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Show I WOMAN COLONEL ENDS LONG NURSE CAREER The longest period of service in the history of the Army Nurse corps was terminated recently, the war department announced, with the retirement re-tirement of Lieut. Col. Lyda M. Keener, principal chief nurse at Walter Wal-ter Reed general hospital, Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, who has completed 37 years and five months of duty. Colonel Keener was born in Greensburg, Pa., and was graduated from the McKeesport general hospital. hospi-tal. She entered the corps in 1906. The letter assigning her to her first station, San Francisco, Calif., was signed by Dita H. Kinney, first superintendent su-perintendent of the corps. The Army Nurse corps provides the finest career in the world. Colonel Colo-nel Keener believes. "There is no better opportunity to serve one's country and mankind. The satisfaction satis-faction in caring for the sick and wounded, in aiding the recovery of mind as well as body, is given only to nurses," she says. |
