Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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1903 . . . the first group of eight nurses ap- peared in the Simmons classrooms. 1918 . . . the School of Public Health Nursing emerged from the early training programs and hospital affiliations. Director Anne Strong's new program to produce leaders in the nursing field . . . two years of college studies, two years of classes and practice at Massachusetts General Hospital, and one year of study in public health nursing. Well nursing . . . health nursing . . . pioneer nursing . . . and in 193-1 another step forward, the new School of Nursing at Simmons. a school whose students earned both the coveted Diploma in Nursing and the Bachelor of Science Degree. 1953 . . . a record of almost nine thousand nurses receiving some part of their education at Simmons College. Academic and professional . . . intellectual and scientific . . . where does it start? A dip into economics, art. literature, history. Longer hours in the labs. Bio 10 with Dr. Solinger and frog hunts along Muddy River. The wonders of en- docrinology with Dr. Rodwell. Remember the roller coaster rides at Nantasket? CSHUOS-this is sugar? Physicshan electrifying course! wllhe Old Lamplighterf' Counting the steps from Room 110 to the home ec lab. KWhere is the solar plexus, Mr. Shepro?A: Microbiology . . . culturing dishes from the din- ing hall. Colfee time during the final-more relaxing than a sedative. s'Look. Mrs. Witton, live discovered a new bacteriumfi Sociology . . . psychology . . . child development . . . foods and nutrition-how to make trays look interesting . . . calories, color. texture, consistency. Eight weeks at Evans . . . principles and practices of pharma- cology and nursing .... The human pincushion becomes immune to measles, mumps, chicken-pox, death, and taxes. Nursing l . . . getting acquainted w'ith Massa- Experience plus culture highlight thc: Social Ethics waits while Hlr. Hadley' vnlivens the lecture with ll joke or two.

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are memories ol those frightful-but wonderful- years of growing up at Simmons. That First hour of Contemporary Society with the Pepsodent smile . . . from prehistoric man to the United Nations in one year .... American Literature with David lH. David Thoreau, that isl and the others from Brooks Farm . . , Economics . . . ah, what patience . . . if only more teachers in New England could sit in on Dr. Harley's course in education .... But probably what will remain foremost in our minds is senior year. Those terrifying experiences in Cat. and Classification . . . the 13th edition ll5!'iV?!l . . . CBI . . . KNOW you never, never, never . . il I can never remember that child's name . . . NlVly deaaah, if you do that you're going to get into trouble .... 7' Those times we'd like to wring Mr. Deweyls, lVlr. Cutter's, and Margaret lVlann's necks . . . then, that wonderful day when we found no red marks on our lab paper . . . lntroduction class with those get acquainted held trips. . . . And those blue Vlfednesday lectures . . . Mr. Booth and his eternal charts and graphs . . . func- tionalism . . . Did anyone ever do that term paper on a Survey of Surveysw? From that important Alexandrian library to the new and modernistic library at lVl.l.T .... those libraries that don't look like libraries . . . and the Reference Course. If only we could keep up-to-date . . . and to re- turn to the point of departure . . . Have I made this sufficiently confusing? . . . due Monday. . . . Remembering those organizations, periodicals, and books for lVliss Edge . . . How could so many books be fascinating? . . . those oral talks on half- read books . . . annotations and bibliographies . . . What objectives will you have in your library? These things we won't forget as We follow our various careers of marriage, child rearing, andfor library work. ation ond cross indexing What! We have to make secondary en- tries tracings-aml assign call numbers too? There are so many fascinating books and periodicals that there just isn't time. . .

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vhuselts General Hospital. Smooth, impersonal efhciency becomes familiar. Antiseptic atmosphere and rubber-heeled shoes are old friends. From loting books to toting bedpans in one easy lesson. The operating rooms . . . that appendix? The orthopedies ward . . . trac- tion, s lint, cast-where is the patient? Shall P we send the doctors back to school for a class in calligraphy . . . or is it hieroglyphics? arn some more until the What did I do with Learn, work, and le fourth year is part of the past. But it's not past- the knowledge and training carry over that four- week recuperation-vacation, and continue during the months at Childrenis, McLean, and the Boston Lyinv-In, More learning and more work in that U fifth year with the Boston Visiting Nurses Associa- tion. More yet in the professional career to fol- l Y. And it all adds up to learning that stimu- ow lates and work that satisfies . . . the goal of the SllDlHOI1S ll ll FSC. - ----.- M -3 ----ri U New e e I v n n Evangeline H. Nlorris, Director of School of Nursing S0 I , A S Q 'rm Q Q X f' W .-i' r W: I as A The ,52 Summer Session group cheer- fully lines up en masse aml in uniform.