Z_020_Christmas

Title Z_020_Christmas
Creator McKay Dee Foundation
Contributors Photographers: Delpha Allen; Edna Stratford; Faye Ball; Karla Tripp; Grace Walling; Olive Madsen; Regina Turner
Description On December 31, 1910, fifteen patients were transferred to the Dee Memorial Hospital accompanied by five graduate nurses and three student nurses. These women formed the first faculty and student body of the Dee School of Nursing. The student nurses lived in the basement of the Hospital and classes were held there. Nurses were required to register in and out of quarters and could not remain out after 10 p.m., with the privilege extended to a midnight curfew once a month. Night duty was handled by students with one in charge of each nursing floor. Nurses were also expected to do special private duty nursing in the Hospital and in homes for practical training without additional compensation.The Dee School of Nursing operated with few changes until World War II when a section of the U.S. Cadet Nurses Corps was organized to help with the shortage of nurses. The scholarships paid the tuition and issued a small stipend. The only requirement was that the students remain active in nursing during the war. The last class graduated in 1955 when the school merged into the nursing program at Weber College. In its forty-five years of existence, the school graduated more than 700 nurses, many of whom continued working in Northern Utah.With the last graduating class in 1955, the alumni are disappearing fast and we wanted to capture their stories before they were lost like the Dee Hospital. Through this oral history project, we learned about the women behind the grades and photographs. They talked about their experiences with the doctors, patients, and each other. They expressed the hard work they put in on a daily basis but also the fun times such as sliding down the hills during the winter on the steel bed pans. This oral history project put faces and stories to the static student records and expanded on what became of them after they graduated from the Dee School of Nursing.
Image Captions We had these little lamps at Christmas. We would wear our uniform our cape was blue on the outside and red on the inside, so we would wear our white uniform and throw back one side of the cape so you could see the red and the white. Then we would start at the top floor and they would have the doors open for the patients who were still in the hospital. We would sing Christmas carols back and forth on all the floors. Then we would go down and eat our Christmas breakfast which was a cinnamon roll, half a grapefruit, and a glass of milk. Karla Paul Tripp, Class of 1943
Subject Nursing--United States; Ogden (Utah); Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital; Nursing students--United States
Digital Publisher Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA
Date 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955
Date Digital 2011
Temporal Coverage 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955
Item Size 5"x7"; 8"x10"; 3"x4"
Medium Photography
Item Description Black and White Photographs; Color Photographs
Spatial Coverage Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5779206, 41.223, -111.97383
Type Image/StillImage
Conversion Specifications Archived TIFF images were scanned with an Epson Expression 10000XL scanner. OCR created by using ABBYY Fine Reader. JPG and PDF files were then created for general use.
Language eng
Rights Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes; please credit Special Collections Department, Stewart Library, Weber State University.
Source MS 147; MS 355; MS 41 Special Collections Department, Stewart Library, Weber State University
Format image/jpeg
ARK ark:/87278/s6vkst9k
Setname wsu_dsn_oh
ID 38910
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6vkst9k
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