Another year has passed since our last newsletter. .My apologies for being
tardy, but I have been busy, busy, busy!! Despite the world situation, we have
lots to celebrate! Our Memorabilia project is completed and will be dedicated in
September prior to the banquet. The board tried to capture the “spirit’ of our
School of Nursing for posterity. We will celebrate the 50th
Anniversary of graduation for the Class of 1954 and we will come together once
again to celebrate the heritage of WHHSON. Have a happy and safe summer
Fondly,
Linda
Class of
1953
Nineteen members of
the Class of 1953 celebrated their 50th Anniversary at last year’s
banquet. As the following photos prove all were happy to reunite after 50 years
Sitting L>R: Ellie Rayworth
Wilcox, Barbara Gates Dewey, Priscilla Stetson O’Connor
Standing
L>R: Amelia Rutana Scannell, Patricia Kelliher Cassidy, Jean Cartier
O’Connor, Pat Ward, Virginia Kotseas Maintainis, Nancy Roukat Greene,
Josephine Tokarz Duquette, Jane Calcutt Bulla, Marie Cotter Cherry
DEATHS
Flora
Leonard
Ginny Mahoney
Marjorie Peterson O’Connor
Marion Cairns
Carolyn Millin
Helen Collamore
Steven Frasco (Gabe Frasco’s son)
ATTENTION
I have
been writing to Gladys Poland at the Masonic Home. She is one of our oldest
graduates at 96. She has had some health issues this year, but she maintains a
positive attitude. If anyone cares to send her a card her address is
Masonic
Home Road PO Box 1000 Charlton, MA 01507.
Katherine
Flynn Nolan attended the dedication of the WWII memorial in June. She spoke on
National Radio and will attend the D-Day 60th Anniversary in Europe
in November.
We have raised the
necessary funds to complete this project. Most donations were from Alumni
members and
their families. The project will include 12 -15 photos in a permanent display
and a glass display case to house mementos that can be changed. It will be
housed in the surgical waiting room on the Hahnemann Campus. If you are unable
to attend the dedication, stop in anytime to see this project. My thanks, to all
who made this project possible.
Dinner will be served
preceding the Memorabilia dedication at Hahnemann scheduled to start at 4:30 Pm.
Valet parking is free. Tours of the new Hahnemann will be available. Banquet
immediately following.
Donna
Curtis Row, a 1965 WHHSON graduate, was stationed in the Emergency Room of the 3rd
Field Hospital in Saigon, Vietnam. An injured baby was brought in, the only
survivor from her village. The child was approximately five months old and was
found wounded in the arms of her dead mother. Donna and Medic Richard Hock raced
the child to the OR. They stopped to have the baby baptized. The priest asked
her name. Donna thought of her own wonderful childhood, her father’s lullaby
“I’ll take you home Kathleen…Where your heart will feel no pain…” The child was
baptized Kathleen. Donna and Rich visited the baby as often as they could. After
three weeks the bay was discharged to an orphanage. They found a loving American
family to adopt Kathleen. Rich and Donna prayed for her happiness. When Kathleen
was married and became a mother she tried to patch the pieces of her past
together. Something was missing. She only had the names on her birth
certificate- Donna Curtis and Richard Hock. She logged on to every Vietnam
Veteran’s website to see if anyone remembered her story. Years passed then a
response, from a Vet that knew the priest. The priest had passed away BUT he
also knew that Rich was living in Georgia. Kathleen called Rich. After 34 years
they were reunited-Kathleen, Rich and Donna. Kathleen needed to meet the people
that saved her life. Rich died one year after the reunion but Donna still keeps
in touch with Kathleen. A documentary “In the Shadow of the Blade” has
been produced and contains Kathleen’s story. Donna lives in Marietta, Georgia
with her husband Al and son Richard. Donna told me her “training at WHH prepared
her well for Vietnam and she is grateful.”
Women World article
9/03
Class
of 1954 A
Nancy
Laukitis Brosnan
Paula
Jardine Bartlett
Dorothy Pakraka Cozzens
Nancy
Eldridge Collins
Joan
Gould Daniels
Ann
Adamonia Kangas
June
Dion Deroy
Millie Freeman
Alice
Walsh Hohler
Barbara LaForte Desrosiers
Barbara Green Mangano
Angela Oulahojian Pelegean
Paticia Kurbs Roebuck
Judith Lorusso Roy
Jean
Farrow Reynolds
Mary
Cocaine Tsihlis
Jean
Lester Tashjean
Joan
Leahy Buda
*Joan
Horgan Roseel
*Louise Perry
Class of
1954 B
*Anita Runge
*Grace Saucier Borus
Dorothy Reece Townsend
Barbara Blyther
Elaine Brooks Elbein
*
denotes deceased
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