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AUGUST 30, 1947
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NINE
The St. Joseph’s Hospital
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Savannah, Georgia
Is Now Accepting Students for the
SEPTEMBER CLASS
For Further Information
Write to the
DIRECTOR
OF THE NURSING SCHOOL
Class of New Student Nurses Entering
School of Nursing at St. Joseph’s
Hospital, Savannah, in September
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH. Ga—-The School
of Nursing of St. Joseph’s Hospi
tal in . Savannah is now> accepting
applicants for admission into a
class which will begin training
in September, and Sister Mary
Joseph Smith, R. S. M., director
of the School of Nursing, has an
nounced the following faculty
appointments for the coming
year:
Sister Mary Rose de Lima
Sherman, R. S. M., R. N„ obstet
rical supervisor and instructor in
obstetr cal nursin'?: Sister Alary
Corita Leech, R. S. M., R. N., su
pervisor of medical and surgical
nursing and instructor in clinical
nursing; Sister Mary Sylvana
Zeigler, R. S. M., R. N., operating
room supervisor and instructor in
surgical nursing and operating
room technique. •
Other instructors are Dr. Louise
Fey, Ph. D., Miss Winifred Persse,
R. N., who holds a degree of Bach
elor of Science in Nursing Educa
tion, Mrs. Martha Beytagh, R. N„
Mrs. Lillian McCarthy, R. N.,
Miss Corine Matthews, R. N., Miss
Nell Weir, B S„ Miss Josephine
Kenny, social director.
In addition to the classes taught
by the members of the school of
nursing faculty, lectures and in
structions are given '’the student
nurses by members of the clergy
and by physicians and surgeons of
the city.
The school of nursing at St.
Joseph’s Hospital was established
in 1902, and its graduates are
found in positions of responsi
bility in all fields of nursing.
Many of the graduates served as
Army and Navy nurses during
World War I and World War II.
Sister Mary Graziana, R. S. M.,
R. N., who served as superintend
ent of nurses at St. Joseph's Hos
pital before entering the Sisters
of Mercy, and afterward as di
rector of nurses, was among a
group of Sisters of Mercy of the
Union who volunteered two years
ago to serve as nurses at a leper
colony at Chacachacare, Trinidad,
in the British West Lndies. The
other Sisters of Mercy from Geor
gia who were in the group being
Sister Mary Xavier, R. S. M,,
R. N., Sister Mary Leo, R. S. M.,
and Sister Mary Luke, R. S. M.
St. Joseph’s Hospital, and its
School of Nursing, are under the
supervision of the Sisters of Mer
cy of the Union, whose foundress,
the Reverend Mother McAuley,
was instrumental in introducing
modern methods of nursing in
the hospitals in Dublin, Ireland,
in 1828. As early as 1834, Mother
McAuley wrote: “Great tender
ness should be employed" in caring
for the sick and when there is no
immediate danger of death, it will
he well to relieve the distress
first, and to endeavor, by every
practical means, to promote the
cleanliness, ease and comfort of
the patient; since we "are ever
most disposed to receive admoni
tion and instruction from those
who evince compassion for us.”
It has been the aim of the
School of Nursing at St. Joseph’s !
Hospital here, throughout its |
nearly half-century of splendid
service, to give its students the
highest type of technical training,
and also to inspire them to exem- j
plify in the practice of their pro
fession the tenderness in caring
for the sick that was stressed by
the foundress of the Sisters of
Mercy.
The School of Nursing at St.
Joseph’s Hospital is approved by
the Georgia State Board of
Nurses Examiners and the Cath
olic Hospital Association, and
accredited by the United States
Public Health Service for the
Cadet Nurse Corps. The school is
affiliated with Mount St. Agnes
College, Baltimore, Md., where a
sixteen-week pre-clinical nursing
program is afforded, and with
Rev. J. E. O’Donohoe
Leaving Augusta
Rev. Florence D. Sullivan
S. J., Will Succeed Father
O’Donohoe as Pastor of Sa
cred Heart Church
FATHER O’DONOHOE
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Father John
E. O’Donohoe, S. J., who has
served the Sacred Heart Church
here as pastor for the past thir-
.i /-.uu . ,, ..- , .teen years has been transferred
he Children s Hospital Washing- t() Spl . ing Hm CoI i e ge, in Ala-
ton, D. C., wheie there 1S a I bama, where lie will be pastor of
twelve-week affiliated course in
pediatrics.
The Student Cooperative Gov
ernment Association is designed
to give the student a share in
forming the policies of the school
and to develop her powers of j Stanisiaus“fromT907*to"1911, at
leadership, initiative, social ad- !
St. Joseph’s parish in Spring Hill.
A native of Galway, Ireland,
before coming to the United
States in 1907 to enter the Socie
ty of Jesus at St. Stanislaus Col
lege, in Macon, Ga: He was at St.
, 1 , au ' the College of the Sacred Heart,
! justment and good citizenship, j Woodstock. Md.. from 1911 to
j 1914, and from 1914 to 1920, he
I taught at Spring Hill College
i and at the Immaculate Concep-
I lion College in New Orleans,
j In 1920, Father O’Donohoe en-
. tered the Jesuit House of Studies
| at Hastings, England, to complete
his theological course, being ar-
„„„ , , | dained in Dublin, Ireland, in 1922.
_u" . a ?, e L i t felb T le ’S- emb ? r 7 Among Father O’Donohoe’s fel-
tbc 3 J?seph s Hospital | , ow studen ts in the seminary at
nn fonnrinH m ion^ hlS h S ?°' 1 Hastin § s was Father Francis X.
ciation, loundcd ill 1905, is help- Fanner S T r’nvinpfnn p*.,
j Father O’Dortohoe returned to
i the United States in 1924 and be-
. came principal of the High School
When finally admitted to the
j school of nursing, the student
I Ik oraes a member of the organi-
I zation and thus shares the privi
leges and responsibilities that are
attclied to membership in the as
sociation.
All graduates of the school in
good standing who are registered •
nurses
MRS. B. S. WELLS, President
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in the association admits the
I graduate to the district, state and
I national nursing organizations,
! and makes her eligible for mem
bership in the American Red
Cross Nursing Service.
• It is the belief of this school
that to prepare a truly qualified
nurse an integrated personality is
essential. This requires a well-
balanced program in which the
physical and mental well-being of
the student is given due consid
eration. Thus the social life of the
student is considered a definite
part of .the program.
Calisthenics classes emphasiz
ing correct posture, breathing,
weight bearing, balance and foot
exercises are given. Volleyball,
shuffleboard, ping pong, indoor
baseball and basketball are avail
able. Swimming pools are within
walking distance of the hospital.
Teas, card parties, picnics, dances
and other social events provide a
variety of entertainment.
The curriculum covers three
calendar years, inclusive of vaca
tions during the first pxo mm-,
cal terms, the students devote
at Spring Hill College. The next
year he went to St. Andrew-on-
Hudsori, Poughkeepsie, N. Y„ for
his year of tertianship. From 1926
to 1932 he was regent of the
School of Dentistry at Loyola
University of the South. New Or
leans, and from 1932 to 1934, was
stationed at Holy Name Church at
the university, with particular
charge of the parochial school.
Thei'e whs a general Commuion
of the members of the Sacred
Heart parish I-.ere at the Mass
which Father O’Donohoe cele
brated on the Feast of the As
sumption in commemoration of
the twenty-fifth annivei'sary of his
ordination. More than half of Fa
ther O'Donohoe’s quarter of a
century in the priesthood has
been spent in Augusta, where he
is held in highest esteem by the
Catholic and non-Catholic people
of the city.
Father O’Donohoe will be suc
ceeded as pastor of the Sacred
Heart Church here by Father
most of their time to theoretical | Florence D. Sullivan
instructions in the basic sciences
and nursing arts, with limited
practice of nursing in the labora-
tory and wards of the hospital,
the practice gradually increasing.
In other terms of the subsequent
two years of study, more time is
given to clinical praotice in the
wards of the hospital and in the
many years pastor
Church, Miami, Fla.
S. J., for
of Gesu
SAVANNAH FRIENDS HONOR
SOLICITOR GENERAL RYAN
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Solicitor
General Andrew Joseph Ryan,
Jr., was honored recently at a
opex-ating room with correlated i banquet given at the Hotel De
class and lecture work in each of
(he services. A sequential plan of
study and assignment of practice
is followed so that each student
receives thorough prepai'ation in
the care of medical, surgical, pe
diatric, psychiatric and obstetri
cal patients.
St. Joseph’s Hospital was.found
ed in 1875. Additions were made
to the hospital In 1900 and in
1913, and in 1943 a new unit was
constructed which is well equip
ped and includes administration
offices, a modern surgical suite,
obstetrical and X-ray depart
ments. The hospital is approved
by the American Hospital Asso
ciation, the American College of
Surgeons, and the Catholic Hos
pital Association.
Sister Mary Bride Canty. R. S.
M., R. N., is tixe director of the
hospital, and Sister Mary Igiia-
Soto by several hundred of his
friends.
J. D. McLamb acted as toast
master. and the speakers included
Kirk Sutlive, boyhood friend of
Mi-. Ryan, and T. Mayhew Cun
ningham.
The blessing before the dinner
was invoked by - Monsignor T.
James McNamara, l-eetor of the
•Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist, while grace after the meal
was by the Rev. Cecil T. Under
wood, pastor of Mot-ningside Bap
tist Church. Among the guests
introduced were the Rev. John
Hondras, pastor of St. Paul’s
Greek Orthodox Church . and
Rabbi Louis Youngerman of
Mickve Israel Temple.
tius Walsh, R. S. M., is the Supe
rior of the community of Sisters
of Mercy at St. Joseph's.