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

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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

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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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