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Show HEADS POST OF WAR NURSES Miss Wilhelmina Weyhing, Also Head Nurse of Roosevelt Hospital, at Camp Custer. Many years of unselfish service years which have whitened her hair and softened her smile have won for Miss Wilhelmina Wilhel-mina Weyhing, recently made head nurse at the Roosevelt American Ameri-can Legion Memorial Me-morial hospital at Camp Custer, Mich., the undying un-dying respect of nurses every-where, every-where, and the true reverence IlllllllllA lllilSp and devotion of her many patients. Miss Weyhing is the first commander comman-der of the American Legion post composed com-posed entirely of war nurses in Detroit. De-troit. Upon her appointment as superintendent su-perintendent at the Camp Custer hospital, hos-pital, she resigned her position as director di-rector at the receiving hospital in Detroit. De-troit. Dr. F. B. Broderick, department welfare officer, said of her: "Nursing has been her life work and she has a war record which cannot be equaled by any woman in the United States." In 1914 Miss Weyhing went to Serbia Ser-bia to aid in the typhus epidemic. She labored there unceasingly amid terrible terri-ble conditions, and contracted the disease dis-ease herself, which forced her to return re-turn In 1915. On her recovery, she was made chief nurse of Base Hospital No. 17, with which outfit she served at Dijon, France, for 21 months. Today, To-day, all her efforts are bent toward making the new Legion hospital a real home for tubercular veterans and as unlike a hospital, in atmosphere, as possible. |
