News: Mrs. Hope Goes To Washington Reunion (1971)

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Posted By: Melissa Mayhew Grandt (email)
Date: 5/4/2009 at 19:40:42

Iowa City Press-Citizen, Iowa City (Johnson Co.), Iowa, 28 April 1971.

Mrs. Hope Goes To Washington Reunion
[PHOTO] "MRS. HOPE"

An Iowa City nurse is attending the last reunion of the short lived Army School of Nursing in Washington, D.C.

Mrs. Glen Hope, 201 North First Avenue, was in the first class at the school which was organized to provide badly needed nurses during World War I.

However, the classes didn't begin until August, 1918, and the war was over in November. So Mrs. Hope's class of 1921, now observing its 50 year reunion, as well as subsequent classes, missed war service. The training school was discontinued in 1932.

There were 512 in the first class, Mrs. Hope said, but subsequent classes were small. She served during her training and later at Camp Dodge, in Philadelphia, at Fort Charlton near Chicago and at Letterman General in San Francisco.

She worked in the Child Ware Welfare Research Station at the University of Iowa for a number of years after her army service and was a nurse at student health for 11 years.

Reunions of the classes to date have been regional ones. Mrs. Hope attended the 10th reunion in Chicago.

After this reunion, the affairs are to be discontinued, so this one went to Washington. The activities were to include a tour of the White House and a reception with Mrs. Nixon.

And of course they would see old friends "I'm anxious to see what the old gals look like after 50 years," Mrs. Hope laughed.