Grace Hospital School of Nursing - Silver Cross Yearbook (Morganton, NC)

Text from Pages 1 - 48 of the 1959 volume:

azo lbVER CROSS NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE é : : € Published By The Annual Staff Of GRACE HOSPITAL CHOOL OF NURSING Morganton, N.C. Volume VII FOREWORD Of what is our school year made? Routine, fellowship, hard- work and special events are all links in our year. We the staff of this '59 yearbook hope that in these pages are contained happy memories of the events that we have shared together this past year. We present with pride and humility the 1959 edition of THE SILVER CROSS. A new arrival is welcomed. Healthy appetites - Gosh, we miss mom's cooking! Why did you decide to choose Nursing as your career? A time for Spiritual Guidance. Brushing up on tomorrow's quiz? Wonder why his pulse is pounding? Did you read this article in the A.J.N.? Now that you are nurses, you no longer say nosebleed but epistaxis . A free ride to have a picture made. Mrs. Chase! you are a most co- operative patient! Haven't been this clean since the day I was born. Ouch! Take it easy with that tape. Preparing for the next mother to be. Now I'm really playing mother! Not even a little'’ mistake. The newborn needs anever ending supply of formula. Nurse's little helper. Learning to hold and soothe small wigglers. Becoming familiar with ways of healthy children. A visiting nurse is a friend indeed. Fun mixed with work makes these three unforgetable months. DR. M. M. RIGGS DEDICATION WE, THESENIORS OF 1959 DEDICATE THIS YEARBOOK TO DR. M. M. RIGGS .....WHO HAS GUIDED AND DIRECTED OUR PATHS THROUGH THESE YEARS OF TRAINING: AND NOW AS WE APPROACH ANEW DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY, WE PAUSE TO PAY HIM OUR MOST HUMBLE RESPECT AND APPRECIATION. GRACE YESTERDAY Grace Hospital was founded in 1906 by Rev- erend and Mrs. Walter Hughson. Atthetime, Mr. Hughson was Rector of Grace Episcopal Church. The Nursing school was established in 1910. Miss Marie P. Allen R. N., graduate of the Protestant Mission Hospital of Philadelphia, Pa. was the first Director of Nursing. From the beginning, the school established high standards of ser- vice and educational growth which have been maintained. The original hospital had two wards, one semi-private room, kitchen, anda small office. As the hospital grew, new departments were opened increasing the opportunities to broaden and enrich the curriculum, thus preparing the students to meet the ever increasing demands inthe field of nursing. A silver cross suspended from a chain around the neck is worn by the students at Grace Hospital School of nursing in lieu of a class pin. It is a replica of the cross worn by the late Mr. Hughson. The crossis first presented to the students when they are awarded their caps upon completing their pre-clinical period. At the completion of their Nurse's training the initials, IHS, (In His Service), the students initials, the date and the name of the school are engraved on the cross which is then given to the nurse for permanent possession at gradua- tion. TODAY 1] Mr. A. C. Chaffee Rev. John Carter Chairman of Board Chaplain Mr. J. Grayson Brothers Admimistrator Mrs. Zonie C. Houston, R. N. Miss Agnes Campbell, R.N., B.S. Director of Nursing Director of Nursing Education Prof. Adjustments I and II Sociology, History and Trends, Anatomy and Physiology FACULTY Mrs. Leila Rector Dr. Ian Wilson Miss Grace Jahn English Microbiology and Chemistry iO) Mrs. Lena Cloninger Mrs. Jeanette Wilson Mrs. Mirvin Scroggs Nursing Arts, and Obstetrics Medicine and Pharmacology 1 and Pathology 11 Mrs. Dorothy McAuly (Not Pictured) Diet Therapy Nutrition Mrs. Joretta Jaquins Mrs. Genelle Causby Surgery and Urology Pediatrics SUPERVISORS Mrs. Mamie Whisnant Mrs. Flora Ann Stines Mrs. Hazel Crossman Mrs. Martha Nantz Mrs. Betty Harrill Miss Myrtle Berryhill Not Pictured HEAD NURSES Mrs. Mary R. Smith Mrs. Martha Branch Mrs. Nancy Flemming Mrs. Estelle Ball Not Pictured Dr. Kirksey, President Dr. Hogshead, Vice-President Dr's Palmer and Hairfield Surgery Dr. Lane Urology Dr. Phifer Surgery Dr. Barron Drs. Nichols, Walton, and Collett 15 Dr. Reece, Pathologist Dr. Billings, EENT Dr. Snow, Radiologist Dr. Kibler Dr. Arney Dr. Hamer od Our Medical Staff works co-opera- tively to meet the needs of the patient as well as givingfreely of their time to teach the students through lectures and ward classes. Dr's. Patton and Hemmings Pediatrics. EY sige a SENIORS DEAN BALL--I am as I am and so shall I be. MRS. STELLA BALLEW--She will reach her destination with ability, personality, and strong determination MRS. JUNE BARNETTE--I will walk on my own feet, work with my own hands, and speak my own mind. ANNA JANE BOONE--Good for a chuckle, catty clothes, with the gang to Lenoir, she goes. GRACE DAY--Sparkling, A wonderful girl, we all say. PHYLLIS DILLS--Art and Beauty- go hand in hand. SENIORS RUBY BOWLES--A bundle of joy, high spirits and wit; is destined always to make a hit. REGINA CRAWLEY--A sweeter girl can't be detected- understanding, calm, unaffected. smile, pleasing way, 19 SENIORS MRS. EARLENE HANSON--Patience is a virtue for all women. FRANCES NAVES--Neatly dressed, radiant per- sonality, always on the go with plenty of vitality. DORIS ANN O'KELLY--Whenever you hear laugh- ter, you'll know she's telling one of her jokes. MRS. CAROLYN OLDHAM -- Have a good time while you are alive-Death is so permanent. 20 SENIORS MRS. GLORIA SUMMERS -- She has a pleasant way, a happy smile beautiful brown eyes. MISS JULIA THOMAS -- A friendly girl every- one knows a pleasant word, a smile that glows. MISS ELVA YOUNG--Full of life, sense wit, lots of fun plenty of grit. Is time going forward or backward? 2) JUNIORS Catherine Dalton Martha Lineberger Marjorie Griggs Mrs. Ann Secrest Shirley Leonhardt Mrs. Colleen Frazer Jag JUNIORS Jean Vanderford Francis Young Sandra Walker Joy Young Virginia Wilson Oh!! These juniors have healthy appetites. 23 FRESHMEN Shirlee Baird Mrs. Reba Barnes Mrs. Elizabeth Berry Florence Boggs Joyce Buchanan Martha Buchanan Joanne Byrd Lillie Chester Jean Childers Judith Clark Emogene Denton Betty Driver 72 FRESHMEN Margie Ford Jane Franklin Josephine Kirksey Betty Lowman Faye Miller Joyce Miller Mrs. R. Newton Ann Phillips Nellie Townsend He did? Then what? It was here! What if I don't want to walk? 25 HOSPITAL SCENES ADMITTING OFFICE Name, Occupation, age, address-- I think that will be all. ed Yee RL Ee ® BUSINESS OF FICE These are the girls who keep the ac- counts straight. Where old records never die they just fade away RECORD ROOM Everyones business is their business so it seems. GRACE NOTES STAFF 26 LABORATORY All laboratory tests are carefully computed by our reliable crew in the LAB. The X-RAY Department aids the physician by their amazing ability to ''see through . X-RAY DEPARTMENT In Central Supply you will find all the sterile and unsterile goods that you would need anywhere in the hospital. CENTRAL SUPPLY What would the nurses do without the aids to help them in their daily duties ? NURSES AIDES c : Ai A drippy faucet or a shortage of steam in O.R.....UlL00k who's Here ... The Maintenance Depart- ment! To those who make us fat.... aulOAS teen eee 28 Thereareso manyplacesto be.... So much to keep clean. ... Hurrah, for the Housekeeping Department. Who but the laundry would put up with our dirty clothes, clothes to be starched, ironed, repaired? 29 ANNUAL STAFF Gloria Summers Katherine Dalton Frances Young Editor Co- Editor Business Manager ANNUAL STAFF This sure is hard work! ! 30 STUDENT COUNCIL President Vice-Pres. Elva Young Frances Naves of Secretary Treasurer Joy Young Frances Young The student nurses of Grace Hospital are proud of our student council which consists of the officers of the Student Government Association along with two representatives from each class. 3] SANTA FILOMENA Doris O'Kelly First Lady June Barnett Grace Day Secretary Treasurer Santa Filomena, Senior honoring society was organized at Duke University School of Nursing in April, 1944 and at Grace Hospital School of nursing in June, 1953. The purpose of this organization is torecognize achievement and promote leadership. The members are chosen from the rising Senior class and are the publicly tapped by the old members at the first Student Government Association of their Senior year. Santa Filomena strives to promote better ways and higher nursing stand- ards. The specific objectives are chosen by the members each year. All proceedings of the meetings of this organization are held in secrecy, as are all ceremonies except the public tapping of the new members. The Santa Filomena flower is the white lily, and the members wear a small gold Florence Night- ingale lamp. 32 CHRISTMAS DANCE ltawas-erand 7.7.... Meeting old friends andnew... See that Geni from the coffee cup? S-t-r-a-n-g-e ! Which will His Majesty favor? Using the theme ''White Christmas , the students, Paculty doctors and friends danced to the music of Frank Miller and the Syncopas. A highlight of the night was the crown- ing of King, Dr. Alfred W. Hamer, and Queen, Mrs. Stella Ballew. 33 BASKETBALL Captain June Barnett (not pictured) Co-Captain Shirley Leonhardt Outstanding Forward Virginia Wilson The Basketball Team affords fun for the whole student body. In front, left to right are Shirley Leonhardt, Dorothy Kerr, Martha Buchanan, Marjorie Grigg, and Virginia Wilson. Standing are Joyce Buchanan, Manager, Lillie Chester, Betty Steelman, Shirlee Baird, and Joyce Miller. Not pictured are June Barnette and Emogene Denton. Outstanding Guard Lillie Chester Practicing or posing ? 34 — CLASS HISTORY On September 4, 1956, a group of 20 girls came to Grace Hospital filled with great hopes and high ambitions. After six months, they received their caps and silver crosses. A group of 14 is now the senior class, still filled with hopes and ambitions dampened only by hard work and plenty of reality. During that first year we lost Carolyn Hamby, Ann Carswell, Shirley Ford and Shirley Hayes. We missed them tremendously. Besides the hard work that year, we had lots of wonderful experiences which we are going to share with you, such as having Earlene Clark and Dr. Barron for Christmas Queen and King. Remember girls, how those Halloween masks and cast off clothes came in so handy when you wanted to be really dressed up for a local boy who wanted a date, and also for the bang-up Halloween Party. A few of the girls found a new use for one of the doctors when a car ran out of gas and the poor girls had to get out and push, although they did have their hair rolled and no shoes on. I guess those girls had forgotten they weren't supposed to wear bermudas and blue jeans! That same year, Dean, Pat, and Grace decided, after two weeks of campus, that basketball banquets were really compulsary. Ruby and Pat learned, through the same channel, that although there is another way of entrance besides the front door--the fire eScape--it is not the proper one. And we must not forget the embarrassment of June and Julia when they learned the hard way that Student Nurses do not follow the family out at a funeral in an Episcopal Church! Well, we will try to draw our memories from that first year and go on to the second one-------- If we thought for one minute that we studied and worked hard that first year, it was only because we hadn't been Juniors yet. But--don't you think that our keen little minds didn't find more ways of having fun. First, Pat had to learn not to go to sleep in class. Know what I mean? ? Again our candidates, Julia Thomas and Dr. Kibler, became Christmas Queen and King. About this same time June received a diamond and soon became a Mrs. That year we had our grand picnic in March before our classmates started going away to Washington, D.C. and all the good times up there. Why did it have to snow that day? Golly, remember how cold it was? The skating party that followed was pretty good too; at least we were warm! I know everybody remembers the Junior, Sr. banquet. They should, it was the best ever given! Gloria and Carolyn came to us and were great additions to an already great class. Near the end of that year, we lost Margie to Bird. We were grief stricken since by now we all felt like sisters. But we know that she is happy. As times goes on, so must we, so here we are in our thirdyear with our black bands and being called Seniors. Even with the year only half gone, nice things are happening. We had great success with the Talent Show at Halloween, and again our candidates became Christmas King and Queen. Stella Ballew and Dr. Hamer looked mighty nice as our class set a new record of three straight wins. Dean, Elva and Phyllis celebrated New Years with a bang and a loud bang behind the Pharmacy. Phyllis got a diamond for her left hand and while Frances was in D. C., she got one too. Earlene, now Mrs. Hanson had to leave for a while because having a baby is a mighty important thing. We hope she'll be back tofinish next year. I know the class of '60 would enjoy having her. Girls, I know there are plenty of things we could recall, but our space is limited and our minds have so many other things to do, but I think you will agree--it has been three good years, and a wonderful class. The Seniors say, THE BEST. 35) Baird, Miss Shirlee Ball, Miss Altha Dean Ballew, Mrs. Stella Barnette, Mrs. June Berry, Mrs. Elizabeth Boggs, Miss Florence Boone, Miss Anna Jane Bowles, Miss Ruby Buchanan, Miss Joyce Buchanan, Miss Martha Byrd, Miss Joanne Chester, Miss Lillie Childres, Miss Jean Clark, Miss Judith Crawley, Miss Regina Dalton, Miss Katherine Da y, Miss Grace Denton, Miss Emogene Dills, Miss Phyllis Driver, Miss Betty Jean Ford, Miss Margie Franklin, Miss Jane Kirksey, Miss Josephine Grigg, Miss Marjorie Hanson, Mrs. Earlene Leonhardt, Miss Shirley Lineburger, Miss Martha Lowman, Miss Betty Sue Miller, Miss Faye Naves, Miss Frances Newton, Mrs. Billie O'Kelly, Miss Doris Oldham, Mrs. Carolyn Phillips, Miss Ann Secrest, Mrs. Ann Townsend, Miss Nellie Urey, Miss Coleen Vanderford, Miss Jean Walker, Miss Sandra Wilson, Miss Virginia Young, Miss Elva Young, Miss Joy Young, Miss Frances ROSTER Rt. 1, Box 76-E, Vilas, N. C. Box 661, Bryson City, N.C. Box 104, Micaville, N. 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Rt. 10, Box 590D, Charlotte, N.C. 807 West Elm, Shelby, N.C. 211, 32nd. St. Pl. S.W. HickoryaN.GC; 352 East Court St. Box 1044, Marion, N. C. Lake Junaluska, N.C. Rt. 1, Box 256B, Bakersville, N.C. BALLAD OF THE ALL-AMERICAN NURSE Listen here gals--I'm gonna' quote you a verse Bout how to become a professional nurse. Buy you a pencil and paper and a pair o' white shoes And get oriented---get your picture in the news. I fell in the trap--I forgot the date-- Somehow I thought I would really rate; Didn't figger on givin’ up all my fun. Let me tell you my troubles had just begun. Learned my chemistry, anatomy, and all that jazz, Tearin' my hair out and prayin' to pass, And all the while a voice in my ear--saying Just wait pal, It's harder next year. Well, the days crept by--man! I mean drag Then under each eye an overnight bag Appeared--to match those wrinkles, I guess That showed in my forehead after all those tests. Now I look back with a crooked smile On the days when I was free and wild And remember the day those nursin' blues Took away my dancin' shoes They said ''Take this here uniform. Give me tha t there party dress. Florence Boggs 37 How happy we were! Our first day in uniform. Mountains + Lake + Sun- shine= FUN Up on the mountain... In the middle of the road-aae Car broke down... We hit the ground. Posing .... For whom? Who got the ace of spades ? ? ? 38 _ a. ° a ae te oO 2 2 q| S Sa So le) H a of an cS e 3 A fe) ° S 2 a o oes ¢ nas) “eo ° a ae 5 IG (©) 4 O A BS oO Ae) Pe = ao a) splice n NGM, oa s ineer The even o O- q SP ws x q 3 = x p 5 5S (ab) 2 = 4 5D 2 Ba a o ss ie a, 3S A a : : : oO rab) a te Sin. a = 23 : is 4 an anes = 3 = How did this get in here? ? 39