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.

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■.■.ViT. AV.V.V AV.V.V.W.V.V.V.V J Again the scene changes and we see three figures madly chasing their dog sleds across the snowy wastes of Labrador. As they come closer we recognize Helen Bent, Julia DeMane and Eunice Pike, all dressed in Public Health Uniforms. On the beach at Deauville we catch a glimpse of the famous Coun- tess Woof-’n-poof, nee Barbara Vivian, with little “Woof” on her right and curly haired “Poof” on her left. “Lee” Dufault, after her Student Government experience, is now Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. One of the latest cases to be tried before her was that of Virginia Cox and Jean Farley, appealing to have their Southern accents pardoned. Marguerite Vichules is police reporter for the “New York Daily Mirror”, with gory details her specialty. While on the newspaper business we must mention that Jennie Kornacki and Angie Viscione, with their excellent knowledge of foreign languages, are Foreign Editors of the Associated Press. Coming back to the home territory again, we see Ruth Nichols has opened a dry cleaning agency next to Happy’s. Peg Ahearn has bought out the Chinaman on Charles Street and is making money hand over fist with her low price — 2 bibs for a nickel. Lois Alexander, always advocating radical change, has made her- self the leader of a newly formed Anti-Everything League, a socialistic faction. Their recent demonstration, in which 999 windows were broken, gave Mildred Morse’s glass works a big boost. Coming next is a picture of the Boston Braves with their new manager and owner, Rita Keane. We always knew that she was enthusi- astic about baseball, but never dreamed she would go that far. Lucille Lyons is teamed with Eleanor Powell in a new musical revue. And who do you suppose the writers of the show could be? None others than Edna Emerson and Barbara Groff! “Mickey” Kearns is now giving violin recitals on the Elizabeth Arden Radio Program for the benefit of the Orthopods and bigger and better plaster rooms. At Columbia University School of Nursing we see Marie Scherer and Barbara Hatch in the teaching department. It seems that these are two girls who have made good use of their training at M.G.H. So many of the others have found other fields more profitable. “Crit” Stone has founded a warm home for hairless dogs and “Ginny” Rice is the chief preventer of decubitus among these hairless, homeless hectors. The new chief of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital is Edith Lee, ably assisted by Lorraine Thayer who is developing new methods of treatment wherein no patients are restrained and everyone has a jolly time.