Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
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<strong>Anna</strong> <strong>Tittman</strong><br />
when I went. I thought I ' d only stay a year and th<br />
got sonu3 mre mney . But I borrowed money the=, too,<br />
to re? The director <strong>of</strong> the nursing departrent, herse<br />
always paid back as quick as I got mre mmy. Howe<br />
old. That was Adalade , Nutthg. Just say Miss NuLt<br />
the Smll History <strong>of</strong> Nursing. It was a large book.<br />
well, soPt; <strong>of</strong> senis. And long af'ter I had finished ss it was, when<br />
I was working for the state a little later, I receive etter. "Miss<br />
Nutting would like to have you retwn the mney you d, pay the mney<br />
you borrowed. And wasnt t it fortunate that I had the hed checks as]<br />
receipts. And I sent them.<br />
Q.. Sne 'd gotten confused? 1<br />
A. Yes, that's right. But, oh, I was so it. By-t; it just<br />
proved to IE that you have to hoard sane things. You use<br />
i<br />
them.<br />
It's always a pmblem how rrmy years you save yow cancewed checks how<br />
rrany years you should save-the Internal Revenue policies,/well, not policies,<br />
but tax returns. I always saved copies <strong>of</strong> them, you see.1 So I had a tim<br />
when I was clezlng that out.<br />
Q. When you were at Colmbia, did they pay you somethin4 when you were<br />
doing your practical?<br />
A. I don't think so, I dinlt think so. No, Itrnvery s&. They treated<br />
you like a student. They didn't treat you-well, I mean tbey tried to point<br />
out things that would be useful to you in yow later lifq. Now I guess<br />
we've finished I-I-QT special studsnt work.<br />
Q. When you graduated f'mm ColLanbia, what degree did you receive?<br />
A. Bachelor <strong>of</strong> Science. And then I got the special cemficate for Qrganization<br />
and Supervision <strong>of</strong> Public Health Nursing.<br />
Q. Were there many <strong>of</strong> you in the country at that time w$h this sp cialized<br />
degree?<br />
A. Well, they were coming along, you see. Now while I was in New York<br />
City working for the N.0.P.H.N.--thatts the National Or zation for Public<br />
Health Nursing. I had that after I graduated. I went t to that job.<br />
t<br />
A. Yes. And after I fYnished that f$eld work, I did. t this is all<br />
after I was in Siberia, so I Qctter n& get on that. We 1, we haven't done<br />
the school nursing yet. Maybe we shopd do that.<br />
I<br />
Q. Your school nursing experience here. Yes, I'm very qe~sted tb how<br />
about that.<br />
A. Well, that began-I have it 1912 to 1914 here. (refem to dta) School<br />
nurshg, well, I organized thq prggram and worked alone. There were ei@teen<br />
schools. This was under the Board <strong>of</strong> Education and not der the h alth<br />
depaY.t;mnf at all. pctor PaVrer was the doctor that I qund I coJd conver<br />
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