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Late Starter Wins Nurse Exam Honor

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Daily News New York, New York Sunday, September 09, 1956

Late Starter Wins Nurse Exam Honor
Despite the fact that she had a late start in a new career, 43-year-old Mrs. Regina Fischer of Brooklyn has managed to walk away with state-wide honors.
The winner of a $750 scholarship for advanced training in nursing, Mrs. Fischer, who has been an RN for only three years, scored the top grade among 300 applicants who took the scholarship exam giving by the University of the State of New York this summer.
The mother of two, Bobby, 13, and 19-year-old Joan, Mrs. Fischer started her nurse's training at the age of 37. A student at the Prospect Heights Hospital School of Nursing, she went to work for the Visiting Nurses Association following her graduation three years ago.

Nursing Her Goal
“I've always wanted to work in the field of medicine,” said the attractive brunette nurse, who obtained her BA from the University of Colorado in 1941. “But bringing up a family and earning a living didn't leave much opportunity for studying.”
Living on the West Coast until she came to New York in 1948, Mrs. Fischer taught school and worked in shipyards during the war. When she settled in Brooklyn with her two children in 1950, she decided to finally have a go at the career she always wanted.
“It wasn't easy getting into a nursing school,” she admitted. “A lot of my applications were turned down because I was too old. I was thrilled when I finally found a school where they relaxed the age requirements.”
Attending classes during the day and studying at night was no easy grind for the newcomer to the field, who had a family to look after. But encouraged by her two children who were proud of their mother's efforts, she came through with high grades.

Boy a Chess Wiz
A slender, energetic woman, she lives at 560 Lincoln Place. Her son Bobby, a chess wizard, is one of the national junior champions. Joan, following in her mother's footsteps in a nursing career, will be graduated from Brooklyn College next January. Like her mother, she is also a scholarship winner with a four-year grant to any college in New York.
Since Mrs. Fischer's newly won scholarship requires her to become a full-time student, she is faced with the problem of earning a living for her family while continuing her studies. Anxious to acquire top educational requirements for public health nursing, however, she has found a solution

Studies by Mail
Aware that there are no visual study aids for student nurses, she has started a mail order study aid program of her own. So far, she has been successful with at least 100 schools ordering copies of her study aid devices.
“My study aid program should be a big financial help while I'm back in school,” said Mrs. Fischer, who will take a leave of absence from the Visiting Nurses. “I'd have been awfully unhappy if I would have had to pass up this chance for further education. I've waited this long to be a nurse and now I want to be able to learn everything there is to know.”

Mrs. Regina Fischer of Brooklyn has managed to walk away with state-wide honors. The winner of a $750 scholarship for advanced training in nursing.

'til the world understands why Robert J. Fischer criticised the U.S./British and Russian military industry imperial alliance and their own Israeli Apartheid. Sarah Wilkinson explains:

Bobby Fischer, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech
What a sad story Fischer was,” typed a racist, pro-imperialist colonial troll who supports mega-corporation entities over human rights, police state policies & white supremacy.
To which I replied: “Really? I think he [Bob Fischer] stood up to the broken system of corruption and raised awareness! Whether on the Palestinian/Israel-British-U.S. Imperial Apartheid scam, the Bush wars of ‘7 countries in 5 years,’ illegally, unconstitutionally which constituted mass xenocide or his run in with police brutality in Pasadena, California-- right here in the U.S., police run rampant over the Constitution of the U.S., on oath they swore to uphold, but when Americans don't know the law, and the cops either don't know or worse, “don't care” -- then I think that's pretty darn “sad”. I think Mr. Fischer held out and fought the good fight, steadfast til the day he died, and may he Rest In Peace.
Educate yourself about U.S./State Laws --
https://www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit/videos
After which the troll posted a string of profanities, confirming there was never any genuine sentiment of “compassion” for Mr. Fischer, rather an intent to inflict further defamatory remarks.

This ongoing work is a tribute to the life and accomplishments of Robert “Bobby” Fischer who passionately loved and studied chess history. May his life continue to inspire many other future generations of chess enthusiasts and kibitzers, alike.

Robert J. Fischer, Kid Chess Wizard 1956March 9, 1943 - January 17, 2008

The photograph of Bobby Fischer (above) from the March 02, 1956 The Tampa Times was discovered by Sharon Mooney (Bobby Fischer Newspaper Archive editor) on February 01, 2018 while gathering research materials for this ongoing newspaper archive project. Along with lost games now being translated into Algebraic notation and extractions from over two centuries of newspapers, it is but one of the many lost treasures to be found in the pages of old newspapers since our social media presence was first established November 11, 2017.

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