Record Accession Number: 1091
First UVA program	NURS	Second UVA program
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Home town	Chatham	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	I applied in 1940 and was refused. then I got a NYA Scholarship and I went to Madison College in Harrisonburg and took pre-nursing. I chose U.Va. School of Nursing over MCV as U.Va. School of Nursing was accredited.
Important activities before coming to UVA
Comments on important activities	Getting an education - reading - singing - also sports of high and broad jumping and also sprint racing
If married, was it before, during, or after UVA?	After
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Was your spouse associated with UVA?	other
Comments on spouses association with UVA	He was a WWII POW I met in N.C. where I'd gone to work after 1yr of Nursing at U.Va. Hospital.
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Comments on college experiences
Why did you choose UVA?
Comments on choice to attend UVA	U.Va. Hospital School of Nursing was accredited and to me it was important to go to an accredited School. I applied at Duke as it was accredited but tuition was too high. MCV was not accredited until years later. I told Nursing School Teacher it wasn't. I worked for MCV 27 years.
How did you finance UVA?
Comments on financing	1. NYA Scholarship 2. UDC Scholarship 2. Cadet Nurse WWII 2. UDC Scholarship 2. Cadet Nurse WWII
Why did you choose your UVA concentration(s)?
Comments on choice of concentration	As a young Nurse OB and Gyn was my first choice, but post WWII, I changed to med surgery. Got into administrative nursing and from that into research into cancer nursing. By time Dr. David Hane came to MCV I was only nurse who could research and assist in first organ transplant unit.
Description of UVA classroom experiences
Comments on classroom experiences	For the time period I entered nursing was the very best of all time. Sulfa had just been offered into practice of medicine. Then came penicillin, innoculation for children - finally Polio was not put into an iron lung and last I can say those wonderful women from Johns Hopkins Hospital guided, directed and had an accepting responsibility and accountability long before we were women. My generation came from horse and buggy to outer space.
Description of UVA professor interactions
Comments on professor interactions	Basically having wanted to be a teacher. I did teach both to professional nurses and also non-professional staff. I also taught patients how to enhance their own care and life. As a patient many things I taught long ago have helped me face my own health situations.
Who impacted your life at UVA?
Comments on life impact	The Director of Nurses. The Anatomy teacher. The Assistant Director of Nurses and last but not least our Nursing Arts Instructor. There were also head nurses I admired as well as some of supervisors. We were so taught that before our senior year we were staffing our own hospital, but into Army Navy hospitals, public health, Dept. of Interior in care of American Indian hospital. - we took the place of RNs who had gone to War. We were the Cadet Nurse of 1945 and I'm proud we were. I loved to sing and I was in the Madrigal Group with U.Va. Glee Club. It was Dr. Stephen Davidson Tuttle who had patience with us and taught us to appreciate good music.
Most memorable UVA educational experience
Comments on memorable educational experience	For the time and season (WWII) I've always felt I had the best. Nothing though compared to today's School of Nursing.
UVA weekend activities
Comments on weekend activities	As a whole working and studying.
UVA extra-curricular organizations
Comments on extra-curricular organizations	I was into Madrigal Group and sang with U.Va. Glee Club under Dr. Stephen Davidson Tuttle.
Important local, state, national, and international issues while at UVA
Comments on important issues	It was war time - we had a skeleton crew of RNs and the whole of USA Hospitals were having nurse students as Cadet Nurses. U.Va. students staffed the hospital, served in public nursing, worked in Army, Navy, and Dept. of Interior.
How interest in issues was expressed
Comments on how interest was expressed	I along with 5 U.Va. Cadet Nurses went ot Oklahoma to an American Indian Hospital for 6 months. Came back in time to graduate as all of us in service took State Board before we could go. Thus School of Nursing Class of 1945 were Registered Nurses before we graduated.
UVA housing
Comments on housing	dorm - first 2 years; local home called Page House, there was also the Kelly House, and Gleen House
Likes and dislikes about housing
Comments on likes and dislikes	The home house we moved into was more crowded than our stay in McKim Hall.
Where were meals eaten
Comments on meal location	hospital. I've never cared for crab cakes since we had so many served on Friday. Oh we also had nice fish!! A.M. prayer too as well as 11 P.M. prayer.
Did you interact outside of UVA?
Interaction detail	I had relatives in Charlottesville as my mom came from Albemarle Co.
Memories of Charlottesville
Comments on Charlottesville memories	I loved the "Griddle" long since gone. Good hamburgers, pecan pie and everyone went there. Also Charlottesville had a small town feeling and was nice to go shopping and walk down town. Now we ate ice cream in drug store across the street from the front of med school.
Did you feel part of UVA community?		Did you feel part of community?
Incidents that caused these community feelings	Went to football games as well as wrestling matches. It was war time and a place for V2V5 Navy students as well as Army and I think we the Class of 1945 felt we were a sorority as well as into School of Nursing.
Vivid UVA memories
Comments on vivid memories	All my life even as a child in the '20s and '30s I knew U.Va. women were not allowed unless in education for masters and into the School of Hospital Nursing. So I felt privileged to be accepted into an accredited hospital school of nursing. I feel my basic structure for my future life was given to me there as we (my class) were responsible and accountable for the lives of patients and to keep a good record as we were the nurses of U.Va., not just the hospital.
Did marital status affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of marital status	I had several proposals of marriage, but I passed them all up as I wanted to graduate and until about 6 months before we graduated we were allowed to marry. I was pinned to U.Va. Med. student who jilted me and I left after one year on the hospital staff. I never forgot him.
Did cultural background affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of cultural background	We were so segregated back in those days. There were no black males or females in student body. There were a lot of Jewish men and I always felt so many were there because of what Hitler had done in all of Europe - yes you found a European now and then in Army or Navy Dept. here on U.Va. land.
Did UVA prepare you for post-UVA life?
Comments on preparedness	Everything I had in pre-nursing and nursing secured me in my future. In fact (and I hope I'm not bragging) I was the nurse who researched and helped set up first organ transplant unit in Virginia and I think USA. My papers etc. are in U.Va. School of Nursing archive.
Most significant post-UVA events
Comments on most significant event	The above was very emotionally hard on me as my 35 year old husband had just died with chronic homerolinephritis. Today it's one of the easiest organ transplants as it was the first. Procedure is still used for bone marrow transplants as we'd used total body radiation at first.
Personal factors that affected professional life
Comments on personal factors	I seem to always be one or two steps ahead of the next question. I also in 1950 became head of household - my ed. background helped me be a woman ahead of her times, but I could not buy a home till 1972 as I was in "child bearing" years!!
Other factors affecting life after the university
Comments on other factors	Pride and ability to advance in growth and development in field of nurisng. Left the field in 1984 due to health reason and doctor insisting I was old enough to go.
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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	In the later years I've felt the degree nurse felt superiority to us 'ole RNs. The times have changed and I feel like I came from horse and buggy nursing into the time and space of outer space. Penicillin wasn't discovered when we first went to U.Va. Hospital School of Nursing.
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Additional comments	Take part in School of Nursing Centennial in 2001. Speak out of the early Ladies in Nursing who were there to start the 20 Century into its Age of Industry. Speak of the Ladies who eked a living out in the Depression. Speak of my generation who working and served fully in WWII. We were not "Rosie the Riveter," but we sure did our duty with pride, dignity - accountability plus responsibility. Speak of us who paved the way for nursing to be what it is today. The well educated woman who now is a nurse practicioner and acts as a doctor's right and left hand. I feel by my experience as a patient in the '90s they know more than a lot of doctors do. It's a changing planet and I hope my sisters in the 21st Century will carry on the wonderful work started in 1901 in "Barringer's Folly."
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