- CA GPR 0502-2014.093.01
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- 1950
Grad photograph for Dorothy Beattie. Dorothy graduated from the University of Alberta in 1950. She was 21 years old. She was Dorothy May Murray at the time of her graduation and married Bill Beattie in December 1950. Dorothy worked in Mayerthorpe Hospital as a new graduate nurse. She then moved to Grande Prairie where she worked in ICU, specialized in cardiology (took another course at the University of Alberta) part time for 3 years. After this she worked part time in extended care the Grande Prairie General Hospital for 7 years. In 1977 Dorothy worked for the WW Cross Cancer Clinic in Grande Prairie. They were a traveling clinic at that time and Dorothy was one of the first nurses to work for them. She retired from nursing in 1987.