Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittm
Q.'
How many nurses would you have under you?
A. Well, it depends on what the need was. We could alwas get somebody
to help. QI, I had about six nurses down there at Chwlegton, I think.
Then helplng with the f'unerals is a point to me. You to see that
somebody is at horn to take cavoe of the children that
funeral or aren't going to the funeral. You get one
it or a nef&bor. Well, the older people were a
now. ( chuckles )
Q. In what way?
A. Well, they're just at lose ends. They just didn't lux@ what to do and
somtirrues they have a farriily to go to and somtims they c@n;!t. Not every
codty has a retirerent home, or didn't then, where thy could go. Well,
S O . . .
Now this little book here tells about Miss Delano who was lour national leader
of our American Red Cross Nursing Service. She was a beaaiful, beautiful
worn; in spirit, in looks. When I was in Washingbon rry first tim -t;o help
the ---I got a leave of absence f'romthe Departmnt of @gistration and
Education to accept a request fbr re to go to Washington tp help theq get
their Army school records started--the A w school had not, been fowd yet,
but they wanted sombody that was familiar with keeping re~ords for qm3mg
schools
Q. The was setting up a school of nursing?
A. Yes, and we did. So I got a leave of absence for that' and then they
wanted me to stay longer. Tney wmte to the director; we had a director then
of this Departmnt of Registration and Educatfon. I was n/p longer w own
boss, you how--besides my board--I still had board. put I became Civil
Service. So they had the exhation and I came out first! Of course, I'd
done the work and traveled all over the state.
Q. You d96h?'t write the test?
A. No, (chuckles ) but I knew it all. I cam out first. And then a man
who was also an inspector for the departmnt, he was an in$pector of barrber
shops, and he took the same examhation, he passed for bmber shop inppection.
I was supposed to not just confie myself to schools
Board of Registration and Education was established.
the superintendent of--now he wasnl t the director
of Registration and mucation, he was the
for things. I had to inspect midwives
hated like everything heaving of one
There was one mn who did the
bow anything about nursing schools.
cessor to this beautif'ul Miss Eelano.
she was going into her building in
very soft. She was tall, grey
dressed. She died in France.
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