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

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there as students. To our surprise we found that Nellie Owens was nursing there and had been placed in charge of McKinnis Infirmary. She had loved her work there as a student but we never dreamed that Nellie would ever venture that far away from Coleemee, While there we haddinnerin the K,C. building and were, with Nellie, reminiscing with friends, when Evaline King came in, She too had chosen the field of psychiatry and was assistant to Miss Kutz, the director of nurses, Doing all right for herself, huh? with Vangie's entrance everyone began talking at once and such boisterousness was never equalled in the nurses‘ home at Rowan, Why, Mrs, Major would have dropped her teeth if all that noise had occurred at Rowan, Needless to say we could hardly get away but our time was getting shorter so although it tore our hearts out to do so we said our goodbyes. In Washington, we went immediately to Children's Hospital to see Ruby Poteat, Margaret Daniel and Robbie Thompson, Thisschool had also been one of our affiliations in training days. Ruby and Robbie were working in surgery and Margaret was working on one of the sew segreoated wards, Naturally she would be working directly with the children because even she was always a big baby at heart, The new car was wonderful and so we came back across country. The trip was delightful; such beauty could never be equalled as we saw the eresplendent sun sink into the horizon over the Blue Ridge Moutains of Virginia, It meant we were ending a glorious vacation and would soon be back in North Carolina and home. Only afew of our fomrer classmates remained in our home state, To finish our trip we went by to see Sara Amburn, She was living at home in Boonville and nursing at Elkin, She was bubbling over with plans for her forth coming marriage. We were thrilled with the news and listened attentively to her plans. Wishing her much success,happiness, and best wishes we de- parted to return to our alma mater. Of course we will be back for the big event in Boonville though. Our last stop was at Rowan Memorial Hospital, -a place we all held dear to our hearts for it brought back so many memories, It was here that we saw the last of our class of 51, Ida Mc- Neill was still here as floor supervisor on the second floor. The old building had changed quite a bit since we had left. A brand new wing had been added, Of course it was under construc - tion when we had graduated but most of us had not seen the completed structure, It was a beau- ty -no doubt, Yes, we really had a vacation and now my husband and I are returning to our home ina nearby town where he is engaged in the administration of a mortuary establishment, I am still working but in Statesville at the Long's Hospital where I have charge of the premature nursery, So ended an interesting and most enjoyed vacation, Colleen Nelson Prophet 27

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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

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