Watts School of Nursing - White Cap Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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aa Now don’t you worry. We send you weekly reports of your daughter's activities. We won't tell her that though, will we?! Take my advice, if you play your cards right, you could have all these girls eating out of your hands. The big highlight of Freshman orientation is waiting in line for their pet cockroach assignment.

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REGISTRATION Registration ... it’s so confusing! Stand in line. Go here. Go there. Money, clubs, keys, books, stickers, name tags, fees ... “Good grief, I only wanted to pay my tuition, not buy the place!” It’s so frustrating, but it’s the first step toward a professional nursing diploma from Watts, and frustrating as it is, we all find it worthwhile later (hopefully). It seems this first requirement (of all in- coming Freshmen), the achievement of a state of total bewilderment, is very easy to meet ... es- pecially that first day! But with a lot of patience and understanding from the administration and faculty, and a generous amount of “intestinal fortitude” from the Freshmen, the whole affair comes off in a fairly graceful style. Then, finally, when “all is right with the world” (at Watts), the next task is moving in. Try to look busy! They're taking our picture. Ae we yg it LER we x aay! Congratulations! Here’s your scholarship. You can always count on a Junior to turn a fast buck!

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MOVING IN ... Thank goodness for Big Sisters! They're so helpful and kind ... and strong! This is usually the only time a Freshman wishes she had brought her brother to help her lug every article she owns from the station wagon up three flights of steps and to her room at the other end of the hall. Moving in is usually a happy time for housemothers whose tremendous, warm and waiting wings are surpassed in size only by their hearts. But this is a sad time (usually) for Mom and Dad. Teary-eyed, they reluc- tantly turn and walk away after dozens of “good- byes”, hugs, kisses, “don’t forget to write,” and “call us collect if you need to.” But most of all, this is a growing time for each individual Freshman. Sud- denly, they realize that they stand on the threshold of a whole new experience. Now it’s time to “try their wings” and somehow it seems reckoning with this new experience is almost awesome. Learning to deal with this new endeavor, the first year of nursing school, is only the beginning of an incredible, fan- tastic, three year journey. The start of that first year here at Watts is merely the beginning of .. . a trilogy. “You're only staying a week!” RSL AOE IE Ses re . nae ‘We ” “The things I could tell you ... Carol Gemmer and Jean Gates.