1920s
Edna Schaffner (SN'29) remembers vividly the year she completed her education. "Back in 1929," she writes, "the flu epidemic was raging. My first job was taking care of the Doctors Edgar and Adella Brigham family who were down with the flu--five of them. Somehow I escaped getting it. They all got hand-wrung fomentations three times a day.
"Soon after that, I married Truman E. Bartholomew (SM'28). Our first home was in Calexico, California. There was no hospital in the town, just two small nursing homes--so we maintained a surgery in connection with the office, where we did both major and minor surgery. We started the Calexico Adventist Mission School. We moved to Tulare, California, and raised two sons, Lester and Dale Bartholomew.
"Ten years after Dr. Bartholomew's death, I married Clifford Schaffner, who lived for 10 years after our marriage. I will be 91 in November. I now live in the lovely Forest Glen Retirement Residence in Canyonville, Oregon, and would love to hear from any of my classmates who are still around."
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