Candy Stripers
by Barry Bauer
Candy Stripe nurses were usually high school or college age girls that worked under a certified nurse. They may do a variety of jobs including helping with visitors, visiting with the patients, cleaning up after nurses and doctors, janitorial jobs and delivering flowers. These were just some of their duties.
Clinton Memorial Hospital used to have Candy Stripers but the program that started out as a high-school civics class project in East Orange, New Jersey in 1944, is dying out.
This photo was taken in 1972; and although some of the girls look familiar, only Marie Orson on the top left is identified.