Book 16, by Julie Tatham
Illustrated by ???
Grosset & Dunlap, 1955
"Oh, why," she asked herself, "did I spend so much time chatting with Lola about a disappearing Mexican stole when the four-button phone system is still a baffling mystery to me?"
--From Cherry Ames, Country Doctor's Nurse, p. 81
Cherry's unexpected new post as an office nurse involves her in a nasty mayoral campaign, a housing controversy, and an old feud.
Chapter 1: Reunion at No. 9
Chapter 2: A Change of Plans
Chapter 3: Cherry Meets the Mayor
This was Julie Tatham's last Cherry Ames book. It ends after a November election, with Cherry's announcement that she'll be moving on to a new post at the Jamestown Academy in Rhode Island. But, in a major discontinuity, Boarding School Nurse opens at the beginning of the school year in September, at the Jamestown School in Illinois.
Chapter 4: Dr. Clem
Chapter 5: The Manor
Chapter 6: First Day of Duty
Cherry never travels without her Spencer pin and her bandage scissors (p. 69).
Julie Tatham included two little "jokes" in her Cherry Ames swan song. She set the action in Sleepyside-on-Hudson--which is the hometown of Trixie Belden, a series heroine she created (as Julie Campbell). In a reference to the Vicki Barr series, which she had also recently returned to Helen Wells, she made Cherry's old flame Wade Cooper a pilot for Federal Airlines--the same airline for which Vicki toiled as a flight stewardess.
Cherry Ames, Country Doctor's Nurse
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