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D17538-2
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- 1944-05-09 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Tacoma hospitals observed National Hospital Day on Friday May 12, 1944.This photograph, taken in the surgery at St. Joseph's Hospital shows (l to r) Mrs. Darlene St. Onge, supervisor of surgery, U.S. Cadet Nurse Patricia Richards, Dr. R. Merrick, U.S. Cadet Nurse Eldoris Miller and Lucille Edwards. Tacoma General and St. Joseph's were both learning hospitals for enrollees in the U.S. Nurse Cadet Corps. On Saturday May 13, 1944, seventy six cadet nurses at St. Joseph's took the induction pledge at a ceremony held in the St. Leo's High School auditorium. (T. Times, 5/11/44, p. 1).
Operating rooms--Tacoma; Medical personnel--Tacoma; St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Cadet Nurse Corps (Tacoma);