Nurses Share Their Golden Memories ; Alumni Will Gather This Week to Mark the 50th Anniversary of Maine Medical Center School of Nursing's First Graduating Class.

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The first graduating class of the Maine Medical Center School of Nursing couldn't have been more prepared to enter the nursing profession in 1954 - they started school in a blizzard that blanketed Portland in 1952, and graduated during a hurricane two years later.

For Lorraine McDonough, nursing school was the time she came of age. When she was a young girl, she dreamed of becoming a nurse, and she started school when she was 17. For six months, "probes" - as nursing students were called - trained at a mock nursing ward and perfected the art of making beds, transferring patients and taking a patient's blood pressure and temperature.

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Nurses Share Their Golden Memories ; Alumni Will Gather This Week to Mark the 50th Anniversary of Maine Medical Center School of Nursing's First Graduating Class.

"The most exciting thing that ever happened to me, other than walking down the aisle, was receiving my nursing cap," McDonough said. "There was something so special about it. We walked in proce...

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