to remind her of ten more until she and all the others were convulsed with laughter. A young flapperish person came from the same town. This was Elizabeth Allar. Now, I ask you would you recognize this little flapper as the Libby of our class? Howvever she was kind and had a willing hand to help all who knew her. September classes, patients and Rooney. All in one shot. That was just like Rooney - to enter with a breeze, but she did and was welcomed in like manner. Rooney drew everyone to her by her vivacity and a perfect candor marked her apart and something different. For two years she has served as a faithful President for our class. Next onour list was Margaret George. Peg blew right in and set herself to the task of being at home and making others so. From the beginning she fitted so well into the scheme and run of things that one never called her a new girl. Last but not least our Sisters Calasanza and Bonosa who were the guiding treasures of our class. By their kindness and great charity we have tried to follow in their footsteps. 1 Uh, myl have I been musing the greater part of this afternoon and when I think of it I have recalled the happiest days of my life. Really it seems as though ' h f life had been but a fairy dream. And now when I look back over t ose ew my years I see all, in oh: such a different lightl The things that were the hardest to d then are the sweetest to remember now. I feel oh, so different since I've en ure , been thinking of my dear Alma Mater and want to dream the old days over . ,, . . . f so in luxury divine, my truant fancies wander to those old Training Mates o Mine.

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men QV vfa It was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and I saw. our best friend Betty Roos strolling into the hospital. She seemed to be fighting courageously with herself trying to see her future in a bright and sunny way and ohl.1t was so hard, for those persistent tears came dancing round every once in a while. Beth was a good one and for two years she was Treasurer of our class. Exact to the most minute detail we gasped before Beth's ability to straighten things out . Iune brought a bundle of smiles and laughter in the person of Nlary Cos- grove. There weren't many frowns that f'CossieU couldn't laugh away whether they were her own or others. And old Hloe Gloomf' was her constant rival. Cossie excelled in being particularly kind to her patients and especially to those in private rooms. I often wondered why. 'Shy and awfully sweet came Edith Hoffman, and prim as she could be in a nicely starched white linen dress. Edith hadn't been at the hospital long until she had become quite a favorite, she was sociable in every way and the first on hand when the cruel degree of scrubbing went forth. Then when we were aspiring Probies Teresa Liberto and Betty Sefing joined our ranks. Our class defined Sefing as being a regular girl for she had always proved it. She loved lots of fun, sometimes she didn't always start it, but I can say it never seemed complete unless Sefing headed the list. At first Liberto seemed to be quiet but at the same time full of fun. Being quiet I think made her dignified, and that is one of her qualities that the patients most admired about her. Locust Gap accounts for Alma Beierschmitt and Elizabeth Sebastian. Alma was sweet and kind and good - almost like a girl one would read about too good to be true. She specialized in being particularly kind to her patients. Elizabeth was one of those rare beings who could be comical at no one's expense. She was kind, however to all who knew her and brought manv a pleasant hgur to those who came in contact with her. U qaelfh 139513 ' l P

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men Q7 vfa Class Prophecy T WAS early in the spring of 1954, just five years ago to the very day, when we fourteen inexperienced girls stood on the threshold of Sacred Heart Hospital, bidding farewell to each other to begin life in an altogether different angle than our previous years had ever experienced. Yes, pals from the very day we became associated with each other - good faithful, professional pals and now we two, Betty Roos and Mary Cosgrove, after working side by side in a large government hospital in New York City, decided to tour the states. Arriving by areoplane at Florida, we chanced to wander into a hospital where, to our surprise, we learned Margaret Fina was in charge of a dispensary, comforting humanity, soothing the ill, and cheering the desolate. Margaret is doing a great work in her little sphere. Early the next morning, we left for California, our trip being made more interesting by our mode of travel, which gave an ample opportunity of seeing the country from an advantageous position. 4 It was later noon when we arrived and the huge red ball of the California sun was casting a rosy glow over the peaceful state, making it more picturesque than any artist could paint. About ten o'clock the next morning we received an invitation to visit Red Cross Headquarters. We were amazed to find Betty Sebastian and Pe g Mey'ers as supervisors of their quarters. The girls were really astounded upon seeing us, and for fully ten minutes there was no logic in the conversation, just the usual run of greeting and a ceaseless babble of chatter, TIOSQ f