St. Joseph Nurses Alumni Slate Banquet

Remembering 'The Good Old Days'

The annual reunion day of the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Alumni Association on Thursday will find these two members of the Class of 1918 in attendance. Mrs. Mary Flynn Dwyer (right) and Mrs. Hazel Ward Hochrein will represent their class at the day’s activities, which will include Mass, a brunch and a banquet in the evening at the Sheraton Ann Arbor Motor Inn. Mrs. Hochrein was Senior Citizen of the Year in 1967.

St. Joseph Nurses Alumni Slate Banquet

Mrs. Mary Flynn Dwyer of North Thayer Street and Mrs. Hazel Ward Hochrein of Yost Boulevard, two of the seven members of the 1918 graduating class of the Ann Arbor Unit of St. Joseph Mercy School of Nursing, will be guests of honor when the Alumni Association has its annual reunion Thursday.

The third living 50-year graduate, Mrs. Marie Carney Griffen of Silver City, N.M., will be unable to attend.

Among the other guests of honor attending the 7:30 p.m. banquet at the Sheraton Ann Arbor Motor Inn will be 25-year graduates including four area residents.

They are Mrs. Richard A. Poole, Mrs. William A. Conlin, Sister Mary Pauletta Gardner, RSM, all of Ann Arbor, and Miss Betty J. Wiltse of Ypsilanti.

Members of the two classes of 1968 (27 in the three-year program, who will graduate in June, and 35 in the two-year program who will graduate in July) will be among the 250 persons attending the banquet. They also will be honored.

The reunion day will begin with Mass at 11 a.m. in the hospital chapel in memory of all deceased alumni. A brunch in the social hall, given by the Sisters of Mercy, will follow immediately.

Banquet chairman, Mrs. Dennis D. Fitzgerald, has been assisted with banquet arrangements by Mrs. Gerald C. Wolf, alumni president.