April 2021 MHSN Walk Down Memory Lane # 8 For our March Pandemic Madness Event we received 29 masked pictures and raised $145.00 for Moncton’s Humanity Project https://thehumanityproject.ca. Thanks to everyone who participated! We’ll have all of those pictures available at our reunion reception in a slide presentation. They will not be posted on…
March 2021 MHSN Walk Down Memory Lane # 7 March was celebrated as “March Storm” while we were at MHSN. In first year we raised money for Muscular Dystrophy by participating in a Rock-a-Thon, doing bottle drives, and hosting a “hire a student nurse day”. In second year we raised money for Rheumatoid Arthritis by…
February 2021 MHSN Walk Down Memory Lane # 6 Last month we reminded you about our first paycheque. This month we take you to February 1971 when we had our “Half-way” party at Ming Gardens. You’ll find some pictures of that in the 2nd Year Memorabilia on our website mhsn1972.com. Who remembers the song we…
January 2021 MHSN Walk Down Memory Lane # 5 For our 5th Walk Down Memory Lane we’re revisiting our first pay as student nurses that we received on January 31, 1970. Our gross pay was $4.00 and when we “Googled” to see what this would translate to in 2021 it would be $26.83. On a close…
December 2020 MHSN Walk Down Memory Lane # 4 For our 4th Walk Down Memory Lane we’ve attached the 1969 MHSN Christmas card and reproduced the inside below. We believe G. Doucette was a third-year student in 1969. Again it comes the time for cheer, Goodwill and song upon the earth, Soon, midnight bells, will ring…
November 2020 MHSN Walk Down Memory Lane # 3 For this “Walk down Memory Lane” we move ahead to fall of second year in 1970. By now we were “Big Sisters” treating our “Little Sisters” to Initiation. We weren’t a whole lot easier on them than our “Big Sisters” were with us a year earlier…
MHSN Walk Down Memory Lane #2 October 15, 2020 We were assigned our first patients on October 15, 1969, 51 years ago today. Does anyone have any stories they wish to share about their experience caring for their first assigned patient on the nursing units? By now we had been in nursing for one month…
September 15, 1969 (51 years ago) we met each other as MHSN classmates and in 21 months we’ll be celebrating 50th reunion in June 2022. What do you remember most about the first days or week of training? One of the songs that the older students sang at the hootenanny the first night was “the…
Dear Fellow Classmates, Can you believe we are fast approaching our 50th reunion from the best hospital school of nursing in Canada? As we all know, plans can change but getting an early start on people’s ideas and wishes will help us to organize an event that is worthy of our impressive class. To make…