Record Accession Number: 1104
First UVA program NURS Second UVA program
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Home town Broadway 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 attend Madison College (now JMU), summer of '42 and one semester of '42 worked at UVA hospital-RN
Important activities before coming to UVA
Comments on important activities high school & helping on farm
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 Cincinnati Conservatory of Mus
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First other college First other concentration
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Why did you choose UVA?
Comments on choice to attend UVA closeness to home, reputation as a good School of Nursing.
How did you finance UVA?
Comments on financing scholarship-worked for hospital also scholarship & own employment-part-time
Why did you choose your UVA concentration(s)?
Comments on choice of concentration Nurses were in demand during WWII & scholarships were available. personal desire to earn BS.
Description of UVA classroom experiences
Comments on classroom experiences Classroom work challenging-hours of work as student often long and demanding-hospital was staffed by students except for supervisory and some head nurse positions. Again, challenging.
Description of UVA professor interactions
Comments on professor interactions Instructors always very professional. Very little interactions on personal level until college requirements met at U.Va.- in School of Nursing a closer contact was made with instructors and professors.
Who impacted your life at UVA?
Comments on life impact Miss Cover-anatomy instructor-her professionalism and command of her subject. Miss Roy Beazley- Nursing Arts instructor, same as Miss Cover. Enjoyed biology profs. since I lacked that subject in high school. In nursing school sometimes my years of working in hospital almost put me on a par with instructors a few were so far ahead in knowledge that I was glad to learn from them.
Most memorable UVA educational experience
Comments on memorable educational experience Lasting friendships with classmates. Our entering class was small, and we got to know each other well. As a 45 year old I often felt I was attending class with my children, but learned to "keep quiet" when their language sounded trite and sometimes vulgar to my ears.
UVA weekend activities
Comments on weekend activities Worked mostly- often split shifts or evenings or nights. Went home on rare ones off. Since I was married, I kept house, attended church, and studied.
UVA extra-curricular organizations
Comments on extra-curricular organizations Belonged to cadet nursing corps-rare meetings. No extra curricular activities except alumni of nursing meetings.
Important local, state, national, and international issues while at UVA
Comments on important issues With friends and 3 brothers on active duty, I was greatly concerened about WWII. Today I can't recall anything as dramatic as WWII.
How interest in issues was expressed
Comments on how interest was expressed Did my best to do assigned duties at hospital to fill need for nursing care.
UVA housing
Comments on housing Dormitory, at home
Likes and dislikes about housing
Comments on likes and dislikes closeness of classmates
Where were meals eaten
Comments on meal location hospital cafeteria, at home, or brought lunch with me
Did you interact outside of UVA?
Interaction detail church, knew a few people in town to visit church, schools, friends, and children's friends
Memories of Charlottesville
Comments on Charlottesville memories Smaller rural areas seemed much further away, shopping malls not started. Malls prevalent-highways more commercial.
Did you feel part of UVA community? Did you feel part of community?
Incidents that caused these community feelings Graduation- meeting president for award day. As an employee for years I always felt a part of U.Va. community especially U.Va. hospital.
Vivid UVA memories
Comments on vivid memories I find it hard to tag a special memory since most of them that left a lasting impression happened to me as a nurse at U.Va. rather than a student. ER experiences, for one, attending lectures given by visiting doctors, caring for ill and dying patients, assisting and teaching nursing students and med students when they rotated through my areas.
Did marital status affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of marital status Husband, also, attended U.Va. 1936-40-returned from WWII and attended again.
Did cultural background affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of cultural background I think my experiences on the farm helped me through some of my experiences as a student nurse in diploma program. I was also used to working. I worked part-time at Madison College also.
Did UVA prepare you for post-UVA life?
Comments on preparedness Provided a background as RN & gave me active employment. B.S. in nursing did not provide promotional opportunities. I was already supervisor position when I went back to school. However, I met a personal goal before I was 50!
Most significant post-UVA events
Comments on most significant event marriage, birth of 2 children, death of both parents, mastectomy, death of 3 brothers, 2 abd. surg procedures, retirement from active nursing.
Personal factors that affected professional life
Comments on personal factors see #36
Other factors affecting life after the university
Comments on other factors see #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 Perhaps I was na
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Additional comments At no point in my life as a student did I feel any discrimination, or problems relating to my sex. Perhaps as a student in diploma program I was too young to realize our education was bought at a cost by having to work for hospital. We often worked nights, but still had to attend classes as scheduled. As an older student in the 70's I realized going to school was my own decision, and to earn a BS in nursing, a personal goal. Community involvement: In 1984 my husband and I contacted friends and relatives and collected enough money to furnish and decorate a room in the Healthstone House (Ronald McDonald) 110 13th St. NW Charlottesville. In 1987 the same house was slated to be demolished. Our daughter contacted every dept. in the city hoping through a conservation organization that the house could be saved. I went to a city council meeting also asking if it could be saved. At that meeting, Prof. Wm Harris asked if the house could be moved. Through negotiations with Mr. Huja, and Mr. Schultz, Mr. Schultz purchased the house from University Baptist Church and moved the house to corner of 13th and Wertland Streets. The house was built in 1924 by my husband's aunts. It was sold by his mother to Baptist Church in 1964. It is now rented by U.Va. hospital as a haven for patients and families who are being treated at U.Va. It's now called Alex Sawyer house, named for a hospital administrator under whom I worked.

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