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

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Margaree Stewart Benson, N. C. Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and Wish. “ Julia Louise Thomason Winston-Salem, N. C. Life is but a span; I'll enjoy every inch of rife, Gladys Louise VanPoole Salisbury, N. C. The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute.” Edna Earle Stroud Deep Run, N. C. A true friend is th: greatest of all ble: ings. Barbara Jean Yount Granite Falls, N.C. “Happy, faithful, true and kind, she's al- ways one in every mind.

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Martha Lou Page Hickory, N. C. To make this world a friendly place, one must show a friend- ly face.” Ernestine Sloop Owens Mount Ulla, N. C. Happiness is the by product of an effort to make someone else happy.” Nancy Marie Poovey Granite Falls, N. C. Never take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive.” Bertha Rae Powell Raleigh, N.C. No storm ever ruffled her thoughts.” Marion Eula Sowers Salisbury, N. C. Nothing is rarer than real goodness.” Mary Lois Smith Cleveland, N.C. I believe in work, but I'm not in favor Oita

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We all remember very well that day, September 14, 1953, when we entered nurses’ training at Rowan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Salisbury. That was the day when all thirty-eight of us began to know each other and to become familiar with our surroundings--people and places which were to become very familiar to us in the ensuing three years. We began having classes the next day--Nursing Arts, and Drugs and Solutions under Mrs. Doris Crutchfield and Mrs. Bobbie Coley, Chemistry, and Anatomy and Physiology under Miss Patricia Irwin, and Professional Adjustments I under Miss E. Laura Lohman, the Director of Nursing at that time. Mrs. Pauline Irwin was Director of Education, and our class sponsor was Miss Patricia Irwin, who helped us greatly with all of our projects that year. The following week we were guests of honor at a Student Body weiner roast at the City Park. We enjoyed several strenuous games which made it rather hard for us to get out of bed so early the next morning to go to class, and even harder to concentrate during those classes. The annual Halloween Carnival that year was sponsored by the Pre-Clinical and Junior Classes. When we helped to sponsor this, we really began to feel a part of our school. The first of November we received our uniforms and began to go to the hospital to work for about two hours each day. The first day we were only allowed to change water in the patients flowers, so we weren't too surprised when one patient reported that his flowers had been changed six times in one day. On Monday following Thanksgiving we moved into our new nurses’ home which had been under construction since the preceding summer. Prior to this we had been free to go home every weekend due to the limited facilities where we had been living but now we were allowed to go home only one weekend a month--all part of training, they said. Christmas, the time of festivity, rolled around and we had our first dance of the year. An even greater success was our pajama party for students only. The perfect climax to this season was our vacation--either Christmas, or New Years--and we worked the other week in the hospital, did we feel important! Beginning in February we began to study for our finals which would determine if we would be accepted into the School and who would get caps. We had been having study hours every night, but now we really studied instead of reading comics and writing letters. The day finally arrived, March 28, 1954--Capping Exercises at the First Baptist Church, and all of our girls received their caps! One of the greatest thrills that comes to a Student Nurse, and it had come to us. Now that we had our caps we were placed in various places in the hospital to work. One girl was sent to the Operating Room where she learned to step lively is the best policy and that she may even be called the cook if she were seenoutside the hospital in her scrub dress and cap. One girl went to the Diet Kitchen where she tore up all of her hose learning to squat”, and the rest of the girls were placed on Medical and Surgical Floors. We lost several girls this year due to several reasons--Ollie Treadway, Emma Lee Heath, Betty Bowman, Faye Miller, Alice Riddle, Janelle Queen, and Dorothy Surles. Juniors! A new Director of Nurses, Miss Mary Kurchinsky, Director of Education, Miss Orpha A. Burgess; and Mrs. Betty Boyd was Associate Director of Nurses and also our Class Sponsor. The Halloween Carnival was sponsored by our class this year and we felt that we were well on our way to sponsoring a Junior-Senior Prom. All of our money-making schemes were aimed for this purpose and to publish a yearbook in our Senior year. By Christmas this year we had lost two girls to Dan Cupid, Patricia McLamb and Wanda Tulbert. In May our first groups of girls left for Washington, D.C. for Pediatric Affiliation, and following them in June was the first group of us to go to Torrance, Pa., for Psychiatric Affiliation. The rest of us followed later in groups of about seven. Those were the days! ! The social highlight of this year was the Junior-Senior Prom which we gave in honor of the Seniors. This was held at the Elks Club, and the theme Moonlight and Roses” . Seniors--what beautiful music to our ears, and what a pretty black band on our caps! Another new Di- rector of Nurses--Mrs. Sara Washeim, Director of Education--Miss Josephine Rappaport. No more working 3- 11 for weeks on end, can you imagine? Our one aim this year was to publish a yearbook, helped by our class sponsor, Miss Alene Withers. Every- one in the class worked very hard to reach this goal. We had our annual Christmas party, and a Valentine's Dance, but again the social highlight of the year was the Junior-Senior Prom, given in our honor this year. As the time for graduation draws near we're both glad and sorry--glad to graduate and sorry to leave all of our close friends here. Several of our girls will be married soon and others will be returning to their home towns to work. All of us will remember, I'm sure, our days here at Rowan Memorial Hospital--1953 through 1956.