Mercy School of Nursing - Mercilite Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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CLHSS PRUPHECY CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA June, 1950 H Hello, Dr. Matthews' office. Why, Helen Riddle, is it really you? Yes, this is Miss Riddle speaking. Could I be of service to you?' Helen, don't you remember me? 'Toni' Melton? Well, what are you up to, 'Toni'? I wondered when it would be possible for me to see Dr. Matthews. I hear he needs another office nurse. Yes, that's right. I'm sure I can 'arrange an interview for you. Have you seen any of our classmates at Mercy recently? Yes, several of them are working in Charlotte. Inda Hildreth is assistant Night Supervisor at Mercy, and Vera Maddox is working in the Operating Room there. Cornelia Scruggs is Dr. Sanger's new surgical assistant. She took a post-graduate course in Surgery in New York. Gloria Gaspard is medical assistant in Dr. Kingsley McDonald's office. And Dorothy Cranford is supervising Third Main at Mercy, or had you heard? No, and what about Estelle Witten and Miriam Self? Oh, they're out in California now doing industrial nursing with one of the large ship building companies. Where is Ruth Deal working? She is now Mrs. Earl Jones, she's working in an Obstetrician's office in Raleigh. By the way, I saw Ann Small and Exie Barker only last week. They're Air Line Hostesses with Trans- Continental Airlines. What are the Lohr girls doing now?' Doris and Carolyn are working at the hospital in Lexington. They were married in a double wedding ceremony last Christmas. ReallV? Well, I'll just have to hang up. I'm on my way out to Mercy now to see Ethel Parks Oakley and her new twin boys. 'Toni', I'll call you about your interview. 'Bye. Y X- 75 95 nn 44 ac Good morning. Well, Alice Ratchford! Do sit down. Mrs. james Barrow, if you please! We've just moved back from VVashington. We're ex- pecting our baby in September. I think that's wonderful! I suppose you knew Rosa Lynch is specializing in Pediatrics and working in Belmont. Maybe she can give you some pointers after the baby arrives. Yes, and if 'jenny' Sandstrom can get a few days off from her course in Anesthesia, she's coming down from Chicago for the big event. By the way, what ever happened to Kay Carson? She's at Duke University, just finished a post-graduate course in surgery. Her husband is also a Duke graduate. He's a preacher, you know. Betty Clontz is at Duke too, doing general duty in Obstetrics. I guess you knew that 'Chris' Anderson and Maxine Comer are in South American. They've opened a mission hospital somewhere on the western coast. Have you kept up with many of our classmates since we got out of training? Some of them. Barbara Yandle is specializing in Obstetrics at Margaret Hague in New Jersey. Gwen Ledbetter and Alice Ellison are both in the Navy Nurse Corps. Mary France Lowe and Catherine Fisher are doing Public Health Nursing in Wadesboro, North Carolina. By the way, is Alice Robinson still in Charlotte? Yes, she is now Mrs. Oren Hill. She's working in her husbands office in the Professional Building. Remember Faith Gray? She is married to Tommy Barringer and is Superintendent of Nurses at the hospital in Concord now. Rachel Smith has just taken a position as Operating Room Supervisor in Goldsboro. Did you know that Nellie Deaton has been influential in opening a new Obstetrical Clinic at Cherokee and is head nurse there? And Katherine Massey is district nurse for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in western North Carolina. I've been wondering where Dorothy Shepherd and Mary Krewson are working. Mary is in Asheville doing general duty in thc Nursery and Dorothy is working in the Delivery Room at Ashe Memorial Hospital in Jefferson, North Carolina. Now there are only two more of our classmates I haven't located-Mary Byrd and Margaret Horne. Do you know where they are? Yes, Mary is married and is doing private duty here in Charlotte, and Margaret is Director of Nurses in one of the hospitals in Shelby, her home town. Well, Alice, I certainly am glad you dropped in. Perhaps our little chat has helped pass the time away until you can see Dr. Matthews. The Doctor will see you now. RUTH DEAL AND CORNELIA SCRUGGS CLHSS HISTORY - - - SEHIORS 1948 As we near the end of our three years of training at Mercy Hospital, it is but natural that our thoughts wander back to the day we entered this School of Nursing as scared-very scared- probationers. With wide eyes and eager minds we came, wondering just what was ahead. We were in two separate groups, and most of the group that entered February 2, 1945, were members