Bernice Stricker Vertner

My high school principal encouraged me to enlist in the Cadet Nurse program. I am so thankful to him. The war was over before I graduated; however, we spent the last six months of our training education working in
the army hospital in Galesberg, Illinois. It was the time that penicillin became available, and did we ever need it.

I continued my education in nursing and became a professor of nursing at the University of Washington.