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Media Type : Newspaper Article
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Author Creator : Peter Small
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Municipality : Toronto
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Description : How do you keep six girls on the farm after they've seen T.O.? Well, you couldn't keep the Lee sisters away from Toronto General Hospital School of Nursing from 1947 to 1963. They followed each other through the school's hallowed halls to pursue a training that none of them regrets today. Over the weekend and continuing today, as the school's 1,100-strong alumni association celebrates its 100th anniversary in Toronto, the six have come from Canada and across the United States for a personal and pedagogical reunion. Once the two eldest sisters, Jean Moulding, now 65, and Charlotte Laubach, 63, set the pattern, it was hard for the others to break. But each had her own special reason for leaving the grind of their parent's farm in Bradford about 8 kilometres (5 miles) northwest of Newmarket. The youngest sister Barbara was only 5 when Jean left in 1947 for the bright lights and her three-year training. Like all her sisters, she says she'd do if all over again. For Margaret Evans teaching was her first choice but her mother pushed her to go to school, where she hated being the fifth sister there.