Flower Hospital School of Nursing - Creed Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Yr 4 OPAL TI-IARP KAY TIPPENHAUER It matters not how a person Leave silence to the saints dies, but how they live. am but human. LOIS WARNER Life without mischief is not life at a11. 5 f PAT WILLIAMSON Good nature is the sign of a large and generous sou1. s-.V L. .. .K-Q-N. - -.ww-V..

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SAWYER JANET Full of joy, and full of pep, MERCEDES RUTHERFORD ' A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in it's vicinity freshen into smiles. she'll rise in this world Wllh a jump, not a step. RAMONA STODDARD Hers are the ways of pleasant ness, and all her paths are peace. 9

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7c?4ze77Zd2zc5eZ4 Un.. On September 8th, 1953 a group of 34 eager, inexperienced, aspiring, young girls were drawn from the farms,villages, and cities of Ohio and Michigan and one even from as far away as West Virginia to Flower Hos- pital to begin three years of special- ized education. It all began with the 34 innocents traveling by bus daily at 7:30 A.M. out to the citadel of learning, Toledo Universityg where for 18 weeks we took our basic courses in physiol- ogyg anatomy, psychology, microbiol- ogy and chemistry. We carried away with us many memories of fine pro- fessors, long hikes from class to class, interesting labs and lectures, and dissected cats. Our first day on duty, November Z3! What an event! lf we thought we were scared out at T.U. .......... ! Welltime passed, filled with many parties, picnics, and lots of HARD, HARD study and April the second fi- nally came around, when we traded in our skirts and blouses for caps and fichues. At this time there remained only 28 of the original 34. None of us shall soon forget that moment when Miss Rees pinned our caps on and Miss Rehklau lighted our lamps. Nurses at last! But not quite. We shoved off to special departments and vacations were soon upon us. Before we knew it 30 more replicas of our selves one year earlier were arriving, and we were juniors. Now we began an intense round of heavy classes, floor duty, organizational work and pressing so- cial affairs. That second year is a rough one! Spring came again and with it the sad, yet happy, parting of those going on affiliation. But first a going- away picnic at Walbridge Park and off we went. That summer we put on the Jun- ior-Senior Prom with the theme of Country Gardens. A big success. We were now down to Z1 members. In August we lost our class advisor, Miss Beck, who took apositionwith the Grace Hospital in Detroit. We a- dopted Mrs. Haberkamp. Seniors at last and with that the addi- tion ofShirley Podach, a transfer stu- dent from St. Vincent's hospital. And then about the biggest honor a school or class can have. Our own Norma Capaul was elected President of the Student Nurse Organization of Ohio. That really put Flower on the map. We are all quite justly proud of her. Our senior year was the time of sad departures and joyful reunions as the girls came and went on affiliations at Toledo State Hospital and Children's Hospital in Columbus. Many memo- ries are retained from those places. In January we were all quite saddened to see our Director, Miss Rees, leave Flower to take another position with the White Cross Hospital in Columbus. Soon after we lost our second class advisor, Mrs. Haberkamp and chose Mrs. Jastremski for our third. By now Miss Dorcas Crossman from Tex- as became our Director of Nursing and a fine one at that, you-all! ln January our class put out more pizza in one night than Conte's must put outin a week. How we slaved over that hot oven down at Simms for our movie and pizza party. Well as the end approached we were tired, as could be witnessed by the number of horizontal figures on the beds back in the den at Highland. Bynow many of our members were old married women. We thought when we finished we would have reached the end of the road. But now we know different. Graduation is merely a milestone in the long process of learning, tho' ad- mittedly a pretty big one. Now we go forth again, 22 eager, inexperienced, aspiring young .......