Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

A. I donlt know. (lawter) Oh, golly. But he told thqt hinrse1f.j
Q. Did you have days off during training?
A. Yes, we had one-half day on Sunday and one-half day dhng the wee
And the-streetcar, as a matter of fact, cam ri&t past o$- door and took
us down to Broadtwellls Drugstme. There we got out and wq did our shopping
or whatever we had to do. And Stuart's Ice Cream Stc@ was rfL&t next
to the Broadwellls Dmt@tore, and we patronized that. We
f
ot--now let's
see. We got two dollars a mnth while we were in trainin Of course,
they don1 t get that now. But you had to have a sum of mo y , and I got
quite a little mney for graduation,
Q. Oh, you did?
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A. Yes, gifts.
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Q. Did you have to pay tuition for the nurshg school?
A. No, no, no. Your work was your tuition.
Q. Tney worked you so hard.
A. Your work was your tuition, actually. Then ni@t duty; on ni&t duty
various thin@ happened and weld have them. For instance, there was a
legislator who had deledun tremns, and he was so irratianal they had to
put him in the basement, kind of in confinement. Nm I ' t have to go
down, but the older nurses the ni&t that happened, had ta go down and
take c m of him. - That was bad. You see, we had no man qrderly or anything
like that. Then when I was on night duty one--well, I wafi in w second
year because I was left in chage; we had no night super or*-but I was
left in charge for the night and we had . . . 4
Q. As a student nwse? As a student you were left fh cwge for the
night?
A. Yes, yes. Now ow surgical nurse was Kathryn Matt
duate of Springfield Hospital] who worked for Doctor [
elder Doctor Patton, for many years and took care of t
them, too, and so on. That waa Kathryn; she was our s
children for
Q. Would she do sonre of the trahhg, too?
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A. Well, in our surgical, when we had our term in the s departmnt,
in the operating room and dressing room. And one tim
.press ry dress and I was on night duty. I wanted to go
day and I decided everything was quiet, the patients
pressed my dress on the the operating table.
room, but in the
And I heated the
and I pressed ry it to chmch.
And that next~~~>ming
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was Sur-19;
I had to go on duty at poon, or shortly
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