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About me and my passion for cars
My passion for cars started out as a little kid helping my grandpa and dad on their cars. I remember the first time i realized i was crazy about cars i was about 12 and went to the GoodGuys car show in Indy and heard the engine start on a 1934 ford three window coupe, It had a supercharged ford 428 and that is when i first felt the oil start to flow in my veins. My brother was a major influence on my car craze, He was three years older than me and when he started driving and had his first car we would always tear something down and rebuild it just to do it. The first car that i ever drove was my brothers 1993 Pontiac Grand-Am two door coupe, I was 14 and drove around on the south side of Indianapolis where noone knew us. After that i was hooked and wanted to do more with cars and of course go faster.
My first car
1985 Ford Tempo GL 2.5
Car I wish I still had
1992 Pontiac Bonneville SE 3.8 Liter V-6
My dream car
My dream to build is a 1987 Buick Grand National, Drop in a Chevy 350 small block, twin turbo charged, with a 700r transmission, and a ford 9 inch rearend w/ 3.50 gears for a little higher top speed than the 3.89 stock gears.
Car clubs I'm in
Low Budget Customs in Indianapolis www.lbc-carclub.com
- Type of racing: Drag Racing, Autocross, Off Road Racing, and Monster Truck Racing
- Driver: Tony Stewart, John Force, Evan Evans, Dennis Anderson, Tom Ments, and Me
- Driving song: Fifty-Five, I Am Hollywood, There are a couple more that i crank up but i dont know the names of them
- Car movie: Gone in 60 Seconds, Fast and Furious, Fast and Furious 2, Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift, American Graffiti, Smokey and The Bandit 1 and 2, Cars, Vanishing Point
- Car magazine: Hot Rod, Mini-Truckin
- Car game: Need for Speed: Carbon, Forza Motorsports 2, Need for Speed: Pro Street
— Profile last updated: Mar 15, 2009
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Oral History Program Virginia Tanner Interviewed by Marci Farr 16 October 2008 Oral History Program Weber State University Stewart Library Ogden, Utah Virginia Tanner Interviewed by Marci Farr 16 October 2008 Copyright © 2010 by Weber State University, Stewart Library Mission Statement The Oral History Program of the Stewart Library was created to preserve the institutional history of Weber State University and the Davis, Ogden and Weber County communities. By conducting carefully researched, recorded, and transcribed interviews, the Oral History Program creates archival oral histories intended for the widest possible use. Interviews are conducted with the goal of eliciting from each participant a full and accurate account of events. The interviews are transcribed, edited for accuracy and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewees (as available), who are encouraged to augment or correct their spoken words. The reviewed and corrected transcripts are indexed, printed, and bound with photographs and illustrative materials as available. Archival copies are placed in Special Collections. The Stewart Library also houses the original recording so researchers can gain a sense of the interviewee's voice and intonations. Project Description The Dee School of Nursing was founded in 1910 to provide training for nurses who would staff the new Dee Memorial Hospital. The first class of eight nurses graduated from the school in 1913 and the school continued to operate until 1955, with a total of more than 700 graduates. A new nursing school and home located just east of the hospital was completed in 1917 and all nursing students were required to live in the home during their training. This oral history project was created to capture the memories of the school's alumni before their stories disappear in the same way the Dee Hospital has disappeared. The oral interviews focus on how the women became involved with the school, their experiences going through training, and how they used the training. ____________________________________ Oral history is a method of collecting historical information through recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account. It reflects personal opinion offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ____________________________________ Rights Management Special Collections All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to the Stewart Library of Weber State University. No part of the manuscript may be published without the written permission of the University Librarian. Requests for permission to publish should be addressed to the Administration Office, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, 84408. The request should include identification of the specific item and identification of the user. It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Virginia Tanner, an oral history by Marci Farr, 16 October 2008, WSU Stewart Library Oral History Program, Special Collections, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. iii Virginia Tanner Application Photo March 21, 1952 Graduation Photo Class of 1954 Virginia Tanner September 16, 2007 October 16, 2008 1 Abstract: This is an oral history interview with Virginia Tanner. It was conducted October 16, 2008 and includes her recollections and experiences with the Dee School of Nursing. The Interviewer is Marci Farr. MF: This is Marci Farr. I am interviewing Virginia Hunter Tanner. It is October 16, 2008. I am interviewing her for the Dee School of Nursing. She graduated with the class of 1954. Virginia, will you just tell us a little bit about your early life, your family, and your education? VT: I grew up living by the Dee hospital. I had a family of ten brothers and sisters. We lived on Custer Avenue and I went to Lorin Farr Elementary School. It is not there anymore. I went to Central Jr. High, then I graduated from Ogden High School and went right into nursing that Fall. MF: Why did you decide to become a nurse? VT: The reason was, that I lived by the hospital. We walked everyday back and forth to school and passed the hospital. I would see the ambulances and the people as they went in and I just thought it was wonderful. I used to say when I was a kid, "Someday I am going to stand on the inside of the door waiting for the ambulance." So that really got me curious. I was really intrigued with it. MF: And the Dee, of course, because it was close. VT: Right, because I lived close to the hospital. MF: Did you have to take any tests? VT: We did. They gave us a sociology test. It was more or less I guess to see if you were socially adapt to be able to be a nurse. 2 MF: So that was probably the yellow paper I saw in your folder. VT: Yes. MF: That makes more sense now. VT: It was really simple, simple questions, logical questions. In fact, at the time I thought this is just kind of silly. Why are they asking these simple questions? But I guess there were people who didn't answer them easily. MF: So what were your first impressions when you first entered? VT: When I first went in I thought that I wouldn't have to do anymore schooling. I just graduated from high school and I took Latin, chemistry and all the hard classes because they told me I was going to need those for nursing so I thought well, when I go into nursing I won't have to do that anymore, they'll teach me how to take care of people. What a naïve idea that was. Once you were accepted into the program, the first thing you do is go to college. And instead of a high school level, taking an hour of physiology and anatomy and those kind of classes, which I took, then it was four hours of the same heavier curriculum. So that is what I did. That was a surprise to me. But it wasn't bad enough that I—thought I couldn't do the work. MF: That you didn't give up. That is good. Do you remember what your first duties were when you first entered the program? As far as when you were on the floor did you have any first duties that you had to start doing? VT: The first thing they asked us to do was to learn how to take a temperatures and blood pressures, etc, and how to do AM care which consisted of washing the patients hands and face and getting them ready for breakfast and PM care 3 consisting of washing face and hands and a back rub getting ready for sleep. To take care of the patients we'd have to run over and do our care in the mornings and come home and get ready for school, go to school, and come back in the afternoon, in the evening, and do our PM care, and pretty well study the rest of the night. We were really busy. Those first two years, we called it—I thought I was kind of a slave. But we learned how to work. They taught us all about medicine, so we would take anatomy and physiology but we would take medical classes and learn—and then Mrs. Ruth Brown that I told you about, she was the instructor over us. She taught with others day to day working on the floor, and how to do bed baths, etc. The longer we were there the harder the assignments. Not only did we do the medical and the book learning but we also had to do hands on with the patients. MF: You didn't learn one specific, you learned everything. VT: That is right. Right off the bat I was assigned—after six months—we started September, October, November, December and then I think the next March I was on second medical and I was the charge nurse eleven PM to seven AM over the floor. MF: That is a lot of responsibility. VT: It was. Now days they would question if we were competent after six months but in those days they needed nurses and we were turned loose to take care of the patients. MF: That is good. Your training was adequate enough that you were okay. VT: Oh yes. It was one on one most of the time. 4 MF: That is good. VT: I had a sister that had been a nurse, Mrs. Ruth Brown was her friend so she would say, "Miss Hunter, you have got to be as good as Mary." So she would always select me to be one of the first to try something new and give me that opportunity. MF: So do you remember who your housemother was when you first entered? VT: No. MF: Sue said the same thing. Who was your roommate? VT: Bonnie Judkins was my roommate. Bonnie Howard Judkins was my roommate the whole time we were there. Next to us was Sue Evans and Gloria Telleson. We used to tease Gloria a lot. We weren't mean, just silly. All in our class were close to each other. MF: So what were some of the rules that you had to follow while you were in nurses training? VT: Well we had to be in at ten o'clock every night. We had to get up early and dress. We always had to dress full dress while we were in the hospital. They would make you dress and run over and do our care and run back and change clothes for college and run back and change clothes again. MF: So you always had to dress on professional… VT: Yes. MF: What were some of your favorite classes when you were at Weber College? Did you have a favorite? 5 VT: I liked Physiology and Anatomy so that was really good. We also had a class and I can't remember what class it was but it was on germs and stuff. You people go to college so…do you know? MF: Like Bacteriology? VT: Bacteriology! Exactly it! I took a Bacteriology class and our instructor, I can't remember his name, I think his last name was Young. The first day we walked into class this is how it was. When we walked into class he said, "Okay, anybody that sneezes in this class will fail the grade." There was Kleenex sitting on all of our desks, little boxes of Kleenex. He was really scary. I thought that was such a shock. I was eighteen and I thought that is such a shock from high school to college to be told that and mean it. In bacteriology he was just crazy about germs. MF: So he was kind of a freak about it? VT: Yes. We also took a chemistry course from a professor and I remember one— can I tell mean stories? MF: It is all good. VT: They had some kind of a thing in chemistry, some kind of a compound that they put in water and it would cause electricity so it would light up a light bulb. So one day when we were in class we unscrewed the light bulb. The professor came in and he kept doing the same thing and it kind of upset him. So we were kind of renegade kids still young acting. MF: That is a good story. We love those. VT: That was mean. 6 MF: You have to have some stress relief. If you had a night off what is something that you would do with your roommates or girlfriends? VT: We had a piano in the dorm and we would gather around and sing. My problem was—it wasn't a problem for me because I lived about four blocks from the hospital, just up the street and around the corner, I could be home in five minutes. I spent a lot of down time at my house. It was just funny because when I'd be home I'd say, "A quarter to ten, I've got to go back." Here I am, I have to live four blocks away from home but I would go back to the dorm. MF: So could you go home for the weekend if you chose to do that? VT: Yes, we could do that. And most of the time I did because I was still young and my friends were at home and going to college so we could run around together a lot. MF: That is good. You couldn't be married, right? VT: You couldn't be married. MF: Could you be engaged at that point or not? VT: I don't know. I think there was probably one or two at the last year we were there that might have been secretly engaged but for the most part no we weren't. It was pretty flat, there was several that left because they got married. I think we started with a class about forty-two and ended up with twenty-four. MF: Wow, so almost in half. VT: That is right. MF: You mentioned you had a curfew. VT: Ten o'clock at night. 7 MF: Who were some of your instructors? Do you remember who they were? VT: Yes. Mrs. Marie Donaldson did a lot. Mrs. Verle B. Lesnan. Miss Louise Schofield taught us. Mrs. Ruth Brown and Miss Sumiko Fujiki, then we had a lot of physicians lecture and then the college professors would come over and lecture. We had Doctor William Stratford from the college teach us sociology. One day we snuck out and left him. We thought that was a good sociology class, I think we went swimming or something up at Rainbow Gardens. He wasn't too impressed with us. But we got away with it, he was really nice about it. MF: Who were some of the doctors? You just mentioned a few. Do you remember the doctors you worked with while you were in training? VT: Doctor Catlan took care of us. He was kind of a strict doctor. Doctor Rulon Howe was quite the surgeon of the town, he and Doctor Dean W. Tanner also Dr. George Lowe, Dr. Louise Perry, Dr. O. E. Grua and many others. Doctor's Dumke, Barker, and Louis were in together, those three older men. Doctor Charles Swindler taught our orthopedic class and he was the meanest doctor in town. He would come to class and teach us. I was in the operating room the last year mostly. In between all the training you would go to all the different floors so I was in the operating room and loved it. He was there and so he always said, "I'll give you a bad time," and he did. He would come in to class and start yelling our names. "Hunter, get up to the board and draw a long bone and name all of its parts." That is what he would do. He hated Joyce shoes. In those days they were very popular. He stood this girl up on the table and bent her new shoe. "These are the crappiest shoes," and he threw them. She started bawling. 8 When I really got in the operating room with him he was the nicest, sweetest, kindest doctor, did a lot of good, and did a lot of work at Shriner's Hospital. He really did a lot for the old Dee. MF: That is good. VT: He really did. MF: So it was probably just his other persona huh? Isn't that funny how they have other people that are like that? VT: Doctor O. E. Grua was another good surgeon. Doctor Naisbitt, Sue's husband, I used to tend their children. We would tend their kids to make extra money so I tended his children a lot. MF: That's good. VT: That was one of the things we did on the side to make money. Or if we dropped blood and broke the bottle—in those days it was glass. They took your blood… MF: Oh because it was in the glass containers. VT: Yes. Sometimes they would pay you for your blood if you wanted extra money. MF: That is too funny. So tell us about your capping ceremony. You had been in for six months? VT: Right. We went over to that church, Mt. Ogden Ward, and we all sat on the stand and we had music. I don't know who wrote the words to the Dee Song but we had a song. We would sing that and just have a speaker and prayers. It was probably more LDS type thing. I just remember them for some reason—I wish I could have shown you the lamp that we all had. They lit a candle in this lamp and then we kind of knelt down and they put this white cap on your head. It didn't 9 have anything on it. Then after the first year you got to put one black stripe perpendicular on the cap, the second year two stripes and the third year three stripes. You could easily walk into a hospital and tell how long the nurse had been in training, if she was a one year, two year, three years, or graduated. If you were graduated you put the string along the top. MF: All the way around the top. VT: That is the way they knew. Mrs. Edna Siedner taught the Professional Adjustments class. She taught us how to be and act professional, even how to fix the seams in our hose. We wore long dresses in those days—ankle length dresses, white, and they were crisp. So the hospital did them until—I am sure until we graduated they would do them so they were starched stiff. MF: Sue said it was hard trying to get those things open so you could get into them. It was like opening a cardboard box. VT: It was. So we did everything in them. Your parents were invited, everybody—so it was just kind of a nice ceremony to let you know you finally got a hat to wear. MF: Tell us about a favorite patient that you had or a hard patient? Do you have any that you remember? VT: No. I remember one of the first patients that I had. This isn't a fun story. I had a patient that I took care of for a long time, maybe for a month. I gave her AM care, bathed her, and cleaned her room. I know one day we had a class where we had to go see an autopsy. That was gross but anyway we were there and I had a good stomach so it wasn't too bad. But I remember when we got there, got in the room and sat down it was the patient that I had taken care of for a long 10 time. That wasn't fun because, you know, you saw her and that was kind of a shock to me. MF: That would be hard. That would be hard to have to do that. So how do you think your training at the Dee, as far as your training if you have gone elsewhere, served you? It has probably made a difference as far as being able to get a job anywhere. VT: Yes. It did. It had a really good reputation. It was an accredited hospital and three years—at the time, Weber State didn't have a nursing program, so this was a three year school and I graduated with a R. N. degree and it was just logical for me to go there and do that. MF: So after—you had your graduation ceremony in '54, right? VT: Graduated in '54. MF: Did you stay at the Dee Hospital after you graduated? VT: I didn't. My neighbor was the manager of the Ogden Clinic so I went to work there. MF: Oh. VT: It was the old Ogden Clinic when there was just twelve doctors. I was hired with two other girls as working nurses. I did that probably for two or three years and then when I had children—I got married in the meantime, started having children—I worked from ten to seven at night or from nine to seven and that was too long to leave the kids so I went back to the Dee and worked in the operating room. The third year I was in training, I had all my schooling done the third year I spent time in the operating room, out to the TB Sanitorium (that is where the deaf 11 and blind school is now). We had to spend a month there and three months down at the mental hospital in Provo. The Mental Hospital was probably the hardest thing that I did. MF: That is what a lot of them has said, that that was so hard because they just didn't have the drugs that they have now. VT: We all got our eyes opened to mental illness, and here you are like nineteen. By the time I was twenty years old, I had been out in the world and received a lot of eye opening experiences because it was hard in those days. MF: Sue was saying yesterday that the medical, as far as being able to take care of people, you were one of the best hospitals, there was still such a limited state of the art. VT: It was. Well you can imagine—we overdosed people with insulin. You would overdose them and let them lay in a coma and then bring them out with sugar water. You would have to put those tubes down into their stomachs all the time. That was kind of traumatic, just doing it. I was always afraid that they weren't going to come out. It was a hard kind of thing but we did it and luckily all of the people lived. That is—probably psychiatric drugs has really made a lot of difference. MF: I think so, as far as the advancement. So you came back to the Dee. Did you go anywhere else or did you stay? VT: Nope, I stayed in the operating room at the Hospital or Surgical Center, all the time until I retired. So not until the last two years I managed the surgical center. MF: When did you retire? 12 VT: 1991. MF: Of course, nursing has changed over the years drastically. How do you think it has changed? VT: Well, being that I worked there for so long and had the training that we did, I was all for Weber State Nursing School coming in. My idea is if you want to do something bad enough and you learn a little about it, you will be a good worker whatever you do. If you want to be a good secretary, you are going to put that out. So I knew that the kids from Weber State that wanted to be good nurses are. You could train them—I noticed that they came over and we would train them but they got paid for what they were doing. Can you see the difference? I went three years and paid them for training. I didn't feel bad about it but still you can understand the training that we got was so much more because it was so much more on a one on one. MF: And you had that extra year of clinical where you went on floors. VT: Right. Wherever you wanted to go into, like delivery, Sue went into delivery so she could deliver a child by herself. I was in the operating room so, by the time I graduated, they had a good nurse there that didn't have to be trained anymore. Whereas Weber State you did on the floor training. MF: Exactly. VT: You go in if you understand that. Which, like I say, it didn't bother me at all because there were girls that went two years at Weber State that were just as good as somebody three years that did not have the common sense to just do common ordinary things. That is the way it is. The thing, I think, that probably 13 bothers me the most is that when you walk into a hospital today, no matter how gorgeous the hospital, how upscale it is, you cannot tell me the difference between an aid or a nurse or a doctor or a cleaning lady. I am sorry but that really kind of bothers me. Edna Seidner would turn over in her grave if she saw today—my husband just had surgery this spring in the hospital and even though they were really really good, we got a long really fine, it is different. He got good care because he told them, "She was a nurse," so then they were all…they knew I was going to check on them. But I think that is probably the hardest thing. I think you can do both ways. I think you can still wear pants and I think they could still be professional but it would sure be nice that they had to wear something to differentiate people. MF: Yes, that makes a difference. What do you think was your greatest challenge as a nurse? VT: Oh I don't know, probably new procedures all the time. Just being there and the time spent. I loved it. I love nursing so I really loved the operating room. I could have gone sixteen hours a day in the operating room just to stand and operate because I loved it. So to learn the new doctors coming in, like for instance, Doctor Tanner used to do everything. Most of the doctors would do all kinds of surgery from head to toe. They could take care of all patients and do all kinds of general surgery. But nowadays they are all so specialized—that is what starting coming in. So then we had to switch over and learn that. We had to learn to work cardiology, neuro surgery or to learn to work orthopedics, OBGYN and that 14 is probably the biggest challenge—and laser, just learning the laser and learning how to do new procedures. That was probably the biggest thing. MF: That would be a challenge. So with your classmates, do you still get together with them? VT: Yes. MF: The ones that you graduated with? You are still in contact with those that are still alive? VT: Most of them, yes. Twice a year we meet and usually we'll have a party on the side, some of us. MF: That is good that you still keep in contact. You lived together you kind of had to rely on each other. VT: Oh yes. MF: You could get through by yourself but it is easier when you have somebody that knows what you are going through. VT: Oh we had to rely on each other and help each other. We would get in trouble— I'll have to tell you, if you want to hear… MF: Oh yes, please do. VT: One day I got in trouble, I'll tell you what it was for. When we used to, like I told you, we used to have to dress in the mornings and run over and give care and run back and get ready for school. So Mrs. Brown would always check on us to see if we did it right. That afternoon I remember sitting in class and she came in and she says, "Okay, Sister 'so and so' you go back over. You didn't do this. And Sister Hunter, go back and take care of the oxygen tank that you didn't take 15 care of." I had done everything right but in the olden days they didn't have piped in oxygen. They just had oxygen tanks, big oxygen tanks and the gauge on them. Off of the gauge was a bottle of water so that the air went through the water so it would be moist when it went into the person. I had only left the bottle half full instead of filling it up to the top like I should have. So I had to leave the class, go get dressed, hose and everything, go over there, hat and all, and fill the bottle full of water. That was how strict they were with us. They watched everything we did so that things had to be just right. It is interesting when my husband had surgery and they come in and started an IV and threw all the covers on the floor, like the caps off of the IV and things like that, they just drop them. Some of them pick them up but I was reminded of the "olden" days when we kept things perfect. MF: You had to do everything. You had to reuse everything because there was no disposable anything. VT: No. That is right. We had to sterilize the thermometers and sterilize the syringes and needles. MF: Did you have to pay for breakage? VT: Oh they threatened but they didn't. No, I don't think I ever had to pay for anything other than blood. That was too expensive. So they would do that. It wasn't that bad. MF: That is good. So when you were in nurses training, what do you think, as far as when you were first going through, was it a stressful experience? VT: Oh, the whole thing was stressful. 16 MF: The whole process. VT: Well it was just out of your comfort zone the whole time. That was something—I don't know why in my mind I thought I was just going to waltz in there and start taking care of patients, making the bed and all those kind of things. But it was stressful. We had to not only do correct procedures and drugs and chart them right because somebody could sue us if we charted wrong. Not as bad as today but we jumped up when the doctor walked in the room. We opened the door for them. We gave them the chart and we opened the elevator and they got on first that was ridiculous, too. That was the other extreme. We really went from one extreme to the other, I think. It wasn't necessary to be that structured. It was a lot nicer when we worked in the operating room where people started acting like human beings to us. A lot of doctors were still down the line and you had your place and you better know where your place was and stay in it. I was lucky enough to work with Doctor Tanner a lot. Of course, my name was Tanner so that helped. He was good to me. There were a lot of doctors that—we got things thrown at us at times. If they didn't want an instrument they would throw it back at you. I don't think they allow that anymore. MF: No, it is equal. You are both there to do a job. VT: But once I went to the clinic I became friends with most of them. After years and years—they become your friend and so it was okay. MF: That is good. VT: But it was stressful. Learning, especially new procedures, I remember they had a thing called a cantor tube. It was used if you had a bowel obstruction. 17 Nowadays they can scope you just easy, they put you out and just scope you with an instrument that has mirrors, lights and a camera. We didn't have anything like that. The cantor tube had a balloon on the end of this long red tube and it had mercury in it to make it heavy and we would wind that thing up and put it down somebody's nose and make them swallow it. It would go down into their stomach and it went clear into the intestines and it would have graduation lines all along this tube and every day or so they would x-ray to see where it was. It was used to break through the blockage. There were a lot of old things like that that you had to learn to do, to catheterize somebody, everything was kind of a little traumatic thing until you learned. You could always kill somebody. I guess that was always it. MF: That would be a scary thought. VT: If you gave the wrong medication and a lot of girls did. Luckily enough I didn't remember one stressful time—probably when I was in my second year—that I was on medical floor and there was just me and an aid and somebody died every other night for a month. MF: Holy cow. VT: We had wonderful interns there with us. We had an intern—that was one good thing in those days, that we could have interns. But that was hard—it was stressful, because it was life and death, and we were young still. MF: So much responsibility, though. VT: So much responsibility—we did—a lot of responsibility. MF: Oh gosh, that is stressful just thinking about it. 18 VT: But we did it. Once you learned it and you did it and you accomplished it—every year when we would have those ceremonies and you get to put that stripe on, you knew why you had done it. You knew why you deserved that. You had paid that price and so by the time we finished you can see why it was great thing to become… MF: That is a great accomplishment. VT: And still to this day people think I know everything. Somebody will call, "Who do you think I should go to?" I don't know any doctors, hardly, anymore. People will call just to ask you questions or what do you think about this child or "I have got a rash." It is one of those things that you are forever doing. MF: That is probably good though, if you can make them feel better until they can get in. I always do that to my friend because she is a nurse. VT: You do. It is a common thing. MF: It is a comfort because you know they have been through it, they know the training. We appreciate you letting us come visit with you. That wasn't too painful was it? VT: No. MF: Did you have anything that you wanted to ask her? MJ: I was just kind of wondering, you had mentioned that you had sisters that had gone into nursing and you grew up right by the hospital, did you know a lot of people that had gone into nursing beforehand? VT: No. MJ: It was just your sister. 19 VT: Well my mother had a friend who delivered me at our home. As far as my friends, I was the only one that pretty well went in. MJ: How did your other friends feel about you going into nursing? What did they think about you being a nurse? VT: They—it was okay with them. They all had their own little careers. Everyone would go away to college. The only thing that bothered me, kind of hurt the first year, I thought, "I think I'll go into nursing but I'm going to join the choir at Weber State," because I sang a lot and of course, they told me that I couldn't join the choir. I wasn't going to be able to do that. It was more hard on me. I knew I had to be in at ten o'clock at night and all my friends—and I had like twenty lived close by. My friends I grew up with, we are all old, but we still meet. That was the hard thing. I was the one that was left out then. MF: Because you had to go home. VT: They could still all go to college and having a great time going to dances and stuff. MJ: Did they ever kind of question why you had gone into nursing? VT: No they just always knew—I had talked—one of these days I am going to be a nurse. I always knew when I was just a kid, from the fourth grade on, I think, probably that I wanted to do that. MF: That is good. VT: And loved it. MF: That is a good thing. You have to like what you do. It is okay to like your job. Don't you think? 20 MJ: Yes. MF: It is okay to be able to enjoy what you are doing. VT: It is and I had great friends that I worked with. In fact, Tuesday I was to lunch with some of the kids from the surgery center that we still get together with. So it is a lifelong friendship. MJ: Do you think there was any—kind of along the same lines, was there perhaps a little more respect or esteem for you because you had chosen to go into this? VT: Probably. Probably so because it took me a little longer. Not that secretaries weren't anything. Now, today, I would love to be a secretary. I managed the surgical center the last couple years that I worked so I had a couple girls that were secretaries and one said, "Let me teach you how to get on the computer and do this." And I said, "No, I'll never use that." So we went on a mission in, '92, and '93 and the first thing they said, "You are in the office and here is the computer." I gave all the shots to the missionaries. I was in Fiji so I worked with Australian doctors. They treated me as if I was a doctor. I could call when the missionaries got sick, they would say, "What do you need?" That really helped the mission because I had that training. MF: So it has served you well. VT: It has. MF: That is so wonderful. MJ: Was there a sense of the general community? VT: I think so because the Dee family was very important. They were. There was always a lot of love and respect. I think the doctors in Ogden—everybody kept it 21 on that type of a level. They were almost little Gods. They thought they were too. But they were, they were on that level of respect so if you could work with those people you were respected. They were the rich people that lived up on the hill. Not so much anymore because there are a lot of people that have a lot of money that are not doctors now but in those days—you look back fifty years ago. MF: Did you know any of the Dee family? VT: I knew Sister Stewart. Mrs. Stewart. MF: Oh Elizabeth. Mrs. Stewart, she is the one that I knew and had met because I was on the committee at one time. MF: Oh for the alumni? VT: Yes. So she would always pay for all our mailing. She is a sweetheart. She gave a lot of support to us. MF: When she was growing up she wanted to be a nurse but it just didn't work out. I think that is why she volunteered with the nursing program—that is why she did what she did. VT: Yes, we considered her as one of us so she would come to our meetings and she would just give us money and support. MF: It is nice to have those books. It is nice to keep in contact with those close friends and know where they are. That is good. Well we appreciate your time. Thank you so much for letting us come visit. I'll make sure I get your pictures.
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Oral History Program Arlene Truszinski Clement Interviewed by Marci Farr 18 January 2011 Oral History Program Weber State University Stewart Library Ogden, Utah Arlene Truszinski Clement Interviewed by Marci Farr 18 January 2011 Copyright © 2011 by Weber State University, Stewart Library Mission Statement The Oral History Program of the Stewart Library was created to preserve the institutional history of Weber State University and the Davis, Ogden and Weber County communities. By conducting carefully researched, recorded, and transcribed interviews, the Oral History Program creates archival oral histories intended for the widest possible use. Interviews are conducted with the goal of eliciting from each participant a full and accurate account of events. The interviews are transcribed, edited for accuracy and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewees (as available), who are encouraged to augment or correct their spoken words. The reviewed and corrected transcripts are indexed, printed, and bound with photographs and illustrative materials as available. Archival copies are placed in Special Collections. The Stewart Library also houses the original recording so researchers can gain a sense of the interviewee's voice and intonations. Project Description The St. Benedict's School of Nursing was founded in 1947 by the Sisters of Mount Benedict. The school operated from April 1947 to 1968. Over the forty-one year period, the school had 605 students and 357 graduates. In 1966, the program became the basis for Weber State College's Practical Nursing Program. This oral history project was created to capture the memories of the graduates and to add to the history of nursing education in Ogden. The interviews focus on their training, religion, and experiences working with doctors, nurses, nuns, and patients at St. Benedict's Hospital. This project received funding from the Utah Humanities Council and the Utah Division of State History. ____________________________________ Oral history is a method of collecting historical information through recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account. It reflects personal opinion offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ____________________________________ Rights Management Special Collections All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to the Stewart Library of Weber State University. No part of the manuscript may be published without the written permission of the University Librarian. Requests for permission to publish should be addressed to the Administration Office, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, 84408. The request should include identification of the specific item and identification of the user. It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Arlene Truszinski Clement, an oral history by Marci Farr, 18 January 2011, WSU Stewart Library Oral History Program, Special Collections, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. iii Arlene Truszinski Clement, Sister Pachelli and other nursing students 1964 Arlene Truszinski Clement January 22, 2010 1 Abstract: This is an oral history interview with Arlene Truszinski Clement, conducted by Marci Farr and Sarah Langsdon, on January 18, 2011. In this interview, Arlene discusses her recollections and experiences with the St. Benedict's School of Nursing. Melissa Johnson was also present during the interview. MF: This is Marci Farr. We are interviewing Arlene Truszinski Clement at Mount Benedict Monastery in Ogden, Utah. It is January 18, 2011. She graduated from the St. Benedict's School of Nursing in 1965. We'll just have you start out by telling us a little bit about your family, where you grew up, your brothers, sisters, and where you went to school. AC: I was born in Melrose, Minnesota in 1940. It is central Minnesota, close to St. Cloud, a small farming community. Right after I was born my mother and dad moved to Elrosa, another farming area. We farmed all of our lives. I am the fourth oldest in a line of six. I went to school at Elrosa at the Parochial school. They started the Parochial school in 1946. That was a big thing in central Minnesota. Here come these nice, friendly nuns that are teaching. I still remember my second grade teachers were so kind. I went to the Parochial school through the eighth grade. There were ten in our class. After grade school, I went to Belgrade High School which is in the town next door. My aunt, Sister Hildeburg, would say, "Why don't you come to St. Ben's? It is like a prep school, come to St. Ben's." Mom and dad were fine with that. Sister Mary, my sister who is three years older than I am was already there. She was three years ahead of me so I was following in her footsteps. I went to St. Ben's sophomore, junior, and senior year in high 2 school. Then because I was there in high school I fell right into the group that was starting to become nuns. A lot of my friends were already in high school there were aspirants and then there were the Day hops, those were the people that lived in town. So I was an aspirant at St. Benedict's High School. After St. Benedict's High School I followed the group. I became a postulant that is the next step; you wore the black uniform with the white collar. After the postulancy you went right on to become a nun, a Sister of St. Benedict. That is when you wear the white veil and black habit as a novice, or the white veil. That is one year. During that year you study the rule of St. Benedict, the bible, and you learn to live the life of a nun which means getting up at certain hours and going with the community for prayer and work. The first year I was a junior—there were three years of being a junior. I went to St. Scholastica in the Duluth, Minnesota thinking it would be a four year nursing program. For some reason I wasn't really satisfied at Duluth. The reason that I wasn't was because I didn't do well in metaphysics. I said to my superior at St. Benedict's, "Couldn't I go into the three year program at St. Cloud School of Nursing." I checked there but they were all filled up. She said, "Arlene, do you want to go to Ogden, Utah." I said, "Well who is there?" She named Sister Mary Gerald, Sister Joel, the nuns that I knew a little bit already—I knew they were nurses and I knew them through Sister Mary, they were all her friends. I said, "Great." I came out here to Ogden. I came out the first time with Sister Jean Gibson's mom. Here were all these nuns that I sort of knew and they were glad to 3 have me. That is where I met Sister Mary Bernard Lieser. We were both in the same class. She was older than I was but just as happy as can be. We were kind of the same caliber; we came from the same area. She lives near Lake Henry and I Elrosa so we are all farming community and I knew her area. I knew her relatives. So I came out here and would be part of the three year program which really worked out good for me because now I have a couple of friends here in the hospital already and Mary Bernard. During the day we would go to school and in the evening have supper with the nuns, probably recreation with the nuns. Then to the study hall to study which was common. I had enough time, I had my room, I forget if I was with Mary Bernard or not in the school of nursing. I liked that program because it wasn't hard, it was ordinary. On the weekends—Sister Martina Schindler was in charge of central service, EEG, and emergency room. She would say, "Sister Pacelli, if you are not going any place you can come and help me do EEGs." So I would go and help do EEGs because I didn't know very much about EEGs. In central service it was just a matter of wrapping up catheter trays and treatment trays. That was fun. The people there were fun. Emergency room was really interesting. I still remember some of the paracentesis that we did when we put the tube in the abdomen and drain the fluid off of the abdomen. I remember thoracentesis, the ones that they put the tube in the pleural lining of the lungs. That was interesting. It was a little more scary. I did work in there so those are the things I remember, people coming in and accident patients. I would 4 hear the siren and we'd all say, "Go away, go away!" When they did come in we took care of them and the doctors were really good. Really, those three years at St. Benedict's from one rotation into the next—medical was fairly easy. Then on weekends I would work on the floors. They said, "You can work on second." So I would go work there. I really don't remember any problem with any patient. That is what I did on weekends. In the evenings we would go with the nuns either somewhere climbing the hills, was it Mt. Logan? It was one of the mountains and we'd slide down in the winter time. There was always something and always lots of good food around. In my rotations—another interesting thing was we went to Salt Lake City and did our psych training there. That was interesting. I don't remember a whole lot but I remember the shock treatments. Poor people... we just observed. We weren't really hands on with any of that. I remember our rotation to peds in Denver Children's Hospital. I liked that. I remember some of the nurses down there. We never continued communication with them. We would walk over to Children's in the morning and we'd sleep at St. Joseph's Hospital. Some days when we would walk home some people would say, "Aren't you scared to walk through this neighborhood?" We'd say, "Why?" It was because black people lived there. There were some but we never paid any attention to them we just kept walking along to St. Joseph's. I don't know if Mary Bernard was with me on that one but I remember a few of the girls. We just did our thing and we had little student supervision. I remember some of those little kids with diabetes. I 5 remember the little babies coming out of surgery, coming to our floor with tumors removed. I thought, man, these little babies are born with tumors. I remember one little baby especially had two tumors removed from the buttocks. I thought, "My goodness, here is this little child with this tumor and it is just a little, little baby." That stuck with me, it was sad to see. Just talking to the parents and sympathizing with them was good. I liked Children's Hospital too and everything went well. We went on a couple of trips. In Denver we would go up to Boulder, Colorado on weekends and visit a congregation of German nuns that came over from Germany. Sister Mary Bernard must have been with me because I would not have gone alone. I will never forget that they had a barn with cows. The barn was painted white inside and they had a holy water fountain as you came in the barn. I thought, "oh my gosh there are really holy cows in here." They were a good group. I remember eating with them so that was another good experience. We went on a couple of trips around Boulder and there was another town right out of Denver where some school children were shot. I have forgotten the name right now. We did make a couple of trips on weekends. My remembrance from Children's Hospital was very nice, so much to learn. Then we came back here. We had Denver, Salt Lake City, and I think those were the only affiliates that we had. MF: You didn't go to Hastings at all? AC: No. 6 MF: You didn't go to Warm Springs, Montana? AC: No. I didn't go there. It must have been our group that didn't. MF: Probably, because I know they started changing that. AC: Anyhow, my group and class was really a nice class. As I see them now I don't remember anything really special about them but I remember Zufelt was always happy go lucky. Some of these in the earlier classes too. I remember really all of them. I think it was just one that I didn't really remember after all these years. I haven't looked in this book for years and years. Karen Sweeney, I remember her. Emily Richards, Judy Roe, Lillian Shaw, Diane Zufelt, and this is Anna. They were all good kids. We went through the three year program and everything went well. We had graduation and my parents came out for graduation. In a lifetime, for me, a lot has happened. After leaving here, as soon as I graduated, I took my state boards here in Salt Lake City, graduated, and was called back to St. Cloud right away because I was supposed to take over at this nursing home or help Sister Coramarie. We did that and that was fun because here you had all these old people that were kind of happy go lucky. Some of them had cancer but it was just a matter of meds and a matter of shots and getting their meds for them. We had a lot of good employees, young kids that were in high school. They were always around and they were always telling jokes and telling me what was going on. The pharmacist would come at night and deliver meds. He was a nice guy from downtown St. Cloud. I got to know him really well. We did crazy things like dance 7 up and down the halls. It was not unusual to put on some old time music or whatever, country music, and we would dance up and down the halls. The people liked that. They liked any kind of commotion. We would play cards, five hundred—not me so much but the administrator would come and play five hundred. She was a nun and she would always beat them. She is older but boy is she sharp. I was there for three years—that is where I met Mike, after his mom fell and broke her hip. I went over to the hospital to see her. I met him and in 1969 I went back to the hospital and from there I went to New Prague just for like six months. They always said, "Why don't you try to get away from this and see if it is really what you want to do." But I did, I went to New Prague, worked there at the Queen of Peace Hospital and that went fine. The nuns knew what I was about. I told them I was going to leave and go to Miller. I was at Miller Hospital, which is a big hospital right next to the capitol. I think it is connected with another hospital now. I was at Miller for about six months then I came back to St. Cloud, hooked up with St. Cloud hospital again, started working on extended care which is pretty much rehab—that was in 1971. We got married in '71—June 12 of '71 I was at the St. Cloud hospital full-time on extended care in '71 until '73 when Dr. Wittrock asked me to work for him in the clinic. He was a general practitioner and his brother-in-law was a surgeon right next door. I worked for him from '73 to '83 eight to five. The nice thing was now I am working eight to five instead of the relief shift or the night shift. I really didn't like the night shift too well because you 8 get kind of an upset stomach during the night. '73 to '83 with Wittrock and he was such a nice doctor, very kind. There I learned a lot. If you are in a clinic with one doctor he will allow you to do lots of things. You help with stitching people up, you help with diagnosing, when he is not there you figure out what it could be. We were really good friends. There was another nurse too, there were always two of us. That was until '83. In '83 Dr. Wittrock retired. I was going to go to the VA, they called me the day I started at St. Benedict's senior community and they have like two hundred and twenty people there in the nursing home. I came there as evening supervisor. That was good. I knew I had to take care of the building, plus the apartments, plus the intermediate. That went really well. I did that for quite a few years, starting in '83 till '93 or so. I forgot what year but I asked, "If there is a position as a staff nurse on third floor I will work on third floor," which ended up being the Alzheimer's unit. So you can do that. But the real reason is that I wanted to get away from doing staffing, calling people, which is good too but now I could go back to taking care of people passing meds and that kind of thing. I like to talk to the families. I really made a lot of friends on third floor at St. Benedict's center. I worked there until I was 65 and then I thought I would quit now and go on casual labor pool. Then I can draw social security. I knew Mike wasn't getting any younger so I could be at home for a little bit. Mike could get around good but he had trouble with his knees. I retired in 2006 and Mike died October 29, 2006. I was still on casual labor pool working just a couple of days a month, that is all 9 you had to work. I don't know—I think it was about 2008 when the new computer system came in, the epic system, I thought this is too risky to work just a few days a month and try to learn this new system. You would always have to ask, "How do you find this?" Now I think I am going to retire because by this time I was kind of alone because Mike was gone. I thought now I am just going to hang it up and do volunteer work. So then I started delivering meals on wheels, helping at the church in the morning, that is what really got me going after Mike died. You don't really want to get up in the morning, you would rather stay in bed. You don't really want to do anything but I thought I am going to get up and get to church and get to mass. Pretty soon it was, Arlene, would you help with this? Would you help with that? It was usually help with saying the rosary before mass if somebody can't do it, somebody can't distribute communion. Okay, I can do that. Then I met Ralph, whose wife died in 2007 on Easter Sunday from a brain tumor. I had never really known him from before. He took care of her until the end too at home. He said, "If you want me to come pick you up we could go some place to eat or dancing." That is how that happened. He would come out a couple of times. I knew him, but I didn't know his family too well. I knew he lived only ten miles from where I lived. We got married June 6 of 2010. That is my life story. It has really been nice. I could work full-time through all of my lifetime and even when we adopted Sandy. I don't know if I told you that three years into our marriage we adopted a seven year old. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee and 10 has two grandchildren from that, from Sandy's marriage. With Ralph he has four daughters who are really nice. They say, "You are so much like my mom." MF: That is such a great thing. Was there any reason that you decided to become a nurse? Was there anything from your childhood that caused you to decide to become a nurse? AC: Sure. They ask you when you start out. Way in the beginning they ask, "What would you like to be? You have three choices. " I said, "I would like to be a teacher or a nurse or a missionary. "I was thinking, "What else is there?" But then I thought, it is not too difficult to be a nurse. You have to study. I knew Mary did. I knew lots of other girls that were nurses, not lots, but some. It wouldn't be too difficult to do, you just study, spend your time studying. It isn't easy. I always told the aids, "If you can, first get your education then get married." Once you are married, you really have to study a lot. Some of them dropped out. It is too hard. Yeah it is hard to do all that reading. MF: And take care of your family. AC: And take care of your family. But I became a nurse because I thought, "This is something I can do." Mary did it and she was well on her way already. She was at St. Scholastica's in the Luth and onto being an instructor at St. Cloud's. I thought, "I can do it too." MF: What do you remember most about the Sisters when you came here? Who were the ones that you remember that taught the classes? 11 AC: Probably the one that I remember the most is Sister Joel. She has left the community already. I remember all of them. Mary Gerald was really nice sister. Berno I knew from early on already. Sister Giovanni. Berno was the director and very friendly. Sister Nivelle was really good. Estelle was older but always had a good sense of humor—smart and liked lots of stuff. You could tell her anything and she could tell you what you should do or what you shouldn't do. Nivelle too. Giovanni always neat. I don't remember any of these ever having an unkind word with anybody. I guess I was always the smiley kind and get along with everybody. Josette, I don't remember too much about her but she was a good instructor too. I probably had her for anatomy. Rebecca, I always liked Rebecca. She was my pharmacology teacher and always smiling. She knew how to get the material across and we'd remember. Sister Mary Gerald, she had quite a sense of humor. She was a little more masculine and liked to do things. She was the one that would go sliding down the mountain. I remember her—in Logan canyon they had St. Ann's retreat. In the summertime we'd decorate that place. We had a Christmas in the middle of the summer. She was all for having a good party. Sister Joel in OB, she is very nice but very common. Her family comes from the Elrosa area too where I am from. A lot of these people you kind of knew their relatives already. MF: Yes she graduated in 1953 from St. Benedict's. AC: Josette? MF: Yes. 12 AC: Did Rebecca die already? MF: I think she has. AC: I think she probably did. Sometimes somebody dies and there are two things going on at the same time and I don't get to the funeral. But Rebecca was really a nice, nice person—always smiling. She always had a chuckle. I don't remember any specific stories about anybody. I remember Mrs. Etcheverry, she was really kind. She was smart. Mrs. Wheeler. This one I don't remember too much, Rosemary Sullivan, but I remember the name and her face now that I look at it. I think it was in nutrition that I got my only A. I liked anatomy, my favorite subject. Lena, everybody remembers Lena Borino. This one I don't remember too much but I remember Ellen Burk in the library. MF: Were you there when the shooting happened? AC: I know that there was a shooting and that was Sister Mary David's department and it was in the library. Wasn't it medical records? MF: Yes it was outside on the lawn. AC: It was a girl from... MF: Cafarelli and... AC: It was a girl from Arizona. What is the cold place in Arizona? MF: Flagstaff. AC: Flagstaff. We were probably gone on affiliation because we heard about it and couldn't believe it. That was Sister Mary David I think it was. I remember the young girl being from Flagstaff but I don't even remember who she was. 13 MF: I think she was medical records. AC: Medical records, yes, you are right. I don't remember anything about it except that we heard about it. We were really surprised. MF: When we were downstairs we were looking at the pictures that they take in front of the second story window. They still have those downstairs. AC: Really? MF: Yes. We wanted, of course, that was a big thing from the class of '65. We don't want to put these pictures out but we found one of the two nuns conversing standing by the window. AC: I wonder who the nuns were that were there. MF: Cafarelli was the one that was shot. Diane Cafarelli. AC: She would almost have to be in this book, Cafarelli. We'll look it up after. Really I haven't seen any of these girls since I left here to tell the truth. All the names sound really familiar. MF: We talked to Gail Crisenhall. AC: Oh did you? MF: And we talked to Judy Binkley. She just lives—if you are going towards Weber State it is on Shadow Hills drive. It is just as you are on Harrison it is on the east side of the road. Judy just lives over here in some condos. AC: Did most of them continue nursing? MF: Yes they did. Full time nurses like you and Sister Bernard, just worked, worked, and worked. 14 AC: When I think back—I was telling Sister Mary I think I had two sick days in my years at St. Benedict's Center and I don't know if I had many sick days before that. Probably four days in all, can you imagine? MF: That is amazing. You didn't take time to be sick, you had to keep going. AC: See that is it. People sometimes say, "Arlene, you wouldn't have to come to work. "I would say, "I really feel pretty good. It is just that I can't talk very good." But I went because I just thought that I could make it. MF: It would be okay. What were some of your thoughts? MJ: You talked about going out into the mountains with the nuns. You just went hiking? AC: Yes. That was like Saturdays we would climb up part of the ways. I remember one time—who was it who slipped on a banana peel and broke her ankle? MF: Oh my goodness. AC: Yes one of the nuns slipped and fell down. I will never forget it. MF: Did you go up Waterfall Canyon? AC: It was right in back of the hospital. MF: That is crazy. AC: We would go on those little saucers and go sliding down the hill. Good thing we didn't run into something. MF: What do you think was your greatest challenge while you were in nurses training? 15 AC: The greatest challenge. The greatest challenge always for me was IVs, starting IVs. Especially when the folks would say, "Okay, I will give you one chance and if you don't get in..." It always worried me a little bit—blood draws weren't so bad because you could put the needle in. Sometimes, especially when you are alone and it is kind of dark in evening time and you have to get this IV in. The old folks don't really have really good veins. You hate to prick them. Starting IVs was probably my hardest challenge. In fact, one day I had called one of my friends and I said, "Phyllis can you come in? I have to start an IV. Would you come in and start the IV?" She was home in bed and it was like nine o'clock. She came in her street clothes and she was my opposite at St. Benedict's Center. She came in and started the IV. I was so thankful. We didn't have to do it very often but when you did have to do it—that was probably it! We didn't do it often enough we weren't really skilled to do it. You had to do it. You hook them up to the fluid—that was the hardest part. Shots are fine and even putting tubes down wasn't bad because you knew how to do that. Starting those darn IVs that hurt. MF: That was probably when they still had the needles. AC: I know they see the needles and their little veins just collapse. We had a rule that you can try three times and then that is it. I didn't want to try three times. If I couldn't get it in the first time I tried to call the doctor and say, "Do you really want to put this in or can we give her a shot of rocephin?" Sometimes the doctors would go along with things. I would always suggest. If somebody was developing a high fever and I figured they could probably get over it with IM shots\ 16 I would say, "Doctor do you think we could give them a shot of rocephin?" They would say, "Oh yes go ahead." MF: Good for you. AC: Yes I got along with the doctors pretty well. I would just say, "This is what I have. What should I do? This is what I would like to do. " MJ: Do you remember any of the doctors from St. Ben's? AC: Yes only as I look back here. I remember these guys being good guys. Doctor Eckburg was one, Norman Eckburg. The other ones that I remember was Doctor Lloyd Wesburg, he was good. I remember Doctor Scott. If you worked for somebody, especially as a nun, your job was to just get the instruments to them. When I worked in the emergency room with thoracentesis or paracentesis I was just so amazed at all this fluid would come out of a body cavity. The doctors were fine. MF: I am sure it changed every time you had your rotations. Which rotation did you enjoy the most at the hospital? AC: I suppose medical. Medical was probably my best. I understood it the best. I can go in there and figure it out and talk to them about it. Especially cancer patients, I remember one lady had run into a door and developed a huge sore under her breast. She didn't want to show it to me. I said, "Can I see that sore?" "No. " I finally got to see it and looked at this huge sore under the breast. When I told the nurses about it they said this is what she has. The doctor looked at it and sent her right off to a Minneapolis hospital. Some of those things made you feel really 17 sorry for people. There are a lot of situations like that where you really, really feel sorry for them. It could have been here when I was in the emergency room where the lady was out snowmobiling at night and ran into a barbed wire fence. They did find this part of the chin and I think we sewed it on right here. I don't know if it ever took her. MF: Emergency room would change every day. It wouldn't be the same thing. AC: You can expect anything, anything at all. I liked it but I wasn't familiar enough. I was a student so I would have to be running. MF: What do you remember most about graduation? AC: I really don't remember a whole lot about graduation to tell the truth. I am sure we were with all the class. There has been so much that went on since then. MF: It has been a few days, huh? AC: Yes, right. Everything that went on went on well. I don't remember any catastrophes ever. I remember my mother and dad coming out for graduation and my brother Earl. MF: That is okay. I am sure it was a great thing. AC: I have to thank God for my whole life because I have been healthy and usually wherever I go I just get along. You get started and do the work they tell you to do and try to do everything. Sometimes when you don't get it all done then I would stay over and do it. Some people would say, especially at St. Benedict's, "Arlene, are you almost finished." I would say, "You can go home and I will just finish up." Sometimes I would stay and finish up because I wanted to be sure my work was 18 done. Sometimes you would find stuff that wasn't done, especially when I was supervising. You have got to be sure everything is done and everything is right. I probably would run around a little more than I would have to but I wanted to double check on everything. That is kind of the way I am. MF: Did you have anything else you wanted to ask? MJ: I was just wondering, when you first came to Ogden what were your impressions of the city? AC: It was new. I remember coming out here. I don't know if it was the first time but I came out by train. I went to Chicago and from Chicago we came out here. I had a berth. I had never been in a train and sleeping in those narrow little beds. But coming through the mountains and hearing the train whistles and looking out to see the mountains—I thought, "Wow." I think the only trip I had ever taken was to Dakota. So this was my first trip out here. I thought it was really nice and very scenic. I liked it. I did get attached to Ogden. I would like to come back here because it is so nice. I came here and I am sure the nuns were at the train station to pick me up. I just fell in line. I never really found anything difficult in life. One thing I did find difficult in life was to correct people. I had found that difficult. I always knew when you correct people, you take them aside. You don't correct people in front of other folks. I have seen that a couple of times. It was not good. Don't tell them during work if you don't have to. After work they are a little more relaxed. I don't remember anything really big. MF: Well thanks for calling us and letting us visit with you.
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This is my first layout. It is done of my dad, his dad and his grandmother. Thanks for looking.
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This is my first layout. It is done of my dad, his dad and his grandmother. Thanks for looking.
Here is my very first ever digital scrpbooking layout. I like how it turned out even though it seems a little plain. lol
I'll post mine here shortly, when I get to the other computer. LOL Or I just might make one now at this one. Thanks for all the encouragement!!
Can't wait to see it. I have learned so much since my first LO and I feel like I should redo it BUT it gives me some perspective on how far I have come in a short time in the land of digi scrapping.
I just picked up some first tips from somewhere on a first layout in Photoshop CS2. It will take a little getting used to.
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The most important component to achieving balance is to take a moment to reflect and review your values and priorities. What matters to you? What do you value and hold sacred in your life? Get real clear about that; maybe there are two, three or four things. Part of the reason we lose balance is because we lost what was important to us. The first step toward achieving balance is a little bit of quiet time with just yourself, where the world's demands and perspectives aren't overly stimulating you. Giving yourself 15-20 minutes to sit and take time to do something good for yourself is the foundation of balance.
We're being pulled in so many different directions. How do we find the time?
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The first thing that brings joy is getting back into your physical body; get out of your head. Do something physical – yoga, walk, stretch – that isn't necessarily orientated to sculpting your waistline. Joy can't be experienced in your head. It can only be experienced through your body.
Is something like reading a good book joy?
That doesn't give you joy; it gives you inspiration. It gives you things to think about. Joy is very much an embodied experience. Joy is painting because it's physical. It uses the left side of the brain and the right. People are so out of balance because we get out of our bodies, and all of our energy is run through our intellect alone. Remember to play.
How do you avoid the feeling of letting others down?
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But won't we miss out on something?
Recognize you can't do it all. Be comforted that you can do a little, and give it your all. We have a fear of missing out; I call it 'FOMO.' Relax and know you won't miss anything important if you just settle down. You'll find you do have time for the things that are important. It's anxiety that robs you from them.
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Chevy Blazer - a two door, where's the sense in that? it was a good friend though. I slept in the back of it more times that I car remember.
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My TR-6. She was a princess, as the worldly Phil Kavanagh, CCC sex therapist would say.
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Posted: August 8, 2013 | Author: jwheeler1967 | Filed under: Authors and Poets, Books, Novels | Tags: a doll's house, anatole france, anton chekov, ernest renan, f. scott fitzgerald, garden party, grove park inn, guermantes way, henrik ibsen, john keats, joseph conrad, katherine mansfield, leo tolstoy, life of jeses, maltese falcon, marcel proust, old wives tale, oscar wilde, paris review, percy bysshe shelley, revolt of the angels, sanctuary, sherwood anderson, sister carrie, swann's way, theodore dreiser, victory, war and peace, william faulkner, winesberg ohio, within a budding grove, zelda fitzgerald | Comments OffF. Scott Fitzgerald was very ill in 1936 and was recovering at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina with the help of a private nurse. In addition to his failing health, the author was struggling with the decision to commit his wife, Zelda, to a mental institution at a nearby hospital. His essay about his own decline, The Crack-Up, had just been published in Esquire. Here, Fitzgerald voices an incredibly sad awareness of his own decline: "[M]y life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt," he wrote.
It didn't seem that anything could go right that year. Fitzgerald's drinking had become increasingly problematic and he had significant money problems. That summer, he "fractured his shoulder while diving into the hotel swimming pool, and sometime later, according to Michael Cody at the University of South Carolina's Fitzgerald Web site, "he fired a revolver in a suicide threat, after which the hotel refused to let him stay without a nurse." (Source)
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- A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen
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- An Outline of Abnormal Psychology, edited by Gardner Murphy
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We're transforming our fleet by purchasing hundreds of new planes and refreshing existing ones to help you travel in comfort. Look forward to new seats, extra leg room, more inflight power, and bigger overhead bins to more easily store your carry-on luggage.
Our premium class amenity kits are packed with items for your health and comfort, ensuring that you arrive at your destination feeling fresh. First Class amenity kits conveniently double as a tablet case and are stocked with rejuvenating skincare products, and Business Class kits feature refreshing cosmetics and more. Additionally, full size lotions will be available in the First Class lavatories on our 777-300 planes.
Stay FreshEnjoy an enhanced and personalized dining experience in our international premium cabins. You'll see more menu options, hand-delivered service and a calming environment where you can work or relax. For those flying in First Class, enjoy a mimosa before takeoff, a delicious soup or salad, choice of entrée selections like peppered beef filet and then complete your meal with one of our made-to-order ice cream sundaes.
Eat and DrinkExperience a complete turndown service for our First Class customers onboard our Boeing 777 planes. Relax with our quilted bed topper, light-weight day blanket, premium duvet, pajamas, slippers and pillow. Business Class travelers headed to an international destination on our Boeing 777, 767-300 and 757 aircraft can wrap up with a premium duvet and pillow to catch some shut-eye on their flight as well.
Rest UpWe're introducing a new level of comfort with fully lie-flat Business Class seats, offering aisle access from every premium class seat.
Lean All the Way BackTraveling in First or Business Class onboard one of our Boeing 777 planes? Enjoy all the features of our Flagship® Suite. Use our privacy dividers, powerports and tray tables to create your own work space and stay productive in the air. When you're finished working, your seat transforms into a six-foot, six-inch bed with drop-down armrests to give you even more space to stretch out and sleep.
Relax in the AirLooking for an affordable way to enhance your Main Cabin travel? Now on nearly all of our planes, Main Cabin Extra offers up to six inches of additional legroom and early boarding so you have plenty of time to stow your luggage. A little extra makes all the difference.
Learn MoreWe've ordered hundreds of new planes, building toward the youngest fleet in five years among the five largest U.S. airlines. We're upgrading our fleet with new planes and refreshing others with a contemporary atmosphere, enhanced lighting options, more Wi-Fi and larger overhead storage space.
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Visitation will be held from 1-2 p.m. Saturday, October 13, 2012, at Ruleville United Methodist Church.
Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 13, 2012, at Ruleville United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Mary Hutson officiating. Burial will be at the Marlow Cemetery in Ruleville.
He was born on May 20, 1952, to Dr. Charles and Delores Marlow Dorrough.
He was a past member of The Tangents Band. He was an artist and musician and lead singer of the Yalobushwackers Band of Thacker Mountain Radio Show out of Oxford. He also loved antiquing.
He is preceded in death by his wife Deborah Peacock Dorrough.
He is survived by son, John Charles Marlow Dorrough of Ruleville; daughter, Audra Lee Dorrough of Ruleville; beloved friend, Nanette Long of Ruleville; father, Dr. Charles Dorrough of Ruleville; mother, Delores Marlow Dorrough of Ruleville; brothers, John Robert Dorrough of Ruleville and Charles Marlow Dorrough of Oxford.
Pallbearers will be Andre Dubois, David Parker, John Cassibry, Joe Bradshaw, Ted Gainey, John Wade, Todd Camerson and Ronald Terrell.
Honorary pallbearers will be Willie Free, Curtis Thompson and Dave Alford.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to The Duff Dorrough Benefit Fund, Planters Bank, P.O. Box 9, Ruleville, MS 38771.
Online guest book may be signed at www.williamsandlord.com