Army nurse is speaker for April 15 meeting

Ruby Scheuing, a member of the Army Nurse Corps who served in the Vietnam War, will be the speaker for the Monday, April 15, meeting of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Military Historians in Grafton.

After Scheuing graduated from nursing school at Rockford Memorial Hospital in Illinois, she joined the Army with a request to serve in Vietnam.

Her training took her to Fort Sam Houston and Fort Bliss, both in Texas, then to the 18th Mobile Surgical Hospital in Pleiku in February1967. She served there until early1968, working 12-hour shifts and treating casualties flown in via helicopters with 40 other nurses.

She witnessed the February1968 Tet offensive.

In Pleiku during February 1968, she married an Army officer she met in Texas and later as a company commander fighting in Vietnam.

Admission is $25, which includes a buffet dinner from Miss Molly Catering and the presentation.

A limited number of seats for the speaker’s program are available for $10.

Doors to the Rose-Harms American Legion Hall, 1540 13th Ave., open at 5:15 p.m. Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. with the program at 7 p.m.

Reservations are required and must be made by Thursday April 11. To reserve a spot, call Ken Grigas at (262) 284-1090 or email rsvp@mkemh.org.