Firland Sanatorium School of Nursing - Fir Log Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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'i' lg Q E QSQ: 2 Q fl llll!! 9 i' W ,M .i t. t 4 CLASS HISTORY This art fakes place in at sclzoolroomi. Frances M'cPlze1's011 is the teacher and our nurses at Firlanal cozzstitute the class. I lzojre you will be able to follow me. 66 LL right, class will kegin, Qthe teacher says this with a great deal of vehemencel. Rose Paschich, will you please discard those peanuts and stand up. Tell the class in what state and city you trained to become a nursef' At the Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, NVashington. Very goodf, Ada Babcock, will you put that microscope in your desk. Put all those bottles away. Ada trained in the University Hospital Training School in Iowa City. That is right, isn't it Pl' Yes, teacherf' Katherine Prusak, kindly hide those pictures of the kiddies at Josef House. Turn around square in your seat and fold your hands. Now, where did you say you were from? Ancher Memorial Hospital at St. Paul, Minnesota? Good l Now, class, we are going to have our music lesson. Vllill the Seattle General Nurses please rise? I shall call your names: Olive Beebe, Amye McKee, Eva Karlsson, Grace Ring, Prudence Ulvestad, Marion Armstrong, Sylvia Larson, Mal-el Loney, Edna Brandt, Margaret King, Elsie Smith, and Mabel Stauffacher. NVhat would you ladies like to sing? You want to sing 'That Qld Gang of Mine' ? That was really very nice, girls. The four girls from the Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon, are going to give you a quartet in harmony. Bessie Tartar, Vtlinifred McFarlane, Alice Ruger, and Alverta Mills, skip up to the front of the room. Now, I have promised Eleanor Pattee and Thelma Lorenzen that if you girls sang 'Trees,' they might sing 'An Echo in the Valley , you know, the Columbia River valley. 'tYou may take your seats, girlsfl Are the girls from the Swedish Hospital here? Answer present as I call your names: Myrtle Lystad, Caroline Tamborini, Alice Anderson, Elsa Thomsen, Alice Currier, and 'lean Jensen. Vlle are going to sing 'Happy Days Are Here Again'. Stand up, girls. lNhat is it, Wlillie? You have had your hand up for half an hour. All right, Willie Yan Helms wants to sing California, Here I Come., Amye McKee and Barbara Sturgis, put those apples away. I know that XVenatchee girls can juggle apples, but this is no time for itf' Before we go any further, I would like to ask the following students if I have the correct training school from which they graduated. Mrs. Morris, Roose- velt Hospital in New York? Yes, Iam sure that I didf' Miss Laubach, Kansas Sanatorium ?', Yes, ma'am. In lYichita, Kansas, that is.', -of

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I H sq-i ' - 'V-,. -,. TULIPS AND BRIDAL WREATH V V V QDedicated to the Nurses at Firlandj I am a tulip. My stem is tall. I am the brightest red of all The flowers that grow by the garden wallg I am queenly. I Standing alone in regal pride, Flaunting my leaves, long and wide, I scorn the flowers that grow by my side, Unseemly. Beautiful Bridal W1'eatl1 are we, Wfhite and modest as we can be, Feathery sprays of symmetry, Perfume lending. Place a dozen or so in a vase Each one has its artistic place, Every other flower we grace By our blending. In a wonderful garden that I know Girls are lovely flowers that grow, Tulips, some, who live for show And beauty. Nurses are the graceful sprays Of Bridal VVreathg all their days A perfume of service. They know the ways Cf duty. -PAMELIA PEARL j'oNEs. QQ! Rl HHH V 'W we ....M X 9911.2 . . ,E '. .-,, X . an y g.m'1i? - t a fa -'4.-few + f- .-J:

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- .. ......, , , EoMay Priem, Royal Alexander Hospital ? I know a lot about flowers. Try and remember it until I get these hospitals straightened out, will you? Mildred Rountree, Riverside Hospital ? Yes, and you have Kentucky after that, haven't you ? Kathleen Elliott, Murray Hospital. Is that in Montana ? No, it is in Butte. 'fMary Kaiser, Mercy Hospital? I came all the way from North Dakota to Seattle on a trainf' 'iLucille Bennett, University Hospital Training School ? Yes, both Elsie Jensen and I came from Iowa and we are going back on our vacation. Therese Erickson, Virginia Mason ? Yes, and I think it is a grand training school. Did you girls see a car drive up? Oh, yes, there is Marie Eichacker and Amelia Hall. Before you girls sit down will you give me your Alma Maters. Miss Eichacker from Mercy Hospital in Anamosa, Iowa, and Miss Hall from St. An- drew's Hospital in Minneapolis. Thank you. l'Lena Buess, lput your sewing away. Did you train in the lane C. Stormont Hospital in Topeka, Kansas? Yes, I have that rightf, There are two girls here from Providence Hospitals. Virginia Maxwell from Seattle, and Clive Carlson from Everett. You say you want to sing, Virginia? You have a very lovely voice and I will call on you later for one of your favorite songs. Doris Edwards, I have Portsmouth Hospital at Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, for your training school. That is correct, isn't it? INC have two nurses from Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, and I have just one accounted for. NVill the other nurse please signify by raising the right hand. Victoria Casson? Thank you. And Mattie Haskeiv from Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabamaf' Now, Miss Anna Karlsson is going to give us a little talk on The Art of Keeping a Supply of Dressings on Hand. Before you begin, I have you from Batt.e Creek Sanatorium, B. C., Michigan. That is right, isn't it ? Delanto Ludington, is she here? Oh, you say St. Luke's Hospital in Belling- ham! I d.dn't have to ask you.', Tale want to know where the teacher trained, fthe girls all chorusedj Quiet, quiet, please! I'll tell you. St. Vincent's Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Now, this has been an unusually good class today. How would you like to go down to the beach tonight and have a party, a big fire, go in swimming and have lots of fun? That is hne. Wle will all meet on the beach at seven o'clock.U Class is dismissedf' - 33 -- 'ri Q Jimi 194 I Ill, lllllln rllll If 'Q 'EF nf-..-. E -- -,: , Q .ya .' ju-gff 1 E -' 'f ...tw :Q I 11- 13: J-v