El Paso County Pioneers’ Association

1896 - 2017 121 Years501 ( c ) (3)

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The Coalition of Pikes Peak Historic Museums

Notice of Luncheon Meeting - Friday, November 17, 2017

Nurse! Nurse!!

It is wonderful to be a Nurse!

Sept. Speaker was Joanne Ruth, nurse, teacherand author - “We Are Beth El Nurses: AHeritage of Caring at the Foot of Pikes Peak”.

Joanne F. Ruth (Jo) is a happy and out-goingpleasure! Just what we like and need in aneducator/nurse.

In a presentation we all enjoyed, she let us seeand hear about her career and those who startedand continued this important education. In herwell done book of local Beth-El history sheshows us a happy side of a profession thatrequires much of those who nurse us in ourtimes of need! As knowledge and equipmentgrow and change with time so do the peoplewho take part. When we look back now itseems as if most changes are helpful to theprofession much as the differences in what isworn. For men that hasn’t been as drastic asfor the women who got more physical freedomwhen long skirts were changed for shorter onesand even slacks. Men were late in beingwelcomed to the nursing much as women beinglate in being welcomed into the profession ofbeing a physician.

Tuberculosis fueled the local need for care of

patients who came for the thin, dry air of this altitudethat gave healthy relief in most cases. Many of ushave been nursed at one time or another beyond themoment of birth. In her thoughtful book JoanneRuth has included many photos that explain whereand how these nurses did their work that workincludes everything from making a bed with“hospital bed corners” to shaking a thermometer andon to bed pan duties which make them heroes in mybook!

Frances Potter Peck and Anna Belle Lennox andRuth Banning Lewis are some of the prominentwomen who worked to get school facilities and knewthe need for nurses. A doctors’ best help, nursesmust be able to follow instructions from doctors whotreat the patient as well as to be able to act when adoctor is not there to “boss” them.

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Much work was done to gather the funding tofound a place to learn nursing here. This wasan area for women to earn money as well asserve a great need in the community. In thiswell written and documented book local historyis told in a caring way that lets us know howimportant it is to tell the story. Written withreferences to local happenings to enhance theexperience of the reader, this book takes us ona journey of care from the time of a nurse doingeverything, to the specialized nursing arenatoday. It is true that especially in earlier yearseach nurse was expected to do many jobs thatnow are done by non-nursing staff. Faithfullytelling the definitive story of Nursing inColorado Springs, Joanne F. Ruth includes agood selection of photographs to enhance thestory for us. It is always interesting to note allthe differences and to learn some of thereasoning and the chain of change that has tobe followed to get the job done for patients andfamily. A nurse is like a Mom who doeseverything for you from birth and helps youlearn to care for yourself. These involved andloving women cared enough to fill a need herewhich makes our town better in many ways. How many people come to a city to be“cured”? Well, our town was at one timefilled with amazing people who came, werecured, and carried on right here to contribute tothis City.

Each of us has some of those connections.

When we think “nurse” we think help!!

“The profession of nursing is founded upon fourgeneral concepts, that is: health, environment, theindividual, and nursing. ...” “... Human caring is theforce that drives the other four.”

From the simplest thing like making a bed with those“hospital corners” tucking in the sheets and covers toaiding in the emergency room and in surgery, we allrely on those “angels in white” to be the epitome ofhelp in our great hours of need.

The once honored cap given at graduation is nolonger often worn or required. Long skirted dressesare replace by slacks if desired and mercury filledthermometers are long since banned, replaced byelectronics, but the necessity of keeping up on latestknowledge of how and why to use each new piece ofequipment has always been paramount. As you cansee from the wonderful photographs in her book Jogives us the powerful knowledge for a nurse that thecaring human touch is also a wonderful healing help! This happy animated historian has shown her learningand teaching abilities by the example of taking partwith us not only at luncheons but also by attendingEPCPA summer picnic to learn and enjoy beingtogether.

In her book we are given a look through the years thatillustrates how nursing kept up with and led the wayin patient care here. Because so many people camehere to try to improve their health

While researching on the computer network to find aphoto of a nurses cap on a site that specializes inselling them we found a white baseball type cap withthis message:

“Don’t mess with meI’m a NurseI get paid to stab peopleWith sharp objects”

Upon graduation, the nurse received her graduate pinand cap with black band.

A group of Beth-El Nurses carry on the worthy profession!

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The nurse's cap originated from a group ofwomen in the early Christian era, called"deaconesses." Deaconesses are nowrecognized as religious order nuns. Thesewomen were distinguished from otherwomen during this time by white coveringsworn on their heads. This particular headcovering was worn to show that this groupof women worked in the service of caringfor the sick. Originally, this head coveringwas more of a veil, but it later evolved into awhite cap during the Victorian era. It wasduring this era that proper women wererequired to keep their heads covered. Thecap worn was hood-shaped with a rufflearound the face and tied under the chin,similar to cleaning ladies of that day. Longhair was fashionable during the Victorianera, so the cap kept the nurse's hair up andout of her face, as well as keeping it frombecoming soiled.

The nurse's cap was derived from the nun'shabit and developed over time into twotypes: A long cap, that covers much of thenurse's hair, and A short cap, that sits atopthe nurse's hair (common in North Americaand the United Kingdom). The nursing capwas originally used by Florence Nightingalein the 1800s. Different styles of caps wereused to depict the seniority of the nurse, thefrillier and longer the more senior the nurse.

Around 1874, the Bellevue Hospital Schoolof Nursing in New York City adopted aspecial nursing cap as a way to identifynurses who had graduated from Bellevue.The Bellevue cap covered the entire headexcept the ears, and can be compared to acurrent ski hat, although it was made out ofwhite linen and had fringe around thebottom. As the number of nursing schoolsincreased, so did the need for unique caps.Each nursing school decided to design theirown style of nurse’s cap. Some became veryelaborate and some were even different

shapes. Because each school had their own cap, itbecame very easy to determine which school the nursehad graduated from. It was common for a black stripe(usually a black velvet ribbon) on the cap to signify aRegistered Nurse. In some regions, two thinner stripeswere used to signify the award of a Bachelors of Sciencein Nursing (BSN). The caps needed to be washedregularly and the black stripe(s) needed to be easy toremove and reattach. Water soluble lubricants such asKY jelly became solid when dried and were plentiful inhospitals. Nurses often used a thin layer of theselubricants applied to the back of the ribbon to attachstripes to their caps. In a global perspective, the nurses'cap continues to be widely used. However, the use of thenurses' cap had begun to slowly decline in WesternEurope and Northern America by the mid 1970s. The useof nurses' caps in the medical facilities of the UnitedStates all but disappeared by the late 1980s with the nearuniversal adoption of "scrubs." Fiddick's Nursing Homein Petrolia, Ontario, Canada is one of several exceptionsto this. Fiddick's continues to require female nurses towear the cap; however male nurses are not required to dothe same.

In areas where healthcare facilities no longer requiredtheir nurses to wear nurse’s caps, nursing schoolseliminated the cap as a mandatory part of the students’uniform. In addition, with the growth of technology inthe health-care setting, some felt that the nurse’s caps

was an obstacle for nurses wearing them, while others

These photos from an online site show styles of Nurses hats from

a hundred year period to 1970's.

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disagreed. Also, with the rapid growth ofthe number of men in nursing, some felt aneed for a unisex uniform, while others sawno difficulty with gender specific uniformsas is the case in many uniformedprofessions. However, nurses' caps can stillbe found in many developing and developednations. Japan and South Korea areexamples of developed countries with nearuniversal use of the nurses' cap. It is alsocommon for students of nursing to havetheir graduation portraits taken whilewearing nurses' caps.

In countries where the nursing cap is nolonger required as a part of a nurse’suniform, it still holds the same significancethat it did during the time of FlorenceNightingale. The nursing cap symbolizes thegoal of the nurse, which is to provide“service to those in need.” Furthermore, thecap is a sign of the industry’s ageless valuesof dedication, honesty, wisdom, and faith.

The evolution in the design of nurses' caps,from nun's coif, to no cap, reflects thehistory of nursing in Canada. The firstnurses to come to Canada from Europe werenuns. The Hospitalières, a Roman Catholicnursing order, arrived in Quebec in 1639 toestablish a medical mission that expanded tobecome the Hôtel-Dieu. They introduced thefirst formal apprenticeship training innursing in North America.

The British colonies did not have theorganized approach to health care that NewFrance had. Nursing was done informally byfemale family members, with the occasionalconsultation by a physician. The fewhospitals employed charwomen whoprovided patients with rudimentary healthcare. While they often brought usefulexperience to their work, they were oftenviewed as slovenly, lazy and drunken.Whether these women worked in patients'

homes, or in hospitals, they wore their everyday clothes.Most working women at that time wore a white cap, butthere was no special "nursing" cap.

A revolution in medical practice by the mid-nineteenthcentury had a profound effect on nursing. At the sametime, Florence Nightingale developed a system to train"respectable" women in nursing, which served as amodel in English Canada. The first nurse trainingprogramme based on the hospital apprenticeship modelwas established in 1874 at the Mack Training School forNurses in St. Catharines, Ontario. Nurses who graduatedfrom these training programmes, were, for the first time,required to wear uniforms to distinguish them from theiruntrained competitors.

Beth-El Heritage

Joanne F. Ruth is a happy and out-going pleasure! Justwhat we like in and need in an educator/nurse.

In a presentation we all enjoyed she let us see and hearabout her career and those who started and continuedthis important education. In her well done history sheshows us a happy side of a profession that requires muchof those who nurse us in our times of need! Asknowledge and equipment grow and change with time sodo the people who take part. When we look back now itseems as if most changes are helpful to the professionmuch as the differences in what is worn. For men thathasn’t been as drastic as for the women who got morephysical freedom when long skirts were changed forshorter ones and even slacks. Men were late in beingwelcomed to the profession.

Tuberculosis fueled the local need for care of patientswho came for the thin, dry air of the altitude that gavehealthy relief in most cases. Many of us have beennursed at one time or another beyond the moment ofbirth. In her thoughtful book Joanne Ruth has includedmany photos that explain where and how these nursesdid their work. That work includes everything frommaking a bed with “hospital bed corners” to shaking athermometer and on to bed pan duties which make themheroes in my book!

Frances Potter Peck and Anna Belle Lennox and Ruth

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Banning Lewis are some of the prominentwomen who worked to get school facilitiesand knew the need for nurses. A doctors’best help, nurses must be able to followinstructions from doctors who treat thepatient as well as to be able to act when adoctor is not there to “boss” them.

Much work was done to gather the fundingto found a place to learn here. This was anarea for women to earn money as well asserve a great need in the community. Inthis well written and documented book localhistory is told in a caring way that lets usknow how important it is to tell the history. Written with references to local historyhappenings to enhance the experience of thereader this book takes us on a journey ofcare from the time of a nurse doingeverything to the specialized nursing arenatoday. It is true that especially in earlieryears each nurse was expected to many jobsthat now are done by non-nursing staff. Faithfully telling the definitive story ofNursing in Colorado Springs, Joanne F.

Ruth includes a good selection ofphotographs to enhance the story for us. Itis always interesting to note all thedifferences and to learn some of thereasoning and the chain of change that hasto be followed to get the job done forpatients and family. A nurse is like a Momwho does everything for you from birth andhelps you learn to care for yourself. Theseinvolved and loving women cared enough to

fill a need here which makes our town better in manyways. How many people come to a city to be “cured”? Well, our town was at one time filled with amazingpeople who came, were cured, and carried on right hereto contribute to this City.

Each of us has some of those connections. When wethink “nurse” we think help!!

“The profession of nursing is founded upon four generalconcepts, that is: health, environment, the individual, andnursing. ...” “... Human caring is the force that drivesthe other four.”

From the simplest thing likemaking a bed with those “hospitalcorners” tucking in the sheets andcovers to aiding in the emergencyroom and in surgery, we all relyon those “angels in white” to bethe epitome of help in our greathours of need. The once honored cap given atgraduation is no longer worn orrequired. Long skirted dresses are replace by slacks ifdesired and mercury filled thermometers are long sincebanned but the necessity of keeping up knowledge ofhow and why to use each new piece of equipment hasalways been paramount. But as you can see from thewonderful photographs in her book Jo gives us thepowerful knowledge for a nurse that the caring humantouch is also a wonderful healing help!

Forever Thanks to Joanne Ruth Historian!

The Holiday Season is fast upon us time to rememberthat all these shops have delightful presents just waitingfor you to come and get them for loved ones andbusiness associates!

Dwight Haverkorn & Jo Ruth, EPCPA Luncheon

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Next Year’s DatesLuncheon Meetings on Fridays

2018 - Feb. 23, April 27, July 27, Picnic - Fri., Aug. ?, 11am to 1pm

Starsmore Visitor and Center, Sept. 28, Nov. 16

Note: Usually the date on the address foryour Pioneer

Courier shows the date through which yourdues are paid. Therefore the date shown tithe date your dues are due, that is the datethat your dues are paid through.

These Board members all use their expertiseto help EPCPA and to continue 118 years ofthe love of local history!

El Paso County Pioneers’ Association

Board of Directors:

Dwight Haverkorn - President 660-4665, dwightkorn@gmail.comJeannie Spring - Secretary

jjsprig@gmail.comJeanne Herbst, TreasurerBetsy Shoup - Corr. Secretary Pioneer Courier - 591-6517 bets1@comcast.netPeter Blaney - Programs 488-3419 pblaney@comcast.netDave Rickert, Internet SiteJudy Baber Clarke - Monument Cutouts

Histories

Members at Large: Don Cesare,Dona Bymaster, Paula LeBaron,

HISTORY COMMITTEE

Dona Bymaster, Mike Peck, and Judy Clarke willbe meeting to organize the histories we have andwant to get for the various parts of the PioneersMonument “Follow The Setting Sun”.

Well, I have checked into the address list andmay have not used the latest one last issue! Apologies! Please feel free to telephone me ifyou have questions about your dues &monument donations. Betsy Shoup 591-6517

Happy New Year!

Board of Directors Meetings

2018 - 3 Wednesdays, 2 pm.rd

Jan. 17, March 21, May 16, Oct. 17Jan. 1?, 2019

Richard Marold at Cheyenne Mtn. H.S. Reunion

August 2017. Good to see him as himself!

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More News Concerning John Muir

EngineeringScientific AmericanOctober 2017“Moving a Giant”

The logistics of excavating and relocating atown’s century-old, living sequoia tree.

Inhabitants of Boise, Idaho, watched withtrepidation earlier this year as the city’soldest, tallest resident moved two blocks. The 105-year-old sequoia tree serves as alocal landmark, not only for its longevity butalso because renowned naturalist and SierraClub co-founder John Muir provided theoriginal seedling. So when Saint Luke’sHealth System found that the 10-story-tallconifer stood in the way of its plannedhospital expansion, officials called tree-moving firm Environmental Design.

The Texas-based company has developedand patented scooping and liftingtechnology to move massive trees. Weighing in at more than 800,000 pounds,the Boise sequoia is its largest undertakingyet. “I [had] lost enough sleep over this,”says David Cox, the company’s Westernregion vice president - and that was beforethe hospital mentioned the tree’sdistinguished origin.

Before the heavy lifting began, the teamassessed the root system and dug a five-foot-deep cylinder, measuring 40 feet indiameter, around the trunk to protect allessential roots. After encapsulating the rootball in mesh, the movers allowed the tree toacclimate to its new situation for sevenmonths before relocating it. The illustrationdetails what followed.

Leslie Nemo

1. Mark A. Merit and his team at EnvironmentalDesign installed underneath the root ball a platformof seven-inch-diameter, 44-foot-long steel bars and,just below the rods, a first set of uninflated airbags(shown in gray). The team also dug a shallow ramp,

2. In roughly 15 minutes, the movers inflated theairbags to about three feet in diameter to raise theroot ball to the surface of the hole.

3. By underinflating the front bags, the teamallowed the platform carrying the tree to roll up theramp and out of the hole while staying level. Atrailer hauled the tree along as team membersremoved the airbags from the back of the platformand replaced them in the front. They repeated theprocess until the tree arrived at the edge of its newhome.

4. There a second set of partially inflated bags(shown in white) waited inside the hole. Soilsurrounding the sequoia in its original location wasrelocated as well, because trees are more likely tosurvive a transplant when they move with theiroriginal soil.

5. Using the first set of airbags, the movers rolledthe platform into the new hole.

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6. The bags waiting there were then inflatedfurther to take the weight of the sequoiawhile the transportation bags were deflatedand removed from under the tree.

7. The white bags were then deflated inabout half an hour to lower the sequoia’sroot ball to the bottom of its hole. The bagswere removed, but the metal bars were leftbecause they rust and degrade over anumber of years.8. For the next five years the local parkservice will monitor and maintain the tree inits new home.

Please note:Clara Robinson 6/13/29 - 8/11/17A service will be held at 11am on Friday December1, 2017 at Capadona Funeral Home on FillmoreStreet to honor Clara. Her children would like youto attend and bring a memory to share. She hadvolunteered at the Pioneers Museum when theEPCPA operated it. Clara was a long time memberof EPCPA and had worked at our museum, herdaughter tells us.

Pat Miller & Clarene Gartin with John & Greg in

the background pause for a quick photo. Thanks!

Jim and Dorina Hamilton enjoy the luncheon!

Dwight Haverkorn looks on as two

friends greet, they are Jo Ruth and

Dorothy Boyd.

Cynthia Hill Jacobson always with a smile

ready to brighten the day.

Betsy Shoup & Joyce Capps

Joyce is the Chef who prepares meals

for EPCPA luncheons at

Eagles, Aux. 143. Many Thanks!

Sept. 29, 2017

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Remember to shop at the Pioneers Museumgift shop as well as the Old Colorado CityHistory Center Shop and remember the PikesPeak Library District has a shop!

75 Years Ago

The Gazette Telegraph - Nov. 15, 1942

Pioneer Museum Will Be Rearranged;Many Items Being Added to ExhibitsBy Charles S. Dudley

A rearrangement is to be made at theColorado Springs Pioneer museum to facilitatemeetings of the El Paso County Pioneers

association. The north west room, on the secondfloor, is to be cleared of some of the exhibits ofantique furniture to make room for the sessions. The exhibits will be placed elsewhere in thebuilding. It has been the custom of the organizationto hold its meetings in the large room on the firstfloor, but this has become crowded with exhibitcases and large single exhibits.

The cases in the northwest room will be leftwhere they are. They line the walls of the room andcontain some of the rarest of the exhibits. In themare many items of the famous Anne Gates collectionthat was given to the museum and the collection ofAmerican glass presented to the museum by the latecurator, Mrs. Maud McFerran Price, as well asmany other items.

Old Millstones Sought

The Pioneers association is having a hardertime getting a couple of old millstones now at thefamous Mathias Lock ranch two miles south ofFountain than Lock had in transporting them fromIllinois by oxen in 1859. But they have now beenpromised to the museum, Miss Dorothy Smith,curator, said Saturday, and when they are includedin the collection they will be placed in the largemain room.

It was with these millstones, according to thebest information that is available, that the first corngrown in what is now El Paso County was ground.

The late Mathias and Barbara Lock trekkedwest, coming to the Pikes Peak region by way ofDenver. They settled on the ranch operated by ason-in-law, Henry Williams, building a grist milland a fort for defense against the Indians, out ofgroat, a concrete made of seven parts rock and sandand one part lime. Lock was both a miller and amillwright. His gun, a Sharp muzzle-loading rifle of1852 pattern, was presented to the museum lastweek. With it he once defended his wife, with ababy in her arms, from the Indians. The museumalso has received a picture of Mrs. Lock. It had oneof Lock only.

Everybody’s Pumpkin!

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Rare Old Buttons

Miss Smith has been checking over thecollection of buttons the museum has. In it aresome very rare ones. Some of these buttonsare in charm strings and others on cards orloose. There are comparatively few personsengaged in button collecting. Mrs. Jess M.Bryson, wife of C. H. Bryson, superintendentof the city water department, being the mostprominent collector in Colorado Springs. Buttons have been have been classified andbutton associations formed in different parts ofthe country. Some rare buttons attain the valueof $15 or more. The museum has a largecollection.

Miss Edna Beall has presented themuseum with group photographs of the policeforce taken at different times in early days. J.N. Beall, former Chief L. O. Dana, CaptainSaxon, L. Jackson, Bowers, McCabe andothers appear in the groups.

Thank You Diana Francese!

Jo Ruth consults with Peter Blaney

Diana Francese & Dewey Reinhard exchange

greetings at the Sept.’17 EPCPA Luncheon.

Dona Bymaster & Curt Neeley say Hello!

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Become a member and/or renew your membership!

Renew your Membership! Give a gift membership! It will last a year.

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Make Checks payable to EPCPAPlease send your membership and or monument donation to:EPCPA, 4705 Brady Place, Co. Sp. CO 80915

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Don Cesare & Dwight Haverkorn “talk itover”.

Bill Griffin well behaved!

Vol. 23 No. 5November 2017El Paso County Pioneers’ Association 4705 Brady Place Colorado Springs, CO 80915

Notice of Meeting and Luncheon Reservation SheetThe Friday, Nov. 17, 2017 luncheon meeting of the El Paso County Pioneers’ Association will beheld at the Eagles Aerie, 1050 South 21 Street, Co. Sp. CO, 80904st

Speaker: John Anderson the 26 Sheriff of El Paso County, Coloradoth

“Sheriff Rankin Scott Kelly, First Sheriff of El Paso County, Colorado Territory”

Menu: Nov. 17, 2017Square Rolls, Salad w/Ranch Dressing, Ham w/ Hash Brown Potatoes Casserole, SweetPotatoes/Yams, Corn, Apple Crisp.

Doors open at 11:30, lunch is served at Noon, the cost is $12.00 per person.Please remember that you must pay in advance! We need to get information to the kitchen staff Thanks! Make Check payable to EPCPA - Mail to:EPCPA, 4705 Brady Place, Colorado Springs, CO 80915

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