The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-08-01
Forty Young Women Inquired for In
formation Regarding New Field
for Service - Graduate
Nurses in Charge
HONOR ROLL.
Madeline Martin.
Margaret Pennefeather.
Florence Wells,
Esther Heyman.

Florence Wells,
Esther Heyman.
The recruiting station of the q. 5.
Student Nurse Reserve, located on the
green at Market Square, had a busy
time of it Monday. Over forty patrio-
tic Kenosha girls inquired about this
new national service for women, four
enlisted out right, and dozen or more
are meditating for day or two and
will no doubt enroll before the cam
paign closes. This is a wonderful
start for Kenosha and if the average
of four day is maintained she will
come out with flying colors.
The four girls who have already en-
listed their services with this magnif-
cent cause are the Misses Florence
Wells, GIG Park avenue; Madeline Mar
tin, 301 Fremont avenue; Margaret
Pennefeather, 423 Market street, and
Esther Heyman SIS Exchange street
The girls have all secured their doc
tors certificates having been previous
ly examined by both physician and den
fist, and are now awaiting the arrival
of application blanks from Washington
The latter have been delayed in some
way and have not as yet reached any
of the thousands Of recruiting sta
tions carrying on campaigns in every
city of the United States.
At the rate that the girls are respond
ing to the first real call of their
country, there is no doubt but what
not only Kenosha will easily fill her
quota, but that the twenty-five hundred
student nurses demanded will be enroll
ed long before the campaign has closed.
The women in charge of the recruit
ing station are all graduate nurses.
They make clear to the applicant just
what her duties will be and try to i'm
press her with the fact that the voca-
tion or rather profession, is not one of
romance, but one Of real service. Mrs.
q. G. Theirs of Durkee avenue, was in
charge Monday afternoon and Miss
Rosetta McGinn on MondaJ evening.
Miss Emma Kruchman has been APP
pointed to secure services of the Ke-
paign while Mrs. M. Northway of the
Kenosha Hospital, is chairman of
the entire campaign.
This new course is the first real
chance for real service that has ever
been offered to the many Kenosha
women who are yearning to do some
thing worth while for the boys over
there. Although the girls themselves
can not possibly serve in France until
they have had two or three years of
training, their entrance into the student
reserve Immediately releases a graduate
nurse for service at the front.
The nurses in charge of the recruiting
stations have a great responsibility as
they themselves must judge the girl
applicant before accepting her services.
The government wants young women
Of education, character, good health
and good sense. It does not want a
dabbler or dreamer, but a serious
practical patriotic girl or woman sin
cerely anxious to throw her energies
and abilities to some work that is real
ly going to count.
1t is expected that just such girls
viii come to the front in Kenosha The
Woman's Committee of the County
Council of Defense are expecting to
double the quota assigned to the county.
Meanwhile the first four girls on
Kenosha S new honor roll are anxious
to receive their enrolment cards. They
are engaging to hold themselves in
readiness until April /, 1919, to accept
assignments to either a nurses train
ing school in civilian hospital, or to
become candidates for the army nurs.
ing school, recently established by the
War Department. The government is
hoping that the majority of those who
enroll will put down their names for
BOTH Those who so enroll will be call
ed where the first need arises.
Those Of superior qualifications will
be given preference, and it is Of course
possible that not every one who enrolls
will be accepted.
The campaign will continue until
August 18th. Kenosha's young wom-
en-, who find themselves qualified to
enter this service, are urged to respond
Immediately and take the step that is