by Mary Stolz
Characters:
Gretchen Bemis, senior nursing students.
Rosemary Joplin, Nelle Gibson, classmates.
Miss Merkle, director of nurses.
Dr. Orin Whitney, Dr. Kenneth Grafton, Wally Chase, Dr. Dolphin
The Novel:
Gretchen Bemis decided on becoming a nurse and perhaps marrying a doctor when she brought her father to a hospital to have his appendix removed. So she went to college for two years in her Ohio hometown, then entered Sibert Memorial Hospital where she took up nursing.
Her close friends were Rosemary Joplin and Nelle Gibson. As student nurse they underwent the usual hospital hardship of attending to patients, listening to lectures by Miss Merkle, director of nurses. They liked best their little chats and coffee breaks with medical interns, sometimes with regular doctors.
Gretchen found Dr. Orin Whitney beginning to like her; Rosemary and Dr. Kenneth Grafton were often paired together. Nelle Gibson was seeing Wally Chase, a young man interested in archeology, mostly in Egyptology.
The three girls often exchanged confidences in the nurses residence. They went to small parties and also spent weekends in each other’s homes whenever they could. In their senior year, Rosemary and Dr. Grafton began to make plans for marriage, which their parents didn’t’ oppose.
Seeing each other more and more, Dr. Orin Whitney discovered that he loved Gretchen. On graduation day, Gretchen became truly happy when Orin proposed to her and she accepted him.
Comment:
A delightful clean and romantic novel about student nurses and serious, dedicated medical interns working in a hospital. The novel shows the working of nursing students and how they are trained; and quite interesting, the possibility of meeting young doctors and understanding their lifelong ambitions of serving humanity.