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MISS CHRISTIAN
Recently, V. E. S. has been hit by a serious flu epidemic. During such trying times, the importance of a com- petent school nurse is realized. Fortunately, we have such a person. Her name, Christian, is very fitting for a nurse around the Ole 160, al- though she answers to " Flo" for short-derived, of course, from Flor- ence Nightingale, the heroine of the Crimean War.
Miss Christian has had a long career in the field of nursing. She attended college at Farmville, Sweet Briar, and the University of Virginia, ultimately obtaining her B.S. degree. She took graduate work in psychiatry at the Poly Clinic in New York City. She also took work in the treatment of tuberculosis at the Blue Ridge Sana- torium.
Flo has had a distinguished career as a nurse. She has been at various times a doctor's assistant, supervisor in a Richmond hospital, and director o f nurses in Richmond. Al so, she was in charge at the University of Vir- ginia for a while. She is recognized as a registered nurse in New York, Florida, and Virginia. Florida gave her this recognition in 1951. Her ex- perience there includes two winter's nursing in Miami.
Since she came here in October, 1953, as a replacement for a retiring nurse, Miss Christian has become
well-liked by all of us here. She has shown by example how much a really good nurse can do for a school.
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received by both the critics and by the general reading public, and seems sure to become an outstanding mod- ern classic. Another modern novel which has earned an excellent reputa- tion in a short while is Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country, a story dealing with the sharp racial d ivisions in the Union of South Africa. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's well-known novel dealing with corruption in America 's meat-packing industry, will be of interest to history students as well as to English classes, since this novel first aroused the general public and led eventually to the present system of government inspection of meat.
Three modern adventure stories are among the recent acquisitions. Her- zog's Annapurna is an account of the fate of a French expedition which set out to climb one of the most diffi- cult peaks in India's Himalaya range. Hunter, by J. A. Hunter, is a true story of one of Africa's outstanding big game hunters. Also of great in-
terest is Charles Lindbergh's The Spirit of Saint Louis, his own account of his famou s flight across the At lantic Ocean, truly one of the great adven- tures of the Twentieth Century. This book was a gift of Pat McNulty.
A book which will be of interest to both English and history students is Davis ' Life in Elizabe than Days. This valuable and readable book describes the daily life of the age of Shakes- peare by telling of the ordinary life of imaginary families and covering such items as their clothes, household furnishings, and socia l customs. O f similar broad interest is Sheldon Cheney's The Theatre: Three Thou- sand Y ears of Acting, Drama, and Stagecraft. This book, also the gift of Pat McNulty, is valuable both for reference and general reading.
As well as these acquisitions, mostly from purchases, the Library also re- ceived a gift of books from Mrs. An- drew Gleason of Forest, Virginia. Mrs. Gleason's sons were graduated from V.E.S., and both she and h6· husband have contributed generously to the school on previous occasions and in a variety of ways.
The recent gift of books included the complete works of William Make- peace Thackeray, one of t he most outstanding of the Victorian novelists, noted for his satiric presentation of
the upper middle class of English Iii~ Also donated by Mrs. Gleason wer the complete novels of George Elic· the well-known author of Silas Marner and the Waverly Novels of Sir Walle Scott, generally considered the fir historical novels in English and ce tainly among the best.
Mrs. Gleason's books included considerable amount of travel liter lure and a large number of historie and biographies. Of special intere will be General George Patton's Wa As I Knew It, an account of some the major European campaigns World War II, and The Memoirs c Cordell Hull, describing the acliv ties of the man who was Secretar of State under Franklin Roosevelt lc many years. Beard's Basic History c the United States and Lord Macau ley's History of England are valuab references as well as good reading.
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