Record Accession Number: 1007
First UVA program NURS Second UVA program
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Home town Orange Home state VA
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Home town classification Small town
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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 activities, esp. sports (on basketball team), and farm life, nature.
If married, was it before, during, or after UVA? After
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Was your spouse associated with UVA?
Comments on spouses association with UVA U. Maryland Dental School
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Comments on family members at UVA son-in-law - education
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Why did you choose UVA?
Comments on choice to attend UVA near my home and well recommended
How did you finance UVA?
Comments on financing In the twenties it was free with a small spending allowance-$30
Why did you choose your UVA concentration(s)?
Comments on choice of concentration In our years the professors were limited-teaching or nursing-nursing was more glamorous.
Description of UVA classroom experiences
Comments on classroom experiences Our teachers were very efficient and conscientious, teaching us ethics and nursing arts and morals. our classes were small so we were known and called by our last names always with a Miss even by our co-workers.
Description of UVA professor interactions
Comments on professor interactions Very conscientious and interested in all phases of nursing, and gaining respect and approval.
Who impacted your life at UVA?
Comments on life impact My teachers in anatomy and nursing arts: both were dedicated and patient with our inefficiency.
Most memorable UVA educational experience
Comments on memorable educational experience I was extremely proud of my uniform, and taught to respect my profession and act in a dignified manner to demand respect.
UVA weekend activities
Comments on weekend activities Visiting my home and the home of friends in town. A movie if affordable and church, or just resting or relaxing with friends-dating some.
UVA extra-curricular organizations
Comments on extra-curricular organizations Sunday school and church. On decorating committee for graduation at Madison Hall at UVA. Truck took us to get scotch bloom to use, we visited a local orphanage and took children out.
Important local, state, national, and international issues while at UVA
Comments on important issues Prohibition was in effect on visiting NY. I visited a speak-easy with friends-exciting. Most of our interests were Univ. events, concerts, etc.
How interest in issues was expressed
Comments on how interest was expressed A member of young republicans-I attended a convention in Wash. Visiting the White House, meeting president Hoover and other activities.
UVA housing
Comments on housing Dormitory -- Glenn House
Likes and dislikes about housing
Comments on likes and dislikes Having to be in room at 11pm on weekends, if on restrictions at 7 pm. No cooking accomodations.
Where were meals eaten
Comments on meal location In hospital cafeteria. Cookies & milk were available at nights in main hallway.
Did you interact outside of UVA?
Interaction detail Attended Baptist church and Jefferson theater.
Memories of Charlottesville
Comments on Charlottesville memories We got reduced rates on street cars and 1 conductor was esp. cordial, & special rates at theaters. We enjoyed the grounds and being a part of Univ. life.
Did you feel part of UVA community? Did you feel part of community?
Incidents that caused these community feelings We were invited to churches and given passes to theaters, also treated with respect by salespersons in our favorite stores.
Vivid UVA memories
Comments on vivid memories Working in the diet kitchen and being helped by kind cooks. Being on call at OR and being escorted at night by a guard who was stationed in our quarters after a man was found under the bed of a nurse who had returned from OR in the wee-hours. She escaped, but her screams awakened everyone.
Did marital status affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of marital status I had left the UVA before I was married.
Did cultural background affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of cultural background I was na
Did UVA prepare you for post-UVA life?
Comments on preparedness Yes, I nursed with my brother, a dentist, then I married a dentist and continued working until my daughter was born. Pediatrics in hosp. prepared me to care for her.
Most significant post-UVA events
Comments on most significant event The death of my husband with bacterial [endocarditis?] ( before antibiotics), the birth of my daughters. Before marriage, during the depression, doing private duty nursing. The burning of my parent's home with all contents and the help given by neighbors and friends. The returning to hospital nursing after 18 yrs absence in terminating and procedures.
Personal factors that affected professional life
Comments on personal factors Being a single mother, unable to leave her unit, I was employed on temporary staff when she was in school. I took a refresher course to enable me to be efficient after years lapse from hosp. nursing.
Other factors affecting life after the university
Comments on other factors Camp nursing and assisting my daughters school teacher in field trips, plays, and general supervision in schoolroom when she was absent.
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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 None except the depression years doing private duty 1930-35, receiving $5 for 12 hrs duty. Nursing in homes, one father sold a horse to pay me after I cured his unruly son of pneumonia, another father threatened me with a shotgun if I let his son expire. He had [peritinitis?] from a ruptured appendics. In my shock I demanded he get down and pray as he was at fault. He did.
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Current employment status
Comments on employment status I'm living alone in a condo. I'm visually handicapped- legally blind from [anterior eschemic optic neuropolly?] First one eye, 2 months later-the other. I've recovered enough to read with a magnifying glass, get books on tape from state library for handicapped. Writing is difficult, as you can see, but I had to do this form slowly myself, overlook errors.
Additional comments In the thirties the hospital kept a RN call list , if we refused to call we were dropped to bottom of list. Docors and patients used list. We were expected to take a fair number of charity patients-those needing special help, but unable to pay. However, if we did our share well the doctors remembered us and called us out of line. Lots of patients unable to afford hospital fees or afraid, called nurses to their homes. During the flu epidemic we were really busy in homes nursing patients and, if nescessary, cooking for them. Once I had to milk a cow, to get milk. Another time the town at Lovington collected money to have a child with pneumonia cared for. I took the case, they put me up in a hotel as the patient lived in a 2 room cabin. Since I was successful in healing him, the attending doctor later called me to his wife's home to nurse his mother's encephalitis . She was so ill, we fed her by hanging a milk bottle with rubber tubing. One Sunday she started having breathing difficulty- I called the family doctor who was out. Then son-in-law and I gave emergency drugs. She was [?] breathing as they both arrived. Then stopped breathing. The family doctor went to tell the gathered family of her death. The son-in-law told me to put whisky in her gaping mouth, I did. She coughed and started breathing again. She lived another 10 years. We had good food at University especially midnight suppers when on night duty. Although we had to rise to our feet when a doctor appeared, we were treated fairly.

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