Rowan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing - White Cap Yearbook (Salisbury, NC)

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RUTESRINEGA RDA “RINEHARDT” Rockwell, North Carolina “A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.” Superlative: Most Likely to Succeed. OPAL YARBOROUGH OD AT Mabel, North Carolina “The greater pleasure in life is love.” Superlative: Most Dignified.

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SANABPERRERE “PERRELL”’ Woodleaf, North Carolina “True to her work, her word and friends.” Superlative: Most Reliable. Historian of WHITE Cap. ANNA JEAN POOLE ROOuEs Spencer, North Carolina “In ourselves our future lies.” Superlative: Best Sport. Business Manager of WHITE Cap.

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CLASS HISTORY On March 1, 1947, six girls arrived on the campus of the Rowan Memorial Hospital. They were: Alice Newsome, Ruth Gordon, Faye Hatley, Peggy Mann, Jolene Osborne and Sara Perrell. Friendships budded and classes started immediately. How our eyes bulged when the do’s and don’ts were instructed to us. Two months later, Alice Newsome decided the road was too tough and hard to travel three years and packed her bags and went home—‘‘Homesickness” being her main reason. Our first four months were spent mainly in the classroom learning the structure of our body and a great long scientific name for each bone. Why this bone and that one moved. Two or three days a week were spent at Catawba College listening to the lectures of Doctors’ Ramsey, Wentz and Howell. Never before had we appreciated Miss Peeler as now. In August we were given our caps, which was the first highlight of our training and one which will remain forever in our memory. On September 1, 1947, ten new girls were added to our student body. They were Daisy Allen, Lucille Upright, Gladvs Osborne, Betty Cooper, Annie Lee McSwain, Betty Harwood, Anna Jean Poole, Elaine Overman, Ruth Rinehardt, and Pearl Anders. The months passed by followed by the same routine of classes. Two of the March class, namely, Peggy Mann and Faye Hatley, answered the call to matrimony. In the meantime, three girls, Daisy ‘Allen, Lucille Upright and Gladys Osborne, decided they just weren’t cut out to be nurses and dropped out. Spring came—then summer and we put our books on the shelf for a few months and worked all day on the halls. We hated to see our edu- cational director, Miss Helen Peeler, leave us, but in turn we were glad to welcome Mrs. Christine Cox as our Clinical Instructor. Time began to pass more quickly after we had all received our caps and responsibility grew greater and greater.