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

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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.