Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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in New York. The the came when they couldn't afford tc ceep on ad
we couldn't afford to keep on, and we weren't getting ar mney, and
although we were changing fees, we had to~dissolve. T~E social work
took its back in its own organization, and then the nati
fop Public Health Nursing built up something different.
national nursing organizatiom got together, but they dl ilt succeed
right away to establish activity in the operation but ev ~tually they
have. From there though, there was a job open, well the
Now I think I have told you that I haven't previously ap
and this job I was sought for was the Executive Dbector
Service in Chicago which was under the general supervisi
Division of the American Nurses Association and we place
private duty. Private duty had its own registries. Tha
thing you see, they worked day and night, had to be on h
They had such an organization in the building where my o
Nurse Placement Sedce, and it later went to New York t
organization. They were establishing state Nurse Placer
I went, was with that in getting it started f'rom distric
headquarters were in New York. I had all the records ou
that had been assembled, except, no I didn't because my
was older than I was then-she retired, her health was p
how there was a vacancy. I had a staff of seventeen at
always. But it was a very happy ayrangemt, I had nurs
who took over the different fields. But we didn't inter
nursing because that f'unctions a little differently. I
the fifth floor and they were on the seventh floor or so
so we were very close together. Then that got us up to
because--but nly record, of my own biography was there, 1
colored thing, and so I took a copy with me.
la1 organization
111 three
sought me out.
Lied to a job,
~f Nurse Placement
1 of the Wdwest
everything but
was a closer up
~d day and night.
pizat ion was,
this national
l;h~~ce+and
here in C icago
medecessor who
r, and that's
le time but not
; on my staff
lpt private duty
link we were on
?thing likp that,
J49, I retlred
was an orbge
Q. I'm glad you did.
A. Yes. So I could have stayed on longer if I wanted t
on my own, mtter of health. Then I could have stayed o
fall, but because a dear friend, a nurse fiiend had a co
Bmgor, Maine-I had been there previously fhm New York
vacatfons, short vacations, one month. I always saw to
got one mnthls vacation too-I went with her. That was
first of May and I stayed until September and then I cam
Sprbgfield, and I was surprised to see the change. I d
to stay here. I was going to to California to be wit:
but I just kind of mde a mess here. But I did go then,
phoning me.
m smr
, that rry 8taff
n bky, the
back to
In't intend
my niece,
,hey kept
Q. You described your job t o , In ~ Chicago a little bit
if you would elaborate on it little bit-more. What we.
in Chicago when you arrived?
A. Well, they were good beca@e the functioning of the :
that was what supported them. (pause, noise) Wait a mi1
but 1 wonder
! the conditions
.*st
~te,
Division,
I lost IQJ . . .