Hey, Spiky Bugger!

[southernlady]

@Spiky Bugger
So as to not derail the other thread, St. Genevieve of the Pines is the school I went to. I was the class of 1972 so I did not get the chance to be a graduate of SGP. But I did spend three years there.

When I arrived, it was RIGHT after Vatican II and many of the nuns were wearing "civilian" clothing. Most of my teachers were lay teachers not nuns.It's also where I learned that I saw things slightly off kilter.

I had been in remedial Algebra I the first half of my freshman year. By the second semester, my teacher saw that I was capable (and ready) to move up. By the time I hit Geometry my Sophomore year, I was in the accelerated class. I can vividly remember going to the blackboard with 3 other students (one was the brightest in the class) to prove a problem. Well, I wrote my proof...all of 5 steps. FAR shorter than the other three. (I think the next shortest had 22 steps) Anyway, the teacher didn't say anything but she did read thru it...and asked me how I decided to do it that way. Told her it just looked right. Apparently I was the first one who had ever proved that particular theory in fewer than 20 steps. Even she had not considered that solution.

I always appreciated the fact that she did not tell me it could not be done that way...

I was a boarding student. The year I got there, the class president was a girl named Connie Lerner who just happened to be Jewish. She played the Virgin Mary in the Christmas Pageant every year. One of her classmates, Brenda Lee Lunsford '69 aka Brenda Lilly,
wrote a sitcom called "State of Grace" that ran from 2001-2003.

Anyway, in 2008, an article was posted in the Asheville Citizen Times to celebrate it's 100th year (by then, it had merged with Asheville County Day (a lay school) and had become Carolina Day School. http://archive.citizen-times.com/ar...vieve-Pines-centennial-stirs-up-school-spirit

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Things changed over time...I left the Catholic HS. But I went to that reunion just a couple of years ago. The smartest girl in our class was also Jewish...but they let the girl with the second highest GPA take the valedictorian title. (*******.)

Years later, the girls' school and the across-the-street boys' school merged. In my day, even boy-girl SIBLINGS were not allowed to walk to and from school together...and they could ride in the same car ONLY when their parent was driving.

And our nuns looked like:

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Btw...just checked...the high school from which I graduated has a student population more than twice the size of my husband's entire home town population! (There is no "American Experience." We grew up in different worlds! LOL.)

 

[revisionDS]

@Spiky Bugger your nuns looked like that? like the flying nun? that is quite the interesting name SB.....

 

[Spiky Bugger]

@Spiky Bugger your nuns looked like that? like the flying nun? that is quite the interesting name SB.....

Yes...they were (are?) the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.

 

[revisionDS]

oh my gosh @Spiky Bugger no wonder Sally Field could fly, and they must have had to stand far apart or they would collide. As a child they must have been scary, I mean they are pretty scary now. Who comes up with these things anyway.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

oh my gosh @Spiky Bugger no wonder Sally Field could fly, and they must have had to stand far apart or they would collide. As a child they must have been scary, I mean they are pretty scary now. Who comes up with these things anyway.

You'd think the laundry starch manufacturers might have! Those things were like cardboard!!

 

[DianaCox]

I never heard of the Daughters of Charity until the last month - there is a big stinkeroo going on right here in River City - they own six hospitals here in California, including O'Connor Hospital 1/2 mile or so from my house (it is where Charles ended up with his broken hip). They are going bankrupt, and trying to sell the hospitals, and the only buyer is a for-profit hospital corporation called Prime HealthCare, which has a pretty ****** record of corporate behavior. There are two unions involved, the nurses union, and SIEU (service employees) - the nurses are supporting the sale (to save their jobs0 and SIEU is opposing it.

The Attorney General's office is involved, as they legally have to be, because the hospital system provides charity services. The AG prepared a report suggesting that the agreed-upon figures were not good enough (instead of 5 years of maintaining the status quo before closing any of the hospitals - and they expect at least four of them to be closed, including a couple in Los Angeles - the AG is pressing for 10). Some of the other options which did not "work" were to sell O'Connor and one down in Gilroy to Santa Clara County as county hospitals (O'Connor is 1.4 miles from the largest county hospital in the area, which is a little strange), but the county could not buy all the hospitals, so the DOC picked Prime instead.

Our neighborhood is up in arms about the whole thing - with some being most interested in upscaling the hospital and not encouraging the homeless and unfortunate to wander around our neighborhood. I'm pretty conflicted myself - but nothing I can do about it either way.

I had no idea they were Flying Nuns, nor that you were educated by them!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

If they are Catholic hospitals, good riddance. I pick doctors based on which of them practice at OTHER THAN Catholic hospitals. I'd rather not have my health care managed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.



From this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881970/

We have this result:
Notwithstanding these limitations, these results suggest that a significant minority of primary care physicians working in religiously affiliated health care institutions has faced conflict over religious policies for patient care. Hospital administrators may wish to better involve physicians in the policy-making process, communicate policies more clearly, and develop means of hearing and accommodating physician concerns in order to reduce conflict and its impact on patient care.28 Physicians should also consider informing patients about religiously based institutional policies if an admission is not urgent and other hospital choices are available. Policy-makers may find physicians’ experiences reported here useful in addressing the role of religious institutions in the delivery of health care.

And this stuff:
https://www.aclu.org/reproductive-f...s-v-united-states-conference-catholic-bishops

Because these misogynists, many of whom sheltered pedophiles, have decided that they get to make beginning-and end of-life decisions for all of us.
http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-act...c-Health-Care-Services-fifth-edition-2009.pdf

 

[DianaCox]

Oh not wanting or caring that they stay Catholic - it is the for-profit purchaser vs. the county, and the services that are not profitable (i.e., that are utilized most by the poor) which will eventually be cut. The big concern? The ER at the hospitals.

 

[southernlady]

Things changed over time...I left the Catholic HS. But I went to that reunion just a couple of years ago. The smartest girl in our class was also Jewish...but they let the girl with the second highest GPA take the valedictorian title. (*******.)

Connie not only was class president senior year, she was also valedictorian.

Yes...they were (are?) the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.

Ours were the Religious of Christian Education and the habits didn't look any different from most habits...none of the WINGS!

 

[JackieOnLine]

those are some scary looking nuns, Sally Field they are NOT. what was the point of the big starched dealies, anyhow?