Faulkner Hospital School of Nursing - Faulkan Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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var-.1 il If 1. I i ,Prophecy TOP PRIORITY CORRESPONDENCE Date: September 7, 1956 TO: Miss Virginia Flynn, R,N, , B, S, , Ph,D, , now secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in Washington, D, C, In reply to your letter of August 12, asking for the latest in- formation on the remaining members of the Dizzy Dozen, this is what we have discovered: From our observatory on latitude 52, longitude '70 of Amen- hoptep, the 176th man-made planet, we have observed: Very close to home we see Miss Jean Colley as she passes by our observatory on her daily flight to the moon, as flight nurse, on the latest interplanetary missile. On her flight she passes the newly constructed Cosmic Speed- way for midget racers, owned and operated by the former Miss Ioan Dodkin and her husband. Observing through our Scopedoodle we see Miss Elizabeth Doyle assistant to Dr. Nervoustissue Synapse, the foremost brain surgeon in the universe, at her headquarters in Vienna. We knew her O, R, experience would come in handy, From Vienna, we traveled via our Scopedoodle to Boston and found Miss Mary Gavin as Dean of B, C, Night School, School of Nursing.

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tained her in the shower, until Mutt suddenly became very suspicious, especially sincer her mother's birthday cake was missing, and charged back into her room, to be hailed joyously by her classmates, who presented her with a cute stuffed animal, and settled down to hungrily consume her cake and pop corn, after which poor Mutt did all the sweeping up, The following year we shared another cake with Murt, this time her wedding cake, and we just received the glad tidings of the new arrival of a baby boy Our best, always, to Mutt, Classes were our main concern in those days, with daily tests in Chemistry and Anatomy, returning demonstrations in Nursing, and mastering pharmacology. If it weren 't for our willing and helpful in- structors, maybe our history would have been quite different. Compulsory study hours were a help in maintaining marks. We remember Betsy Doyle's mint-green nylon shorty in Nursing Lab, the two pals Mary Gavin and Joan Lennon, Mary Gavin's so-neat room, Ioan Dodie Dodkin's red nylon shorty, and Virginia Flynn's high-heeled slippers. Capping was a momentous event in our first year, as we proudly walked to the stage to receive our caps from Miss Norton, acting in Miss Hennik's place. Olga Mara jian, our first class president, accept- ed our welcome as true members of the Faulkner family. Our first days on the wards were never -to -be-forgotten experiences. Then relief and nights, the operating room, obstetrics, and off for affiliations. To make money, we held a spaghetti supper in our second year. Jean Col1ey's father was the chef, and, needless to say, there were many second helpings. Shirly Ferguson received the high honor in her senior year election as President of Student Govern- ment. Ann Leslie MacDonald is at present on maternity leave. We welcomed Irene Logie as a transfer into our midst in our senior year, and by this time the homesick Sally Peters had no desire to leave her chosen career. Thus comes to a close the chapter of our student days. The future remains unwritten.

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By picking up the brain waves of Miss Gavin on our Univac we discover Miss Shirley Ferguson, director of nurses at a first-aid at one of Miami's finest resorts. As we travel further southward, we see Miss Joan Lennon, pres- ently engaged as a head nurse on a Penguin ward in Little America where there is known to be a great future. Next, through our Scopedoodle, we pass the home of the fa- mous Redheaded hockey team. Their mother was the ex-Miss Ann Leslie and is now team nurse. It was by coincidence that we discovered Miss Irene Logie, as the modern-day Florence Nightingale who recently landed on the moon with her thousand scrub brushes, While observing Miss Logie on our electronic brain, we learned of the exploits of the former Miss Sally Peters, now a prominent member of Newport Society and the wife of Cornelius X. Ticker- tape, a noted Wall Street executive. After a long and arduous search, we located Miss Olga Maran- jian, now Director of Nurses at Yerevan City Hospital in the newly reinstated country of Armenia. Back home again we located the former Miss Barbara Schelf- haudt, private nurse to the President and wife of General W. Er- ichsen, Army Chief of Staff at the Pentagon. We hope, Miss Flynn, that this contains all the information re- quested by you regarding the Dizzy Dozen, Sincerely, Joan Lennon Jean Colley