Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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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.

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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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1938, the baby of the schools . . . Dr. Harrison L. Harley first and now retiring di- rector of the School of Preprofessional Studies. A baccalaureate degree . . . the prerequisite for graduate study . . . broad general study on the undergraduate level . . . specialization on the graduate level. A background in . . . EC. 20 and Mr. Nichols whose untiring patience finally pulled us through . . . English electives . . . HI like Wylie . . . ul go Miller , . . . Hawthorne's American History . . . You mean the Pilgrims werenit Puritans? . . . a million and one reasons for the Civil Vvar .... Mr. Bush's philosophic art lectures . . . who can spell Quetzalcoatal, Ashurnasirpal, Praxiteles . . . wonder trips to the Museum of Fine Arts and all the people who joined our group because they thought Mr, Bush was giving a guided tour . . . the beauties of the Wiriged Victory of Samothrace . . . th-e Dying Gaul . . . the Laocoon. . . . 0 Il-gilt:-d:3iloli.SIdl!iZnIsiyi:f Preprofessional Studies ' G n G I Political theory students study the major premises of Aristotle wih Mr. Tollefson.