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Tuesday, April 21, 2020 – The Schetlin Story Conclusion Part VI

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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

A Recollection of Family Life on Balckwell’s/ Welfare Island
Eleanor Schetlin 2002 PART VI

The Florence Nightingale Pledge

Eleanor Schetlin at the Central Nurses Residence 
1956-1963

Eleanor, The Last Schetlin on the Island, Leaves the Island

Eleanor and the Roosevelt Island Historical Society

Background Report

Draper Hall was accessible from the street or from the Lighthouse Park on the northern tip of the island
The orientation guide for student nurses. (Text available upon request)
Leisure time at the lighthouse
Artists rendering of CNR facing north.
Rear of nurses residence with fencing for tennis courts
Tennis courts that later became our second community gardens.
View of CNR and central laundry building in foreground
View looking north from Storehouse Elevator building
View from terrace at CNR  with Chapel of the Afflicted in the distance.
Cement Batching Plant at East River Drive at 61 to 62  Street
Eleanor and Judy at the time of her presentation at the RIHS in 2000.

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:

NEW YORK RISES – EUGENE DE SELIGNAC            NYC Municipal Archives

ARTHUR TRESS FANTASTIC VOYAGES                       Arthur Tress

SERT- JOSE LUIS SERT                                               J.P. Rovera

NEW YORK 1960                                                           Robert A.M. Stern

AMERICAN NOTES                                                      Charles Dickens

I KNEW THEM IN PRISON                                           Mary Belle Harris

MYSTERIOUS MANSIONS                                          Mary Dickerson Donahey

STONE AND STEEL                                                     Bascove

PITIGLIANI                                                                    Letitzia Pitigliani

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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