Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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5 l immons College Nurses- rom The Simmons nursing cap, designed by a ibrmer student, has appeared this year on all the battlelronts of the world, on Army and Navy oflicers and Red Cross nurses, at emergency relief centers: in operating rooms, in nursing lecture-halls. It repre- sents a high achievement. Simmons nurses receive their B.S. and R.N. only after five years ol' work. To Freshmen, it seems a terrific dose, but fourth- and filth-year students End time almost too short for all their studying and practical work. College lite is in order for the first two and a half years, with emphasis on the sciences and psy- chology, and with six weeks of summer work at the Peter Bent Brigham and the General, Then, at midyears, Nursing School Juniors are formally capped at the traditional candlelight cere- mony, and leave the college to train in hospitals for two solid years- at the Boston Lying-In lor maternity cases, the Children's Hospital for pediatrics, the McLean for psychiatry. The nurses come back to Simmons lor the second semester olitheir filth year, and get their B.S. Finally, after two months ol' public health ser- vice in Boston's poorer districts, they are awarded the R.N. Simmons has graduated superior nurses since IQI8, emphasis shifting in 1934 lrom specialization in Public Health work to every phase ol' the proiession. Practically every one ofthe avail- able nurses is now serving in the armed iorces or on the ho1ne lront, in spite of the fact that the marriage mortality is high in this school. Student nurses, p1'obies, and graduates are united in an af- I 1lon't want lo get well. 'IVE 1201 bark EiCikElil1VL'lZllL l 1 , vi: 3, Mgt-'. ' .,..,e:f 131539:- ' , ' 4-7? ' f 1, 11, 3 sf ft- A Mez 9 ' ' ilu l . 1 .1 -'fs , i , 4 ' 1 A 1f- -A S155 ' A, . Na Q -' ' . A ' ' as Helen Wood, H.N., ABI. Simmons Faculty tC011tiHuf-rd! NIAR1oN B. CiARDNER, S.B., Ecl.M., A.M. .slssistanl Prqfersov' tjDesig11 TQOBERT MALCOLM GAY, A.M., Litt.D. Prfyfessor fyfE11glish, Director :film School English, and Clzairman ry' llze Dizfision ry' Iazzzgzlage, LI'fl'l'IlfZlI'l' and the Arts INA MARX' GRANARA, S.B., A.M. .4.vsislar1l Prrfessor QfC'hFlIIlA'fll1' EMERSON CQREENAVVAY, S.B., A.B. in L.S. Lerlzn'er in Ijbrary Adnzinislmliozz BARBARA JOHNSON HA1,L,S.B. fMrs. Albert C. Halli .-l.v.vis1ar1I in C'lI6'I7If.Sfll1' ZOLTAN HARASZT1, J.S.D., A.M. Lecturer on lhe' History ryffhe Book TQATHARINE TJAVIS HARDW'It2K, A.B. P1'Qfe5.rnr 1j'S0rir1l El'0llIIIIl1', and Ilirerfm' zjllze Srlmol Social Ilbrk RACIHEL, Lotusrz HARDw1t:R, S.B., Ch.B., M.D. tMrs. .Iames A. Burgessj .S'j1f'r1'af 1,Fl'fl1l'Fl' nn .llediml Illfllflllflflillll HARR1soN I,1aRoY HAR1,r1v, Ph.D. l'1'rgf2f.s1w1' qfl'l11'fo.topl11' and P.X1'l'fIlIlQQ'1', llireflm qfllze .S'rl1noI of l'1'Pf11'rgfe.x'.st1011111 .S'l111lif.s, and filflllliflllllll qfllzf' lJ1'z11'.1'i1n1 ofl'l11'ln.mf1l11', 1,.fV1'lIf7fIlK,Q'1', zum' Ifflillfllfillll

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l -Lx the Fenwa to the front AIARY IQATHRYN HARRIGAN, S.B. Special Inslrzzcfor in Biology CiORI-IAM XYALLER H.-XRRIS, Ph.D. Asxociale Pr'1W.s'.s'I11'1y ClIen1l5hj' CLAIRE DE HIi1DEVARX',A.B. Special Instructor in E60lI0lIIlf5' EDITH FISHTINE HELMAN, Ph.D. lMrs. Bernard Helmanj A.s'si.s'la1zl IDIYMKSSOI' lj S panislz LELAND IDAVID HEMENWAX', A.M. Axiociale Prry'e.su'or ry' flflallzemafics and Plyfsici' FRANCES XNARNER HERSEX', A.B., Litt.D. lMrs. Mayo D. Herseyj Leclurer on English CURTIS MORRISON HILLIARD, A.B. Prwssor fy'Biology and Public Health WILLIAM AUOUSTUS HINTON, S.B., M.D. Leclurer on l'VasJermann Technique KATHARINE HITCHCOCK, R.N., S.B., A.M. Assislazzl Prryfessor if Public Health Nzzrsizzg CAROLINE MAUDE HOLT, Ph.D. PT6w?5'50l' IJBiology NELLIE MARIA HORD, S.B., A.M. Asslslant Professor ofF00ds and Nutrizfion ROY GRAHAM HOSKIANS, Ph.D., M.D. Special Leclurer on Social Psgfclzialry Books, bugs, biology lectionate admiration lor the director ofthe school. Miss VVood is the nurse-executive ,bar excellence. Students remember her kindness in conferences, her active personal interest in each girl, which, as some know, extends to the babies ol' graduates. Another link between hospital student nurses and those still in college is Anne Strong Club. Named lor the first director of the Nursing School, Anne Strong meets monthly in Evans, welcomes Freshmen as well as members ofthe school. Lecturers on physiotherapy, Army, psychopathic, and obstetrical nursing were on this year's calendar. On May 12AHospital Day- eAnne Strong toured Boston hospitals en masse. Their Christmas party benefited the Cood Samaritan Hospital lor rheumatic children. Most heroic feat was that Ol' the members who volunteered for lour hours of labor at various hospitals every Saturday. Commuters like Barbara Akers, Presi- dent, got up at Six o'clock on dark December mornings for this. Nurses' training iSn't all drudgery. There are fascinating ses- sions in lab , operating-room scenes that are as exciting as the movies say, and there is the greatest pleasure ol' allvthe visible satisfaction of the persons they serve. Helpful and cheertul pa- tients are the greatest boon to probationers. W'hen the head nurse coolly surveys every move ofthe nervous probie as she makes a bed or gives a bath, it is wonderfully reassuring to be told by the victim of this practical training: That's all right, girlie. just let me know when you want me to turn over and donlt worry about that supervisor. lim all with you. Akers and Anne Strong nicmhers I V if ai? QA igifff il J' n 5 'N -ggi 1 'G ,a .aw-f l27J