Miami Valley Hospital School of Nursing - Lamp Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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Reminiscing o-Moimow NIGHT we graduate ! Our white uniforms hang crisp and starched awaiting that long-anticipated event. It seems such a long time ago that we met as strangers in the library, waiting to have our rooms assigned to us. What a thrill it was to become a student nurse, to have those important capped Seniors talk with us and call us their little sisters. Shall we ever forget the party the first night we came? Then followed initiation night and the awful odor of guaiacol and ether. As we all remember, we got the works thoroughly. Realities of classwork became inevitable. Down to earth we came to realize that nurses did more than wear white uniforms. They must study, read endless references and learn to use their hands. Anatomy and the imposing, mocking skeleton, we had to challenge. Too, we must never forget the tender care we lavished on our unappreciative Chase doll. Through a never ending stream of humble tasks we waded, wondering and doubting if we'd ever become nurses. Slightly encouraged we blossomed Hnally into our uniforms. How much more professional we seemed, even though we were without caps and bibs. But, would the uniforms ever shrink and look appealing! Our first Christmas and the thrill of being allowed to take part in the early morning caroling made us realize how priceless was this school tradition, Ever more closely we came to be a part of the big family here at the nurses' home. The capping exercise was an unforgettably beautiful ceremony. As with trembling hands we received our lighted candles each hoped and hoped again her cap would not be the one to fall off during this sacred ceremony! With this our tasks had just begun, now our days rushed by, and we entertained for the first time as an organized class at the Valentine party. Each day became a part of the mosaic which was to be our Freshman year :-bright days when some one called us an angel of mercy, or told us how nicely we had made his bed :--dark days with low Materia Medica grades, broken thermometers, and unsigned-for late leaves. VVhat a quandry we were in! Vacation so eagerly looked-forward-to that first year came, and like a Hash was gone. VVe were Juniors at last, but then, just to be a Senior! Seniors always seemed to have a lot of time, never had to run errands and certainly never were seen doing much studying! On we plodded, studying Communicable Diseases, worrying over Obstetrics and pondering over Pathology. Could any student be as busy as a Junior? The ever present threat to our anemic bank account was the Junior-Senior Farewell, Hot dogs, pop corn, shoe polish, and shoestrings were urged upon the faculty and student body. At last came the harvest of our sales' efforts :-we had enough money to entertain the Seniors! Commencement for the class of 1940 found us marching as poor unnoticed juniors while the Seniors in snowy caps and uniforms marched confidently along to that glorious, triumphant proces- sional. Next year, next year for us we hoped! Next year so far away with classes, exams, and duty hours, still to come! Now, as we reminisce, we know that to our eager hearts the time since that night a year ago, really has not been long. Our vacation, our fall hay ride, the traditional rite of decorating the Christmas tree, the dance, parties and final exams-all have materialized with relentless finality. In our bouquet of student memories, one unopened bud is yet to become a full-bloom rose-tomorrow, graduation. 4+ 3 1 Q? F X

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Class Will . . E THE CLASS or 1941, being of sound mind f?J with no evident neurological symptoms, yet realizing the uncertainties of life, do hereby make our last will and testament. To the Junior Class we leave our first row in chapel, hoping they will till it faithfully and with great dignity, also two pads of scrap paper on which to figure out monthly case reports. Along with these we leave our three-bar chevronts with the understanding that they rip them off carefully and sew them on with a lazy-daisy stitch. glndividuallbequests arc, to-wit, as follows, to be carefully administered by Miss Florence Sayre, executrix of this estate, with the admonition that she take her responsibility seriously in conveying these cherished possessions of the oustersized. As class treasurer, Mary Morefield wills to the Junior Class any small change left after the Senior liabilities are paid. Ellzabeth Merker gives her bed on E station to anyone who will promise to keep it warm. Frances Markus.bequeaths.her old tees and golf balls to Miss Swenson and Miss Shaw, providing they use them to make a hole ln one. Miriam Harbaugh regretfully relinquishes her love of floor duty on maternity to Louise Johnson. Good-hearted Louise Clark gives her student aprons to Alvina Bonnoront. Mildred Basset and Dorothy Hopping bestow thelr place on the piano bench to Mary Evans. Frieda Littler unselfishly contributes the proceeds from her book, Care of Complexions that Conquer to the class treasury. Joan Brunner leaves Doug's place on the window seat to Phyllis Doggett and her steady. To Jean Pennington goes Ruth Getter's innocent look. Evelyn Moehring gives her late leaves to Mildred Tufts, while Garnet Reams makes a very special bequest to Miss Sophie Schneider-namely her night duty sign. Mary Kerr and Donna Knowles leave their first aid book to Mrs. Ramsey for future library filing. Rita Harper passes on her quiet ways to Elaine Storer. Margery Clark leaves her giggle to Ruth Coblentz, while Clara Flemming bequeaths to the School Library her entire Youth's Correspondence Course in Love Making. This volume should be carefully per-used at odd moments. Melva Burkholderls smile goes to Bettie Kiesewetter, while Sarah Lee Banta leaves her feminine gift of gab to Myrtis Van Fleet. Christine Lake bestows her honeyed accent to Margaret Sapp. With a forgiving personality, Doris Granzow leaves her dog-eared cook book to the dietetic department. Mary Zimmer, fearing you may be late for chapel, passes on her duty of official alarm clock to Martha Cochran. In this solemn moment, Betty Houser agrees to contribute her sneeze to anyone who can do it. Waveline Smith and Erma Brown bequeath their double room to Ruth Legant and Elaine Miller. Ellen Sparks leaves to Children's Ward her ever-present string of safety pins, while Betty Ruth leaves her coke machine job to anyone who can go to Snyder building and back again successfully. Realizing that this bequest should not selfishly be confined to one individual, Genevieve Johnson leaves her ability to become engaged and disengaged to anyone who can arrange it. Due to the fact that she plans to study for State Board, Mariellen Rhinehart bequeaths her well used recording of Intermezzo,' to Jeanne Carey. Georgia Insely's success as president goes to Betty Ann Miller, while Dorothy Smith's last-minute rush goes to Mary Lou McGown. In the era of changing styles, Lillie Marker bequeaths to Miss Wilson her page-boy hair-do, while Lorna Doebereiner after seriously thinking it over leaves her curling iron to the hospital barber. Dorothy MacDonald leaves her hay fever problem to the Research department. Esther Detling after some consideration leaves her daily blush to Erma Lovett, while her room-mate, Phyllis Rogers, bequeaths her collection of cologne to be used to cover the odor of disinfectant in the Communicable Disease department. The fancy empty bottles she bestows upon the Drug Room. Dorothy Poff, as a parting gesture, leaves a hardly-used jar of shoe cleaner to Marianna Gress. Ellen Spahr's sweetness is left to Marianna Moll. Opal Wick offers her six well-used jokes to anyone who can revive them, while Irma Kapffenstein turns over all her worries to Mary Catherine Smith. Mildred Hagerty leaves one of her red-hair bows to Helen Doehring, while Ruth Short bestows a dozen wads of last year's gum U94-OJ to Beatrice Baird. ' Mary Katherine Schmidt understandingly leaves her medicated corn plasters Cfrom the drug roomj to the V.N.A. girls. Jayne Trowbridge and Jeannie Taylor, realizing they must now put away childish things, bequeath their menagerie to the carpentershop with the stipulation that the animals be kept stuffed with plenty of sawdust. To Jean Hunter goes Margaret Seitz's wide-awake look in class, while the Curtner sisters, ambition is passed on to the Rosebaum twins. Betty Felter's meekness is bequeathed to Betty Oberlies. Mariam Dickerson, believing that zippers are here to stay, leaves to Helen Dickson her two uniform buttons. Mary Helen Hitchens, mindful of her own thick crowning glory, bequeaths to Marianna Rhorer her share of stock in the Wonder Hair Grower Corporation. Betty Hostet- tler, after much indecision, has definitely decided she will bequeath any of her worldly possessions except Bill. Martha Martingdale leaves her Nightingale voice to Julia Johnson. Out of the kindness of their hearts Betty Buettner and Betty Nevison bequeath their reference notes on P.A. to next year's Senior Class believing that every little bit helps. Evelyn Gerdes and Mary Hester Grubbs leave their reduction diet to Reba Bevan. Mary Massie leaves her haircut money to the Junior class treasury, while Elaine Cassel leaves her love of monkey wrenches and tools to any nurse who has a similar interest in mechanics. Margery Jenkins, Helen Fennell and Virginia Geiger leave next year's group of internes to the tender mercy of June Swope and other Juniors after September 1. To the Board of Trustees we leave all funeral expenses, namely the sad rights of graduation. In the presence of assembled witnesses we hereby do declare this to be our last will and testament, signed this first day of May in the year of sulfapyradine and sulfathiazole, nineteen hundred and forty-one, in the presence of the following witnesses to-wit and half-wit: MR. HERPES Zosrnn Miss ETHYL ALCOHOL MRS. JAMES METRAZOL MISS KATHERINE HEPARIN THE CLASS OF 1941