Loyola's World War II Nurse Veterans
Rev. George Warth, S.J., chaplain of the 108th General Hospital, and Capt. Sara Abrams, chief nurse, are flanked by Loyola nurses from the unit.
Loyola's Nurse Veterans played an important part in World War II. Their names and stories will continue to be collected and added to this exhibit. Below is a list of some of these nursing alumni. If you would like to contribute information, photographs, or stories about Loyola Nurse Veterans during the World War II era for this exhibit, please contact the Loyola University Chicago Archives.
On the following pages are stories highlighting some of these extraordinary women.
Mary Bolduc, RN, BSN
Marcella Burke, RN
Cecelia Fennessy, RN
Frances R. Mikulec, RN, BSN
United States Army
Abrams, Lt. Col. Sara M., Class of 1920, St. Bernard's School of Nursing; BSN Loyola 1939
Boice, Margaret, Loyola University Class of 1949
Bolduc, Mary Kathleen, Class of 1941, St. Bernard's School of Nursing; BSN Loyola 1942
Dooley, Helen A.
Donovan, Margaret I. (Irene)
Fennessy, Cecelia, Class of 1938, St. Bernard's School of Nursing
Kay, Col. Anne W. (Woudema), Loyola University Class of 1956
Kelly, Rosemary A.
Kuzma, Tillie
Marcouiller, Emily M.
McMorrow, Gertrude, Loyola University Class of 1949
Mikulec, Frances R., Class of 1930, St. Anne's Hospital School of Nursing; BSN Loyola 1942
Natzke, Helen E.
O'Brien, Margaret Mary Maloney, Class of 1935, St. Bernard's School of Nursing
Pietrawicz, Lucille C.
Schneider, Esther M.
Stiffler, Marcella "Sally" Burke, Class of 1941, St. Anne's Hospital School of Nursing
Ritenhouse, Ruth
Weydert, Col. Margaret, Loyola University Class of 1951
Helen Marie Klinker, RN
United States Navy
Czwalinski, Marie Lillian, Loyola University Class of 1952
Havlik, Mary Cesarec, Loyola University Class of 1951
Klinker, Lt. Commander Alice Irene, Class of 1938, St. Francis Hosptial School of Nursing; BSN Loyola 1938
Klinker, Helen, Class of 1941, St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing