As you may well know, there is no mandatory retirement age for part-time workers. My grandmother worked in nursing, at Polyclinic hospital, Harrisburg, until she was 76. In addition I have her nursing class graduation photo that I will send you (sorry, I don't have the persons identified by row) but can tell you which she was. Her cousin, Iva Margaret Garlitz, graduated in the same class. Iva Garlitz died when she returned to West Virginia to care for her ailing mother. She died tragically in a house fire.

I wish I had found your site before she died, she would have loved it. I do have a photograph of her and some friends at a reunion, but they had already retired from nursing by that time. Anyway, I will try to get those photos out to you this week.

Once again, kudos to you on your magnificent job on the site.

One of my grandmother's favorite stories to tell from that era was related to long hair. I guess in those days it was preferable, and the nuns were forever berating her about how her hair was too short (she kept secretly cutting it through her nursing school days). These days we are just so glad to see people in nursing school, we don't care how long or short their hair is, even a balding man is welcome in these days of nursing shortages.