Tuesday, April 21, 2020 – The Schetlin Story Conclusion Part VI
T U E S D A Y
April 21, 2020
RIHS’s 31st Issue of
Included in this Issue:
The Schetlin Story Conclusion Part VI
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A Recollection of Family Life on Balckwell’s/ Welfare Island
Eleanor Schetlin 2002 PART VI
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The Florence Nightingale Pledge
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Eleanor Schetlin at the Central Nurses Residence
1956-1963
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Eleanor, The Last Schetlin on the Island, Leaves the Island
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Eleanor and the Roosevelt Island Historical Society
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Background Report
Reading Eleanor’s story for the first time in years reminds me of the importance of paper archives and photographs. There is something about looking thru notebooks, binders, scrapbooks that brings the story to life.
Eleanor visited our island again in 2006. We held a reunion at the newly opened Octagon apartments. Bruce Becker, the developer was a wonderful host to the women who studied and worked in the building. I have photos of that event but they are in the RIHS office in the Octagon.
I hope you have enjoyed this series. Please send me your comments.
Judith Berdy
212-688-4836
917-744-3721
jbird134@aol.com
Background Report
I look up at my bookshelf and want to acknowledge some of the reference materials and books I have used to write the 30 FROM OUR ARCHIVES articles:
This list is only published books. Our archives have over 200 binders of individual subjects from Almshouses to Zoolander. Feel free to contact us for any information you need. If we don’t have it, we can point you in the right direction to find it.
Judith Berdy
Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Dottie Jeffries
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