St Francis School of Nursing - Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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SE l0ll CLASS WILL We the Seniors of 1955, being in mental strain and broken down bodies do hereby declare this our last will and testament. To Sister Eulalia and Sister Aquinata we leave our appreciation for their guidance during the past three years. To Dr. and Mrs. Fowler Poling we leave our thanks for the wonderful parties and their interest in our class. To Miss Virginia Brown we leave our appreciation for her help as class advisor. To Agnes we eave our sincere hope that we have not caused you to have too many gr eyhairs . f To the Juniors we leave our ability to make money and also our place as Seniors in the ca eteria. To the Freshmen we leave our private rooms in hopes that you can keep them all occupied for the next two years. Donna Chizek wills her bottle of Vicks to Betty Krentzel. To be used the year round. Jeanette Hickel wills her shock blocks to Geraldine Hawes. Hope you enjoy sleeping with your feet in the air. Pat Heerey wills her many nights on call and a bottle of no-doze to Tillie Stegman. Phyllis Blankley wills her place in the alley to anyone who can keep it as occupied as she has the last two years. Helen Bergkamp wills her door stopper, the big rock we mean, to all the girls who have stubbed their toe on it. Leona Jasper wills her love for bike riding to Sister Eulalia. Mary Biermann wills her interest in the Air Force to Demetra Lefas. Doris Gray wills her fear of cats to anyone who can bear it. Ginny Powers wills her position as President of the Senior class to anyone with nerves of steal. Frenchie Wohlschelgel wills her favorite schoolhouse swing to anyone who has a secret love. Mary Ellen Cheek wills her morbid fear of mice to Shirley Stutzman. Hope you can keep the dead ones out of your bed. Louise Lucas wills her ability to out-argue anyone to Vonnie Bottin. Drueselia Evans wills her cool and calm ways to Celia Kassin. Betty Berger wills her ability to keep smiling to the Cunningham Sisters. Ann Ruddick wills her room to anyone who thinks they can keep the four Johns quiet. Pat Braaf and Betty Wenger will their favorite son Anchors Away to all Navy lovers. Olly Denton and Mary Evelyn Lynch will their intelligence to Coreen Dickinson and Darlene Eisenbart. Ellene Hamilton wills her vocabulary and ability to use it to Lois McKnight. Alice Zorn wills her hearty laugh to Patsy Hamilton. Katie Whitley wills her many nights of waiting in a rnortuary to Coreen Dickinson. Alvena Ricke wills her wanderin mind to anyone who can catch it. Bonnie Morton wills her ironing ioard to future fifth floor occupants. Hope you can keep it hid from Sister. Ann Patzner wills her love for her work to Janet Vestring. Lee Rauh wills her vim, vigor, and vitality to her sister Carol. Bea Steiner wills her all purpose coffee pot to Sister Martina and her nutrition class. Rose Marie Blackmore wills her ability to get a man to propose to Catherine Seiwert. Verna Tajchman wills her freckles to Florence Caves. Darlene Winter wills her cheerfulness to Wilma Schumacher. Oleta Dickerson wills her elephant named Abe to anyone who needs a good companion. Evelyn Jackson wills her slow graceful walk to Carol Ross. Elaine Mizuguchi wills Wichita to the first person who will give her a one-way ticket to Hawaii. Delores May wills her quiet ways to Norma Halsey. Wanda Battle wills her love for the opposite sex to Virginia Meyers. Aletd. Alban wills her love for South American dances to Mary Clark. Francis Montford wills her interest in the production of false teeth to Joan Peitz. Joan Potts wills her speedy steps to Shirley Snell. Clarinda Tritt wills her patience in waiting to all engaged girls. Lee Mason wills her classical records to Rita Dold. Pat Wagner wills her ambition to become a cattleman's wife to Joan McLane. Ann Roets wills her mysterious letters to anyone who needs a lover. Betty Middaugh wills her ambition to be a doctors wife to anyone who can catch an intern. Dorothy Sauer and Martha Samples will their home town parties to anyone who wants to forget their troubles. Sister Mary Julietta wills her good grades to Juanita Vilgare. Sister Mary Cordula wills her winning smile to Jeanie enBarge. Last but not least, the Senior class would like to leave the rubber heels from our worn out shoes to Miss Thom in order to keep the library a little quieter.

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PIHIPIIECY As they boarded the plane for home they were quite surprised when they met their airline hostess, Verna Tajchman. At present Vernie is trying to decide which of six handsome pilots she should marry. Stopping off in New York they attended an opera. Star of the operetta was Oleta Dickerson. After the opera, Oleta took them all down to Evelyn .Tackson's house. Evelyn is now the world's favorite model. In their spare time they do private duty in Bellevue Hospital, where they occasionally run into Ann Patzner, who scrubs for her husband doctor, a famous orthopedic surgeon. They travel all over the United States doing surgery. Ann has run into several of her classmates on their recent trip to Mayo Clinic. She saw Alice Zorn and Pat Heerey. Alice is head nurse in Urology, and she has supplied Mayo with many new rnethods which she learned from Dr. Pauley while at St. Francis. Due to Pat's love for first East, she is studying new methods for treatment of skin patients. Whi e talking to Pat and Alice, Ann heard of the admission to Mayo of two Wichitan's, namely Reese Blackmore and her husband Heindrich. They are being treated by a famous cardiologist. Traveling to Seattle, Washington Ann ran into Betty Berger. Bob was transferred there by Boeing, as President. Betty has taken up industrial nursing at his plant. Recently, I attended a meeting of the American Nurses Association in California. The guest speaker was our old classmate, Helen Bergkamp. She spoke on child psychology. After her .extensive study in psychiatry, she has travled all over making speeches, and in her spare time she writes. Her latest edition is Love 'Em and Leave 'Em. After the meeting Helen and I ran into Rinda Tritt. Due to her excellent experience as a nurse and her artistic abilities she has been commissioned by the ANA to design more efficient hospitals and hospital equipment. Rinda told us that she is helping Ellene Hamilton with the interior decorating of her ultra-modern apartment. Ellene is the nation's favorite nurse star. During Helen's travels she ran into Mary -Ellen Cheek, who is now living in Mexico with Bob. Living in their adobe hacienda, they grow cactus in the patio, which they ship all over the world. Also down there she ran into Delores May, who is now corresponding secretary for WHO fWorld Health Organizationl. She was making a study on Nursing in Mexico. Down in Florida, she found Annie Roets, sunning on the beach, She was trying to decide if she should marry Benny or join the convent. Traveling through Colorado she stopped off in Denver and there visited Joan Potts and her husband Vince. After learning to love children in pedia- trics she now has nine of her own. Vince has opened a pharmacy of his own and in .Toan's spare time she is trying to discover a new narcotic out of pine trees. Last, but not least Helen spoke of her dear old friends Leona Jasper and Darlene Winter. Leona is in Wyoming. Determined to marry an outdoor man, she went out there and roped a cowboy. She, with her husband and seven little cowhands star yearly in the Cheyenne Rodeo. Darlene, giving up her ambition to be a farmer's wife is now in the hills of Kentucky teaching midwives. Taking one last look at the new plaque on my door, I left my office wondering what the next ten years would bring for the class of 1955. Motto: The lamp is heavy but the reward is great Colors: Blue and Silver Flower: American Beauty Rose Song: You'l1 Never Walk Alone Advisor: Miss Virginia Brown 45

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