March 2022 Count Down to 50th Reunion – 3 Months
Can you believe in three short months we will be together again? Final registration is March 31st. Check it out a NEW group picture has been added to 30th Reunion in Memorabilia.
This month we’re encouraging you to participate in the first of two planned visualization exercises. We’d like you to tell us the one piece of advice you would give to your 17–18-year-old self on entering MHSN in 1969. Have some fun with this! We’re including the Committee’s responses to stimulate your imagination. If we receive enough responses, we may try to have it made into a poster to be displayed at the reunion.
Joanne Albert Belliveau Try not to BREAK every rule!
Gail Blair Storr Lighten up, no need to be such a tight-ass!
Phyllis Caron Porter Keep working; keep learning
Joanne Logan Simpson Don’t be afraid to imagine what nursing can be.
Marlene Myers Hill There will be rough times but stick with it!
Congratulations to Louise Carrier Deschenes winner of the February Quiz and she answered more than the ones she submitted correctly!
Answers to February Quiz
- Which student told us “I remember being woken up in the middle of the night, with a couple of the gals throwing rocks at the window to wake me up so I could unlock the bedroom window so they could climb up on the big garbage bin so they could climb into their bedroom. That was at Anne St residence. Donna Fraser Lerrette
- One “task” at the annex was to volunteer to “let in” those errant students who came in late after dates or “Dance O’Rama”. Late access was to crawl up the slide into the laundry room where someone would be waiting to open the window and let our beloved comrades in. Tricky business though it was in the winter, we managed! Such a resilient group! Joanne Logan Simpson
- To give you a story of sneaking out of residence I’ll tell you this. We lived on Ann Street and my apartment was across from the housemothers’ office, on the ground floor, so after I padded my bed and covered it with bedding, I would, in my pajamas and laundry bag, sneak down the hall to Name of Classmate’s There I would remove my outside clothes from the laundry bag, dress, and Joanne and I would sneak out of her bedroom window. I have a feeling that eventually they had an inkling because not long after the windows were nailed down on the ground floor and that was the end of our escapades. Louise Carrier Deschenes and Joanne Albert Belliveau.
- Oh the memories!!” “I have the program of 1971 The Last of the Stripes Review along with a ticket ($0.75) as well as 2 pictures. One picture of my boomerang won’t come back and one of Tingley singing “Suzanne”. That night was very special for me. My Dad came for the show and since he worked 7 days a week, that was such a nice surprise for me”. Who was this student? Mary Ellen Hynes Sear
- Do you remember that in our OR rotation one of the tasks assigned to students was daily cleaning of the sterile supply room – taking all sterile packs off shelves, cleaning shelves and returning packs ordered by date of sterilization. Mrs. Forsythe would ask students if they been had assigned to clean the sterile supply room yet? One student tells us that she cleaned the sterile supply room every day of her 8-week OR Rotation. If she answered “yes” Mrs. Forsythe would say “good, then you know what to do”. If she said “no” Mrs. Forsythe would say “good, then it’s time you learned how to do it” Who was this student? Gail Blair Storr
- I remember coming in to Anne Street 6:30 one morning as others were leaving to go to work, just enough time to change & head to work myself . Who was this student? Mary Lou St. Pierre Audet
- Name of classmate and I also spent a night in jail in PEI. This is the story. We hitchhiked to PEI but not having much money we decided that we would sleep at the Sallyann, but they were full so we switched our thinking to sleeping in a church (they were open 24 hours then). We went into the church, picked a pew and laid down. In a few minutes Name of Classmate said : wow, these pews are hard, to which I replied: they sure are, we have to find something else. So I had the brilliant idea to go to the jail house in Charlottetown, surely they would put us up. So we did. The jailer was a most accommodating fellow. He gave us a cell and a mattress, locked us in and woke us next morning with an egg breakfast. We tried it again the next night but the man thought it was not right for 2 “nice young ladies” to sleep in jail so he called a friend of his who had a B & B and he drove us there, his friend never made us pay a cent. How’s that for good old PEI hospitality, hey. Who were these two classmates? Joanne Albert Belliveau and Louise Carrier Deschenes
- Which student remarked one reviewing the residence rules “I do remember the rules…I only wish I’d had enough of a life that I could have needed to break some of them …😂😂😂” Brenda Tingley
- Who met her husband after graduation while working on Obs- Gyn Floor and looking after his mom there? Fast forward to now and she says “we have 2 lovely daughters and 4 granddaughters”. Carolyn MacMillan Doiron
- It was the first year at the Annex. Lights out at 10 o’clock with no exceptions. Except, the hockey playoffs were on and the game would not be over until 11. After pleading with the unrelenting house mother, a few of us hockey fans took matters into our own hands and “knifed” closed the door to the kitchen TV room . The house mother was quite “put out” to say the least but, luckily for us, had no idea who was behind the locked door. Happily, we watched the game to completion and then methodically escaped the kitchen without detection. Of course, mention of it was made the next day, but I don’t recall any “late pass” repercussions. Joanne Logan Simpson
- As for being called to Mrs Wright’s office, it was a frequent “privilege” for me but I was called to the “inner sanctum” of her room in WestLane residence once and she announced: “I am fed up to the teeth with you Name of Classmate ” blah, blah, blah.” I never said a word until she stopped and then asked if she was done and left. I then wrote my resignation and brought it to her office 2 days later. Since I was leaving anyway I was bolder than usual and said that I had “my own philosophy of nursing” and it didn’t agree with hers. I also, to my shame today, told her it wouldn’t hurt if she cracked a smile now and then. And this is when I found out what a gracious and wise woman Mrs. Wright was. She refused my resignation saying she was glad that I had “my own philosophy of nursing” and that she thought I would make a good nurse and she asked me if what I said was really what I thought of her. I said smiling was a good thing. Later, to punish me I guess, I was assigned to Mrs. Wright when she was a patient and again I was amazed at how gracious she was. She had to know that for a student nurse to be assigned to her, had to be a humbling, scary experience but she never acted superior, she was quite different from her “Director of Nursing” persona, and she actually smiled, not a pinched smile but a real smile! She put me quite at ease. It all seems so, so long ago all these memories… Louise Carrier Deschenes
Dates to Remember
March 31, 2022
Late Registration
April 1, 2022
Deadline to Order Reunion Hoodies
April 30, 2022
Notify us if you wish to be a Reunion Buddy or if you wish to have a Reunion Buddy
May 11, 2022
Deadline for Hotel Registration – Call Rodd Hotels & Resorts Toll Free Reservations at 1-800-565-RODD (7633). Advise you wish to book a room under the room block for “Moncton Hospital 50TH Nurses Reunion”.
June 11-13, 2022
Reunion Dates
MHSN Class of 1972 50th Reunion Planning Committee: Joanne Albert Belliveau,
Marlene Myers Hill, Joanne Logan Simpson, Gail Blair Storr and Phyllis Caron Porter.
March 2022 Count Down to 50th Reunion – 3 Months
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