Evening star., 1934-04-27
NEW YORK NURSE
CHOSEN PRESIDENT.
Miss Grant Succeeds Miss
Nelson of Boston at Ma.
tionaI Session.

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Health Nursing at the closing busi-
ness session at the Washington Hotel
this morning. She succeeds Miss
Sophie C. Nelson of Boston, who was
made a member of the board Of direc-
tors.
Other officers elected were Miss
Grace Ross, director of nursing for
the Detroit Health Department, first
vice president: Mrs. Emma SC. E.
Winslow of New Haven, reelected
as second vice president; DR.. Michael
M. Davis, medical director Of the
Julius Rosenwald Fund of Chicago,
treasurer. and the following directors:
Miss Nelson, Miss Katharine Savi.-7
of Cleveland, Mrs. Anne L. Henson
of Buffalo N. Y; Miss Agnes G.. Tai
colt of Los Angeles, DR.. Warren F.
Draper of Richmond, Miss Estella
Ford Warner of Washington. Mrs.
James K. Watkins of Detroit, DR.. AL
fred E. Shipley of New York and Mrs.
Gammell Cross of Providence, r. l.,
chairman.
Two Sections Elect.
Two sections of the American
Nurses Association also elected their
new officers today. The Government
section reelected all its officers-Mrs.
Mary A. Hickey of the Veterans Ad-
ministration. chairman; Miss Edith
Hayden of st. Elizabeth's Hospital,
vice chairman. and Miss Jessie
Phelps of the United States Indian
Bureau, secretary.
The private duty section reelected
Miss Media Marsh, Okmulkee. Okla,
as chairman. The other officers are
Miss Gladys Luckey, Ell Paso, Tex,
vice chairman, and Miss Virginia Hall,
Arlington, Mass, secretary.
The American Nurses Association
and the National League of Nursing
Education will name their officers
late today.
The next convention city also will
be chosen from more than 20 which
have invited the 1886 convention.
Total registration at the conven-
ton here reached 1854 today, which
makes this the largest nurses con-
vention ever held.
A. n. A. Addresses Heard.
While the tellers we're counting the
ballots the A. N. A. held a general
session on How Shall We Measure
theeQuality of Nursing?" at which
the Speakers were Henrietta Adams,
Seattle: Dorothy Rogers, Galveston;
LYDIA Anderson, Detroit, and Mary E.
Stebbins. St. Louis.
Miss Annie w. Goodrich, dean of
the Yale University School of Nurs-
ing, announced her plan to retire in
July and said she would be succeeded
by Miss Effie J. Taylor, president of
the N. L. N. E. and a candidate for
reelection.
To open the final joint session last
night Miss Elnora E. Thomson, pres
ident of the A. N. A., read message
Of greetings from President Roosevelt.
Hospital Views Differ.
There was a distinct conflict Of
ideas between the two hospital off,
cials on last nights final joint meet
ing. The topic of the two addresses
was "The Changing Order and the
Hospitals" DR.. Nathaniel w. Faxon
of Rochester, N. Y, president of the
American Hospital Association, talked
on professional Relationships and
the Hospitals" and DR.. j. Rollin
French of Los Angeles, president of
the Western Hospital Association,
discussed Economic Planning for
Hospitals"
The third speaker was Mrs. August
Belmont of New York. She discussed
The Nurse as Interpreter of the
Hospital to the Community"
DR.. Faxon made a plea for indi-
vidualism and against too much COL
lectivism, and asked that the per-
sonal relation between doctor and
patient be safeguarded. whereas DR..
French urged more wide adoption of
the group disqualification plan, or
similar plans based upon the principle
of collective insurance, and con-
demned organized medicine, as repre-
sented by the American Medical Asso-
citation, for obstructing efforts toward
that end.
Mrs. Belmont discussed relief work
that has been done for the unem-
ployed nurses in New York and their
response to changed economic con-
ditions.
Nurse Meetings Tomorrow.
The National Organization for Pub
lie Health Nursing, however, mas two
more sessions tomorrow, but they are
also of an executive nature and closed
to the public. State advisory nurses
will meet both in the morning and
tomorrow afternoon in the United
States Public Health Auditorium, with
Miss Pearl McIver, special nurse of
the U. S. P. H. S., as presiding officer.
A large number of the delegates
will leave for their homes today and
tonight, but several hundreds tomor-
row and Sunday will take advantage
of special tours Of Virginia and Mary
land arranged for them by the Vir-
Association.
The commercial exhibits also will
be closed tonight. During the week
they have been open in the base
ment Of the auditorium more than
$4,000 visitors-nurses and their
friends-have visited the displays.
After the general session of the
A. N. A. this morning, four more
sessions were convened. All ad-
journed round table discussions were
resumed for their last meeting State
chairmen for service fund commit
tees and the chairmen of State and
national committees on revisions and
memberships held separate meetings
at the Mayflower. The final session
was that at which the election re-
suits we're announced and the new
convention city selected.
The National Organization for Pub
lie Health Nursing held four sessions
to conclude its round table discus
sions. with its last business session.
The National League of Nursing Edu-
cation followed the same plan, with
four round table meetings and a
final business session.
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