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

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I 000121 her previous work, we know that Miss Wojciechowski will make Chicago sit up and take notice. From the government files we find Miss Rosina Sacks, R.N., has been made Supervisor of the Operating Room at the Walter Reed Hospital, in Washington, D. C. Among her nurses there we find Miss Agnes Piaia, R.N., who is assistant nurse to the eminent surgeon Dr. E. Baum. At the Sacred Heart Hospital, we find Miss Helen Daday, R.N., supervising the operating room. Her assistant here is Miss Mary Maley, R.N. Both nurses are also on the teaching staff of the hospital, teaching surgical nurses Operating Room Technique. From the Social Service Bureau in our nationis capital, we hear that many changes will be made in Social Work. All of this is due entirely to the good and untiring work of Miss Eva Hahner, R.N. Her work has received recognition of the President. Prom St. Louis, Mo., at the Institute of St. Thomas Divine, we hear that Miss Betty Martonis, R.N., has been doing research in the field of cancer, its treatments, and prognosis. Due to her efforts, we will soon see a report of her findings in the next issue of the American Iournal of Nursing. Please make a note of this, as it may bring out many new problems, and also answers to old ones. Travelling to the tiny island of Crete, we find Miss Helen DeGregorio, R.N., doing Red Cross work among the Italian people, who have suffered much during the war. In London, England, at the Buckingham Palace a reception is being held for Major-General and Mrs. Thomas McLaughlin. Mrs. McLaughlin is the former Miss Catherine Love, R.N. Accompanying them were Lieutenants Claire Beier- schmitt, R.N., and Frances M. Roos, R.N. Both of these nurses received the medal of the Order of the Purple Heart. Presentations were made by His Majesty, King George VI. From the Bureau of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., we hear that Miss Iosephine Zekas, B.S., has been named head of the Nutrition Department. During this period of reconstruction and all out aid to famine-stricken Europe, rationing of food will continue. Miss Zekas will outline the new menus approved by the O.P.A. In a recent dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn., where a group of young nurses are taking special courses in first aid, as it is needed on active battlefronts, we find in charge, Mrs. Helen Chubbuck, R.N. Mrs. Chubbuck was chosen National Commander of this special group of nurses, which deals solely with giving this special form of first aid to the wounded on the scene of battle. An article titled, The Nurse and First Aid-In This War will soon appear in the American Iournal of Nursing. Please watch for it, and consider it closely, for it contains valuable information for the betterment of war nursing. News from Port Darwin, Australia, is good. Miss Helen T. Litavis, R.N., who was doing some investigating for the American and British government, and their nursing associations, has a great report to make. Before this will be made public, Miss Litavis will first report to the President, and will then journey to Harvard Where she will receive an honorary degree of Master of Science. Congratulations, Miss Litavis. God bless you and all of you who are members of our staff at the Sacred Heart Hospital. To our many graduates in the Army and Navy Nurse Corps, in other govern- ment service we salute you, and wish you all the success you so rightly deserve. For to serve one's country is best of all. - . I ' r f. I U I I P I I I I I I I . . I . if-I I 'E I I . i,If ,I ' I If , I K Forty -.fix

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