Record Accession Number: 1287
First UVA program NURS Second UVA program
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Home town Amherst County Home state VA
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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? No
Comments if not directly from high school Longwood College affiliated program
Important activities before coming to UVA
Comments on important activities Growing up in a rural setting in Virginia. Enjoying the outdoors. Being a "people oriented" person feeling of accepance by.
If married, was it before, during, or after UVA? After
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Was your spouse associated with UVA? Student
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Mother's first degree Mother's first college Farmville State Teachers Colle
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Why did you choose UVA?
Comments on choice to attend UVA Childhood dream, encouraged by parents
How did you finance UVA?
Comments on financing Father paid for it and southern states scholarship the last year.
Why did you choose your UVA concentration(s)?
Comments on choice of concentration Natural love of people and interest in healing arts.
Description of UVA classroom experiences
Comments on classroom experiences Old fashioned. However at the time I loved and enjoyed being a student at the University. All memories are mostly positive. Only one negative - class in child growth and development - my one and only experience with sexist.
Description of UVA professor interactions
Comments on professor interactions Most faculty - student interactions were formal. As a student I felt great respect and mutually respected throughout the entire experience. One professor (cannot remember name - child growth and development) seemed very unhappy with having to teach women (student nurses at that time were all women).
Who impacted your life at UVA?
Comments on life impact Zula Mae Baber Bice - Professor of Medicine and surgical nursing. Anne Hemmings - Nursing arts professor. Mary Jane Morris - supervisor of psychiatric nursing - nursing instructor at various intervals. All these women were oustanding professonal role models with good character.
Most memorable UVA educational experience
Comments on memorable educational experience Joyfully challenging. Very "civilized" time and felt confident at graduation in skills and poised with good patient professional rapport. M-F afternoon teas at McKim - living room musical sessions around the piano and 88 Keys jazz group. Highlight of a lifetime! - 1957 William Faulkner afternoon "chats" with author regarding his characters.
UVA weekend activities
Comments on weekend activities Plays/theatre. Big Bands to Dance and in concerts. Louis Armstrong - Bennie Goodman - the Dorsey Bros. - great time for music jazz classics. Picnics with first Bapitst Church and BSU - swimming at Keswick and Fry Springs in summer.
UVA extra-curricular organizations
Comments on extra-curricular organizations First Baptist Church membership. Attended BSU - social group. Not a great deal of time for clubs or sororities. Dated on weekends, occasionally on weeknight if off.
Important local, state, national, and international issues while at UVA
Comments on important issues Racial issues. The launching of Sputnik by USSR and what that meant to the world later was very interersted in the space program.
How interest in issues was expressed
Comments on how interest was expressed Met and interacted with students of people of other races around the University and in the community.
UVA housing
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Likes and dislikes about housing
Comments on likes and dislikes Curfew during the week. Took living arrangements for granted. At that time McKim Hall was my only option.
Where were meals eaten
Comments on meal location Hospital cafeteria - at that time excellent food. Occasional dinner or lunch in town with friends or family.
Did you interact outside of UVA?
Interaction detail Through University group of students, attended First Baptist Church downtown.
Memories of Charlottesville
Comments on Charlottesville memories Small town - walking more - sometimes riding a bus or taking a cab. Fewer cars. Much less traffic.
Did you feel part of UVA community? Did you feel part of community?
Incidents that caused these community feelings Chapel services. Access to Alderman Library. Included in big weekends for musical groups/dancing. Felt accepted as an equal by male U.Va. students, even older graduate students.
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Did marital status affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of marital status Single while at UVA - dating was frequent - nursing students had busy social calendar - very few other women students.
Did cultural background affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of cultural background At that time my ethnic and cultural identity was the majority.
Did UVA prepare you for post-UVA life?
Comments on preparedness The University opened cultural doors in my life. The Baccalaureate Program broadened interest in art - music history and has given me direction for a naturally curious mind. Just being at Mr. Jefferson's creation was an inspiration.
Most significant post-UVA events
Comments on most significant event #1 parenting - a challenge that the school of nursing prepared me for greatly. #2 working with children in the hospital setting and the community. #3 Meeting a teacher of art and being a student of art and art appreciation. #4 travel in the USA and abroad.
Personal factors that affected professional life
Comments on personal factors Difficult question to understand.
Other factors affecting life after the university
Comments on other factors Living in Pittsburgh, PA - then El Paso, Texas - diverse cities with rich ethnic, cross-cultural life experience.
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Do you think of yourself as a career woman?
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Barriers faced in work and volunteering
Comments on barriers question No real barriers - I have been aware of the change here since being a student, leaving for 20 years then returning to a different environment. (Returned in 1980 to work at the medical center. However I was comfortable with the changes as they happened over my lifetime)
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Current employment status
Comments on employment status Very involved with "full time" employment. However the women's faculty and professional staff organization meets in the midday on Tuesday. Impossible for me to get away from the medical center at the time they meet. Wish there were an evening group so that one could participate.
Additional comments Medical Center primary experience - as a 60+ year old the experience of being once again in the workplace in which I spent my years of primary education is for me a great joy. For instance in 1954-1958 clinical education was at the beginning of the technical advances in medicine/surgery that we so richly enjoy. Research was done in the hospital setting that set the stage for open heart surgery - vascular surgery - transplant surgery. For the past 18 years ultra sound diagnostic vascular investigation has been 40 hour plus occupation. One continues to grow and learn at the University of Virginia. I consider it a joy and an honor to watch and be a part of "My University" as it continued to become a world class institution in the medical field as in other fields. Having this historic university as a workplace and to live here and walk through the Lawn and enjoy the total environment is a joy and a priviledge. As a student nurse in the 1950s I felt this same respect - times were different then - the status of women was different. However it seems I grew with the changes and enjoy the new University that many take for granted.

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