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

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greatly. Considerable agitation was rising for a new hospital, since the “Gladys Inn” had become antiquated and was considered to be a fire hazard. Through the efforts of Dr. Oppenheimer and the president, Mr. George W. Stevens, the necessary funds were appropriated to construct a new hospital on the site of the old building. The new institution was opened with ceremonies on April 2, 1917. It was a thoroughly equipped general hospital with a bed capacity of sixty-five, and every facility for treatment of the sick and injured was provided. Dr. Wysor resigned during this year. Dr. B. B. Wheeler was appointed surgeon in charge, with Dr. E. D. Wells in charge of eye, ear, nose, and throat work, and Dr. J. N. Williams in charge of the X-Ray and Laboratory departments. Business affairs of the hospital, as well as the School of Nursing which had been organized in 1916, were under the management of Miss E. W. Bauer. In September, 1920, Dr. J. M. Emmett was appointed surgeon in charge, succeed¬ ing Dr. Wheeler. This position he has held until the present time. That same year the first class of student nurses, consisting of three, graduated. Miss Maude Daugherty became hospital superintendent in 1925, and remained in that position until Miss Pearl Pope succeeded her in 1932, at which time the nursing school was discontinued because there was a superfluous number of graduate nurses in the country. On May 12, 1936, a new wing to the hospital, of fifty additional beds, was dedi¬ cated. The entire building had been renovated and redecorated. The most modern X-Ray appliances, hydrotherapy department and other equipment had been installed. A large parking lot was provided in the rear and tennis courts laid out on the east side. In 1937, the nursing school was re-opened under the supervision of Miss Pope. In 1941, during the construction of a new, modern nurses’ home. Miss Pope resigned and Miss Glyde Gox became superintendent of nurses, while Miss Louise M. Reynolds assumed the responsibilities of hospital superintendent. In 1943, when Miss Gox resigned to enter the armed forces, she was replaced by Miss Gertrude Thomp¬ son. 1944 found Miss Thompson resigning to join the navy and Mrs. Anna Wood succeeding her. Another change came in 1945, when Mrs. Wood resigned. At this time the positions of Hospital Superintendent and Superintendent of Nurses was combined and Miss Reynolds was appointed to the position. She is, at the present time, serving in that capacity. Today a modern, well-equipped hospital, serving employees of the Railway Gom- pany, their families, and private patients from the local community, has the approval of the American Gollegc of Surgeons and is one of the hrst one-hundred bed hospitals in Virginia to be completely approved by the American Medical Association. It ' s present bed capacity is one hundred seventy. 1 25 }

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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

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1930 1919 Mrs. Marion Spinner Thurber Mrs. Lottie Henderson Cary Miss Mollie Hundley 1920 Miss Leila G. Payne Mrs. Lola B. Hicks Mrs. Lydia McCoy Woods Mrs. Bertha Brown Woodrum Mrs. Julia Bailey Butler Mrs. Viola McDowell Glenn Mrs. Pearl Edwards Smith Mrs. Dewey S. Pettigrew Mrs. Goldie M. Tribbett 1921 Miss Anna N. Ferris Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Harnbarger Mrs. Sally Pelter Clarkson Mrs. Maude F. Carter 1922 Mrs. Grace L. Lawrence Mrs. Sallie Cox Taylor Mrs. Maude Llarris Blade 1923 Miss Anna Harrington Mrs. Margaret Luck Showalter Mrs. Edna Purslcy Watson Mrs. Clive Hayslette Gowran Miss Carrie Smith Mrs. Myrtle Via Warren Mrs. Elizabeth Deeds Durham 1924 Mrs. Olga Burnette Brooks Mrs. Hazel Powell Perry Mrs. Ellen Hyde Luck Mrs. Crace Scott Wicklinc 1925 Mrs. Pearl Apperson Davidson Mrs. Mildred Gardner Fox 1926 No Class 1927 Mrs. Elizabeth Clarke Sampson Mrs. Susie Hyde Mathews Miss Anna B. Anderson Mrs. Christine Hepler Wright Mrs. Goldie Armstrong Johnson Mrs. Erma Boggs Kingan Mrs. Lena Puffenbarger 1928 Mrs. Mae Armstrong Harding Mrs. Clara Hodge Hinchey M rs. Thelma Fox Baker Mrs. Lucille Burnette Via Mrs. Virginia Musselman Evans Mrs. Hazel P. Falconer Mrs. Gladys Warwick Smith Mrs. Mabel Landis Rudisill Mrs. Blanche Hontz Payne Mrs. Bessie Burdette Foster Mrs. Virginia Smith Enos 1929 Mrs. Madeline Anderson Lumsden Miss Eva Bussard Mrs. Carolyn Johnson Craft Miss Lillian Mae Hinkle Mrs. Lorena Linkswiler Sampson Mrs. Elsie McKinney Logee Mrs. Anna M. Wood Mrs. Evelyn Myers Smith Mrs. Helen Newcomer Rule Mrs. Ritter Mays Mrs. Mildred Sherman Glover Mrs. Nellie Ayers Thurston Mrs. Gladys E. Moss Mrs. Ruth Green Turner Capt. Martha 1. Simpson Miss Catherine Wilson Mrs. Hattie McGrady Crouse Mrs. Hester V. Burger 1931 Mrs. lone Hicks Gorman Mrs. Mabel Bennett Smith Miss Dorothy Cleek Mrs. Wanda East King Mrs. Pauline Hinkle Egmore Mrs. Olga H. Akers Mrs. Martha Hughes Harrison Mrs. Erma R. Burns Mrs. Helen Wilson Scruggs Mrs. Cleo Wood Dudley Mrs. Arbutus Grotz Mowbry Mrs. Pearl W. Brown Mrs. Madeline Kenney Benson Mrs. Clara Murray Clawson Mrs. Louise Kern Lemon Mrs. Ollie Wright Weikle Mrs. Mary Tinney Turner 1932 Mrs. Thelma H. Ray Mrs. Mabel Myers Peters Mrs. Mildred Kinsey Chaplin Miss Ruth Anderson Mrs. Shirley Watson Brashcar Mrs. Mary Jane Blake Gibbenmeyer 1933 Mrs. Grace Hambrick Melton Mrs. Margaret Rumf Mohler Mrs. Josephine Jackson Sirlcs Mrs. Cecelia Burgandinc Spinner Mrs. Virginia Williams Frazier [ 26 }