The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-13
OPEN BIC SESSION
Triple Convention of Nurses
Begins in Topeka Today.
Annual Address of President
Martin This Afternoon.

An important event of the conven-
ton of the Kansas State Nurses asso-
citation this afternoon will be the an
nual address of the association presi-
dent, Miss Martin, r. N, who is a
nursing specialist of the extension de-
partment, Kansas State Agricultural
college. Miss Martin will discuss the
phases Of advancement of the nursing
profession in Kansas. Her address
will be given at 2 o'clock in Repre-
sentative hall.
Others on the program this after
noon will be Dean Helen B. Thompson
of the Home Economics department,
Kansas State Agricultural college, who
will discuss Food Therapy''; Mrs
whose subject will be Has the Kan
sas State Nursing association Been
Worth While?'; Sister Catherine Voth
of Newton. who will talk on What
Must Be Done If the Kansas State
Nursing Association Shall Continue To
Be Worth While?" Past presidents of
the association will give five minute
talks.
The first business session of the
tenth annual meeting of the Kansas
State Nurses association was called to
order this morning at o'clock at rep
resentative hall by Miss w. Pearl
Martin, of Topeka, president of the as
sociation. The first meeting of the
convention. held together with the
eighth annual gathering of the Kansas
organization for public health nursing,
and the second annual meeting of the
private duty nurses section, was held
at the city auditorium Thursday night.
More than 200 nurses are registered
for the triple convention in Topeka to-
day and Saturday.
Reports from the various depart
ments of the state association were
tyix af fl1o Coll
ing the report of the board of di-
rectors. Those who gave the reports
were Sister Catherine Voth, secretary
pro tenn, Newton. Kan; -iss Caroline
Barkemeyer, Halstead Kan. treasurer;
Mrs. Chas- c. Bailey, Topeka, chair
man of the revision committee and
chairman of the legislative committee:
Miss Edith White. Topeka. head of
the program committee; Mrs. Nellie
Pyle Baker Wichita, chairman of the
nominating committee: Mrs. A. Price
OF wichita chairman of the relief
fund committee; Mrs. Alma C'Keefe,
of Wichita. head of the State Red
Cross committed; Sister Mar Helena,
Salina. Kan, secretary-treasurer of
the state board Of examiners
Annual Banquet Tonight.
Tonight at Pelfetier's tea room at
Z o'clock, the nurses will hold their
annual banquet, with members of the
/ sohd "HcS -Atulcdl SOClety ana their
wives also attending. Mrs. Alma
O'Keefe of Wichita win be toast
| mistress. The program will be as
! follows:
Invocation, the Rev NJ. G. Mum.
Talks by Miss Sarah Parsons, su-
| perintendent of the General hos
! pital, Boston, Mass; Miss Genevieve
| Lii. Wichita. "A Nurse in the Cabi-
nets" Sister Catherine Voth, Newton,
: "A Diplomat" Miss Ethel Pinder. r.
y. The Red Cross Nurse of Today:;'
Bishop James Wise, THE Nurses,
Challenge to Real Womanhood: -
Charles l. Mitchell, THE Value of
/ the Nursing Profession From a Bust
ness Mans Standpoint" Karl 4. Men
ninger, NJ. D.. THE Increasing Oppor-
| tunity of the Nursing Profession :"
Governor Henry j. Allen and Senator
Hugh Fisher. THE Nurse in Politics. "