Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittm
Q. And you'd have to take ut up to Chicago? I
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A. I'd take it up. And once 2t didn't arri3e. i
Q. Oh, it dichtt arrive?
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A. It didnt t arrlve, so we were delayed a half day [the
disndssed in the mo- because they learned they
go on a freight
Q. YOU man he was saying that youlre so smart to give tde exam, you should
know which elevator to get on?
A. Yes, yes. That kind of irked re.
Q. That didn l t help your any when you were feeling so badly anyway:
A. So anyhow, we cam out all right. We just put a littk extra time on
the next day and that afternoon, so that came out all rig&. See, I had
all the questions, papers, to hand them not only to write on, but the questions,
and it had to be guarded, you know.
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Q. Was this a two day examhation?
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A. Yes, it was two W s .
Q. So they would go to Chicago and . . .
A. They'd have all the subjects and different mmbers of the board according
to their experience and knowledge. I was board rnerrbe~ and they had to >
correct papers. They were pald ten dollars a by the stete on the examination
days.
Q. The examWng board? The students or the examiners, v$o was paid?
A. The state would pay.
Q. The state paid the students taking the test? I
A. Paid the Board of Exem. Now stihg rqy mmmy here that
1917 to 191, I was inspector. I was no longer the the Board of
Nurse Examiners. I was an inspector of the schools
to take a Civll Service examination. I passed
have because I had done the work and so forth,
the Dep&mnt of Fiegistration and Education.
schools of nurshg, midwives, m e s s healers and doctors
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