Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
and I went out to the Chicago Wversity and took another I? iix weeks s
smr come. (whispers) That s when Jane Addm core it I. So that,
is what happened then, and I still had rry smrs, you se
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the boat. So in 1913 I was assistant superintendent and
the postgraduate students. In 1922-now there's quite a j
Q. In 1913, excuse m, 1913 yau were on the boat?
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A. Yes, head nurse and assistant superintendent. ,
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Q. Did lots of the sam personnel corn back smr after I
A. They did. The head nurses and anyone in a job sirnil
they carne back, but the graduates of the postpaduate co
home using it, you know, in their work. No, well, I
was asked to corn back and I was interested. I just love
to go baqk to
lstructor df
nnp there . . .
or mre SO,
re, they were
lack because I
it.
Q. There were familiar faces each smr then?
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A. Yes, there were. We had different superintendents, t ~ of , nurses. We
called them superintendents then; now they call them dire$ors. I had a
Mss Chipm, durlng w graduate course when I was takin@;Pthe course, and
a Miss Eagen took over the next smr. In fact, one day during Wsa Chipmanv
s term, the went around amng the other students that "Mis$ Tittman
was out there correcthg papers. And of course, that would've b en awful.
It would've been awful to have a student, co-studenk, corzlect l g the
papers, but it was Miss Chipman, and the mm got changed. So I had a hard
tim denying it, but I did.
Then we jump to the swrmer between two years at Colwnbia University, 1922.
Shall we tell about that now?
Q. Sure, that's fine. Before we get to that, though, w M did you do in
the winter, for instance, of lgl2?
A. Well, that was my school. I go here [poin'cs to print& vita] from
1912 to 1914, school nursing.
Q. Where were you school nurse?
A. Riat here in SpringjXeld.
Q. Right in Sprin@;field.
A. I would like to mention what I did in New York City ta ready for
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that
job. However, to finish w time at b$ton Floating Hospi@l, in 192 I
was admitting officer. I sat m the pier as the babies wqe brought down.
The doctors were on the pier elgiunining them. It was on a pier, on a boat's
pfer. Then I made the records land look after the position of the baby, the
exambation, and so forth, parents, or whoever it was. And that is
the ww I spent that smmw. ng the day I was helping getting those
childreri placed In proper