Record Accession Number: 1282
First UVA program NURS Second UVA program
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Home town Falls Church Home state VA
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Home town classification Suburb
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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? No
Comments if not directly from high school College 1 year, RMWC. Nursing School 1 1/2 years, Duke.
Important activities before coming to UVA
Comments on important activities Social activities.
If married, was it before, during, or after UVA? During
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Was your spouse associated with UVA? Student
Comments on spouses association with UVA Met in grade school.
Mother's first degree BA Mother's first college Randolph Macon Women's College
Mother's second college G.W.Univ. Mother's second degree MA
Mother's third college Mother's third degree
Father's first degree BA Father's first college
Father's second college Father's second degree
Father's third school Father's third degree
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Family members at UVA
Comments on family members at UVA Husband - CLAS, MED.
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Mother's third occupation Father's first occupation
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Date entered UVA Date left UVA
First other college First other concentration
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Comments on college experiences
Why did you choose UVA?
Comments on choice to attend UVA I transferred to marry a U.Va. Student.
How did you finance UVA?
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Why did you choose your UVA concentration(s)?
Comments on choice of concentration My fiance was heading for med. school, and I didn't want to be a secretary or a teacher.
Description of UVA classroom experiences
Comments on classroom experiences This was nursing school - all women - the intellectual content was not challenging.
Description of UVA professor interactions
Comments on professor interactions I don't remember having any interaction.
Who impacted your life at UVA?
Comments on life impact Several clinical nurses - strong role models. The director of nursing - strong negative role model. My peers - supportive.
Most memorable UVA educational experience
Comments on memorable educational experience having the hospital's need (the labor of the student nurses) come before the educational needs of the students. I feel strongly that we were exploited by the hospital.
UVA weekend activities
Comments on weekend activities With my husband and his fraternity friends. I often worked on weekends.
UVA extra-curricular organizations
Comments on extra-curricular organizations none
Important local, state, national, and international issues while at UVA
Comments on important issues I think I was too self-involved to address these issues.
How interest in issues was expressed
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UVA housing
Comments on housing dorm; at home - I was married my last year
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Where were meals eaten
Comments on meal location meals provided at the hospital
Did you interact outside of UVA?
Interaction detail We lived in town, had neighbors, church, etc.
Memories of Charlottesville
Comments on Charlottesville memories A wonderful place to live - beautiful small town.
Did you feel part of UVA community? Did you feel part of community?
Incidents that caused these community feelings After nursing school, we lived in Charlottesville for 4 more years while my husband went to med. school. We were part of a strong group of married students.
Vivid UVA memories
Comments on vivid memories I never considered myself a "University" student. The nursing school seemed separate in every way - courses, administration, faculty, buildings, activities - even graduation.
Did marital status affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of marital status My reason for coming to U.Va. was to finish my nursing as a married student.
Did cultural background affect UVA experiences
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Did UVA prepare you for post-UVA life?
Comments on preparedness I have used my nursing education in many ways.
Most significant post-UVA events
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Personal factors that affected professional life
Comments on personal factors The death of one of our children has led me to work with hospice patients.
Other factors affecting life after the university
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First post-UVA job First job dates
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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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Additional comments Nursing school at U.Va. in 1955, when I was a student, probably bears no resemblance to the nursing school of today. We worked a 44 hour week in the hospital, including day, night, and weekends - in addition to our class time and study time. We were routinely in charge of a floor of around 40 patients, often with no assistant. In those days there were no intensive care units and many of these patients would be criticially ill. We used to remind one another that if we could make it through that program we would be prepared for anything. There was some truth to that; we were exposed to staggering slice of life.

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