We weren’t finished. Our class reunion was, but today the Regina General Hospital School of Nursing annual gathering met for lunch. On hold during the Covid 19 pandemic, this was our first one back: the 44th Annual RGH School of Nursing Luncheon. In past years, it was a Saturday night dinner, then a Sunday brunch and today a Sunday luncheon). Two hundred and twenty one nurses sat down to a delicious meal in the Ballroom at the Doubletree Hotel. It was not an easy task to get us all seated and quiet for introductions! Herding cats comes to mind.
From the classes of 1949 to 1953 all the way to the last classes in 1972, we were an amazing gathering! Several of our classes celebrated reunions or caught up on reunions missed due to Covid 19. Today we lunched with nurses we learned from and worked with; looking for our ‘big sisters’, instructors and colleagues. ‘Big sisters’ were from the year previous to teach us the ropes of the Nurses Residence we lived in. Many of us had no clue who our big sisters were!! Some were able to reconnect with a big sister. Not all had maintained that relationship when life and circumstance interfered.
It was a great weekend. In five years, the RGH Nursing class of 1968 will meet again - location to be determined. In one year, the RGH School of Nursing will meet for a Sunday luncheon, or brunch - that’s to be determined as well.
Thanks go to the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel staff for a comfortable well run weekend for us all.
“……the hours are long, the work hard, and the pay inadequate to the
amount of concentrated energy required. A nurse, how does not view
her profession dispassionately. It is too much a part of her.”
~ Monica Dickens,
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