Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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we hBa all our mals on the boat. We had to get down in txim for our:
breakfast. Oh, and our Fourth of July dinner was just lowly.
Q. C&, tell E about that.
A. It was salmon, all big sliaes of it, and ice cream. 11, we had
potatoes, too, and I guess somt~ing else, I dont t know , but I remenber
that. But it was always the h of July dinner Fourth of Jidy .
But the real salmn, you know,
ri@t there.
Well, you develop very nice friendships there. Dr. Nolto , he married a
girl in lbssachusetts, and she had a nm-ber of children, ur I think, and
died. Her sister was a kindergarten teacher. She cam took charge of
the children. But he found m in Ckicago, years later, came to see me.
He cam there for a convention. He corresponded for a lo tim. But I
mt a nurse later, I asked about him and she said, "He di ." (tape tmed
off)
I was a registered nurse in ~~inois and ~ew ~ork
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state. I I no longer am
registered either in New York or Illinois because there w 4 an annual renewal
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fee. New York, I had deserted, so I didn't need to keep up my registration
there. I dropped renewing som years ago In Illinois in retiremnt because
I knew I would not be employed. In fact, I have notlbeen employed
at anyt- except volunteer things since I retired fmrn ~ynrsing.
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Q. Why dld you feel you should be registered In New Yo&?
A. I was working there for eiateen years in a position that required a
graduate registered nurse.
Q. Could we go back a bit. We left you last session on the floating
hospital in Boston.
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A. Well, that was just for smm.
Q. That was the smr of 1910 then 1911 [that] you also worked on the
hospital ship?
A. That's when I was wad head nurse.
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Q. You were ward head nurse, and then 1913 . . .
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A. I was head nurse and assistant superintendent. e of a ward and
assistant superintendent.
Q. You were a pretty big gun. ( chuckLes )
A. Shall I eve all the s m
now? Regardless of the +e?
1 Q. That ' s fine. What happened, in 1912, though?
A. In 1912, I went to get read for school nursing. I to* this course at
the ChPcago School of Civics and Philanthropy. That was a six weeks course