Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing - Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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■VAV rooln ropnecy OF THE CLASS OF 1936 It is the year 1946, just ten years since we graduated from the Massachusetts General Hospital Training School for Nurses. Lois Glad- ding, now a professional cinematographer, is entertaining a group of the old crowd in her luxurious Park Avenue apartment. She has promised to show us some pictures of our classmates in their present conditions. We first see that famous aviatrix, “Rickey” Morris with her side- car “Ginny” Walker, returning from a trip to Mars in a plane which was designed by “Dubby” Smith. Pictures taken from the plane show us Evelyn Lyons in her Home for Wandering Newfoundland Dogs, atop the snowy peaks of Mount Everest. Laura Guptil is working with her there in perfecting a new patented mange cure. Next our camera eye shows us glimpses of the latest Ethiopian crisis with Peg McCulloch, in her inimitable fashion, doing psycho- analyses of the natives. She is also demonstrating the similarity between their native traits and tendencies and those of a M.G.H. student arriv- ing in the dining room and finding Salisbury steak on the menu. On the scene to give first aid shock treatment, after Peg’s hypnotisms are Louise Cronin and Joan Dolan, while Eleanor Delaney is demonstrating the whys and wherefores of “out goes the bad air, in comes the good.” Far off in mystic India, swathed in the familiar turban and Gandhi- garb, is Louise Moser lecturing on the Yoga Theory and her previous incarnation as a cockroach in the sterilizing room at the M.G.H. In stark contrast, in a little old New England village, are Olive Robery, Janet Wheeler, Emily Wyman and Marian Mahoney robed in subdued gray, lecturing to the Mother’s Clubs. While in this same placid hamlet we see Bernice Kimball, Grace Flynn and Margaret Emery in their new roadhouse, the “Checker Box”. Ardra Tobey and Grace Washburn are seen experimenting with the diet of an African elephant and a hungry M.G.H. student. While Mary Hurley, with her vast dietary knowledge is planning the menus. Her specialty is liver puree. Eva Borrner, now president of the A.N.A. has recently developed an operating technique whereby instruments may be retrieved from the

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floor uncontaminated. “Jo” Woods is now chief of the surgical staff at the M.G.H. and is so busy that she employs two scrub nurses, Hazel Bielefield and Kay Wilson, running frantically from one to the other, keeping two operations going at the same time. Evelina Dray, after long hours of practice is unsurpassable as the sterilizing nurse. It is whispered about that Edna Mack is running a fudge kitchen for hungry House Officers in the Emergency Ward. “Billy” McCracken is taking a leave of absence to write a book entitled, “How to Run an Emergency Ward without the Bell System”. Barbara Barron is now superintendent of a Florida orange grove. Her specialty is oranges, labelled personally for each customer. You will recall how Barbara, as a probationer, labelled every orange in the fruit closet with the patient’s full name. Incidentally, did you know that Ruthie Belcher and Rita Percy have become even more famous since the appearance on the market of their colorless, tasteless, odorless, and painless tonic. They say it is even more renowned and efficacious than Lydia E. Pinkham’s. Marge Dawson, Kay Lovejoy, and Mary Connelly, the class debs, have an apartment on Beacon Hill, where they have been since 1936. They still continue to entertain in the same hilarious style of old. Next we see Sally Brown, the class Raphael, making posters for Heinz’ 57 Varieties. They say that Rene Vandersloot is employed as official taster for that company. We all remembered what a fine con- noisseur of our delectable puree mongole, consomm Celestine, cous couse and Bisque of Catherine she used to be. And speaking oj the Browns, every time we open Harper’s Bazaar we see a glimpse of Evelyn Brown and May Johnston, as sophisticated and well groomed as ever, as they model gowns for Patou and Schia- parelli. Blanche Illsley has opened a very successful modiste establish- ment in Paris. Erring greatly, someone turns on the radio and we hear Phil Paton, now Canadian Minister in the Court of Mussolini, giving a speech in true Congressional manner on the vices of the saloon. Phil and Dot Smith have finally been forced to part. However, Dot is still loyal to M.G.H. and is now running a bureau through which student nurses may obtain names, addresses, telephone numbers and photographs of eligible young men to be invited to school dances. Her motto and guar- antee is — “Disappointed in your man? — Double your money back.” Thelma Ingles has become a famous efficiency expert and is running a model hospital, without benefit of doctors or patients.