The Washington times., 1923-02-07
[ NDOW|NENTF0R
NURSES, AIM
Of BALL
Fund Is Sought to Provide Spe-
cial Room for Sick at
Emergency.

What promises to be one Of
the most brilliant affairs Of the
winter season will occur tonight
in the ballroom of the New VIII
lard Hotel when the alumni of
the Emergency Hospital Train
ing School for Nurses gives its
first annual ball.
Endowment for Nurses.
The event is planned to provide
funds for the. endowment OF 4
room at the hospital to be reserved
for the use OF nurses requiring
hospital treatment. Al notable list
tof patronesses insures the success
LOT the bail which, according 70
alumni members, will prove the
first of series Of balls, one to be
given each year.
Interest in everything pertaining
fto Emergency Hospital is city wide.
Among the alumni Of its training
school are many women now ac-
Itively engaged in various social llp-
lift movements. They count their
friends BY the score Consequently
the response. when 1t became
known that the alumni was mr.
ranging ball for the purpose
stated. exceeded even the hopes Of
the most enthusiastic promoters Of
the plan. The gathering tonight
promises to be one of the largest
ever assembled in the New Willard
ballroom.
Feared Bad Weather.
Weather conditions when I'll
seemed that the city was iii the
track Of mfd-wihter blizzard,
alumni members feared would in
terfere with the attendance. To.
gay scores OF telephone calls have
been received by members of the
ball committee assuring them that.
regardless of rain or shine. sleat
or snow, patrons of the ball would
be on hand to show in every way
possible their keen interest in
Whatever tends to the benefit az
active or former hospital nurses.
An extended dancing program has
been provided which, ii Is under.
stood, will be featured nv several
exhibitions Of fancy dancing. Must
cal selections will also feature the
program.
"One never really understands
how close to us our nurses really
get until an opportunity is offered
to do something for them" said
one of the patronesses today. Then
we just feel we cannot do too much
TO further their plans. To me tl4e
idea of an endowed room at Elmer.
gency Hospital for the benefit Of
sick nurses is the very epitonle of
all one associates with a hospital.
The idea is general that nurses
never require medical attention, are
never sick and, as immune from
human ailments. require nothing at
the hands of physicians and other
nurses.
Stricken. on Duty.
yet there are scores of nurses
stricken down with the diseases
they contract in caring for others
and we never hear anything about
1T. It is about. time they had hos.
pital quarters of their own, and I
know the Washington public Will
respond literally by patronizing the
ball"
At the hospital officials were re-
luctant to appear ais too deeply In
terested in the endowment fund
ball They frankly stated that It
was an alumni activity That they
have the success OF the ball at
heart, however, is seen in the fact
that both B. B. Sandridge, superin-
tendent of Emergency Hospital, and
Miss Ann Ruffin, superintendent of
the Emergency Hospital Training
School for Nurses. are serving on
committees. The former liz chair
man of the floor committee, while
the latter is on the general COM
mittee.
|. Among the patronesses Of the
ball may be mentioned Mrs. w. w.
Spalding. Mrs. Frankling n. Ellis,
Mrs. Joseph Letter, Mrs. Alfred
Pembroke Thorn, Mrs. A. Garrison
McClintock, Mrs. Richard Harlow.
Mrs. Ward Mankin, Mrs. Edward
Alsop, Mrs. Theodore Boynton, Mrs.
Isadore Rayner. Mrs. Harry L.
Lewis, Mrs. Howard Gheen, Mrs.
David H. Blair. Mrs. Eugene Hall,
Mrs. John Campbell Forester, Mrs
H M. Kaufman. Mrs. Willard Sauls-
bury, Mrs. James Morris Morgan,
Mrs. ]. W. Wainwright, Mrs. D, "A.
Fowler, Mrs Samuel Harry Wander
grift, Mrs. w. d. Brownson, Mrs.
Carry T. Grayson, Mrs. w. x. Van
Reyper, Mrs. Woodrow Blair, Mrs
James F. Mitchell, Mrs. Charles
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