Forty Five Years Later

Communication had lapsed over for many over the years. For some close bonds remain. All of us prairie girls that had begun nursing careers at Regina General Hospital in September 1965. We shared an experience that is not found in nursing schools today that I am aware of. The experience of a residence for nurses in training.

Our experience as young women was to live in a residence that housed approximately 300 girls. Seniors, Intermediates and Juniors ~ In 1965, our class were the Juniors. We had Big Sisters who were to guide us through the first year of this daunting experience. For girls raised in the city, it wasn’t quite so daunting having grown up with the ways of urban life.

Our graduating class, the Class of 1968, began in 1965 with over one hundred girls. At graduation, we were about 90 newly minted nurses with black bands and beginnings ahead of us.

Forty five years later, we are a much smaller group having spread world wide. Some we have lost track of and some, sadly, have passed away. But we are still the same girls now with stories of careers, husbands, children, grandchildren and a lot of traveling through the world.

“Fond memory brings the light of other days close to me.”

~ Thomas More