Record Accession Number: 1322
First UVA program NURS Second UVA program
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Home town Arbovate Home state WV
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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? Yes
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Important activities before coming to UVA
Comments on important activities Normal high school participation. Church, 4-H
If married, was it before, during, or after UVA? During
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Was your spouse associated with UVA? Student
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Why did you choose UVA?
Comments on choice to attend UVA As a teenager of 13 I was so impressed with the University, I never considered another School of Nursing.
How did you finance UVA?
Comments on financing Paid cash for whatever was required.
Why did you choose your UVA concentration(s)?
Comments on choice of concentration It was affordable for my family.
Description of UVA classroom experiences
Comments on classroom experiences At first intimidating. Believe we were given top notch instruction. After 42 years still refer to the concepts taught in those class rooms.
Description of UVA professor interactions
Comments on professor interactions Strictly professional. One professor, Mrs. Ludwig, was especially helpful and encouraging to me as a young student.
Who impacted your life at UVA?
Comments on life impact Mrs. Ludwig - Gave praise for my knowledge of high school chemistry and even determined to teach me 7th grade math. She spent extra time with me and was so successful that later I taught math to LVN's in the Washington, D.C., area hospitals for Manpower Program. Dr. Finger - very challenging.
Most memorable UVA educational experience
Comments on memorable educational experience I left there very confident in my nursing education because I believed it to be the best. Soon after I left there in 1962 - was very disappointed that other hospitals did not set the same standards.
UVA weekend activities
Comments on weekend activities Working - dating - studying
UVA extra-curricular organizations
Comments on extra-curricular organizations During those years we had very little time for anything other than work and study.
Important local, state, national, and international issues while at UVA
Comments on important issues We didn't even have time to listen to the news during those years. All I remember happening was "Sputnik." Later 1959-1962 Kennedy election, U2 incident.
How interest in issues was expressed
Comments on how interest was expressed Voted for first time in 1962.
UVA housing
Comments on housing dorm 1956-1959; apartment 1959-1962
Likes and dislikes about housing
Comments on likes and dislikes Dormitory - was fun and an experience to relate to your children. Apartment was inexpensive and convenient to University.
Where were meals eaten
Comments on meal location hospital 1956-1956; Ate dinner with patients on Davis (then U.Va. psych unit), 1959-1962
Did you interact outside of UVA?
Interaction detail Family friends and relatives.
Memories of Charlottesville
Comments on Charlottesville memories The Corner was always special. Downtown was where all of the shopping was done. Miller and Rhodes and the Colonade shop were my favorite stores. Charlottesville was a quaint, lazy southern town then.
Did you feel part of UVA community? Did you feel part of community?
Incidents that caused these community feelings the college participation between 1959-1962. Attended many University activities. Husband was a member of the soccer team.
Vivid UVA memories
Comments on vivid memories An accidental meeting with William Faulkner. Definitely does not represent general experience. One fine spring evening two of my classmates and I were playing hide and seek on the Lawn. As I was hunched, hiding behind a large shrub, a gentleman who looked very familiar passed by. Said nothing but returned for a second look to make sure he was seeing correctly.
Did marital status affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of marital status I met my husband there in the second year of nursing school. We were married in August 1959 - one month before graduating. Permission was granted by the acting dean at that time. We remained there 1959-62 while husband attended law school.
Did cultural background affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of cultural background During those years, many jokes were made about people in general who were from West Virginia. Many of those jokes were very insulting and deeply hurtful to a young person who had never been subjected to such humor (usually doctors trying to be funny).
Did UVA prepare you for post-UVA life?
Comments on preparedness Being educated in the U.Va. nursing program gave me great confidence in my profession that still exists today.
Most significant post-UVA events
Comments on most significant event Marriage. 4 children (2 sons - 2 daughters), 4 grandchildren. Living in different areas of the country. Ability to travel in this country and in Europe, Mexico, and Canada.
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Other factors affecting life after the university
Comments on other factors Same as #36.
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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 Today health insurance companies have the greatest impact on our work. The American people are being cheated by their companies. When I retire I wish to become a patient advocate - especially for the psychiatric patient.
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Additional comments The University was a different place in the years between 1956-1962. U.Va. as an all male school (primarily) where young men appeared in class in coat and tie had an impressiveness about it that has changed. The school was much smaller and perhaps had a greater sense of community. Male professors were very hard on females attending their classes in some cases. It's fun to ruminate about some of those situations.

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