The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-09
Nursemaid To Tycoons
Enjoys Hawaiian Job
nv PHIL WRIGHT
c.or.News Staff Writer

obads Boyd, fashionable nurse
W - the demanding appetites
n.S,a ,,dreds OF tycoons and play
O. and girls in Sunny Hawaii.
oGsr fate failed to falter in her
Mn no~ for foreign adventure, today
Ia.u AVIS on her career ladder, ready
sl'i scent TO pioneer pinnacles OF
10 ':ondsbip. it not fortune.
'li M;ss Boyd, the Florence Night
W. of the breakfast, dinner and
E ssner table; whose tempting and
supF +ravs of food thousands OF
IIs5;sI,rI1ingtonians and southeastern
with Carolinians remember
NJ" "a her sunny smile - next
HeAs starts her second year at
ntV Memorial Hospital in the
hawaiian Isles;
f'a T,;s above-the average = size,
Nv appearing menu-mystic who
is,NI Is years as head dietieien of
:" IVES walker Memorial hospital
r;1rington, lamented about her
H. n.Sii;tv to find dresses and Other
'u'r,7cnts long enough Cor ae1
ss':aotly less than SIX foot figure
s',f never found a friend lacking
pa sold one short. battled fate and
u.~+onressed its blemishes in a vain
'.tarnn4 10 "go all out" for her
,allow man long before Hideki
Toio's little yellow men pounded
~" daylights out OF Uncle Sans
yavv and his numerous nephews
81 Pearl Harbor.
ro1d about Miss Boyd's allergy
% mention of her height lin actu-
,,itv she is not an "unusually''
4 e1l' person. we decided that, since
!. had been mentioned. only to
droo this phase of the subject, then
md there.
An automobile accident, years
400 which left her temporarily
cTinpled, did not lower her am
b;t;ons to become d leader On the
staff Of McGuire's Medical Unit, a
Richmond, Va, group. headed by
noted medical wizard who sought
70 corral the nations top ranking
medical. surgical and dietary
technicians.
Size Joined the group over five
wars ago. two wears before It was
mob9lized by the United States
ANY for service in the hos pitfalls
scattered throughout the various
vlr theatres. After turning down
many attractive" offers for her
services. Boyd was finally turned
down by the Army because of her
injury record.
Frenzied James Walker airec-
tcrs. grasping at a chance to re
cover the services of this WIZARD
Of the culinary arts, hopped the
first plane out after bearing of her
decision not to go with McGuire's
unit. Thep persuaded her to come
back TO Wilmington, and she
agreed not reluctantly. despite her
disappointment in missing out on
tie overseas adventure.
She worked at James Walker
until last April when she had the
opportunity again to travel 10
foreign soil where her long sought
adventure awaited her.
She has travelled extensively, but
until then, when she started her
flight to Hawaii, had never been
. passenger on a plane.
She missed her plane at Blue
thenthal. rather the plane missed
her, by-passing the field in a
Storm and heading on to Charles
ton, S. c. Undaunted Miss Boyd
rushed 10 the Pennington air strip.
or the Carolina Beach road and
hoped the first Piper Cub TO
Charleston.
AFTER being bent up for three
hours in that crate. l was ready
for almost anything S h e wrote
friends from Hilo. But the trip to
tie islands was uneventful, she
said.
Porn in the red hills of Georgia
near the state capitol. Miss Boyd
vas left alone early in lie. and
today she claims no close family
ties, according to friends. but per-
aSts in the belief that all mankind
especially the afflicted - belong
u@der her guardianship.
In addition to instructing chefs
and Scullions as to what TO pre-
pare for meals, and at what ']e-
gree farenheit would be needed for
an easily palatable diet for pa
tents, the dietitian for over Is