Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittm
we functioned nationally but not extensively just becaw
services, [in] other words. At these conventions, they 1
conventions where you had to rnake a speech, you speech -
printed and you had reprints of it available and they we
so on. Then on national conventions we always had a boo
state conventions we would have interviews wherever the
would want to see you so you had a place where you could
remmber once I had to give a talk at a luncheon of the :
whole nurse, it was one group and they wanted to know ab
work and so for%h, so I didn't have any notes ready. We
are permitted to use all the availables for toilet and u
turned over the mnts toilet too, so I stood at one of t'
write notes--dontt put that in-because if I was at m;
wouldn't have been able to have the leisure to put down
then it was a question of writing occasionally, a paper
published, but speaking a &reat deal. Also serving on c
state of our Illinois Nurses Association where they-we1
war, the first war, the big war, my work was essential.
gone if I had wanted to because, just as in the time I w
office in Springfield. There was enough difference In t
to be challenghg. We did a lot of local talking to the
Then when we were asked, we felt that was ow duty to ac
course, you newly always gave a report at the Illinois
would come once a ye-. I think, of course, you like to
that appeared locally where you were going to be able to
work or talk about your work. I remender one little nw
Miss Jones, that was so uncomn, but she looked a littl
At a national convention she said, "I don't know how man
rushed up to m and they say, 'What kind of position $ha
!Miss Tittnm~?~~' She said, '?I'm not Miss Tittman, I'm so
"1 said, Oh, there's just lots of jobs, but I'm not lUss
(chuckle) So I likeditriat to the end. I liked the b
state nurses of the Illinois1 nurses. The people 1 hand
employment end of it a good deal, not handled but tried
see we didn't do private duty. We kept our hands off of
because we had enough to do the other way. They paid t
some of them were delinquent about getting their fees pa
to go to the extent of sending them a telegram and that
where they didn't respond because they signed an apeme
about all I LESS, but I did train a person to take p
leaving. Now she then became the director of this natio
quartera after I lef't Pky 1, 1949. That was q last job
did belong to the a1mx-d here, Springfield Hospital Nurs
had quit that. Then I becam, a mmber of the district a
state association and the state association was a member
you :see, of the hricm Nurs Or@;a3nization or Associa
only flnd that; you camy enjo in your work, sometim
kind of difficult and mybe keep you awake of a night, w
do next about it and so forth I think, I am sornet
"What phase of work did you 1 most?" I say, "Not
the best. I liked it all. "
And I never applied for a job 1 never.
there were
ight be state
as sor~tirnes
e sent out and
h, and on our
ervice was, they
met them. I
urses, not the
ut vocational
1, usually you
ually we were
e urinals to
booth I
he notes. So
hat was directly
mnittees of our
, now during the
I couldn't have
s Fn Illinois
e work, you see,
schools of nursing.
ept. Then, of
onvention, which
attend anything
report about your
e, her name was
bit like me.
people have
1 we have now,
. She said,
Tittm.
ard and all the
ed in the
o help, but you
that entirely
eir fees, now
d and you had
ort of thing
t. Well, that's
ace when I was
al, the headin
nursing. I
s ' Aid, never
sociation of the
of the national,
ion. You not
s it would be
at you should
me8 asked,
21Yljr of it was
A11 rrly jobs I was a&@, sought,