Record Accession Number: 1210
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| First UVA program |
NURS
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Second UVA program |
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| Comments on UVA programs |
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| Home town |
Fulmouth
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Home state |
VA
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| Comments on Home town and state |
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| Home town classification |
Farm
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| High school classification |
Public
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| Was your high school co-ed? |
Yes
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| Did you come directly from high school to UVA? |
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| Comments if not directly from high school |
The nursing program included yr. 1 and yr. 2 at Mary Washington College with the summer between yr. 1 and yr. 2 at U.Va.
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| Important activities before coming to UVA |
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| Comments on important activities |
reading and helping with the outside chores.
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| If married, was it before, during, or after UVA? |
After
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| Was your spouse associated with UVA? |
Faculty
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| Mother's first degree |
RN
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Mother's first college |
Church Home School of Nursing
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| Mother's second college |
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Mother's second degree |
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Mother's third degree |
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| Father's first degree |
B.A.
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Father's first college |
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Father's second degree |
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| Father's third school |
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Father's third degree |
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| First sister's level of schooling |
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| Second brother's level of schooling |
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| Family members at UVA |
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| Comments on family members at UVA |
Mary J. Porter, summer school graduate Program
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Mother's second occupation |
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Father's first occupation |
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| Date entered UVA |
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Date left UVA |
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| First other college |
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| Second other college |
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| Comments on college experiences |
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| Why did you choose UVA? |
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| Comments on choice to attend UVA |
It was one of the first schools to offer a BS in nursing.
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| How did you finance UVA? |
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| Comments on financing |
family help and help of state senator Benjamin Pitts
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| Why did you choose your UVA concentration(s)? |
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| Comments on choice of concentration |
mother's example
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| Description of UVA classroom experiences |
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| Comments on classroom experiences |
my nursing experience was excellent
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| Description of UVA professor interactions |
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| Comments on professor interactions |
limited-respectful
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| Who impacted your life at UVA? |
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| Comments on life impact |
Anne Hemmings- my first instructor who laid the foundation and expectations of excellence; Roy Beasley- she set a standard for nurses; Mary Jane Morris- taught that high expectations and high standards could also have compassion
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| Most memorable UVA educational experience |
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| Comments on memorable educational experience |
The difficult hospital work that I came to love.
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| UVA weekend activities |
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| Comments on weekend activities |
We had very few weekends here.
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| UVA extra-curricular organizations |
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| Comments on extra-curricular organizations |
Our program, which included classroom lectures and clinical experience on all shifts left very little time for extra curricular organizations. I attended church fairly regularly.
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| Important local, state, national, and international issues while at UVA |
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| Comments on important issues |
None- was hardly aware of anything beyond the hospital and School of Nursing, until my senior year I witnessed a faculty member display racial intolerance.
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| How interest in issues was expressed |
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| Comments on how interest was expressed |
Talked with the students involved and offered my support.
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| UVA housing |
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| Comments on housing |
dorm
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| Likes and dislikes about housing |
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| Comments on likes and dislikes |
I liked McKim Hall very much. The different part was trying to sleep in the day while on night duty.
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| Where were meals eaten |
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| Comments on meal location |
hospital cafeteria
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| Did you interact outside of UVA? |
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| Memories of Charlottesville |
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| Comments on Charlottesville memories |
1.) the corner drugstore "Chancellor's" where we went for sodas after work
2.) the community movie house
3). Afton Mountain
4.) dances at Fry's Spring
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| Did you feel part of UVA community? |
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Did you feel part of community? |
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| Incidents that caused these community feelings |
Not really. We had no interaction with any part of the Univ. Our classes were held in McKim Hall and involved only the nursing students. Really, the School of Nursing felt separate especially because we were the first of the degree students.
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| Did marital status affect UVA experiences |
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| Comments on influence of marital status |
I married 2 years after receiving my degree, but had remarried at the School of Nursing on the faculty after graduation.
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| Did cultural background affect UVA experiences |
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| Comments on influence of cultural background |
not at all
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| Did UVA prepare you for post-UVA life? |
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| Comments on preparedness |
very well
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| Most significant post-UVA events |
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| Comments on most significant event |
Marriage- watching 4 children grow to be adults, the death of my husband 6 years ago.
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| Personal factors that affected professional life |
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| Comments on personal factors |
Being married to a pathologist had a great impact on my professional life. The high medical standards he set were a guide and the medical information that he shared was a asset. My professional life came to a standstill after the birth of my first child and resumed many years later.
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| First post-UVA job |
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| First post-UVA volunteer position |
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| Do you think of yourself as a career woman? |
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| Current marital status |
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| Number of children |
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