St Francis Hospital School of Nursing - Lamp Yearbook (Honolulu, HI)

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affd M Ol0A2Cy 2260 Liliha St. Honolulu, Oahu lune l4, 1908 Dear Peggy, Oh, what a day this has been! And how l wished you could have been here with mel l attended the opening of the new- est wing at St. Francis Hospital to- day, and believe me, Mousie, l could hardly recognize our old alma mater. The hospital is now seventeen sto- ries high, and it extends all the way from Wyllie St., down to ludd St., imaginel The nurses' home has 450 rooms, an indoor and an outdoor swimming pool, and l2 tennis courts. Each room has a private bath, a radio, and a maid to do the cleaning. As l entered the new building l met Lt. Ann Hiratani who is stationed at the l76th Army Hospital in China. She flew in on a three day pass. Then l ran into Helen Okamoto, and Eunice Nishimoto, co-authors of the Book-of-the-Month and best seller, How to Become a Good Obstetrical Nurse in 85,000 Easy Lessons. They were busy autographing their book for some students. lune Hasegawa, looking as trim as ever, gave us some information about some of our classmates. lune is chief stewardess on the Pan-Amer- ican-Around the World flights. She informed us that she met loyce Hira- shiki down in Timbuktu. loyce is married to the French Governor there and the natives have named a hos- pital after her, The Hirashiki Hos- pital for Homesick Beachcombersf' One of the biggest surprises came when the little student nurse, who was guiding us through the new building, told us that she was the 28 daughter of Orispina Moranion. Cris- pina is the Superintendent of a hos- pital in her hometown llocos, in the Philippines. The shrill sound of a police siren brought us all to the windows to see who was being escorted to the hos- pital. And it was none other than the new singing star, Kay Koshiyama. She told us that she toured the Orient and made a hit on the new song, Shanghai Musumef' At the end of this month she plans to return to lapan where she will resume her nursing career. Alice Gomi sent a cable from Eng- land bidding aloha to all her class- mates. Alice is governess to Princess Elizabeth's two children. The ceremonies began and it was good to hear Sister lolenta's voice again. lncidentally, Sister has just returned from China, where she es- tablished a new St. Francis Hospital there. She told us that Sisters Walter Damien, Marie Therese, and Laurine were left in charge there. Glancing around we saw Ayano Fujimura trying to keep her six little boys quiet while the speakers were speaking. Ayano is a public health nurse in Lahaina, Maui. Sitting up on the speakers' plat- form and wearing the time-honored habit of the Franciscan Order was Thelma Sur. Thelma is now Sister Mary O'Flagherty, Director of Nurses at St. Francis Hospital. Sitting reverently next to Sister lo- lenta was Dr. Daisy Kaku, a special- ist in Tropical Diseases. She discov- ered a cure for Kala Azar. After the program we saw a crowd of students gathered around Frances Taguchi admiring her latest crea- tions from Paris. Frances is the Super-

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arm prolakecg -confinuecl lntendent of the largest Children's Hospital in Paris, France. An old missionary priest who had just come from the little South Sea island of Tongatabu, brought us word of the wonderful work being done there by one of our grads, ludy Yamada. ludy plans to remain in Tongatabu. Another cablegram arrived and this time it was from St. Louis, Mo. Elsie lnukai expressed her regret at not being able to get over. Elsie is now lnstructor in Nursing Arts at St. Mary's Hospital. Sadako Higa dropped over for a short visit. She is sailing tonight for lndia. Her work there in Public Health has received international ac- claim. Her husband is a Swedish doctor, very handsome, too. l had a long chat with Dr. Surnie Fukuda, the scientist who told me all about her work in Kona and of her discovery of the new drug to prevent night nurses from falling asleep. lust then a navy plane landed on the employees' volley ball court, and we could hardly believe it when we saw snappy Lt. Commander Hiroko Suemori get out of it. She flew way over fr o m Frankfurt, Germany, where she is the Superintendent of a hospital for all naval personnel. Yuriko Sakihara and her husband joined us. Yuriko is in a quandary over her two daughters. They want to go to St. Francis to become nurses despite her protests. She finally had to give her consent when they threat- ened to go on a hunger strike. Attractive Laura Kanemoto stepped out of a beautiful black limousine as we were on our way to the Dining Room-she informed us that she'll be leaving soon for South America where she was offered a position as 30 a head nurse at the Siesta General Hospital in Brazil. As l went from one department to another l met some more of the old gang. Betty lgarashi came down from surgery where she just finished a case. She has been at St. Francis ever since graduation and is now head nurse in surgery. Over in 2-E Dorothy lkehara was very, very busy with the Premies, and Clara Quintana was trying her best to keep the kiddies contented. They both did their post-graduate work in pediatrics at lohns Hopkins. We met Violet Shinagawa and Emily Matsukawa answering a mil- lion questions from a group of stu- dents about their work at the Terri- torial Hospital at Kaneohe. Violet is the surgical supervisor there, and Emily is chief psychiatric nurse. On our way to the new marble chapel for the closing Benediction Services, l met Yoshino Matsumura and Sadako Muramoto introducing their families, to each other. Yoshino has her own Day Care Center in Honolulu and Sadako is an instructor at Marquette University. Sitting next to me in chapel was Gladys Matsunaga and her hus- band, the Chief of Police. Gladys is the chief nurse for all the prisons in Hawaii. Guess who said Benedictionl That's right, you guessed it-Our own be- loved Father Valentin, and he didn't look a day older than when we were students. Well, l guess that accounts for ev- erybody. Give my best regards to your husband and for land-sakel l hope the baby that's coming is a girl for a change. Aren't nine boys enough? Aloha, Pauline.