School of Nursing Scrapbook 1979

- staff Photo bY Teel wtnfle!d Mrs. Ross G. Tharp, l~ft, chair;, . f the "Fashions m Focus man o . h t for Nov. luncheon-fashions OW se v· 0 15 by the Universi~ of San Eftfcn Auxiliary pauses with Mrs. . . , USD school of nursing Mayfield, f the event srudent. Proceeds rom_ . 's fi. will go coward the umvers1ty nandal aid program.

ions-For- unds Event Planne urses Study With Financial Aid By ELAINE MYTH Edna Jensen of Poway ad– mits ah does her homework in some usual tings - walUng In the Mrs. Eileen Mayfield of San Diego are receiving student loans, three works the shift from midnight until 8 per cent simple interest loans to be a.m. as a registered nurse at the repaid after graduation. . Veterans Administration Hospital in Other aid programs include work,

parking lot of San Diego Stadium before a hargers game gets under– way and then again after the game until tbe traffic thins out. Before she begins her day as a registered nur in the allergy de– partment of the Naval Regional M~ Center, she does some more ltDdylng in the hospital parking lot. Her lunch break is also a study break Then there's still more study– tag to be done before clas s at the University of San Diego's Philip Y. Jlab,n School of ursing and Allied ence.

La Jolla, because it simplifies her life as a part-time student at the USD school of nursing and as a mother of two children, Yvonne, 18, a fresh- man at the University of Califorinia at San Diego, and Delbert, 15, a sophomore at University High Mrs. Mayfield is 34, divorced and the sole support of her children. Mrs. Jensen, wife of social worker Willi- am F. Jensen, is 49, has four chil- dren and three grandchildren. Both women are registered at the univer- sity in a new post-RN program initi- ated last September at USD. · The two women are among the · students on the university campus who receive some form of assistance Mrs. Lora Perry, director of finan- cial aid for the university, said ap- proximately 40 per cent of the stu- dents who are eligible to receive student aid at the university are receiving it in one or a combination School. through the university's financial aid program.

generally with the student working in some area of the university cam- ,. pus; scholarships, and grants. "Loans are used as -the student needs them," said Mrs. Perry.' "Some students use them for tuition, room and board, books and supplies or even miscellaneous_ expenses It is becoming more difficult to obtain funds for the financial aid program because the federal gov- ernment isn't mcreasing its educ-a- tion budget to reflect increases due to inflationary costs or increases in the numbers of students entering post secondary ~ucation, according The University of San Diego Auxi• liary plans to add funds to the university's financial aid program through its "Fashions in Focus" luncheon-fashion show set for 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 15, in the Vacation Village Convention Center. Mrs. Ross G. Tharp, chairman, will be assisted by Mrs. John H. Rippo, such as transportation." to Mrs. Perry.

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Mrs. Jensen and Mrs. Mayfield

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