Morningside Hospital School of Nursing (Tulsa, OK)

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4. XDLACEB0 History oit The Morningside Hospital As TULSA is called the Magic City, so might Morningside be called the Magic Hospital. Truly the advancement and pro ress of this institution reads like a romance. Romance, we are told is the story of human endeavor and accomplish- ment. Thus it must be one of the most important things in the world. Since history is romance, the most romantic romance to us will be the one which is intimately concerned with ourselves. In this way we find the history of our Alma Mater becoming our history. ta D7 D 75 D7 D D D 77 D D rr :H U 1-1 Since the day Mrs. D. I. McNulty entered training as a student nurse, she dreamed of the day when she would have a Hospital all her own and she, being a born builder and leader, not only dreamed dreams but made them a reality. After she graduated she became Superintendent of different hospitals, then finally, because she so sincerely desired to be of service to humanity, the way was opened for her and in 1918, she became owner of a small hospital in Tulsa, of which she had entire control, with the assistance of one other graduate nurse and twelve students. They even allowed themselves the privi- lege of an orderly and porter. There was no dietitian, the senior nurse serving in the capacity with old Etta as cook. The first patient was sent in by the Humane Society and, the next by one of our most prominent doctors. After this the question was not, how to get more patients, but how to increase the capacity of the hospital to accommodate the many that were coming in. Dur- ing all his time, Mrs. McNulty was formulating plans for a bigger and better Hospital. She had worked and studied, and had become thoroughly familiar with the working of an A number one Hospital and Training School for Nurses. She realized what such an institution would mean to the city and to the state. In 1927 the new building was started on an eminence in one of Tulsa's most exclusive residential districts on Twelfth street and Utica. It is an exceptionally handsome structure of brick and stone. Its every unit of service is complete and represents the latest in equipment and hospitalization and is standardized and certificated by the American College of Surgeons. We will never forget the opening night in February, 1928. The building was lighted up from top to bottom. Flowers and sweet music abounded. Promi- nent medical men from far and near were there to honor the occasion. Thus dawned a new day for Morningside. Now that Mrs. McNulty has seen ht to retire for a well earned rest, we have in her stead a very able executive, Mr. George W. Miller. He has to assist him, Miss Zoe Sparks, who has been with Morningside for nine years. She has been considered a guiding star by every student that has entered here and has been instrumental in helping make Morningside what it is today. Mrs. A. C. O'Brien, Superintendent of Nurses, has seen the training school increase from twenty-two students to eighty-seven, She has proven herself indispensable to the institution. This is the story of Morningside and its phenomenal growth from a thirty bed institution to its present capacity of 225 beds, started scarcely a decade ago. We wonder what it will have accomplished when so many more years have elapsed. -M. ECHOLS and H. BRUCE MT T p 1 0 .1 1 Elly 5 , Sr . .. , uh f , . 1 i ,v ii -1 1 1 ' 4.21 i