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CAMPUS MIRROR 3 Thanksgiving Rally On the morning of November 25, 1943, the students of Spelman College and members of the faculty and staff as sembled in Howe Memorial Hall to make their Thanksgiving contributions. A spirit of gratitude and humbleness pervaded the room. It was during a thoughtful silence that a Chopin Prelude was played by Eolyn Murrell. This appropriate ren dition was followed by the reading of the President’s Proclamation by Ella Tyree, president of the Spelman Students Asso ciation. The program continued with the call to worship, the reading in unison of the 95th Psalm and Silent Meditation and Prayer led by Pearl Dorch, student superintendent of the Sunday School. Then came the very interesting Thanks giving Rally. For two months the cam pus had been convassed for donations for this cause. Now the results of the drive were to be made known. A spirit of competition bad prevailed among the various organizations and the classes. Who would have the largest donation? The results are as follows: v it , c t a (Pledge .... $ 7.00 Faculty and Staff | Cash 378 . 8 2 Buildings and Grounds Dept. _ 18.25 Total _ $404.07 Student Organizations: Y. W. C. A— ___ $ 10.00 Sunday School 12.00 Pan-Americana Club 5.00 Home Economics Club 5.00 Athletic Council 5.00 Total _ $ 37.00 Student Classes: Freshman Class ... $ 75.00 Sophomore Class 59.65 Junior Class 60.00 Senior Class 85.07 Total _ $279.72 Grand Total $720.79 As is the usual custom, the body ap propriated the money to the organiza tions that they thought needed the money most. The $720.79 was apportioned thus: Spelman Missionaries (5) .. $250.00 United Community and War Relief Fund 250.00 Red Cross 50.00 World Student Service Fund 100.00 Local USO 50.00 Georgia Training School, Macon. Georgia 20.79 Total $720.79 The Y. W. C. A. project had also included the collection of clothes and foodstuffs to fill boxes for needy families. The response to the appeal was very great and the Y. W. C. A. was able to deliver on Thanksgiving morning beau- fully packed boxes overflowing with the necessities of life. Mrs. Ludie Andrews Carolyn Taylor, ’44 The second person to step before the camera in our series of “meet the people you come into contact with daily but know so little about,” is Mrs. Ludie An drews, superintendent of McVicar Hos pital, Spelman College. It was on the seventh of December that I entered the hospital to ask Mrs. An drews for an appointment to interview her as she sat at the desk in her office reading. After we had exchanged greet ings, she asked, “Did you want to see me?” Then I explained the purpose of my visit. “Well,” began Mrs. Andrews, “I'll have to look up some notes and papers and see whether I have done anything. You see, it’s hard to talk about yourself. You come back — when do you have to have this information?” “As soon as I can get it,” was my reply. “Well, come back to morrow night and I’ll have some facts ready for you.” I thanked Mrs. Andrews very much but did not make any effort to leave because I was not satisfied with her answer. It was quite easy for me to find out about her from other sources, but I wanted my information directly from her. Fortunately for me she asked, “What are you going to do when you are gradu ated?” “You know nursing is a good field,” continued Mrs. Andrews, “even after you finish college.” After she had pointed out the virtues in the nursing profession, I was almost persuaded to choose that for my own vocation. How ever, instead of coming to a decision. I asked Mrs. Andrews about her own graduation and her first job. By this time I was sitting comfortably in the rocking chair in her office and ready to extend the interview. “After my graduation from the Spel man School of Nursing in 1906. a doctor named E. C. Davis gave me my first job. This was at the Lula Grove Hospital which was connected with the Atlanta School of Medicine, situated on Cain and Lucky street, a white medical school with a hospital for colored patients. I was the only trained colored nurse. Be side taking care of my patients I had to help in the operating room. “Because I felt the need of more trained Negro nurses, in spite of a heavy sched ule, I planned my time and organized that hospital so that Negro women could receive training there. Two classes were graduated while I was in charge. This school finally merged with Emory Uni versity.” During Mrs. Andrews’ seven years of service, she supervised her students in an operation done by Dr. Howard Kelly of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. After the operation he turned to her and said, “I have never been better served even by nurses I trained myself.” Fortunately for her. the director of the hospital heard this statement and was moved to give her a raise in salary. “Was Grady Hospital your next stop?” I asked. “Yes, I left Lula Grove and went to Grady in 1914.” “How was the situation there when you entered?” “Somewhat critical. Due to a lack of understanding, there existed a wide gap between patient and doctor, patient and nurse. At first the patients did not want me to do anything for them, but after I had had a few talks with them, they felt I was their friend and welcomed me.” “What kind of trouble did you have before you convinced them?” “Well, the first thing was in regard to their general appearance. They just didn't want me to touch them after they came to the hospital because no one else bad ever done anything for them in that particular. Another thing was that they would slip out of the hospital. The doc tors would sign the patients up two or three days ahead of time for an operation and when the day came, the patient could not be found.” “Why did they slip out? Didn't they give any reason for leaving?’’ “Oh, yes, they gave a very sensible reason. They said that they didn’t want to be operated on without the consent of their husband, wife, or parents. I ex plained to them that no one could operate on them without permission. After that, we didn’t have any more slipping out.” “Now that I had won the confidence of my patients,” continued Mrs. Andrews, “my next step was to organize a school for the training of Negro nurses.” The school Mrs. Andrews organized is now known as the Municipal Training School. Here Mrs. Andrews served as Superintendent of the Colored Nurses of Grady for six years, from 1914 to 1920. “How long did you work before you could get ‘R.N.’ for the colored nurses of Georgia?” “Ten years I worked on that project, almost alone. I called only one meeting of the nurses. You see, if no one knows what you are doing except yourself there is less danger of your plans being ex posed. “The State Board required that we have our vouchers signed by two people that had known us for a long time before we could take the state examination. This was difficult for us. When we knocked on people’s doors and they found out it was a nurse, they refused to see us. This didn’t discourage me; the more dif ficult time I had, the more determined I became. I knew there was something in that ‘R.N.’ You see, we could work side (Continued on page 6)