Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

Page 28 text:

round the clock, around HE DEMAND for well-educated women to take positions of responsibility in the nursing profession led Simmons to set up her five-year nursing plan. The program provides a combination of academic study in both scientific and liberal fields, plus professional prepara- tion. The first two and one-half years consist of courses given at the college, with summers spent in the hospitals. The next year and one-half is spent getting hospital training, and then the student returns to college, now in her cap, for final polishing before she treads etherized halls on her own. When the college first started along this route it was the butt of much sarcasm and ridicule, because any one with half a mind knew that no girl could be a nurse unless she spent three years in a hospital training school. And the only normal human way to become a super- visor was to wait and bide your time until the present boss of the floor died and you filled her rubber-soled shoes. Today hospitals are putting Simmons grads into the coveted places almost immediately. Because of the war, this year has been deafening with its cries of Nurses! Nurses! Give us more Nurses! The armed forces are begging for ladies in white. ln answer to the tumult, this year's graduates are joining the Army Helen Wood, R.N., A.l3l., Director Even stacking in the stock roonx is fun

Page 27 text:

books for bread and butter ture-for a librarian is expected to know a little bit about nearly everything. But since it is impossible for her to know everything, she at least must know where and how to find information on any subject. It is in the fourth year that a future librarian receives her technical and practical training and becomes a mem- ber of the A.L.A. CAmerican Library Associationj She learns to classify books under the Dewey decimal system of classification, becomes adept at compiling bibliogra- phies and using many types of reference books. In courses on book selection she learns to choose suitable books for people with varied interests. If she is interested in chil- dren she learns to tell fairy tales and adventure stories. o2o CZero rwentyb was founded about ten years ago to further social and professional relationships among graduates, undergraduates, and instructors in the school. This year's oflicers are Dorothea Ghmart, president5 Helen Charles, vice-president, Eleanor Ames, secfCI21fY9 Jacqueline Zeldin, treasurer, and Betty Lou johI1SOH, program chairman. Besides several interesting spCakC1'S and a film on Argentina at the monthly teas, thC Club members introduced the Freshmen to the SchoOl Of Library Science with a humorous bird's-eye view of the life of a prospective librarian, both before and 21ffCf graduation from Simmons. lt says here. . . 020: Ames, Johnson, Ohmart Nina Caroline Brolhcrlon, All., Director ,iff 23l

Page 29 text:

the world, from the cradle to the grave Nurse Corps, Navy Nurse Corps, or the Marines. They will be flying in hospital planes, walking between rows of bedsin field hospitals, or applying dressings and sulfa in advance battle stations near the front lines. They will go to the South Pacific and to Italy and Africa and Eng- land. This is a year when the Nursing School graduate Can fullill two promises. . .one to herself, to see the world and do things. . .the other to the world, to help heal the sick and wounded and bring comfort into worlds only inhabited by pain. The Anne Strong Club for the Nursing School students met in the Evans game room this year under their presi- dent, Lois Knight. Mary Trail was vice-president, Mary Shaughnessy, treasurer, and Eleanor Filson, secretary. The traditional ceremony of capping took place in the Assembly Hall this year with Miss Wood presenting Caps and the orchestra creating a mood. Most of the meetings this year were spotlights turned on the nurses serving in the armed forces, and the experi- ences of some of them were enough to make any girl en- list tomorrow. The highlight of the year was the New England Regional Conference for Collegiate Schools of Nursing, which was held at 300 the Fenway in our honor. The Sophomore nurses served at the luncheon, and Simmons held its head high for weeks after. The service girl nurse, she graduates in white l25l J MARIE Lois DONOHOE, A.B. .Yperial Lecturer an Mental Hygiene VIRGINIA MARIE DUNN, S.B. Arrirtant in Secretarial Stlidief KATHLEEN CULLIS DUNNING, S.B. CMrs. Martin VanB. Dunning,Jr.D Special Irzrtrzzetor iiz Cofmme Derign SIGRID ANDERSON EDGE, A.B., S.M. Arfoeiate Profeuar of Library .Yrienee JOSE ANTONIO ENCINAS, A.B. Special Imtrlzrtof in .S'paz1i.flv VIOLA GRACE ENGLER, S.B., M.B.A. Ariotiate Proferrar of Arrrimzting EULA GERTRUDE FERGUSON, A.B., S.B. Armeiate Proferror of Seeretarial .ffzzdiei JACOB ELLIS FINESINGER, A.M., M.D. Special Lertnrer on Serial P.U'Cl7ieIff11' LUCY ELLIS FISHER, S.M. Arrirfant Prafermr af Fowl.: ETHEL M. FLETCHER, A.B. Special Irutrartor in Family Soeial llforlz MORRIS FRIEDBERG, A.M., Docteur de l'Universite de Paris Proferror of Erouomief RUTH BACI-IELDER FRIEDBERO, A.B., SM, QMrs. Morris Friedbergj Ariotiate Profetmr of Retailing ROBERT MALCOLM GAY, A.M., Litt.D. Proferror of Engfiili, Dzrerfor of tlre ,Yrlwul of lmglzrlv, ana' Clvairman of flu' Dl!'I.l'I071 of Language, Iaremfzzrr, and tive Arm INA MARY' CiRANARA,S.B., AM. A.fJi.rtan! Prnfe mir of Cliewz ffm' EMERSON CEREENAWAY, S.B., A.B.L.S. Lecturer 071 Liliraev Ofgellllqzlfillfl and Aa'm1r1i.rfraf1aa BARBARA JOHNSON HALL, S.B. CMrs. Albert C. l-lalliz Arrirtant in Cllflllljffil' ZOLTAN HARAszTI,J.S.D., A.M. Lertzerer on the Hirtaruy of flwe Beale