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Post by clarencebunsen on Oct 13, 2012 16:12:06 GMT -5
Yes, that's the one to which I referred. If you have posted it here already, one of the advantages of getting older is that one gets to read so many new stories and jokes.
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Post by chris on Oct 13, 2012 16:28:51 GMT -5
another goodie from our own Dave.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2012 16:31:06 GMT -5
Dave that is a great story. Make me appreciate attending Public Grade School and High School. Never knew much about Nun's until I attended a Catholic University and the Nun's didn't look like Nun's because they didn't dress like them. Looked like business women.
As far as the STD'S I first became acquainted when reading the list of Professor's while in Graduate School. Wondered why they advertised. Some even had two. And one was away in Rome, Italy getting his first.
I remember the first encounter I had with a Nun. She was my classmate. She never looked like a Nun either. She never minded joining in with us on an occasional Friday night for a few beers at a local bar in Rochester. She was very brilliant and she eventually went to Rome, Italy to get her STD. Now she is President of the Graduate School and joins that list of Professor's with STD's.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Oct 13, 2012 22:43:55 GMT -5
Uniform inspections:
A few weeks after we were married my wife got her first job as an RN at St. Mary's the Catholic hospital in Duluth. (During those weeks she lived in Minneapolis, completing nursing school, graduating, taking her boards. I lived in Duluth completing my first year of grad school and looking for a suitable apartment.) Her floor at St. Mary's was run by an old school nun. Every week she held uniform inspection with her RN's kneeling down in the hall to make sure the skirt hem touched the floor. No pinned hems there.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Oct 14, 2012 15:16:34 GMT -5
From my Midwestern Protestant perspective, nuns were in a different category altogether and that standard appeared to be that the hem should be above the floor but expose less than 1/2 the shoe.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Oct 14, 2012 22:26:15 GMT -5
Oh yes, I remember my wife washing, starching & ironing her cap. Each nursing school had it's own. Her had two stripes, one black & one gold, running vertically. Each stripe meant something & had to be earned. I haven't seen it in many years. not quite true, her graduation picture still occupies a place on honor in the family photos above our mantel.
Nursing uniforms were once a point of pride. Occasionally there are movements to have nurses return to a more traditional dress. Presently if you go into a hospital everyone is wearing scrubs. One can't tell who is a nurse, who an aide and who a random staff member without reading a name tag.
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