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Entering nursing was self-sacrifice and self-denial, the giving up of one's home and devoting your life to the service of others. Nurse-doctor relationship was to be strictly professional. Nurses were forbidden to have social conversation with medical students or doctors and to see them after hours was just out of the question. However, twenty graduated with me and four married doctors. Even the telephone conversations were censored when the coding was discovered. S.O.M.P. meant same old meeting place. Then there was trusty Wilbur, a night orderly who conveyed notes for nurses and doctors. One night he was hailed by the medical superintendent as he made rounds, and asked Wilbur where he was going. I was asked to get some specimen bottles from the lab. Excuse me, Doctor, I have to coughf' He turned around and coughed and swallowed the note. Paper eater Wilbur saved the nurse's neck and the incident re- mained a standing joke for some time. The unfortunate nurse to be caught was punished by a night duty stretch, special duty, or suspension oflate leavesf, . . . From the University of Maryland Nurses' Alumnae Association Bulletin. Vol., 38, 1959-1960. Pages 47,48 S
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As the school grew, we heard that a new home for the nurses was to be built. We were to receive 358.00 a month, and furnish our own uniforms and books. After the new home was completed, we had more room and more comforts. The chapel was made into a sitting room, where occasionally we had music, or a dance, and the Little Lady In White would occasionallyjoin in the merry-making. . . . From the University Hospital Nurses' Alumnae Bulletin, 1925, p. 11. 7
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71 l I 92 i f G- V f ,,. W. ., 1. yy, 1 K 3?-Q2 ,- . .7 sm .Q In appreciation ofthe splendid professional con- tribution Miss Parsons made in organizing and estab- lishing the school, the new Nurses, Home was dedi- cated in her honor in 1922. It still maintains its iden- tity as the Louisa Parsons Home and Miss Parsons' portrait is prominently placed in the home. . . . From a Presentation given by Mrs. john Paul Troy, january 20, 1939. During the second World War, the nurses of Uni- versity Hospital in cooperation with the medical staff, provided a very vital and significant sewice to this area and abroad. . , .1144 4' I ,mo penptoph I l 4 I I 1 R . Y '1 waW,fz:s 1' 9
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