Allentown Nurses College - ANC Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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f7fRe.,f4, of all, eleven of us only got five dollars per month and the rest got rich. Dr. And socially? Pt. As i . . I Second Years or Intermediates we entertained the Juniors at a Vamp Party, with a mock wedding and music, and the Seniors at d' ' a mnei dance dllllflg Commencement Week. Dr. Were class affairs and efforts continued through your Senior Year ? Pt. W ll ' - ' ' e , not at fii st Until everybody returned from State Hospital it d was lmpossible to get concerted energy for an thi W ' y ng. e had a picnic supper at the Fair Grounds. But in November we had a class reunion in Tom's room. There were no college social affairs. ' , Miss Viehdorfer said we had to learn to be nurses first, society buds later. There was to be no Jazz, especially not at Monday night lecture, but Santa Claus remembered the J azzers through the Jazz Master. We attended the Junior Auxilliary Dance, the Alum D P' ' ' nae ance and the St. Patrick s Dance en masse and man- aged a little one of our own in February F . pl Dr. But how about the individual girls ? V Pt. Luebbert still insists that 'Order is Heaven's first law.' Tom and Laub skipped a couple months night duty and worked in the sun- light again. Price, Flory, Long, Kline and Roth were included a third time in the Nurses' Chorus. Meta pulled through Typhoid, . had symptoms of something else and now wears a frat pin. 7 Davis hasn't been beat at baking cakes yet. Long played the patient particularly well in 'Special Dooty' till she was blue in ' the face, but she got better every time. Some of us managed to have leisure time enough always to take the longest walk to and A from the Hospital and College-sort of a Senior stroll M' P i l . ickey, 5 Laub, Acker and Donny made the Operat' R ing oom a lively place , for two months at least. Weber got her uniform for the con- lg vention, she saw to that. Deemer was heart broken when Obie d had her tonsils removed on the day of the dance. Competitive financial teams worked overtime to increase the class . budget-sandwiching the doctors and nurses, choking the College with chocolate bars and ' , risking their fortunes on chances. Here's where Crothers made an excellent sho ' wing for 'her team. But no money from this treasury was used for the flowers on the ' Senior table in the Dining Room. Sometimes we assisted in the Monda ,y night lectures, with recitations -Steyert did that-vocal selections and de , monstrating modern methods in use in our hospital. Page Forty-four 1 5 f I E

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6 6 'TEQAJWCQ Well, We were up.to most everything, dancing as often as possible, roller skating, ice skating, swimming. We used the gym oftener than JUS13 Class night. The little Baby Grand Worked overtime and often Mrs. Petri wondered at the mysterious disappearance of the Victrola key. She just couldn't keep track of it. We used all the. reference books in the Library-and read all the fiction too. Miller, quiet little thing that she is, or Was, lived in a separate World, peopled by Sherlock Holmes, Dead Eye Dick, and their relatives and friendly enemies. 'Why else 'those J uniors'? Must have been some other reasons. If these questions are to amount to anything you must give me the truth, the Whole truth, etc. Nobody could beat us selling tickets for anything-Nurses' Chorus Concert, Tags on Tag Day, but- 'But What? - Was anybody ever expelled, or suspended, or cam- pused, or had their cap taken, or had their hours taken, or put to bed, or corporal punishment, or anything like that? I'm afraid somehow some of us got most everything except corporal punishment, but our scholastic record kept high. Pete requested a Graduate Nurse to carry her laundry over for her, and Laubach Went to sleep in a clothes hamper. 'Did you notice any prodromal signs that might be of diagnostic value-Symptoms of very strong class spirit. They came out very heavy at the end of the first year when We gave several small class parties and the Junior Prom, and play for the Seniors. 'Contagious or Infectious ? Neither as yet, at least there never was another since. 'And after that ? Vacations ! 'Were there any changes in the next year? . Every year brings changes-then We were 'those Intermediates? Some of us changed room-mates or rooms. Maybe 113 VY-as due 'tO the mental shake-up or shake-down we had at Rittersvillef' 'Hovv did that affect you-did you all Q0 and did YOU all like inn All Went but six some liked it and some didn't. We all decided 'E St or West: Home is best'. We were depressed, excited, had a . . - - - - er f impulses, obsessions, hallucinations, illusions, delusions and ev 3 hobia that ever Was I 311655 We nought all the World queer but We and even We vvere a little queiff- But what was queerest Page Forty-tlz'ree

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C - A2411 NYM HWY-M W A 'EQAJWQQ 'What was the biggest event of the year ? l That hasn't come off yet. 'What is it ? Commencement Day. 'Well, the next biggest event then ? The conference of the American College of Surgeons, in the begining of April. 'Tell me about it. Well, We had to Wear our uniforms six inches from the floor, and our hair plain as could be-We looked so funny. And We had to keep our rooms in perfect order for several days. We found things that had been lost for ages. But none of us were lost to any of the great Surgeons-they only gave us the once over once. Gee! but they were Wonderful. 'Anything else of perhaps minor importance ? For three nights the Nurses' Chorus sang at the Colonial Theatre. 'Oh goodnight? - Anything else ? There'd be a lot if you could believe the bunch that never tells the truth. 'My goodness! Tell me some! 'Oh no! Some tales are longer than other tales, but all tales come to an end. I GERTRUDE KLINE, f MINNA STEYERT, Historians Page Forty-five