Mary, the Children, and Me

Abstract

Having had two years of chemistry, I was assigned to work in the student health laboratory during my junior and senior years. My job was primarily to do urine analyses and hemoglobin tests. There I met Mary Nutely, a work-study student member of the staff in the office of the university doctor. She would often bring me samples in the lab to test, and we soon became good friends. Mary was taking a freshman chemistry course and told me that she was having trouble with it. I offered to help her and thereafter we began to be with each other more often. In spite of my help she failed the course, but she never held it against me.