Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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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

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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

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Bghle KATHARINE DAvIs HARDWICIQ, A.B. Prafrfmr 0f.SioriafE6011az1I1', and Director of the School of Sofia! l'Vark RACHEL LOUISE HARDWICK, S.B., Ch.B., M.D. CMrs. james A. Burgessj .Slpetnzl Lerfurer 071 Mefficfzf I71f07'711z7I'f0lI HARRISON LEROY HARLEH', Ph,D. Profeffor of Pllfl0J'0plU'zIIIl1' Prycliofngj, Dircctar of tlic Srlwof of Prcprnffzrriamzf .SNt1nlZz'.r, and Clmirvlafz of the Diziriorz of Pliifompliy, Pryrliofogvy, 07IliElJIlfl1fj071 MARY IQATHRYN HARRIOAN, S.B. Imtrlzcmr in Biology CLAIRE DE HISDERVARH', A.B. Izzftrzzttor in EL'07I07l1iE.f EDITH FISHTINE HELMAN, Ph.D. CMrs. Bernard Helmanl A.l'J'0EflIft' Prnftrmr of Spaniflv LELAND DAVID HEMENWAY, A.M. Afffiffzlff' Pl'0ff'.f.f0f of Nhzflvezmztirf and Plgyyiaf FRANCES XVARNER HERSEY, A.B., Litt.D. fMrs. Mayo D. Herseyl Lvrfzfrrr on Ezzgfiflv CuR'I'Is MORRISON HILLIARD, AB. Profrimr of Biofogy and Plzblir Hmlflw XVILLIAM Auousrus HINTON, S.B., M.D. Lccmrrr on lV41,r5ernzm1n Terlwziqm' KA'rIIARINE Hrrcncocic, R.N., S.B., A.M. Ar,fi.fttn1l Proftarfor of Pzzbfir Hmfflw Nznffizzg CAROLINE MAUDE HOL'I', Ph.D, Prafrrmr of Biology NL,LLIE M.ARI.k HORD, SB., PLM. flrfzmnzf Profrrmr of Fl!0c!,I and lvlllflfflill ROI' GRAHAM HLJSKINS, PlI.D., M.D. .Sifvrrirzf l-vt'll1n'r on Surmf P,U'l'!'ltlff11' EMILY BIssLI.I, HOUQQIIION, SB. 'Mrs Kermit R. Houghtoni .llfltflrlf lmtrnrfor Zu jiflfllllligrl' RIVIII xvlllllz HOWE, SB. 'Mrs Percy R. Howcf .lillfflrll lalilrlzrfnr III Nnfrlfzrnl JXLII IA. ROIllNN'lzl,I, l'lYAl I', SB. 'Mrs .james M. Hyattf luilrmlur 111 l'!gii1ts -I-win Mmm HYAI I, PII ID, I I lrffft I mr of Ilia rits will llmu uf Clriziflmlrr l'l,UliA Mi KLNZIL .lmons ,'liwtl.1rr l'rofrrmr uf.l'r'cr'z'Itlrl1lf .llllnflrf ll-iiznw' N1UlllON'l0IlNSON, A M. luilrmlur nz .Sf1t1fffr1,g1 Science . . . some absorb HE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE has had a long history starting with the estab- A lishment ofthe school, as such, in 1902. I The original science school at Simmons ' i i was a pre-nursing or pre-medical school A I , whose facilities were also available to 'i 'l the School of Home Economics. Not so now. The School of Science has blossomed out into one of the more important schools at Simmons-if one can be said to be more important than another. Graduates of the school are in the enviable position of having excellent, well-paying positions long before they get a degree. Their type of work and their qualifications are such that they are in demand at hos- pitals, as doctor's assistants, and in private and industrial research laboratories. In fact, you might say they were essential industries! School student is responsible for the The Science dreadful odors that drift down from the second floor as they tinker with test tubes in their rubber aprons. Theirs is not a glamour job, but it is an interesting one. Science School girls begin to specialize in their Sopho- more year-earlier than in any other school. They may choose biology, chemistry, or physics and mathematics for their specialization, but you can be pretty sure they'll end up in a laboratory somewhere. Graduated, they will Hr. Stearns fiddles with physics L26