St Anthonys School of Nursing - Acorn Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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51- ,?mtIyn11g'z 51 an m h n rw DE PROGRAM Opening Chorus - Waiting for the Robert E. Lee Mr. Interlocutor-Dr. Charles Cochrane Aecordianist - Dr. J. B. Eskridge, III SWanee', - Gladys Sherman DANCERS Norma Sellars -Martha Kusek SOLOISTS Helen Brickell - Ioye McDole TRIO Helen Brickell - Joye McDole Mary E. Kelly CHORUS Helen Brickell Gladys Sherman Eva Suva Norma Sellars joye McDole Mamie Rogers Laetitia Wagner Gloria Schulien Mary E. Kelly Dera Hankins Pianist: Ruth Starker Make-up: Dorothy Quinan Planned by: Dr. C. Cochrane, Helen Bode, Mary Futrell FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1952 EIGHT O'CLOCK NURSES, HOME AUDITORIUM CONTRIBUTIONS TO ST. ANTHONY'S JAMBOREE FOR LIBRARY FUND CONNIE'S PRESCRIPTION SHOP THE LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK 8: TRUST COMPANY CONNELLY CONSTRUCTION COMPANY OSLER PRESCRIPTION SHOPPE DeCOURSEY MILK COMPANY SUNSHINE CLEANERS Sc LAUNDRY THE FIDELITY NATIONAL BANK 81 TRUST COMPANY COLONIAL BAKING COMPANY SMITH Sc KERNKE FUNERAL DIRECTORS TRAVELERS' INN HAWK'S SOUTH SIDE DAIRY IDEAL CLEANERS WHEELER 8: STUCKEY PRESCRIPTION SERVICE WATTS' FUNERAL HOME PETTEE'S HARDWARE STORES DAVIDSON 85 CASE LUMBER COMPANY ST. THOMAS MORE BOOK STALL KAMP BROTHERS GROCERY 85 BAKERY KATHRYN'S FLOWER SHOP

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PRCDPHECY CDF Tl-IE CLASS OF 1952 As I stepped out of the cab and looked about at my surroundings, I felt completely lost. This was St. Anthony's, all right, but had it ever changed. There was a new addition to the hospital in which five more stories had been added. The Nurses' Home was a completely new building. To think that ten years 'could make such a change. Why, it seems only yesterday, when I start daydreaming about my three years at St. Anthony's and my classmates. We were the mighty 52 ! 52 strong we stood in the year of 1952. But, I must stop this reminiscing and go into the new nurses' home and find out the whereabouts of my class- mates. The escalator took me directly into the reception room where l was met by the housemother, Miss Francis Boudreau. Yes, our little Pinky has fallen right into Mamma Mahin's tootsteps! Aside from doing research work in Dermatology, Pinky manages the 500 student nurses quite well. I almost didn't recognize the quiet, shy, Sister Mary Alicia. Since she has taken over as Director of Student Nurses she has lost that shy nature. She can say quite frankly and with much authority, Y0u're getting entirely too many overnights lately, are you sure you're going home? Poor students-same old line! Downstairs in the linen room was Margaret Allen. She replaced Mrs. Davidson right after graduation. Margaret is doing free private duty nursing in' her spare time. She specials only Orthopedic patients. W'ell, those were the only members of our class in the nurses' home, so I decided to walk over to the hospital to see who was on the nursing staff. Since Sister de Lourdes replaced Sister Agnes, she was absolutely too busy to talk with me. I heard she was investigating the new boiler room. You all remember when the old one blew up back in 1952. Also, maybe you'rI like to know that Sister received the Nobel Prize of 1962 for her new book on Hospital Administration. Grace Kerntke and Beverly Geier are graduates on first floor. They have invented an ingenious type of closed flow irrigation in which the retention catheter drains into a hidden pipe in the floor, which has a gauge that registers output. Those girls were smart, no bottles to empty. Most of you will be glad to hear that jerry Eckroat finally married Bob. After working on One South for the past ten years, she finally earned enough time off. Miss Wolf, even agreed to work extra time in order that jerry and Bob could take a honeymoon. Sister Mary Michael has long since replaced Sister Louise in Pediatrics, and is she ever a peach-Sister M. Michael, I mean. Her two efficient graduates are Marjie West who answers the telephone and Bertha Ann Thesman who accompanies the doctors. Literally speaking, that is. Holding down the fort at night as graduate is none other than Marcheta Teague. Her famous words They couldn't drag me out of here with a team of mules. Replacing Mrs, jones in Central Supply was Martha Shimanek. I do hope Martha will be a little more lenient with the hypo cotton. Peggy Tippit and Barbara Yazzie were second floor graduates, I was told, but they both quit. Peg is kept busy these days trying to be a true, loyal Texan. At the present, she is living in the beautiful Highland Park addition in the great metropolis of Dallas, while Babs has returned to New Mexico, where she is doing nursing on horseback. After assisting with a delivery in a car while she was in training, Louise Pike was encouraged to take up midwifery in the hills of Arkansas. She has been seen riding her donkey from dawn to dusk. But good old Weezie, she has given all this up to take Miss Costello's place in O.B. Nelda Schoonover has replaced the Why don't you graduate Miss Kennedy, while Jodie Brickell is singing lullabies to the babies in the nursery. Up on seventh floor in surgery are Polly Porter and Mary Priess. Being joint editors of the A.j.N. and supervisors in surgery certainly keeps those gals busy. Across the street from the hospital is a beautiful Psychiatric Clinic. Eleanor Lacy, and Mary Morrison have teamed up with a noted Psychiatrist to help those poor unforunate individuals suffering with D.T.'s. Do you suppose that Babe and Lace are experienced enough in such a field? Also in this Clinic in the O.T. department, Mary Louise Abel is doing a wonderful job of rehabilitating the patients. In all her spare time, she is taking shrinking exercises so that she will be able to wear heels with Tom. Was I ever surprised when I read in the New York Times that Elizabeth Ann Linninger was voted Mother of the Year. The birth of her triplets--all boys-must have caught the eye of the judges, for now she and Bill are the proud parents of eleven bouncing boys. By the way, Lynn is the youngest mother ever to receive this National Award. Critics are going wild over the new Kate Smith. Ioan Plisek brought the house down at Carnegie Hall-her very first recital. Good luck, joan. Reminiscing again, I can always remember Mary Deibel being sur- rounded by men. Well, low and behold she is fulfilling her life long ambition by being housemother at the Sigma Chi Fraternity in Norman. The boys just love her. Two of our girls are tied for the Miss World title. The two raving beauties are Betty Ann Townsend and Sue Moinette. The judges can't decide between the brunette or the redhead. ln the meantime Betty Ann and Sue are having the time of their lives waiting for the decision in Paris, France. Also in Europe at Oslo, Switzerland, is Colleen Ryan. Colleen is there for the Olympics. She has been praised by the sportsters as the greatest woman sport since Babe Zaharas. For the third consective year Mrs. Michael jones, the former Ruth Starker, has taken the title of The Best Dressed Woman of the Year, Everyone was so disappointed when Ruthie was unable to go to New York to accept the title, but Ruth smiled her own sweet smile in ex- planation, 'fMike, jr. has the mumps. The Naval Department in Washington, D. C. is mourning the loss of three of their favorite nurses, Kathleen Donovan, Jean Trindle, and Eileen Maher. They are resigning to marry Rear Admirals, but cheer up Navy, there will be plenty of little sailors later on. The State Board Committee has finally discovered the brilliancy of Sister Helena. She is now President, Ah! beware, ye state board appli- cants! Speaking of the Sisters, I passed through Maryville, Missouri last month and stopped at the mother house, where I was greeted at the door by Mother Monica. She is fulfilling the honor with the greatest of dignity and charm, Being her classmate, she personally escorted me about the convent. As we were looking about the kitchen, there sat a little old nun peeling potatoes. Ten years certainly has aged Sister Francis, but they say she is the best potato-peeler this side of Texas. Entertaining at one of her annual Brunches, for the 1962 graduates of St. Anthony's, Lola Mae Tippit couldn't have been more beautiful. She was utterly dripping with diamonds. Speaking of entertaining, Betty Shimanek is having Open House to celebrate the new hospital in Duncan that she and her Doctor hus- band, Frank, will open soon. Seen buzzing about town these days in her custom made, hard top, black, Cadillac convertible is Ann Nix. Between making pictures for M.G.M. studios, and doing Psychiatric Nursing, Ann is kept on the run constantly. Be sure to see her new musical comedy, Giggles Glues. Recruiting student nurses throughout the US. is General Pat Hickey of the U.S.A.F. and Commodore JoAnn Richardson, of the Navy. It was my extreme privilege that they were visiting St. An- thony's at the time I was there, and they enjoyed their visit too, as Tut and Bob were stationed at Tinker Field, As I was relaxing by the swimming pool on the roof of the hospital, CSL Anthony'sj, I noticed in the society column of the Coalgate Times, the approaching marriage of Mary jo Blua on April 2. Could it be that Mary jo misunderstood Leonard when he said 1952, thinking he said 1962-I wonder. . While her husband is working for his Ph. D., Mrs. Bob Short, the former Mary McGinnis is Director of Nurses at Central State Hospital in Norman. She has done wonders with the hospital. Also at Central State is joy Richards. She is supervisor of Geriatrics and doing a swell job, I hear. After being the efficient scrub nurse for Coston and Trent for the past 10 years, Myra Fleming quit to team up with that famous South American' dancer, Carlos DeLouis. They are opening next week at the Copacabana. Orchids to you, Myra. Still following their husbands from camp to camp are Johnnie Karr and Mary Bea Renshaw. They are doing private duty nursing in order to accumulate enough money to make the next trip with their husbands which they think will be to Utopia. Willa Dene Harrison, now Mrs. Gabe Hoye is residing in Canada. They are known as the Black Gold Couple of Canada. Per usual Velma Hollman is bursting with energy. Besides teaching practical nursing to the teen-agers of her home town of Okarche, she has started two wheat farms there. Brownie Hickey has given up her nursing career Csad to sayj to help her husband Cartcher raise cattle on their 1,000-acre ranch near Hennessy, but it has proved profitable, as their Angus bull won top honor at Madison Square Garden. Making National Headlines this week for her successful fete of swimming the English Channel was Evelyn Edwards. When asked for a statement by the press she replied nonchalantly, It was my fluttering eyelids that kept me afloat. Well, that takes in the Mighty 52. As for your author, well, I'm teaching The Art of Gracefulness at Texas LI. ANNE Nxscr-is-Class '52