Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School - Gleam Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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THE GLEAM Ten Years Hence 41-,- --. EXV York had become rather boresome and I wondered as I walked down Fifth Avenue on the Twentieth of May in 1940 how I could 1 leave everything for a while. If I could just see some of my class- mates, it would be such a relief I I Just then someone exclaimed, F or goodness sakes, what are you doing here 3 . It was Helen Haner and the .rejoicing was tremendous. Of c course we got together for a chat. She was an aviatrix at Lindbergh Field in New York and was quite noted for her a.ir stunts. I explained that I Iiad been Qeft a milion a.11d a half by a former patient. and was growing tired of doing nothing. That explains how we started on our air trip around the world. We left New York and followed the coast line to Atlantic City where we stopped for a few da.ys. Imagine our surprise upon seeing Martha Camovitch and Theresa Evans practising on the beach with the Ziegfeld Follies Chorus. They were making quite a hit with their new show. As we made our final hop from there, we passed a balloon floating in mid- air. I examined it with a telescope a.nd saw a sleeping girl. We went closer and saw Beth Duchon with a magazine in each hand. We landed in London and met Edith Fogg who was doing Social Service work. She was making good because Fogg belongs to Iiondon. Next we went to Pa.ris and met. Emma Oberdorf in a restaurant, talking, laughing and eating as :much as ever. We left for Barcelona. and there met J ack Clukey who was on a yachting cruise with a party given by Ira. Yes, she was married to Ken but it was impossible for him to leave his work for the trip. Jack was having the time of her life as usual. She, of course, told us about Martha Lindsey who was now a missionary teaching a singing class in Southern Africa. Becky VVitter, she said, was painting a huge picture of the Alps. We then crossed the continent to China to see Jerry Stackhouse who was a medical missionary in Hong Kong. Our next stop after this was the Philip- pines because we knew that Polly would be glad to see us. She was the same Polly even if her name was not La.Mon any more. She liked the Philippines and as long as J ack was stationed there she was quite contented. Ivhen we landed in San Francisco we went to see '4'I'ill Neikirk and Nick. Till', had been married for nine years and was still in love. She told us to go to see Dizzie Mclleod in Arizona. where- she was nurse in a mining camp doing more entertaining than nursing, but instead of that we went straight to the A E411

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THE GLEAM '4Dear old Rust Hall, Here as we learn to live Friends are dearer to our hearts And ever duty calls To our life's work Service and love combined. Always we' ll look up And always we'll look up lVe're the .lunior Class of '29. Last fall we returned to Rust Hall with a new determination to make our Senior year the best year of our training. We elected Tillie N eikirk as our president and Miss Roberts for our Advisor to take the place of Miss Sheppard who had left. us to go back to Yale for another year. You remember Miss Roberts, don't you? Anyway you had some her well planned meals while you were in Sibley Hospital. Everyone thinks that we are lucky to have her and we agree with them. lVe found that even though we were Seniors we could not play 1l11lGSS we worked. First there was the Senior party. You remember how everyone likes pie at Rust Hall. You should have seen eyes open when we served pumpkin pie a. la mode for refreshments! Everyone liked it so much that we could not resist serving pie at the Bazaar supper. Betty, I just canit make myself believe that soon we will leave Rust Hall. Gur Baccalaureate service was very impressive' yesterday and we are hoping that tonight, and tomorrow night wifl be just as successful. 'I do wish you could be here tonight because it is Class Night and tomorrow night is Commencement. Of course we do not like to think of leaving Rust Hall because we have come to love her and the ideals for which she stands. We feel that our lives have become deepened through our contact with the school and those who have so patiently instructed and guided us. Even though we desire to 1'61T1H.l11 longer a much greater call comes to us to go forth to. serve the Master by caring for the poor and afflicted, building up the ideals of broken homes, bringing the life of Jesus Christ to the little children and giving both physical and spiritual help to those who stand in need. I shall be glad to hear from you. Sincerely yours, -BROWN CULPW, '30. E401

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THE GLEAM Utah Indian Reservation where Hickie Schoppert was teaching hygiene to the children. ' When we landed in Chicago we looked up Mumps. She invited us in to see her in her new position as nurse in a training school for boys. She to-ld us that she had seen Virginia Allen several times. Virginia was following her ca.reer of nursing at the University of Illinois. We crossed the Great Lakes to Canada. At Toronto we saw a large new hotel which we were told was managed by a woman from the United States. Cnr curiosity led us to investigate and we were surprised to find the woman to be our own Kathryn Scott. As we landed in the States once more, we found that we were so near Syra.cuse that we would have to see Polly Collins. We found her picking dai- sies in her fathe-ris back yard. We next stopped in Philadelphia and were much pleased to read in the bright lights Geraldine Logan, Famous Contraltof' The theater was crowded as it. was her tinal week of a fifty-two week contract. Cn our way to our hotel we were almost run over by a man and his wife in a 1929 Packard roadster. It was none other than Jane Annan and Freddie-just the same a.lthough the car showed the hard service of ten years. The next morning being Sunday, we attended the nearest. church. We sat behind an attractive person who listened very attentively to the sermon. YVhen church was over and 'l was able to sec her face, it was Edna Heckinan. YVe were in her husband's church. ' YVe left XVashington in the afternoon and as we circled over St. Eliza- beth' s ready for our la.nding, we noticed some one pushing a. twin baby carriage around. As we dropped nearer, we could see that it was Phyllis Harner who we had heard was happilly married and living in Congress Heights near her husband' s work. We visited Frances Sheetz immediately. She was doing research and had become very famous because of her discovery of measle anti-toxin. She told us that Hazel Shutters was living in Maryland where she and her husband had a large fishery. She also told us that she had been to see the new Walkersville hospital founded by Hazel Feaster. YVe visited Sibley and were surprised to tind Mary Bange night super- visor. Marjorie King a.nd Tvola. Hart, we learned, were popular specials in Sibley. Virginia. Turner ha.d just left for Kentucky where she was assisting in a clinic to remove tonsils. .We read in the paper that Gertrude Gift was marrying her third husband as soon as she received her divorce papers. Having seen most of the world and spent all our money, we put our names on register and started doing special duty the next day. I 421 --EVA MAE MURRAY.,