Bio: Leichtnam, Susan – St. Joseph’s Nursing Grad (Jun 1972)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Leichtnam, Agnew, Jaye, Lawton

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 13 Jul 1972

Miss Susan Leichtnam, daughter of Mrs. Burnetta Leichtnam, 905 E. Kalsched, Marshfield, a former area resident, received her diploma from St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing on Thursday, June 29, 1972. The group of 43 graduates was the fifty-fifth class to be graduated from the school.

Commencement exercises were held in the Senior High School Auditorium at 8 p.m. The nursing graduates, along with graduates of medical and radiologic technology, formed a procession which entered to the music of the march “Pomp and Circumstance.” Following the invocation given by Father John Agnew, David R. Jaye Jr, president of St. Joseph’s Hospital, Inc., extended greeting to the graduates.

The commencement address was delivered by Ben R. Lawton, M.D. Dr. Lawton, a surgeon with the Marshfield Clinic, is chairman of the Wisconsin Governor’s Council on Health.