Swedish Covenant Hospital School of Nursing - Candle Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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l Senior Cla A Prophecy I Elsa: Dorothy Dobbs is on fourth floor, And I helieve that Ille Pulins is still leaching pharmacology to the prohiesf' Elsie: And don't forget the housemothers over at the dorm - Joyce Parker and Lois Peterson. fConnie johnson, present supervisor on 2 North, hobbles into the room.j Elsa: And last but not least - here comes our own Connie johnson, supervisor on 2 North. Connie: How are you today my clears? Elsie: IVell, my cast hurts and I was wondering if you could pad it a little. Connie: 'Wvhy of course, dearie, show me where it hurts. Elsa: Say, Connie. we were just discussing old times and getting all of the latest scoop on our classmates. Do you know any news? fConnie takes a letter from her pocket.j Connie: I just got a letter from Nancy Kristopherson. She and her husband, Ray, are living in Florida now, you know. Yes, I guess Ray decided that he liked Nancy looking like a little colored gal . . . isn't that what he used to call her? Elsa: Yes, she used to make us look sick every time she came hack from vacation. Elsie: XVhat else does she say? Connie: Guess who she saw last month at a carpenter's convention . . . Viv Anderson. It seems that Ernie was president or something. She says Viv looks fine . . . wears her hair in a pug now. And 'l'illie XVeins stopped in to see them two months ago. She and her husband were on their second honeymoon. They said it was more fun than the first one. Isnlt that cute? . . . Guess that's all the news. Elsa: Say, I wonder whatever happened to Barb Thayer. Connie: O, she was head industrial nurse at Bauer and Black for years . . .guess she's retired now. Elsie: IVhat happened to McKeever? Elsa: She's still supervisor of the psycho ward down at Cook County. I guess she just had a yen for that line of work. Elsie: Remember when she was on affiliation down there, and that patient escaped on her. He pried a window har off or something and there was old Mac, chasing him down the hall! Connie: Did you know that Virginia Johnson isn't working with Dr. Sigmond in his Orthopedic Hospital anymore? Elsie: Is that right . . . I wonder how her knee is. How 111any operations did he do on her knee anyway? . . . Elsa: I don't know. Do you know that I saw old Helen Carlson's picture in a big New York newspaper! .. . Quite a socialite . . . married a rich doctor, you know. Connie: Yes, I guess we all had dreams like that. Elsa: Whatever became of Edna Francis? Elsie: O, the last I heard, she took up photography. I guess she liked working in a dark room! Elsa: And do you know that Evelyn Engblom is still in Sweden? She went there the summer after gradua- tion and never came back. She sure forgot those tall, dark, handsome men in America fast enough! Connie: KVell, girls, I guess I must he getting on if I'm going to finish my rounds. Elsie: Say Connie, do you know when they will move us to Nelson Hall? Connie: Next week, I believe: and do you know they are going to put you in with Mrs. McGrath's grand- daughter? . . . won't that he fun! Elsa: Yes, but I wish we weren't going so soon. Elsie: 'AYes, they'll make us get up and everything! Oh! Elsa: And this is the end.

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Senior Cla A Prvplaecy The scene is a hospital room at the Swedish Covenant Hospital. The year is 2006. In the room we lind the former student, Ella Halla and Elsa Knudsen, who have both fractured their hips. As the scene opens Elsie H. is reading a letter she has received from her former classmate Millie Keller. Elsie: Oh, listen to this Elsa, lloesn't that sound just like Millie. 'After being here in Bolivia for forty eight years, and reaching the ripe old age of seventy three, I have become just like the people here with only two speeds - slow and stop.' Elsa: Oh yes, doesn't that sound just like hcl. Say, isn't lxlfjlllll Klint on the nlission field too? Elsie: 'AOh yes, but didn't you know her nane isn't Klint anymore. She married a plumber out on the field. Elsa: A plumber! That ought to suit her line. Remember the time when she flooded the sterilizers batik in O.B ,... Boy, was that funny! There she stood, ankle deep in water and mopping like mad. And all the time the water was leaking down to third lloor. Elsie: Oh, those fourth floor memories. Remember the time Audrey Mouthaan's boyfriend snuck up the back way and they were overheard talking. Her boyfriend said: 'Hey Aud, do your eyes bother you? Aud told him 'No'. XVell, they sure bother me,' he said. I wonder which one that was - Andy, Rog or Art. She surely had the boyfriends. Elsa: And who was it Elsie, that we used to call 'the stork? Oh yes. Nystrom. Remember how she used to get called out for sections night after night. I guess they knew she was the motherly type. Elsie: How many children does she have anyway - eight, wasn't it? Elsa: I believe so, but I think Carol johnson beat her. Do you realize she had ten children, fholding up her knottingj and this is the forty-third bonnet I've knit for that familyfl Elsie: Oh, this cast is tight. Since Marilyn Stark went into retirement they certainly don't have a very good E. R. supervisor. This is my second cast, tool Elsa: They did a good job on us in surgery, though. Elsie: XVe were i11 good hands. Elsa: Yes, with Evelyn Rohrbach as the anesthetist and Dorothy Hultberg supervising the whole thing, how could we lose? Elsie: I suppose eventually they will transfer us to Nelson Hall. They say that Carolyn Swalin will have to retire from her job as supervisor there pretty soon. ' Elsa: Well, she's had a full life. Elsie: Oh, here's an interesting little tidbit, Elsa, listen: 'I heard that Carolyn Coleman won her last trophy in a tennis tournament held down in Rio de Jan- iero last monthf Isn't it funny how Carolyn mar- ried that Parish fellow and how they won tennis tournaments together all over the country. and to think she won her last trophy at the age of seventy- three! I wonder whatever happened to Dot Vander Veer, she was always such a tennis fan. Elsa: Oh didn't you know - she became the physical education instructor out at Westmont College. Elsie: Oh, really? fSeveral students go by the doorj Elsa: Have you noticed how pert these students look? I guess Arnell and Elna Pete really make them toe the mark. How long have they been superintendent and assistant now? Elsie: f'XYell, nigh unto forty years, I guess. Let's see, who else have they got on the staff here from our class? Elsa: XVell, there's Verlyn Hultman, occupational ther- apist at Nelson Hall. Elsie: And don't forget Nancy Thomson, head of C,S, She always did clean a mean steri-tube. Then there's Goldie Fooy, supervisor on 2 South.

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6116454 60Uel'ldl'lt Sckoofot Mfding gl'Cl6!ll,dfe5 An active Alumnae Association binds the graduates of our school together in the interest of service to others. Meetings are held the first Monday of each month. The programs are in- teresting, informative, and educational. Each year a Homecoming Tea and Dinner are planned which bring many graduats from far and near back to their Alma Mater giving opportunity to meet friends and see progressive changes in their school. Our graduates are hlling places of responsibility in many Helds in almost every state of the union. The Alumnae Association has an active missionary program in addition to their other functions. The first nurse graduated from the Swedish Covenant Hospital School of Nursing in 1900. It is significant that she went to China to serve as a nurse on our pioneer mission field Since that time 874 nurses have completed their course in our school. Out of this number, 52 are serving Christ as medical missionaries in twenty-One different countries throughout the world. Hatii Fr. West Africa Br. West Africa India Nicaragua Alaska japan Sudan Guatamala New Guinea Puerto Rico Ethopia Belgian Congo Formosa Brazil Pakistan Fr. Equatorial Africa Columbia Indonesia Ecuador Nigeria 58