Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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A. Yes, it was the second. And instead of me going to ck$Lcago--and I
probably wouldn't have been appointed if the office had continued in Chicago,
but because I lived here and they wanted to have it here I! said then that I
was elected on q residential qualitie~. (laughter) But 4 was trying to
think when we revised the law. I was school nme then am I had been school
nurse fFom 1912 to 1914, when I left. I was called by om state nurses
association to corn in to the legislatm and promote why we should have a
three year course. I had begun to take postgraduate co s. [I addressed
the legislature] in that little sailor hat that could en just above the
rostrum, the what-cha-call-it, this . . .
A. Yes. And so I was addressing the legislature, the Ho$e [of Representatives
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Q. What year was this?
A. In 1914. [I told them] that it would all need to be *vised and /we
should-the board had wanted for sorne time to establish a three year Jcourse
in place of a two year course. And why? Because you coul@n't get all of
the phases of nursing, departments of nmsing, into that t$me and get spekialfzed.
Now we had just one affiliation, but many of the twO year schools
didn't have the clinical mterlal to have a three year coqe. If they had
graduated fm a two year course, they'd have to take a ye 's postgraduate
training; or if they becarre a three year course and the
the character
of the work, like pediatric nursing or obst&rLcal
why, they would have to send the nurses away where they toad get it-like
to the Children's Hospital, Chicago UP St. Louis, and so on. Well, anyhow,
what I said then I don't remember, but I tbld them. (la@ter)
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Q. Were you scared?
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A. No. It wasn't like when I made the speech in the Ch.ic&o University
when I was there for a sumrner course, don't you how.
A. I haven't heard the story of your speech.
Q. Well, the title was-well, I took a surmmr course at %he Chicago School
of Phykic and Ph$lmthropy atad that was six we&. -
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What year was this?
A. I think that must have been 1912, because it was SepteFer, 1912, that
I star%ed the school of nursing; not school of nursing, st ed school nursing.
Then I went to University of kicago for the other s
we ' re coming to Jane Addams.
Q. Well, first tellm the stolpy of your speech.
A. The story is that one of th
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subjects that I was taking was social science,