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

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CONSTANCE WARNER, B.A. 110 West College Street Oherlin, Ohio Music lover . . . encouraging . . . stately . . . willing . . . ready. ELIZABETH GLOVER T.B. can ' t lick you if you give yourself to the cure.” To Betsy we send our sincere wishes and encouragement for a speedy recovery. Page T weiity-eight

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Class Prophecy Elmwood Ridge, Concord, Mass., January 1, 1953. Dear Jackie, Many thanks for your very welcome and newsy letter — it found me in a most receptive mood. I’m glad to hear you’re doing well as Chief Nurse in the Department of Aviation at Helmer’s Field. How do you like Oklahoma — does it come up to your youthful dreams of the golden west? I ' m happy to hear those dreams are finally coming true. I had a letter from Helen Finn last week. She is now on her way to Minnesota to join Nettie Garrisson and her husband in establishing a new Public Health unit. Fran Malone is going to handle the business end of things. I know this venture is bound to be a success with so many capable minds to back it up. Connie Smith spent the holidays with us, as usual. She hasn’t missed one of our New Year’s Eve parties in almost ten years. She is still in the Navy — and at present! is stationed at the Marine Hospital in Brighton. She told me she plans to turn in her uniform for a housedress and apron in June. I can’t tell you any more because she wants to surprise you — but I can say that she intends to be his scrub nurse for years to come. I went to Pat Stylianos’s latest concert at Symphony Hall and was so proud to be able to say I knew her when. Her voice was glorious and she received an overwhelming ovation from the appreciative audiences. I sat with Hope and Bill Herlihy and two of their children. After the concert we all had supper with Mr. and Mrs. Mooney (Edith Dasey — remember?). It seemed so much like old times — sitting around a table while Dasey kept us in stitches with one of her inimitable stories. Mully and Tommy sent us a Christmas card from Palm Beach. They said they had been to see Nickie who is doing Public Health in Florida and she sends her best to all of us. I also got a Christmas card from Gen Koziol who is still at the Chung- king Base Hospital in China. It has been bombed six times within the last few months. If the Japs knew Gen’s determination the way we do, they’d realize that it takes a lot more than a few scarces to make her relinquish anything she starts out to do. She said she’s still trying to interest Mary Sheehan and Tony Kaminski in the idea, but they seem to be pretty well satisfied with specialling. Among the girls who have stayed in nursing, several have gone far ahead of even our envious expectations. Doris Johnson is Supt. of Nurses at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York, and Jane Strickland is Supt. of the Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. Mary DeWolfe is teaching science and Gert Dowling is teaching nursing at the Yale School of Nursing. Mary Wallace is Night Supervisor at M.G.H., and Erma Welker is the new Pediatric Supervisor. We have heard — but this is only rumor, you know — that Liz O’Loughlin is being groomed for a very important position in T.S.O. Madeleine McCromack is teaching nursing at the Quincy Hospital and between times still says no to all susceptible males. Mac’s heart still belongs to Harvard. I had a letter recently from Ruth Murray. You remember she married a Brazilian coffee merchant and is now the mistress of a huge plantation in Brazil. She told me that Gert Hall was down to visit her last fall and is thinking of staying there. She feels that there is a very good field for nurses in South America. Ginny Durning and Peg O’Brien are both specializing in Hollywood and write the most interesting letters about the exciting lives they lead. They’re thinking about writing their memoirs — what a best seller that would make. Page Thirty