Albion High School - Chevron Yearbook (Albion, NY)

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48 'PHE CHEVRON . - , -T - I November 27, 1926. Dear Chevron Readers, This year instead of assigning lessons to classes I am trying to help students to find books and material to prepare lessons others assign. I am acting as assistant to the librarian of the University of Rochester College of Medici'ne. The work is very fascinating because we meet so many people who are doing so many interesting problems. Though I can assure it is not a simple matter to try to care for 30,000 volumes, spread about on three floors containing stacks for 100,000 books. When the library of the medical school has grown to the size which is anticipated it will be among the largest medical libraries. At the present it is three times as large as the average public library. Our medical library is used principally by doctors doing research work and medical students. Research work is continually taking on more and more im- portance in medical practice and many of the doctors are doing independent work besides teaching classes and over seeing their particular departments. In order that no one should repeat experimental work that has been satis- factorily done by another scientist, it is necessary that he should know what is being done by other scientists all over the world. To supply this need, we have subscription to 425 medical magazines in all important languages, of the German alone we have 105. The students, during their Hrst two years, have practically nothing to do with the patients. Most of their time is spent in the laboratory and library. Each student works independently on his own problem. There are no class bellsg no attendance is taken: nor are there any examinations, At the present time there are in the college of medicine about fifty students. In addition to our medical library we have what we call the Hospital Library, which supplies reading material of every type to the patients. The books are supplied on long loans from the Rochester Public Library, and by gift from patients and friends interested in the Strong Memorial Hospital connected with the School of Medicine. The books are arranged on shelves on wheels and taken around to each room. The book trucks may be wheeled up to the bed so the patient may read the titles and so choose his own book. Strong Memorial Hospital occupies two wings of the Medical School build- ing. Because this is so, many people think that the patients here are treated by stude'nts, though this is not the case. Every patient is given the advantage of the attention of the heads of the department under which he is being treated and in mary cases he is examined by other department doctors. In this way, the patient is assured of the very best diagnosis of his case and treatment of it. lin con'nection with the hospital there is a school of nursing, a graduate from which rnay receive a college degree in addition to the regular nursing degree. The hospital, nurses' home, and school of medicine are open to visitors at any time. In case any of you should be interested in studying 'nursing or medicine you might enjoy going over a few, at least, of the ten miles of corridors in the building. - Best wishes to you all for a Merry Christmas. Sincerely, Neva Welch Mayhew.

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H lTHE cnmvnos 49 PARENT-TEACHER ACTIVITIES Each year the work of the Albion Parent-Teacher Association seems more worthwhile. Under the leadership of Mrs. W. H. Pedler, as President, the meet-ings this season have been 'both thoroughly enjoyable and instructive. The first meeting was held on Thursday, September 23rd at the Swan Library. This was in the nature oil a reception to the teachers. Short talks were given by Mr. Bergerson and by Bernard Ryan of Albion, after which refreshments were served and a social hour enjoyed. Mrs. Carl Bergerson was the delegate to the state conference which was held in New York City during the second week in October. At the meeting on October lth, she gave her report, which covered in an interesting manner the various meetings and functions of the congress. The Albion P. T. A. had the honor of having its founder and first president 'elected one of'the state officers, Mrs. Ralph E. Brodie, being made state corresponding secretary. On November 18th the meeting was held at the Presbyterian church. The speaker was Dr. Charles Walker of Batavia, who talked on The Three Funda- mentals of Education. On December 9th Dr. Edward Clark of Budalo was the speaker at the meet- ing, which was held at the Swan Library. Dr. Clark talked of children and their health and was followed by a short health play, which was presented by the children of the third grade of the High School. At this meeting there was also a display and sale of toys made by the children of Miss Blott's grade. Under the auspices of the P. T. A. a delightful concert was given on the evening of Friday, December 3rd, by the Glee Club of the East High School of Rochester. ' The membership of the P. T. A. has reached 225. The teachers are one hundred per cent, everyone of them belonging, which is more than can be said of the pare'nts. It is hoped that soon we will be able to say that all of the parents of children in school are members of the association. Then in- deed we can begin to really do things. One of the most worthy of the P. T. A. activities is the serving of milk at school to those children who cannot afford to pay for this necessary article oft diet. This year six other organizations have co-operated and through their generosity twenty-one children who otherwise would be without it, are daily receiving milk. These organizations are the Albion Historical Club, the Yoke Fellows Class of the Baptist Church, the Signor Class of the Presbyterian Church, the W. C. T. U. and the Junior Red Cross. The Orleans Republican also contributed flve dollars and Mr. and Mrs. Sanford T. Church, three. Through the efforts of the P. T. A. the Girl Scouts have been organized in Albion and are doing a splendid work. Their leaders are Mrs. Francis Sturges, Mrs. Stanley Marsh and Miss Helen Burrows. On October 11th and 12th Mr. Robson, proprietor of the Ria.lto Theatre, generously gave one-half the pro- ceeds of the shows for those nights to the girl scout work. A number of card parties were also held in various homes one evening for the benefit of the work. At this date the P. T. A. season is only about half completed. There are other splendid talks to come, other good times to be enjoyed, other worthy work to be done. All parents are urged now to join. Every teacher has demonstrated her interest in the children, surely every parent can do no less.