Celebrating 60 years of VA Service
The year was 1962.
John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, Lawrence of Arabia won the best picture Oscar and Tony Bennett won record of the year with I Left My Heart in San Francisco. It was also in 1962 that a young graduate of Truesdale Hospital School of Nursing, Regina Campbell walked through the doors of the Providence VA to start a career that would span 60 years – and is still on-going.
“I love my job, I love the Veterans,” says Campbell, “It was the best thing I ever did in my life, and I always tell people this is like a second home to me,” she said.
The Rhode Island native lives in Bristol, she has 3 children, 4 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. But there are two questions she’s repeatedly asked as she makes her way around the hospital. How old she is (which she refuses to answer) and when is she going to retire?
“I keep telling people it’s just going to hit me one day, and I’ll know it’s time to retire,” said Campbell. Sixty years and still going strong!