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

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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

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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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IME ill SEPTEMBER DIVISION I, Ethel Anderson, do will and bequeath my private elevator to Dottie Bolton. I, Ruth Andreani, do will and bequeath unto future big sisters my ability to make little sisters feel at home. I, Darline Barnett, do will and bequeath my knitting ability-knit one, purl one, drop one- to Helen Northrup. I, Mary Bergstrom, do will and bequeath my ability to wield a tennis racket to anyone who cares to swing it . I, Josephine Boi, do will and bequeath my famous spaghetti dinners to anyone in the Rum- pus Room of a Friday evening. I, Marie Bombaci, do will and bequeath my zest for outdoor life to Ann Colby. I, Betty Boothe, do will and bequeath my nook in the infirmary to Miss Hale's first applicant. We, Alice Brown and Helen Hendrickson, do will and bequeath our evening symphonies to resound forever more through the walls in third floor residence. I, Lois Bussey, do will and bequeath my Tabu to Lillian Sandor to have and to hold in re- serve for a future shortage of same. I, Pauline Carpino, do will and bequeath my Williams Shaving Cup complete with soap for anyone who can ind use for it. I, Norma Cartocci, do will and bequeath my hours spent in night quarters to someone who can use them to better advantage. I, Esta Catlin, do will and bequeath my splashy swimming ability to Sue Allen. I, Doris Christensen, do will and bequeath my concerts in Heublein Hall to be a constant re- minder that Jive does not pay . I, Betty Cole, do will and bequeath the class treasury to anyone who knows how to spend it if they can collect it . I, Virginia Corey, do will and bequeath my well filled date book to be distributed equally among Ingalls girls. I, Ruth Cox, do will and bequeath my six lessons in how to bid to anyone interested in being a fourth at bridge. I, Sheran Darmoo, do will and bequeath my ni ght-before-exams qualms to Mimi Mercer. I, Helen Dashukewich, do will and bequeath my curly eye lashes to Betty Boop. I, Jeannette DeForest, do will and bequeath my USO to Bradley Field. I, Mary Dostal, do will and bequeath my SS and G qualities to Veronica Seiller. I, Viola Economu, do will and bequeath my Maine accent to add to Dottie MacLeod's list of accents broad. I, Peg Fay, do will and bequeath my poise to all students late to class. I, Helene Fidrych, do will and bequeath my dramatics ability to Patty Kimble. We, Elsie Forte and Rose Forte, do will and bequeath our forte-forte combination to the perpetual confusion of all who call the roll. I, Josephine Gangi, do will and bequeath my nickname, put-put to anyone interested in golf--or an outboard motor. I, Virginia Garrand, do will and bequeath my sunny disposition to Ann Stratton. I, Virginia Geer, do will and bequeath my straightforwardness to Ruth Larkins. d I, Bernice Goodman, do will and bequeath my love for Isolation Hospital to all measley stu ents. I, Nancy Hale, my baby doll curls to Baby Snooks. I, Lillian Hartman, do will and bequeath my 17 inch waist to anyone desiring to be a Scarlett O'Hara.