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

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MOST STUDIOUS 20 SADIE LORENE YOST Sadie Rockwell, North Carolina An outward and visible sign of an Inward and spiritual grace.”

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JUDY LEE SAVAGE me LOds Salisbury, North Carolina Happy, thoughtful, kind, and true, There is no favor she wouldn't do. Neatest 19

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HISTORY: CLASS 1961 One beautiful, balmy day in September in the year 1958, a group of starry-eyed girls, numbering 17 strong and emanating an air of expectancy and anticipation, rang up the opening curtain on a three act drama entitled Life as a Student Nurse at Rowan Memorial Hospital. At the beginning of the first act we felt lowly in the presence of the Juniors and Seniors, but as we began to burn the midnight oil in our course of study, it wasn't too long before we began to feel at home in that group known as the Rowan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. The leading parts in this drama were portrayed by Ruby Hodgin, Faye Donaldson, Barbara Floyd, and Ellen Lowman. The highlights of our Freshman year were the freshman sponsored Santa Swing” and being invited to the Junior-Senior Banquet. The summer months came and with them we started our spe- cial service clinical assignments. Mrs. Martha Powell was our advisor. With great sorrow nine of our classmates left us for other chosen fields; one transfer student joined our class. Under the guidance of the instructors, doctors, and graduate nurse staff we received the basic knowledge necessary to start us on the way to complete success- fully the remaining two acts of this performance, As curtain call came for the second act we had become members of the royal group known as Juniors and received our junior band which was proudly worn on our cap. Time marched on and we felt more at home as we foretook the studying of Medical-Surgical Specialities, The highlights of our Junior year were the Halloween Carnival and the Junior-Senior Banquet. With March came affiliations. Our advisor this year was Mrs, Geneva Williams and starring in the leading roles were Ruby Hod- gin, Faye Donaldson, Barbara Floyd, and Ellen Lowman. Two transfer students joined the class during our junior year, The third and final act of our production starred Faye Donaldson, Barbara Floyd, Carolyn Burke, and Sadie Yost with Miss Rachel Suggs as our advisor. The highlights of this year were receiving our beautiful senior band, which we wear so proudly on our cap and the production of the White Cap. With the Senior year came advanced work, both in theory and practice which proved a challenge. The ending of the third act of our play brings a feeling of mixed emotions. There is pleasure with the feeling of accomplishment as we don the white uniform of the graduate nurse, There is sorrow at the thought of leaving those many friends we have made through these three wonderful years at the Rowan Memorial Hospital. This edition, better known as the Class of 1961 takes its rightful place in the history of Rowan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing with just pride, During the ensuing years, should there be any readers of this recorded history, be it known that this cast leaves this production to you, knowing that you too will do your utmost to make yours a high mark in the future of our beloved school--Rowan Memorial Hos- pital School of Nursing of Salisbury, North Carolina. Carolyn Burke and Barbara Floyd Historians