Queen of Angels College of Nursing - Liber Reginae Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Men clamped down on MARGARET PATTERSON. The morale got so had, they made her wear blinders over those limpid eyes. . . . Even to this day, the name of AN'I'OINE'I'1'E PRoU1,x is surrounded with mystery. Although there was much speculation as to the contents of her trunk, she never lifted the lid for anyone to see .... Imagine my surprise when one day, while window shopping, I saw my old friend MARY OYLEARY finally realizing her life-lo-ng ambition-that of spending the whole day in bed and getting paid for it. She was window dernonstrator for Beautyrest Mattresses. Reading her lips through the glass, I could see her repeating over and over, VVatta life, watta lifef' The year 1955 saw the achievement of JENNY lVIA'I I'lIEVVS' ambition. The stork had deliv- ered number live that year. He grew quite fond of that household, however, and paid many more visits. Never caught with her eyes closed was LORRAINE COOK who, it seems, never got off night duty. She considered sleep a waste of time, although none of the rest of us agreed with her. Alas and alack, ANxAm:i.1.E BAXTER came to a sad end. It seems that after I passed away, there was no one left to laugh at her jokes, and she soon wasted away. It was, in fact, all she could do to write Whois on the last page of her diary. So, you see, there is a human story behind each of our faces as we smile down on you from our panel here on the wall of the nurses' home. May you all look on us with reverence, and hope that yours will be as brilliant a future as was our past. .911 .xdlalarecia fion The Liber Reginae Staff and Senior Class wish to express their sincere grati- tude to all those who have so generously Contributed of their time, abilities and money in order' that this Annual might be published. In particular We wish to thank the following for their help in sponsoring the book: SISTER M. FEBRONIA SISTER M. ,IUNELLIA SISTER M. HEDVVIG DR. WALTER HOLLERAN DR. CHAS. HAYES MISS CAROLYN GAITSKILL THE CLASS OF '-l-l MR. XVALDO EDMUNDS, ENGRAVER MR. VVILLIAM HERSHEY, PRINTER MAXINE MCMASTERS, ARTIST MRS. GRACE HOFFMAN, PHOTOGRAPHER .Svrenty-two

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stiff' Cfddfi POP QC? 0 1 Now we are nothing but dust catchers-a group of pictures on a panel, marked The Graduating Class of 194-3f' Before you take us down to be replaced by a newer array of faces, think of the story that must be connected with each of our names. Tragedy, comedy, and pathos are all represented in the lives of us thirty-four, who may now be gone, but never forgotten. Come back with me fifty years to 1955 when we were in our prime. Those were our days-each of us busy doing something real and interesting. We were, as we used to say in 1943, 'fcooking with gasfl Let us start with the three girls in the first row, DOROTHEA WELSH, CHARLoTrE DAWSON and PEGGY CHRISTENSON, Back to nature was the motto on their spacious farm. The crop con- sisted of beans, chickens and corn tif you get what I mean by cornj. Then I remember reading a big neon sign on Hollywood Blvd. one day, which read, f'If you want your toes to turn up, eat Mother TOMER,S donuts. Yes, LOIS Hnally stole that recipe from VVoolworth's and from then on there was no stopping her. Everyone was not as successful, however. ELEANOR MALCOLM was up to her chin in debt. It seems that the bill at the Cnty Beauty Shoppe finally caught up with her .... RITA SHAW? I often wonder what became of her. RUTH ROBINSON, on one of her trips around the world, says she passed RITA in a small rowboat somewhere in the Pacihc. Not far ahead was a Navy vessel. I wonder if she ever caught up with it .... Very adept with the oars, too, was VERNADEEN KING, who started practicing way back in 1943 when she first heard Paul was headed for the Navy. Years later she was hired as emergency motor on one of the largest battleships. Another girl, who for a time was very successful, was EILEENE DANIGER. Realizing her talents the Army Camouflage division snatched her up. It seems she could lay a thicker smoke screen than any machine for the purpose. The Lucky Strike Co. thrived that year too .... LUCILE HAR1'ER and MARY ELLEN ADAMS decided in 1945 that their talents were being wasted. Both became models for I. Magnin's, MARY in the sportswear, while LUCILLE frisked about in little 'fpink things. I'll never forget the time when PEGGY O,DAY tried to end it all. Her reason was the refusal of the government to accept Elizabeth for the scrap drive. It seems only a week before, they had taken BUNNY SAILORyS jalopy and it had exploded before they could move it. Who could blame them for not wanting to take another chance? . . . Talking about scrap reminds me of JANE FRIEnEN'rHAL's brace. It got so big for her she finally had to have it fitted with wheels and a motor to help her get around in it. RUTH LEWIN became quite the athlete, winning almost all the tennis matches she entered. Ilm not saying she wasn't a good player, but that red hair shining in the eyes of her opponents seemed quite an asset at times .... Have you ever known anyone to let her hobby run away with her ?JUs'1'INE HAIN did. After a time, she took to chasing the mailmen and trying to take their stamps away from them. Needless to say, it was finally necessary to give her a change of scenery .... Another over enthusiastic character was LOIS ROBINSON. Her enthusiasm was, how- ever, in giving not taking. After a time, her corpuscles got so scarce she had to draw on her account at the blood bank. Many of our classmates were happily married, HELEN WEEKS was an example of nuptial bliss. Never mind who ruled the roost, that's something else again .... FLORENCE RAEMISCH, the last time I heard from her, was busy encouraging her five daughters to enter the nursing profes- sion .... Life in BERNICE HAsLAM's home, on the other hand, was no such picture of peaceful serenity. BERNICE could neither be seen nor heard above the din made by her brood of ten. Politics, too, entered our picture. A history maker was LUCILLE BECK, who, as twice elected president of the W,C.T.U., made many a dynamic speech on the subject .... But all I have to tell you is not of such success. There is a dark chapter to our story, too. It seemed, after some time, that FLORENCE VAN BEVERAN ran out of burnt cork for those black-face skits and took to using paint. The paint was too permanent, for she was last seen in a wagon being deported to Harlem. . . . NORA COREETT, on the other hand, was a little more fortunate. Being more adept at getting the paint off, she was given a job in a circus as the 'fs.peck,le'd ladyfi How well I remember the trouble DORO'1'fIY BURKE had before getting bald. Getting the kinks out of her pompadour was her sole purpose in life. After losing all her hair at the age of fifty, she would delight in stroking her smooth brow by the hour .... Similar trouble was experienced by ESTHER LEI-INHARDT, who, for many years, tried everything to cultivate lashes long enough so she could use that Kurlash herself. Poor EDITH MARTIN, the Hmen in white coats almost came for her, but she withstood the strain. Teaching student nurses, she found, was no simple matter. . . . No doubt you read about the big law suit in 1960 of Arthur Murray vs. DOROTHY WILLIAMS. She put him out of business because she could teach dancing in a bigger hurry than he .... NINA SCOTT, we might say, got in a rut after some years. She rented a permanent seat in a local theater and spent day and night in keeping it warm. The janitor could be heard muttering about ffdust catchersn as he went about his work. Seventy one

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Queen of Angels Alumnae gl CL6!lfLCLi0f5 of QMQQII, 0 I H98 if Cass, Maryon Monica Grey, Adeline Ethel fDe Mossl Horsch, Ethel Marie, U.S.A. Jung, Elizabeth Marie CRileyJ Kocher, Zelda QDistolJ Krueger, Pauline fDeceasedl Marquez, Petra Behnken, Helene Mary CDauserl Brandenburg, Cecilia Florence Brusoe, Esther Cecila fGloraJ Campbell, Margaret Noble lDeceasedl Espinoza, Kathleen A. fGuzmanl Feeley, Margaret fBennettJ Fischer, Salesia fSavelal Fox, Eileen Mary fBowlonJ Gail, Anna Jane fCrozierl Gilbert Bernice Katherine fSCl106 el , P Horden, Helen Marie flleceasedl Horden, Iriene Marguerite COKE? 0 Wiurfiin CLASS OF 1929 Meehan, Bridie fCrossl Meehan, Mary Josephine lO'Connorl Nolan, Genevieve Parcels, Ellen Marguerite Pearlson, Lillian Uacobsonl ' Perbost, Dulcie Andree Roncelli, Mary Louise fBarnesJ CLASS OF 1930 Hunt, Olive Cecilia Inhofer, Mildred Lucylle Jenks, Ronianita lSchoepel Johnston, Viola Pearl lPutnuml QDeceased Kelly, Nora M. Joseph fFinneranl Klose, Helen Catherine lGordonl Marquez, Mary McFadden, Evelyn Mary fGillisl McNeil, Dolores Milligan, Alice Marjorie f'l'arrJ Montoya, Guadalupe Euginia fSpe Neely, Lillian Cecilia fMf-Donald! ncerl Schunck, Esther Mary fl-'attersonl Sepulveda, Nellie A. CGordonl Shepherd, Hilda Frances Toth, Mary, U.S.A. Ulm, Marie Norris, Lorine fO'C0nnorl Peterson, Blanche lEmhertsonJ Probert, Jeanette Mae lSchoepel llioncella, Christine Elizabeth llrluncanl Roneella, Jean Trask, Helen Dorothy CFloresJ Vincelette, Gertrude Mary McDonald Wagne1', Marie CWagnerD West, Wyma J. fSn1ithl, U.S.A. Wic'kl1am, Exelyn Frances Wiseman, Alice Cecilia fliieardsleyl Severity-l11l'ee