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

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,W FIRST ROW: Marjorie Nagel, Barbara Lehmann, Patricia Ahern. SECOND ROW: Ceorgianna Blais, Suzanne Reeves, Billie Purtell, Eleanor Kosaitis. Frances Adrlo glaeifkflflelfl Our probationary period has terminated and We are now possessors of that first blue stripe-we shall never forget the proudest moment in our entire training, our HCapping Ceremonyw--and becoming a part of our stu- dent body and hospital personnel. Hypo time, now! Yes, after hours of prac- ticing on each other we are ready for supervi- sion and our first hypo on the floor. 5:45 A.lVl., and we're oil to the Diet Kitchen, the moon still shining, the stars still peeking from under that blanket of darkness - now letis see, have we our lists, tickets? Where is that uDiabetic of Kls we so diligently calcu- lated way into the night? With week-end jaunts at an end, we adapt ourselves to our classes and hard months of training, looking forward to the day when we shall attain our goal-wthat white cap and pm. Twenty-four D R U D IT U R I U m HFROSHM SNAPS

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La 9 PROBII-3 ' SN Betty Lou Rockwell, Mary Alice Kohake, Marion Frances Owen I 0 . l eAlfl'lll'l6ll le15 Our first morning at Queens and we were off on an orientation tour! . . . recreation and class rooms, laundry, library, then the hos- pital wards with their glossy floors and walls fincidentally, that was all of five miles from 2-East to 8-West, wasnlt it?H Excited, frightened, we reported for our first floor duty day-how we ever survived our first hath, no one will ever know. Timidly, we roamed from room to roomf- nurses to our left, nurses to our right, one stripe, two stripes, three stripes-Do we salute them! l ? A light flashes and two seared HProbies', stand outside the door debating on who is to answer it. Alas, one enters, but immediately makes her exit, calling to the other one - '4Gosh, that patient Wants a nurse! We must hurryll' Twenty-three

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jk .FW FIRST ROW: Madonna Skelley, Frances Ruffner, Josephine Nino, Mar- garet Ahern, Virginia Garabedian, Isabelle Johnson. Srcovn Row: Bette Compton, Mary Easley, Patricia Wilson, Dorcas Engle, Rita Ries, Alice Powers, Agnes Renzi, Margaret Prummer. Liniom That long anticipated day and we start our surgery service. After weeks of instruction and observation, we find ourselves assigned to our first Hmajorn. Come 7:00 A.lVl. and timidly we warn our circulating nurse of the storm. . . Doctor makes his entrance and eagerly we run for the gown, then gloves, not realizing that a towel and powder would eliminate a re-gloving ten minutes later. The surgery is finally on its way and at the call for askin towels . our little scrub nurse is found, rip- ping out the cellophane between the layers. Nylon-OOM on a 'astraightw is flung across the mayo stand accompanied by a holder. At last, the patient is on the way down when a sudden crash occurs and we find the doctor and scrub nurse on their knees, picking up the remains of the Mayo stand. Ah, Yes! A little time and we will ably adhere to that latest marker . . . MQUIETU. JUNIOR SNAPS Twenty-Jive