Chesapeake and Ohio Hospital School of Nursing - Aeneid Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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rpwif BASKETBALL TEAM Louise Reynolds, Manager Betty Masters Joyce Saville Joyce Gibson Ella Otto Patricia DeHof Grace Ricks, Ass’t Manager Virginia Carter Mary McCoy Mary Dudley Alice Dudley, Coach Wanda Saylor Mary Owen Margaret Harris CHEERLEADERS Gloria Johnson Gloria Alls Betty Lively Jeanette Jenkins Faye Nicely C23}

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Last We, the members of the 1950 graduating class, being of weary minds and aching feet and doubtful on a lot of other scores, do hereby will and bequeath to the under¬ graduates the following items: Mae Simmons leaves her good looks to “cutie” Paukey Dudley. Betty Devers furthers her training by entering the state of matrimony for a degree of MRS. Frances Long bequeathes her intellectual ability to Sue McCallister, with the hope that she will keep her scholastic average up to get home on week-ends. Jenny Carter’s winsome figure and athletic ability are left for Twyla Cain to keep the basketball team in shape. Peggy Oakes, more often referred to as noisy Lou, bequeathes her quiet and re¬ served manner to Chloe Flanagan. A love for O.R. is left by Pat DeHof with best wishes to the Freshman class. Betty Fluggard leaves her wit and love for “horse play” to Leila Camp. A love for Pediatric relief, especially on Saturday night, is left to Sassy Saville by Shirley Martin. Earnestine Gwinn’s pearly white teeth are bequeathed to the September 1953 class to be used in the study of Anatomy. The Senior class collectively bestows the following: Our corn plasters and bunion pads to the underclassmen. Our knowledge in obstetrics and pediatrics to the Junior class, hoping they will ac¬ complish more than we did. (Enjoy yourself; it’s harder than you think.) Our good fortune of keeping office on Saturday night to the Freshman class. And ability to sleep through anything, including classes, is left to the night duty nurses of the future. 122 }

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The Gladys Inn In 1897, after a meeting of Chesapeake and Ohio Railway executives and employees in Richmond, came the organization of a Hospital Association and the establishment of a hospital at Clifton Forge, for the purpose of caring for sick and injured employees. Mr. George W. Stevens, General Manager of the road, and later president, was chair¬ man at this meeting. Clifton Forge, at that time, was a town of some 4,000 inhabitants; its streets were unpaved and sidewalks were nonexistant. Its location, however, as meeting-place of three C. O. divisions, made it immensely important to the railroad. The old “Gladys Inn,” located on the present hospital site was chosen for hospital purposes, and after extensive repairs had been made on the old building which had served as a combined hotel and station, the Chesapeake and Ohio Hospital was opened on December 1, 1897, equipped to care for approximately fifty patients. The staff consisted of one surgeon in charge, one interne, and four or five nurses. Dr. J. C. Wysor was the first surgeon, and he chose as his head nurse Miss M. H. Richardson. By the year 1914, when Dr. W. T. Oppenheimer succeeded Dr. Brock as chief sur¬ geon of the C. O. Railway, the popularity and business of the hospital had increased [ 24 ] V