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

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ian? i The Story of Hinsdale LORENA NVATTS A S N a little farm in Raymond, W'isconsin, nestled among the hills and wood- 5 ,gl land, David Paulson, the founder of the Hinsdale Sanitarium was born. Wlhen 5 six years of age his parents moved to South Dakota, where as he later 'ni' expressed it, he grew up on the western plains. XVheu seventeen yt-in-5 old, ln- contracted diphtheria and in a few days was brouelit very near de:tth's door, XX'ht-n he learned he had only a few hours to live, he promised the Lord he would unreservedly dedicate his life to Him, should he be spared, God heard that prayer. The promise made on his death-bed brought him to Battle Creek College, to Ann Arbor Medical School and Bellevue Hospital. It brought him to a life of toil among the poor and sick of Chicago, and later to the task of building up the Hinsdale Sanitarium. David Paulson wanted to train medical missionaries who would follow the example of the One who went about doing' gootl. Though poor in this world's goods but rich in faith he felt conviction in his heart that the Lord wanted him to start a sanitarium near Chicago. After earnest prayer over the matter of a location, : former patient donated ten acres of land with buildings to be used for this purpose This offer was thankfully accepted. In the spring of 1905, Dr. Paulson with his faithful wife, whom we know now as Dr, Mary Neall, left Chicago and came to Hinsdale. They were without money so knelt down on the hillside, asking God to send them one hundred dollars to help clear the neglected grounds. Two days latei a man whom Dr. Paulson had seen but twice, whose name he did not know, sent : check for one hundred dollars. Shortly afterward another prayer was answered when a lady in Chicago offered a loan of 32,500 Bonds were issued on the ground and after several more loans were sent in, there was money enough to complete a building of forty'six rooms. The hrst patient came before the front steps were built. In a short time therq were liftyesix patients and others waiting to be admitted. The Lord greatly blessel the work of healing the sick and many were healed by prayer when nothing el could be done for them, Dr. Paulson, as a physician, always sought to relieve physical suffering, yet more, his chief ambition was to point the patient to the Great Healer, who alone can relieve the agony of a sinsick soul. Graduates from Hinsdale may now be found in almost every country on thi globe. Many are giving their lives in service to others in the far remote corners of the world's needy held. May the example of this man of God who founded our dear Hinsdale, inspire us ever onward to a life of devotion to God's service an' may we each fultill the purpose for which this institution was founded. ARE YOU WORTH MORE THAN THIS? According to scientihc investigations, the ingredients of a man plus water are as follows: Fat enough for seven bars of soap, iron enough for a medium-sized nail, sugar enough to fill a shaker, lime enough to whitewash a chicken coop, phosphorus enough to make 2,200 match tips, magnesium enough for a dose of salts, potassium enough to explode a toy cannon, and sulphur enough to rid a dog of Heesfl This whole collection is worth ninety-eight cents and that in a day when things Forty-six

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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

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