Hartford Hospital School of Nursing - Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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Clem Servi has Caesar and a new house with Great big closets. Our idea of heaven-and Clem's too. Shirl Roose is driving a beautiful red convertible between her house and Clem's--purpose, to compute formulae. Edna Snecinski has forsaken all else to become assistant to what rising young dentist? We knew we would find Anna Rudanish singing the blues. And we weren't surprised when Professor Zweinstein's assistant, Herr Tonic, located her in a Back Bayfsonj St. still singing. Singing, singing-that's us. Why, Pearl Wanic has taken Maxine's place in the all girls, choir -And Doroyth LeGeyt, what would CBS do without her and Danny Boyv? Whoops! The sky is falling! The sky is falling! And who is that making a B-line, bathing suit in hand, for the shelter in Barney Building but Henny Penny Hendrickson. Don't be afraid Henny it's only Mary Bergstrom practicing a loop or two in her P-39M Pursuit plane. That P3924 Pursuit took nearly f1ve years to design, but that's us all over-designing women. To Charlotte Martin, goes the credit for the blue prints, though Josephine C Putt Putt j Gangi, our happy little motorist, is due for a slice of recognition for designing the motor. The fame and fwell sometimesj fortune gals they call our members. And what did Ethel Anderson do with her fortune, amassed in double quick time as a result of her best-seller The Top Flighti' or briefly, My Climb but install an elevator in Ingalls! And wasn't it one of our girls who made it possible for mothers to leave their little charges in a nursery-clinic affair, which has clicked beautifully in Hartford? Yes, it was Adelaide Kogut, who always did like to be called Aunt Addie . And then, there is the Mary-Helene Perzanowski fortune to consider, that because these quick-witted girls ingeniously dreamed up the individual for-your-own-par- ticular-type-of-beauty gas mask. You should see the pug-nosed model on us. Viola Economu Qmew not mooj is busy setting up a class-room roll-call system which will help students to identify themselves. We agree there is a crying need for such pioneer workers. Martha Page now has open-house almost constantly at her farm, where she gives not only warm hospitality to members of her community but a comprehensive home nursing course. Mary Jane Pease continues in her status as the cutest one , and we see her extremely pho- togenic self almost every time we open a magazine. Muriel Reed has learned all the finer culinary arts and all her housewifely duties from Chet, who is now writing his masterpiece-a revision or modern version of the Taming of the Shrew - It was a great fight, Mom, but I won! Mrs. Fletcher fnee Natalie Russellj is the busiest little club woman in town, but not too busy to create some of the fetching models we see her wearing. Lois Bussey's power' launch takes her about but plenty come deep sea fishin' time. In her spare time she edits the A.J.N. Doris Roberts is on an extended tour of Europe surveying and surveying for ideas for her little shoppe on Sth Ave. Her latest-the combination lamp shade by night and hat by day, which beats even the Great Dasche for practicability. Emma Sterrett, with that quiet good humor of hers is proving an excellent instructor for the Yale gals-they surely know what's what. Jo Orlando is the toast of art enthusiasts as the modern Mona Lisa. Helen Dash--, our dream on skates has it all over Sonja for dimples and dash! We have it on good authority that Alice Brown is quietly doing settlement work in Hart- ford. We see her in HHSN ofhcially once a year come lecture time. Officially or unofiicially, you are always welcome at the house . Jennie Kaplan has devised several series of when-to-wake-me-up cardsi' for the student night nurses-one series for each phase of the student carrier-That as her offering to posterity. Her actual work is teaching chemistry to nurses in HHSN. Jo Uziemblo would be a career woman, but one career just isn't enough for her, so she has successfully combined nursing with marriage. We would like her recipe. Emma Thomas' Butler experience has held her in good stead as supervisor of a certain nurses' dormitory in a certain city in Conn. Virginia Corey is now raising a new crop of states. Missouri, or Mo for short, is the young- est of the three little ones. Georgia and Nevada are her twins, opposites of course. Norma Cartocci has amiably battled her way along until a few years ago when she met her Waterloo--and incidently, her lord and master. Virginia Geer, Bernice Goodman, and Virginia Garrand now run i'The Three G's , where we are now going for an extremely palatable steak fto us what steak isn'tj. But hold on, before we leave, let's gather up Sophie Zuraw, the best little ender of alphabets fand nursej we know. Y

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Another little mother, Pauline Carpino Qwho couldn't give up Williams house partiesj is house-mothering in that institution. It may be a tired old world but 'taint half as tired as Glenna Lackard, who is plugging on and on-her goal, to balance the Stutzie James budget. Her eternal question Say, when does the fiscal year begin?,' Some say the fiscal year begins South of the Equator but even Professor Zweinstein will agree with us that it begins South of the Mason-Dixon Line. Could it be the fiscal year that Betty Boothe and Aggie Mysliwiec, not to mention Doris Twombley, have gone South searchin, for- well no-we'll tell you that-it's two-ring time for them! Among those missing are Betty Cole and Peggy Watson who went to California just for a vacation and havenit been seen in these parts since. Q Nancy Hale has collaborated with Middy Treat and Janie Smith and Marge Porter to de- velop the perfect liquid Nylon hose. Well, that is practically perfect only Nan, the realist, can't help putting a run in hers. That ingenious pair of coffee drinkers, Kay Wight and Ruth Weiler, from away back have met the coHee shortage with a newly developed grown-in-your-window-box coffee sensation. 'Ask your grocer for details about ll o'clock coffee. You don't know what to do with spare time? The Busy Bee Bridge Clubu can help you. Ruthie Cox is responsible for it. Of course, they are so busy that a good deal of the responsibility of the club falls on her assistant Sheran Darmoo, famous in her own name for the 'tDarmoo Sys- temn. We've tried it but it requires such complete coordination of mind and body that we leave it to the Bees . Now, what do ye Ken happened to Win Pollard? That's right she didn't go to Alaska with Doss Lucchini and her troup- the best laid schemes o' mice and men . Anyhow, Doss went a-midwifinf in Kentucky and we didn't hear about her again until we picked up the Alaskan Dayv. We find a late leave there means one can stay out a month longer. Why can,t we have nights like that here? Perhaps, Zweinstein can help us there. No doubt, it was the long night business that brought Jeanie MacLeod and Darline Barnett a-galumphing to her. And so, the new or- ganization, The Midwiffenpoofsn is a reality-and growing to nearly international proportion. Their specialty-picnics. Chairman of picnic committee is Jeanie MacLeod who was always good at ubuttering sandwiches for yesterday's picnic. Helene Fidrych has taken Nurse Mary's place in the Kildare movies. The Navy- won out over the Army in the fight for the Jeannette DeForest-Mary Dostal combination. We see them occasionally waving at land lubbers from a port hole on a certain fmil- itary secretj vessel. Here on the home front battling with the tots is Jeanie Wilbur. Those children are eating out of her hand or else-. Anne Petrillo is on her way in the not too distant future to becoming a gyn. supervisor in the new HH wing. And would gyn. be gyn. without Lil Hartman as Dr. Wood's right-hand man. In the O. R., she not only tolerates the barefooted operator-she joins him. Marie Bombaci is that little district nurse we saw in Essex. We hardly knew her in that uniform. You've heard of old South-Jebrew. Then you've heard of Evelyn Holcomb and Charlotte Lane, the missionary nurses who made life safe for the natives. Well, if not safe, they have at least taught the natives how to remain healthy in the jungle. Lois Knapp, Ann Kritz, Sal Kriksciun are those pioneer nurses who started a trailer clinic because they work so well together. Ollie Linton's real thing has now borne fruit, a diamond plus. She makes a charming school nurse. McGrath, Maycock, and Melnick heard so much about skiing and Sweden while bouncing babies in the premature nursery that they have gone abroad to start a rescue ski troup. We wonder who will rescue them. She couldn't be founder but she could carry on and add to the ARC Nursing Service. Of course, you remember Nan Stedman and you will hear about her. You will hear about Vi Tofil some more too. She's making extra-curricular something really EXTRA in HHSN-HHTS to ou! Y The latest thing in Supervisors in this year, 1950-Little D. Wikman. Her domain, CB: Mary Kurzel on CB 4 has devised a labor saving downshute for post-op T and A's. Why can't they shoot them up as fast? '

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crass i-iisronav SHORT SUMMARY OF CLASS OF '42 On September 29, 1939, a small but very significant group of young students-twenty-nine, to be exact, became organized. Previously, we had been merely Probies without much to do or say about anything in the school. It took a few class meetings to decide that every second Thurs- day evening was to be the date for our monthly meetings and that dues should be paid by the fifteenth of each month. - In December 1939 we realized that we owed the Endowment Fund a Christmas present. Our financial status was fairly low, so we raffled off a five dollar bill. It afforded us the gift and a small profit Qmuch to our surprisej. The first time our class made an appearance publicly was Community Night in February 1940. The main feature of our show and attraction for the evening was, of course, our dancing team-Dasco and London. ' On March 15, 1940, the September and February divisions were joined together enlarging our class to one hundred and eleven. Miss McConnell presided over the meeting and left with us these memorable words: Your class is as strong as its weakest member. Make the foundation of your class good and it will stand up under any pressure. We have not forgotten and have proven those words are so. Miss Mildred Cassell was elected unanimously as our class advisor on May 9, 1940. f To celebrate the end of classes in 1940, we had an outdoor supper in Keney Park on May 27. An excellent way to close the school year, don't you think? In October our Pet Show of stuffed animals made history for the school and a little cash-on- hand for us. We held it in the Rumpus Room one evening after O.P.I-I. We sponsored the Senior-Intermediate Dance on January 24, 1941 for the finishing seniors. What fun! The decorations were different-something to remember. We had musical notes and other symbols of rhythm done in black and white throughout the hall. We had so much.fun and good fortune with previous raffles that in December 1941 another took place. This time it was a collapsible flatiron. Our basket-ball team obtained the Goodwin Trophy for two years in succession and made a commendable try for it during the third year. On May 1942, a spring formal complete with Queen and Maypole was given. It was the first of its kind to be held in Heublein Hall and most successful. Respectfully submitted, JANET CLARK, Sec'y. ,. I