Record Accession Number: 1376
First UVA program NURS Second UVA program
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Home town West Orange Home state NJ
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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? Yes
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Important activities before coming to UVA
Comments on important activities High school, social, sports, family
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 none Mother's first college Hofstra
Mother's second college Mother's second degree
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Family members at UVA
Comments on family members at UVA husband - MED; son - Darden
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Date entered UVA Date left UVA
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Comments on college experiences
Why did you choose UVA?
Comments on choice to attend UVA Nursing program reputation, reasonable tuition, lovely protected enviornment.
How did you finance UVA?
Comments on financing Worked at U.Va. Hospital.
Why did you choose your UVA concentration(s)?
Comments on choice of concentration Desire to help mankind.
Description of UVA classroom experiences
Comments on classroom experiences Wonderful, maturing, fascinating, fun, enriching, tiring, neer boring, challenging, structured, disciplined.
Description of UVA professor interactions
Comments on professor interactions Great in class - disciplined. Friends outside - socially respectful. Small class - intimacy, caring and support.
Who impacted your life at UVA?
Comments on life impact Love of literature - Thomas Jefferson, William Faulkner, Edgar Allen Poe. Housemothers, classmates, Tuesday Evening Concert Series (Cabell Hall - cultural escape from hospital work), students (social development).
Most memorable UVA educational experience
Comments on memorable educational experience Tradition and intimacies of a small school (then).
UVA weekend activities
Comments on weekend activities Fraternity parties, working at hospital, dates, Fry Springs, Carol's Tea Room, etc., trips to classmates' homes in town and out of town - great times.
UVA extra-curricular organizations
Comments on extra-curricular organizations Nursing school Glee Club, art class, tennis and pool, P.E. activities, polo matches, games (never won a football game), played bridge at lot, Lake Reynovia.
Important local, state, national, and international issues while at UVA
Comments on important issues Too busy in medical issues and perceived self importance and seriousness of life/death concerns, disease.
How interest in issues was expressed
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UVA housing
Comments on housing dorm; apartment in town as senior
Likes and dislikes about housing
Comments on likes and dislikes No problems - enjoyed comraderie in dorm, independence of apartment living/developmental task.
Where were meals eaten
Comments on meal location Hospital, at Corner (White Spot, University Caf., Drug store), occasional restaurant, friends.
Did you interact outside of UVA?
Interaction detail Rotations to Fisherville, Blue Ride Sanitarium, Church, Shopping, Rehab Center, Fry Springs Pool, friends (Albemarle High graduates)
Memories of Charlottesville
Comments on Charlottesville memories Still find it beautiful, cosmopolitan place, very influential on my tastes, choice of mate, children born there (3), professional training of highest standards and reputation, learned to play tennies on real clay at McIntire Parks.
Did you feel part of UVA community? Did you feel part of community?
Incidents that caused these community feelings Still do. 3 years non stop total immersion at a very impressionable time of my life - cultural, professional, social. I loved the South (weather, people, literature etc.)
Vivid UVA memories
Comments on vivid memories Formalism (coat and tie era) and tradition left a big impression on all our lives from that era. We are all (as a result) comfortable in any social circumstance thrown our way. It was homogeneous (white, male, Southern) and small, safe and very different from today.
Did marital status affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of marital status Being single exposed us (500 women at McKim) to a great variety of men (10,00) whose diversity was exciting, enriching and certainly stimulating. We were both courted and criticized, competed with and envied (statistics can say anthing you want them to).
Did cultural background affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of cultural background I was one of 2 Yankees in the whole School of Nursing and at times felt like an alien but not unloved. My introduction to the South was pure delight and totally unexpected. It has promted me to write poetry about our whole experience. At the time the hospital wards (and movie theaters in C'ville) were segregated - new to me.
Did UVA prepare you for post-UVA life?
Comments on preparedness Great job opportunities as a result - never lost an interview. Always hired on the spot.
Most significant post-UVA events
Comments on most significant event Living in different parts of U.S.A. and travel five times abroad. The birth and rearing of 3 sons, surviving a brush with cancer, restoring circa 1800 farm house, barns, and two daughters-in-law.
Personal factors that affected professional life
Comments on personal factors Health and ability to prioritize from training have allowed me to pick up and reorient through all stages of my life, nursing school has put it all in perspective.
Other factors affecting life after the university
Comments on other factors 1. Commonality of experience and influence at U.Va. has helped with a stable family life and goals for a happy marriage for husband and self. 2. Liberal arts education after children in school.
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Do you think of yourself as a career woman?
Comments on career woman question I am a wife and mother and proud of it.
Barriers faced in work and volunteering
Comments on barriers question Rewards have had to be other than financial for sure.
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Number of children
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Additional comments Just filling this out was pleasurable as it brings back memories of pleasant times and friends departed (I must be getting old). We never miss a reunion and constantly are reminded of the changes when we return. I think the legacy tradition is strong (our son is a graduate) and his good academic foundation has eased his way professionally. I am saddened for health care since the 3 year diploma program was discontinued as the cheerful, enthusiastic student nurses manned the hospitals which sorely lack for caring, young, responsible women today. The only solution is to stay young and healthy. What were they thinking?

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