Halifax and Winnipeg. While in Wirmipeg she was involved in dealing with the many people who were victims of a polio epidemic which occurred at that time. Very few personal challenges can compare to that horrendous event since the shortages of personnel and facilities pressed the medical staff into unbelievable sacrifices to prevent people from succumbing to the ravages of that awful disease. Presenting a particular problem was an electricity cut-off when so many people were being treated in iron lrmgs. The staff had to pump air by hand to keep the patients alive until power was restored.

While in Halifax Stephanie was employed with a research lab that was doing groundbreaking work with radio isotopes. The laboratory staff had designed and built scanners to aid in the detection and treatment of particular diseases for the new nuclear medicine just then beginning This was somewhat dangerous work but Stephanie found it interesting and challenging.

Stephanie married Ray MacDonald in 1953 and traveled to Germany when Ray, as a member of the Canadian Army, was stationed there. While in Germany the Canadian Army Bases in the region asked her to organize playground activities for children in the four to eighteen age bracket. Her earlier training in children’s work stood her in good stead as she quickly established the required playgrounds for the children of the Army families.

Stephanie’s memories of Germany include a visit to Bergen-Belsen and she can still remember the smell of death which pervaded the area This in turn made it hard to be open and candid with the friends she made among the German people.

Ray and Stephanie are the parents of four children: Brenda, born in Charlottetown in 1957, graduated fi'om UPEl, has two children and works with the King and Co., an accounting firm in Edmonton.

Bruce, born inl958 in Halifax works in the construction industry in Toronto. Allison, born in 1963, is a partner in a veterinarian clinic, has one daughter and lives on a farm near Woodstock, Ontario.

Rebecca, born in 1965, is married and employed with a commercial bank in London, Ontario.

Stephanie is retired and now spends part of her time at Kinlock, Prince Edward Island, with forays to the London area of Ontario and Alberta to visit her children

and their families located there.

Steph remembers the walks back and forth to SDU as a day student, sometimes twice a day, the good fiiends who accompanied her, and the kindness of Doc Murphy who picked up any hiking students when he was on his way to teach the first class. She remembers also, Urbie MacKinnon who lived at the orphanage and cleaned the student premises, and was a fiiend to all the students. She remembers the summer vacations when she and her classmate cousins, Tommy Flynn and Ernie Macdonald traveled to and from Montreal and the good times they had. Also, hitchhiking to PE] from Halifax with Dunstan Murphy at a time when proper young ladies did not do such a thing. Those days are gone but the memories are still there.