Miscellaneous Items - 1943

Doris Bender Receives Cap at Ceremony

Bainbridge News & Republican, Nov. 11, 1943

 

Miss Doris Louise Bender, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Bender, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], and formerly of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], was among the 43 members of the Sophomore Class of Russell Sage College School of Nursing, Troy, affiliated with Albany Hospital and Albany Medical College of Union University, who received their caps Saturday at the annual capping ceremony held at Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany.  Miss Virginia M. Dunbar, associate director of American Red Cross Nursing Service, Washington, D.C. delivered the address at the ceremony.  The event marked the beginning of the clinical phase of the nursing student's career.  the students will be in residence for the next three years at the hospital following their first year of study at college.  They are candidates for the Bachelor of Science Degree in nursing, May, 1946.  Miss Bender is now spending a two weeks' vacation at her home. 

 

Girl, 13, Marries 14-Year-Old Marine

Bainbridge News & Republican, Nov. 11, 1943

 

Denver:  "Tommy was an awful pretty boy and he kept telling me about his experience in the marines and how he wanted to have someone to belong to--."  That's why she married the 14-year-old war veteran Mrs. Thomas B. Harris--who is only 13--told interviewers last night.  The story of the boy's adventures with the Navy and Marines and his venture into matrimony came to light when his mother, Mrs. Helen Harris, filed an annulment suit.  Marine and Navy recruiting offices said their records tallied with young Harris' story, which included action in the Coral Sea and at Midway before his true age was learned.  "Even though I didn't love him, I thought I could learn to after we were married," the bride said.  They're living apart and she intends to resume her school work, then get an office job and "make something out of myself."  "I really think," she added, "that Tommy and I could have made a go of it if we hadn't had so much interference from everybody."