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baptist college of health sciences Alumni News W W W . B C H S . E D U SPRING 2 0 1 2 Baptist College Celebrates 100 Years of Healing, Preaching and Teaching Alumni News College Celebrates 100 Years aLUMNI NEWS EdItORIaL bOaRd President’s Betty Sue McGarvey of Education with Luncheon Bamby Counce Lee Danley Corner Carol Barber Kathy Thompson Jenny Prascher Nevels Mary MacKinnon HaPPy 100tH bIR tHday to Megan Morris each of you! As an alum, you are Jil Foutch part of a 100 year legacy of caring Greg Campbell service and education grounded in Lori Simpson Baptist’s mission of emulating the three-fold ministry of Christ through aLUMNI aSSOCIATION OFFICERS healing, preaching and teaching. superintendent of nurses at a local hospital, Erma Oliver | President Baptist Memorial Hospital and the and then later went to Clarksdale, Miss., where Denese Shumaker | Vice President original training school for nurses she accomplished another first by helping to Sarah Rogers | Secretary Historian opened on July 20, 1912. open the city’s first hospital. Ann Willis | Region 1 Advisor What a difference she made in her nursing LeVoe Maxwell | Region 2 Advisor career! Her story exemplifies the qualities of Bettye Manner Haymons | Region 3 Advisor The idea for the hospital actually took shape one of our first graduates from the class of 1915. service, leadership, innovation and courage Elaine Dew | Region 4 Advisor in 1906 during an all-day picnic at Central The nurse training school opened in 1912 — all of the qualities we want a Baptist gradu- Phyllis Ragland | At-Large Phyllis Gates | At-Large Avenue Baptist Church, where the young Shel- with 24 students; 16 of them made up the first ate to have. Sharing stories like Smith’s are BAPTIST COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES celebrated its first Julie Lasley | At-Large Centennial event on Friday, Dec. 2, on campus with more than 150 attendees. by County Baptist Association met. The idea graduating class in 1915. One of those first important for us, as well as the next generation. Carol Barber | At-Large Guests included faculty, staff, Baptist leadership, student leaders of various was generated by Rev. H. P. Hurt, the pastor of graduates was Miss Lydia (Elise) Smith. I found I hope you will join us the first weekend in June Teresa Dawson | At-Large campus organizations, the alumni board of directors and members of the college Bellevue Baptist Church, who pointed out the her story in an April 1970 issue of Baptiscope. as we celebrate your stories and your accom- Betsy Brooks | Immediate Past President The luncheon was the first of a series of events that will occur during 2012 need for an additional general hospital in the After graduation in 1915, Smith worked as a plishments through careers of service. Stephen Hultgren | At-Large to celebrate, reflect and honor the many people nus of BSON; Denese Shumaker, alumnus of growing community. private duty nurse at Baptist Memorial Hospi- We have planned some wonderful events Hope Voegeli | At-Large whose vision, leadership and talent brought the BSON and former Baptist College executive As often is the case when an idea is proposed, tal. Around 1939, when polio was in epidemic for the Centennial Alumni Reunion weekend. Phyllis Dorrough | At-Large school to where it is are today. director; Kathy Hunt, program chair of nuclear a committee was appointed to investigate. I am stages in Mississippi, the State Health Office Invitations will be coming soon. Remember, we Robbie Lowery | At-Large The luncheon was hosted by College Presi- medicine technology; and Mary Jo Ohrberg, certain the task seemed daunting at times, and appointed her to be in charge of prepara- only get the privilege of celebrating a centen- Lori Turpen | At-Large dent Betty Sue McGarvey who said during the assistant professor of medical radiography. I admire their perseverance and enthusiasm for tions for the epidemic. To prepare for her nial once in a lifetime, so I hope you plan to at- ON tHE covER: Baptist Memorial Hospital course of the Centennial celebration, there Each speaker gave heartfelt thanks to the shepherding the idea into reality. I wonder if assignment, she studied polio in Minnesota tend all of the events, beginning with the play, and the School of Nursing first opened on will be an opportunity to tell many wonderful foresight and contributions of many Baptist anyone on that committee had dreams of what under Sister Kinney, famous for her work with “A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline,” on Thursday, July 20, 1912. stories about the school’s past and present. employees who have made an impact on the lives the vision could become someday — care to mil- polio. After her work with the epidemic, May 31, at Playhouse on the Square. I look “We have a story that is worth telling and of patients and played a role in the organization lions of patients and more than 7,000 alumni Smith was placed in charge of the Mississippi forward to seeing you there. sharing not only with our faculty, staff and being recognized as a leader in health care in from the different educational programs. I am Crippled Children’s Service. alumni, but to the community as well,” she said. the United States. grateful to those initial visionaries for their In 1917, Smith served overseas during World Warm Regards, McGarvey welcomed the special speakers, Six current students modeled some of the work and determination. War I as an army nurse. She was stationed in which included Stephen Reynolds, president nursing uniforms from different time periods. It has been a joy to review the historical pic- France and based at the headquarters of General and CEO of Baptist Memorial Health Care; This was quite a hit with the audience. Beverly Jordan, chief nursing officer for Bap- Guests were given a Christmas ornament tures and archives in preparing for this once John J. Pershing. Another nurse in her unit tist and an alumnus of Baptist School of Nurs- with the Baptist College Centennial logo and in a lifetime celebration. I wish I had the space was Myrtle Archer, the first director of nursing Alumni News is sponsored ing; Anita Vaughn, administrator for Baptist the College seal as well as a 2012 calendar to share with you all of the wonderful stories service at Baptist Memorial Hospital. betty sue mcgarvey, dsn, rn in part by the Baptist Memorial Memorial Hospital for Women and an alum- containing photographs from the past. I have read and heard, but I want to highlight After the war, Smith served as the first ~ President Health Care Foundation. spring 2012 | Alumni News | 01 spring 2012 | Alumni News | 02 CENTENNiAL storiES CENTENNiAL storiES Nursing School First in Line for Memories Exciting Career by Bonnie Roberts Case by Ilene Day February 1947 was the beginning of a long road to a successful career I became interested in science when I was in the seventh grade. in nursing. I finished high school at age 17 and had no idea what I wanted to do. I had heard a little about medical technology in the laboratory at the hospitals. Proposal My parents suggested I go to secretarial school. I spent a year doing that, got a After checking into it and completing my pre-requisite college courses, I chose job and was very dissatisfied with my situation. One day, I saw a poster of two to complete my training at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. The hospital on the young ladies in military uniforms encouraging young women to enter nursing Remembering training consisted of 12 consecutive months in the laboratory, beginning in Dorm Steps school. That is when I knew what I wanted to do. When September of 1951. I was the only student at matically calculated and printed out. My mother took me to the Baptist School of the time. I think they were experimenting with I have been retired for a few years now, but Nursing, and we met with the director of nurs- me to see if I did good or bad. If I did good, I am sure there have been even more advances by Robert A. Shaver, ing. She explained what we needed to do and by Tracy Crump, it would be okay to recruit more students. I since my time. LCDR USN (Ret) also informed us about TAF Cadet Nurse Corp. Class of 1976 graduated in 1952. I had to take the National At one time, all of the hospitals in Mem- She gave me a two-hour written test, checked Board of Registry and became registered with phis offered medical technology training, but My wife, Ruth Heuiser Shaver, it and told me I was accepted. My dad was re- the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. many have discontinued the program. The is a graduate from your fine school, class ally pleased that I was going to nursing school, Since my father, Terry Kirk, was the The medical profession is forever doing only school to offer the training in the area of 1960. When I saw the photo of the dorm and he wasn’t going to have to pay for it. They 3. medical photographer at Baptist for 29 research and continually improving. I have is the University of Tennessee, and there is a seen many advances through the years. For limit to the number of students they can ac- steps on the back cover of the summer assured my parents that I would be well cared 3. years, I more or less grew up at the issue of the Alumni News, I was flooded for, which I discovered later meant a lot of rules example, when I began training, we were doing cept3.

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