Salina Presbyterian Manor
NOVEMBER 2019
Marsha Stewart’s life comes full circle Resident Marsha Stewart was meant for the military. “I am from Salina and was born in Asbury Hospital, nine days after Pearl Harbor. I grew up in the north end of town—the other side of the tracks—north of St. John’s Military School. While I was in high school, I occasionally dated St. John’s boys. When I graduated high school, my parents couldn’t afford to send me to college, and back then you didn’t hear about girls working their way through college. I didn’t have any skills to work at anything. To go into the military made sense to me. I joined the Army right Marsha Stewart after high school—the Women’s Army Corps,” said Marsha.
Lacey Hasker
Employee receives education assistance
In 1960, the Women’s Army Corp was the branch of Army that the women were in. “I was in during a transitional period before it became the regular Army. I was in Future Nurses of America when I was in high school, so I wanted to be in the operating room procedures training. But they didn’t accept me. My math grades excelled in high school, so I went into finance and accounting,” said Marsha. She made the most of her time in the Women’s Army Corp, earning medals and a degree. “I was an only child and my dad sort of raised me as a tom boy so I could shoot very well. I excelled at assembling and disassembling an M1. I excelled at marksmanship, and so I got a little medal for that. That was basic training. And then I went to school at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, where I learned finance and accounting. Then went to Fort Benning, Georgia, one of largest army bases in the U.S., and that’s where I worked until I got out of the service after almost two years.”
Congratulations to Lacey Hasker, a Salina Presbyterian Manor staff member who has received assistance to continue her education through Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America’s Employee Education Assistance program. Lacey is a licensed practical nurse (LPN) who has worked in our community for five years. “I will use the scholarship to attend school at Cloud County Community College for the LPN to registered nurse (RN) bridge program. My goal right now is to become a registered nurse and HASKER - continued on page 2
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