Yacta Mache

 

Yacta Mache -2

All our meals were provided within our contracts, as was our room, and a cleaning lady to boot. I fell in with the other four girls as we made our...

Yacta Mache -3

On the first weekend in New York, Ruth, Carolyn and I decided to take a ferry to see the Statue of Liberty. Our hospital was on Bay Street with...
Cherry

Yachta Mache - 4

Our first week was made more exciting by our first visit to Happy Hour – at the Officers' Club. It was open on Fridays from 5 to 6, and it seemed...

Yachta Mache - 5

In September, the rest of our group arrived, and the five from the previous year's internship left. Dorcas was the only one from their bunch that I...

Yachta Mache - 6

November, 1965 One of the perks of being an officer in a uniformed service, was going to the Post Exchange - PX - for cheap items. I bought a...

Yachta Mache - 7

By this time, we had switched rotations, and Carolyn and I left the Diet Therapy office. But we had heard that records were kept on all of us, and...

Yachta Mache - 8

We interns were expected to use our initiative to decorate the hospital over the Christmas period. So I made a poster, with the caption, “Give...

Yachta Mache - 9

Shortly after the new year started, we were invited to a party at one of the male nurse's apartment. We did very little socialising with the nurses...
Cherry

Yachta Mache - 10

I mentioned before the man who had written poetry for me – Hector, although at this stage I hadn't realised it had been written by him. Around this...

Yachta Mache - 11

We were applying for jobs by this stage of the year. Our work would finish on July 15 th , and we would be ready to go to a new job by the beginning...

Yachta Mache - 12

Kathy was the first of us to get married. Her wedding to Dan was the 23 rd of April, and she asked me to play the organ. I had been playing the...

Yachta Mache - 13

My sister, Judy, came to visit in June, and as she was very nervous about the whole thing, she talked one of her friends into coming with her. They...