Adirondack Enterprise, January 9, 1929 (reprinted in Howard Riley's column in the Enterprise, January 2, 2016)
Miss Ophelia Sawtelle acted as hostess to Saranac Lake Graduate Nurses' Association yesterday afternoon at the Nurses' Home at Trudeau.
The annual election of officers took place, Miss Alice deWard being reelected president. Others officers elected were Miss Madeline Smith succeeding Miss Katherine McDonnell as first vice president; Miss Sawtelle succeeding Miss Katherine Amberson as second vice president; Miss Mary Olive Smith reelected secretary; and Miss Blanche F. Mann was elected treasurer succeeding Miss [sic: Mrs.] Amos Erkander.
One of the projects now before the society will be the raising of money for the Florence Nightingale memorial hospital in Bordeau, France. The hospital is being built in memory of World War nurses and the Saranac Lake Association will send its quota toward the general fund.
The annual free bed fund drive for the General Hospital which was begun last summer was discussed and it was voted to ask Miss Hilda Fletcher, treasurer of the hospital board to speak on the subject at the next meeting.
A social hour followed the business meeting. Tea was served, Miss Bessie Tibbets pouring. Members present included Mrs. A. H. Denny, Miss Emily Denton, Miss Ruth Dias, Miss Gertrude Harriet Fisher, Miss Marcy [sic: Mary] C. Mullin, Miss Mann, Miss Margaret Bryce Mundy, Mrs. A. W. Pearson, Miss Winona Sexton, Miss Blanche Scofield, Miss Florence Stott, Miss Elizabeth Wilson, and Miss Alice Zeuner.
