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STYLE/The Charlotte Post
Thursday September 4, 1997
Work hard for students
Continued from 14A
barely a decade after the hospital
opened with room for 20 patients.
; Initally the new hospital, which
\yas fovmded by members of all
white St. Peter’s Episcopal
Church, was met with derision.
Blacks, many of whom had never
lieen to a hospital, thought it was
a place to die.
i As need and trust grew, the hos
pital added the school to train
; Over the next 40 years, the hos
pital continued to grow and by
1946 Good Sam launched its first
capital campaign.
;'Ihe goal - to raise $110,000 to
build dorm for nurses.
■In the late 40s, when Spicer
Mitered, the schcxil was a unique
place. For $500, students got
three years of trsiining. ’Riition
included uniforms, linens, books
and insurance. Curfew was 7
p.m. on weekdays. On Saturdays,
if was moved back to 5 p.m. to
Misure all students were on time
for manditory services at St.
Michael.
t School director Hazel Blakeney
Jaded with an iron thumb.
“We were a family,” said Esther
Sturgis, of the class of ‘55. “We
didn’t get away with anything. I
don’t think there was any other
place bke Gcxid Sam’s.
Students were not allowed to go
Around
Charlotte
into Second Ward, an aU-black
neighborhood that boasted more
than a dozen churches and at
least as many “juke joints.”
Nursing students worked all
shifts and were required to clean
and sterilize instruments. They
mixed baby formula for the hospi
tal’s 12-bed nursery.
“It was hard,” Sturgis said. “But
we had our fun too.”
Even with donations of food and
money fi-om the black communi
ty, there were certain programs
the hospit^ could not afford to
offer. Psychiatry and tuberculosis
training was completed in north
ern hospitals. No southern hospi
tal would open its door for the two
to three months of training the
black nurses needed.
Chemistry and microhiology
courses were taught at Johnson
C. Smith University.
Home economics, at West
Charlotte High School.
Students often walked three
miles to Smith to keep finm pay
ing the 10-cent bus fare.
“We had to sit on the hack of the
bus anyway,” Sturgis said.
“Sometimes that would really get
to you. After we went to New York
and had no trouble being accept
ed, it really started to get to some
of us.”
Despite the improvement made
to the campus, the long hours and
harsh conditions began to bother
the students. In 1959, student
nurses staged a strike which
effectively closed the school of
nursing. The integration of
Charlotte Memorial Hospital in
the late 50s coupled with the
takeover of the hospital hy the
Hospital Authority in the 60s
spelled the end for Good Sam.
“I just don’t think it could have
survived,” 'Thomas said. “There
was no way they were going to
duplicate the services they had at
Memorial at Good Samaritan.
They weren’t going to have two
equal facilities.”
StiU, Good Samaritan gradu
ates have made their mark.
After the closing of Good Sam,
its nurses found their way across
the cormtry, from New York to
Cabfomia.
Although Good Samaritan only
exists in hearts, minds and mem
ories, its graduates promise to
meet again in 1999. Good
Samaritan, despite its shortcom
ings, remains dear.
“You know, there is no nurse
that’s better,” Sturgis said. “I
would put a Good Samaritan
graduate up against anyone.
'They would either equal them or
surpass them.”
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