Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
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Q. You were talking about the Kdwest Division.
A. Yes. And we had the use of all those records until
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ater, they were
shipped and they had to be when we broke up and had--the e we were in a
big building on Michigan Avenue. We had much rent to pa and so forth.
But we had made, well, there were other things that theyifell err to,
that is the state fell err to. We could get those reco4s quickly.
Q. What were the records? I
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A. These things, that orange colored thing. That was a'compilatEon of
the informtion we got about them when they applied.
Q. And when you say who is them?
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A. Well, I man the nurses who applied. We didnlt on Fn any field
like the private duty because private duty registrie to be active
day and nigh'c, and they have to take the nurs
availability lanless it was specified that tQey must omebody who is
a specialist irL,their field, sorewhat considered, oh,
outstanding and can do anything in the private duty,
Mdwest didnlt have to do as much, I mean Illinois di
much compiling, only In new people because even whe
shipped to New York, they had, many of them were ab
because they were active, but we could. Now my
Nurse Placemt Service was first assistant
and in a little while, however--well, now that happene
so she would do som of the intervie- of the indivi
would give to her for experience, you see, or b
didn't have an appointmnt and she could talk a little
Fntervlews wfth the enployem. The errployers would co
m said, "Do you ask the candidates to take off their
have I given this before?--an8 I said, "No, I don't as that." And I
said, "I have them sitting right across the desk from
lot about their facial expressions ,I1 and so fo
when I am thinking of employing a teacher. l1 He sald, "1 ] always wanf, to see
what she looks like with her hat off."
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And I sat in this state service, this Illinois service o posite a door that
would lead to the receptionist and I watched her walk. ow, I learned to
judge people quite a good deal by the way they walk. If 'they walk with
determination, okay. If they walk sor~thhg like this ( tamp, stamp, stamp)
they are md. (chuckle) So once, since I've lived here
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land have been off
of nursing duty for several yeam, actually seven years, the Illinals
Association wanted to write me up a bit and sent an inte viewer to ~lle for
an article in the magazine of the 1ll;tnois nurses. I to d he^ that and I
had bmwt in a table, a card table,*and I sat on one s de and I had her
sit on the other just to establish that klyld of a sitmt on and she said
afterwards, or in the article, she said that I told her lmt and she said
that in her wticle that, I1Itrn sure she was watching me
I went down the street down to the car."
when (chuckle)
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So the work included, not only the interviewing of the se if she was