Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Alumnae Association Training School for Nurses of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Sggyiglgry President Triezzsurrer SALLIE SLIFRR, R. N. MRS. A. STAMM, R. N. Miss OLIVE KEEBLER, R. N. 1715 W. Pacific St. 4651 N. 12th St. University Hospital' The Alumnm Association was organized February 13, 1893-Incorporated July 12, 1910. The purpose for which this corporation was founded is the union of graduates of the training school for nurses of the Hospital of ' ' - h romotion of fellowship among its members, the advancement the University of Pennsylvania, for mutual help and improvement, t e p ' ' ' d friendly and if possible pecuniary assistance to its members in time of sickness of the best 111tCICStS of the nursing profession, to ren er and death. , - ' ' ' ' ' l ' h ou should join your school Alumnae A lVlembers of Class 1919, having read the above article, it is unnecessary to exp ain W y y ' ' ' ' ' d N se after Which, file your application Qproperly filled Association, although I gladly give the initial steps--viz. become a Registere ur , ' 'd D when same will be brought before association and acted upon. outj with five dollars, or three dollars faccording to resi ence , After having become a member, if for any reason you desire. to Withdraw from the association, resign in good standing. Send a Written resignation to the secretary, and after acceptance by m-embers, it is filed for future reference. ln case you Wish to rejoin at any time, ' ' 'th ut resi ning you are not again reinstated until all you pay dues only fromthe time you are reinstated. Whereas, if you drop out W1 o g dues of intervening period are paid in full. I V l hope to have the pleasure of entering the name of each nurse of the 1919 class on the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Alumnm roll the coming year. Wishing you success in your future Work, I am, 1 . Sincerely, S. SLIFER, R. N., Secretary ffllumme Association. IQS

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' .,.. , . . , ,. , Y ,,,, W U, 4 ,fY If:fr---: 1-V 4 -Il-41?----43--Y -YYY--Y Y Y - YY Y 'rim ' just abou in the dark, without falling into ditches and holes, the active Hghting would shift to another sector and your team Would get orders to report to another hospital. Usually at night an ambulance would carry you farther up, and after a ride from ten to forty miles you would arrive just in time to go on for all night shift in the WOfSt Jam Of Wounded you ever saw. Up with your sleeves and on with a rubber apron and into the jam you would plunge. t the time you became accustomed to the hospital and could learn your way around the camp If you were attached to a mobile hospital you moved with it on trucks or in ambulances, often having to sleep on top of a pile of mattresses or blankets during the trip. Perhaps you arrive at your new site at night in a heavy downpour. This does not delay the setting up of the tents and the operating room or tent, and you are ready to work on the wounded in a. few hours. Perhaps in an hour or a day before a patient comes to your place,'the Hun makes it too hot for a hospital or the attack shifts, and you up stakes and gypsy it again. This sort of life soon wears the veneer from one's nature, the surplus flesh from one's frame, the useless things from one's luggage, and puts one sorely on their mettle, to keep an even temper, to smile always and to help lighten the others' load. ' My hat is off to the American nurse who has gone through it and has stuck it out for weeks on end when the original place called for a stay in the Held for six to eight weeks only. What really happened was that teams left Southern France in midsummer with light clothing, the nurses with straw hats, and stayed up front well into cold weather without a chance to get back and re-equip. Sickness only, came to be the only valid excuse for a return and a replacement by another nurse. I tell you it's some sacrifice when a woman will pass through Paris in December with last summer's dress and straw hat as her coverings. Further again, my hat is off to the representatives of the U. of P. Hospital Training School for Nurses, for I found none their equal in the entire A. E. F. A E. L. ELIASON. 107

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A Tribute from the Social Service Department Of all the ills to which we're heir, What evil could be worse Than Social Service going on Without a Pupil Nurse! Not long ago we knew such woe, But ne'er shall know it more, For our Directress saw our plight And promptly sent us four. Then four more nurses hurried up All eager for the treat, Their uniforms were blue, their shoes Were black upon their feet, And this was hardly odd, they were Not ready for the street. Their little caps were white and trim, Their capes were lined with red, Their hair did not puff boldly out On each side of the head. fFor if it had, they would have been Some other place insteadj O Nurses, come and talk with us! The Social Workers cried, UOf all the things of which we know And many more beside, K'Of Evidence and Alcohol And Underdrainage, too, Of Social Diagnosis and Initial Interview, And why the Murphy family Should live the way they did. 'UWe will, the dauntless nurses said uAnd show us where to find The Registration Bureau, for We have a questing mind, And when inspecting tenements Oh, leave us not behind. Pray teach us the Signihcance Qf each Obstetric Case, Does it concern the Family Or just the Human Race? And if we lack Heredity, Can training take its place? 'fThe Patient is not all the Case, The social one replied, f'The Unit is the Household, and It has a Home outside.