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Nurses' Alumnae Association Bulletin, June 1969
Katherine Fleck Saunders
Mabel C. Prevost
Doris E. Bowman
Carolyn M. Carey
Elizabeth J. Sweeney
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Recommended Citation Saunders, Katherine Fleck; Prevost, Mabel C.; Bowman, Doris E.; Carey, Carolyn M.; Sweeney, Elizabeth J.; Pennypacker, N. Ramsay; Riland, Martha E.; Stone, Elizabeth; Watkins, Deidre M.; McCracken, Julia T.; Frazier, Evelyn W.; Piersol, Betty; Summers, Margaret; Roche, Florence; Herbut, Peter A.; and MacIndoe, John H., "Nurses' Alumnae Association Bulletin, June 1969" (1969). Nursing Alumni Bulletins. Paper 25. https://jdc.jefferson.edu/nursing_alumni_bulletin/25
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This newsletter is available at Jefferson Digital Commons: https://jdc.jefferson.edu/nursing_alumni_bulletin/25 NURSES' ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION BULLETIN
1891 1969
School of Nursing
of the
Jefferson Medical College Hospital
JUNE 1969 NURSES' ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION BULLETIN
JUNE 1969 IN THIS ISSUE
Alumnae President's Message ...... 1
Officers and Chairmen ...... 2
Financial Report ...... 2
Progressive Changes at Jefferson ...... 3
School of Nursing Report ...... 6
Student Activities ...... 8 '· .. · School of Practical Nursing ReJ>Ort ...... 10
Jefferson Expansion Report ...... 11
Clerk-Typist Report ...... 11
Committee Reports :
Social ...... 12 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Program ...... 13 Dear AI umnae : Bulletin ...... 14 Again, it is my pleasure to send you a brief word of greeting and my best wishes. Ways and Means ...... 14 During the past year we have continued ~o gro~ by complet!ng the furnis_h ings of your alumnae room. To complete this proJect a par_t time clerk-typist Resume of Alumnae Meetings ...... 19 has been authorized to handle the mail and other office functiOns of our organ ization. This position has been filled by one of our own alumna, Miss Martha Riland. Class News ...... 27 As announced the Adele Lewis Fund has been designated to be used as a Scholarship Fund for Student Nurses. Your response to our request for funds 1969 CLINIC Correspondence ...... 46 has been most gratifying and with your continued support the Fund will con tinue to grow. Notices ...... Inside Back Cover I wish to thank the Board of Directors, the Committee Chairmen and all of the members for their help and support given to me over the last two years. Katherine Fleck Saunders, 1928 1 PROGRESSIVE CHANGES AT JEFFERSON JEFFERSON NURSES' ALUMNAE FINANCIAL REPORT
ASSOCIATION BULLETIN DECEMBER 31, 1968 This past year has, like many previous ones, marked significant progress at Jefferson. Since change seems to be a constant factor, it is difficult for those Published Annually of us who are on the scene to remember just what took place and when. RECEIPTS; Last year, we reported the opening of the new Emergency Room. This OFFICERS Dues and Reinstatements ...... $ 4,625.00 Sale of Bulletins ...... 212.00 Unit has been extremely busy, and we have been seeing a signific:mt daily increase in the number of patients. In her usual tradition, Jefferson is utilizing President Annual Luncheon Reservations. 1,233.55 KATHERINE F. SAUNDERS, '28 these experiences for teaching as well as for offering excellent patient emergency Interest on Saving-s Accounts . . 1,748.70 care. First Vice-President Miscellaneous ...... 376.37 PERMA E. DAVIS, '41 Contributions, Annual Giving- In October, the Louis B. and Ida K. O rlowitz Apartment Building was and Special Projects : opened, and all of its units were leased, and most of them were occupied within Second Vice-President General Fund ...... 1,309.50 the month. These bright, attractive living accommodations are so popular that LOUISE B. FOX, '62 Relief Fund ...... 1,329.32 there is already a long waiting list for the coming year. Recording Secretary Scholarship Fund ...... 1,909.00 FLORENCE ROCHE, '56 Jefferson Hall, the unique, beautiful combined Basic Science and Student Building- Fund ...... 22,358.46 Commons Building, is now fully occupied. This, the largest building of its Secretary-Treasurer Total Receipts $35,101.90 kind in the country, is functional in its provisions for teaching and learning and CAROLINE MASUDA, '37 yet provides a multitude of recreational facilities such as a swimming pool, DISBURSEMENTS ; game room, music lounges, social lounges and many meeting rooms. Its faci lities BOARD OF DIRECTORS Scholarships Granted ...... $ 1,500.00 are available to all students and employees. Annual Luncheon Expense . . . . 1,787.47 MABEL PREVOST. '29 If you were to visit the Student Nurses' Residence, you would see still EVELYN R. CURRAN, '35 Convention Expenses ...... 2,222.00 more building and construction taking place. Located between the Residence ERMA C. PAINTER, '32 Printing, Mailing and Stationery 672.86 and the Orlowitz Building is the site of the Scott Memorial Library and Admin VALERIE O'DONNELL, '64 Sick Benefits for Members . . . . 583.32 istration Building. The first floors will house the Library collections and the top BEVERLY RUPP, '56 Graduation Prizes ...... 100.00 floor, Jefferson's Administration- the President and Vice-Presidents, as well MARGARET COSSMAN, '41 Building Fund Pledg-e ...... 22,358.46 as the Personnel, Purchasing, Plant Management and other Departments of (ex officio) Contributions-United Fund, the Corporation. Career Research- T. B. Assoc. 200.00 Other Operating Expenses . . . . 1,245.00 Jefferson's real estate is expanding east and west and north and south of COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN its original buildings. Further acquisition of the Washington Square West Urban Social T atal Disbursements $30,669.11 Renewal area will take place this year and application for finances to build a ELIZABETH STONE, '35 Excess of receipts over School of Health Sciences, a Center for Continuing Education, and a Central Prog-ram disbursements ...... $ 4,432.79 Underground Garage have already been submitted. Our School of Nursing DEIDRE M. WATKINS, '67 administration and educational facilities will be located in the School of Health CASH BALANCE- Sciences. Several Task Forces are meeting to discuss the needs of Jefferson Membership December 31, 1967 ...... $47,981.46 in the planning of a new hospital building and the expansion of many programs. VIOLET ORLAND, '37 As is the case in other large teaching hospitals, Jefferson is becoming more Scholarships CASH BALANCE-December 31, 1968: and more involved in community problems and activities. Several years ago, DORIS BOWMAN, '42 General Fund- the Children and Youth program was begun and more recently the Community Ways and Means Checking- Account ...... $ 4,479.71 Mental Health Center was established. Both of these offer services and coun MARGARET SUMMERS, '41 Savings Account ...... 4,471.39 selling to the population in city health districts south of Market Street and N aminating Relief Fund ...... 16,213.25 between the two rivers. In addition, four patient buildings at Philadelphia State MABEL PREVOST, '29 Building Fund ...... 750.00 Hospital have been assigned to us for patient care. Our psychiatric staff and Scholarship Fund ...... 820.58 student nurses on affiliation serve these patients, and many when discharged Sick and Welfare Adele Lewis Memorial Fund . . 353.76 are followed up in the Community MentaL Health Center. EVELYN DUTE, '36 T. A. Shallow Memorial Fund.. 2,113.29 Bulletin A Committee has been appointed by the President and is charged with JULIA McCRACKEN, '34 $29,201.98 the responsibility of planning and seeking educational opportunities for dis- 3 2 advantaged youth. The H ospital, College, and Corporation are represented in During the past six months we have been admitting as transfers from Phila this Committee. Medical School Faculty and medical students are currently d~lphi~ ho s pit~ l s and from those on the eastern seaboard premature and other working with some college students who do not currently meet the qualifications, high n sk babies for. whom J e_fferson's Pedi~ tric staff and facilities are being but who have the potential to do so and who are interested in a career in requested. T_ h_e~e bal;nes are. bemg cared for m the Intensive Care Nursery and Medicine. the new faCJlrtres will provide much needed space for an increased number of infants. We are also actively involved with the Philadelphia Urban Coalition Group and with the Health and Welfare Council in the matter of providing assistance The proceeds of the first three Old Market Fairs as well as contributiom to disadvantaged youth in job training and opportunities. from other Women's Board Committees will finance the Nursery project. A new approach to the Hospital Volunteer Program enables high school . The Inhalation The_rapy Department, established a year ago, has more than students to learn about the many health careers available in the Hospital and hv~ d _up to ou~ expecta!IOns. Trained therapists now give all patient treatments, provides experience in a selected area of interest so that the student may learn relrevmg nur s ~ng . service of _these responsibilities. The Inhalation Therapy at first hand what the career really involves. Forty students participated in this D_epa:tm~ nt W I~h Its new respirators and other up-to-date equipment, coupled program in 1968, and seventy are enrolled for the summer of 1969. with I_t s mcreasrng staf_f of trained therapists, has "sold" itself to the physicians as evidenced by the mcreased number of requests for this type of patient As you can see, Jefferson has emerged from its shell of a medical school treatment. and a hospital to become an institution vitally involved not only in the advance ment of medical sciences but also with the living, everyday human problems You may have heard of the Max Cart-Jefferson has two of them. These which beset our nation. carts ~re . equipped with life-savin~ resuscitative equipment. Special classes in resuscitation have been and are bemg given to physicians, nurses and students, The foundation laid by the expansion of her physical facilities and the and a procedure adopted for the prompt response to "Code Blue" alerts the broadening of her philosophy and concepts has brought J efferson to her next Code Blue being a patient emergency signal. "Max" also responds to Code Blues. great change. The Board of Trustees has given its official sanction and it will become effective on July 1, 1969, that Jefferson Medical College and Medical Two pil?t yr?grams which relieve nurses of some of their non-direct patient Center will henceforth be known as The Thomas Jefferson University. c~re responsrbilr.tr es are .ufolder~ay . One provides a unit manager who reports d_Ir~~t~y to H ospital A~mmistratwn _and who handles such administrative respon While all this broad planning for the present and future of Jefferson has sibiht~es as t~e ordenng of supphes, the maintenance of equipment and the been taking place, changes are occurring within the Hospital. han?lmg of . m t e rdepa rt~ental problems affecting patient care. The second The 6th Floor of the Main Building was renovated a year ago and during pr?Ject provi~es the assrg?ment of pharmacists to the Nursing Unit, these the past year the last of the open wards disappeared when the 4th Floor was bemg responsible for checkmg drug orders and preparing unit doses of medica completely renovated. These areas now provide two-bedded units for patients, tions. Both of these programs appear to be very successful and the new budget giving them more privacy and greater comfort. New nursing stations, lounges, provides for some expansion of the projects. bathrooms and pantry areas facilitate patient care and provide pleasant working While_th is report has dealt primarily with plans and projects for patient conditions for the staff. care, teachmg and research, the personnel within the institution have not been Construction of a Cardiac Care Unit will begin this summer and is ~verlo_ok e d . A benefits package provides for a pension plan for everyone, con expected to be completed by January, 1970. This U nit will occupy the entire tmuation of the wage and salary program providing annual merit increments 4th Floor, Thompson Building, displacing the present Bronchoscopic Depart and full paid Blue Cross and Blue Shield coverage for every employee. Cost ment, which will be transferred to the 9th Floor of the same building. of living increases will bring the minimum wage being paid at J efferson to As a preliminary move to prepare for this project, the Bronchoscopic oper $2.0? per ~?ur. T~ese increases do not affect the merit increment program, but ating rooms have been transferred into the 4th Pavilion Operating Room suite. are m additiOn to It. All members of the nursing staff will receive a substantial Other changes within the Operating Rooms necessitated by this project now increase in salary on July 1. All of these steps have been "taken at considerable provide an additional surgeons' dressing room and two new dressing rooms for cost· so that income must be increased and costs controlled. the nursing staff. All of the operating rooms are now located on the 4th and 5th While it may seem that hospital charges to patients are too high, we must Floors of the Pavilion. remember that over the years with the very low salaries paid to hospital The Cardiac Care Unit will provide the latest electronic monitoring and employees, these employees were in fact subsidizing patient costs. Hospital other equipment for the care of patients with cardiac problems and for the post employees' salaries are now competitive with those in other industries and operative care of those who have had cardiac surgical procedures performed. patients are being r equire~ to pay the cost of their own care. Salaries co~pri se nearly 70 percent of hosprtal costs. We must remain at a competitive level in Plans for the reconstruction of the lOth Pavilion and 9th Main Building f~is area if we are to recruit qualified personnel. nurseries have been submitted to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. 4 5 Further changes within Jefferson are always apparent as people retire, programs within the institution. This provides an opportunity for them to resign or are promoted. Several Search committees are looking for replacements share in the formulating rules and regulations governing the use of the facility. for several professors who are planning to resign or retire. The first two floors of the building are occupied by the Commons and the Our Alumnae Association can proudly report the promotion of one. of its remaining four floors house the basic science departments of the Medical members to a Department Head position. Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens Stone IS now College. Nursing students' classes in microbiology and drug therapy are con Director of Patient Services Department and is in charge of Escort Service. ducted in the new classrooms, whenever possible. You will want to congratulate her on the excellent job she has been doing in Jefferson's affiliation with the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and this capacity. Science made it possible for the School of Allied H ealth Sciences to offer This report has been far too long an~ yet has only touched UP?';! the students the opportunity to begin or continue working toward a baccalaureate exciting events which seem always to be takmg place at Jeffe r~on. Do VIS_It_ us, degree in courses of study leading to advancement in the allied health profes or better yet, return to your Alma Mater in one of the many different positions sions and occupations. Basic courses were offe red beginning in the F all quarter which are available in many departments. In other words, Come and See for of 1968. All classes are conducted at J eff erson. These courses are open to stu yourself! dents in the School of Nursing, students in other allied health programs and all employees meeting the criteria of the admissions committee of the School of My best wishes go to each of you for a prosperous and happy year until Allied H ealth Sciences. Approximately eighteen of our student nurses have we meet at the next annual meeting. participated in this program. It would be possible for a freshman student in MABEL C. PREVOST the diploma program who enrolled for electives each quarter to complete work for a baccalaureate degree in two years following completion of the diploma Assistant Director program. Other activities within the school remain much the same. There are currently 220 students in the School of Nursing, 79 of whom SCHOOL OF NURSING were admitted into the school in September 1968. Recruitment of students into diploma schools of nursing continues to be a problem. Many diploma schools ANNUAL REPORT TO THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION have closed during the past few years and quite a few are shortening their programs. Of the 501 diploma programs throughout the country accredited by Three major events occurred during the year. which ~r~ in keeping _with the National League for Nursing there are only 58 programs which continue the progressive development of the School of N ursmg-a _viSit by the N atwnal to have the traditional three year program, i. e., 144 weeks. Thirty-five of these League for Nursing for continued accreditation, the Openmg of Jefferson H~ll programs are in Pennsylvania. The average program length is 121 weeks Commons and the introduction of elective subjects which carry college credit. exclusive of vacations. As you know, the S~hool_ of Nursing has b~e? fully ac~re~ited by the In view of the continued need for more nurses, we have stepped up our National League for Nursmg smce 1959. Return v~sits ar~ penodically sched recruitment activities considerably. During the year approximately 42 schools uled for the purpose of re-evaluating the program m relation to certam estab have invited us and we have visited approximately 35 schools. lished criteria. Our six year re-evaluation visit was conducted October 2_8 to 31, 1968. The report of the visit was evaluated by the . Board of. Review f~r W e now have 33 full time faculty members in addition to the Medical Diploma Programs in December and the Board took act10n to contmue accredi College faculty who teach the basic sciences. The committee structure of the tation of the program and to schedule a revisit in six years, the maximum type faculty organization permits each member to participate in the development of of approval granted by the League. the program. The members of the Board of Review commended the administration and Curriculum changes include a complete block rotation beginning with the faculty for continuing to satisfy the current evaluative_ criteria and for their class of 1970; assignment of an instructor to Philadelphia State Hospital to active participation as nurse educators who have committed themselves t? the teach the course in psychiatric nursing to our students assigned in the J efferson unit at Philadelphia State; inclusion of two weeks at Eastern State School for improvement of diploma education for nursin~ in general and _to the ~ontmued self-study and self evaluation of their own diploma program m particular. Children in the psychiatric experience; a six week vacation for freshmen ; and a change in operating room experience from a six week experience in operating Jefferson Hall Commons, between lOth ~?~ 11th Street facing L~c':lst, room to a six week experience of which two weeks is in the operating room and was opened in the summer of 1968 and has fac;Ihti~s for many types ?f activity, four weeks is an assignment to a surgical care area for a complete follow not available to our students previously-swimmmg pool, gymna~lUm, game through of a minimum of four patients from pre-operative to post-operative care. room, art gallery, etc. Beginning in the Fall of 1968, the_ class presidents ~erve on the Jefferson Hall Commons Board with representatives of all educational . We continue to encourage the use of varied teaching methods and feel that our most valuable recent acquisitions are the videotape recorder, the overhead 6 7 projector and a new combination film strip/record player. The film strip/ mittee to review this document and represent the nursing students views on the record player was purchased for the school by Miss Ada Zimmerman, one of ideas presented. our members, in memory of Dr. Louis Sheffey. There are extensive supplies At the start of the year, welcoming envelopes were distributed to the of materials available for all three teaching aids and, in addition, we continue Freshmen students. They contained a handbook, pamphlets of places to see in to develop our own videotapes. Philadelphia, and other forms of literature. A party was held for the new We have recently received the latest national and state means for the students and several upperclassmen spoke concerning each extracurricular State Board Examination and believe you would be interested to know that activity within the school. our graduating classes of 1967 and 1968 exceeded both state and national means. A Student-Faculty picnic was held in October at Fairmount Park. It proved Many activities were sponsored by Student Council with Miss Carolyn to be very enjoyable and aided in fostering a good student-faculty relationship. Carey as President and Miss Margaret Mackenzie and Miss Judy Stoddard At the end of this month, a Halloween party brought many new and unusual as Faculty Advisors. These are described more fully in the student report. faces to the Residence. Prizes were given for the best and for the most original costumes. Five students attended the SNAP Convention in Philadelphia in October 1968 and two plan to attend the National Student Nurse Association Convention The school store was opened this year to service the girls with needed in Detroit from May 16 to 19. Money was provided by the Alumnae Association. articles. Sweatshirts, and nightshirts were also available. Commencement Exercises were held on Saturday, September 7, in the Candy bars and donut sales helped to increase the Student Council funds so that more events could be initiated. Ballroom of Sheraton Hotel. Dr. Theresa I. Lynch, Dean Emeritus of the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, was guest speaker. Her The Christmas dance was held in December in Jefferson Hall Commons. message to our 62 graduates was stimulating and timely. Jill Ann Reichard ~as A live band and refreshments added to the fun. the recipient of the Jefferson Medical College Hospital Nurses' Alumnae Pnze and Carol Ann Johnson was the recipient of the Thomas A. Shallow Award. This year the students once again supplied toys for the children at the Segers Christmas Party. Many girls assisted in making the afternoon a success. We, at Jefferson, are proud of our graduates who, in turn, as alumnae have been such a potent factor in providing stimulation and direction in the The Christmas season also found the student nurses decorating the Jeffer development of the School of Nursing. 'vVe hope that you will continue to son Hall Commons. The ornaments were chosen and arranged by the girls. support us in the recruitment of students as well as faculty for our school, A variety of articles were collected for the patients at Philadelphia State and that some of you might possibly be interested in joining the staff of the Hospital. These were brought to the Jefferson Unit there. Many of the girls School of Nursing in the development of your Alma Mater. who have seen the great needs of these persons were anxious to participate and DORIS E. BOWMAN stimulate participation in this drive. Director, School of Nursing A Valentine party was held in February in the residence for the students. Each class provided entertainment and refreshments were served afterwards. The annual school show was a great success. Students from each class participated and all who attended it seemed to enjoy it. STUDENT ACTIVITIES Student-Faculty v~lleyball and basketball games we~e. held this Spring. This year, the Student Council has worked to bring about several changes The Freshmen and Jumors proved to be too much competitiOn for the Seniors within our school. The Student handbook was reviewed and evaluated. Many and Faculty. Food was provided for all following the match. regulations were changed to meet the needs of the students to a greater degree. A formal is planned for ] une 28th. It will take place at the Jefferson Hall The Constitution was also reviewed and some adjustments were made. A Fresh Commons and a buffet supper will be served at eleven o'clock. A live band will man Orientation Manual was drawn up and will help to acquaint the new be present to brighten the evening. students with the school. As a result of the generous support of the Alumnae Association we are Council members also represented the Student Body by attending the sending two students to the NSNA Convention in Detroit, May 15, and we sent meetings of the Student Common's Board which endeavors to provide many five representatives to the SNAP Convention in Philadelphia, in October. We activities for the girls and stimulate an interest in functions held at the Jeffer appreciate the support of the Association in this as well as in many other son Commons Building. activities. President Herbert recently issued a document concerning students rights, CAROLYN M. CAREY freedoms, and discipline. Several of the Council members worked with a com- President, Student Council 8 9 SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL NURSING THE JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE AND MEDICAL CENTER
ANNUAL REPORT TO THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION EXPANSION PROGRAM The past three years at Jefferson have been trying, exciting and rewarding. During the fourth year of operation the School of Practical Nursing, Those of you who have visited us have s~en the tangible results of our progress. associated with the newly created School of Allied Health Sciences, graduated Your James R. Martin Student Nurses Residence was the first new building one more class which was its smallest with seven graduates. However, the large to go up in the block between lOth and 11th, Walnut and Lo~ust. Now we h CLERK - TYPIST I was asked by the Board of Directors of the Jefferson Nurses Alumnae Association to accept a position as clerk-typist to work one day a week in the Alumnae Room. I started to work in the Alumnae Room February 1, 1969. It has been a busy time this spring with many changes of addresses and addressing the envelopes for the annual giving letters and also for the reunion and luncheon invitations for May 3rd. The envelopes are addressed by addressograph equipment. During the time the envelopes were being addressed and ready for mailing it was neces sary to be in the Alumnae Room more than one day a week. Please send in changes of address and if married give your maiden name and year of graduation, this helps to keep the records up to date; everyone will receive information from the Alumna·e Association. The Alumnae Room is in the Nursing Service Dept. on the 2nd floor of the Thomson Annex. MARTHA E. RILAND, 1927 10 11 LUNCHEON, MAY 3, 1969 Eighty-seve.n ~nember.s of ~he Class of 1969 were the invited guests of the Alumnae Association .. Thrrty-nme were able to attend. Class President, Miss Dolores Hughes was honored with the presentation of a corsage. The following members were honored with presentation of corsages: Mary Godfrey-1909-oldest member Elizabeth Heaton-1915 Lydia A. Cannon-1916 Three Alumnae members were ill in the hospital on Alumnae Day two of whor;n received the floral arrangements from the head table. They we're Mrs. Anme Lynch, class of 1907 and Miss Dorothy Groman, class of 1941. . Coffee was f~ithfully served a~ each monthly meeting held in the Nurses' Resrdence RecreatiOn Room. For thrs courtesy "thank you" is extended to Mrs. Isabel Hoffman, Supervisor, Nurses' Residence and her staff. For her devotion and outstanding contribution to the Nursing Profession the ~ssistant Dir~ctor of the hospi.tal, Miss Mabel C. Prevost, was honored by Presrden.t, Cath~nn~ Sau~de~s. Mrss Prevost continues to give much time to commum~y affarrs, rs active m n:any organiza~ions as well as being an active member m the Army Reserves wrth rank of Lreutenant Colonel. Miss Prevost was also honored for her untiring guidance in all phases of the Jefferson Medical Center's daily life. · A sincere "thank you" is extended to all members from the Social Com OFFICERS AND GUEST SPEAKERS mittee for their splendid interest and support. This interest made each function Seated, left to right: Katherine F. Saunders, President; Mabel C. Prevost, Guest Speaker; truly worth-while. Doris Bowman, Guest Speaker; Caroline Masuda Secretary-Treasurer· Florence Rose Recording Secretary. Standing, left to right: Loui~e B. Fox, Second vice-President; A.' My small contribution as your Social Chairman the past two years was Marcella Brown, Guest; Perma E. Davis, First Vice-President; Elizabeth Stone, Social most rewarding and stimulating. It was my pleasure to serve you. Committee Chairman; Miss Elizabeth Jackson, Guest Speaker. ELIZABETH STONE Social Chairman SOCIAL COMMITTEE REPORT December 3, 1968 was the date for the Annual Christmas Party and PROGRAM Buffet Supper. Cocktails and dinner were served in the Faculty Club Room, Jeff~rson Hall Commons with everyone having a most enjoyable evening. On ~ovember 5, 1968, Miss Beth Reed addressed the alumnae with a Chnstmas greens and festive ornaments decorated the lounge and dining area. prese~ta:wn on the "Heart-Lu.ng Machine." Slides wer.e sho:-vn of a heart-lung Santa Stauffer paid her annual visit with a pack full of gifts, one for each guest. machme, and the nurse was drscussed as to her role wrth thrs machine. With March came the traditional Buffet Supper and Auction sale. The Mr. H. W .. James Evans, Public Relations Manager of Trailways Incor Faculty Club Room again was the setting for fifty-three guests. Auctioneer r.orated, entertame~ the members on. February· 4, 1969, with his topic on a Mary Ann Stauffer rallied to the gavel and the Association was one-hundred Cents of Humor. Mr. Evans, natiOnally known humorist; emphasized the ninety-one dollars and ten cents richer. The auction proceeds were delegated to value of a good sense of humor and its importance in our modern world of the General Fund by recommendation of the Board of Directors. today. . Alumnae Day, Saturday, May 3, 1969 found three-hundred and seventy On April 1, 1969, ~r. Will~an'l Qui11lan apd Mr. Eugene Banks, President nme guests gathered in the Crystal Ballroom of the Benjamin Franklin Hotel. and ?ecretary of the Phrl~delphra Branch. o~ the ~ypnotisrp Society, presented The anniversary years were well represented. Members gathered from twenty us With. a program on · ~~e :; iU~e of. Hypnosis m Medrcme." Dr. Quinlan informed six states. One Alumnae was on hand from Tokyo, Japan. the members of the vanous srtuat10p~ ~to which hypnosis may be applied. Record- 12 13 ings of the GSR and EEG were also discussed. The power of suggestion was 1911-$50.00 1926-$70.00 Esther Guyer Lentz demonstrated on the members as a whoie and two of the members volunteered Elizabeth D. Jones Ruth Smith Davis Evelyn Reeser Arnold to be hypnotized. Marjorie Workinger D. Virginia Emmert Leo DEIDRE M. WATKINS 1913-$20.00 Josephine Miles Dickerson Elizabeth Youngblood Gaul Anna C. Schwab Mary E. Bonenberger Laura Parker Matthews Program Chairman Helen Cook Gibb Elizabeth Howard Farmer Esther Cowen Huntsberger Mildred Schock McGee 1914--$20.00 1927-$56.00 Sue E. Williams Wells Effie B. Herring Martha E. Riland Mary Kalbach Bristline BULLETIN Irene Lesser Hindle Isabella Kevel Heverly Alyce Pusey Hammond Marguerite G. Barnett Filomena Tirrechia Doherty 1932-$30.00 The Editors of the Alumnae Bulletin are most appreClatlve of the many 1915-$30.00 1928-$206.00 lorothea Bulette Watson news items and articles which have been received. We have endeavored to Mattie Allen Turner Lelia E. Y ergey ildred V. Jeffers publish all that were submitted. It was necessary, however, to give only excerpts Elizabeth T. Heaton Laura Carleton Short deline Roth Miller from certain news items. Amelia Rongeau Jaspers Gail Ganger Willard 1916- $35.00 Mary E. Bevan Luckett Since most Alumnae are interested in the hospital happenings, we have Lydia Ann Black Cannon Elizabeth Stoner Diamond 1933-$95.00 tried to cover all phases of the activities there. Miss Prevost's article regarding Myrtle Brewer Thrasher Alma Roush Ross Catherine Gray Paine Clara Cartwright Boyles Kathryn C. Rhule the over all coverage is well worth detailed reading. Miss Bowman has given 1917-$25.00 Mae Henderson Shindle Anna Woodring Crofford an up to date report from the School of Nursing and has covered the major Frances M. Grove Margery E. Bargar Kathryn West Magin events in the progressive development. The President of the Student Council Margaret Martin Lauchle Carolyn Olson Kaltenstein has written a general report of their various activities. Mr. Pennypacker has 1918-$8.00 Edna W. Scott Leona Clouser Gehris been kind enough to give us a report of the Jefferson Expansion Program and May Brechin Boyle Frances Hess Currie Effie Bittner Girton Katherine Fleck Saunders 1934--$235.00 has submitted a picture of the Scott Library and Administration Building. Miss Dorothy Smith Bennett Margaret Yarnall Snear Sweeney has made us more aware of the recruitment problems and also the 1919-$5.00 Mary Stauffer Malick Mildred Dore Estrada Hattie Williams Book Rhea Orner Kassay goals of the School of Practical Nursing. Officers and Committee Chairmen Betty Piersol have compiled reports of the functions of their own particular office. 1929-$141.00 1920-$35.00 Ann Jacoby Gehrke Mabel C. Prevost Marion Hoffman Miller And-most important-YOU-ALUMNA~have sent in news items Anna Trego Ann Williams Candler Bernice Smith Ziegler Kathleen Warner Armitage covering the events in your lives and by doing so have made us more aware of Blanche Metz Henderson Mildred Dunkle Bowman each other as individuals. We thank you! Ann H. Willson Zelda Rowe Mencer Jennetta Wolf Mabel Nutter Mary A. Bowman Graziola JULIA T. McCRACKEN, Chairman Lois Van Horn Dawson Marion Hartman Burch 1921-$20.00 N eta Hart Anderson Kathryn Hoffman Snader EVELYN W. FRAZIER Jennie E. Kutz Alice Daniels Embree Alma Carey Frampton BETTY PIERSOL Henrietta F. Spruance Florence Badorf Williams Tillie Wall Ghares Mary E. Wright Alice Rickard James 1922-$10.00 Fern N. Lapniewski Verna Hertzler Diehm Elsie Rappaport Margaret Shearer Gile Ruth Spencer Dunfee Hannah Uhler Buffington Frances Wildonger Aida Engle Brammer WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE REPORT Verna M. Frendak Margaret C. Schellenger 1923-$20.00 Barbara Y. Cornell Julie Tyler McCracken May 15, 1968 to May 15, 1969. C. Margaret Donaldson Charlotte Moore Burt Evelyn Wilson Frazier Once again the Annual Giving was a tremendous success. Contributions to Florence Kauffman Isaphine Bowmaster Kasper 1930-$55.00 Dorothy Raubenhold the Relief Fund, Clara Melville Scholarship Fund, Adele Lewis Student Schol 1924--$18.00 Ann Gamba! Helen Reimer Motsay arship Fund, Building Fund, Thomas A. Shallow Fund and General Fund Beatrice Foote O'Hara Virginia A very Marie Keane Lawton brought the total to $4,456.25. Kathryn L. Tash Muriel Stevens Canis Sara Jones Ross Mildred Felter Semler Emma Maus Smeck Harriet Fish Thompson Many, many thanks to all of you for your generous and unselfish giving Thelma McArthur Wolford and a special thank you to Betty Piersol. 1925-$100.00 Ella Engel Kelsh 1935- $82.00 Nora Smith Fry Minerva Lentz Welch Esther Latsha Neidig Following is a list of contributors according to classes and the class totals. Edith Bashmore Ogden Erma McCullar O'Donnell Marian Robinson Briggs 1931-$128.00 Marion Battin Howe All contributions received after May 15, 1969 will be acknowledged m S. Elizabeth Scotton Mildred English Hively Mary Coles Moore the Bulletin for 1970. Clara I. Lucksinger Minnie Bartash Jane Sharbaugh Ryan MARGARET SUMMERS, '41 Anne Bergner Newhouse Dorothy T. Peterson Mary Rotz Evans Delilah Hendricks Naugle Emma M. Bahner Evelyn Rolland Curran Chairman Mildred Kroupa Okinishi Helen C. Rodewig Frances Kelly Fisher 14 15 Shirley Mackley Hoffert Patricia Costello Magley Elaine Kunzman· Griffin Mildred A. Crone Catherine Crafton Lambert 1946-$138.00 Wealthy Morrow Shutt Shirley Brown Blackburn Marion Heilner ·McGarrey· Ellen Crawford Teague Esther A. Musselman Ruth Fairweather Nemeth Joan Christman Claus Takako Hirata Tokumasu · Jacqulin Elesser Harris E llora Endicott Meyers Elaine Stong Kimbel Nancy Dunkle. Konstanzer Mildred Murray Kline 1936-$150.00 N elmah Faust Shaffer Janet Hindson Audrey Titlow Priga 1962~$35. 00 Margaret M. Semisch 1941-$55.00 Betty Kimmel Frommelt Janice Panick Billick Gene Roush Jerabek Clara Richardson Flynn Evelyn L. Dute Dorothy Fessler Lois Kleintob J ernstrom 1956-$42.00 Janet L. Blumberg Kathryn Rorabaugh Josephine Barbour Moellers Josephine Pispecky W arner Florence Roche Ellen Glaspey Willard H elen Swan Joslin Mary Fielden Wiley Betty Noble Gurewick 1951-$115.00 Betty Lou Bingman Kendall Carole Costello Tomlinson Elizabeth Stephan Stone Kathryn D. Quackenbush Laura Patterson Hart Joyce W yse Hagopian Phyllis Sutthill Johnson Frances Huston Rumberger Marion ]. Ramp Mary Menendez Claire Shottin Hogue Dolores Pauster Gorham Ann Kneidel Margaret Pound Ransom Margaret Summers Jeanne V. Holzbaur H elen Wisniewski Hervada 1963-$63.00 Lydia K. Yerkes 1947-$108.00 Patricia Zarella Mary Anne Saunders Port Elinor Farber Brosious 1942-$140.00 Maria Vlahos Menninger Gayle Clymer Schucker Dorothy A. Cloud Jane Hawk Aires 1957-$20.00 Nancy Gallagher Goodson Josephine Sokodinsky Laird Lorraine A. Jeitner Doris E. Bowman Eleanor Hamill Miller Mary Elizabeth S. Gillin 1937-$104.00 Catherine C. Prendergast Jeanette Plasterer Joan Lei tch Murray Pauline Davis Leager Beatrice Raymann Snyder Virginia Sturges Lawrence Carol Hyland Gray Nancy E. Thompson Rose Marie Tomasello Maureen C. Maguire Violet Smith Orland Myrtle Taylor Berman Margaret M. Cossman Virginia Wesley Dorman Mary Lou Keirn Harriet Spatig Zeller Rhoda Burg Weisz Julia C. Stout 1958-$62.00 Shirley Marat Weller Mildred W. Hawkesworth Dorothy Edgar Burns Dorothy H . VanVranken 1952-$105.00 Sylvia Tanner Hause Margaret Jean Mackenzie Margaret E. Taylor Ellen McCurley Steward Maude Sanders Schwab Catherine M. DeLuca Linda L. Eppley · Lucille Scriber Caroline Hill Masuda Shirley Baker Herring Laura Bielan Tobia Mary Ann A. Waddell Shirley R. Hill . Theresa Robson Cooke J ean Heine Arnold Madge Roberts Miller Elizabeth K. Prisnock Eloise ]. Hippensteel Darlene Stoudt Bleile Alice Leatherman Fulmer Muri-el Tice Rotherham Gladys Reed White Ann Louise Savage Stout Annunciata S. Daneman 1964--$63.00 Ruth Butler Sowers Betty Steward McConnell Nancy Groh Messick Elizabeth Killinger Mowday Barbara Hendershot Marks Mary Ellen Duncan Higgins Carol P. Teplick 1943-$70.00 Margaret Faust Keates Barbara Wilson Kelso Joanne Ronalds Miller Alice Ripple Hennell Jane Beard Maxwell 1948-$37.00 Rosemary E. Moore Dorothy Nuttall Stelzner 1938-$11.00 Betty Metzger Shaw Albino Vetro Stackhouse Marie Peat Ten Eyck Sara Newkirk Boswell Elizabeth A. Reed J ean Farrell Kehm .Ann Summers N eskella 1959-$115.00 Barbara: A. N ase Anderson Mary Reeder Copeland Mary Long Haupt Joanne Longfellow Peterson Nellie Schirmer Warshaw Bertha Destin Kathleen Langran Jones Lida Pardee Goodell Esther Milewski Kahn 1953-$15.00 Jane P. Dietrick Edith Owen McCutcheon Betty Johns McDonald Patricia A. Insley Orr Betty Hanes McKim Jane Reimer Lemmon Anne V. Major Jones Lynn McMaster Nagatani Alice Schilling Rachel Irvine Herbert Janet Edwardson Meredith Betty Calhoun Suttles Mercedes Breen Christ Jacqueline Walsh Long Jane Cox Gay Elsie Boyd Antal Gertrude Lange Amend Patricia Sankey Brown Dorothy Null Drennan Lillian V ernoy VanHoy Linda M. Cone Rupertus Jane A. Hudson Patricia Lee Gardner 1944--$130.00 1954--$175.00 Betty Lee Elliott 1949-$265.00 Carol Corkery Staas 1939-$136.00 Mary Lu Kuntz Stoudt Judith Wright Bloes Barbara Schutt Dorcas Butler Revelli Barbara Brown Breen Doris Henry Innes 1965-$83.00 Mary K. Cupp Patricia N orstedt Johnson Elizabeth A. Ossman Dorothy Ranck Jean Tomlin Dempsey Pauline Kruas Parsons Carolyn E. Walchak Kathreen Hock Martin Mary Nash Collins Lorraine Milewski McCa!l Helen Fetsko Besecker Judith Snyder Johnson Ruth Large Wettig Nancy Davis Crawford Doris Winneshick Day Thelma Young Tofek Louise Manhart Hoch Barbara Phelps Flounders Rita Mickey Mendel Mary Schwab Gregg Rosanne Seefris Gardner E li zabeth Sannino Fisher Margaret Irwin Reimer Elisabeth A. Maule Dorothy Kauffman Miller Joan Hirschkind Charlotte Smith Stacey J ean McMullin Koutsouros Genevieve Alderfer Batten Dolores Stanek Gray Pauline Lupo Josephine Esmond Mary Peck Brill H elen Dougherty Barrett Rita Mishofski Curfman Janet C. Walker Louise Dietz Strayer Vera Stevens Myers Cheryl Knaver Weber Mildred Greenlee Mary Lou Gaston Stewart Mary Neff Gabriel Joanne Scherer D' Alonzo Olga Dygan Mitchell Jean McNitt Middlesworth Theresa Bushek Poli Mary Fazel Washeleski Lois Gail Russell Jean Mease June H . Weiss Judith Abbott Getz Grace Roller Castner Marjorie Fink Searing Joan Nichols Davis Patricia Harzer Grace Bird Peterson Marjorie L. Swindlehurst Lois Pennypacker Rose Marie Angelo Susan McKinstry Lorraine Roche Adrienne L. Daughenbaugh Harriet Kellner O'Connor Sally Kreiser Harris Christine Castellano Elmer 1960-$38.00 Mary Fisher Hill Esther Hassell May Bonnie E. Sandt Lorraine Brown Priestly LaVerne Augustine Lang Anna Marie G. Graham Madeline Henly Glass Catherine Wilson Stokes Elinor Wise Charmella Carolyn Ressler Goepfert Marilyn Krout Costello Eva Werkheiser Shook Phyllis Schadel Huntzinger Lou Ann Zartman Craley Susan Wilhour Emeltz 1945-$109.00 Frances Simoes Barbara Estep N evera Helen Schropp Daniels Barbara Reiner Backman Judith Haas Stauffer Eugenia M. Barnard Elsie Skvir 1966-$72.00 Irene W entzel Anslow Mary E. Anderson Barrick Carole Glass Hammon Barbara Z. Umberhaver Anne Loughran Delaney Margaret Lucchesi Connell Gloria Sheckler Robertson 1950-$99.00 Betty A. Smith Patterson 1940-$87.00 Mary Billig Carter Kathleen Manges Klesonis Judith Kramen Seltzer Caroline Roberts King Ruth Swinehart Merroth Mary Lou Smith Bernice W. Sprecher Florence Schmick Howanitz Sally Hindson Wagner Alice Freed Moore H elen Sheriff Rightor Mary Ann Stauffer 1961-$79.00 Cpt. Judith Kenneth Tracy Sara L. W erstler June M. Jacobs Rose Glaude! Mulligan Janet L. Coppersmith Judith Ann Hamerlen Mary Flyte Rasser Elizabeth Louise Snyder Ellen Baran-Stahl Rosalie A. Caponigro Gee Ruth Kessler Hoff Mary Osborne Foy 1955-$75.00 Judy Elliott Kesselring Ir-ene Larson Kessler Marie Bonaccurso Pancari Roberta Eckert Brown Barbara Shermer Ruehl H ope Kramer Mood Mary Halcomb Trautman Mary Moore Brumbaugh Elizabeth McQ. Larkin Joan Sampson Jean Hohe Larkin, Sydney Applebaum Cassel Dorothy Cohick Rosenberg Lenore Brady Strigari Barbara G. Smith Cpt. Beatrice R. Rhoda Susane Berkowitz Violet Garret Hyman Martha Baird Tomassetti Twila Anderson Sanborn 17 16 1967-$64.25 Joan Heaton 1968-$57.00 RESUME OF MINUTES OF Gail Lee McKenny Ford Cynthia Joffe Patricia Moffitt Laurie M. Pollock Joanne Balmer Kathleen Suber ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION MEETINGS Jill Simpson Sandra Bartello Catherine May Christine Jean Schubele Tudy Hougendobler Carolyn Sue Kenna Joan Reed Darden Elizabeth Jane Masten SEPTEMBER 10, 1968 Linda L. Strege Mary E. Squires Sharon Rood Jeanne M. Kane 25 members present. Marilyn Hunt Paula Levine Deidre M. Watkins Maxine Lubrecht Mrs. V. Orland, Chairman of the Membership Committee, presented 62 Carol Siegrist Anne Vogel applications of the Class of September '68. Motion was made and approved to accept the '68 Class into the Alumnae Association. In memory of : Thank you notes were received from the following: Ethel Artman, class of 1934--$10.00 to the Thomas A. Shallow Fund by Frances Hess Currie, class of 1928. Miss A. Marcella Brown-for the invitation to the annual luncheon and for hospitality shown. In memory of : Miss Kathleen Logan-Class of '70-for money allotted by the Janet Overdorf£ Nackerud, class of 1944---$100.00 to the Clara Melville Alumnae to attend the S.N.A.P. convention in Dallas, Texas, in Scholarship Fund by the class of 1944. May 1968. In memory of : Mr. Lymen Croshow-for the memorial card for his wife Elizabeth. Joan Hallman, class of 1954--$120.00 to the Adele Lewis Student Scholar The family of Mildred Botz Zook, Class of '21, for the memorial card. ship Fund by the class of 1954. Miss Margaret Jackson-for the invitation to the annual luncheon and The class of 1934 contributed $175.00 toward office furniture for the her regrets for not being able to attend. Alumnae Room. A letter was received from Miss Jo Eleanor Elliott, present of the A.N.A., notifying us of the spe~ial recognition given to one of our alumnae, Miss Barbara Schutt, presently editor of the American Journal of Nursing, for her contribution to nursing. A letter was received from the American Bank and Trust Company notify ing us that the Alumnae is named a beneficiary in Mary A. McKinstry's will. A copy of the will was enclosed. However, the amount was not specified. Delegates for the state convention to be held at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, October 28 to November 1, 1968, were: the President, Miss Gladys Keiper; Mrs. Lenora Schwartz; Mrs. Violet Orland; and Miss Margaret Summers. Four alternates were also selected. Motions were made and approved that the Alumnae give each delegate an allotment of $100.00 and that the School of Nursing receive $150.00 to send several students. Miss Dolores Heckenberger expressed her thanks to the group for sending her to the convention in Dallas, Texas, as a representative of the group. Miss Heckenberger then gave an interesting report of activities and events as she participated in them. A letter of resignation was received from the President, Miss Gladys Keiper, dated and effective September 8, 1968. A motion was made and approved to accept Miss Keiper's resignation with regret. A motion was made and approved to have a meeting of the Board of Directors on Monday, September 16, 1968, for the express purpose of appointing a president to fill Miss Keiper's unexpired term of office. 18 19 Miss Mabel Prevost accepted the appointment as Chairman of the Nominat P.N .A. convention reports were given by: Mrs. Lenore Schwartz, Miss mg Committee. Margaret Summers, and Mrs. Katherine Saunders. The S0-50 was won by Miss Dolores Heckenberger. The recommendations of the Board of Directors meeting which was held at 6:15 P .M. before the regular meeting were read. Motions were made and OcTOBER 1, 1968 approved to hire a part-time clerk-typist, to purchase an electric typewriter and to purchase some furniture for the Alumnae office. 26 members were present. An interesting program and slides about the heart-lung machine were The ballot was presented by Miss Prevost and approved for the following presented by Miss Elizabeth Reed. offices: 1st Vice-President; Recording Secretary; and two (2) Board Members. Miss Dute reported the following were hospitalized : Mary Bonnenberger, DECEMBER 1968 Kathryn Rhule, and Jane Cox Gay. Christmas Party at Jefferson Hall. The group agreed to let our Social Chairman, Mrs. Betty Stone, select a date for the annual Christmas Party in December. The possibility of using Jefferson Hall will be investigated. JANUARY 1969 A thank you note was received from Mr. Otto Waltersdorf for our Meeting cancelled due to inclement weather. memorial card. A check for $25.00 was donated to the Nurses' Relief Fund in memory of FEBRUARY 4, 1969 Mary A. McKinstry by a friend, Mrs. Paul Packer. 24 Alumnae attended. It was recommended and accepted that the Alumnae Association contribute A motion was made and approved to accept any ballots which were brought to the following: to the meeting because of the cancellation of the January 1969 meeting due to United Fund ...... $150.00 weather conditions. Four members were appointed to tally the ballots. Cancer Research Foundation ...... 25.00 Tuberculosis Association ...... 25.00 The Auditor's report was submitted and circulated. The S0-50 was won by Miss Elizabeth Heaton. Miss Dute reported Mrs. Annie Lynch, our oldest living member, is hos pitalized at present. NovEMBER 5, 1968 Mrs. Stone reported that 48 attended the Christmas Party in Jefferson Hall. A loss of $26.46 was paid by the Alumnae. A thank you note was received 28 members were present. from Mrs. Hoffman, Nurses Residence Director, who attended the Party as Miss Dute reported the following Alumnae hospitalized : Miss Sara our guest. W erstler, Mrs. Violet Orland, Mrs. Carolyn D. Vizzard and Mrs. Doris King Motion was made and approved to hold an auction sale and dinner in the Golden. Faculty Room of Jefferson Hall on March 4, 1969, 6 P.M. to 10 P.M. at a cost Mrs. Stone reported that we would be able to have the Christmas buffet of $3.00 per person. supper in the faculty room of Jefferson Hall on December 3, 1968. Cocktails at 6 P.M. Dinner at 7 P.M. Cost: $4.50. Mrs. Saunders reported that the Bulletins were mailed in January and apologizes to the Association for their lateness; however, I'm sure the contents Miss Summer announced that Miss Florence Hawk's sister, Miss Mary make up for it. Hawk, contributed $25.00 to the Relief Fund. Mrs. Evelyn Curran and Miss Margaret Summers report that Miss Martha The Alumnae agreed to send the following members the Reader's Digest as Riland has accepted the position . of Clerk-Typist. She will work as needed and Christmas gifts: at her convenience, approximately .a day a week. Sarah Bergey Ethel Faust Mabel Boller Elsie Hauck Mrs. Betty Stone arid Mrs. Periria Davis report the purchase of an Olivetti Bernice Collins Emma Knock electric typewriter for' $345:00. A desk, typewriter chair and walnut commode Rosa Diseroad Mrs. Mary Mullin for storage_ are a1so . on order, phis . a desk lanip, some folding chairs and a Emig Viletta clothes rack. 2') 21 A check of $500.00 has been received from the estate of Emma Fryer. A letter of resignation from the Bulletin Committee was received from A motion was made and approved to accept with regret the resignations of Marion Ramp. Mary E. Wright, Class of '29, and Elvira Jensen of the Class of '28. Miss Prevost reported that the sum of $200 was donated to the School of Mrs. Emma Smeck presented the bank book and check which closed the Nursing in memory of Dr. Scheffey by Aida Zimmerman. account of our private duty section after their decision to discontinue the committee due to lack of members. $328.96 is to be placed in the nurses' Relief Mrs. Spruance reported another $18 from the sale of puffs for the Relief Fund. Fund. Miss Mabel Prevost read the tally of the ballots. They were : The new Adele Lewis Scholarship Fund for Student Nurses was discussed. Committee membership was of importance on the agenda. It was thought best First Vice-President ...... Mrs. Perma Davis that the Clara Melville Scholarship chairman and her committee could also Secretary ...... Miss Florence Roche handle this Scholarship Fund. It was stressed that the Director of the School Board of Directors ...... Miss Beverly Rupp of Nursing was invaluable to the new Fund due to her acquaintance with the Miss Valerie O'Donnell problems of the students involved. The Board agreed that she, plus the Alumnae 126 ballots were voided due to the absence of the name and address of the President and the Scholarship Committee, try to draw up some basic plans, members on the envelope as designated in the By-Laws. requirements, etc., as the outline for the scholarship. The group agreed with the The program of the evening, "A Sense of Humor," was presented by Mr. Board's recommendation. James Evans. A motion was made and approved to send two students as S.N.A.P. repre The 50-50 was won by Miss Martha Riland. sentatives to the N.L.N. convention May 12th- 17th in Detroit, Michigan. $350 will be allotted to each girl for expenses. Any monies left over will be MARCH 1969 returned to the Association along with reports from the girls sent. On the 25th of the month, an auction sale and dinner were held in J effer The 50-50 was won by Mrs. Louise Fox. son Hall. A Dr. Quinlan, along with his assistant Mr. Banks, demonstrated and spoke on Hypnosis. This proved to be an interesting program. APRIL 1, 1969 · Hospitalized at this time were Miss Peg Cossman, Mrs. Annie Lynch and MAY 6, 1969 Miss Witmer. 18 members attended. Mrs. Stone offered her thanks to everyone for their support of the dinner Hospitalized at this time were Annie Lynch, Marie Wartella Miss Groman and auction sale. A special thank you was extended to Miss Mary Ann Stouffer Alice Chase and Dorie Amorose Giordano. ' ' for auctioneering. Of 61 reservations, 53 attended. $165.00 was collected for dinners and the auction netted $165.60-a total of $330.60. Expenses amounted M_iss Orland submitted 52 applications of the 87 seniors in this year's class. to $137.25 for the dinners and $2.25 for signs-a total of $139.50. Therefore a A motiOn was made and approved to accept these 52 applications. profit of $191.10 was realized. The luncheon proved to be a tremendous success. 379 attended. Miss Stone The Luncheon this year will be held on Saturday, May 3, at the Benjamin and her committee, along with any others who helped, did a wonderful job. Franklin Hotel. Cocktails will be served in the foyer, which will open at 10:30 A.M. There is an increase in price of $.25-a total of $4.75. The entree will be The Ways and Means Report was given by Miss Summers up to and includ- a choice of either meat or fish. ing May 6, 1969, as follows: Miss Summers reported Annual Giving from the beginning of January to Relief Fund ...... $ 507.50 March 31: A. M. Lewis Student Nurse Scholarship Fund .. 2,202.50 Clara Melville Scholarship Fund ...... Relief Fund ...... $ 95 599.50 Scholarship Fund ...... 27 General Fund ...... 962.50 General Fund ...... 132 Building Fund ...... 10.00 A. M. Lewis Fund ...... 191 T. A. Shallow Memorial Prize ...... 10.00 Building Fund ...... 10 Total $4,292.00 $455 2t 23 THE SCOTT LIBRARY-AD MINISTRAT ION BUILDING JEFFERSON MEDICAL CoLLEGE AND MEDICAL CENTER PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA HARBESON HOUGH LIVI NGSTON & LARSON • ARCHITECTS Sold on Alumnae Day: CLASS NEWS Jefferson Caps ...... $37.SO 1911-Esther Moser "Mother" of 40 foster children died at the age of 95 in Johnson Home, Jefferson Cookbooks ...... 12.00 Royersford, Pa. Jefferson Dishes ...... 10.00 Pottstown-Mercury, Nov. 11, 1968-excerpts: "Miss Moser had been a guest at this home for five years." Total $S9.SO "She was 17 when she entered Kutztown Normal School to pursue a teaching Two applications were received for the Fall '69 scholarship. They were career. While attending school she took charge of a one room school on Squirrel from Judith Lawrence-'66---and Charlotte Hurst-'S9. The Committee recom Hollow Road. After graduation she taught in Stowe. She graduated from Jefferson mended that the scholarship be granted to Miss Lawrence since she will be Hospital School of Nursing and served with the Army Nurse Corps in France during completing her program in the Fall of '69. It was also recommended by the \Vorld War I. When she returned to the U.S. in 1919, she went to Brooklyn, N.Y., to work as a nurse. She began raising foster children after finding a deserted child Committee that Miss Hurst reapply for the Spring semester. Motion was made in a New York Hospital." and approved by the group to grant the scholarship to Miss Lawrence. "Most of the youngsters which she raised 'out of pure love for those poor The group suggested that the Scholarship Committee study and revise the abandoned children' were from Lutheran Children's Bureau, Philadelphia. She was prerequisites of the scholarship grant. honored for her service by the .board in January 1954. At that time she said: 'God gave me the ability to lo·ve other people's children as deeply as if they were my own.' Miss Summers won the SO-SO. She said that neither her teaching nor her nursing careers gave her the satisfaction A motion was made and approved that the President and her Board of that she found in her foster family. Directors conduct any emergency business which may arise between May and "When Miss Moser resolved to devote the rest of her life to children, she returned September. to Douglass Township, built a small house on a hill and raised 40 children prior to All the regular meetings of the Alumnae Association were held in the 1960s." Recreation Room of the James R. Martin Student Nurses' Residence. Coffee 1913-Anna C. Schwabm, 809 W. Lehigh Ave., Phila., Pa. (19133) - I will blame old age and tea were served during the meetings. for misplacing your letter. It is not getting old but I am old (87) and it is not alone the fractured hip but arthritis is not helping it-for it is painful. With it all I am FLORENCE ROCHE, Recording Secretary thankful that I can get around so far-mostly with the use of two canes. 1914-Effi.e B. Herring, 211 Brighton Place, Pleasantville, N. J. (08232)-I have been living with one of my sisters at the above address since July 1968. 1916- Lydia Ann Black Cannon, 208 Federal St., Milton, Del. (19968)-Retired. All my family deceased. 1918-Effie Marie Bittner Girton, 3007 Old Berwick Rd., Bloomsburg, Pa. (17815) Retired (as Charge Nurse) East Stroudsburg State College, East Stroudsburg, Pa. August 31, 1967. 1919-Hattie Williams Book, 7241 N. 20th St., Phila., Pa. (19138)-Am now a great grandmother. 1922- Hannah Uhler Buffington, 21 Circle Drive, Camp Hill, Pa. (17011)-0ldest son became Col. in the Air Force last January. 1924-Mildred Hazel Fetter Semler, 708- 13 St., N., St. Petersburg, Fla. (33705)-Fully retired June 28, 1968. Enjoying a full busy life without regimentation. 1925-Mafalda Marquardt Ziegler, 25 Hancock St., Riverside, N. ]. (08075)-I have retired this year. Delilah Hendricks Naugle, P .O. Box 68, Berwid, , Pa. (1 8603 )-Still on active duty as a staff member in the Berwick Hospi tal. 1926- Ruth E. Smith Davis, RD. #2, Box 270, Camden, Del. (19934)-Semi-retired (Private Duty). Josephine Miles Dickerson, Bombay-Amcongen, Dept. State, Washington, D.C. (20521 )-My husband is on a two year assignment for the Pennsylvania State Uni- 26 27 versity in the State of Maharashtra, India. We are located in Poona, India, however, Dorothy T. Peterson, 17B Cardinal, Cedar Glen, West, Lakehurst, N. J. (08733) we are privileged to use the State Department address for our first class mail. -Have been retired for 2 years. Our oldest daughter, Helen Wise, is serving as President of Pennsylvania State Mary Kalbach Bistline, 5 Walnut St., Newville, Fa. (17241)-I am retiring from Education Association this year and our youngest daughter, Jeanne Carrera, has just the position of Elementary Nurse with the Big Spring School System the end of been made Assistant Head Nurse on M4 Surgical Floor in Harrisburg Hospital. One this school year. My mother is still living and well at age 90. Esther Guyer Lentz, 104 S. 3rd St., Lehighton, Fa. (19235)-Twin sons-both son lives in Louisiana and one in Spring Mills, Pa. So the Dickerson Family are M.D.s-opened office last summer; Conrad in Bethlehem, Fa., Dermatology; Ronald, Scattered. (This address until Dec. 1969. 10¢ Airmail or it might take three months Millersville, Fa., General Practice. Both served in the U.S.N. to arrive.) WH-Marie Hosage Destefano, 740 Wood Ave., Colonia, N.J. (07067)~Retired. Volunteer Elizabeth W. Howard Farmer, 2402 Hanson Rd., Edgewood Park, Apt. #29, Red Cross Blood Bank. Edgewood, Md. 21040. Nothing new-thank you. May you all have a blessed Easter-enclosure. I do 1932-Mildred V. Garman Jeffers, 2406 Waverly St., Phila., Fa. (19146)-Re-married enjoy the Bulletin-please keep it coming. April 1968-resigned from position at Girard College-working general duty part 1927-Myrtle Stickler Clough, 45 Mary St., Doyestown, Pa. (18901)-My son, Eric, will time at Graduate Hospital. Commuting between Philadelphia and Ship Bottom, N. J. graduate from University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, May Thelma Showers Morris, 1406 Elmira St., Williamsport, Pa. (17701)-1 have 19, 1969. Daughter, Susan Clough Boucher, a graduate of Sibley Memorial School taken graduate work in guidance at Bucknell University and in Vocational Education of Nursing, Washington, D.C., is living in Dayton, Ohio, with her husband and at P.S.U. I am Assistant Professor and Chairman of Health Occupations at Williams 2-year-old son. My daughter, Timothye Clough Pinkerton, lives in Allentown, Fa., port Area Community College. My daughter, Betsy, will graduate from W.A.C.C. with her two small sons and her husband who is in the Graduate School in Lehigh this June and will marry in August. However, she will continue her education in University, Bethlehem, Pa. I plan to retire from Public Health Nursing, June 30, Psychology at Elizabethtown College. 1969. Adeline Roth Miller, Route 1, Box 123, Oak Green, Glenn Dale, Md. (20769) Martha E. Riland, 459 Fairfax Rd., Drexel Hill, Pa. (19026)-Have retired Enjoying my husband's retirement, visiting our children, traveling abroad. from Industrial Nursing, Philadelphia Electric Co., July, 1968. 35TH ANNIVERSARY FoLLOW-UP DATA 1928-Frances M. Hess Currie, So. Locke Avenue, Yeagertown, Fa. (17099)-We are glad to be out of the riot city (Newark) and are enjoying our retirement back in Penn 1934-Ruth Adams Fritch 528 Wyndmoor Ave., Philadelphia, Fa. (19118) sylvania. Mildred Aumiller Brown, 1670 Arboles Drive, Glendale, Calif. (91207) Clara Jane Cartwright Boyles. 330 W. Main St., Louisville. Ohio (44641) Margaret Blake, 1305 5th Avenue, Altoona, Pa. (16601) Living with the same man for 39 years and on March 8. 1969, went on a South Mary Alice Bowan Grazioli, 16 Barren Rd., Newtown Square, Pa. (19073)-We are American cruise. How about that? spending the winter in Florida. John retired last June and we are in Florida looking for a home as we would like to retire here. We have spent many enjoyable hours with 1929-Zelda Rowe Mencer, 910 S. 30th St., Camp Hill, Pa. (17011 )-Retired. Mildred and Leon Bowman (Dunkle) in their lovely home in Winter Park, Florida. 1930-Muriel Stevens Canis, 98 Durland Ave., Elmira, N. Y. (14905)-We were host We also spent the month of May in Florida-so you see we really like it here. family last year for an American Field Service student from Finland. We are spend Isaphine Bowmaster Kasper, 3 Howard Ave., Shippensburg, Fa. (17267)-My ing three weeks there in June to attend his graduation. Then on to the other Scan son, Robert, age 17, is graduating from High School this year. He may go to dinavian countries. college or in the Armed Forces. My daughter, Janet, is 14 and in 8th grade. I am Thelma McArthur Wolford, 1011 Milton Drive, Pittsburgh, Pa. (15734) not nursing and haven't been for quite a few years. I consider it frequently, but have As of April 8, 1968, I am a widow of Dr. C. F. Wolford. I am living with daughter, arthritis, which hampers me somewhat and I find my housekeeping routine with the Beverly Karrenbauer, who is Perceptual Development Supervisor in Keystone Oaks usual church, school and community activities is about all I can keep up with com School. Youngest daughter, Margaret Jane, teaching at Junior College in Newtown fortably. Square. I expect to attend luncheon on May 8th. I keep up my Registration and do Anna Breining Hartman, 216 W. Center St., Nazareth, Pa. (18064) volunteer work in several fields. I am working with children with learning disabilities Elma Carey Frampton, 823 Herschel Rd., Philadelphia, Pa. (19116)-I am still and taking care of grandson-new-born Dec. 21, 1968. Hope to see you all May 3rd. very active in the Philadelphia Federation of Women's Clubs. During fishing season, 1931-Mildred English Hively, 2371 Hillside Ave., Williamsport, Pa. (17701)-I am State we spend many weekends at our Fishing Lodge in the Poconos, and in my exuberance Chairman of Conservation for Daughters of the American Revolution. I have just over the sport have learned to cast a pretty good fly line. Spent last summer in Alaska. returned from a 3 months trip around the world. We got up to Point Barrow, at the Northernmost tip. We are planning our next trip Emma M. Bahner, 206 S. 13th St., Apt. 1006, Phila., Fa. (19107)-Retired from to Africa. Jefferson Jan. 1, 1969. A refresher course in Nursing at Methodist Hospital was Donna Carr Cornelius, R.D. #6, Box 322, Dover, Del. (17315) completed April 17, 1969. Nellie Clapsaddle Evelyn Reeser Arnold, 1301 S. Scott St., Arlington, Va. (22204 )-Husband Margaret Clayton Schellenger, 33 Fithian Ave., Merchantville, N. J. (08109) started retirement by taking another kind of work for new career. We are all fine-no drastic news to report. 28 29 Helen Corson Smith Marion Hoffman Miller, 42 Westland Terrace, H averhill, Mass. (01830) Ruth Davis Wolfe, 501 S. Wayne St., Lewistown, Pa. Eva Ingraham Grenoble, 206 N. Main St., Muncy, Pa. (17756) Mildred D'Espinosi Klein, 731 Cypress St., Yeadon, Pa. (19050) Elizabeth Jackson Mildred Dore Estrada, Penn Towers, Apt. 2411, 1801 J. F. Kennedy Blvd., Ann Jacoby Gehrke, 3404 Romig Ave., Reading, Pa. (19696)-My youngest Philadelphia, Pa. (19103)-Mid and her husband are evidently enjoying living in daughter, Eileen, a Registered X-Ray Technician, was married in August to a very center city. fine young man. I now have 3 fine sons-in-law, 2 grandsons, and last Valentine's Day J essie Duff Mulcahy - a beautiful granddaughter. My work has been the biggest factor in maintaining a Mildred Dunkle Bowman, 1790 Viburnum Lane, Eastbrook, Winter Park, Fla. good outlook on life. I am still employed as an Industrial Nurse at Birdsboro Corpora We moved to Florida September 1965. After five days Leon had a heart attack and tion; it will be 19 years in June. I work generally 6 days a week and in my spare time landed in the Winter Park Memorial Hospital for one month. He has completely visit my children and help them when I can-including baby sit. The highlights of my recovered and is working for the Southland Corporation as a Manager of a 7-11 life during these past 5 years was winning a trip to H awaii in 1966. You read about store for the past 3 years. I am kept busy doing Private Duty from 11 to 7 plus people winning these trips, but actually I did for writing 24 words about "Tide." having a lot of company from home during the year. I still keep .busy sewing plus The prize was a First Class trip for 2 by Jet to Hawaii plus $1,000.00 in Travelers the Private Duty Section and District #8 F.N.A. keeps me busy making favors, etc., Checks. It was the most wonderful trip I had ever been on and I am hoping when for the Christmas parties and the graduation party for the Student Nurses from I retire to stay in Hawaii for a longer period of time. I also took a trip to the World's Orange Memorial Hospital. Our son is working in Pittsburgh for the H . J. Heintz Fair in Canada two years ago and last year to Corning Glass and Grand Canyon of Co. He spent the Christmas holidays with us this year. Pennsylvania. Clara Dunn Miller, Main Street, Woodstown, N. J. (08098) Frances Johnston LeFavour, 35127 Beacon Hill Drive, Mt. Clemens, Mich. Aida Engle Brammer, 1411 Morton Ave., Rutledge, Pa. (19070)-0ur two (58043) daughters are married. Sally lives in Glenolden, Pa. She has two daughters-one 6 Sara Jones Ross, 733 Revere Rd., Yeadon, Pa. (19050)-There is nothing new years of age-the other 18 months. Alice Lou lives in Hollywood, Calif. and has one to add to my letter in the past 5 years. I try to give a helping hand to neighbors and daughter, 3 months old. In 1967 she spent 6 months in Vietnam entertaining the family. AI and I are both trying to grow old gracefully. troops which was an experience. She is still in show business on the west coast. I have been working as a Volunteer Nurse for the Red Cross. Give about 300 to 350 Marie Keene Lawton, Old Littleton Rd., Harvard, Mass. (01415)-0ur first hours a year, mostly Blood Mobiles. I cover Delaware County and some parts of grandchild arrived in March of this year-Ben 3rd. Our daughter received her Philadelphia. Have done very little nursing of any other kind. Master in Social Work in June, will be married in August and returns to her position at Massachusetts General Hospital in September. H arriet Fisher Thompson, R.D. #3, Salem, N. J. (08079)-I have enclosed a photo of the Kindergarten Class in a small two room school building in Auburn, N.J. Laura Klink Williams, 8 Watching Place, Summit, N. J. (07901) It is part of the Oldmans T ownship complex and houses Kindergarten and First Pauline Kepner Leary Grade. Another building in Pedricktown, four and one-half miles away, houses first Margaret Larson Winkler, 2034 Campbell Ave., Schenectady, N. Y. (12300) through eighth including a Special Class. As you can see, we are having a Thanks Margaret Mariano Pargola, 2533 S. Smedley St., Philadelphia, Pa. (19145) giving P arty, including an apple turkey, candy corn and cracker fi shes. This is one Pauline Menner, 1229 Hartranft Ave., Fort Washington, Pa. (19034)-White of the many rewards as a School Nurse for the past twenty-two years in Oldmans Haven Graduate. and seventeen in another district, Manington Township. Maude Metzger, 222 Walnut St., Columbia, Pa. H ope Fleck H ahn, 4678 Drexel Ave., Detroit, Mich. (48200) Margaret Moore Chew, RD., Jerico, N.J. H elen Hare Duncan, 912 Walnut St., Hollidaysburg, P a. (16648) Mildred Myers Smith, 31 Stanford Place, Montclair, N. J. (07042)-Micky ts Marion H artman Burch, 41-11 47th Ave., Long Island City, N. Y. (11104)- in California-thus no response. There really is nothing new or exciting in our past 5 years to add to the Bulletin. Rhea Orner Kassay, 828 Cibby St., Easton, Pa. ( 18042) Lois Frymire Bastian, RD. #2, Bloomsburg, Pa. (17815) Betty Piersol, 1002 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. ( 19107) - I am busy with my Enid Haller Colantino, 1103 Union St., H ollidaysburg, Pa. ( 16648) Exchange Visitor Program and have acquired many nurses from different countries Wanda Harrison Sachs under my guidance. This year will be one of my highlights in Nursing Service at Edna Hastings Plagens, 8476 Virgil St., Dearborn, Mich. ( 48120) Jefferson- as it will mark my 35th year of service at my Alma Mater. Verna Hertzler Diehm, RD. #3, Lititz, Pa. (17543)-My life remains pretty Dorothy Raubenhold, 75 Valley Rd., Drexelbrook, Drexel Hill, Pa. ( 19026) much the same. Three children, six grandchildren. Our youngest child, Jim, is 24 Helen Reimer Motsay, 305 Chemung Drive, Waverly, N.Y.-I have two daughters years old. He will graduate from Georgetown University this spring and hopes to married and one son-a total of 10 grandchildren: four girls and six boys ranging be a lawyer, but still will have to serve Uncle Sam first, I guess. I am still Lancaster in age from 7 years to 3 months; 2 sons unmarried. I am very busy with hospital County Court Nurse, and will start my fifth year this summer and I love it. auxiliary work, many hobbies and my grandchildren. My husband is Chief of Pediat Kathryn H offman Snader, 7 North Church St., Ephrata, Pa. (17522)-As fo·r rics at the Guthrie Clinic, Robert Packer Hospital and also President of the Board my personal life-there has been very little change. Still employed as a School Nurse of Managers of the Clinic. at Cocalico School District, Denver, Pa. Enjoy traveling in my free time. Alice Richard James, 41 Gordon Road, Bergenfield, N. J. (07621)-Have been 30 31 doing Private Duty occasionally. My daughter, Joanne (only child), graduates March garden and still work part time in the doctor's office in Media, and Red Cross, etc. 28th from Englewood Hospital School of Nursing-the last of diploma graduates. My husband is still with the bank and Lions Club, etc. Helen Ritchey Frederick, Apt. #-A Woodlawn Court, Aldan, Pa. Harriet Ziegler Mertz, 1229 Bon Air Rd., Havertown, Pa. Esther Robertson Walker, 1700 Sunshine Ave., Johnstown, Pa. (15901) Anna Sherman Bryan Catherine Smulling Gair, Box 287, Douglas, Alaska (99824)-Sorry that I won't IN MEMORIAM: With sadness and regret we list the following obituaries: be. there for the reunion. Someday, I'll make it ! Until then it will be by mental Ruth Myers Peterson, Tasamene Martin Zeit, Charlotte Roeder Jaques, Ethel Art telepathy. Nothing new here, except Kenny is out of the Navy, August or September; man-April 13, 1969. and Gus is retired ! Five more years for me- probably in a wheel chair or cane! We're under Teacher's Retirement-so-Best wishes to all! 1935-M. Pauline Latsha Tharp, 5498 S. Belmont Rd., Downers Grove, IlL-My husband Ruth Spencer Dunfee, 200 West 4th St., Shadyside, Ohio (43947)-I have and I spent a fewdays on the Island of Kavai on a trip to Hawaii in December 1968. retired from Nursing as of February 15, 1969. I had been Director of the School Frances Louise K elly Fisher, 813 Madison Ave., York, Pa. (17404)-Wayne, of N ursing and Nursing Service ·at the Ohio Valley General H ospital, Wheeling, son, age 24, 1st Lt., Air Force-duty in Vietnam; graduated from Susquehanna W. Va., for twenty years. During my administration there the enrollment more than University in 1966 as a chemist. Daughter, Connie, age 22, will graduate 1969 doubled and the School of Nursing received full accreditation from the National Muhlenberg College, field of Rehabilitation, will go to Graduate School. L eague of Nursing. We had a large building program both in the Hospital and the School of Nursing. I enjoyed working on both local and state groups of nursing. WH-Mildred Armstrong Crone, 30 Gillett St., Hartford, Conn. (06105)-Retired at age I am sure I will miss the activity but am looking forward to some travel with my 65. Am now 80 years of age. hus.band and wish to be able to do some things I have previously never felt I had 1937-Violet Smith Orland, 402 Narragansett Drive, Cherry Hill, N.J. (08034)-0ur the time to do. son, John W. Orland, won an award for his direction and production of a documentary Louise Stahle Adams film on Mental Health entitled "They are not Expendable." H e recently signed a Catherine Stuart Kizink, 113 S. Spring St., Falls Church, Va. (22040) contract with Universal Studios as Director and Producer. Daughter, Sandy, is Elizabeth Taylor Davidson, 1100 Grandview Rd., Lancaster, Pa. (17600) attending college in Los Angeles and is also maj oring in Cinematography. Grace Thomason Mitchell Mildred W oodhead Hawkesworth, P.O. Box 166, Rockport, Mass. (01966)- Julia T yler McCracken, 524 Revere Rd., Merion Station, Pa. (19066)-The past 0ur son received his B.S. in Business Administration from University of New fiv e years have been busy-having completed my 32nd year with Dr. Nelson-and H ampshire. His lovely and gifted wife will graduate this year. They made us grand not one day missed because ·of illness. My husband, Tip, had a laryngectomy in parents for Christmas. We are retired, Norm and I, but I do occasional rehabilitation D ecember, 1966. He talks the pharyngeal way very well and continues to enjoy life. nursing (C.V.A.). Enjoy our new house and free time. Tillie Wall Ghares, 609 Arlington St., Tamaqua, Pa. (18252)-We are still in Jean Elizabeth Heine Arnold, P.O. Box 22, Concrete, Wash. (98237)-For the the Beverage Distributing Business. Daughter, Ruth Ann, husband and three sons past 3 years, I have been working as an Industrial Nurse for the Boeing Airplane are living in Kirksville, Missouri for three years. They hope to return to Allentown Company's 747 Installation at Everett, Wash. Interesting to watch the plant develop when he is finished. V/e will be glad to have them nearer home. Son Richard, is out around me and a thrill to see the 1st 747 take off on its maiden fl ight; # 2 will fl y of the Navy-married-no children. He lives in T amaqua and is an electrician at the soon ! Lehigh Valley Dairy in Allentown. 1938-Edith Owen McCutcheon, 70 Collins Rd., Trenton, N. J. (08619) -"Special Recog Kathleen Warner Armitage, 4 Locust St., Larchmont, N. Y. (10538) nition"? Only to us, but we were both so proud-my "infant" this year is a Registered Evelyn Wilson Frazier, 1308 Park Blvd., Cherry Hill, N. J . (08034)-The past Professional N urse. five years have been interesting and busy. My husband had three major operations and myocardial infarct ; however, he is fine now. I retired as of February 28, 1969 from Elinor Miller Wentzell, 1502 A rrowhead Drive, Sun City, Fla. (33570) the Veterans Administration but I find myself in an ambivalent situation as I am Husband, ]. Earl, practicing Medical Doctor here in Florida. Also have my daughter, busy with teen-ager activities as Jimmy is interested in scouting, sports, church, etc. husband and four grandsons in Sarasota, Fla. Our son, in U.S.A.F., in Hawaii. Eva Woosley W arren, Box 374, Hillsborough, N. C.-I plan to retire as Dean 1939-Dorothy Ranck, 3290 E. Wakefield Rd., Harrisburg, Pa. (17109)-Supervisor of the East Carolina University School of Nursing on June 30th of this year. My Regional Office, Bureau of Adult Institutions, Pennsylvania Department of Public plans for the future include a trip to Germany during the summer to visit our son, Welfare. who is stationed there with the Army, and possibly some writing. I also plan to occupy Mary Schwab Gregg, .952 Scio St., Elmira, N.Y. (14901)-1 am now employed some time with my hobbies of reading, gardening, sewing and housekeeping. by the Chemung County Health Department as a Public Health Nurse. Margaret Yarnell Snear, Rose Tree Rd.; Media, Pa.-Next week we are going Grace Agnes Roll er Castner, 12 Bayberry Drive, Bordentown, N. ]. (08505) to Portland, Oregon, to visit our daughter and family. Joanne had her third baby in Eldest son, James F. Castner, Jr., graduated from St. Peter's College, Jersey City, November. Our son, Clay, is a Captain in the Marine Helicopter Squad. He is back N. ].-B.A. degree-1968. Nancy Gay-Jr. year-College of St. E lizabeth, Convent in North Carolina now safely after receiving two DFC for Vietn.am duty. I like to Station, N. J ., Biology Major. 32 33 Barbara Schutt, 465 W. End Ave., New York, N.Y. (10024)-Honorary recog people." "She has .been Piper since the national program designed to interest adults nition conferred by A.N.A. in 1968 convention at Dallas. and children to scouting was initiated last year. Each area has its own P iper who works with the council in planning and carrying out projects for membership recruit 1940-Judy Elliott Kesselring, 5033 College Corner Rd., Oxford, Ohio (45056)-1 work in ment and retention. Penn's Woods serves 10,000 girls in a five county area and has office here in Oxford for 3 G.P.s-a very busy and interesting place. Our daughter, an adult membership of 2000 with over 50 doctor's wives serving as board members, Sue, made us grandparents for the first time this past December 15th. Son, Tod, is a leaders and assistants and members of various committees." "Mrs. Howanitz has Sophomore in High School. used her medical auxiliary know-how to provide valuable safety and health programs Leah Hummel Edwards, 51 Plantation Court, Jackson, Texas (77566)-Super for the Scouts. Current efforts include collaboration with the state health department visor of Health Services-School District, Freeport, Texas. and the Red Cross to prepare merit badge work in child care, home nursing and Mary Eisenhart Fleming, Box 335, Route 3, Arnold, Md. (21012)-1 am O.R. first aid for a cadette troop." Supv. at Anne Arundel General Hospital, Annapolis, Md. My husband, Wm. L., is 1946-Ruth Fairweather Nemeth, 10 W. Marshall Rd., Lansdowne, Pa. (1 9050)-New an engineer on Penn Central R.R. One daughter, 16 years of age. She is an honor daughter born September 6, 1968. student in high school. We all enjoy boating, bowling and avid Colt football fans. Nothing unusual or promotion wise. 1947-Joanne H amm Koelle, 1726 Shelmire St., Philadelphia, Pa. (19111)-While on vaca tion in California last August, we were able to spend a wonderful day with Lois 1941-Geraldine Chamberlain Topping, 1422 Bloomingrove Rd., Williamsport, Pa. (17701) Craft and Ann Barner, at Lois's home in San Rafael, Calif. Lois is teaching at the - Remarried in 1965. My husband is International Convention Manager of Piper University of San Francisco and Ann and her family were in the process of moving Aircraft Corp. to Los Angeles. It was so nice seeing them again and meeting their families. 1942-Madge Roberts Miller, 314 S. 1st St., Bangor, Pa. (18013)-George and I have a Gladys McConnell Temple, 1016 Milledge Rd., Augusta, Ga. (30904)-Moved funeral business of our own-"Miller Funeral Home." We have four daughters and back to U. S. after 15 years overseas. Attending Medical College of Georgia S. N. a son-a wonderful family. working at a B.S.N. Four youngsters in grade school and one in diapers. What a Gladys Reed White, 301 S. 6th St., North Wales, Pa. (19454) - North Wales life! Boro Health Officer. Sunday School Superintendent. 1948-Dawne Marie Pickell Ferich, 1645 Clearview Rd., Norristown, Pa. (19403)-1 am Rhoda Burg Weisz, 1253 Hunt Club Lane, Media, Pa. (19063)-Husband became presently working in the School District as a Title I Nurse-Social Worker (Poverty Manager of Central Research Laboratories of Mobil Research and Develop. Corp. at Program) . Princeton, N.]. on January 1, 1969. Jean Shirey Wighman, 5 Basehore Rd., Mechanicsburg, Pa. (17011) - 0ur oldest Alice Ripple Hennell, 28344 Pontevedro Drive, San Pecha, Calif. (90732) son, Jeff, will graduate from High School June 4th. My husband, Paul, is Industrial My husband, Maj. Kenneth I. Hennell, Ret., passed away October 27, 1968. Arts Advisor for the state D.P.I. Margaret Dickinson Indrika, Box 142, Twin Lakes, Wis. (53181)-1 work part 1949-Patricia Jane Norstedt Johnson, 440 Bryn Mawr Ave., Cynwyd, Pa. (19004) time in Surgery at Burlington Memorial Hospital, Burlington, Wis. My son, Martin, Seven children. Husband-Surgeon at Jeff. We all use Jefferson Hall swimming pool graduates in May from one of the State Universities. every Sunday ! ! 1943-N ellie Schirmer Warshaw, 2512- 55th St., Lubbock, Texas (79413)-0ur daughter, Ruth Edna Lange Wettig, 6250 S.W. 88 St., Miami, Fla. (33156)-Took a Susan, will marry in July at the Naval Academy Chapel at Annapoli s, Md. driving tour of Europe last summer. Drove over 3,000 miles and enjoyed every Mary Jo Strong Lake, 8 Valley Creek Rd., Norristown, Pa. (19403)-This minute. September, our daughter, Linda, will graduate from J efferson School of Nursing. 1950-Mary Loui se Moore Brumbaugh, 7337 Central Ave., Lemon Grove, Cali f. (92045)- She has been accepted at East Stroudsburg State College as a degree candidate in Dr. Brumbaugh and I had our seventh daughter September 24, 1968. Public School N ursing. Jean Hohe Larkin, 11 50 N. 16th St., All entown, Pa. (18102)-Nothing exciting. 1945-Harriett Mullen Palmer, Rt. # 1, DeFuniak Springs, Fla. (32432)-Husband retired I work part time at Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown. as Maj. from U.S.A.F. Daughter, Debra, graduated from Lock Haven State Teachers Clara Richardson Flynn, 9021 Mojave Dr., Saeto, Calif. (95826)-Husband has College 1968. Son, Bill, now in Marines in Vietnam- married July 1968. retired after 20 years with the A.F. Now works for the County Sheriff. Ruth Frances Rohr Starner, 51784 Churchill Drive, Utica, Mich. (48097)- 1 have three children, Karen-21 years; Beth-16 years; Allen-12 years. Karen 1951-Nancy Thompson, 220 Dennison, Little Rock, Ark. (72205)-I am preparing for a position as head nurse of the Medical Intensive Care Unit which should be open graduated from Mansfield State College, Pa. (Music Major) January 1969. She was in July at the Little Rock, V.A. named to Who's Who of Colleges and Universities. Jane Hawk Aires, 16653 Pineridge Drive, Granada Hills, Calif. (91344) - We Florence Schmick Howanitz, 574 Rutter Ave., Kingston, Pa. (18704)-1 was still enj oy California-children keep me busy but we're a happy group ! V icki now recently honored by "MD's Wife," The Magazine for Physicians Wives, published by 15- but no plans fo r nursing in her future! the Women's Auxiliary to the American Medical Association, Inc. Excerpts: "The 'Piper' of the Penn's Woods Girl Scout Council in Northeastern Pennsylvania is 1952-Nancy Groh Messick, 412 Sentinel Rd., Moorestown, N . ]. (08057)-My husband, R. Richard Messick, M.D., is President of the Staff at Zur.brugg Memorial Hospital Mrs. Emil Howanitz of Kingston who thoroughly enjoys doing things with yoong in Riverside, N.J. 34 35 May Ann Anderson Waddell, 82 Crestview Drive, H olden, Mass. (01520) Mary Ellen Duncan Higgins, 33 Pauletta Ct., Danville, Calif. (94526)-My Position as of September 1968-Instructor-Staff Education Dept., H ahnemann Hos husband has been named Vice-President of Administration and Finance of the pital, Worcester, Mass. Anoset Company of Oakland, Calif. recently. V irginia W esley Dorman, 237 Rock Run Rd., Elizabeth, P a. (15037)-Two Rosemary E. Moore, 411 S. Quince St., Philadelphia, Pa. (19147)-Completed children-Kitty 12 years; Frankie Jr. 4 years. Husband, Frank, J efferson graduate the requirements for a M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania last year. Currently 1953-elected to Elizabeth Forward School District School Board. working at Hahnemann Hospital. Hello to all! Ann Louise Savage Stout, 233 Park St., Morgantown, W. Va. (26505)-0n 1959-Anne Major Jones, 163 Ruland Rd., Selden, N.Y. (1 1784)-Working full time at November 6, 1968, my husband, Dr. Benjamin M. Stout, Jr., died. H e was a 1952 St. Charles Hospital, P ort Jefferson H ospital, as a staff nurse. My husband was graduate of J efferson Medical College. At the time of his death he was an Associate appointed Lt. in N.Y.C. Fire Dept. on March 28, 1969. Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Division of Allergy at West Virginia University Medical Center. We have four children-James, 15; Nancy, 14; Ben III, M. Patricia Sankey Brown, 2020 Brandywine St., Philadelphia, Pa. (19130) 11 ; and Robert, 9. My husband, Mark, will receive his Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology from Jeff in June then back to his orthopedic residency for 2 years; three sons now-Christopher, 1953-Nellie Crandall Richards, W ells St. , Ashaway, R. I. (02804)-My husband's present 40 ; Anthony, 18 months; and Daniel, 6 months. I will be entering J efferson's School position is Cost Accountant Supv. at General Dynamics, Electric Boat Division, of Allied Health Sciences to fin ally co mplete my B.S. Groton, Conn. Judith W ri ght Bloes, Old Mill Rd., Woodl and Acres, Jermyn, Pa. (18433) 1954-Helen Marie F etsko Besecker, 231 E. Orange St., Lancaster, Pa. (17604)-Still only Husband elected President of Jefferson Medical Coll ege Alumni Association of five children. Dr. Besecker is now Chief of Pediatrics at Lancaster General Hospital. Northeastern Pennsylvania- one of the largest Chapters in the U. S.- Walter S. Lou Ann Zartman Craley-Graduated from West Chester State College 1968- Bloes, M.D.-1959. Children and I are well; Wally is nearing 9; Yi sa is 7; Amy is 5. B.S. in Education. Working in the Colonial School District for 2 years. Many thanks Janet Carol Klinesti ver Mosley, 119 Concord Ave., R.D. 7, York, Pa. (17402) to the Alumnae Scholarship Fund for the financial support. My husband graduated from the University of T ennessee in 1967. He is now office 1955-Marie Bonaccurso Bancari, 1103 Angora Ave., Yeadon, Pa. (19050)-I am doing manager of the steel division of Motor Freight Express, York, Pa. School Nursing at the present time. Working toward my degree at West Chester Janet Morris Renn, Riverside Apts., 630 Capital Trail, Newark, Del. ( 19711)- State College. N ew daughter, born February 12, 1969-named Jennifer. 1956-Mary Anne Saunders Port, 309 N. Bellevue Ave., Langhorne, Pa. (19047)-We just 1960-Carolyn Ressler Goepfert, 139 Westfield Rd., Holyoke, Mass. (01040)-My husband bought an 180 year old house in Langhorne; have three children; my husband is and I had our first child, a little girl, Catherine Adah, on February 21, 1969. She is manager of Girard Trust Bank, Middletown office. a delight ! Marilyn Ann Robertson Glauber, 8239 Burnley Rd., Towson, Md. (21204) Kathleen Manges Kleaonis, McGuire Air Force Base, N. J. (08641) - My hus My husband, Kenneth R. Glauber, is to be given an award June 2nd by the Asso band is a N avigator in the U.S.A.F. We've been stationed at McGuire A.F.B. for ciated Retail Confectioners of America. This is in honor of him being President of seven years. Children : Susan-6 ; J oey-5; Amy-2. the 3rd oldest Candy Manufacturing Retail Business in the U.S.A. The Glauber Betty Ann Smith Patte~son, 5205 32nd Ave., Hillcrest H eights. Md. (20031 ) Candy Company is 93 years old and Kenneth is third generation. Presently employed at St. Elizabeth's H ospital at Washington, D. C. Position: P sy 1957-Shirley Imler Johns, 1141 Fairmount Drive, Harrisburg, Pa. (17112)-First child, chiatric Head N urse GS-9. a son, born F ebruary 27, 1969-Matthew Wayne. Patricia Mazakas Van Strien, 9820 Exposition Blvd., #202, Los Angeles, Cali f. Julie F ernandez Placendo, Route #2, Box # 71, Lake Rd., Newfield, N . ]. (90034 )-Birth of 2nd daughter on February 7, 1969. Weight: 9 lbs., 50 oz . H er (08344)-I work as Assistant Head Nurse at Newcomb Hospital where we added name: Carolee Patricia. two new wings. A severe shortage of nurses kept us from opening Intensive Care Judith E. Haas Staufe r, 3729 Meyer Lane, H atboro, Pa. (19040)-Two children Unit. My husband is still a produce farmer. My children are Carmen, 9-who plays - Todd, 3 years ; Timothy Marc born March 9, 1969. Husband, Robert, received M.S. the piano and my son, John, 10-who plays the saxophone. Say hello to everyone degree in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel Institute of T echnology June 1969. for me! Virginia Grace Coleman Ni!l, 18 North H ill Drive, West Chester, P a. (1 9380) Eleanor Hamill Miller, 1048 Morton St., Laurel, Md. (20810)-Husband, Victor, Two children-ages 5 and 3 years. Husband works at Lukens Steel Co., in manage employed by U. S. Dept. of Agriculture; two children. I am a Supervisory Clinical ment. Part time nurse (Private Duty); active in community and church work. Nurse with the D. C. D ept. of Public Welfare. Suzanne Haupt Funke, 2319 Palomino Rd., Livermore, Calif. (94550)-Son 1958-Barbara Wilson Kelso, 15575 Oak Drive, Spring Lake, Mich. (49456)-My husband, born-October 23, 1968-Michael David. T om, is in partnership, practicing pathology in Muskegon. We're enjoying the 1961-Jacquelin Kay Elsesser Harris, 711 H opkinson H ouse, Washington Square, Phila midwest, a new locale for all o·f us. delphia, Pa. (19106)-W ill receive a B.A. degree from University of Pennsylvania Shirley Hill, 5028 Brown St., Philadelphia, Pa. (19139)--'-My brother, Ciarence, May, 1969. Member of Board of Directors-Center for the Whole Person, P hiladel will be graduated in June from Drexel with degree in Business Admiriishation. phia, Pa.-Staff member of W estern Behavioral Sciences Institute, La Jolla, Calif., Summer 1969. 36 37 Edrie Wilson Brennan, 1100 W. Chester Pike, W est Chester, Pa. (19380) as Supervisor and Instructor in Rehabilitation Center (sponsored by Pennsylvania My husband is now a Manager for Household Finance Corp., making a move to State Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation). West Chester necessary. We were also thrilled with the birth of a daughter, Ann Marcie Grieshaber Moore, 2978 Oklahoma Rd., Willow Grove, Pa. (19090) Elizabeth, in November 1968. Moved to our home in November 1968. Our son, R. Mack, was born at Jefferson on Beatrice Rhoda, 106th General Hospital, APO, San Francisco, Calif. (96503) 18th of December. I became a ski instructor at Big Boulder in February 1969. For I am presently serving a two year tour in Japan after having spent a year in the present, I am retired as a mother and wife. Thailand with Army Nurse Corp. Hoping to go to Vietnam next. I was promoted Sue Lehman Rice, 5503 Bryn Mawr, Dallas, Texas (75209)- We have one to Captain April 1968. daughter, Sabrina Sue, born February 21, 1968. Another child on the way-due Elizabeth McQuillen Larkin, Gladiola Drive, Clarks Summit, Pa. (18411) October 1969. W ork one day a week in doctor's office. My husband, Ro.bert M. Larkin, M.D., J .M.C. 1960, passed his OB-Gyn Boards in Theresa Ann Lefchick Lamberth-There are some changes- first of all, my November 1968. name. On July 20, 1968, I was married to L CDR Billy C. Lamberth at the Chapel Betty Lou Simonson W oods, 141 North St., w .est Pittston, Pa. (18643)-I am of the Monterey Naval Post Graduate School. My husband graduates in June and presently Inservice Director at Community Medical Center in Scranton. we will then be moving to the Philippines for a two year tour of duty. Will try to Roberta G. Eckert Brown, Radcliffe House A 309, 1000 Conestoga Rd., Rosemont, keep you informed of changing addresses. P a. (19010)-I'm recently married, February 14, 1969. Husband, Rick and I live in Teresa Fiqueiredo Hohl, 14 Essex St., Watertown, Mass (02172)-We are Rosemont. Still working for Dr. J, W. Davis, as his scrub nurse and office nurse. moving to Boston in June where Joe will be doing a year of pediatric orthopedics at Emily Janet Lutz Hogan, 1919 Minter Lane, Abilene, Texas (79603)-"Retired" Children's Hospital. Baby !#4 due in December. to practice pediatrics at home on Thomas Edward, Jr., 2 years. Also one afternoon a week in Pediatric Clinic at Dyers A.F.B. Hospital as a Red Cross Volunteer Nurse. 1963-Bonnie Wilhelm Zaldivar, R.D. #3, Box 461, Cumberland, Md. (21502)-Still living W e wish to announce the birth of twin girls April 14, 1969, 6 weeks early-Tamara in Caracas, Venezuela-where husband works for IBM and Bonnie is a Programmar Elizabeth, 5 lb s., 2 oz. at 9:08 A.M.-Tanya Ellice, 4 lbs. , 8 oz. at 9:14 A.M. for an Electric Company. (Her Mother- Mrs. Carl Wilhelm.) Rosalie Caponigro Gee, 19 St. Francis Woods Rd., N. Madison, Conn. (06443) Loretta Rich Kurland, 10 Dogwood Lane, Turnersville, N. J, (08012)-My two Birth of first child-son-Genther Daniel, on February 1, 1969. Husband, Daniel, active sons, Bobby 20 and David 10 , keep me quite .busy although I did return to now Production Manager of C. W . Blakeslee's Prestressed Concrete Division of New nursing last summer for two evenings a week at a nearby hospital. I hope to do the same thi s summer. Haven, Conn. Rose Ann Tumolo Moyer, 9235 Annapolis Rd., Philadelphia, Pa. (19114) Carol J, Lammer McFarland, Audubon Court Apts., M-103- New baby girl My husband, P eter, is now Treasurer of East Girard Savings and Loan Association. Michele Lynn, 8 lbs., 12 oz., 21 inches, March 15, 1969. Vv e have two sons : P eter, Jr. is 6 years old; Joey is 2 years old. We spent a week Barbara Wilson Starner, 115 Morton Rd., Morton, Pa. ( 19064 )-Birth of our in Boston, Mass. at the Savings and Loan Convention in March 1969. I am Chairman first baby, a girl, at Jefferson in October of '68. I am working part time as a dental of Sewing Bazaar at Thomas Holme Elementary School. I am also Editor of Lincoln assistant to the President of the Pennsylvania Dental Association (where I worked High School Alumni Newsletter and am Secretary of Abraham Lincoln High School full time before the baby arrived). Mary Elizabeth Speicher Gillin, 2425 Naudain St., Philadelphia, Pa. (19146) Alumni Association. I am presently working as Instructor of Student Health at Jefferson. My husband, 1962-Arlene Kania Hillig, 3601 Conshohocken Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. (19131) - Will be Jim, was recently made Head of the English Department at Spring Garden Institute. moving to Reading, Pa., as of July 1st, where my husband, John, will practice OB Maureen Maguire, 322 Windsor Ave., Haddonfield, N. J, (08033)-I will graduate Gyn- associated wi th Reading H ospital. from the University of Pennsylvania in May 1969 with a B.S.N. Degree. Leona Chambers H ansell, 584 King St., Woodbury, N .J. (08096)-Daughter, Gayle Cl ymer Schuker, 76 Pinedale Rd., Asheville, N.C. (28805)-Am presently Christine Marie, born February 18, 1969 on my birthday. working at Highland Hospital (psychiatric) in AsheviHe. I am the mother of two Janice Ann Panick Billick, 39 Rose Loop, Ft. L eavenworth, Kansas (66027) children ( 4 and 2). Husband, Bernard, still servin g military commitment until January 1971-enjoying Nancy Gallagher Goodson, 4538 Maize Rd., #A2, Columbus, Ohio (43224) our stay in the mid west. Married March 22, 1969. Working at Ohio State University Hospital, Dialysis Unit. Ellen Glaspey Willard, 13 Granada, Briarcrest Gardens, Hershey, Pa. (17033) Shirley Marat Weller, 937 Victory Blvd., Staten Island, N.Y. (10301)-My My husband is now an instructor in the Dept. of Family and Community Medicine, husband, Michael (] eff '63), now a board certified radiologist, is fulfilling his mili M. S. Hershey Medical Center. tary obligation with the U. S. Public Health Service at its Staten Island H ospital. Carole Costello T omlinson, 3525 Norton Ave., Everett, W ash. (98201)-Husband, I am working as the angiography and isotope nurse at the same hospital. John W., opened office for practice of Ophthalmology in Everett, August 1, 1968. Served for one year aboard the Hospital Ship U.S.S. Repose off the coast of Vietnam 1964-Patricia Lee Gardner, 448 Manor View Drive, Millersville, Pa. (17551)-I have and received letter of Commendation for work in establishing The Vision for Viet been an instructor in Nursing Education since I joined the Faculty of the Lancaster nam Program. General Hospital School of Nursing in February 1966. Presently, I am enrolled in Carolyn Jean W elter Bewsher, 1625 Grace Circle, Allentown, Pa. (18103) the Temple University Graduate program, pursuing studies toward a Master's Attending East Stroudsburg State College for B.S. in Education. Presently employed Degree in Education. 38 39 Fay Shaffer Butzbach, 2603 Abington Rd., Wilmington, Del. (19803)-After 1965-Jenny Jongenburger Adams, 6259 N. Sheridan Rd., Apt. 54, Chicago, Ill. (60626 ) returning from an extended vacation to the Pacific Northwest, Canada and Alaska in Married September 21, 1968 to James R. Adams, Jr., M.D. Husband is an intern at October, 1968, I began working in the Dialysis Unit of St. Francis Hospital, Wilming Presbyterian St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago. ton. My husband, Bob, is a Chemical Engineer with the DuPont Company at the Susan Ann Wilhour Smeltz, Sussex Apt. 10, 890 Laurelwood Rd., Pottstown, Pa. Chambers Works, Deep W ater, N. J , (19464)-ICCU Pottstown Memorial Medical Center. Barbara Hedenberg Narehood, 525 Charleston Rd., Moorestown, N.J. (08057), Margaret Steiniger Schlosser, 305 Linn St., Harrisburg, Pa. (17109)-I am (After September 30th)-Brian Samuel born August 18, 1968-Weight: 5 lbs., living in H arrisburg, where my husband, Bob, is a practicing attorney. Our son, 11 ~ oz. . Adam, is now 16 months old. I am working part time in the operating room at the Linda Cone Rupertus, 37 Rondon Ave., Berlin, N.J. (08009)-We have three Harrisburg Hospital. children: Carol, 3; Chuck, 2; David, 5 months. I worked part time this s·ummer at Lois Gail Russell, 508 S. Orange St., Media, Pa. (19063)-I am still Supervisor Camden County Psychiatric Institution. Head Nurse of the Dialysis Unit at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Upland, Dorothy Nuttall Stelzer, 205 A 6140 Centing Ave., Middleton, Wis. (53562) Chester, Pa., where we are very active in "Home Dialysis" by training our patients Husband, Dennis, will receive Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania in Anatomy in and a family member to operate . the artificial kidney machines and then send them August 1969. I'm assistant head nurse- student health infirmary, University of Wis home after a two month intensive training program. Last June I was fortunate to consin Hospital. I will become a mother in October. have vacationed in Europe before attending the European Dialysis and Transplant Kathleen Langan Jones, 20538 Wood Ave., Torrance, Calif. (90503)-My hus Association Conference in Dublin, Ireland. band, Ward, is a first year Anesthesiology Resident at H arbor General Hospital. I'm Marilyn Krout Costello, 413 Butler Ave., Chalfont, Pa. (18914)-1 got married the busy mother of Kimberly, age 20 years and Heather Lynn, age 6 months. in May 1968, and graduated from the University of P ennsylvania in June of the same Jane Cox Gay, 1910 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia, Pa. (19130)-Twin girls year. My husband is a Supply Officer in the Navy. While stationed in Southern Cali born October 9, 1968 at Jefferson Hospital. fornia, I have been teaching senior nursing students. Carol Parzniewski Teplick, 23 Mt. Hood Rd., Brighton, Mass. (02146)-I mar Bonnie Sandt, 2430 Fillmore St., #404, San Francisco, Calif. (94115)-Now a ried on April 5, 1968 to Steven K. Teplick who is a resident physician at Boston City surgical nurse at Children's Hospital and Adult Medical Center. Hospital, and I'm attending Boston University for a B.S. in Nursing. Carolyn Jones Walchak, 4929 S. Scholl s F erry Rd., Portland, Oregon (97225 ) Linda Wang Pincus, 19 Northland Lane, Matawan, N.J. (07747)-0ur son, My husband is completing his internship in June. At that time we will move to Allan, became one year old April 16. My husband, Marty, is Director of the Record Connecticut where we will be a Naval Submarine Corp family. Department at McGraw-Hill Book Co. I am doing private duty-part time; am active Margaret Fischer McGroaty, 8912- 26th Ave., South, Tacoma, Wash. (98409) in the LaLeche League, enj oying being a homemaker-mother. Husband, Raymond ]. McGroaty, is in Medical Corp (M.D.) and has just been Patricia Insley Orr, 447 Walnut Ave., Trevose, Pa. (19047)-I now work part promoted to Major-at Madigan General Hospital, Fort Lewis. Have two daughters time staff nurse at Abington Memorial Hospital. There are interns, residents and -Jill born April 8, 1966, and Erin born January 9, 1968. other nurses from Jeff there and it is nice working with them in a general hospital. Gail Wright Schutz, 321 Bellanca Rd., Bricktown, N.J. (08725) - My little girl Carol Bailey Miller, P.O. Box 85, Columbia Cross Roads, Pa. (16914)-For the is now 10 years old- busy and beautiful. I work three days a week-O.R. nurse, and last year I have been working on a short term psychiatric unit at the Robert Packer my husband, Chuck, begins full time college in pursuit of his degree in E lectrical Hospital, Sayre, Pa. We are expecting our second child in October. Engineering. Marilyn Miller Long, 163 Cheyenne Trail, Medford Lakes, N.J. (08055) Janet Carolyn Walker, 590 Laidley St., San Francisco, Calif. (94131)-Presently My husband, John, is a member of the Faculty of Lenape Regional High School and employed at Children's H ospital and Adult Medical Center-O.R. will be head basketball and golf coach at the new high school, Shawnee, next year. Claudia Bennett Penders, R.F.D. 3, Laurel, Del. (19956)- I am in temporary We had a daughter, Amy Michelle, on September 26, 1968. She is now 7 months old "retirement" now with a year old son while my husband is a Captain in Vietnam and occupies most of my time. We also just moved to our. new home in Medford working with the refugees and teaching English at one of their universiti es. Lakes. Judith J . Abbott Getz, U. S. Naval H ospital, Taipei, Republic of China, Box #4, Barbara Nase Anderson, 1139 Tilghman St., Allentown, Pa. (18102)-My APO San Francisco, Calif. (96263)-We're stili living in China and loving it. I'm husband received his Master's Degree in Political Science at the University of Dayton teaching English at the University of T aiwan and Don is a GMO at the Naval Hos on April 27, 1969. I, also, attended classes at the University. Bob's next assignment pital. We're both doing a lot of scuba diving and things are so inexpensive that we're will take us to Fort Holabird, Md. spending a lot of money. Trips to Hong Kong, Japan, and S. E. Asia are coming up Lynn McMaster Nagatani, P.O. Box 811, Deland, Calif. (93215)-Working part soon. time at local hospital and am busy keeping daughter, Seanna, age 13 months, from Carol Shockley Sowder, 275 Aralia Lane, Jacksonville, Fla. (32216)- My husband getting into "no-nos". Hope to return to Philadelphia for vacation in September and finished his residency in psychiatry in June and we will be moving to Florida where see the progress made at Jeff. he hopes to do private practice. Virginia Magee Best, 36 Koger Rd., Trumbull, Conn. (06611)-Working three Cheryl Knauer Weber, 229 Princeton Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. (14226)-Husband is evenings a week as staff nurse in Pediatrics at Bridgeport Hospital. about to receive his Ph.D. in Analytical-Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in June. 40 41 Judith Snyder Johnson, 120 E. Street Rd., Apt. K2-9, Warminster, Fa. (18774) Joan Sampson, 1530 Locust St., Philadelphia, Fa. (19102)-Promotion-Assistant After completing my B.S.N. at University of Pennsylvania August 1968, I have Head Nurse of the Emergency Dept.-Jefferson. been an Assistant Instructor of Nursing I at Jefferson. Mary Ann Bealer Harvey, 5562 Bear Rd., N. Syracuse, N.Y. (13212)-I am Adrienne Lowe Daughenbaugh, 11 Forest Drive, Northfield, N.J. (08225) working as a part time staff nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse. My husband Working at Shore Memorial Hospital in Somers Point, N.]. in Post Anesthesia is obtaining his Ph.D. at Syracuse University in Higher Education and will be Room. Will be installed in June as President of the S.M.H. Nurses Association. eventually a college administrator. Nancy Graham Heverly, Blanchard, Fa. (16826)-0n Thanksgiving Day, Novem Judith Kramer Seltzer, 715 W. Belden, Chicago, Ill. (60614)-My husband, ber 28, 1968 our baby daughter was born- Tracey Lynn. Jefferson Medical School graduate of 1967 is a Pediatric Resident at Children's Elizabeth Ann Maule, 1009 Clinton St., Philadelphia, Fa. (19107) - I will become Memorial Hospital. I am an Inservice Ed. Instructor at Grant Hospital. Mrs. Karl Zentner on May 24, 1969. Karl is a Chemical Engineer for Atlantic Marilyn Steadman, 11904 Covert Rd., Philadelphia, Fa. (19154)-I will graduate Richfield. New address: 4000 Gypsy Lane (Apt. 214), Philadelphia, Fa. ( 19144). from the University of Pennsylvania in August 1969 with a Bachelor of Science Sandra Schimdt Kolodziej , 705 Bishop Dr., Virginia Beach, Va. (23455)-My Degree in Nursing. husband is a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and stationed aboard the USS Sea Margaret Lucchesi Connell, Forest Acr.es Rd., New London, N.H. (03257) Leopard ( SS-483). He completed his studies for a Master of Science degree in My husband finished his master's program at University of Maryland in June and is Oceanography at the U.S. Navy Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. in June now teaching psychology at Colby Jr. College here in New London, N. H. Our first 1968. ·We have a son, Christopher John, born July 1967 and expect another baby in child, a boy, Stephen Charles, 8 lbs., 2 oz., was born on November 11, 1968. I'm work July 1969. I worked in Recovery Room at Monterey Hospital before our son was ing and going to school part time at Colby, and this summer we're building a house born. here. Mary Ann Chinapri Reese, 310 McGill Dr., Cumberland, Md. (21502)-Settled Judith Ann Edwards Hamblen, Chetwynd Apts., Rosemont, Fa. (19010)-l am and happy in our new home. Current status-housewife. working in the O.R. at Bryn Mawr doing open heart surgery. My husband is assistant Rita Mickey Mendel, 398 W. Vine St., Hatfield, Fa. (19440)-0ur first baby treasurer of S.K.&F. male-Alfred-"A-1" condition--6 lbs., 10 oz., 200 in. long, blonde hair, blue eyes born March 29, 1969 in Grand View Hospital, Sellersville, Fa. 1967-Joan Reed Darden, 1777 Shoreline, Apt. 308, Alameida, Calif. (94501)-As of April Carolyn Widman Bohn, 1240 Brennan Dr., Warminster, Fa. (18974)-We have 5, 1969, I will be promoted to Charge Nurse on two 20 bed OB unit of Merritt been in our new home almost a year now and love suburban living in Warminster. Hospital, Oakland, Calif. In mid March, Dianne Jakabein Perkins, Carol Sinkowsky I still work at Jefferson in neurosurgery in the O.R. Casey, and I met in Palo Alto, for dinner and a mini reunion 1967 Class. Valerie Ennis Kegelman, 301 Heights Lane Apt., Feasterville, Fa. (19047) Sally Breidenthal Gilbert, 501 W. Beaner Ave., State College, Fa. (16801) My husband, Michael and I became the proud parents of twins, born October 29, Married in 1967; had baby girl in June of 1968; moved to Seattle, Wash. September 1968-Staci Valerie and Sean Michael. I am not working at present, they are a full of 1968; moved back to State College March of 1969. Making plans to go to Australia time job. shortly. (Worked as Program Director of Nurses Aide Course at Laurelton St. School and Hospital for nine months.) 1966-Christina Ann Thompson Ford, 7415 Githens Ave., Pennsauken, N.]. (08109) Marie Eileen Hansen, 5611 Long Beach Blvd., Brant Beach, N.J. (08008) Married June 29, 1968. As of June 7, 1969, my name will be changed by marriage to Eileen Hansen Killough. Nancy Ruth Scull Brainard, 1735 Ashley H all Rd., Charleston, S. C. (29407) On June 1st, I am graduating with a B.S. in Nursing from Elizabethtown College After i.oining the USAF Nurse Corps in 1967 as a 2/Lt. I met my husband, Donald in Pennsylvania. Allen. We were married November 2, 1968 in Laredo, Texas, where he was stationed Sharon L. Creamer, 1208 Union St., Lancaster, Fa. (17603)-I will be married for pilot training. We're now stationed in Charleston, S.C., with the 437 MAC and May 10, 1969 to Joseph P. Murphy, Jr. We will be living at 7373 Ridge Ave., and are expecting our first baby. My nursing in the AF was in a neurosurgical ICA at I will return to Jefferson to work, May 26, 1969. Wilford Hall USAF Hospital, Lackland AFB, where I obtained the rank of 1/Lt. Virginia May Buehler Taylor, Golf Club Apts., West Chester, Fa. (19380) before discharge. Expecting first child in June. Judith K ennett Tracy, U.S.A. Hospital, Bad Cannstatt, APO N.Y. (09154) Gail Lee McKenney Ford, 241 A Erial Rd., Sicklerville, N.J. (08081)-I am February 17, 1969, I was promoted to Capt. in the ANCorp and the 19th I was mar working as staff nurse on a M-S area at JFKH in Strafford, N.J. My husband is a married to Capt. John G. Tracy who is assigned to the Special Forces. I am now history and a social studies teacher at Edgewood High School in Tansboro, N.J. He stationed in Germany with Ruth Kessler Hoff. Once again Ruth and I are working was made Student Council Advisor this year. together in obstetrics. Marcia Kurtz Favinger, Coventry Village Apts., Pottstown, Fa. (16464)-I MARRIAGES DEATHS Mildred (Gorman) J effers, 1932 Judith (Kenneth) Tracy, 1966 Roberta (Eckert) Brown, 1961 Judith (Johnson) Hangendobler, 1967 Emily DeChaney, 1902 Mary McKinstry, 1925 Theresa (Lefchick) Lamberth, 1962 Eileen (Hansen) Killough, 1967 J. Ellen (Simmonds) Welch, 1904 Georgia Glenn, 1929 Nancy (Gallagher) Goodson, 1963 Sharon (Creamer) Murphy, 1967 Mary (Barcolow) Mullin, 1910 Agnes (Campbell) Downs, 1930 Carol (Parzniewski) Teplick, 1964 Marcia (Kurtz) Favinger, 1967 Esther Moser, 1911 Teresa (Balvage) Sweeney, 1930 Elizabeth (Maule) Zentner, 1965 Cheryl Ann (Peters) Markle, 1967 Edna (Jackson) Noyes, 1911 Emma (Mock) Iannuzzi, 1932 Marilyn (Krout) Costello, 1965 E lizabeth (Ortlip ) Robleto, 1967 Laura Witner, 1916 Ethel M. Artman, 1934 Jenny (J ongenburger) Adams, 1965 Bonnie (Inghran) Sirgrist, 1968 Viola R. Comsick, 1916 WH Martha (Davis) Kester, 1936 Martha (Roe) Russell, 1966 Shirley ( Dubis) Poling, 1968 Elsie Miller, 1917 Mildred (O'Connell) Hessmer, Christina Ann (Thompson) Ford, Karen Elizabeth (Barnum) Del Helen Livingston, 1919 1939WH 1966 Campo, 1968 Ruth Roberts, 1922 Judith Stout, 1965 Nancy Ruth (Scull) Brainard, 1966 Linda (Meachum) Scheetz, 1968 Grace (Hooks) Waltersdorf, 1923 BIRTHS Ruth (Fairweather) Nemeth, 1946 Leona (Chambers) Hansell, 1962 Baby Girl Baby Girl Mary Louise (Moore) Brumbaugh, Marcia (Grieshaber) Moore, 1962 1950, Baby Girl Baby Boy Shirley (Imler) Johns, 1957 Carol J. (Lammer) McFarland, 1963 Baby Boy Baby Girl H. Patricia (Sankey) Brown, 1959 Barbara (Wilson) Starner, 1963 Baby Boy Baby Girl Carolyn (Ressler) Goepfert, 1960 Barbara (Hedenberg) Narehood, Baby Girl 1964, Baby Boy Patricia ( Mazakas) Van Strien, 1960 Linda (Cone) Rupertus, 1964 Baby Girl Baby Boy Judith (Haas) Staufer, 1960 Kathleen ( Langan) Jones, 1964 Baby Boy Baby Girl Suzanne (Haupt) Funke, 1960 Jane (Cox) Gay, 1964 Baby Boy Twin Baby Girls Edrie (Wilson) Brennan, 1961 Marilyn (Miller) Long, 1964 Baby Girl Baby Girl Emily Janet (Lutz) Hogan, 1961 Nancy ( Graham) Heverly, 1965 Twin Baby Girls Baby Girl Rosalie ( Cogonigro) Gee, 1961 Rita (Mickey) Mendel, 1965 Baby Boy Baby Boy 44 45 NURSES' ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF THE JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL AND PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.19107 MEDICAL CENTER PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19107 May 28, 1969 Barton Memorial Hospital Through Affiliation Peter A. Herbut, M.D. Division for Diseases of the Chest The Magee Memorial Hospital President, Charlotte Drake Cardeza F oundation Rehabilitation Center Eastern P ennsylvania P sychiatric Institute The Jefferson Medical College and Medical Center, Curtis Out-Patient Clinic Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy The Cooper Hospital Philadelphia, Pa. 19107 Jefferson Hospital School of Nursing The Lovelace Foundation Jefferson Medical College H ospital The Methodist Hospital Dear Dr. Herbut: Stein Research Center Philadelphia General H ospital Upon the protest of many of the members of the Jefferson Nurses' Alumnae Friends H ospital Office of the Association as President I called a meeting of the Board of Directors. The purpose of Haverford State Hospital PRESIDENT this meetin ~ was to discuss the degrading portrayal of all nurses as depicted in the CLINIC Lankenau Hospital of 1969, and the resultant adverse publicity which followed the publication of this book. Mrs. Katharine Saunders June 13, 1969 While it may be the privilege of any student group to express the convictions of its President of the Board of Direc tors own profession, it appears to be in poor taste and unethical to transgress and downgrade Jefferson Nurses' Alumnae A ssociation another profession, pornographically. 19 Harding A venue Professional nurses are taxpayers, helping to support medical education through Erlton, New Jersey scholarsh ips and loans. In addition, as an Alumnae Association, Jefferson's nurses have Dear Mrs. Saunders : contributed generously to Jefferson's expansion programs. In vi ew of the 1969 CLINIC, This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of May 28 pertaining to the Clinic 1969. perhaps all of this money has been mi sspent. The publication of pornographic trash would . I agree with what you say in your communication and can assure you that I, too, seem to be the work of immature adolescents rather than professional men and women was most unhappy with the publication. The fact that no one in Administration or on the entrusted with the di gnity of the medical profession as well as the well-being of the Executive Faculty was consulted, approved, or had any forewarning as to the contents of community. the CLINIC does not help the situation, except to indicate that the inclusion of the picture was Nurses traditionally have been taught to respect the medical profession. However, if not condoned and had no official sanction. there is no reciprocal respect, how can a medical-nurse team function 9n a professional Two things you should know. Only limited issues had the picture. My copy of the basis ? Clinic does not contain it. Also, after the story was disseminated and displeasure was quite W e cannot help but believe that this publication will prove a deterrent of recruitment apparent, the Editor came to me and apologized. He assured me that he meant it only as a of nurses at all levels, particul arly the young students and staff nurses whose parents will gimmick, that he had no intention of abasing or slurring the nursing profession, and that question the desirability of Jefferson either as a school or as a place of employment. using the cap was pure thoughtlessness on his part. These are unusually diffi.cult times. Since the damage h 46 47 THE CLINIC 1969 JOIN YOUR ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION JoHN H. MAclNDOE, Editor JAN T. RAYNAK, Business Maooger Jefferson Medical College lOth and Locust Sts., Phila., Pa. MAIDEN NAME-YEAR OF GRADUATION June 15, 1969 Whenever you have occasion to write your Alumnae Association, PLEASE use your first name, maiden name, married name, and the year you graduated. Dear Mrs. Saunders : Example: Jean Smith Doe, 1940. Dean Kellow has kindly given me a copy of your recent letter to Dr. Herbut con "Mrs. John Doe" makes it very difficult for us to locate your card in the files. cerning the association's displeasure with the '69 CLINIC. As Editor I take full responsibility Every effort has been made to obtain correct names and addresses for all alumnae. for the "fold-out"- no college official had previous knowledge concerning the matter. You are urged to notify the Secretary of the Alumnae Association of any correc I wish sincerely to apologize to those who were offended at the cap and nude figure. tions, marriages, deaths, and changes of address. It was certainly not my intention to degrade anyone- especially the nursing profession. Having worked rather closely with nurses for the past nine years as orderly, private duty nurse, lab tech, and medical student, I have nothing but respect for the work you ladies ALUMNAE BULLETIN are doing. The Alumnae Bulletin will be sent to members only. Non-members may obtain Thank you for your comments, these upon request, at the cost of $1.00 per copy. Order your Bulletin before May 1st. Signed: John H . Maclndoe, M.D. CAPS Jefferson caps may be purchased at C. D. Williams and Company, 246 S. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19107. Cost per cap is 70¢ plus postage. Identification may be obtained by directing correspondence to the Director, School of Nursing, Jefferson Medical College and Medical Center, 11th and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107. PINS Jefferson pins may be purchased at J, E. Caldwell and Company, Chestnut and Juniper Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107. Cost per pin is $15.75 plus tax and postage, Identification may be obtained by directing correspondence to the Director, School of Nursing, Jefferson Medical College and Medical Center, 11th and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107. TRANSCRIPTS All requests for transcripts should be submitted in writing to the Director, School of Nursing, Jefferson Medical College and Medical Center, 11th and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107. Requests should be submitted at least a month prior to the date needed. There is no charge for the first transcript which is done but there is a $2.00 fee for each additional transcript. ALUMNAE DAY- FIRST SATURDAY IN MAY