Record Accession Number: 1146
First UVA program NURS Second UVA program
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Home town Dover Home state NJ
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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? No
Comments if not directly from high school Completed nursing education at Overlook Hospital - Summit, NJ; Registered in state of NJ RN 1943 Registered in state of NJ RN 1943
Important activities before coming to UVA
Comments on important activities attending nursing school, getting married (1943), doing industrial nursing during war.
If married, was it before, during, or after UVA? Before
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Was your spouse associated with UVA? Student
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Mother's first degree Practical Nursing diploma Mother's first college Franklin School of Nursing, 19
Mother's second college Mother's second degree
Mother's third college Mother's third degree
Father's first degree Father's first college
Father's second college Father's second degree
Father's third school Father's third degree
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Date entered UVA Date left UVA
First other college First other concentration
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Why did you choose UVA?
Comments on choice to attend UVA My husband enrolled in foreign affairs after WWII on the GI Bill.
How did you finance UVA?
Comments on financing I paid out of state fees.
Why did you choose your UVA concentration(s)?
Comments on choice of concentration To further my nursing education, became pregnant before I could finish the excelerated course in 1946-47
Description of UVA classroom experiences
Comments on classroom experiences excellent- small classes except chemistry and psychology
Description of UVA professor interactions
Comments on professor interactions We became very close with Lois Austin.
Who impacted your life at UVA?
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Most memorable UVA educational experience
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UVA weekend activities
Comments on weekend activities Another couple and we were the first students to get the Univ. to provide a space for us to use Coplely Hill. When we left, there were about 40 other trailers (privately owned) on the hill. We left in '49.
UVA extra-curricular organizations
Comments on extra-curricular organizations As married students, we mostly became involved with other families. We entertained other couples and attended sporting activities-football, etc.
Important local, state, national, and international issues while at UVA
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How interest in issues was expressed
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UVA housing
Comments on housing See above #22
Likes and dislikes about housing
Comments on likes and dislikes We were very happy. We couldn't get student housing because we were not Va residents.
Where were meals eaten
Comments on meal location mostly in our trailer
Did you interact outside of UVA?
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Memories of Charlottesville
Comments on Charlottesville memories We liked Charlottesville very much and would liked to have returned in our retirement years, but the town has grown so much we decided to stay in NJ.
Did you feel part of UVA community? Did you feel part of community?
Incidents that caused these community feelings To some degree
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Did marital status affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of marital status For the most part, married students were apart from single students. Many of us had small children and not much in common with them.
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Did UVA prepare you for post-UVA life?
Comments on preparedness Had I not become a mother I would like to have taught nursing in a school such as the one I graduated from.
Most significant post-UVA events
Comments on most significant event Having 4 children, foreign travel
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First post-UVA job First job dates
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Do you think of yourself as a career woman?
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