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

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Senior History On September 7, 1954, thirty excited, confused girls moved into the apartments of Simms Hall to begin a career in nursing. We began to experience many frustrating moments, and also some of the happiest, most memorable moments of our lives. For the next seven months we were probies. During that time we attended Toledo University and had our nursing arts classes here at Flower, with the ever-patient Miss Rehklau as instructor. Soon we were properly initiated by our big sisters. We still remember scrubbing the sidewalk with toothbrushes in our ridiculous attire. It was a most unforgettable evening, but we sought our revenge on our little sisters a year later. Then came our first days on the floor. These were both frightening and rewarding but now, as we think back-Oh, those poor patients!! We began with simple procedures and, as we became more experienced, we took more responsibility in the care of our patients. Q ln April, we traded our collars for fischus, and with pin curls in place, were capped by Miss Rehklau. We wore our caps so proudly and began to feel more and more like nurses. As we gained experience in the hospital, we also attended many doctors' lectures. Each doctor lectured in his own particular field, such as hematology, neurology, obstetrics, and so forth. These were very interesting as well as educational. When we became Juniors, we began our experience in the various departments of the hospital-surgery, obstetrics, diet kitchen, and central supply. Those first days we'll never forget-that first scrub in surgery and then, a little later, that first delivery. The bath demonstrations and formula making classes were excellent teaching experiences-For whom? The experience gained in these departments will benefit us later in better understanding the functions of these departments. There was much hard work and studying during this time, but this was quickly forgotten when it was time for a party, which inevitably occurred on the night before an exam. ln the summer of l956, we began our affiliations with Toledo State Hospital and Children's Hospital in Columbus. Our experience in and knowledge of nursing broad- ened immensely during these months. Most of us enioyed the work-the kids were darling and psyche was fascinating, but, did Flower look grand to us at the end of six months! With only a few months to go, we were busy making graduation plans, which included yearbook, uniforms, and pictures. At last we reached that long-awaited day on which we exchanged our student uniforms for the white uniforms of the graduate, and added black bands to our caps. Graduation brought feelings of icy and, at the same time, sorrow at leaving the wonderful friends we had made in training.

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DONNA WELLMAN Politeness fo do and say The kindesf thing in the kindesf way. X A uf MARILYN WALTER Grace was in all her steps heaven in her eye. MRS. NORMAN Class Advisor

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Senior Class Prophecy The year is 1970 and there is a turmoil on earth as the Jet-Liner, The U.S.S. Bonita Riceta, prepares for the take-off en route to the famous Hospital of Tomorrow on Mars. This flight, and the ultramodern interplanetary iet-liner have been furnished by the Director of the lnterplanetary Diagnostic and Rehabilitation Center for Geriatric Martians. There is a sudden gush and a terrific commotion as the great iet-propelled, Mars-bound rocket ship with supersonic velocity tears through the stratosphere with Barbara Holmes at the controls. Attention please! No cause for alarm - We iust missed Jupiter by two light metres Roger. Yup! That's Flash Holmes-girl pilot! Among the able-bodied crew, we see June Gove as flight nurse. Off in a corner in a dim light we see Marilyn Karns avidly reading the ship's log. Among the passengers are several well-known Flower Grads: Jackie Swick Lester, who, while there, is going to do research for her history professor husband, land incidentally is expecting the arrival of the ninth football playerl. Carol Haynes Halloway, whose dentist-husband iust discovered a new tooth-growing medicine, Sprout-A-Tooth , some of which she is taking along. Jeanette Fackler Mathews is going for a short visit-and in the cargo hold is a shipment of footstools her husband manufactured for short Martians. As the ship comes down with a swish and sudden thud, waiting for them at the Rocketport are some of their former classmates. At the head of the crowd is the Director and Founder of the new hospital, Miss Bonita Rice, waving a red flag of welcome! With her are Donna Brown who is head of the surgical department land as a side line is still coaching love affairslg Phyllis Holmes Irwin, head nurse in Obstetrics-we're really rehabilitating them! Leonora Stevenson, Martian Chaplain, tells us that she has iust come from visiting Donna Wellman Smith, who has Martian Sleeping Sickness, lthe first reported on Mars!-she left earth to get away from African Sleeping Sickness-poor girl. As we speed towards the hospital in the iet-propelled Mars-Mobile, we exchanged some of the most recent gossip. Janice Rathbun, is a Public Health nurse on the Indian Reservation. Paula Pollard is en route to Africa ron her first assignment as a missionary. Also in the mission field, is Doris Porter, as head of the Mission Board. They tell us that Ruth Weaver Saltzman is Mrs. Mars of i97O. She has five little salt-shakers to keep her busy. As we alight from the Mars-Mobile, we are greeted by Marilyn Walter, in a scintillating aura from the genuine Luster-gem she is wearing indicating her engagement to a genuine Martian. lWonder how many box-tops he had to save for that?! As we walk through the hospital, we see Myrna Rau in one of the rehabilitation wards, teaching the Mars-bug ltranslation-American iitter-bug! to the music of Marvis Elsley, the new geriatric craze. As we enter the G-U ward, we see Miss Lois Stewart busily occupied, using her great intellectual capacity in keeping accurate Intake and Output for Doctors Jagoon and Manson's two hundred patients. We are astounded to see the tallest girl on Mars, Bea Wortman Piehl, who is 6'l l . This climate does wonders for short people. They asked us about the rest of the classmates and we told them that Peggie Maneval Armbruster is knitting her seventeenth afghan. Betty Rupp has really changed since graduation! She has gained 150 lbs., and has blond, crew-cut hair. She's a well-known torch singer in Greenwich Village. Vivian Wilson Bever has the position as Director of the Mental Hygiene and Correction Center in a Michigan State Mental Hospital. ln her spare time, she is busy raising little Bevers. Last, but not least, is Mrs. Elma Hopper Kesling, who at the present time is busily employed as a Counselor for Student Nurses. She has a lovely family. After a tour through the hospital and a sight-seeing trip on Mars, we are earth-bound! Wait a Minute! Hold on to your seats! We are lost in the maze of the Milky Way! Will we ever return to earth? Who knows-with Flash Holmes, girl pilot, at the controls.