James Walker Memorial Hospital School of Nursing - Epitome Yearbook (Wilmington, NC)

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c cLminlitrcition MR. ROBERT MARTIN Hospital Director MR. NOAH BURROW Controller MISS DOROTHY DIXON Director of Nursing Education MR. CARROLL ODOM Assistant Hospital Director S. E. WARSHAUER, M. D. Chief of Staff ■ : MRS. DAPHNE JEFFORDS Director of Nursing Service MR. L. C. LeGWIN, JR. Purchasing Agent L. B. MASON, M. D. Director of Medical Education MISS JOYCE HEWETT Assistant Director of Nursing Service 7

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The first students were required to spend two years in the school. The time spent on duty during the day was twelve hours. One and one-half hours were spent off duty for recreation. The class work consisted of lectures by the visiting doctors, the Superintendent, the Directors of Nurses and the Dietition. Classes were held each night during the winter months. The time required in training during the pre¬ sent time is three years or 1095 days. An average of thirteen hundred hours or more is spent in the classroom. The student has an eight hour day including class and time on duty. The faculty is composed of nurses, doctors, and the faculty of Wilmington College for the Sciences. The student ' s work is correlated along with the subjects she is taking during that particular quarter. For three months the stu¬ dents affiliate with Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina, for training in Psychiatry. The students first affiliated with the State Hospital in 1954. On May 11, 1923, the Alumni Association was started and was reorganized in 1928. The first officers were: President, Lois Toomer, 1908; First Vice President, Florence Caldwell, 1903; Second Vice President, Helen Heriton Armstrong, 1910; Recording Secretary, May Houston, 1907; Corresponding Secretary, Jessie Stewart Rehder, 1904; Treasurer, Mattie McCullen, 1911. The directors were Lena Foyes Allen, 1911, and Mollie Hulton Boney, 1913. The Charter Members were: Lillian George, 1915; Mattie McCullen, 1911; Evelyn Armstrong Blanchard, 1914; Lossie Cotchett L5nich, 1918; Mattie Cutchen Burton, 1916; Georgia Ezzell, 1914; Augusta Futch, 1918; May Houston, 1907; Pearl Fogles Nixon, 1907; Lois Toomer, 1908; Gertrude Pietiway, 1908. Six of the origi¬ nal members are still living. In 1935 t he James Walker cap was changed to its present style and shape. Another interesting fact about the Nursing School is that the students at one time were required to wear black hose and black shoes. In 1942, the Director of Nursing, Miss Black, who was here only one month, had this changed to white shoes and stockings. James Walker Memorial Hospital School of Nursing is an accredited school and was one of the largest schools of nursing in North Carolina. The total number of graduates from this school since the beginning of the school is 1044, not including the present senior class. After the seniors graduate on August 25, 1965, there will only be one remaining class to graduate from James Walker Memorial Hospital School of Nursing as it is now. There is a two year associate degree program in co-operation with Wilmington College who will call themselves James Walker Mem¬ orial Associate Degre e Program. But the James Walker School of Nursing as we know it today will no longer exist in material form. The memories, the pride and the love for old J.W.M.H. will linger in the hearts and minds of its graduates as long as they shall live. What will happen to James Walker Memorial Hospital in the future when the new county hospital is built? Well, no one knows at present. But had it not been made possible by James Walker many years ago this community would have surely been deprived of a much needed hospital institution. The buildings may be destroyed or crumble to the ground from old age, but the spirit of James Walker Hospital will forever be remembered by those who hold its memories as a part of their lives. Maybe some day someone will look back and say, James Walker Memorial Hospital, now THERE was a hospital, and I tell you. 6

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ictne E. T. MARSHBURN, M. D. D. A. KNIGHT, M. D. D. R. MURCHISON, M. D. H. M. PICKARD, M. D. JAMES TIDLER, M. D. G. R. C. THOMPSON, M. D. MRS. G. DYCHES, R. N. Lower Hall A MRS. M. DEMPSEY, R. N. Supervisor, 7-3 MISS M. HUGHES, R. N. Upper Hall A MRS. A. FARROW, R. N. Clinical Instructor J. C. MacKAY, M. D. R. T. PIGFORD, M. D. S. E. WARSHAUER, M. D. MRS. L. KELLY, R. N. Upper Hall B MRS. A. FOSTER, R. N. Supervisor, 3-11 8