It must be getting warmer!!
Russell White and Mike Griffin are signs of approaching spring—the Graphic
Arts porch is a nice place to talk in pretty spring weather.
-Hi I ,noiJ69
Chowan transfer nurses
report on year at Duke
Smoke Signals, Friday, March 27, 1970—Page 3
During the recent medical secretaries’
seminar, held in Marks Hall, two interns
from Duke Medical Center, Sue Clark
and Rita Oden, reported they had worked
with some 20 doctors and said “they
couldn’t be nicer.”
Sue and Rita have finished two years of
study at Chowan and following a year’s
internship at Duke, will graduate with the
associate of arts degree in May.
They labeled their internship as “good
experience” in learning how to handle the
public, such as in the emergency room and
in becoming familiar with the various
departments.
Mrs. Pat Edwards, who serves as advisor
for the medical secretaries and is professor
in the department of business, echoed their
sentiments. “You really begin to learn as
an intern,” she said. “College education is
important and is a stepping stone. In the
hospital you continue to learn and grow as
you find yourself in many different situa
tions.”
Rita and Sue live in a private apartment
at Duke and receive a salary. Chowan
also has a working agreement with hospi
tals in Greenville, Suffolk, Va., and
Norfolk, Va.; and at these hospitals, the
girls live in dormitories for nursing students.
They get their room and board free and
receive a stipend.
As interns, they rotate among a number
of departments in order to receive broad
experience in many phases of secretarial
work in a hospital.
Each hospital has assigned a supervisor
to work with the girls. Mrs. Edwards also
visits each hospital regularly.
While the internship means hard work,
the girls know there is one bonus waiting
them upon graduation. “Each of the medi
cal secretaries who completes the three
year program receives a number of job
opportunities including several from the
hospital in which she did her internship,”
Mrs. Edwards said.
Medical secretaries attend seminar
Mrs. Pat Edwards, professor in the business department, speaks to a group of
medical secretaries during a recent seminar held in Marks Hall. From left,
Dora Morris, Debbie Vinson, Vickie Mercer, Sue Clark and Rita Oden.
«... . International students
R.N. s have . • • •
a new role comment on year in U.S.
Girls just watch the passing the "butt!"
Boys nonchalently pass a cigarette, thinking nothing of it. The girls don’t
think of it that way—girls have rules against smoking outside of their dorm
itories.
By MRS. ALMIRA OCKERMAN, R.N.
Nursing is one of the significant health
careers of which we all hear so much these
days. Because of the nature of nursing
service to the patient, it is a 24-hour service.
By this is not meant that one nurse serves
a given patient for a continuous 24-hour
period, but that several nurses share in
providing such a service.
When we speak of nursing service, we
do not always mean that all the service
is rendered by Registered Nurses. Regis
tered Nurses have to have help from Licens
ed Practical Nurses, Nurses Aides, and
orderlies. However, Registered Nurses are
responsible for the care of patients and,
therefore, are responsible for supervising
those who assist them in providing this care.
What are Registered Nurses responsible for
in addition to supervising those who assist
them? They must help patients to understand
the nature of their treatment, so that pati
ents can do their part in making their
treatment effective. After all, the patient is
the most important member of the “Health
Team.”
There are times when the Registered
Nurse must help members of the patient’s
family to understand how they can best
help the patient. Sometimes nurses must
teach members of the family how to render
specific patient care after the patient leaves
the hospital or clinic. Such care may include
assisting the patient to bathe, as^^hg I
him to use a wheel chair or to walk, or
preparing the foods which the doctor has
ordered for the patient’s diet.
Registered Nurses assist and extend
physicians by performing many tasks until
recently performed only by physicians.
Because Registered Nurses have had to
expand their role on the Health Team,
more Registered Nurses than ever are need
ed. At the same time, more Licensed Pract
ical Nurses are needed, as well as more
auxiliary personnel such as nurses aides,
ward clerks, and unit managers. The last
is the newest category of worker, created
to relieve Registered Nurses of many non
nursing activities, so that the nurse may
spend all of her time in performing activi
ties for patients as stated above.
The 33-month program in Nursing at
Chowan College prepares students to be
come Registered Nurses.
Information please
It’s reliably reported that Spiro Agnew
is the dictionary salesmen’s best friend.
After all, folks have got to find out some
how just what the heck “effete” means. —
Dallas (Tex.) Times Herald
Two international students at Chowan will
head for New York City after completing a
year of study in May, one to assume a summer
job at the United Nation and the other to
emplane for her homeland.
Tlie students, Annika Kritz of Sweden and
Ronaldo A. Karunungan of the Philippines,
shared frank appraisals of their stay at
Chowan and in the United States with “Smoke
Signals.”
Annika, attractive blonde, says her year
at Chowan has been full of surprises. “I never
thought I’d meet so many people, ” she said.
“I found it is very easy to make friends. The
students at Chowan are outgoing while the
Swedish young people tend to be more shy
or reserved,” she added.
She termed the campus atmosphere as
“relaxed” and said she plans to keep in
touch with her roommate, Becky Wall of
Clayton, and other friends. Annika said
Becky has made plans to visit her in her home
town Stockholm.
Another surprise was the fact that many
students hold “conservative opinions.”
Annika explained she expected more would
have liberal ideas, such as on the race issue.
She frankly believes that Swedish students
place more emphasis on studies and intel
lectual endeavors than do their American
counterparts. “Team sports are more im
portant here than they are in the colleges
in Sweden.” She said extracurricular act
ivities comjmonly take the form of discuss
ion groups, political organizations, chess
and photography in Sweden.
She said that such winter sports as ice
skating and skiing are popular and that she
has missed these activities. She attended
most of Chowan’s football and basketball
games and admitted she did not understand
football very well. She said she enjoyed
watching basketball more “perhaps because
there is always action.”
As a student, she found the fall semester
harder than the spring as she took 15 hours
then and now has 12.
Concerning her Chowan professors, she said
they “are very good,” and was pleased to
find they “show an interest in the students.
It is easy to talk to both faculty and staff
members,” she stated.
Her busy schedule has included traveling
to cities in North Carolina and Virginia while
visiting in the homes of girls from her
dorm, Jenkins, or speaking to a civic club.
Annika, a Rotary exchange student, re
ported shespoke to Rotary clubs in Murfrees
boro, Columbia, Elizabeth City and Ahoskie
and also to several churches in the area.
She also visited Greensboro, Raleigh,
Richmond, Va., and Norfolk, Va., and plans
to see Washington, D. C., and New York City
before leaving the middle of June.
New members initiated
Frog Power???
“Frog Power” seems quite prevalent in a certain section of West. East appears
to be the number one enemy.
Alpha Pi Epsilon, National Secretarial
Society at Chowan College, welcomed
five new members on Feb. 5. The girls
were initiated in a formal candlelight cere
mony. All members and the faculty of
the Business Department were invited to
a banquet at the Village Squire Steak
House prior to the initiation ceremony.
Pictured from left to right are Mrs. Doro
thy Wallace, Sponsor; new initiates Kave
Modlin, Petersburg, Va, Arnette Cahoon,
Columbia, N.C., and Marilyn Browne, Boul-
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Exchange students recount experiences
Chowan’s two exchange students, Ronaldo A. Karanungan and Annika Kritz,
right, point out their respective countries on a world globe as they discuss plans
with Rowland Pruette, professor of religion.
der, Colo, and Carolyn Brinkley, president.
New initiates not pictured are lionna
Tilton, Norfolk, Va., and Sheran Smith,
Richmond, Va. Also not pictured is an
old member, Jeannie Gay and sponsor,
Mrs. Patricia Edwards.
To qualify for membership in Alpha Pi
Epsilon, students must maintain a 2.0 qual
ity point average. They must also possess
qualities of leadership, accuracy, iniative,
and a superior degree of competence in
secretarial skills.
Annika said she had to adjust to the North
Carolina weather. “I arrived in August and
it was very hot. Our winter extends from
October to April or May. The March weather
in Murfreesboro is equal to May weather
in Stockholm,” she explained.
She has not been bothered with homesick
ness, she said, perhaps because she returned
home during the Christmas holidays.
When asked, “Have you changed any?”
she reflected for a moment. Her reply: “I
think I have changed. I’ll have to wait uniti
I get home to find out.”
She feels she has matured by traveling and
meeting many different people and becoming
acquainted with a different way of life. “I
believe 1 can take care of myself better,” she
commented.
Her advancement has taken one concrete
form: she now understands her roommate
and vice versa. “We had difficulty in Septem
ber communicating with each other,” she
laughed. “Now I can talk easily with her
and the other students.”
SNA attend
state meet
On the weekend of Mar. 5 and 6, the
State Student Nurses’ Association was held
in the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh, N. C.
The students representing Chowan at the
convention were Joan Clark, first vice-
president, Julie Cole, Terry Johnson, Ellen
Matthews, Melba Fowler, Carol Clark,
Kathy Warden, Donna Brown, and Mrs.
Sarah Tankard, advisor.
Friday night the representatives attended
a banquet and business meeting where the
candidates for state offices were nominated.
After the business meeting a talent show
was presented by members of the SNANC.
On Saturday morning, the delegates voted
and attended a program on Aero-space
Nursing. The new officers were presented
and the convention was adjourned.
She believes she’ll make use of her command
of English at the University of Stockholm
where there are many foreign students. A
Swedish student spends three years in college
and thus she has two years of study remaining.
She is planning a career as a librarian,
teacher or archaeologist.
Asked to summarize her year at Chowan,
she said, “I’ve enjoyed every moment being
here. Sometimes I feel like I shouldn't go
back.”
Then she added, “I’m pretty sure I’ll
return to this country. I want to come back
to North Carolina to see my many friends.”
Ronnie’s experience."!
Ronaldo, known as “Ronnie” on Chowan’s
campus, is from Binan, Laguna province
of the Philippines. He arrived in San Francisco
in May 1969 and spent the summer in Washing
ton D. C., where he was the guest of a former
Chowan professor. Dr. J. E. O’Connell.
Dr. O’Connell, now associated with the
National Science Foundation, is the reason
Ronaldo is at Chowan. Ronaldo became
acquainted with Dr. O’Connell when his
uncle, who works with the foreign service,
introduced him to an American scientist.
Dr. O’Connell.
Later, in 1966, Ronaldo again met Dr.
O’Connell, this time in Tokyo. The two did
considerable sightseeing together, giving Dr.
O’Connell the opportunity to convince Ronaldo
of the value of an education in the United
States.
He recommended Chowan College for his
first two years of study. “He explained
Murfreesboro would be quiet and a good
place to study and not play,” Ronaldo said.
Continued on Page 4
Notice!
With spring semester coming to an end
there will only be two more Smoke Signals
published. They will come out on April
17, and May 1. The deadline for copy is
on Friday, April 10, and April 24.