So you got your Masters degree then. What were your plans to, what do you
want to do with that? Well to get a job in Public health because I was
interested in public health and uh well I forgot to mention that my
experience in working with the indian hospital also sort of gave me an
impetus to to learn more about different cultures and the people who
needed help and care and instruction about their health. And that's the
kind of job I was looking for. However Loretta
Bard Wick at that time I was just trying to start a school here at A. S. U.
She was had been appointed as a dean to develop a school of nursing. Uh
And he shoe within the confines of the issue and she had
acquired one employee and and needed another. And so she very nicely
offered me a job to help develop the programs. You see. When was that? I
think it was 57 when I came here. How did you get to know her? Well when I
was working with the visiting nurse service she was also the director of
nursing at Banner Hospital at Good Samaritan Hospital. And she I was
familiar with her for meetings, nursing meetings and also from working
with her in the assignment of the students from Good samaritan hospital to
the visiting nurse service. Yeah. Experience.
So she hired you then in 1957. And was that a full time child to develop
the program in nursing atissue