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Oral History Program LouAnn Stoker Dickson Interviewed by Marci Farr 28 September 2010 Oral History Program Weber State University Stewart Library Ogden, Utah LouAnn Stoker Dickson Interviewed by Marci Farr 28 September 2010 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 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: LouAnn Stoker Dickson, an oral history by Marci Farr, 28 September 2010, WSU Stewart Library Oral History Program, Special Collections, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. iii LouAnn Stoker Dickson Graduation Photo Class of 1958 LouAnn Stoker Dickson 2010 1 Abstract: This is an oral history interview with LouAnn Stoker Dickson, conducted by Marci Farr and Sarah Langsdon, on September 28, 2010. In this interview, LouAnn discusses her recollections and experiences with the St. Benedict's School of Nursing. MF: This is Marci Farr. We are interviewing LouAnn Dickson. She graduated from St. Benedict's School of Nursing in 1958. It's September 28, 2010. We are interviewing her via telephone. She lives in Tempe, Arizona. We're just going to start by having you share a little about your family, where you grew up and where you attended school. LD: I was born in Ogden at the Dee Hospital. At about age six I moved to Evanston, Wyoming. My father worked for the railroad so he went up there. I stayed there in Evanston and attended public school in Evanston until I was thirteen at which time we moved back to Ogden. I lived on approximately 32nd street and Quincy Avenue, attended Washington Junior High School and graduated from Ogden High School. Immediately after I went into nursing school at St. Benedict's. My father started out as a fireman and then progressed to being a railroad engineer. He was born and reared in Roy, Utah. His father and grandfather were instrumental in settling the Roy area and came west with the Mormon pioneers. They were sent to Roy to settle that area by Brigham Young. My father only went through eighth grade and then attended a business college. He had various employment before becoming employed by the railroad and was employed by Union Pacific until his retirement. 2 My mother was the daughter of a Danish immigrant to the Lehi/Cedar Fort, Utah area. My grandfather's family came from Hannibal Missouri to the Lehi area. Mother was born in Cedar Fort and grew up there. She attended Junior High School and some High School but did not graduate. She went to live in Ogden with her sister and became a telephone operator there and worked at the Ben Lomond Hotel where she met my father. They were married and lived the rest of their lives basically in Ogden. I was born in 1937. I have one younger brother who is about five years younger than I am. My parents had been married for about twelve years before I was born so they were very happy to see me. My mother-after she and my father married- was a homemaker the rest of her life. She did not work. My family on both sides were devout Mormons and I was reared in the LDS church. I always did very well in school and worked very hard because early on I realized that the only way I was ever going to get out of Wyoming and Utah and a very middle class life was to have an education. So I always worked very hard in school and graduated in the top 5 percent of my class from high school. We had a graduating class of about 700 from Ogden High School that year. MF: Wow. That's quite a few kids. LD: Yeah, there were a lot of kids there then. I was awarded the Utah State Nurses Association Scholarship to go to nursing school. That basically paid for my nursing education at St. Benedict's. At the time that I graduated from high school they were starting the two year nursing program at Weber College. It was an experimental type program and I weighed whether to go to that program or to go 3 to St. Benedict's and decided that I was not willing to go into an experimental type program. At that point they didn't even know if you could take the nursing exam after graduating from Weber College. It was that experimental-they didn't know what was happening. So I applied to St. Benedict's and was accepted and went to school there for three years. MF: That's good. I'm sure, looking back, you were glad you decided on St. Benedict's instead of Weber. Do you think that would have made a difference? LD: Oh, absolutely. I think I got a marvelous education at St. Benedict's. I have treasured the time I spent there. I never regretted going there even though a number of years later I did return to Arizona State University and got a bachelor's degree and subsequently a master's degree in nursing. I had no credits that I could transfer from St. Benedict's but I did get a marvelous education there. I think they just turned out some outstanding nurses. MF: I think they absolutely did too. I think it's a great program. It's such a strong program because you are hands on and every department you're able to learn so you didn't have to worry about going somewhere else. You would know what to do. LD: Absolutely. I came out of there totally confident in my ability to do nursing anywhere. Actually that proved to be exactly the way it was. When I went back to Arizona State University, they really didn't know at that point what to do with nurses who had come through a three year program. I recall an incident when I was first going into the hospital as a student nurse from Arizona State University and I was assigned to the county hospital. The instructor there was a registered 4 nurse and a wonderful nurse named Connie Connell. She later became the head of the State Nursing Department for Arizona. Connie was my instructor and I went on the floor and I was supposed to take care of X number of patients, you know, one or two and do these basic little procedures which I did. She was watching me and she didn't know what to do with me because she hadn't had very many nurses from three year programs. I could have been the first, I don't know. She was watching me quite closely. At the end of the day she pulled me aside and said, "Well, I don't know what we're going to do with you. You obviously know what you're doing. I don't know what more I can teach you about this." MF: You'd pretty much learned it all. LD: Yes. She says, "Now I don't want you to just waste your time here. I want you to be learning something." I said, "Well, I'm not wasting my time. I'm taking care of patients." She says, "No, I want you to be learning something. What could you do that you would learn something?" I said, "Well, I've never worked in a burn unit before. I'd never worked in diabetic teaching before. Could I do that instead of working on this floor?" So they gave me a pass after my first day on the floor and sent me to the burn unit where I spent half a semester and then to the diabetic teaching unit where I spent my last half. I learned a great deal and it was wonderful. MF: So your time wasn't wasted. LD: I think it demonstrated how well educated I was in nursing at St. Benedict's. That was basically the way it was all the way through the ASU program. I had no 5 problem. In fact, although I didn't transfer any credits from St. Benedict's, they did have a program at ASU called the CLEP Program. If you could pass the final exam for that class they would give you a pass on that class and you could have the credits without taking the class. MF: Oh, that's good. LD: They called it challenging the class and I challenged two semesters of anatomy and physiology, a semester of microbiology and a semester of food and nutrition and passed all of those classes at the university level without ever having sat in the class and got the credits for those-all thanks to my education at St. Benedict's. MF: That's a great thing. LD: I have never regretted going there. I think it was the best thing ever. Living at the nurses' home was an experience that I would never have wanted to miss. We started out with twenty something in our class and ended up with nineteen in our class that graduated. We have all remained the closest of friends. I can find any one of those nineteen classmates today. We all communicate. It's just been a 53 year friendship. MF: That is a great thing. So who was your roommate while you were in training? LD: I started out with a student nurse named Mary Shull. I believe she was from Layton. She did not complete her program. She married and at that time we could not marry so she had to leave the program. She married in the second year of the program I believe, although she did come back several years later and did graduate. She was my roommate initially and then after that I did not have an 6 official roommate because we had an odd number and they all had roommates except me. I didn't have a roommate the last year I was at the nursing home, although I was very close friends with Debbie Crawford, and Carol Salmon. We sort of wandered in and out of each other's rooms all the time so I suppose I can say I had two roommates. MF: So was Pat Hopkins in your class? LD: Yes, Pat was in our class. MF: We just interviewed her last week. LD: Oh, great. She's was probably the best nurse I ever knew. I always said if I ever got sick I wanted Pat to take care of me. MF: We had a good time visiting with her. She's fun. She's a great lady. LD: Oh, she's wonderful. MF: That's great. Do you have any funny stories about any of your classmates or the roommate that you had that you can remember? LD: My roommate was always trying to take care of me and she was always checking on me when I came in to make sure I got in on time. As soon as I came down the hall I could hear her little voice saying, "LouAnn, come in here," because I had a tendency to visit some of the other rooms. She was very nice and fun. We went on affiliations to Denver and Hastings, Nebraska and had wonderful adventures there. Hastings was particularly interesting. It was a large mental hospital outside of town that was the size of the town. It had its own railroad stop. The guy who took care of the railroad stop had been put there for murdering his wife. MF: Oh, no. 7 LD: He was kind of exotic. We loved that. Nebraska was so cold in the winter and it was laced all underneath the whole complex with tunnels. We'd all go running through these tunnels back and forth. One of my favorite things was that they would send a couple of us student nurses on Monday morning to meet the police from Lincoln who would bring a whole truck load in of people who'd been arrested-mostly for drunken behavior and they were coming in for alcoholism. They would get out of the van with their shackles and their handcuffs on and then they would take those off. Maybe one or two student nurses would be escorting all of these people who'd just been arrested to whatever wards they needed to go to. It was kind of funny. MF: That was an adventure, huh? LD: I remember one time-we always ate in the dining room there and one time Ann Marie Zaccaria-we were having liver and onions and her liver flipped over and there was a cockroach right on the back of it. Oh, that caused quite a stir. MF: That's kind of a horrid image. LD: We had wonderful times in Denver. Denver was a great city. We were at a Children's Hospital there. We did a great deal of partying there. Lowry Air Force Base was very active at the time and most of us were dating airmen from the Air Force Base and had a really fun time. We all looked forward to going to the tuberculosis hospital in North Ogden because the food was so good. Everybody knew that there was going to be wonderful food as the TB stand because all of the tuberculosis patients needed to have good nourishment so we got wonderful food there. 8 MF: That's a good thing. So did you stay at the tuberculosis hospital or did you go there every day? LD: You know, I can't remember. It seems to me that we just went there but it's possible that we stayed there. MF: Tell us a little bit about the Sisters. What do you remember most about them? LD: First time I saw Sister Berno I almost died. Going back, I lived in a little town in Wyoming and when I was a teenager I came to Ogden. I was raised in a very strict Mormon family and I do not remember ever having seen a nun before. MF: That would be quite an experience for your first time. LD: Yes. It's possible I'd seen them in movies but I don't recall. I just remember going in to the interview by Sister Berno and was just absolutely thunderstruck as I walked into this room and there was this lady. Now, as a Mormon, I'm used to calling women Sister this and that and Brother this and that. So calling her Sister Berno had not really registered with me that there was anything strange about this. I was kind of blown away by it. Sister Berno was wonderful. She was in charge of the nurses and she looked after us all like a little mother hen. Probably my very most favorite sister was Sister Estelle, although it's hard to say favorite sisters here. Sister Estelle was just fabulous. She was one of our instructors and she taught us anatomy and physiology and chemistry and microbiology and all those classes that I passed at the university level without ever taking them. There's something about Sister Estelle. She was just a wonderful woman-happy, always smiling, loved the nurses and always just great to us. There was one incident. You asked about stories about the sisters. There 9 were a couple of us that used to climb in and out through the basement bathroom window. MF: The sneak out stories, yeah! LD: Yeah, because you know, we had to sign in and out. We would go out and then we would be back on time. We would sign in. I think you had to be in at nine o'clock your freshman year and the next two years we could be in like ten o'clock. Now, you're talking about eighteen, nineteen, twenty year olds. So we would go sign in and then we would climb out through the basement window. Then we would climb back in through the basement window when we got back from whatever we were doing. One day Sister Estelle got up in class and she said she had an announcement that she'd like to make that whoever was going in and out through the basement window would they please be careful of her shrimp plants because we were stomping them down and she really would like to have them grow. We all knew, of course, who she was talking about and so we did try and be careful of her shrimp plants after that. Oh, and then Sister Bonafice in the diet kitchen. We did diet kitchen and I was not her favorite. Debbie Crawford and I were in diet kitchen together and we were not her favorite people. One of the things we had to do with the diet kitchen was that you had to take nourishments around to the patients twice a day. One of them was about seven o'clock at night which was visiting hours. It was also the time when the Sisters were just getting out of chapel. You didn't really want to be hauling this cart around and taking these little treats to the patients. We went to every patients rooms-they were ordered by the physician. Maybe it was an egg 10 nog or maybe it was ice cream or maybe it was a milk shake or whatever it would be. They were just called nourishments. We would put them on a cart and each one was labeled for the patients' room and we would take it to the patients' room and set the patient up and get them going. Well, one of the problems with this was that there are only two elevators in the old hospital. One was at the front and all the visitors were using it and it was always tied up and you had to wait and wait for it to come. Then it would go to the next floor and maybe you wanted to go to the third floor or you wanted to go to the basement and all the visitors were going to different places and it took you forever. Then there was another elevator at the back of the building. That one wasn't used by the visitors so much as it was used by the Sisters who were coming and going from chapel. So you just knew you were going to be there all night with these nourishments. So Debbie and I devised this way of doing it quickly. One would get on the front end of the cart and one on the back end of the cart and we would haul the cart up and down the stairs without ever tipping anything over or losing anything. We would be going up and down the back stairway with this cart and do our nourishments and go to the next floor-up and down with it. One night we were going up the stairway, one of us had to hold the cart real high because of the stairway and one had to hold it real low. I believe Debbie was in front if I remember. We got half way up the stair and the door opened and here came the Sister's out from chapel. Sister Bonafice caught us going up and down the stairs with the nourishments. I thought she was going to have a heart attack. Debbie and I did get quite a lecture. 11 Then it was just before Christmas. On Christmas, Sister Bonafice then assigned Debbie and I a triple split, Christmas Day work assignment. So we thought that was pretty much in retaliation for the nourishment cart episode. So we had to work Christmas morning, Christmas afternoon, and Christmas Evening. Sister Bonafice- we weren't her favorite people. However, please note that Sister Bonafice taught us about food and nutrition that I managed to pass that University class without taking it. MF: That's good. LD: Later on Sister Bonafice sort of forgave Debbie and I. I guess she figured we were a couple of little twits anyway. She was fine. Let's see. Sister Mary Margaret was wonderful. She was just so regal. She was the administrator at that time. I mentioned Sister Estelle. Sister Mary Gerald. Oh, Mary Gerald. Mary Gerald trained in the marine corp school of discipline. To this day she is that to me. She was the head nurse on the medical unit in the hospital. If there was anything about nursing that Mary Gerald didn't know, you didn't ever need to know it. She was the ultimate nurse. She ran second medical like a drill sergeant. You better not be messing around and not looking busy if Mary Gerald was around because the first thing she would do was send you to the linen room to straighten the linens. The linens all had to be in a straight line with all of the folded edges out. So all of the washed clothes had to be folded in one particular way and all the folded edges had to be out. All the folded edges of the sheets had to be out. All the folded edges of the towels. They all had to be in a straight line. Now, if you come to my house today, guess what you will find in my linen 12 cabinet? All of my towels have the folded edges out. All of my wash clothes would pass Mary Gerald's inspection to this day. My husband who worked as a orderly on second medical with Sister Mary Gerald still laughs to this day about it because I have to make beds exactly the way Mary Gerald said to make them. I think at least once a week I hear, "Okay, Sister Mary Gerald is not going to inspect this bed. Just let it go." MF: She trained you well. LD: Oh, she did. If a physician came in to the charting area we had to stand up and one of the nurses took all of his charts and went with him on rounds. As long as the doctors were in the area at the desk, you had to stand up. You could not sit down when the doctors were there. Mary Gerald enforced that with an iron hand. However, on the other hand, I also have to say that I had only been working on Mary Gerald's floor for about maybe six months when I had a patient who had a cardiac episode and literally died in my arms before anybody got there to help or do anything. He just had a massive coronary and died. It really, really shook me up and Mary Gerald was wonderful to me. She took me aside, talked to me, let me vent, let me cry. She was very understanding and very good about it. I don't think I had any lasting trauma from it mostly because Mary Gerald was so good. In later years we would laugh about all of these funny things that happened. I learned a tremendous amount from that woman. I just had so much respect for Sister Mary Gerald. She terrified me at the time, absolutely struck terror into all of our hearts and before we had been out of nursing school for a year, we all 13 absolutely worshiped the ground she walked on. I think as much as anybody Sister Mary Gerald made us nurses. MF: Was Jeane Barker Morton there at the time? LD: Yes. Jeane Barker was one of the instructors. All of the nurses absolutely adored her. She always came to work in a starch white dress, long sleeves with sleeves that buttoned to her elbow and her darling little Massachusetts General Cap and she left at the end of the day looking exactly like she did when she came in the morning. There was not a spot on her uniform. There was not a wrinkle in it and she had worked as hard as anybody else. I still remember one of her sayings that I use so often in my life, she would get down on the floor and clean up a mess right along with the rest of us. Mary Gerald would come and say "Oh, Miss Barker you shouldn't be doing that. Let the students do it." She would just look at them and she would say, "There's nothing below the dignity of a nurse as long as it's done with dignity." MF: Oh, that's a great saying. LD: Isn't that great? I have remembered that over the last fifty six years and said it more times than I can even count. She was a fabulous instructor right there along with Sister Mary Gerald. We also had an instructor that was killed in an accident up at Pineview. Our second year in nursing she was in a car wreck and the car went in the Pineview Dam and we lost her. She was also very good. Effie Etcheverry in OBGYN just gave us wonderful instruction. Helen Hopkins and her sidekick in nursery were great instructors too. We just had so many. Everybody was so outstanding. 14 MF: They seem that way. We did interview Jeane a couple weeks ago. She's wonderful. We had a great time with her. Do you remember any of the doctors that you worked with? LD: Yes. Orson Perkes was a resident who was there when we were there and he was just great. He was just the funnest guy ever. He went up to Star Valley, Wyoming so he could go fishing and hunting and practice medicine and last I heard he was still up there. We also had Doctor Swindler. The nurses were terrified of him. He was sort of like Sister Mary Gerald except the medical version of her. He taught us orthopedics. He taught us anatomy and physiology also along with Sister Estelle. We were all terrified of him. He had this habit of dragging his heels when he walked so you could hear him coming down the hall a mile away. You'd hear this clump, clump, clump and we all knew Doctor Swindler was on his way- Charlie Swindler. He would walk into the room and we would all be sitting there just absolutely board stiff with terror. I mean just stiff as a board with terror. He would walk in and he would go, "You, you and you, go to the board," and point to three student nurses. And whoever were his victims of the day had to go to the board and he would say, "Draw this on the board. You draw this. You draw this. You draw this." We were supposed to be drawing anatomy and physiology and equations and anything else that he wanted. Then we would stand there while he critiqued them. You did not ever want to not be prepared. That was worse than death itself if you got called on by Doctor Swindler and you did not know what you were talking about. He used the Socratic method very well. 15 MF: Did you ever work with him in surgery? LD: Yes. He was great. He was very compassionate in surgery-demanding but still understanding of students who didn't know much. He was also very nice because he fitted all of us with shoes. He did not want any of us student nurses having foot problems because we wore the wrong kind of shoes. Every year at the beginning of the year he would come in and measure our feet and send off and custom order us nursing shoes. MF: Oh, that was nice of him. LD: Was that just absolutely wonderful of him? MF: That's a great thing, how nice. LD: Yes and to this day I have great feet and I don't have any bunions. I don't have anything after fifty years of nursing thanks to Charlie Swindler, I do believe. He was just wonderful. The nurses all adored him even though we were terrified of him as an instructor. He was a very nice man. Kind of gruff, kind of a curmudgeonly type old guy. He was old to us. He really was and he was probably in his forties. MF: Oh, how funny. LD: He was kind of grumpy and demanding and we all loved him. Then I do remember one thing with, I believe it was Carol Salmon, who was scrubbed with him and doing a lamenectomy infusion. They had carefully cleaned the bone off they were going to use for the fusion and she dropped it on the floor. MF: Oh, bad idea. 16 LD: I think that was Doctor Swindler that Carol was scrubbed with where she dropped the bone on the floor. Of course, not a good thing to do. They did make do and she did live through the incident. I don't recall that she had any broken bones or severe trauma from it physically but emotionally she still talks about it. MF: That's a learning experience. LD: Oh, yeah. I remember one time, the first case I ever scrubbed on in surgery. I scrubbed with Doctor Wilson Hales on a tonsillectomy and right in the middle of the tonsillectomy, I believe it was an instrument I dropped on the floor and quickly picked up and put back on my mayo stand. The scrub nurse saw me and immediately grabbed the whole thing, ripped my gloves off, gave me a new mail stand, re-gloved me and the whole process went on from there. I was so humiliated I thought I was going to die. MF: I think we learn when we're young. LD: Rulon Howell was a surgeon that all of us were just terrified to scrub with. He wasn't very nice to the nurses. He was really well known for ripping you up one side and down the other for any kind of mistake and being completely unsympathetic to the student nurses. We were all terrified to scrub with Doctor Howell. He was a fine surgeon. There was no question about that. I remember one time I gave him a scalpel and he made a cut with it and threw it back on my mayo stand and said it was dull. I gave him a second scalpel and same result. Now by this time my mayo stand is practically all over the patient. All my instruments he's messed up. I gave him a third one and he threw that one again 17 and it just barely missed me. He was not real fun to scrub with but I guess we learned a lot from him. MF: I'm sure. LD: I think maybe he was the reason I didn't ever want to be a scrub nurse. MF: Probably so. You don't need any more of those experiences. LD: Then there was Lindsey Curtis. He was an OB and he was wonderful. We all loved working with Doctor Curtis. He was OBGYN. I'm trying to think of some of the other doctors. I can't remember too many of them. I do remember the psychiatrist that used to do all of the lobotomies-pre frontal lobotomies. I don't remember what his name was, but he was the psychiatrist that worked at the psych unit at St. Benedict's. I worked a lot in the psych unit by the way. MF: Oh, okay. LD: He used to do a lot of free frontal lobotomies which I clearly hated and did not think this was a good procedure at all but nobody asked me so, okay. I worked a lot in the psych unit and I worked a lot in the orthopedic unit. When we had the last two years of polio epidemics I got in on those. We had the iron lungs and the respirators and the hot packs and the hot pack machines and that kind of thing. I was very happy to see polio go away. MF: That would probably be a challenge. LD: Yes. It was heart wrenching. MF: Which unit did you like the best while you were in training at the hospital? LD: I guess I liked orthopedics really well and I liked the psych unit really well. Of course OBGYN was always a wonderful place. I ended up working in OBGYN for 18 years and eventually I got a PhD in psychology and became a psychologist probably because I worked so much in the psych unit. I like the nursery. You know there wasn't really any place I didn't like. I loved the pediatric unit at Denver. I liked the psych units at Hastings. I don't think there was any place that I didn't really like. I was learning so much and growing so much and I just got such an appreciation for things I'd never seen before. MF: That would be the way to do it. LD: I learned all about the Catholic Church. I didn't know anything about nuns or Catholic Church or anything else. MF: That's true and that's probably nice to have that appreciation for them. LD: Oh, yes. I remember the sweet little Father that was there. I don't remember what his name was but he used to do chapel for us every morning. He was just the sweetest man and every day he would hike up to the waterfall. Maybe not every day but two or three times a week he would hike that canyon up to the waterfall and back. He was just like this little bundle of energy and was very sweet. I got a real appreciation for a whole different religion than what I had been brought up in. It gave me a whole different perspective on that. In fact I feel like I have one foot in the Catholic Church, one foot in the Mormon Church, and one foot in all the churches by now. MF: Well, that's a good thing. That's great. Was there anything that your roommate or your friends would do if you had a night off? LD: Oh, yeah. When we were in Denver we'd go to the USO and dance and party. When we were in Ogden we would go to the USO and dance and party and 19 everybody had friends. Several of us grew up in Ogden so we knew a lot of people and everybody was making dates for their friends. This is the kind of stuff that twenty year olds do. We went to a lot of movies. Probably some of the kids did way too much drinking. I guess I was always the designated driver because i was one of the few Mormons around who didn't drink. We'd go to Salt Lake and do stuff down there. We'd go up to Huntsville. There was always something to do in Huntsville. That was fun. We'd just go out and about and do a lot of fun things. We were always dating and always finding guys who wanted to date nurses. There's never a shortage of guys who wanted to date nurses. They all figure we had varicose veins and lose morals. They were always happy to date the nurses but they'd find out that wasn't exactly true. Especially when you had to be in at nine and ten o'clock at night and had to be at work or chapel at six o'clock the next morning. You were working eight hour shifts plus going to school four or five hours a day you didn't exactly have a lot of energy. That was the trouble. MF: That's true. Do you want to tell us a little bit about your capping ceremony and where it was held? LD: Oh, absolutely. That was just the highlight of our life. I remember that it was at the nurse's home and it was beautiful. Jeane Morton capped us-she and Berno did the capping ceremony and it was just beautiful. You know, the Catholic Church-nobody can do a ceremony like they can. It was just very beautiful and we were all in our white uniforms and we came in and we had our red and navy blue capes on and we just looked so beautiful. The place was filled with red 20 roses and it was absolutely gorgeous. I believe the Bishop was there but I could be wrong on that. MF: From Salt Lake? LD: I believe the Bishop came up for our graduation. MF: What do you think was your greatest challenge in nurses training was? LD: Probably for me the greatest challenge was gaining some confidence in myself. I did pretty well academically but I had never done anything like nursing-work like that. I didn't have a lot of confidence in it. I had to laugh because my grandmother knew I was going in to nursing school-my grandmother was an old mid wife from Cedar Fort and of course she had worked all of her life down there and lived with us at the time. I remember I announced to my mother and dad I was going to go to nurses school at the dinner table much to their stunned surprise because they thought I was going to go to the University of Utah and become an English teacher. All of the sudden I announce I'm going to go to St. Benedict's and go to nursing school and my grandmother went into a fit of laughter. She said, "Well, you're now going to make news. You don't have an idea how to work." She was a pretty smart old lady. So for me that was hard. I was very afraid initially of the Sisters. They were so strange to me that it was scary. It was my first time living away from home and that was scary. The doctor's were scary. There was just a lot of scary stuff and then things like this guy dying when I was taking care of him. All those things were really frightening. Looking back on them I wonder now whether eighteen year olds today could even be handling that. 21 MF: That's probably the question we've liked to asked everybody-how it's changed and the type of training that nurses receive now compared to then. I think there's no way. I think some maybe but I don't think to the degree you had it at. LD: You know, basically the student nurses ran St. Benedict's when we were there. The Sister's were in charge and there were always RN's to back us up but basically the student nurses did the nursing at St. Benedict's and we were basically in charge of St. Benedict's. MF: That's true. LD: I know that's sounds haughty and presumptuous of me but a three to eleven night supervisor at St. Benedict's could only be in one place at a time. There might be one nurse on the floor on second medical in case anything went wrong. You always had them as a backup and you always had the supervisor there but you were on your own and you had eight to ten patients and you took care of them and you did everything for them. It was a horrible amount of responsibility for a bunch of young girls to be doing and yet we did it. I remember one night I was working three to eleven on the orthopedic unit. At about nine o'clock at night the power went out. I had three people in iron lungs and two of them were in a room together and one of them was in a room next door. I ran in as fast as I could because you had to pump those iron lungs by hand. They had a pump on them, just like a bellows pump. MF: Oh, wow. LD: I pulled them together and I was pumping the two of them and I didn't know what was happened to the patient in the next room and one of the residents came 22 running by and said, "I'll get it." I knew what he meant. He ran in there and he pumped and I pumped until the power came on. But you know, there I am a nineteen year old girl with three patients' lives in my hands and I could only handle two of them. MF: That's true. LD: I was trying to figure out what I'd do. I thought I'd pump these two for a minute and then I'll run in there and pump that one for a minute and then run back here and pump these two. That was my game plan. Fortunately the resident realized I was down there alone and I was running the orthopedic unit. MF: Wow. That would be scary. LD: It was an awful lot of responsibility but you know what? Every one of us rose to it somehow and when we got out of there we could work anywhere and do anything because we had simply had to. When I went to school and got my BSN at ASU there was nothing remotely like it. The students that were getting their bachelor degrees at ASU had nothing remotely like what we did. They didn't have any responsibility until they got out of nursing school. MF: That's true. That probably made the difference when they were on the floor as far as being able to handle things. There was probably no comparison. LD: Yeah. I guess those were the scariest things.-the total amount of responsibility and work that we had and the discipline that we had to impose upon ourselves. I certainly have to say I learned a lot and I don't regret a minute of it. MF: That's great. Well, we appreciate you letting us take a few minutes of your time and interview you.
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Today's competitive job market presents a challenge for anyone seeking to move up. But a criminal record can make finding even entry-level positions nearly impossible.
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Ex-offender population demographics are also a factor. In 2004, there were 3,218 African American male prison inmates per 100,000 African American males in the United States, compared to 1,220 Hispanic male inmates per 100,000 Hispanic males and 463 white male inmates per 100,000 white males, according to BJS data. In other words, African American males are incarcerated at a rate nearly seven times that of white males.
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Some experts find ways to accentuate the positive for ex-offender job seekers.
"I think ex-offenders make some of the best employees, because [parolees] have sanctions, and if they violate those rules, it could mean trouble," says Carena M. Pope, director of Career & Workforce Development Center—East in Pittsburgh. "It's like having a monitor over the employee to ensure they go to work each day."
But Pope, whose organization has a program specifically for former inmates, admits that while ex-offenders make excellent workers, they face many obstacles when trying to reenter the workforce besides criminal records, such as:
"It's important to help them reduce the barriers first by looking at what issues they have," Pope says. "We look at the entire picture before we place a person in a job."
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Pope offers this advice to ex-offenders searching for employment:
"To be honest, there are people who do not want to hire ex-offenders," Pope says. "You will run into roadblocks. That can't discourage job seekers. You just have to keep trying. Employers need to know that employment cuts down the rate of recidivism."
Williams's advice to those in a similar situation? "Take all the help you can get, take it one day at a time, and don't give up. Because you don't want to end up back in a bad situation."
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I am a convicted felon who has never been incarcerated. It doesn't matter. My conviction was for having an unregistered handgun in my car during a car accident. The prosecution asked for no jail time, but refused to lower the charge to a misdemeanor. I have a BBA in Accounting, ten years work experience in my field and about eight years of call center customer service experience. I cannot get hired at Wal-Mart, let alone any of the companies I've worked for in the past (Panasonic Automotive system of America, Denso International, ATT, Minacs, MAGNA, BUDCO, DTE Energy, Benteler Automotive North America, Severstal North America, etc.). It's in dignifying. My last year of work prior to the felony; I made $50k even though I only worked 8 months of the year. This year I've made $5K. I have tried to secure employment at some of my previous employers; none will touch me with a ten-foot pole. Fortunately, I can get my felony expunged in two years, but the past three have been the most difficult of my life, I've lost everything from my home to my car and I had to completely rethink the way I manage my financial resources or lack there of.
I was conviction of felony for theft due under a domestic volience situation, I was convicted as accomplice since they originally could not locate my abuser, Meanwhile they held me responsible for the crime, Now since 2005 i am unable to get a good paying job. Finally I got a opportunity to get a job and was offered a job then now need to do a background check, although I believe honesty is the best policy. So i went and wrote a statement that led up to my convictions, I hoping with gods help that anything is possible
The last job interview event I attended came subsequent to an exhaustive online process. During this process, I was asked if I had been convicted of a crime in the last 7 years - to which I responded NO. After testing and form-filling until I was mentally exhausted, I was invited to a mass interview.
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In the last 25 years I have NOT: killed my family, shot up my workplace or any school, stolen from anyone, molested anyone, assaulted anyone, driven under the influence of anything, earned more than $19k / year, or so much as paid a FINE not traffic related. However, I was self-employed for 6 years, worked in the same factory nearly 5 years, earned a Baccalaureate Degree, and worked for one employer after another soon to shut down and exit the country. I have continuously struggled financially while my innocent family has done the same.
I encourage education but NOT debt related to it. Without U.S. government guarantees for my student loans I would not have been granted those loans and thus, today owe $22k+. My income has shrunk, due to inflation, and my debt grown. I graduated in 2004 and have managed 3 payments toward those loans - I have a family and just can't afford it. I have been on some form of social assistance since 2001. I will lose that when my youngest turns 18 next month while my next job will invariably be panhandling.
My advice, all 3 cents' worth (due to inflation), is to advocate and educate regarding the relationship between unemployment / underemployment and recidivism, panhandling and homelessness. This because we live in a society which CLAIMS a desire for better from us while at the same time preventing it. I wish ALL who want a better life the best of luck, at the very least better than mine.
I have a felony drug convention and finding a good job has become difficult for me. I own a car and a valid drivers license and I am looking to move to Minneapolis Mn. for an opportunity to work. I am also enrolled at the University of Phoenix for a Bachelors in Business Management. Please help me find a nice job!


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Excellent letter and so true. I find that many people truly don't understand what the Tea Party even stands for. They simply hear the negativity spewed by the mainstream media and go with that. I just had a conversation with a friend last week trying to briefly explain what they stand for as best I could and I think I may have gotten through.
Mr. Fuller suggested last week that we turn off the 'faux' news, etc. We don't have to eat and drink the news but I think people have turned their backs on what's been going on for so long that they just don't pay attention. There's always been corruption in politics but never in my lifetime like it is now. These last two elections are perfect examples of people just not paying attention. Now we are stuck with the mess and the massive debt that we'll most likely never be able to repay.
Something has got to give. We have to defend the country we were raised in not only for ourselves but our children. I hope your letter gets through and helps people understand what's going on.
This is something activists of all political ideologies do: trace their "origin" back to the Founding Fathers, a complex group of individuals that has been mythologized into caricature. If one could somehow transport some of those folks into the 21st century, it is likely they would be drawn to elements in the Tea Party and Occupy, just as they would also be appalled by other qualities of both groups.
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"The International Student Association is an incredible way to connect to the larger world around us and meet other cultures," said Cindy Sprunger, director of International Student Services at Anderson University. "ISA gives American students an opportunity to get to know different cultures. These experiences may prepare you for future encounters later in life."
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SanNa Lee is a sophomore majoring in French and part of the International Student Association. SanNa was born in South Korea, where her dad was pastor to all the local cattle farmers. At the age of three, she moved to the Philippines and then to Turkey, where she later started kindergarten in a Turkish school.
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Another student who came to AU through the Black Forest Academy is Samuel Lee, a freshman majoring in math and chemistry. Samuel was born in South Korea, but moved to China after the completion of elementary school. After he learned Chinese and graduated from a Chinese middle school, Samuel's family moved back to Korea to be host parents for North Korean refugees for a year. During this year, Samuel was not enrolled in school, so he studied independently and taught himself English.
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Re: [EastAsia] [Military] Fwd: [OS] US/AUSTRALIA - Obama to visit Australia's far north
Released on 2012-10-12 10:00 GMT
Email-ID | 4084571 |
Date | 2011-10-28 14:22:08 |
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To | firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com |
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sailors would come, and the Pacific carrier would shift crew in Darwin,
allowing a carrier two deployments without having to return to the US.
Makes the transition faster.
On Oct 28, 2011, at 7:18 AM, Nate Hughes wrote:
We regularly call on the port, but excellent question.
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Subject: [Military] Fwd: [OS] US/AUSTRALIA - Obama to visit Australia's
far north
Why the F would he go to Darwin? Wonder if that has anything to do with
basing access in Australia.
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Trip is already on alerts and the calendar, just updating the itinerary
Obama to visit Australia's far north
AFPAFP * 3 hrs ago
US President Barack Obama will become the first sitting US president to
visit Australia's Northern Territory next month, the White House said on
Obama will visit Darwin after making a previously announced address to
the Australian parliament in Canberra during his one night stay in
Australia, a trip that has been postponed twice under the pressure of US
domestic politics.
The president's visit on November 16 and 17 will mark the 60th
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Pacific region.
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Australia for the East Asia summit and will begin his visit by hosting
the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit (APEC) in his native
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