FICTION

A Cap For Jean

by Wilda 20-Q-1

Part I

Evening shadows were beginning to descend upon the campus of the Eastern Parkway Nursing School, and the Board of Directors was still in session debating an issue, which was before them for the first time in the history of the school, Eugene Ross had made appli- cation for admission for the purpose of obtaining an RN degree. The young man's application had placed the Board in a quandry, since it was to them an accepted fact that few if any male

nurses had ever obtained an RN degree except through "in Hospital" training.

The Board at Eastern Parkway consisted of three ladies and six men, one of the ladies being Chairman of the Board, and at this point they were evenly di- vided with the exception of the Chairlady Mrs. Grove who had refrained from voting, and whose vote would obviously break the tie. Mrs. Grove had been sel- ected to head up the Board as an honorary acknow- ledgement of a large family donation to the school's new library. She was however an astute student of pshychology, having majored in the subject at the

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