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

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AND TESTAMENT 3. Margaret Spivey wills her love for the Emergency Room to Charlotte Crisco, hoping she will enjoy it as much as Spiv did, 4. Ruth Cope wills all her late leaves and other special permissions to anyone who enjoys night life as much as she does, 5. Ruby Poteat wills her confusing love af- fairs to Ann Smith, 6, Nellie Owens wills her love for the Op- erating Room to anyone who is willing to go over in the middle of the night and scrub, 7. Faye Trexler wills all her troubles to the Freshmen, you have our sympathy, girls, 8, Sara Lou Amburn wills her ability to get along with one room-mate for three years to Millie Clark, give you a clue---it ain't easy. Q. Ida McNeill wills her worn out uniforms to Jo Anne Blackwelder, hoping she will have a 25 nice “coming out party. 10, Evaline King willsher love for the Nurs- ery to Linda Blalock, better borrow some ear plugs and a clothes pin, II, Colleen Nelson wills to Shirley Ragan all her mischeivous tendencies hoping she can stay out of trouble easier than she did, Also does she will to her the audacity to defy Mrs, Major's word (as she so emphatically put it on numerous occasions,) To Miss Francis, she leaves----- knowing she will be grateful. 12, Robbie Robbins willsher old vim, vigor and vitality that has kept her constantly on the go for three years to Margaret Lester, Being of sound mind??? I do seal this the last will and testament of the 1951 Class of the Ro- wan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Testator, Sara Lou Amburn

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State: North Carolina County: Rowan Hospital: Rowan Memorial We, the class of 1951, being of sound mind and strong body, realizing the eminence of our departure from Rowan Memorial Hospital, and having in our possession certain valuable prop- erties, do hereby publish this our last will and testament; hereby declaring all previous doc- uments null and void, ARTICLE I 1, To the Rowan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing our appreciation for making it pos- sible for us to obtain our profession, 2. To the Director of Nurses, Miss Howard, we leave our graditude for her guidance during our training period, 3. Tooursenior class sponsor, Miss Francis, we leave our never ending thankfulness for her understanding and invaluable aid, 24 LAST WILL 4. To the nursing staff we leave our love and appreciation for their consideration and un- tiring efforts in our behalf, 5. To the Doctors we wish to leave our un- dying devotion for helping to make these three years happy ones for us, ARTICLE II 1, Tothe Juniors we leave owr black bands, and our ragged uniforms with no guarantee of how long they will last, 2. To the Freshmen we leave our place in the breakfast line and our ability to get to Chap- el on time, ARTICLE ITI I, Robbie Thompson wills her love for the U.S, Air Corps in Blairsville, Pa, to Marlene Lowder, 2, Margaret Daniel bequeaths her height to Mary Nell Lopp, it's nice to have around the hospital,

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PROPHECY May 24, 1961 Dear Diary, I have so much to tell you I don't really know where to begin. Perhaps I should start at the obvious place, the beginning, As the story goes I have just returned from a much needed and long deserved vacation, The past month has been the most exciting and enjoyable thirty days of my life for I renewed old acquaintances and fellowshiped with my former classmates of dear ole Rowan Memorial, We boarded the plane in Charlotte, N.C,, and to our surprise found that the pilot was the husband of a classmate. Mary Margaret Spivey had married a former air force pilot and he was now flying commercially. He told us that Margaret is director of nurses at Memorial Hospital inCharlotte, Ofcourse she has to divide her time between the hospital and her small daughter. It's hard to realize how time passes so rapidly, One of our stops was in Atlantic City, N. J. where our own Ruth Cope was in THE beauty contest. Naturally we stayed for the coronation and nearly bursted with pride when Miss Cope was crowned Miss America of 1961. You should have seen her strut her stuff down the board walk and pass the reviewing stand, She snowed all the judges as usual and police had to be called in to quell the riot as she made her way over to say hello to us, We arrived in New York just in time to see Ruthe Robbins ready to depart aboard one of the latest luxury liners bound for the Orient, She had realized a long dreamed of desire and had prepared herself to be a missionary. She was still wondering how she ever got through nurses’ training and college but as she stated: It all goes to show you that miracles do still happen, While we were standing on the pier talking, announcement was made that the ship was ready tosail and Robbie (same old Robbie) became frantic as she began to fumble in her purse for her ticket. Horrified we watched asthe gang plank was raised and Robbie remained on the pier with tears in her eyes and still searching desperately for the lost ticket. Suddenly amid the debris which cluttered her bag she found the piece of paper that was her passport. She began to holler and they lowered the gang plank to allow her to get aboard and as the ship steamed away from the shore, Robbie's smiling face could be seen for quite a distance. We had heard that Faye Trexler was in Detroit, so since we were wanting a new car we de- cided to kill two birds with one stone and visit with her and make our purchase, The car was bought first and we drove up to her former residence to surprise her, however we received the surprise. Her landlady reported that Miss Trexler had alsobecame a missionary and had left her forwarding address as: Stout Memorial Hospital, Wuchowl, China. She also said that she heard from her frequently and that she was in love with her work. Who knows, perhaps Faye and Rob- bie will get together with their foreign charges, Small world you know. Of course we were disappointed that we were unable to visit with her but also delighted with her success in her work, Naturally we were in love with our new car and continued our homeward trip on the ground. Our next stop was in Pennsylvania to visit at Torrance State Hospital. We had affiliated 26