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The people at Ohio Valley Hospital are going to miss thesethree efficient nurses when they leave for the service.By ESTHER McCOYHerald-Star CorrespondentThe concept thatv certain occupations belong to the male and other occupations belong to the female is diminishing.Women are employed in steel mills, constriction work and mechanic garages.Men have entered into fields formerly restricted to the feminine gender and one of these professions is nursing. Before 1970, a male RN was a rarity.Fred Dokes III, Roger Grimm and Robert Bossick. are registered nurses. All three are graduates of the Ohio Valley Hospital School of Nursing and all three -will be leaving for nursing careers in the service shortly.Fred Dokes will become a Second Lieutenant when he enters the Air Force on August 15. He will spend 10 days in an officers orientation program at Wichita Falls, Texas, and then will be stationed at Lackland Air Force Hospital in San Antonio, Texas.Freddy is enthusiastic about his new career but is certain to miss his family , and friends. Although a bachelor, he comes from a warm, close-knit family so it is easy to see why there will be a void in his life.His parents are Rev. and Mrs. Fred D. pokes, Jr. of Smith-fieid. Although many of Freddy’s relatives are in the field of religion, his Dad never pressured him to become a minister. He felt a calling was needed for this profession and wanted Fred to seek his own interest.The slender but dynamic RN admits he first dreamed of becoming a doctor but when he considered the many years of necessary schooling, he turned to nursing.Mrs. Dokes states, “Freddy was always sympathetic and compassionate towards family members who were sick. He spent six years in the care of doctors because of asthmatic bronchitis and although this time encompassed the years from one to seven, he never complained of his discomfort.”Julia Dokes feels that his decision to enter the medical profession may stem from the younger years when he made many visits to the MD.Fred is surrounded by women•at home as well as at work in Ohio Valley Hospital second floor central. Cheryl Fletcher is his older sister and Jennifer is the younger member of the Dokes family.Jenny has no plans of entering medicine or the ministry. Although she is only a sophomore at Buckeye North, she shows a real talent for writing and would like to studyjournalism.Fredcly encountered no unusual problems in a career that has 'been exclusively female.He was questioned frequently about his choice of profession but this has subsided now that male nurses are welcomed and accepted.He hopes to further his education in the Air Force and wants to earn a BA in science.Roger Grimm, like Fred, is a 1974 graduate of nursing.Roger is awaiting acceptance from the Air Force but his wife, Cathy and seven month old son Jason Michael will be traveling along wherever he may be stationed.Robert worked for a time at Weirton Steel after graduation from Weirton High School in1970.While going to school, he worked on week-ends,at Weirton General Hospital. Cathy worked as a ward clerk in the same hospital.Roger wanted a career with opportunity, responsibility and a chance to be his own boss. Work as a registered nurse fullfills all of this. He encountered no problems in becoming a nurse. Seven males had graduated from the OVH School of Nursing by the time he completed his education so it was not the innovation it had been.RN Grimm has worked in the psychiatric unit, second floor central for two years.He is the son of Mrs. Luetta Grimm and the late ClarenceGrimm of Weirton.Robert Bossick, will attain the rank of Ensign when he becomes a member of the U.S. Navy Nursing Corpthis month.He worked in the emergency room after his graduation in May of this year.Bossick will be stationed at Newport, Rhode Island, and wife, Linda plus the four and ahalf year old twins, Eden andDelaine will be by his side.Bob says the* only problem encountered while attending school was financial. It isn’t easy to finance a family of four and an education at the same lime.He held a part time job and Linda worked to help with expenses.Bob’s parents are Bob and , Jane Bossick of Wintersville, RD 2. The elder Mr. Bossick is custodian at the Herald-Star and a former driver for the circulation department.The occupation of male nurse is increasing butapperently the demand is greater than thesupply.The men are entering an area where they they are an asset to their profession and provide a valuable service to mankind.Florence Nightingale is the founder of the nursing profession and was labeled “lady with the lamp.” Males entering the profession might be labeled “Men of mercy” for they have broken down barriers and created a dedicated arid meaningful career.We wish these three young men good luck in their new careers. Opportunities are unlimited or as the Air Force might say “The sky is the limit.”OUCH! Fred Dokes, registered nurse prepares a shot for a patient. Fred wanted to be a doctor but took upnursing instead when he found out the years of schooling involved in becoming a doctor.
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Herald Star
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Sun, Aug 08, 1976
Page 24
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