Here at Alstin, we know when May is coming with all it’s beautiful flowers simply by the high volume of requests by healthcare clients to design eye-catching, inspirational messages of gratitude and thanks to their nurses for a job well done. A small token of appreciation but one, I am told by nurses, that does make a difference – it’s nice to be appreciated and read all about it. National Nurses Week starts each year on May 6th, Florence Nightingale’s birthday, and ends May12th.
Which brings me to this wonderful article I came across in our own Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper about a 105 year woman, Ada Mutch, who is preparing to be honored by her Alma Mater, the Baldwin School (Class of 1922!), a venerable Philadelphia college preparatory school for women that has been in existence since 1888. An incredible life Ada has led – from Baldwin alum to staff employee then finding her life’s passion in nursing after having her appendix removed, to enlisting in the Army Nurse Corp during WWII and leaving a lieutenant colonel, to coming home to be a Nursing Director at Lankenau Hospital then spending her last 30 years volunteering for ElderNet – and one that has left her looking back with no regrets. While Ada says none of her feats in life were ever planned, she credits confidence and curiousity as her catalysts for seizing opportunity.
“I feel sorry for people who can’t think of what they want to do”
Author Bio:
Anne Hillman, formally known as a Senior Account Executive, is equal parts advisor, drummer, mom and movie-theme-song-karaoke champion. Willing to help clients at the drop of an Eagles' hat, Anne, who's been with Alstin for 12 years and sounds exactly like Jodie Foster, is over-the-top dedicated. 
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