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The Healing Touch: 1970
The Student Center transformed into a massage parlor! Should someone call the vice squad?
Relax. The massage-a-thon was for a university-sanctioned good cause. For an oh-so-reasonable twenty-five cents, a nursing student would knead away your midterm stress. And proceeds from the five-minute back rubs would help finance the following spring’s Intercollegiate Nursing Conference, which Northeastern was hosting for the first time. Quite the coup, considering the College of Nursing graduated its very first class of baccalaureate students that year.
But NU was no latecomer to health education; in fact, it was at the vanguard of a national trend. As federal legislation—such as the Medicaid, Medicare, and Nurse Training Acts—encouraged the development of the health professions, Northeastern moved to remedy the need for new kinds of nursing education. Established in 1964, the College of Nursing offered programs that soon became prototypes for similar efforts across the country.
So it was fitting that Northeastern would play host to nearly four hundred students from throughout the Northeast. A lecture by Barbara Bates, professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, highlighted the daylong conference. Addressing the evolving role of nurses, Bates noted that “the nurse not only fulfills medical needs but . . . offers comfort, guidance, and care.”
Looks like our nurse-masseuses already had the TLC part down pat.he tradition might not have included mint juleps or Camptown ladies, but NU’s annual turtle racing was still quite the to-do. You could even call it the sport of King Husky: An appearance by the Northeastern mascot was often a highlight of the springtime event.
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