8 Terrace Review

Nel Lieuwen as a graduate
nurse, 1960.

June 16 marks the day that
Miss Nel Lieuwen started _to
work at Terrace and District
Hospital — the year was 1962.
At the end of this. month, after
27 years of service to the
hospital and thousands. of pa-
tients, Miss Lieuwen is retiring
from nursing.

“by Alie Toop

Miss Lieuwen was born and
raised in Andijk in North
Holland, a bulb and seed grow-
ing community. She was the sec-
ond oldest in a family of 11
children. Her basic education
was seven years of grade school,
At age 13, after finishing Grade
7, she enrolled in the Household
School in Enkhuizen, about 10
kilometers from Andijk, and for:
two years she made the trip.on

-her bicycle every day. Sewing, -.

mending and cooking were the
main skills taught in the
Household School, but they did
have lessons in the Dutch
language and arithmatic.

After two years Nel graduated
and received her diploma. She
then enrolled in a Dressmaking
School in Enkhuizen, to become
a ‘‘Coupeuse”. The students
were taught basic ‘design and
dressmaking. If they did well,
they were allowed to measure
one another, select the correct
material, design their own pat-
tern and sew a garment. Once ef-
ficient in this skill, the pupils
would then graduate to design
and sew suits and coats, At the
end of two years, a proud Nel
Lieuwen also received a diploma

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-At the age of 21, she véntured

to Amsterdam in 1945. ‘Her first
job was working in a dress-
making factory. The: job,
however, was too ‘mechanical
and not creative, and after one.
year she left the factory and

tried her hand at’ being: self-

employed asa seamstress. She- ;
. would go into the homes of her

clients and sew a dress in’ one
day or, in the case of a coat, it
would take two days, Postwar
Holland had very poor quality
materials and more often than
not she was asked to alter old
coats or dresses. —

After she grew tired of alter-
ing clothes, Nel landed a job
with the Institute for the Blind in
Amsterdam. The people in the
Institute had assembled some
very capable blind people with
good voices and taught them
choir singing. Being one of the
office staff, Miss Lieuwen
would contact churches all-over

- North -Holland and arrange

church concerts.

In 1949 her father announced
that he was going to emigrate to
Canada and very much wanted
all of his children to come along.
And so, on April 3, 1950, the
family boarded a bus for Rotter-
dam and once there, got aboard
the immigrant ship the ‘‘Volen-
dam’? and sailed for Halifax.
After 10 days at sea they set foot
in Canada. Their destination,
however, was British Columbia.
They boarded a dusty coal train
and chugged across the country, .
enjoying the scenery and playing
games to shorten the time. Their
final destination was Houston,
B.C,, where they planned to

farm.
After staying with an aunt and
uncle for a Jittle while, the fami-

ly started their new life. In-

August 1950, a cousin. moved to
Vancouver to go to Normal

School, and asked Nel to come

with-her, Here Nel landed her
first job in a hospital: Van-
couver General Hospital

employed her doing kitchen.

duties. After one year she was
promoted to the nurses’ dining
room and later to the doctors’
dining room. A friend convinced
her to go back to school and get
her Grade 12 diploma. With
some borrowed money and some
extra coaching in the English

language from’ her’ cousin, “she Gj
-enrolled at Shurpass ‘College, and ©.
'Lieuwen i is still here, and about |

‘to-retire. Her first’ job. at: Mills -

gota Grade 12: diploma. ‘She.

~ then entered nurses’ training and®
Memorial. Hospital was‘in the’
“nursery. From there she: went to. .
“the medical/surgical ward in the

50-bed hospital. She also looked.

became a practical nurse ‘in 1955. :
and: ‘graduated in Sept, =1960°

"from. the Royal. Columbia’
Hospital as a Registered Nurse: 5
at the age of 36. . et
- While ‘in ‘training’ Miss”.
Lieuwen remembers: workirig in.

the operating. room and passing
out at seeing her first tonsil case.
The second time she passed out
in the -O.R.. was when: the
surgeons were in the middle of
an amputation.

While spending Easter “vaca:
tion in 1962 in Terrace, she’

visited the hospital ‘and. the
Matron, Miss Muriel Rowe,

promptly asked her to come and
work in Terrace. Miss Lieuwen.
accepted the. invitation, under
the condition that it would be’

Nurse.Nel Lleuwen has seen a lot of technology come and go during her 27 years of service

: after the emergency; ‘when P.M.. .
supervisor “Miss Fagan had. to”

for only c one year - oo oa
: Now, sonie 27. year's later, Nel.

scrub for emergency surgery.

Eventually she relieved the -
supervisor on/her days off, and

after. she left, - Miss: Lieuwen.
became the. new supervisor. She’

worked. under DON’s Q@irector: .
of Nurses) Rowe, Fagan, ‘Need: |

ham; Thompson, Quackenbush,
Chen Wing and Bentley. 2

-Management. She. has. ‘geen the :

~ hospital grow from: 50- beds to its 7
" present size of 103 beds. She’ has.
_very much enjoyed working at’
M.M.H. She has seen many peo-'
ple come and go. Other's, like’
"Drs. Lee, Strangway and Boyd.

have given Terrace many years:

of dedication and great service,”
Mills Memorial Hospital has’.

provided ‘quality care” for
‘thousands of patients during: ‘her °
27 years here, |

In Miss: Lieuwen’s own words: ‘ - : :
“Pa proud of the hospital, its
services and staff. I -have.many

wonderfull memories of the trials

. - Other’ courses ‘she has taken “
“over - the years are in” Nursing

Unit Administration, ‘On:
Trauma, one on Electrolyte
Balance and Interpretation of

“and triumphs in its, history since

the: beginning. God has been

“with “me throughout . these 27.
years and I want to give Him all -

the ‘credit.”’.

at Mills Memorial Hospital. She'll be retiring at the end of June.

Hospital finds new administrator

TERRACE — Mills Memorial
Hospital has found a replace-
ment for administrator Norm

has worked as administrator at
the Fort Nelson hospital for the
past five years.

Carelius, who is leaving Terrace.

this month for a job with the
Ministry of Health in Victoria.

He is Michael Lysinger, who

Lysinger holds. a Master’s
Degree from McMaster Univer-

sity, and Carelius describes him

as ‘‘well-trained, with a good

record and a good attitude.’

‘I think he’s going to fit in

-. well here,’? Carelius said.
Lysinger will take over Mills

Memorial on Aug. 1.

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