BELT

Description: BELT FASTENS TOGETHER WITH TWO REMOVABLE BUTTONS - 2 PIECES. BELT, COTTON, CREAM. YELLOWING THROUGHOUT, FOLDS HAVE SET IN MAKING THE BELT LOOKS WAVY WHEN LYING FLAT. FOUR BUTTON HOLES. REVERSE MARKED “OKATAKA” ON ONE END. HELD TOGETHER WITH TWO BUTTONS, PLASTIC, WHITE SLIGHTLY OPALESCENT COLOR. ONE LARGER CIRCLE ATTACHED TO A SECOND SMALLER CIRCLE WITH A PLASTIC ROD. BUTTONS MEASURE 2.5 CM IN DIAMETER BY 0.8 CM DEEP

History: ACCORDING TO THE DONOR PAT SASSA (OKUTAKE) AT THE TIME OF DONATION, THIS BELT WAS PART OF THE GRADUATION UNIFORM. AT GRADUATION SHE RECEIVED HER GRADUATION PIN, GRADUATION CERTIFICATE, FLORENCE NIGHTENGALE PLEDGE AND BOUQUET OF RED ROSES AT HER GRADUATION CEREMONY. SHE GRADUATED ON OCTOBER 14, 1959. OF HER GRADUATION, SASSA SAID, "THE GRADUATION UNIFORMS WERE CAREFULLY STARCHED AND IRONED BY THE LAUNDRY STAFF. WE WERE DRIVEN BY THE CITY OF LETHBRIDGE BUS SO WE COULD ALL STAND AND NOT GET OUR UNIFORMS WRINKLED ON OUR WAY TO SOUTHMINISTER UNITED CHURCH WHERE THE CEREMONY WOULD TAKE PLACE... IT WAS SUCH A HAPPY AND EMOTIONAL OCCASION. INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP PHOTOS WERE TAKEN BY PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER, MR. JOHN DEJOURDAN. WE LATER RETURNED TO THE NURSES' RESIDENCE WHERE TEA WAS SERVED FOR OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS." SASSA ALSO SAID, "DURING THE MORNING OF GRADUATION, SIX OF US CLASSMATES RECEIVED AWARDS IN THE SPECIALTY AREAS OF MEDICAL, SURGICAL, PEDIATRIC, OBSTETRIC, OPERATING ROOM AND GENERAL PROFICIENCY. I WAS THE HAPPY RECIPIENT OF THE OPERATING ROOM AWARD. IT SEEMS COINCIDENTAL THAT FOUR OF THE SIX RECIPIENTS CONTINUED FURTHER INTO THEIR CAREER TO PURSUE THEIR BACHELOR OF NURSING AND ONE RECIEVED HER PHD." AFTER GRADUATION, PAT WORE HER GRAD UNIFORM ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS. SEE P20090023001 FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE GALT SCHOOL OF NURSING. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR MORE INFORMATION.