Graduate nurses - names please!
From 1902 until the transfer of nurse training to the tertiary education sector in 1985, the Maitland Hospital was recognised as a training institution for nurses.
In her 1996 book The Maitland Hospital: The Way We Were, Esme Meehan published a chronological list of the names of graduates during this period. She also included photographs and profiles submitted by former and current nurses.
The Maitland Hospital Collection includes a number of the photographs in Meehan’s book along with other photographs of groups of graduate nurses.
Often the nurses in the photographs are not named.
With thanks to Tom Healy, Maree Harris, Kevin Howard and Evelyn Malpossa for identifying some of the people.
MHC341.1: Graduate nurses, 1953.
Adele Idstein is on the far left.
MHC165.148: Graduate nurses, 1965.
Left to right: Judith Marquet, Raelene Stone, Rosalie Cook, Yvonne Wilson, Joy Dunkley.
MHC165.73: Graduate nurses, 19??
MHC165.74: Graduate nurses, 1968.
In the photograph: Judith Whatham, Robyn Fredericks, Marianna Wowk (back row, 3rd from left), Monica Bourke (front row, 1st from left), Velta Gercens, Robyn Chisholm, Frances Milligan, Elizabeth Robinson, Janice Guy, Yvonne Mate.
MHC165.75: Graduate nurses with ??, 19??
Dr Elwyn Currow, 3rd from left.
MHC165.79: Graduate nurses, 19??
MHC165.80: Graduate nurses, 1961.
Back row (left to right): Marlene Wood, Barbara King, Gillian Clifton, Therese Enright, Janice Dickinson.
Front row (left to right): Colleen Butler, Florence Ann Eveleigh, Faye Hickey, Janice Richards, Roma Cant, Judith Thomson.
MHC165.143: Graduate nurses with Matron Joyce Brandt and Sister H. Duddy, 19??.
MHC.165.147: Graduate nurses, 1970.
Back row (left to right): Zeta Byczkow, Susan Winch, Raylee Scoular, Rita Wollard, Patricia O’Brien, Helen Sharpe.
Middle row (left to right): Sandra Owen, Robyn Wilson, Beverley Patch, Christine Kent, Alix Gimbert, Jane Mitchell.
Front row (left to row): Tanya Danko, Cheryl walsh, Jeanette Miller, Matron E Nickolas, Janet Iles, Patricia Manusu, Doreen Lawrence.
MHC165.151: Graduate nurses, 1968
Matron Elva Nickolas (3rd from the left), Marianna Wowk (back row, 1st from right); Monica Burke (front row, 2nd from right).
MHC165.144: Graduate nurses, 19??
Nicky Hartcher (now Windeatt) is on the far right side. (Maree Harris, Sep 2021)
MHC165.78: Graduate Nurses’ Aids, 1969.
Left to right: Jan Burns, Diane Roy, Diana Dewey, Diana Holden (now Kain), ?, ?
MHC165.145: Graduate Nurses’ Aids, 1974.
Back row, from left: Ronda Darcy, Bernice Tyler (now Kavanagh), Garry Haffey, Terrence Rae, ?, ?.
First row: ?, Helen Rose, Matron Elva Nickolas, ?,?, ?.
MHC165.146: Graduate nurses, 1976.
Back row: (left to right): Lauren James, Alison Hales, Lynette Irwin, Janet Walker, Jacqueline Bellamy.
Front row (left to right): Thomas Healy, Barbara Smith, Glenda Murnane, Matron E. Nickolas, Terry Hannon, Dianne Roy.
MHC165.152: Graduate nurses, 1979.
Back row (left to right): George Vasilenski Brown, Michael Henry, Michael Katona, Gary Bernasconi, Bruce Varley, Sr W Connolly.
Middle row (left to right): Carmel Ellicott, Joy Hogan, Kathryn Brennan, Michelle Curran, Anne Grace, Mrs Maureen Luke, Lynn Beckett, Suzanne Crowther, Anne Hazell.
Front row (left to right): Mrs Valeri Kriz, Julie Moxham, Annette Saxby, Matron E Nickolas, Mrs Lindy Farrelly, Lynette Stockhausen, Diane-Louise Buchanan.
MHC165.153: Graduate nurses, 1982.
Back row (left to right): Carol Clayton, Julie Brownlow, Leslie Williamson, J. Weekes, Louise Belk.
Middle row (left to right): Darren Boyd, Pat Homer, Glenys Bishop, June Beckhouse, Vicky Osborn, Steven Morrow, Michael Parrey.
Front row (left to right): G. Downey, Jane Maher, Director of Nursing Elva Nickolas, Sister Dorothy Olsson, Chris Osborne, Sue O’Neill, Sister U. Connelly.