Rex Hospital School of Nursing - Nightingale Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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PRIIPHECY 4I6 Queen Street St. Petersburg, Fla. Dear Peggy, Since you weren't there-I decided I'd tell you a little news about the American Nurses Association Convention I attended recently in Indianapolis, Indiana. You should have been there. Most of our graduating class was there and they certainly have changed since I955. As I stepped off the plane II rode the latest iet commercial air linerl I bumped into Helen Redditt who was arriving from her home in Arizona. She and her wealthy rancher husband raise quinea pigs. As we were getting into a cab, we heard someone yelling like mad and it was none other than Peggy Shackelford who's the only Air Force Flight Nurse anywhere who wears glasses. She leaves her aquarium ifilled with living goldfishl at Dix Hill with their godfather while on these trips. Well, old chap, we got to the Queen Mary Hotel, where the convention was being held and the first person I saw was Ann Brady, who for some strange reason thought we werefin Philadelphia. Brady was only staying long enough to see the girls before taking off for Hawaii to work with Myra Norman who's working in an Army Hospital there. Peggy, was I surprised to see one of our old classmates presiding over the meeting, but Weezie Dail knew her parliamentary procedure. Cuddles was sitting to her right looking better than ever. At intermission I saw many more of the girls, Bonnie Jacox had come down from Michigan and was busy talking to Mary Gurley, who left her four red-headed youngsters back in California. I ran into Gerry Wiggins who is living in Kinston and has been there since she and Grits got married back in l955. While looking at pictures of her four boys, someone tapped me on the shoulder, I turned around to face Ruth Langston who's now one of New York's most famous models. She was looking lovelier than ever. I also saw Betty Jones, who says life in the Shenandoah Valley is great! Hope Hunt made the trip with Betty. Hope is now president of the Alophen Pill Manufacturing Company. She iust can't seem to make any profit-we wonder why I I I My old roommate, Ann Jones, took time off from her iob as Dr. I-loke's caudal nurse to attend the convention. We had a long chat during which she told me that Peggy Cooper is now working for Dr. Ham- ilton and likes it fine. Ruby and Pat were too busy with Lionel, James, and the children to make the trip, so they sent their regards. Catherine Parker, who left her husband and children in Rocky Mount was there. She's hoping her fifth will be a girl. When I asked Catherine about Norma she told me that since she and Carroll had had their sixth child Norma had retired. When the meeting resumed, I sat beside Patsy Steed who said she was crazy about Maine and could hardly wait to get back to Doug. Ann Dickerson took Dr. Herring's advice and is now one of the Met- ropolitan Opera's brightest stars. Her latest hit is Madame Moth which prevented her attending the