Posted on 03/14/2008 9:50:42 AM PDT by beccix
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Wow. Thanks! Some of that I actually understood! Probably because Igor was in the aerospace field before he died, and some of it rubbed off on me.
The state of the art is such that, now that I have no more Igor, some things are beyond my ability to grasp. However, I enjoy the challenge of trying to figure things out.
(I wonder what career I would have chosen, had I not been “born too soon?”)
:o])
GREAT IDEA.
i know ABOUT when she went to school (1942-45, i think) & in which state, but not (for sure) which school (she went to RN training under the ANC's "Army Nurse Corps Training Program", as MANY girls did during WWII.)
i once heard her say, "things were much different during the war & the nursing schools "cooperated" then, rather than "competing".
ALSO, you might find this "interesting": my aunt said, "before the war, nurses were seen by MOST "nice people" to be not much more decent as a profession than prostitutes, as we took care of NEKKID (note: her word = chuckle.), sick & dying people. the war changed all that & we were suddenly said to be,"heroines". that seemed passing strange to me."
thanks & HUGS.
free dixie,sw
Yah. Let's see: I'm no longer plying the trade I learned in college, instead doing the two things I hated/feared most in school -- writing and speaking. In order to do that, the stay-at-home claustrophobe has to spend way too much in airplane steerage class in way too close proximity with strangers, almost always to other time zones, frequently to places where I don't know either the food nor speak the language.
Yah. I'm eating it up. *\;-)
It is usually lower pressure than R&D often was, though. I may still work on the weekend from time to time, but it's because I can sit on the back deck, looking into the woods, while writing magazine articles. And I have photos of interesting places.
Just dodged one proposed speaking opportunity for November. I can't speak at the corporate conference in San Diego because I'll be sitting in technical committee meetings in the Netherlands. *\:-?
Pitter patter, pitter patter ...
Shannon is impressed, too.
I gravitated to public speaking, and other forms of communication, not because it was my strong point, but because I considered it my weakness. I was determined to overcome my childhood shyness.
If you know where your aunt lived when she got out of high school, you may be able to narrow down the nursing schools in the immediate area.
I doubt if many people had the resources to attend any kind of school that was very far from home, during the war years.
It seems to me that nurses were a little lower than ladies of the night, because they helped everyone! But not too many hospitals could have functioned without them, and I suspect that is true today. I don’t really care what people say of them: They SAVE LIVES, and that’s all that counts!!
Let me know what you find out. I’m curious. I’m also curious as to the “shorthand.” It sounds like something I may be able to use.... Maybe....
*smooch*
So was I! Now, crowds don't bother me. I see them as a body and not as individuals. It has its benefits.
If I thought about them as individuals, I'd NEVER speak up with more than two people present! LOL!
I was shy too. I hated public speaking and still hate it.
I wasn't! But two things helped me along -- reading the lessons from the Bible in church, and learning to play bagpipes.
Well... I've been here in the office since 6 AM and all the things needed doing today are done, so it's time to go home.
Because I was a “good reader” (whatever THAT meant) I was often called upon to read in front of the class. The only way I got through it (even though my face was beet red) was to focus on the page I was reading, and NOT LOOK UP!!!
Now, of course, I just pretend I left my glasses/contacts at home, and everything ahead of me is just one big blur!!
i KNOW she did go far away from Camp County TX to training because she once told me that it took her 2 whole days to get home on the train. (the ANC sent girls all over the USA to nurses' training school. wherever there was a vacancy was where they got sent, believe it or not "filling from east to west & then by alphabetical order" ====> sounds just like "fedrul gubmint inteligunce", doesn't it??? = chuckle)
my aunt (who was one of three women who "raised me") once told me that, "St Louis, where i first was, seemed like the BIGGEST PLACE on earth. of course, i was 18YO & had never been farther away from home than about 50 miles!".
note: my aunt said that she was "always saddened" that she, like so many other new RNs, got "sent home to civilian pursuits", instead of being commissioned as 2LT, USANC! (one wonders, NOW, how many girls would WANT to go to a combat zone to be nurses under the common conditions of WWII???)
my hat, like that of most all vets, is OFF to 'our ladies in white". they are all GRAND grrls, imVho.
free dixie HUGS,sw
I have to agree with you about nurses. They saved uncountable lives in every war since WWI. Maybe before, but we just didn’t hear about it.
Did your aunt leave a journal, or any kind of diary? If so, it should be loaded with information. Letters home? Letters FROM people? Even THEY can have information we don’t expect.
I’m trying to leave a trail of crumbs that anyone can follow, after my demise. Who knows what depends on that?
Good night, everyone! We have a Spanish music practice tonight, and then bedtime. See you tomorrow, maybe.
‘Night, TC and all the Chicklets!
See you tomorrow!
*hug*
I used to work at a place where we were required to give a 20 minute talk every 3 months or so. The reason the talks were 20 minutes was from the old Calvin & Hobbs cartoon where Calvin remarks “Anything you can’t explain in 20 minutes isn’t worth knowing.”
This seems to be true for some values of explain.
I was once a guest at a Rotary club and their scheduled speaker, a fire chief, failed to show. My dear wife volunteered my services so I gave an unprepared talk on the various kinds of “electric paper” that people were playing with at the time. I had fun and people asked relevant questions and told me after that they understood and enjoyed the talk. They invited me back a couple of months later to do a prepared talk about quantum cryptography.
I, for one, agree with Calvin, (since I have two cats named Calvin and Hobbes.) I also get an email comic strip each day of C&H, and have several of the albums of the strip.
It’s good that people know enough (or are curious enough) to ask the right questions. I have an insatiable curiosity, and anyone close to me will be beset with queries about whatever I don’t understand.
Some folks are not too patient... ;o]
I am generally prepared to discourse at length on almost any subject.
Normally I would have to be physically dragged from the lecturn to silence me, a function my wife is only too happy to provide.
I worked for a short time at a place where material was introduced in training sessions by a rotating list of conscripted volunteers.
I think they still talk about my presentation.
Ah. (And FRiends wonder how you’ve managed to write so many books....)
“Anything you can’t explain in 20 minutes isn’t worth knowing.”
I need a copy of this to send to my preacher.
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