Henry Ford Hospital School of Nursing - Sonah Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Discontented and restless he wandered And passing the House of Cod He went within. Rows of worshipping people knelt Reverently counting their beads ln silent prayer. For a moment he stood-uncertain Then bowing his head he also knelt And prayed. And kneeling thus he found his solace His restless heart was strangely quiet His soul content. -L. Fain ..63-.

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Illl !Illll Illllllll 'I'I'Ill'I'--- Hypoglycemic therapy is being used in our hospital for the treatment of dementia praecox. There are two oxygen rooms in our hospital. Fever therapy is used extensively here. There is an oxygen box in our nursery, which is one of the few in the city. Dr. E. C. Davidson of our hospital, now deceased, in l925 started the use of tannic for the use of burns. Dr. F. W. Hartman has invented a new type of oxygen tent and uses liquid oxygen in it. The names of Drs. R. D. McClure and F. J. Sladen appear in Who's Who in America for l937 Drs. F. W. Hartman, l. F. Sladen, and J. P. Pratt are listed in the book, American Men of Science. There are four of our doctors listed in Who's Who in Michigan : Drs. F. J. Sladen, R. D. Foster, R. D. McClure, and A. B. McC-raw. The names of seven of our doctors appear in Who's Who in Detroit : Drs. R. D, McClure, D. P. Foster, F. W. Hartman, J. C. Mateer, A. B. Mc- Craw, l. P. Pratt, and F. J. Sladen. During the year l936, Henry Ford staff members wrote twenty papers which were published in various medical journals. There are graduates of twenty-nine different medical schools on our staff, not including the first year internes, There are one hundred and six different schools represented in the graduate nursing staff, eighty-six in this country, one from England, and one from Scotland, and eighteen from Canada. Fifteen of our staff doctors are Fellows of the American College of Surgeons and five are Fellows of the American College of Physicians. There are 340 graduate nurses on our staff-the largest number in any hospital in the city. Dr. McClure is on the Editorial Boards of the Annals of Surgery and the American Journal of Surgery, and is a member of the governing board of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. McCiraw is a director of the Michigan Children's Aid Society and a Fellow in Surgery of the New York Academy of Medicine. Eileen Merritt, H.F,H., l934, is stewardess on the new aluminum stream- lined train which runs between Chicago and San Francisco. The hospital was used as a government base hospital during the world war. There are l27 staff doctors and 25 first year internes in our hospital. Sarah Sallee and Pauline Weeks Kabler, l936, were called to do Red Cross Nursing in the recent flood. Monica Brown, l935, Katherine Blotnick, Bessie Reickle, and Helen Buchan- an are nursing in Hawaii. The Nose and Throat Department of our hospital has a set of Edelmanri Tuning Forks, which is one of a very few sets in the country, and is very valuable because of their one Continuous tone. Fifty-four graduates of Ford Hospital are doing public health nursing in the Detroit Department of Health. Elvira Laine, l933, is air hostess on the American Airlines, and has had sev- eral radio interviews. -Aileen Mix -.621

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ON THE BEACH OF WAIKlKl lExcerpts from a letter written by Monica Brownl, Class of '35 W E arrived safe and sound Monday morning at 9:00 AM, lt was quite a thrilling sight, we rounded Diamond Head and Waikiki Beach and then the harbor, Native boys swam out to the ship, diving for coins, and the band started playing as the ship dropped anchor. l believe everyone on the island comes down to meet the ships. And the air was filled with the scent of vari- ous leis ..., Imagine having a couple dozen gardenias around your neck . . . I never did tell you about the Luan lpronounced: Loo-ow l. lt was really quite an occasion. We arrived at the home where the feast was being given at about 7:00 P.M. The huge dining room had three long tables the length of it, and what a sight! completely covered with leaves ltableclothl banked with bright red Royal Poinsianna blossoms, white and red Ginger blossoms, and gardenias with enormous pineapples and watermelons adding to the color. We were ushered upstairs, where there was another huge dining room, very native and informal in appearance. We drank a few Okelehols l Oke l and then dashed madly downstairs and out-of-doors to witness the unearth- ing of the pig. Two natives dug about three feet, and steam began to pour from the ground and such odorsl . . . mmm. And under a bed of banana and ti leaves were piping hot yams lsweet potatoes, adult sizel, which were carried in big baskets to the tables, and then all sorts of queer looking pack- ages in ti leaves. More layers of ti leaves and banana leaves and then the pig lying flat on his back surrounded by piping hot coals with a slit in his tummy filled with coals. The most beautiful well-cooked, odoriferous look- ing pig l ever saw or smelt. We were all called to assemble at the table and here was what confronted me: Food in bowls, shells, and leaves-no plates or silverware. Luscious slabs of pork heaped in a cocoanut shell bowlg shell of chicken cooked in cream of the cocoanut with Luan, which is a sort of spinach, an enormous yam perched on a ti leaf next to a long package wrapped in leaves which proved to be a silver mullet lgood fishl and then a Lou-Lou, butterfish and salmon wrapped in ti leafg baked bananas, an ugly little crab nestled next to my huge bowl of poi, which, as l have said before, is awful. It's a grayish, purply pasty stuff, and l never have gotten up nerve enough to taste it. It's made from tarro roots. And then a little dish called Opchis, which looked something like raw oysters, but they said they were shell fish and a condiment leaf, which held a couple of green onions il felt at homel red rock salt, shreds of dried fish, and a red pepper, and Lami- Lami, which is massaged salmon and tomatoes with onions, cocoanut pud- ding and then cake, pineapple watermelon, and soda popl That tickled me- good ol' Yankee soda pop in the midst of all this, but they say the natives love it. You should see these Hawaiians dig in. They really love their food, which accounts for their plumpness and good nature. While we ate, they played and sang Hawaiian songs, and afterwards we really got our full of hulas. l believe every woman there did a hula and these fat Hawaiian women in their late forties have more grace and rhythm than the average American girl in her teens. And their smile and poise is charming. They really seem to be a very unspoiled race. l was quite intrigued with the music and dancing. Started in bright and early Tuesday. Had a very busy day. Everything is so informal and everyone very nice and friendly. Their method and set-up is a good deal different from ours. At lO:OO A.M., they serve a lunch in the nurses' dressing room-usually sandwiches and fruit juices and milk. We work from 7 - 2:30 every other day and 7 - 7 twice a week-those being the nights we are on call, with four hours off-l l :OO - 3:00. We work half days Sunday and have a half day during the week and a week-end every third week. There are two Hawaiians and two Japanese girls and one other white girl in the OR., besides us. The three students are Japs and can those kids work. l think they are exceptional.