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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 23

A BETA PHI GIRL WINS THE SCHOLARSHIP

TH E SUCCESSFUL applicant for the Alpha Omicron Pi Fellowship
in memory of Ruth Capen Farmer f o r the year 1925-1926 is
Wilkie Hughes of Indianapolis, Indiana. She is a graduate of the
University of Indiana with the degrees of A . B . and Graduate
Nurse and is a member of Alpha Omicron P i . She is also a
member of Eastern Star and is President of the Indiana Univer-
sity Nurses Alumna? Association. While in college she was
Treasurer of the Women's League, a member of Skeleton Club
and Vice President of her class, later succeeding the President.

Since graduation she has taught Physiology and Hygiene and
has directed the First A i d work in the Arsenal Technical High
School of Indianapolis, a school of five thousand students. Sum-
mers she has been engaged in hospital work as head nurse and
later as night supervisor in the Robert W ; Long Hospital of
Indianapolis.

This summer Miss Hughes has been doing relief work in the
Yale University School of Nursing. During July she was in
charge of the Surgical Department of the University Clinic and
in August of the Medical. This particular Training School was
established as a part of Yale University in 1923 to succeed the
Connecticut Training School f o r Nurses and was made possible
by a substantial g i f t of the Rockefeller Foundation. This fall
Miss Hughes is again taking up academic work through a teach-
ing course in the Department of Nursing Education in Teachers
College, Columbia University. She writes that many of the
Nursing Schools all over the country feel the importance of
higher education and are re-organizing their work. Many are
directly connected or affiliated with a university. A t Columbia
Miss Hughes expects to complete work f o r a Master's degree and
then go on with social service and welfare work by teaching in a
Nursing School. The Dean of the Indiana University School of
Medicine characterizes Miss Hughes as one of the most brilliant
graduates of their Training School f o r Nurses. I n addition she
is wholly devoted to her chosen work, and her further training
will mean to her an opportunity for better service in the interests
of humanity. Alpha Omicron Pi wishes her well in her year's
work!

ELIZABETH HEYWOOD WYMAN.