The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22

who has been retired. This is also .
new departure; but it is in keeping
with Presidents Howe's policy of pro-
noting members Of the staff strict
ly on merit based on actual perfor-
nance of duties Captain White is
a graduate of Hampton, an attorney
at-law, and a most useful member of
the staff. Very recently he had leave
o. absence to do special work at Har-
ward university in personnel placement
and records His research in the oc-
cupatons of Hampton graduates has
been a valuable piece Of work for
the Institute
The new director of the School of
Nursing, Miss Ruth Hopper, brings
to her task a wealth of experience,
as well as a broad background of gen.
eral and technical education She is
a graduate Of Oshkosh Teachers Col
lege, Wisconsin. With additional work
at Columbia university and Ripon col
lege. Her technical training was re-
ceived at the we'll known Massachu-
sets General Hospital. of which she
is a graduate. She has been super
visor of the University Michigan Hos
pital, as well as an instructor at
Mere Hospital, in Oshkosh, Wiscon-
sin; for two years, a member of the
Wisconsin State Board Of Examiners
Tor nurses; was supervisor Of the
surgical floor in the Massachusetts
General Hospital; and for the past
two years has been superintendent of
nurses at the Dixie Hospital, at Ham
pton.
Miss Clara Lewis, B. S from Lewis
Institute of Chicago, is one of the new
instructors in the School Of Nursing.
She has served as superintendent in
Wisconsin; was with the army and
the Red Cross in the Balkan States;
and with the School of Nursing in
Wisconsin A member Of the Wiscon-
sin State Board Of Examiners, she
has also taught the care of the sick
under the Red Cross of Chicago. Her
special work will be nursing and psy-
chiatric nursing.
Miss Doris Sweeney is the new night
supervisor at Dixie Hospital. She is
a graduate Of Elizabeth Buxton Hos
pital, Newport News.
EXPERT IN HOME ECONOMICS
Miss Helen L Kendall comes to
teach art, in succession to Miss Celia
F. Hyney. She is a former instruct
or in the art department here, leaving
Hampton in 1926 to direct the art
department in the University of
Porto Rico. She resigned that posi-
tion to return to this country to be-
come consultant for Clarence Whit
man and Sons of New York. Her
duties included the carrying out of
an educational program which took
her into 70 cities as lecturer to wo-
mems clubs, colleges, and museum
groups, on color and art decoration.
in 1888, she became director Of applied
art and industry in the Albright Art
Gallery in Buffalo, resigning that
work to return Ito Hampton. Her
preparation was had in the Mansfield
School Of Applied Art, Columbia uni
versity; the Paris branch of the New
York School of Fine and Applied Art
And the Cornell School Of Art.
Mrs. Phyllis Jones Tilley, honor
student in primary education, Hamp-
ton, '28 is in charge Of. the Nursery
School, succeeding Miss Helen v.
Jackson. Miss Tlley was graduated
from Chicago Teachers College ir
1881, having specialized in ntrsery
school education. Her practice work
vas done at the Rosenwald Garder
Apartments Nursery Schools; and hel
training observation were made al
the Mary Crane Nursery Schools a
Hull House, the University of Chic
ago Nursery School, and the Skokit
Valley School in Winnetta. Last year
she directed a private nursery schoo
With has been taken over by a gov
eminent organization.
Mrs. Mary E. Taylor, B. S., Hamp
ton 81, home economics has been ap
pointed supervisor of the Practic,
Home, taking the place of Mrs. Mar
tina d. Hunt, retired. Mrs. Taylo.
received the Gregg Prize at Hamp
ton for superior work in home econom
les. She has served as supervisor Of tn
work in home economics. She ha
served as supervisor of this work il
the Phyllis Wheatley Association il
Cleveland, Ohio; and was teaching
in the high school of her home whel
back to Hampton.
WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT
AS previously announced, the posi-
ton of assistant dean Of ome ha
been filled by the appointment of Mis-
Eva Estelle Thomas, Hampton, '33