Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
A. Well, just the average length people were wearing.
Q. What length was that?
A. Well, it was I think below ow knees. Ch, I know it va
knees, but when I cam back from my-we havent t gotten to
It was pretty short; it was to the knees, I man just
remn'ber having had a pongee suit made out in China;
plentiful. I wore it back horn. It was nicely
tailors. It was all ri@t, but it was pretty short. I couldntt wear it
for a long time and it was god material. It wouldt ve la$ted.
Q. You man the sult you had made was shorter than they Were wewing in
this country at the tfm?
A. Well, no, I dontt think so. No, they were wearing them, I thi*, pretty
short here, but not anything like they have recently, yay how. (laws )
Q. When you were a student nme, did you ham skirts toi the floor?
A. No, I dontt think--I think it wodd come to our shoetnps anyhow. I
think so. That s ri&t as nearly as I can remmber . But when I wa3 a junior
in high school, it came to the floor. I had a dress thaq had to haye binding
on the bottom of the skirts, bmh binding. It had tp be changdd became
it would wear out. So that showed that it was long.
Q. Well, you certainly had an extensive education in yom field.
A. Well, now 1'11 tell you this, that I did not have twa yeam of college
before I entered ,Columbia Wxrsity.
Q. Had mst of the other students?
A. Well, they @ve me credit for nursing education tmt I had, all
these postgraduate courses in practical nursing. See, Z had very little
theory with som of these postgraduate courses. Some ofkhe course8 were
in the sumer like Johns Hopkins. There wasn't mch thew in connection
with that; then it was mstly practice, mstly practice. And Bellevue,
there's be an occasionaJ. lecture that I could go to but 3 was busy on the
ward learning the techiques, you see.
Q. Mat is the theory of nursing? What wodd those comes cover?
A. Oh,well, Ithimkwetalkedabout thatbefore; that
&en youtre specializiqg then "you have it fn that speci
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Q. And yours was pediatflcs?
A. Yes. Then I had one class at Bellevue, I got a good
I'd had other experience. But ColwrS3ia gave me credit
oourses and the little smr ,[courses] I had at
the School of Civics and Phil thropy.
two years mre. And that waspce, I thou*t. I didn t peally expect it
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