Hinsdale Sanitarium and Hospital Nursing School - Fluoroscope Yearbook (Hinsdale, IL)

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Alumni The Hinsdale Alumni Association lVlAUDE L. P.xULsoN 1 HE Hinsdale Alumni has alway: been a progressive association yet last 13 . 4 S , summer it suffered from an attack of Inactivity So stealthily does this disease creep upon one that before realization it has tightened it's deadly grip. Fortunately the prognosis was not fatal, but immediate action was nec- essarv if we were to save our Alumni, so we met and reorganized for effective work. Under the direction of our new president, Miss Derwae, plans were at once made for regular meetings which were to be both instructive and entertaining. The programs are to consist of general current topics, the latest medical and scientific inventions ant discoveries, talks from those who have gained real experiences, from doctors anf nurses engaged in various lines of work, also readings and music. VVith the en thusiasm already manifest our Alumni is rapidly recovering and while convaleseing is planning still greater things for the future. To keep in closer touch with each member we have appointed an editorial staff to plan a bi-monthly paper. We believe that this will be a valuable asset in uniting the efforts and holding the interest of its members, so widely scattered, for the success of our Alumni Association depends principally on the co-operation of every graduate. The Alumni at Work FLORENCE XVix'ri5RuURY O THE nianx dear alumni members scattered far and wide throughout . the home and foreign lands, is this space lovingly dedicated. -V . . . Since the hrst four nurses graduated from here in the year of 1908 it there have gone out from this place in the seventeen ensuing years, 229 trained nurses, many of them ready to throw themselves without reserve into thc furrow of the worlds great need. not to be ministered unto but to minister. Dear alumni, we can not mention you all by name in the short space that has been allotted to us but you are all a part of us and we bid you all Godspeed. For the sake of those whom this annual may reach who know nothing about our alumni we will trv to give just the briefest mention of those who are out on the firing lines both at home and abroad. Mrs. Swanson, who graduated in the class of 1908, still remains with us as a rep- resentative of that hrst class and is assisting Dr. Neall in the electrical department. Mrs. Pearl XVaggner-Howard, one of our early graduates, and her husband after enjoying a much-needed rest in the homeland, returned to Central America and are at present engageg in mission work at San Salvador. Theresa Arntzen-Johnson, from the class of 1915, and her husband, Dr. George Johnson who is a graduate from the Loma Linda Medical College, are both Working' at the Wfhite Memorial Hospital, at Loma Linda, California. Martha Borg is now holding the position of Superintendent of Nurses there and of late several of our nurses: Maude Erickson, Erma Henise, Mrs. Evits and others have gone there. Forty-four

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5' ..,-.-.- , . -.,-.l- ' W s l Mr. and Mrs. Archie Field, Mr, and Mrs. Augustus Ford, Mrs. Agnes ,lensen Anderson and Mr. and Mrs, ,l. H. Carr are all working anione the Indians in the South American held. Mr. and Mrs. Field have been laboring there for tive year and We hope soon to have them back among us for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Williaitis, both Hinsdale graduates, have spent some years noi. in China, near Nankine, where they have been carrying on medical missionary work. At least one of our members has been laid to rest-Mrs. Sylvia Bossertgleffeis. who, with her husband, Ulric jetters, and his sister Gladys, spent two years conductini treatment rooins in the Hawaian Islands. Mrs. Jeffers returned here with the hope of regaining her lost health but died two years later. Ada -lnmes has gone back to her home in jzunaica but is still in very poor health Florence X'Vood, of the V322 class, is working, aniong .her own people in tlzt llahama Islands. There are several who have stayed by the ship and taken positions of respon 1-ibility in our own suttitariuin. Misses Tnpper, Sarber, Hoopes, Hoium, llerwat an-.l Paulson are among, these at present. The Misses Center, Mercer, XVigren, XVendt, Geneva Erickson, Maude Erickson Knutson, Carey, Mrs. Vorhees and Mrs. llutzer have all been back within the lust' year to take the six months' post-graduate course. Harry and Mrs. Lanstin are conducting treatment rooms in Logansport, Indian.. and Gertrude Simpson has taken up like work in Kankakee, Illinois. Theresa Fernandes is to eo to Africa as a medical missionary next xxllgllsl. ,Tune Shelburg, who was with us for so long, is now in Mountain Yiew, California. The alumni here in August, 1024, organized a registry called the Hinsdale Nurses' Club, with Miss Derwae as its Registrar, and the tifteen to twenty nurses who have been registered here have been kept more than busy since its institution. Many of our nurses are doing private duty not only here in Hinsdale bitt al' in Chicago and other cities and towns. They are thrown out into the world and their metal is often most severely tested, but God is able to keep them from falling and to allow them to be in, but not of this world. Surely our opportunities for service are very great could wt but sense our responsibility. Word From South America The following are some extracts from a letter received by a member of the Senior class from Mr. and Mrs. james H. Carr, who left here last year to take up work in the Broken Stone Mission, started by Elder Stahl in Peru. We were met on the boat by our brethren who gave us a warm reception. And if you do not believe it, it does one's very heart and soul good to be greeted by those of,like precious faith, when so far away from home. VVe were taken to the 'best' hotel in Mollendo to spend the night, but what little we slept was with one eye open, because we had been previously told to hang otir clothes and valuables as far away front the window as possible, since it was not an uncommon occurence for some one during the night to reach through the window with a pole and a hook on the end of it and borrow your belongings. Kindy remember us to your class. VVe hope that you all will have the true missionary spirit to go wherever the Lord calls. 'The harvest truly is white, but thi laborers are few.' Forty-five