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THE DAILY REPUBLIC, Mittflwll, 5. D.mum■l77SFKSMiss Woods, ‘Best Businessman InMitchell’, Also A Woman And Mothertfeffitaft This it m tmlifi i m mi nm fit ah ttajmftfta m\ utii mstctt ftt Msbftf 9, Wdffds, mm* iftieftdffli eftieiieas of MetMstMiss Woods was not ail business.She was not the af*ch type of the cold, masculine a acting bueiMssWoman, Rather she was a woman, a dedicated woman it's true, but heveMhedess a woman with all the tenderness and love of a mother.she loved ehildi-eft and shehad a fine sense of homer, Many is the hauf she sheet inpediatries talkihg and laugh*lave formg with children. Her the sick and the well who came ta hen attention is e*embtitted b.v her addpllan of Fatiitie Ann* Fannie Ann became motherless wltett only 10 days old and Miss Hoods took her Into her own home and lavished her with love and affection,She was 10 days old When her fattier first brought her to the hospital and it was on her third birthday when fmat adoption papers were signed. Adoption was started when she was about two and one-half. But I had her from the time she was 10 days old,** says Miss Woods.The story of Fannie Ann is important in another sense, too. it Hiows the concern Miss Woods had for adults as well as children.In the 1030a many graduates of the nursing school could not find jobs. Miss Woods allowed them to stay at the nurses home free of charge and lo eat at the hospital cafeteria at nominal rates.Even with the free room and low cost meals, many of them could not earn enough money through private duty nursing to pay expenses. Miss Woods then would pay them to provide expert care for Fannie Ann while she worked.Miss Woods' care and devotion in raising her daughter was subject of admiration throughout Mitchell, Evidently she did not spoil her daughter for Fannie Ann grew up to be a charming lady. Today she is Mrs. Jack Mee of Ames; la. Her husband, is doing graduate work in chemistry.You said, writes Mrs, Mec, lliat the story of Mother cannot be written without the story of Fannie Ann; it is also true that (he story ot Fannie Ann cannot be written without Mother.The thing that she did in adopting a child-assuming the complete care of a stranger, is very unusual in a person who is not married. It is an indication of the type of woman that she is. She truly believes •you find yourself in helping others.’“I always felt that I was an especially important person because my Mother chase me, I always will remember how kind andMrs. Jack Mee was a baby 1ft days old when Miss Mabel o, Hoods took her into her own home and lavished her with love and affection, Forma! adoption was completed when the llitie glri, named Fannie Ann, celebrated her third birthday, Fannie Ann today is Mrs. Jack Mec of Ames, * la„ and has her own little daughter, Jacqueline Ann, who will be four in April, Pictured on the left are Fannie Aim and her daothte?, Jackie, At fight is Miss Woods holding her granddaughter, when Jackie was a new baby, Jackie today dearly loves her grandmother, and grandmother, well *-*ne reciprocates.ConFoiArfeids llt;mm jproved missioi fnefetih Whet Of Muffor tto three :bridgeWheehSoutlGo. oipipe cionly b Run cf fcuiContraiparent ed on Other culver Drain aand cSIOUX 1Nine oil, gti tracts was aiat 69 c tract v a galk to Ethi Alt i low blc on wh: Grosz Othei Pafkat TexasD.A. 1T!he to1 Wei the ap of varl Rozumoi$161FinMiss Mabel O. Woods for 23 years was superintendent of Methodist Hospital in Mitchell. She retired in 1947 and In 1952 resumed an active career by starling private duty nursing—what I always wanted to do but couldn't while I was still, out there, Pictured above is Miss Woods on the job taking carc of a little baby with pneumonia. The baby is not plainly visible because It is in an oxygen tent. The photo was taken last week while Miss Woods was on this case.(Photo by Paul Mountain)understanding she was to all myproblems. I can never remember.the hose,hearing her voice raised to me andi Today the beautiful scenery,I received only one spanking in my lawn and landscaping Is regard-life. Yet I respected and minded ed, indeed, as a natural memorialher. to her devotion to her cause.“She always visited each patient Mrs. Evelyn Woods, city once during the morning. She had schools nurse, writing for 1954 a cheery word and would some-. Alumnae News, says, Undertimes encourage them by taking a-small girl to visit. Every afternoon she would take another tour of the hospital, visiting patients she felt; needed another word of encouragement.The hospital was a paying proposition probably because nothing was loo small to be overlooked. It was Mother's life. And yet I felt that I was also my mother's life. We always had a grand time in the evenings playing games or reading stories, She took time to see that I attended church regularly with Iterj t h a t I learned Bible stories and verses; that I understood this idea of service lo others.One of Mother's greatest interests at this time is my 3^-year-old daughter, Jacqueline Ann Mee. Jackie is a blonde, curto headed child who dearly loves herher ski [full management the hospital grew from a 50-bed to 125-bed hospital. Gradual i n g classes increased from seven to 27 students, Improve in e n t s made .on the grounds never have been surpassed. It Is such people as Miss Woods who have made nursing an art requiring exclusive devotion, having lo do with I he living body—the temple of God’s spirit.During the drouth years the third floor was closed when the hospital I had a daily patient census of 25 to j39 and money was almost unheard of. During the 40s the daily census ■zoomed to 140.I In doctors’ tribute to Miss Woods, : written by several Mitchell doctors for the 1954 Alumnae New, Dr, J.H. Lloyd said of her in those changing times, Miss Woods was always the same and operated the hospital with the same air of conMinneapolis.In Asbury we worked 10hours a day, That was in addition to our class work. We had a half * day off during the week and a half-day off on Sunday. Times have changed quite a bit. They said a nurse lasted 10 years then,Nursing is most valuable to anyRC First AidDirector PlansFirst ClassesWedrOf $161bond fi five pe and oi to yfel' Fine failure Rev. l Judge to pay $7.30 a trohna Schpih car ht oi the Perr was o and c pleade an ho Foui bonds In cou ing a the bi repre; an ho exceei of $7,; pleadt The: the tiThe first training program for **uberDanm Charlfand Fgirl, It’s something she'll always Red Cross first aid instructors to use and even those who get mar- be held in Davison County for six ried seem to drift back into nurs- years will begin in January, ac-,^. ing. (cording to Gordon Lancaster, newWhen Miss Woods gradua t e d first aid director for the county, from nurses training a unit of 101 Lancaster was appointed recently to the post by Roger Bald-Grandmother Woods and loves to nde^icS aml effic4enc5rShe instilledj . a i mJl°wWy w everyone and she wasMiss Woods has received Lttle j0yaj m everyone herself. We werepublic recognition for many of her accomplishments. Among these was the start of the five-year nursing degree at Dakota Wesleyan University, She helped plan and develop the program. The two schools, DWU and Methodist Hospital, corn-fine their curriculi in the program.Ordinarily nurses graduate from a three - year course and are graduate nurses, After passingstate board exams they are registered and win the coveted RN’\ The five - year program goes beyond that, combining a college course with nurses training to offer successful candidates degrees in Bachelor of Science iri Nursing or Bachelor of Science in Nursing Ed* ucation.When Miss Woods was a student nurse, although she had attended college, not even a high school education was required. After shecame to Mitchell from BrQWoushe raised the standards by requiy* ing a high school education,We were the first school iul ho stale |q require a high school education far admission lo school, They laid me thatUw ould never work «*.( we’d never have eueugh students. Weil wp'ye always had enough students, says Miss Woods, Aslo the five-year program, shesays, i feft it was absolutely necessary to assure a sm* Itoutog supply sf nursing edu*eaters,**Nurses today ** students then.speak with winder when they tellhow Miss Wands would finish a hard day at M hospital mi spendthe rest of the daylight hours ear* ing m the grounds* And hew, duntag the dry rears, she carried sprinkler from trie to, .tree sometimes used* a water to water trees and flowers, “There m magy Mm I remember about ihe hospital that show herdevaUoh-ta to*M says Fannie AmO' taoi idem is the mm. trees and hushes m piped %m tang m tonth mhours dmgftlng; m hops flm dueplace ia umm WMrtJthe Mspml pdd he heBU nl Maoyjgh sMoff m .Whedthem mk ids didall made to feel that this was om hospital—nurses and doctors, everyone,Miss Woods knew everyday who was m the hospital and why; shelooked after their needs and wantsand corrected the little gripes so the big ones didn't occur.We'have- many improve,mcuts; we have a much bet-ter place lo work and a more luxurious, efficient and beaiiD* . ful hospital than when you were superintendent, hut we are well awtue of the years you labored (o bring ah this about.In 1947, Miss Woods retired and was succeed edtothepositiopshe’d was succeeded to the position she'd held for 23 years by R. R. Ah* dres, Dr. E, T. Goygh, a former Methodist minister, succeeded Amdies and resigned in July, 1954, after several years on the job.Miss Woods came out of retire* ment and served as superinteiv dent pro tern until Ernest Forbes, current administrator, took over inSeptember of that year,' If - - - •in 195? she finally started what Ahe always enjoyed the most mi what she always wanted to dMiie came out of retirement and started private duty nursing.She states the more nursing care required by a patient, the more she enjoys it-.mm Q. woMb is a productof ftoviun County, She washorn.pf pieaeer parcptSi Arm ae andmmand Mrs, W, Woods, j* ...ser Township of Raviion Couo* iy,However, her father artd his pro* emptun m Uavta County and the family .moved to Aurora Caunty, four miles west of Slerla m Mford Tewnihip, where Miss to womanhftad.Mtes Wgadi taught ml achaatein Aurora'Caunty for .seyora.! yearg m , then tauht ia the primai'ynurses and two doctors were ready for overseas duty. Their bags were packed and they were awaiting shipping orders when the Armistice was signed ending World War I, I was disappointed then, she says.Miss Woods became superintendent of Deaconess Hospital, Brookings, in 1919 and remained therefour years,I decided to leave to come to Mhcheii, after a board member contacted me, because I felt my work there was completed, that I had done all Icould unless they wanted tobuild, to expand.Then just at that time my father died and I decided if I came to Mitchell J could help my mother. I could work and she could live with me, But as it happened she died before J got here,When J first came here there were three graduate nurses, Of course the hospital was still very new then.As a matter of record, today at the hospital there are 32 graduate nurses on the staff as well as 25auxiliary nursing personnel, such as practical nurses and nurse’s aid* es, and 76 student nurses, in the course of years since Miss Woods came to the hospital, 520 girls nave been graduated from the nursing ibchool,Of these 520 Miss Woods, saidThey’re scattered all over the world,Miss Woods is a life member ef the Asbury Hospital Alumni Association} a life member of the American Hospital Assorts* lion; an honorary life member »i the Methodist Hospital Alum*nl Association, Blie is past president of the South Dakota Nurses Association and past president of the district nurses Association-She was one of three sisters and three brothers. Today a brother,Clifford A- Woods, Flankintoa, and a sister, Mrs, Mrytie Emmorsoo, of fiallferaia, are sWU hYing.About Iter own life, mm Woods comments, H’yp never regretted any of it,’1. rrM about today, H just gotkm fl'ommy walk, {like to walk1? to is blacks tevery day. and Ido unless something inteiieve§ tomake it taassible. j y-And about her eurreut private duty pursing^ mm\ “I m like w mt m enjoy a 1 of it. This \s always wbat f wanted to do. **-t smm wbde I was still out./ V dGORDON LANCASTERwin, county Red Cross chairman.Lancaster completed his instructor’s course in the revised Red Cross first aid book in Sioux pity last October. In November he also took an instructor’s course in Huron.The new first aid director said Wednesday he hopes to train 1548 instructors in the county. These i«-stuctors will, in turn, teach first aid classes, particularly in the business places in which they are employed,Earning the credentials of (a Red Cross first aid instructor requires completion of the standard, advanced and instructor's first aid courses, Lancaster said.Cles nesda;A d;12 oui Metho Tlieod Mrs Lake pound day a If co-optand c.i RepulbuildpaperWill.Momi:day wby tii Courts Shoi copy 1 weekt p, m,shoukYour ered 1 Mr.LakeSaenzClaudMrs ell, aMrs.aunt,SiouxCoats1past where ding their ■men.rated to ibsm mMiNi.. ......... mmm g£ha«i of mm*Santa To Visit Leqion ClubThe American Legion will have, *™ its aiuml Santa Claus party for 1 chUdren of veterans in this vtcihlty ”pf!*% Friday evening. *HoWeMrSanta' wlU de n atc the ^American ye|gLegion Club from .6:3.0 to p,m- mi would like to havi the parents bring theirQm vm Woods wrote a poem, as ebs fredu?#y did, to her gradm Jdtog pte m mm* ito i * mxtim mmA*about a e one of childrento during that time.He will have a package of goodies for them,9S5S9B'ah totofis tofu MAa I teek «» m girls to toilMy rriatofg^hut is itofifid to®*vfw wm to m mi sunCvmnfy fawtLWestern star Rehekub Lodge will hold it§ regular meetmg Fri* day at. 8 p,m, at m W Hli,Plato, Mabel -Q-. 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Mitchell Daily Republic
Mitchell, South Dakota, US
Wed, Dec 18, 1957
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